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Speaker 1: loving this matchup. I think it's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: We'll take your phone calls. We got a good Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: gap control. No, even if everybody in their uncle is

427
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 1: running the other way, you got to hang back because

428
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,440
Speaker 1: they might be coming back with something that's and they're

429
00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 1: so disciplined that way. I think that's what's given them

430
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 1: this stellar year. Defensively, they got well, I mean whatever,

431
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,399
Speaker 1: twenty guys they play on defense in different packages, and

432
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,440
Speaker 1: the rotation of the d line and the linebackers and

433
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 1: the dbs that they run through there, all those guys

434
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,919
Speaker 1: play so disciplined. It's just they just don't give up

435
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 1: those big plays. The one big play you think about

436
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,400
Speaker 1: is the Baltimore touchdown right at the third quarter. Yeah,

437
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 1: that's the play of the year that you think, Oh man,

438
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 1: I wish you had it back, and it's fun. You

439
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 1: can remember that one. It's one. That's how solid this

440
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,840
Speaker 1: defense has been. And it's it's been, like I say,

441
00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 1: unbelievable to watch, but just just unspectacled because it's been

442
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,639
Speaker 1: so predictable. It's right. Others standouts yesterday, well, you know,

443
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley did not play, John Brown did not play.

444
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 1: Somebody had to play wide receiver and what do you know,

445
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 1: Duke Williams, the people's choice. He played and played well.

446
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: He had eight catches for I'm sorry, six catches for

447
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 1: one hundred eight yards, a game high for him, a

448
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,239
Speaker 1: career high for him in the NFL. Duke Williams had

449
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 1: a really good game. He had the one drop, which

450
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: was a problem. Bills always seemed to have drops among

451
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: their receivers. He had one play where he sort of

452
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: extended the celebration to get getting the first down a

453
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 1: little bit too long. May have cost to builds the

454
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 1: time out, but for the most part, Duke Williams was

455
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: very solid in the game and he talked about it afterwards.

456
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 1: Duke Williams talking about taking advantage of the opportunity to

457
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:44,400
Speaker 1: play in yesterday's home finelle. You know the rain wasn't

458
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 1: gonna stop me. You know, I was happy. I woke

459
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: up happy. You know, I was just ready to play.

460
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 1: You know, I've been sitting out for a long long time.

461
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's only so long you can keep a

462
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: dog on the least, you know. And once they let

463
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 1: me off that somebody's gonna let me out. This week,

464
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: all I can think about is go get it attack,

465
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 1: played dirty and in a run game, played dirt in

466
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 1: the past, game catch everything come to you, and that's

467
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: what I did it today. I know I set the

468
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 1: tempo with a blocking because that's part of my game,

469
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: being physical and catching the ball. You know, no matter

470
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: if thing on my back or whatever, they had, just

471
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: come down with and show these coaches that you know,

472
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,679
Speaker 1: I'm available form. So the emotions pouring out even from

473
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: the minute you walked onto the field, was that just

474
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: almost the release that's been building up since earlier in

475
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: the season. Man, That's just that's really how how I

476
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: am as a person when they come to playing at football.

477
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: You know, I want my heart on my sleeve, you know,

478
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: it's a chip on my shoulder. So every time I

479
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: catched the bottle in my emotions flow, that's why I

480
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: let it floor at I leave everything on the field.

481
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: So you know, by me catching the ball, by me

482
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: getting my name nuns, you know, I was just letting

483
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 1: everything go. You know. It's it's it's no better feeling

484
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: than you know, hearing the crowd chant due, you know,

485
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 1: And that's what motivates me a lot to come down

486
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: with these catches, you know, just so I could hear

487
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: our fans go crazy, and just I could show my

488
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: teammates and my coaches that that they could rely on

489
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: me and any time Duke Williams is an interesting guy

490
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: in his reaction is interesting. He plays with a lot

491
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: of excitement, right, He plays with a lot of emotion,

492
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: and it showed yesterday. He was on the bench for

493
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: h straight games. He was inactive eight straight games after

494
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: playing in the Philadelphia game. Made the big touchdown catching

495
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: the game at Tennessee. But he adds a certain spark

496
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: to the offense and he had size, let's face it,

497
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: to the wide receiving corps. The question is now do

498
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: they keep? And again, I think a lot of this

499
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,399
Speaker 1: will depend on Andre Roberts status and his availability for

500
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: Saturday's game with his injury. He did not play yesterday.

501
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: But what do they do with you, Quaims? So they

502
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: play him in the playoffs? What do you think, Steve?

503
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: It's a really good question. I know he brings. He

504
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: does bring a little something, brings an emotional edge. He

505
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 1: plays with a grit and he's I'll tell you he's

506
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 1: got a Really he's got an NFL skill set. I mean,

507
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 1: he played in Canada for while, I had a hard

508
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: time getting back in the league that kind of thing.

509
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: But he's got an NFL skill set. He may not

510
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,120
Speaker 1: have NFL speed, you know, elite speed, but as big

511
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 1: as he is, he brings something to the table that

512
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: he can offer an NFL team like the Buffalo Bills.

513
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: He's a different type of receiver. We've set it over

514
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: and over him and people have been clamoring for him

515
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: to get on the field, and I and I agree

516
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: with him. I love the guy's attitude when he's on

517
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: the field. He's I think he's got as good at

518
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: hands as anybody on the squad. He's strong on the ball.

519
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: He turns a fifty fifty ball into a seventy thirty ball.

520
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: He's just got the skill set that's different than the

521
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: guys you've got. Now, there are reasons why he's not

522
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: playing that that go beyond all of our knowledge. Maybe

523
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: it may be his special teams. That lack is a

524
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: lack of ability to contribute on special teams. It may

525
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: be that it may be the playbook itself that gives

526
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: him problems. He may have a limited play menu that

527
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: they feel comfortable asking him to do. It may be

528
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 1: chemistry between him and Josh. It may be the fact

529
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: that he can only play one spot instead of two spots,

530
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: so if they get into a multiple hurry up situation,

531
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: he has to keep switching sides to go to the

532
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: same spot, and he can't switch positions, and maybe any

533
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: one of those things. And I get all of that,

534
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: and it's all important. But man, when he gets in

535
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: there and he knows what he's doing, the guy produces.

536
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the limitation on where he

537
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: can produce is probably one of the reasons he's not

538
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: out there more because he doesn't have a Maybe the

539
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 1: I guess this is a total guest on my part.

540
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, the whole playbook isn't open to him.

541
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: Maybe all the positions aren't open to him, and maybe

542
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: a special teams contribution isn't what you'd like it to be.

543
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: But him hand oh man, when they could get him

544
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: the ball. He had one drop yesterday that he's got

545
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: to be sick about, because otherwise it's a perfect day

546
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: for him. Other than that, the guy is strong on

547
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: the ball, and I like that about him. And he

548
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: get a new game like against for instance, Baltimore, where

549
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: they try and muscle up on the receivers, Duke Williams

550
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: will slap the taste out of their mouth. Yep, here's

551
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: the thing. I think They've got to take a chance.

552
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: I think they got to try to. They got to

553
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: see if he can help their kind of a receiving

554
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: cord that needs another dimension. I think Williams provides another dimension.

555
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: I would make that switch going into the playoffs, but

556
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: not my call to make, but I would do that.

557
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,239
Speaker 1: And if it is a problem where where he's got

558
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: special teams, you've got to You've got to have guys

559
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: and ross that will that will wash over if if

560
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: you got if you lose a guy in your team,

561
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: like if he comes in and sit and sits Robert

562
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: Foster down, Somebody's got to take Robert Foster's spot on

563
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: special teams, and Foster plays a ton, So you got

564
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: to do it with either another guy that takes Robert

565
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: Foster's place, or two or three guys that one takes

566
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: this part of Foster's responsibility on punt team, the other

567
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: guys on kickoff and other guys on punt return. So

568
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: you can do it with a number of guys, but

569
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: you got to find a way to cover for that

570
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: gap that special team's contribute contributor loses. But I'm with humor.

571
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: If I'm far too intrigued and pleasantly surprised by the

572
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: production Duke Williams has when he's on the field, not

573
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: to give him more opportunities. Yep, if I yeah, that's

574
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: just you and me sitting in it's a studio, right, yeah.

575
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: One more thing from me yesterday's game after four years,

576
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: it appears that Lorenzo Alexander, four years with the Bills,

577
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: he is ready to call it a career. So he

578
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: played in his last home game, most likely his last

579
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: home game yesterday afternoon, and the Bills were ready pre game,

580
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: end game. They may kind of a celebration of Lorenzo

581
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: Alexander and it was something to see. And it started

582
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: in the pregame when his daughter Zoe saying the national

583
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: anthem yesterday. And I think that it was something that

584
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: Lorenzo didn't see it coming. He didn't talk about it

585
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: with you guys. He didn't know, didn't know, did not know,

586
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: and the Bills didn't anyway, and then of course he

587
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: confirmed his plans to retire. After the game, Lorenzo Alexander

588
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: talked about what was a special day for him. He

589
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: was lifted from the game on the Bills second defensive

590
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: series after one played. Bills called the time I got

591
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: Lorenzo out of there. To a nice warm round of applause,

592
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: and Lorenzo had these thoughts about yesterday's game. Obviously, that's

593
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: a decision I made before the season. You know, at

594
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: this point, we still got to play Houston next week,

595
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: and so my mind hasn't even processed transition yet, and

596
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: so I'm still in this thing, you know, one hundred.

597
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: I think what you started thinking about, you know, life

598
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: after you kind of take something to focus away about

599
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: from the guys and what's important. So folkus on Houston. Now,

600
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: you got to get a playoff win. Obviously that'd be

601
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: huge for his organization community, and that's where we're looking

602
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: right now. That's also something you don't have a Yeah,

603
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean obviously I was, you know, when

604
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: I was old practice squad, no file. I was part

605
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers or NFC championship team that went

606
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: there and lost in Seattle. So I've been around guys.

607
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: Dan Borgo was part of that team. So I know

608
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: what it takes, I know what it looks like, and

609
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: this team has the making of that, and so I

610
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: hopefully we're able to put together a great game plan,

611
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: a great week of practice and be able to go

612
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: down to Houston. The show well collectively, and he tried

613
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: to get his help me down there, Lorenzo Alexander. So

614
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: unlike last year the celebration for Kyle Williams, when everybody

615
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: knew that was going to be the last game. Because

616
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: it was the last game, there's no postseason, Lorenzo smartly

617
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: knows that there's more football to play. He also, and

618
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: I think kind of a emblematic of his career, he

619
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: knows that it's not about him, and he makes a

620
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: plane to say, hey, it's not about me, it's about

621
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: going to the postseason. This team has headed to the postseason.

622
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: And he made that clear yesterday, said it's great, thank

623
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: you for celebrating me and acknowledging my long career, but

624
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: this is not about me. It's it's not about it,

625
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: and it's not something that It's not a luxury that

626
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,959
Speaker 1: Kyle was afforded last year because they weren't in the playoffs.

627
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: It was that was it. And and Lorenzo knows and

628
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: I get it too, he's right on. I'm right on

629
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: board with him. Yeah you can, Hey, it's great. I

630
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: know this is gonna be my last run, but man,

631
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: oh man, let's make it go. You know he's gonna

632
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: focus on this game. Let's let's extend it another game,

633
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: in another game, in another game. Uh. And it's and

634
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: it's very easy to see how you know this team

635
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: and I can I can just rethinct back to the

636
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: years when I played and we were doing this where

637
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: you're all of a sudden, the entire scope and vision

638
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: of the organization turns forward one week and you pour

639
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: every ounce into that week. And it was a great

640
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Speaker 1: moment yesterday as Zoe sang the national anthem and Lorenzo

641
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: and his whole family were there to watch, and it

642
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: was a surprise for him for him to have that happen.

643
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: You gotta tip your hat to McDermott and Brandon Bean

644
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: and the organization for making that happen and call and

645
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to say what wasting the time out

646
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: to get that guy a little round of applause early

647
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: in the game. It's there's not a lot of organization

648
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: that would do that, ye, And I'm kind of glad

649
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: and proud of this one for being the one that does. Ye. Lorenzo,

650
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: let's face it, and you and I have spent some

651
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: time last night with Jay Feely called the game on CBS.

652
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: Former Lorenzo teammate, he said this, how many people have

653
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: said Lorenzo is my favorite teammate of all time? Just

654
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: about yea, he who's played with the guy, he acknowledges

655
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: he's special, and they acknowledge him as one of the

656
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: great teammates they've ever had. He's just an amazing guy.

657
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: And that goes back. You think too, he's Walter Payton

658
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: Man of the Year. It should be. He's got it.

659
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: He's been nominated five times for two different teams. I mean,

660
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: the guy's a phenomenal human being. And then then you

661
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: know to have him, you know, have his family being

662
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: honored like that, and to bit and you forget about this.

663
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: He came into the National Football League as a three

664
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Speaker 1: hundred pounder and transformed his entire physical being into a

665
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: different type of different type of human being. Sure, I

666
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: mean how many? I mean, like, it's almost New Year's

667
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: we're all gonna resolve to lose five pounds. He lost fifty. Yeah,

668
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: to keep his career alive and to be a professional athlete.

669
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: That's like, how far beyond a New Year's resolution? Is that? Right?

670
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: I Mean, that's a kind of discipline and resolve and

671
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: commitment and professionalism he's displayed. And that's why you know,

672
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: yet again the Bills have a guy for the second

673
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: year in the road Kyle last year and of course

674
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: Lorenzo this year. Who man o man. That's you want

675
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: to know why this team is starting to be successful

676
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: and and be having a place where they can maintain success.

677
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: It's guys like that, And it's that kind of recognition

678
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: of those guys on week seventeen, it's that kind of

679
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: appreciation of their family and giving him a gift and

680
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: a going away president or a gift in their last

681
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: home game as they head in the playoffs. It's part

682
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: of why this team has to they do it this

683
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: way in this city and this organization is and I

684
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: think it's important that they do. I think it's extra

685
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: that they got to do here that other teams maybe

686
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: not have to and certainly aren't ready to do. Great

687
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: moment right in the middle of a stinking rain story too, well,

688
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: we don't. We won't talk about that. We got a

689
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: lot to talk about about yesterday's game, Yeah, a little bit,

690
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: mostly about the future and what are you most excited

691
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: about when you look forward to the Bills playoffs in

692
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,959
Speaker 1: a possible playoff run, give us a call eight three

693
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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Sending a tweet, we can read it on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Vote on our Twitter poll. What are

696
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Speaker 1: you most excited about about the Bills in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it when we return. It is One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studios

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: One Bill Side, John Murphy's team tasker in our one

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Studio. I'm back to Thursday Friday off last week.

702
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: Thanks to Chris Brown and Maddy Glad for filling in.

703
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: It's good to get a couple of days off. Seven yeah.

704
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: Well yeah, now you can kick it in for the playoff.

705
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: Get into the playoffs, no matter how long it goes.

706
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: Although now you're still gonna take Friday off too. You'd

707
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: be traveling four thirty did you? Was there ever really

708
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: any doubt that we were gonna get the four thirty

709
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: five game? I mean you kind of figured you would, right.

710
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: Sal came up with Sal Capatro came up with a

711
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: good stat about how the champions of the AFC South.

712
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: Seven of the last eight years have played the first game,

713
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: the first Saturday game. I mean, it's just the natural

714
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: because I guess because of ratings, because of market size

715
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: and ratings, market size, ratings, time change. I mean, they're

716
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: they'll play that game. It comes on. It'll be three o'clock,

717
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: three thirty in the afternoon in Central time. It's one

718
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,239
Speaker 1: thirty mountains. You know, it works out well with all

719
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: the time zones in the country because they're all central,

720
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: most of them are Central time zones. Yeah, it makes sense.

721
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,479
Speaker 1: It makes sense, and I don't care. You know, it's

722
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: not a slap in the face. It's it's the playoffs.

723
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: You care. You gotta watch it if you're a football fan. Yeah,

724
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: gonna be a heck of a game. It's getting full

725
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: monster numbers. Yeah, it's gonna be a great game. I

726
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: think two evenly matched teams, they have different strengths and

727
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna go at it. I think it's gonna be

728
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: a great game. Suthing, it's gonna be a lot of

729
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: fun and m well for us. I mean, good grief. Yeah,

730
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: you're kidding me. You know, I'm gonna be all nestled

731
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,959
Speaker 1: into my own Yeah, what are you most excited about about?

732
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 1: The playoffs? Nestling into your little thing like Steve's little

733
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: feeted pajamas, an old cock co thirty Saturday afternoon, It'll

734
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: just be the sun will just be setting right it

735
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: that early early nighttime. It'll be a couple of days

736
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Speaker 1: after the new year. It's gonna be a great day.

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00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't you know. I gotta tell

738
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: you I'm laughing about it. You'll be I don't know

739
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. Well, you want to stay home,

740
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: don't you? Or do you want to go out and

741
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: watch it and see? I got a lot? I know

742
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: you got a lot. You want here's the thing. If

743
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: they're gonna if they're gonna get beat in a close

744
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: one or lose the game, you want to be home

745
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: by yourself in the dark room. If they're gonna win

746
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: and like win by double digits and win going away,

747
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: you want to be like you gonna be down like

748
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: seven one six, like but like with the on the

749
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: bar with your shirt off and whipping it around your head. Right,

750
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's like two different things. Yes, right, So

751
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 1: you want to you want to have your bases covered. Yeah,

752
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: you see, here's what you do. You plan for the

753
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: first half and say here's where we're gonna start, and

754
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: then if it starts to go the right way or

755
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: the wrong way, then you adjust. It's like at halftime,

756
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: you go, you know, go down to your you know,

757
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: the establishment or whatever, or you know, you stay where

758
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: you're at, and you go up. You put your little

759
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: fuzzy pajamas on and get under a blanket. I get you, though,

760
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: It's really very little fun celebrating to win when you're

761
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: all alone, right, Yeah. But on the other hand, if

762
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: there's a disappointing, bitter loss, you don't want to be

763
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: around any of anybody else. You want to hear anybody's

764
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: opinions about why they lost. You don't want to hear

765
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: the second guessing about why they like. It's difficult. It's difficult.

766
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: It's a hard balance to strike. But I will say this,

767
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: probably most like and like this Houston Texas too. Let's

768
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: give them credit. They're gonna feel confident coming into this game. Yeah,

769
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: a home game. Yeah, and they you know, they're they're

770
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: the division champions. Yeah, and they earned it, so you know,

771
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: it's it's a and I and I've said this before

772
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: too and not it doesn't always hold true, but I'll

773
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: tell you this, a lot of really spectacular football takes

774
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: place on wildcard weekend. Yeah uh and my and not always.

775
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 1: And it's been it's gone back and forth a little

776
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: more of in later years the last few years. But

777
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: divisional round of the playoffs are is usually just the

778
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: opposite of that, because you get these teams that come

779
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: into the wild card round. Picture the Bills two years ago,

780
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: they just scratched in the last minute. You know, somebody

781
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: else got them into the playoffs. It's like ah, and

782
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: you get this huge emotional burst, you go down, you scrite,

783
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: you're fighting, you're scratching your claw in this wild card game.

784
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: And then you know the team that actually wins like

785
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: they come out of there like right. And then you

786
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: go in on the road to a team that's rested.

787
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: That's when you see blowouts in the playoffs. I think

788
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: when you get to those home teams that have had

789
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: two weeks off and you just spent all your emotion

790
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: on that wildcard round in either on the road or

791
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: in the in your own building, and you got to

792
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: go on the road and play a really team, a

793
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: team that's rested and healthy. That's that's when you get

794
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: into some bad football. Ye doesn't always hold true. But

795
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: what do you think? What as you're most excited about

796
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: the Bills being in the playoffs, Let's take some phone

797
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: calls Taylor and Kitchener, Ontario. Hello Taylor, go ahead, you're

798
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: in the air. How you guys doing good? Good? Um,

799
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: My girlfriend's a big Texas fans, the Texas fans, so

800
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much every game since the beginning. So it's

801
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: gonna be fun on Saturday. Um. What they do well

802
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: and what they don't do well on the offense, if

803
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: Fuller's playing it as a whole different, Uh, it's different.

804
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: They can really take the top off on your second

805
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: corner in your slod receiver with Stills and the Fuller

806
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: tight ends get really involved in the game. They're huge

807
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: in the red zone. They've got a lot of touchdowns

808
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: that way. Receiving backs backs are good at receiving. On

809
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: the defensive side, linebackers don't cover well, So Knox and

810
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: Beasley will be I think a big key to winning

811
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: this game, and so will the signletary out of the backfield.

812
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 1: And they don't tackle necessarily well, they give up a

813
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: lot of big plays. They give a lot of plays

814
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: up down field. Just they just can't tackle well at all.

815
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much all I got they I appreciate

816
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: the guest scouting can record. Man, it's nice to know

817
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, it's gonna be there. The twenty

818
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: eighth ranked defense is scoring. They've they've struggled to give

819
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: up the big play. I think their offense, like you said,

820
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: their wide receiving corps is really good. Deshaun Watson can

821
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: throw it too. They have thrived. I think I'm we're

822
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: gonna have John McClean on a little later. I think

823
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: they've thrived on the big play. Particularly DeAndre Hopkins, in

824
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: my mind is probably and I'll say this in mind

825
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying it because it's Houston Texans on

826
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: the Bill's schedule in the playoffs coming up. I've said

827
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: this since the beginning of the season. I think DeAndre

828
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: Hopkins is the guy if you had to pick one guy,

829
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: even Michael Thomas, I don't know much about him. He's

830
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: a phenomenal player, but I think DeAndre Hopkins is the

831
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: best wide receiver right now in the NFL. He's the

832
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: guy I would want on my team. He is almost unguardable.

833
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas is if for the Saints, has had a

834
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: phenomenal year, but he's got Drew Brees throw into him,

835
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, he doesn't have to work that hard

836
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: to catch those balls. DeAndre Hopkins will make every catch anywhere,

837
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: at any time, and there is no such thing as

838
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty ball with him. You know what I

839
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: like about that matchup though for Buffalo, I mean stick

840
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: Tredevious White atom It is not a physical matchup at all.

841
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: Tredevious seems to struggle against the bigger receivers DeAndre Hopkins

842
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: as talented as he is one hundred and four catches

843
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: is it? Oh yeah, he's not a big receiver, and

844
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: I think that bodes well for that matchup. Tredevious White

845
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: against DeAndre Hopkins. Um and Hopkins is good, really good,

846
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: really good. But Tredevious White is really good also, like

847
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: one of the top two or three corners in the league.

848
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: And you can do it differently too. You could put

849
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Speaker 1: for instance, particularly for a team like Houston where they've

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Speaker 1: got more than one guy, you know they can and

851
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: they'll throw it to Fuller and they'll throw it to Stills.

852
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: You know, those guys are good. But I think you

853
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: could almost double Hopkins with Levi if he's healthy, if

854
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: or you know Kevin Johnson and you know tarn Johnson

855
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: or Kevin Johnson and Tremaine or something. You know, he

856
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: double DeAndre and then you stick Tremaine on number two

857
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: and take completely away way to do it, and you

858
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: can do it that way. Now, they'll probably try it

859
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: all different kinds of ways, and they'll also mix in

860
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Speaker 1: some pressure packages where you know, Deshawn's got to get

861
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: rid of it now to somebody. But they're a handful

862
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Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson can sling it. But the thing is is,

863
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: they said, Hopkins not being a huge wide receiver doesn't

864
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Speaker 1: present the kind of challenge that many other receivers might.

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Speaker 1: For Tradavious White, who does struggle a little bit more

866
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Speaker 1: against the big, tall wide receivers, Hopkins is not that guy.

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Speaker 1: Take a call here from Gregory and Palmyra. Hello, Gregory,

868
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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. You're on the air. Hello. I say,

869
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Speaker 1: the thing has me most excited about is the process.

870
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: Sean and Brandon have shown that the process works we

871
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: don't need to deviate from the process. They've built a team.

872
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: We don't need a Prima Donna's receivers. Everyone keeps packing

873
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: to you, guys, we just need to stay the course,

874
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Speaker 1: as they've been saying. And trust me, they know what

875
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: they're doing, and hopefully if we start believing themthing worked

876
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: out fine. All right, I do think and again part

877
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Speaker 1: of believing in the process, I think I'm just exposed.

878
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm imposing my views on you. It means you're

879
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: thinking long term that this year is going to have

880
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: an end to at some point in these playoffs, and

881
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: I guess I'm believing right now that they might not.

882
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: They might have a good long run at them this

883
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: year in the playoffs. I'm not ready to write that off.

884
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: But I appreciate what you're saying. You're thinking that the

885
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: process works, the process is working, and this is just

886
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: another step in away and this could this will be

887
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: over soon and that they'll get to the next step.

888
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm not prepared to go that right there just now. Yeah,

889
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: it's interesting too. Gregory said, you trust me, you can

890
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: trust McDermott. That's what he's saying, And you're right. I

891
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: mean that's uh. It's been a steady ascension from where

892
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: they began three years ago to this point, and you've

893
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: seen steps along the way. I think the mode, but

894
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: for this team and this playoff run, I think there's

895
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: no question. You look at you look at at Oliver,

896
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 1: you look at Devin Singletary, you look at Dawson Knox,

897
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: and you look at Josh Allen, the all of those

898
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: get Tremaine Edmonds. They've all grown and gotten better and improved.

899
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: They've got to take more steps, and I think they

900
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: got to take more steps this year in the next

901
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks for them to take another step in

902
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Certainly, if they play as good as they

903
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: can play as good as we've seen them play up

904
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: to this point in this regular season, they'll be good

905
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Speaker 1: enough to beat the Houston Texans. The Houston Texas will

906
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: have to come up with a superlative effort to beat

907
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: a team like this. The Bills are just too good defensively.

908
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 1: Then they've got too many, too much going for him

909
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: all over their roster offensively and defensively not to win

910
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: a game where they play their best. And so how

911
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: far they go comes down to and we've seen it too,

912
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: every time the Bills drop a game. I heard it

913
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: today on the radio coming into different stations around where

914
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: people are. You know, they called Brian. Anytime you have

915
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: one side of the ball that's struggling, like the end

916
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: of Bills off and struggles to score points day, Bo's

917
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna take a kill of beating every time they drop

918
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: a game, because he'd be called two runs in a

919
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: row or something, and you know, some whatever situation in

920
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: whatever game. It's just the way it is. They've got

921
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: it going on right now. And I'm telling you the

922
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: defense is gonna show up big and so and this offense.

923
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: In my mind, I think they're gonna have a really

924
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: good game. I think this is a good spot where

925
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: you can bet they're gonna take the lid off every

926
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing's gonna be left in the can, right,

927
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Speaker 1: So I'm really excited about the matchup. Now. You say

928
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Speaker 1: the same thing about the Texans. They're gonna come in

929
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Speaker 1: with all guns blazing too. They're gonna be firing from

930
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: the hip as well. But I think for a team

931
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Speaker 1: like Buffalo, with a discipline and the way they play

932
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Speaker 1: their game, I don't think a team like Houston is

933
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Speaker 1: as they depend on the big play, and those are

934
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: low percentage plays, you know. And I've got certainly got

935
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Speaker 1: talented guys who can make it happen. But I'm telling

936
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Speaker 1: you this is it. I think it's a fun game,

937
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: a fun matchup, and I I and there's you can

938
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Speaker 1: make a case for both teams. But even for the

939
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Speaker 1: Bills going on the road in the playoffs. Man, they're

940
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm I feel really good about their chances. It's the

941
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: best matchup of the first weekend. I think so Seattle

942
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia could be a decent game. I guess late

943
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: Sunday depends on how bad Seattle plays. Minnesota at New Orleans,

944
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: I think New Orleans is a clear favorite. There. Tennessee

945
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: at the Patriots. Again, I think the Patriots, as much

946
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: as they've struggled to get to this point, I think

947
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,479
Speaker 1: they're heavy favorites here. Yeah, I say yes, the Bills

948
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: Texans is the premier game of Wild Guard weekend. I

949
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: really think it is. Yeah, it's it's Minnesota at New Orleans. Yes,

950
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be an absolute massacre. I do too.

951
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: I think New Orleans remembers the miracle in Minneapolis, and

952
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: they're gonna Oh, I'd like to be Seattle with eleven wins,

953
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: having a cross country go to Philadelphia to play team

954
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: that just barely got their ninth win. Yeah, all right,

955
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: I think that could get I think that could get

956
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: out of hands. It's true that could get out of han.

957
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: We got a break, we got more to come. It

958
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live, presented by Callida Hell from the

959
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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing

960
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: comes close One Bill's Live. John Murphy, Steve Tnsker, The

961
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: Bills sends well. The Sabers have announced at the same

962
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: they've moved their game on Saturday because of the Bills

963
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: playoff game. They were gonna play at seven pm, gonna

964
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: play who they got, Florida Panthers. They're gonna play instead

965
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: of one pm because the Bill's game is at four thirty.

966
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: So if you have Sabers tickets, you have time to

967
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: go to the Sabers game and return home to watch kickoff.

968
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: That's a good move by the Sabers. Yeah, isn't it. Yeah? Smart,

969
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: I mean nice to have that one Buffalo thing work

970
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: where the hockey owner says, yeah, yeah, sure, we'll move

971
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: our game. Right. Sabers home game is Murphy Saturday against Florida.

972
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: Their home tomorrow night, New Year's Eve, but it's now

973
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: one o'clock Saturday against Florida Panthers instead of a seven pm.

974
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: The Bills schedule for twenty twenty is set now with

975
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. You know they'll play Miami,

976
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: New England and the Jets home and home. The other

977
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: teams that are set at home Kansas City Division champion

978
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: playoff team Los Angeles Chargers. That'll be interesting. Los Angeles

979
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: Rams just missed the playoffs. Seattle Seahawks they're in the playoffs.

980
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh just missed the playoffs. Those are good attractive home games.

981
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean, look at them. There's a lot there's a

982
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: lot of firepower there on the road. They go to Arizona,

983
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: They go to San Francisco, the division opponents, number one

984
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC. They go to Tennessee again second

985
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: consecutive year in Nashville. Many Bills fans had fun there

986
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: this year in October, and they'll get another chance to

987
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 1: do it again in at some point when the dates

988
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: and times come out. They'll go to Las Vegas to

989
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: play the Raiders in the new stadium there, and they'll

990
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: go to Denver to play the Broncos. What do you

991
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: think that all waste schedule is like five destinations right, Phoenix,

992
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Nashville, Vegas, and Denver. If they have never

993
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: never been to Denver, it's a dynamite city place. Oh my, guys,

994
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: look at the long trip. I want to go down

995
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: the road with the guys, you know, let me like

996
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: three days early every time too. This year we featured

997
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: the short trips, right, A couple of trips to New York,

998
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: a trip to a Tennessee. Okay, at trips Cleveland couldn't

999
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: get much closer than that, A trip to Dallas, trip

1000
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, very close. Dallas is the far pest. Yeah,

1001
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: next year there's some long trips there in the y.

1002
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: I wonder if is there any way just tell me now,

1003
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: Like I know, I don't know what. There's no way

1004
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 1: that we're going to get like the Raiders, not in Vegas,

1005
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: like in London or something. There's a chance there's a

1006
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: London game next year too. You'd like to see I

1007
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: don't think they would. I don't want to go to London.

1008
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: I don't either, But we might have to, Steve, we

1009
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: might have we I might have to. Yeah, I've got

1010
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: a mouse in your pocket with you. I'm not going.

1011
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm not going to London. That's way above my paid.

1012
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: There's a chance that there's some some more Sunday night

1013
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: maybe Monday night games in there too. Then there was

1014
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: this year. Oh think about that too. Yeah, we might

1015
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: get like a San Francisco night game, you know that

1016
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: game out there under the lights. Yeah, uh might be.

1017
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: I'd be kind of a rough one though. It could

1018
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: be a Seattle game here under the lights. We played

1019
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: Seattle out there, remember a handful of years ago on

1020
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: a Monday night out there? Yes, two years ago. Yeah,

1021
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: that's something to think about too. I hadn't really thought

1022
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: about the prime time ramifications of which of those games

1023
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: would match up for a Monday night game and which

1024
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: ones will be early in the year, so they you know,

1025
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: like right, wow? And you know what happened this year

1026
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: with the games being moved to Sunday night game and

1027
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: another game moved to what it was? Was there another

1028
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Speaker 1: game move? Yeah, the Sunday night game, that Pittsburgh game,

1029
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Speaker 1: Sunday night game was moved. But things change, you know.

1030
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Speaker 1: The schedule comes out, you think, oh we got all

1031
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: we got is a flat Thursday game. You get flex sometimes, right,

1032
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: you get Sunday night football. So no matter what the

1033
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: schedule looks like when it comes out, it could change,

1034
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: right all right. When we come back, we're gonna talk

1035
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: about the Houston Texans, Buffalo's wild card playoff opponent. We're

1036
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Speaker 1: gonna be joined by John McClain of the Houston Chronicle.

1037
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Speaker 1: He's cover the Oilers and the Texans for years now.

1038
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Speaker 1: He is a veteran pro football writer. John mcclaim. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, it is One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalidah Health from the as Seneca Studio in Archerd Park.

1041
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Buffalo Hills Radio Network Sports

1042
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Speaker 1: of Date Playoffs approach for the Buffalo Bills. They found

1043
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: out their scheduled yesterday. The Bills will play at four

1044
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Speaker 1: thirty Saturday afternoon against the Houston Texans, the first of

1045
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Speaker 1: this weekend's wildcard playoff games. That game will be on

1046
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Speaker 1: ESPN and ABC. The other AFC Wildcard game follows Tennessee

1047
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: at the Patriots eight fifteen pm on Saturday night. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: it's NFC wildcard games Minnesota at New Orleans at one

1049
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: oh five, Seattle at Philadelphia at four forty pm. The

1050
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Speaker 1: Bills tried to get out of the game yesterday without injury.

1051
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Speaker 1: They did not succeed. Cornerback Lee by Allas offensive tackle

1052
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Speaker 1: tian Secki both had to be carted to the locker

1053
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Speaker 1: room at separate times. Willace suffered an ankle injury making

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Speaker 1: an interception off a deflected pass. No word on how

1055
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Speaker 1: serious that might be. On the offensive line, tian Secki

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Speaker 1: was carted off after he sustained an ankle injury to

1057
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: the same ankle that kept him out of the lineup

1058
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,760
Speaker 1: for the last five games. Duke William's big game yesterday

1059
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: for Buffalo six catches, one hundred eight yards and a touchdown.

1060
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: He posted the first one hundred yard receiving game of

1061
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: his career in a good game for defensive end Trent Murphy,

1062
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: who came up with two sacks, a single game high

1063
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: for him. The Bill's opponents for next season are settled

1064
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: now as far as out of the division. They'll be

1065
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: home against Kansas City, the Chargers, the Ram Seattle in Pittsburgh.

1066
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: On the road, they'll play at Denver at Las Vegas,

1067
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: at Arizona, at San Francisco, and at Tennessee. It's the

1068
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,919
Speaker 1: Houston Texans on the road this weekend. The Texans lost

1069
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: their final game yesterday, thirty five to fourteen to the

1070
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Though quarterback to Shaun Watson and wide receiver

1071
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins were active, neither one of them played. The

1072
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 1: offense also without left tackle Laramy Tunsil, wide receiver Will Fuller,

1073
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: and wide receiver Kenny sill Stills, who were inactive. Coaching

1074
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: moves the Browns and fired head coach Freddie Kitchens. The

1075
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: Browns have requested permission to interview Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.

1076
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: The Giants fired coach Pat Shermer yesterday after two seasons

1077
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: on the job. They're keeping general manager David Gentleman, and

1078
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: the Washington Redkins expected to hire your former Carolina Panthers

1079
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: coach Ron Rivera. Savers home tomorrow against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

1080
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: Their game on Saturday against Florida. That game has been moved.

1081
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 1: It's now a one pm faceoff. It was seven pm

1082
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: move because of the Bills playoff game. That's the update

1083
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasker here

1084
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: on the line with us, the Houston Chronicles, Texans, NFL writer,

1085
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection Committee.

1086
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: He's covered the NFL for more than forty years. So

1087
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: what's another wildcard game to him? Right? We'll find out.

1088
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: John McLean of the Houston Chronicle along the line with us. Now,

1089
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: Hello John, John Murphy and Steave Tasker upper in Buffalo.

1090
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 1: Good to talk with you today. Hey, thank you very much, John,

1091
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: and stay even you know, if it's Houston and Buffalo,

1092
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: even though it's the Texans. I'm writing tomorrow about January third,

1093
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, a day that will live in Houston infamy. Yeah,

1094
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: still stings done to John. I know it's got to right. Well.

1095
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: I asked billow O'Brien's and Bill fancies himself as historian,

1096
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: and he grew up outside Boston, so he was a

1097
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, so he's well aware of the Bills and history.

1098
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: And I asked him, I said, no, it's not doesn't

1099
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: have anything to do with this game, but it's got

1100
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: through a lot of fans in this city. You know,

1101
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: up there it's known as the comeback. Here, it's known

1102
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: as the choke, and he said, oh, we're all about

1103
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: this game. So I gave him two chances and he wouldn't.

1104
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: He wouldn't go for it. So he's all about Saturday

1105
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: where it leaves today for tomorrow. I'm all about the

1106
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: historical significance because, as you guys can imagine, for all

1107
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: of us who are around man and I think even

1108
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: if you're a millennial and you care about football, you

1109
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: would know about that game. Buffalo is always going to

1110
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: be a dirty word. I got to ask you too,

1111
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: and I mentioned this earlier in our show. It seems

1112
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: to me that when you get to this wild card

1113
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: weekend and it doesn't always hold true, but for me,

1114
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: I think you see some spectacular football games because you

1115
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: get these teams who maybe just got in or are

1116
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: excited about being in where one of those teams that

1117
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: usually have a handful that we're not in the playoffs

1118
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: or getting back in the playoffs. I think with the

1119
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: emotional high you get of being in a playoff atmosphere

1120
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: with no week to prepare, just you're right into it

1121
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: on Monday morning, you get some really good football games

1122
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: on wild card weekend. And notwithstanding even the comeback game,

1123
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: which was, you know, whichever side of the coin you

1124
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: were on, was a spectacular football game and fun to

1125
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: watch for fans. I think you can look for more

1126
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: of that this weekend. I think Wildcard weekend is a

1127
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: really good weekend for some really good games. Usually to

1128
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: sell you that was one of the greatest games in history,

1129
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: whether you were in Houston or not. And that's why

1130
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: it gets played on NFL network all the time. And

1131
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: I'll get texts, Hey, the Wholers and Bills are on

1132
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: the NFL network and I'm s, so, what you know,

1133
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: I've seen that thing so many times and that it

1134
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: will go down is one of the greatest games in

1135
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: the one hundred year anniversary of the NFL Pro Football

1136
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that you get good games

1137
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: is because they don't have time to prepare. I think

1138
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: it'd be fun when I'm retired after right now I'm

1139
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: going on forty five years here forty three on the NFL.

1140
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to do is go

1141
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: to Vegas and be there on the wild Card weekend

1142
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: and the divisional round win because I love those more

1143
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: than I do the championship games. And I expect now

1144
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: the Bill's got a taste of it last year. Now

1145
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: they're a much better team this year with a great defense.

1146
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 1: The Texans, they play great special teams. Their defense is

1147
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,240
Speaker 1: not very good, but that's because they traded Jon Clowney

1148
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: and J. J. Watt has been out for two months,

1149
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: even though he'll be back for this one. But so

1150
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 1: if they're gonna win this game, they're gonna have to

1151
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: score a lot of points with just Shaun Watson offense,

1152
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: which I'm not sure they can do considering Buffalo's number

1153
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: two in the NFL and points a lout. Want to

1154
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: ask you about this season just ended for the Houston Texans, John,

1155
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: John McClean our guests from the Houston Chronicle. It started

1156
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: out kind of slow, didn't it. They were two and two,

1157
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: they'd lost a couple of games. They, as you said,

1158
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: traded away Jadavian Clowney, they'd lost J. J. Watt. Didn't

1159
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: look like it was going to be a playoff year

1160
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: when it started, did it. It didn't, John. They lost

1161
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: the first game at New Orleans on a fifty eight

1162
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: yard field goal with no time left, and then they

1163
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: barely beat Jacksonville by one point. And then since J. J.

1164
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: Watt went out, they've been. They were five and two,

1165
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: six and two, and then you know, they might have

1166
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: beaten the Titans what they had their nine players playing,

1167
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: but we'll now ever know. But they played better over

1168
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: the second half, which is kind of amazing because their

1169
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: defense just wasn't very good. But when they went against

1170
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: the big time quarterbacks, they did well. They lost to

1171
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, they lost to let's see oh drew lock

1172
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 1: against Denver. Both those games were here, and so they've

1173
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: done better against the big quarterbacks. They beat Brady, they

1174
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: beat my homes in Kansas City, and they won two

1175
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: games back to back on the road against Tennessee and

1176
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay when both those teams had four game winning streaks.

1177
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: They won five to six and their quarterbacks were red hot.

1178
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: And they clinched a division four times in five years.

1179
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: And one of the things about Bill O'Brien here, he's

1180
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: not been good in the playoffs. And they played every

1181
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: game at home. They lost thirty to nothing to Kansas

1182
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: City in two thousand and fifteen. Here two thousand and

1183
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: six team with broadcast will they beat a third strained

1184
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback with the Raiders, and then last year they

1185
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: got beat here by fourteen by the Cole Snandrew Luck.

1186
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: So the Bills, I'm not saying, of course they're going

1187
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: to expect to win. But for the fans who are worried,

1188
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: it's not like this has been a dominant playoff team

1189
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 1: and energy stadium. It's been just the opposite. And people

1190
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: here they want more than winning division. They want them

1191
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: to win a playoff game. Even if they beat Buffalo.

1192
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: Nobody expects them to go back to Baltimore and win

1193
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: where they got to beat forty one seven in regular season.

1194
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: But people here are no longer satisfied with just getting

1195
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Well, I wonder what does it say

1196
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: then about Bill O'Brien. He's got four playoff appearances and

1197
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: six seasons as head coach. He did a pretty good job,

1198
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: I guess this year, but they want more from him.

1199
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: I would think he's got to be the focal point

1200
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: of that desire by Houston Texans. Oh yeah, a lot

1201
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: of people want him fired if they lose those game.

1202
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: People want him fired, and a lot of people weren't

1203
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: fired anyway. And a big difference is everybody thought last

1204
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: year was going to be different because they had a

1205
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: legitimate quarterback and losing them. You know, they when they

1206
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: beat Oakland here, the score looked decisive, but it wasn't

1207
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: with broadcast wall. And then they went to New England

1208
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: and they were down by one score in the fourth

1209
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: quarter and oswald er through two interceptions and they lost,

1210
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: and then he was out and Watson was in. But

1211
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: in the first game last year here against the calf

1212
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: they had the worst offensive game of the year. Now,

1213
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: you would think if they remember the humiliation of that

1214
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: performance and the way they were ridiculed for it, that

1215
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: it would help get them a little more focused on

1216
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: the bills. But I can tell you this Buffalo has

1217
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: got a lot better defense than Indianapolis had last year

1218
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: when they limited the Texans seven points. What are your

1219
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: thoughts about Bill O'Brien. I mean, you've watched, you know,

1220
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: so many coaches come through the Houston city, either with

1221
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: the Oilers now with the Texans. What are your thoughts

1222
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: on what he's done with that franchise? And you know

1223
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: his face that he's got a little bit more in

1224
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: his play than most head coaches. They don't have a GM.

1225
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: I know you've got probably got thoughts on that as well.

1226
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about where the whole organization sits,

1227
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: particularly with Bill at the top spot. He's the eleventh

1228
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: head coach I've covered there, Steve and going back to

1229
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: bum Phillips and and Bill is a general manager without

1230
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: the title. He's made a lot of moves and turk

1231
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: and those moves turned out good. You got Laramie Tounson,

1232
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: Kenny Steals. Steals has been tremendous for when Will Fuller

1233
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: has been hurt at receiver, Counsoles solidified their problem at

1234
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: left tackle. He's had a problem with twelve false starts

1235
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: to lead the league. But you know they let the

1236
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: five yard Penali's go if he's not giving up sacks.

1237
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: And he brought in two new running backs, Carlos Hide

1238
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: for a player wasn't gonna make the team, he said,

1239
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: more than a thousand yards. A third round pick for

1240
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson who will be at thorn and the Bill's

1241
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: side because he's such a good receiver and so he's

1242
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: made a lot the moves as the GM, the factor GM.

1243
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: I think he's done a better job as a GM

1244
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: he's done as a coach. And if they hired a

1245
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: general manager, he would be like it is that some

1246
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: teams coach still has the power. Bill O'Brien, as long

1247
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: as he's here, will have power of personnel. If nakes

1248
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: Sario would come here last last season, this season, Bill

1249
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: O'Brien still would have control of personnel. He's got it

1250
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: exactly like he wanted it. A lot of people here

1251
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: thought Brian Gaine got screwed and he got lucky, came

1252
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo. Now he's in the playoffs again. Brian

1253
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: scouted this game. He's still popular here with a lot

1254
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: of people, and you know this game means a lot

1255
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: to him, even though he would never admitted, But I

1256
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: think O'Brien has done a good job of personnel, better

1257
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: than O'Brien the play caller. What about Brian Gaine, He

1258
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: was back there yesterday in the press box scouting the game.

1259
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: You're right, he won't say anything about it. He won't

1260
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: be available to Wesser and anybody in the media this week,

1261
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he's got a lot of writing on

1262
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 1: this game. At least heavily personally invested in this game. Well,

1263
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: you know that you don't get fired somewhere. We're a

1264
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Speaker 1: shocked to everybody, especially after an eleven and five season

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01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: in which you've may have done draft choices that paid off,

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01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: free agent signings that paid off, and but O'Brien won

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01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: that power struggle, and Brian Gaine will never admit it

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01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: to anybody except his family, maybe a few close friends.

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01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 1: But if I'd like to be standing next to him

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01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: if the Bills win this game when the file gun

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01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: goes off, because he might hit his head on the ceiling. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: you've got so the Texans roll into this house and

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01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: you talk about their office. I think Deshaun Watson has

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01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: really turned out to be an excellent quarterback. This did

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01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: not describe this offensive the Texans because they do have

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01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: so many weapons. I think, for me from a thousand

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01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: miles away, John DeAndre Hopkins may be the guy. If

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01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: I was going to ask for any receiver in the league,

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01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: he might be the guy I ask for. He makes

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01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: tough catches, he get it open. He's impossible to defend

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01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: one on one. What describe this offense? Is it a

1282
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: big play offense? Is Deshaun Watson the you know, obviously

1283
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: the engine, but describe it and give it a personality

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01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 1: for us, it's a bigger play offense. When Will Puller's

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01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: and Fuller. Fuller runs into four twos. But the guy's

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01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: always hurt. Right now, he's got a growing injury. They're

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01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: hoping he can play. They don't have any idea, they're

1288
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 1: just hoping. He was out earlier with a hamstring injury.

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01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: Last year was an ACL the year before it was

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01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. And it's too bad because he's really talented.

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01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: And when you've got that kind of speed to one

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01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: side opposite DeAndre Hopkins, you've got to have a safety

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01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: shaded over there because corners just can't turn and run

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01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: with him. And the battle that I'm looking for forward

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01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: to is Hopkins and Tradavious Wife. That's going to be

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01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: a great one. And I can't wait to see Kevin Johnson.

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01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: Kevin went up there, he stayed healthy, one of the

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01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: best guys I've ever known, one of the hardest workers.

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01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: Going to be great to see Kevin. One of the

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01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: things that Texans they signed thirty three year old tight

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01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: end Darren Fells. The six seven, two seventy and Brian

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01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: Gaine fight him and he's done a tremendous job. He's

1303
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: got seven touchdown catches, which is their franchise record for

1304
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: a tight end. They got another tight end, Jordan Nakens.

1305
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: They got two backs of catch, especially Duke Johnson, and

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01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: then they got Kenny Stills as the third receiver. The

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01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: Bills know him very well from Miami. He's still got

1308
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: terrific speeds, so you have to defend them all over

1309
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: the field. But I believe and their offensive line is

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01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: improved with the addition of tons full of left tackle

1311
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: and in second round pick Max Sharping and left guard.

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01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: First round pick Titus Howard was the right tackle before

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01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: his knee injury. But I think they should score more.

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01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: They have not scored at least thirty points since October thirteenth,

1315
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: when they won thirty one twenty four Kansas City. They've

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01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: only had at least thirty points twice, so they did

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01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: to me, don't score as many points as they should.

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01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: And they're good on third down, they're good in the

1319
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 1: red zone, but they don't make a lot of big

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01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: plays down the field. You would think with this much

1321
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: talent and with Watson, who is a very accurate passer

1322
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent, and so it's just mainly they don't

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01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 1: hit a lot of big plays like they should. With

1324
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Speaker 1: John McLean Houston Chronicle Texans NFL writer forty years forty

1325
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: puts years he's been covering the Houston Pro Football franchise

1326
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 1: Texans defensively J J. Watt. Do they expect to get

1327
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: much from him as he returns to the lineup against Buffalo?

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01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: What do you think, John, John, You know that you

1329
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: can run and you can be in great shape physically,

1330
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: can be he the cardio side of it, But when

1331
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: you missed too much and you're not in football shape,

1332
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: he takes time. Well, we're talking about the playoffs and

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01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: you don't have time. But Watt will be in the

1334
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: lineup and the Bills have to be aware of him.

1335
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: They'll still have to give two guys to it. When

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01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: he was playing, they were giving up eighty four yards

1337
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:11,919
Speaker 1: against the run. Now they dropped tremendously against the run,

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01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: especially lately, and they're giving up one hundred and twenty

1339
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: one yards. And when he was playing and he had

1340
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 1: twenty quarterback kids four sacks, Whitney Merciless had five and

1341
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: a half. Then when Watt went out, more attension went

1342
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: to Merciless on the other side, and until the tamping

1343
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 1: game two weeks ago, he only had a half sack.

1344
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: They don't have anywhere near the pass rush that the

1345
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: Bills do. The Bills are so balanced in that pass rush.

1346
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: And I asked Bill O'Brien about that today, about having

1347
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: to defend the multitude instead of being able to focus

1348
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: on one like people are able to do here, and

1349
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: he said he thinks such tougher because they come at

1350
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: you from every angle. So I think, what I know,

1351
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: he'll be out there. I think he'll get some series

1352
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: off because he hasn't. It'll be in over two months.

1353
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: But if his mere presence should be a big emotional

1354
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: boost for the defense and his defense needed. Let me

1355
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: tell you last thing I had for you, John, it's

1356
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: it's the game last year the Texans beat the Bills

1357
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: twenty to thirteen back in Week six. It was a

1358
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: it was a pretty close game until Josh Allen went

1359
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: out with an elbow injury. Do you think there's anything

1360
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: to be learned from that game a year ago? Well,

1361
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: if that game was the one that Deshaun Watson played

1362
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: right after Dallas when he suffered a collapse along and

1363
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 1: a broken red and he played that in Jacksonville in agony,

1364
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: but he played now he's healthy. They just kept him

1365
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 1: out and so he was hurt, Allen was hurt. That

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01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: game still went down to the end. I still expect

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01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 1: it to be like twenty to seventeen, twenty to sixteen,

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01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: something like that. I do not see a lot of

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01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: points being scored in this game. Yeah, I kind of

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01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: agree with you, John. I think that's the way it's

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01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: going to look. This Bill's defense and for whatever it is,

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01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: we always say it up here, the Bills may not

1373
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 1: be spectacular offensively the struggle of score points, but they

1374
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: are really a pain in the neck to try and beat.

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01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a really close game.

1376
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you if you get the chance,

1377
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 1: and good luck this weekend. Hey you guys, thank you

1378
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: very much. To thank you very much. John. All I

1379
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: know is if Texans are winning thirty five to three

1380
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: midway through the third quarter, I'm pretty sure they're not

1381
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: going to blow it. I would say that's probably here too.

1382
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: Thanks John, Thanks John, John mcclein, i'd i'd like to

1383
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: see him try that though, you know, blow it again. Yeah,

1384
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 1: best history give it's your best effort. Yeah. Houston Chronicle

1385
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: of Texans NFL writer John McClean joining us on the line,

1386
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: happy to talk to him. Let's take a look at

1387
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 1: the locker room yesterday, the Bills locker room after the

1388
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: win over the Jets. Time for around the Locker Room,

1389
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:49,040
Speaker 1: brought to you by Connect Light, Blood and organ Donor Network.

1390
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: Josh Anlon on the end of the regular season and

1391
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: the focus on the playoffs. That's why we played the

1392
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: regular season to give ourselves a shot. You know, we

1393
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: played well enough to get ten wins, get ourselves in

1394
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: the playoff and you know, now everybody's record zero zero,

1395
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: Um to winter go home. We gotta swing together some

1396
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:09,720
Speaker 1: really good play, really good plays, um, really good game

1397
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: plan coming up, and our focus is fully on Houston

1398
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: and trying to go out there next tout. Um. You know,

1399
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: it's a team that we're gonna fight. We're gonna be

1400
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: resilient and leave everything on the field. Head coach Sean

1401
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: McDermott on what Duke Williams brought to the offense. He's

1402
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 1: a tough football player. He's the fans, you know, he's

1403
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: he's obviously popular with the fans and love the Jews,

1404
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: love the energy, the toughness. Um. So he's a young

1405
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 1: player though you know there's some plays I know he

1406
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: wants back some fundamentals in there that we've got to

1407
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: improve on. But I thought to your question that he

1408
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: brought us some energy today. Wide receiver Duke Williams taking

1409
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity to play against the Jets. The

1410
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:54,719
Speaker 1: rain wasn't gonna stop me. You know, I was happy.

1411
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: I woke up happy. You know, I was just ready

1412
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,560
Speaker 1: to play. You know, I've been sitting out for a

1413
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: long long time. You know, it's only something one you

1414
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: can keep a dog on the leash, you know. And

1415
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: once they let me off, they told me there's gonna

1416
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 1: let me up this week. All I can think about

1417
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: this is gonna get it. Attack, played dirty and in

1418
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: the run, game, played dirty in the past, game catch

1419
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: everything come to you, and that's what I did it today.

1420
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 1: I knew I set the tempo with the blocking because

1421
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 1: that's part of my game, being physical and catching the ball.

1422
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: You know, no matter I thing on my back over

1423
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: they had just come down with it and show these

1424
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: coaches there you know I'm available. Fil I ain't back here.

1425
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander. They're surprised of seeing his daughter Zoe. He

1426
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,680
Speaker 1: singing the anthem because I was surprised. I didn't don't

1427
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: know she was singing it, and so it was a

1428
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 1: real cool experience. I thought she did a great job,

1429
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 1: very confident. But if you know, my daughter had all

1430
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: have been around her, that's right up for an alien.

1431
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: That's something that she loves to do. She's a levin,

1432
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: you know. To be able to singing in front of

1433
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people like that with a confidence, it was cool.

1434
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 1: I was just you know, the day, I'm just like,

1435
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 1: don't forget the words or forget the words you know

1436
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: over there on the side, But she did asked a

1437
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: job to day. All the guys were very impressed, and

1438
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: I know she's wants some of the guys to teams

1439
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: as well. So it's just cool, a cool moment to

1440
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 1: be able to have because everybody doesn't have that opportunity.

1441
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: Safety Micah High and Lorenzo Alexander's impact on the team. Yeah,

1442
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't give you uh and in thirty

1443
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 1: second explained to you how you know, Lorenzo Alexanders has

1444
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: changed a lot of people in this locker rooms, even

1445
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 1: including myself. It's the way he carries himself, you know,

1446
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: off the all in, off the field, on the field,

1447
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: he's just uh, flies around. You know, he's the oldest

1448
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,679
Speaker 1: guy in the locker room and he's playing like the youngest.

1449
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: He's just has no will for his body and just

1450
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: smart guy off the field and what he does for

1451
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: his community, um, you know, just as a husband, as

1452
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: a dad, as a son, um, you know, he just

1453
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: he's definitely a role model for a lot of guys,

1454
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: and not just the players, the coaches also and even

1455
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 1: the guys you know, the skotting depart of all that,

1456
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 1: that guy is legit a role model for everybody around.

1457
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: And um, if this was the last home game, you know,

1458
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 1: obviously he didn't get too many snass, but he'll he'll

1459
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: miss playing in front of this crowd. And you know

1460
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: we love Lorenzo this locker room. Safety Jordan Poyer. Entering

1461
01:10:57,280 --> 01:11:00,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs beginning next week against the Texis, We're not

1462
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: just happy to be in the playoffs. We're not just

1463
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: happy to be the one of the twelve teams playing.

1464
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: You know, we want to when we expect to win,

1465
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: and you know we're we're gonna prepare to win and

1466
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: bring up we want to move forward whatever happens after that.

1467
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,560
Speaker 1: But right now on the Chiefs in that that's in

1468
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: our way and so um, like I said, it's gonna

1469
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: be Hugh shows and um, we're gonna come out, come

1470
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: out and play fast. There you go around the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Connect like Blood and Oregan Donor Network.

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Speaker 1: That was a great job by Lorenzo's daughter. Eleven year

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Speaker 1: old was singing a nancial anthem in front of a

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01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: huge crowd. It was sixty Lorenzo said, fifty thou sixty

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01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: nine thousand people showed up yesterday and the Driving Rain

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01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: Store is like thirty eight degree. Like, it was an

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01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 1: amazing crowd. It's a great crowd. I was, I was,

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01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with how many people were there

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Speaker 1: because it's, you know, a meaningless game, certainly a division rival.

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01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: But weather it was awful. The weather was horrible all day. Yea,

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01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: yeah it's great. Yeah, yeah, it's good. It was a

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Speaker 1: good day. It certainly is a nice testament to Lorenzo

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01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: and his family that they gave this daughter the chance

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Speaker 1: to sing the anthem. She did a great job. And

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Speaker 1: surprise Lorenzo, he didn't know. It was great. Hey, we

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Speaker 1: got Maddie Glab coming up. She's gonna review some of

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01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: the highlights of the season for us. We'll talk with

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Speaker 1: her about some of those issues when we returned, Maddie

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Speaker 1: glab It's one of Bill's Live, presented by Klatta Health

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Speaker 1: Live from the Seneca Studio Seneca Resorts and Casino. Nothing

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Speaker 1: comes close. Welcome back one Bill's Live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: and our buddy Maddie Glab is in. Now. The Bills

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01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: didn't win. We don't have the Maddies to give away

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01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: from yesterday's game, but there's enough to talk about him, Maddie.

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01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: Just so you know, this is the way we roll

1496
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: around here. Bills make the playoffs, usually with two games

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01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,720
Speaker 1: to go, and they coast into the playoffs. And this

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01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 1: is just how we work. It's just regular coatings every year.

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01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: Her first trip to this party isn't Yes, it is

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01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 1: Murph and I have closed this bar down way too

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01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: many times. Oh, it's a new era. It isn't who

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01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: it is it is. It's a whole different vibe in

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01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: and around this building, in this city regarding this team,

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01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: and it has been in a long long time. And

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01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 1: all of it's because you have arrived. Boom. I'm not

1506
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: gonna take mad Girl in the house ya, I mean

1507
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: maybe the team. They're pretty good this year, they're pretty good.

1508
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 1: We should talk before we get into the meat of

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01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about today. You have some assignments

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01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: coming up this weekend. First of all, you're gonna fill

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01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: in for me on Friday again. Did a great job

1512
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: last Friday. Do it again this Friday. I appreciate it.

1513
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: Why not? Yeah, You'll be co hosting with Steve while

1514
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: I make my way to Houston, Texas on Saturday game day.

1515
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: You it looks like you've got what you're gonna have.

1516
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: The field going to do Bills Field Pass, I believe,

1517
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 1: which is our pregame show, and you can catch that

1518
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: about right before kick. We're on for fifteen to twenty minutes,

1519
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: so about forty five minutes out. So we'll do that,

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01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 1: Me and Chris Brown. Where from I'll do it from here?

1521
01:13:57,479 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: Got to hold down the form Buffalo. Somebody who's going

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01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: to be down there, He's going to be in Houston. Yes, Kay,

1523
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 1: what a world we live in. It's amazing. And then

1524
01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: after the game, will Fred Jackson be in with you? Tonight?

1525
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 1: Fred Jackson will be in with me and we will

1526
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: break down the game, hopefully it's a win. Yeah, and

1527
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: get ready for it. Yea. Yeah. We thought we'd take

1528
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: this opportunity today too to kind of review the twenty

1529
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:21,719
Speaker 1: nineteen season. It's not over clearly, but the regular season

1530
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: is over, and we thought we'd get into some of

1531
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: the big plays of the year. The best play of

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01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: the year, right, what do you think you want started

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01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: or hown't you? Yeah, I'll start it off. We can

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01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 1: do a little discussion. Um. I think best play of

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01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: the year has to be the trick play John Brown

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01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: to Devin Singletary for the touchdown the Dallas game. That

1537
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: was in the second quarter, I believe, to take the

1538
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 1: lead thirteen to seven. It was tied up before that,

1539
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: so I think that it was. It was just a

1540
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 1: pretty It was a fun play. Remember National TV. Remember

1541
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 1: I told you I saw that play like the year

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: before that in practice. Yes, and you you did a

1543
01:14:53,439 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: good job of keeping your Yeah, it was an amazing play.

1544
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: So good it was. It was a perfect time for

1545
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: it to a seven seven game in the second quarter,

1546
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: late first half. It was a perfectly thrown ball by

1547
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: John Brown. John Brown really good. It's interesting too, because

1548
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: you talk it was that was huge because it was

1549
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 1: a big day, big moment, big game. You know a

1550
01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: lot of uncertainty about how good the Bills were, you know,

1551
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: whether they're going to shine in this you know, in

1552
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: the big spotlight of Thanksgiving, and they came through the

1553
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:22,760
Speaker 1: big time. I'll tell you what though, you know, my

1554
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: was it your play of the year. My play of

1555
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: the year happened also in this game, But it wasn't

1556
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: this play. Although I loved this play because I saw

1557
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: it three weeks before in the practice. I love the

1558
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: fourth down conversion Josh Allen had when he when it

1559
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: was a mistake, he fumbled the ball and then just

1560
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: bowled his way for the first down on such a

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01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:45,640
Speaker 1: big moment, two fifteen left in the first half and

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01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:48,519
Speaker 1: he just on the fourth and one, he gets up

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01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: and gives a big yeah. That was to me because

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01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 1: that was when there was, you know, still some doubt

1565
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: there was before the trick play. Right. It set up

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01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: the trick play, and it gave him a chance to

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01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: go down and score before halftime and take the lead.

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01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: And it just showed so much about the team and

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01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: about Josh and about the resolve and from that moment on,

1570
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: this team changed a little bit. In that game, anyway,

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01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: and I think that was the play that did it

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01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: for me. It gave him a chance to do the

1573
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 1: trick play and then you know, overcoming a bad play

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01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: and make it into something that was really good. That

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01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: was my play of the year. I gotta play. I

1576
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: have to get something from another game. There were other

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01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: games beside the Cowboys game. I have an honorable mentioned

1578
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 1: play the Tyler Croft touchdown catch against the Steelers as

1579
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: an outstanding play. Really was a great play, and uh,

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01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: you know, it was a play that they talked about

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01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: that Tyler Croft had run it during the summer and

1582
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 1: he got hurt on the play running it early on

1583
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:49,679
Speaker 1: crazy Yeah, and the way that Josh handled so calmly,

1584
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 1: looked to his left for forever and then went back

1585
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: to the right side. Tyler Croft was wide open for that.

1586
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: But I do want to say a play that I

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01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: really like a lot, and it didn't have that much

1588
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 1: import but the Dawson knocks stiff arm play, the angry

1589
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 1: run Baby, that was just a great play. Remember, we

1590
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: didn't know him me, We were just getting just getting

1591
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,640
Speaker 1: to know Dawson Knox and it was a big win

1592
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, and that was a pretty good play

1593
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 1: as well. Good ones this season. Well, here it is

1594
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:20,839
Speaker 1: the people. You can see it, Josh Allen in the background,

1595
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: throwing this ball down the corner route. He turns this

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01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: up and you forget, you know, the anger, the stiff

1597
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:28,640
Speaker 1: arm that he had. It was a great stiff arm.

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01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: But what you forget is after he gets this stiff

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:36,560
Speaker 1: arm to the dB, the next guy he gives the

1600
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,600
Speaker 1: bug on a windshield treatment too right, and he just

1601
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: like to get off man. And then he comes through

1602
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: and says, you know, you want none of this. He

1603
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 1: flattens that guy and then trips over him because he's

1604
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: like caught under the chariot wheels. That was a great

1605
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 1: run and that that was another time when you get

1606
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: a contribution from a player who elevates people. You know

1607
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: the rest. You could see the whole of course, it

1608
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: was a home game. The crowd gets into it, the

1609
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: players stand up, everybody was all about it. And uh yeah,

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01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: those are three great moments in the season for sure.

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01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: Let's go to the best moments of the season. Those

1612
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: are the best plays, plays, best moments. Moments. Can I

1613
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: go first, because you guys will take it if I don't,

1614
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: And it is the Dallas. Well, I think the Dallas

1615
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 1: game was a great win, and there were two big

1616
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 1: plays that we just showed you. But the post game

1617
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: scene when Cole Beasley entered the locker room and was

1618
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,679
Speaker 1: immediately lifted on the shoulders of his teammates and carried

1619
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: to the back of the locker room, that's when it

1620
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: kind of hit me. Sitting on the dark bus in

1621
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 1: the bottles of Texas Stadium, I thought I shud a

1622
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: tier because my turkey was going. I just thought, this

1623
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: is a special team, this is a special year. Yeah,

1624
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: And it was that game that did it in that

1625
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:47,639
Speaker 1: moment the video I saw from that moment that really

1626
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 1: brought it home to me an amazing, blazing moment. It does,

1627
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: and for me being a four player, it does kind

1628
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: of it makes me kind of, you know, tear up

1629
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: a little bit because that's a that's like once in

1630
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: a lifetime. Yeah, I forget about what whatever, And there

1631
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: are better things and more important things that happen in

1632
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 1: your life than a sport or it can't or one

1633
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: game in your career, whatever. But man, oh man, to

1634
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: have a group of guys like that come together and yep,

1635
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 1: it'd be so happy for it's a special time. It

1636
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,719
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. It's hard to duplicate, and it's not something

1637
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: that you can even plan. Yep, it just happens. And

1638
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 1: to have so many things be evident in that room

1639
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,640
Speaker 1: at that moment, in that day, when you've got an

1640
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: entire city back here in Buffalo watching it, you've got

1641
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 1: a team that's been put together that you don't really

1642
01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: know about just yet, and then to have it come

1643
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: together in that moment. I might have to agree with

1644
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: you or I hadn't even thought about that as my moment,

1645
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: but I agree with you. That was a really special moment.

1646
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:40,600
Speaker 1: You guys look like high school kids. Yeah. Incidentally, the

1647
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 1: smallest guy in their pack carried him on their shoulders

1648
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: and one end of the room to the other. You

1649
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: could see the love in that locker room in that moment. Yeah,

1650
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: it was fun. There were rather good moments. There were

1651
01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: other ones. Minds got to be. When Frank Gore moved

1652
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: up into number three on the all time rushing list

1653
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:58,880
Speaker 1: for getting to a fifteen thousand rushing yards, I think

1654
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 1: that was a really cool moment and just the year

1655
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: he's had with the Buffalo Bills, what he's meant to

1656
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: this team inside the locker room, as well as being

1657
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: able to pass a milestone like that on a team

1658
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: that he's only been on for one year, and to

1659
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 1: watch him fall in love with the city of Buffalo

1660
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: has been really cool to a guy who him from Miami,

1661
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with the forty nine ers.

1662
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,600
Speaker 1: You come to an NFL team like Buffalo, which is

1663
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: probably overlooked by many players. This is a veteran who's

1664
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: been in the league for so long and is very

1665
01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: appreciative of his teammates, of the opportunity he has with

1666
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 1: the Bills, and to see him get to fifteen K

1667
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 1: with this team a pretty cool moment. Yeah, I would

1668
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 1: have to agree with that. I think I think back

1669
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: as well, you didn't know what he had. He knew

1670
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: he you know, Frank's you know, he's not twenty two

1671
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: years old anymore, and you knew he had just you know,

1672
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,560
Speaker 1: he's going to try and contribute as long as he

1673
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 1: could during the season, and certainly, Devin his elevated pastors

1674
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: being the league guy. But I think early on in

1675
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: the season when in the New York Giants game, they

1676
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: gave him the ball on the goal line and he

1677
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: plowed into the end zone over the rookie linebacker from

1678
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: the Giants to score that touchdown and kind of hit

1679
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 1: him back in the mouth after they'd fall to bills

1680
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: and fallen behind very early in that game. It gives

1681
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: you an idea of the entire plan and the process

1682
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:26,599
Speaker 1: that happens in a football team throughout the season. They

1683
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: brought Frank Gore in and they were going to use

1684
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,560
Speaker 1: him in ways that they knew he would be successful.

1685
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: Putting him in that spot that early in the season

1686
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: and depending on him and him coming through, it just

1687
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 1: sets the stage for another step forward for the other

1688
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:47,600
Speaker 1: guys on the roster. You know, Devin Singletary watching that,

1689
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: We'll seeing how Frank works and having Frank do something

1690
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 1: like that that validates all that hard work. And then

1691
01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: you know later on in the season when Devin single

1692
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: starts to take over as the number one back and

1693
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, you don't hear a peep out. He says, Hey,

1694
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm standing back here, and all take the reps I

1695
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: get now it's your team. That is a dynamic that

1696
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: is really underrated in an NFL locker room because you

1697
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 1: know it's corn and that jaded you know world that

1698
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,799
Speaker 1: we live in Twitter world, in the media world where

1699
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: we're you know, where we're critical and kind of dissect

1700
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 1: everything the emotion of and the dynamics of group of

1701
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: guys in a group that have to get along together

1702
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: and sacrifice for each other and also step up for

1703
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:39,640
Speaker 1: each other and to you know, be a part of

1704
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: the team in a way that they didn't anticipate, Like

1705
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,560
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's had to evolve during this season, and to

1706
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: see him do that, it's pretty amazing, pretty amazing. We're

1707
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: going through some of the highlights of the twenty nineteen season.

1708
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:54,879
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott's growth mentality for this team, the growth mindset

1709
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 1: that he always talks about, it was real this season.

1710
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 1: There were several players who got better during the course

1711
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: of the season. Who is at the top of that

1712
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,720
Speaker 1: list the most improved players this year? I think the

1713
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 1: obvious one, of course, is Josh Allen and just how

1714
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: he has progressed from rookie year to this year and

1715
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 1: even from the beginning of the season to where he's

1716
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: at now. If you look at his numbers from twenty

1717
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty nineteen, they're pretty crazy. He had ten

1718
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: touchdowns twelve interceptions, sixty eight point five passer rating in

1719
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen twenty nineteen twenty touchdowns, nine interceptions, eighty five

1720
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 1: point six passer rating. So just the strides that he

1721
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:32,120
Speaker 1: has made his decision making that we have seen that

1722
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 1: has increased his awareness of a defense, of being able

1723
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 1: to know where to go when a play breaks down

1724
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: and be confident with his decision making in that moment

1725
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 1: when you could get thrown off, when you have to

1726
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 1: throw off your back foot when you're flushed out of

1727
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: the pocket, but you can grab a first down, but

1728
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 1: you can go to your secondary, your third route and

1729
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: be able to make a successful completion. It's been really

1730
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: fun to watch him grow and really cool to just

1731
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 1: see that gamer mentality that he has day in day

1732
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:04,880
Speaker 1: out in a fourth down conversion like he had in

1733
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,439
Speaker 1: Dallas and things like that. So he of course is

1734
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: at the top of that list, but I think another

1735
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: player for me is at Oliver as well. To see

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01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do as a rookie from

1737
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: being benched to having to earn that playing time back

1738
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: and to get some sacks after he's earned that playing

1739
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,639
Speaker 1: time back. Yeah, I would agree with you. I think

1740
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 1: one of the guys that has most improved. Not only

1741
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you got to you gotta tip your hat

1742
01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 1: to him, but I think add Oliver is one of them.

1743
01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:31,560
Speaker 1: And you're right, he's been reading the roller coaster and

1744
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: really had so much to learn as a young player,

1745
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: and then to see him kind of bust loose in

1746
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: the Dallas game and to start to come on and

1747
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: get more playing time, more playing time and be more

1748
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 1: effective as well, not only in his pass rushing, but

1749
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:46,839
Speaker 1: also in his run stuffing, his ability and his ability

1750
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:48,640
Speaker 1: to use what he does best, and that is his

1751
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: speed down the line of scrimmage. We've seen him run

1752
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 1: guys down along the line of scrimmage in the run

1753
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: game as well, playing all four downs. I think you

1754
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: got to tip your hat to add Oliver for how

1755
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: for he's coming his rookie year. You know who I

1756
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 1: would give the most improved player, and they're both good choices,

1757
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 1: that Oliver and johnsh Allen. But I think Tremaine Edmonds

1758
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: got better during the course of the season. I'm really doing.

1759
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: I've said this you several times. You know, he was

1760
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: kind of burdened, I think last year with the you know,

1761
01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: having to call all the defenses, make all the defensive plays.

1762
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: He did a good job of that. But this year

1763
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 1: he did that and became a force, a physical force,

1764
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: a really tough player in the middle, which is exactly

1765
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:28,800
Speaker 1: what you need. I think there's even room for more

1766
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 1: growth from Tremaine Edmonds. He's not perfect, but he's really good,

1767
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: really physical, really big by the way, and he's smart.

1768
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: He knows where to put people in the right place. Yeah,

1769
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 1: the enormity of his responsibilities, I think war on him

1770
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: last year. Is a rookie, and I think there's no

1771
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: question he's grown into it and it's become more and

1772
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 1: more something he welcomes and is good at and feels

1773
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 1: more comfortable with. And you know, it is also able

1774
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: to expand. Yeah, I mean so yeah, I would agree

1775
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:57,680
Speaker 1: with you, Murph. There's no question, and not only that,

1776
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: he's such an enormously important piece of what they're doing.

1777
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:06,160
Speaker 1: I mean, heaven forbid something should happen to him and

1778
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 1: not be able to play. I think that. I think

1779
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: they missed him desperately yesterday. Yep, all right, we're gonna

1780
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:12,600
Speaker 1: take a break, Maddy. You can stick around for a

1781
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:14,840
Speaker 1: few more minutes. Sounds good. Why not a few more

1782
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: minutes with Maddy Glab about the twenty nineteen regular season

1783
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,280
Speaker 1: some of the highlights. When we return One Bills Live,

1784
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health Live from the Seneca Studio in

1785
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Welcome Back One

1786
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: Bills Live. John Murphy' Steave Cansker. Maddi Glab joins us

1787
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: going through her list really our list collectively of the

1788
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:54,120
Speaker 1: top moments, top players of twenty nineteen. List our our List. Yes, discussion,

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01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: it is a roundtable discussion the unsung hero of twenty nineteen.

1790
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. Yeah, I was thinking when I

1791
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 1: hear unsung hero, I think of somebody who may not

1792
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: get as much credit as they do for the work

1793
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: they put in that goes unseen. And when I think

1794
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 1: of unseen work, I think of all the veteran leadership

1795
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 1: that has to be in this locker room for as

1796
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 1: young of a team as the Bills have, with as

1797
01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:23,280
Speaker 1: many young players who are getting the snap count that

1798
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: they're getting, and as they go into the playoffs, you

1799
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: got to lean on your veterans. You're your guys who

1800
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: have been there, especially with the quarterback who's never been

1801
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs before a lot of rookies who will

1802
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 1: play a lot of time, who haven't played in the playoffs,

1803
01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: and I think of a guy like Lorenzo Alexander, somebody

1804
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 1: who maybe in his final year. It was a cool

1805
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 1: moment yesterday as they as his daughter got to sing

1806
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 1: the national anthem and they honored him with the time

1807
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: out there and just the amount of work that he

1808
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: puts in. He's been in the league for a long time,

1809
01:27:56,479 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: still playing football, still playing valuable reps, still still having

1810
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:05,800
Speaker 1: an impact with the linebackers when he's on defense, and

1811
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:08,759
Speaker 1: just the type of leadership that he brings to this team.

1812
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 1: Walter Payton man in the year for the Bills, and

1813
01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:15,719
Speaker 1: what he does in the community, just how he carries

1814
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: himself every day, how he even interacts with us. I mean,

1815
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could paint a better picture of,

1816
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:25,559
Speaker 1: you know, a type of football player you would want

1817
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: on a team for for what he's able to do,

1818
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: for how he's able to mentor and just the I

1819
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: guess his relationship with Sean McDermott and how he's able

1820
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:40,720
Speaker 1: to get Seawan's messages to those players in the locker room. Yeah,

1821
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,680
Speaker 1: agree with everything, Steve, and I got another candidate for

1822
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: unsung here. I'd like to hear because I think Lorenzo's

1823
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: the guy too. Yeah, and it's easy now because he

1824
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: you know, because yesterday and what happened and what guys

1825
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:53,600
Speaker 1: have said about him, what we've seen, and we know

1826
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:56,920
Speaker 1: the guy. Great. Yeah, I like Tarn Johnson as an

1827
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: unsung here and I can see it, you know, out

1828
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: yesterday they had him playing the boundary corner for a while.

1829
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 1: When guys got hurt, they were they were looking for answers.

1830
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: They played Isaia mckenzon McK corner. But Terren Johnson I

1831
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 1: think has shown the versatility to play h mostly nickel corner.

1832
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 1: They missed him when he's out, but he has been

1833
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: pretty solid this year. He's very strong against the run,

1834
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 1: and I don't think people talk about that much. You know,

1835
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: when you're the nickel corner and this really good Buffalo defense,

1836
01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 1: you need the nicke corner to help against the run too,

1837
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 1: and Darren Johnson does that. He would be my unsung hero.

1838
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,599
Speaker 1: But that's a good that's a good. That's a good

1839
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:32,120
Speaker 1: one as well. Yeah, because it's unsung because you know,

1840
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:34,960
Speaker 1: he didn't got Davis white back there, you got Micah Hyde,

1841
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 1: you got Jordan poyerm and you know Kevin Johnson and

1842
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: Levi Wallis, and he's you know, he's flying under the radar,

1843
01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: but he's always on the field. Yeah, well I was,

1844
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: I haven't well, I could look it up, but he

1845
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 1: gets his number of snaps has got to be huge, right, yeah, exactly.

1846
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 1: And I think that that run defense got a lot

1847
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,679
Speaker 1: better when they started getting secondary support, and Terren Johnson's

1848
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 1: got to be a huge help when it comes to that. Yeah, John, Well,

1849
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 1: thank you coming in. Thank you very much. Hi. What

1850
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: about this one about the biggest surprise? Biggest surprise? The

1851
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: ter mine goes to a defensive lineman. His name rhymes

1852
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: with Schmorton, Jordan Phillips. Nine and a half sacks. He

1853
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:22,640
Speaker 1: has been in the league since what twenty fifteen. The

1854
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 1: most sacks he's had in a year before this year

1855
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 1: was two sacks. Uh So, the production that he's been

1856
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:32,000
Speaker 1: able to give this Bill's team has I think has

1857
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:35,639
Speaker 1: been a huge help. Just the type of body he has.

1858
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:39,879
Speaker 1: He's definitely a bigger guy when you're looking at defensive tackles.

1859
01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: How he's able to get to the quarterback, How he's

1860
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 1: been able to teach at Oliver throughout the season. I

1861
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: think those are things you may not think of right away.

1862
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:51,600
Speaker 1: But she's nine and a half sacks and hopefully a

1863
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,920
Speaker 1: lot more to come in the playoffs. Here. Yeah, I

1864
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,360
Speaker 1: agree with you. He's been a real surprise. He's he's

1865
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 1: elevated his game, and you know, all the sacks have

1866
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,679
Speaker 1: been fantastic, But he's and the thing I always talking about,

1867
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: I said it with it all over a minute ago

1868
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:05,920
Speaker 1: as well. The guy plays four downs. I mean you

1869
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: see him show up in the run game, you see

1870
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: him in different roles, you see him pursuing from the backside,

1871
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:15,760
Speaker 1: running down running backs. Um, I like guys who play

1872
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: four downs and they don't cherry pick pass rushes. They

1873
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 1: you know, they'll they'll take a couple of offensive linemen

1874
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 1: to let them stunt work on the outside of him,

1875
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:27,680
Speaker 1: even if it means they don't get the sack. So

1876
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you. Jordan Phillips is a great one.

1877
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,720
Speaker 1: I think. I think if you looked now from where

1878
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 1: we were at the beginning of the season and saw

1879
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: his production there, nobody expected. Nobody expected, right, Maddie, Let's

1880
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 1: get to the mister reliable and the Bill's Ross's reliable.

1881
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 1: There's there's a couple there's a couple of guys that

1882
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:47,320
Speaker 1: you think, oh yeah, you can always count on him.

1883
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:50,479
Speaker 1: And of course one of those guys is Trey White.

1884
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: Six interceptions this season. Uh, he's great in coverage. Just

1885
01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:58,720
Speaker 1: he can cover a year number one receiver and completely

1886
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:00,560
Speaker 1: take him out of the game. And he's done that

1887
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:04,679
Speaker 1: multiple times when he travels with number one receivers, which

1888
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 1: he does do sometimes and then he also doesn't do sometimes.

1889
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:11,720
Speaker 1: He is great, very athletic, the angles that he can take,

1890
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 1: the tackles he makes. He is always so close on interceptions.

1891
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:19,920
Speaker 1: I know he has a lot this year, but if

1892
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:22,040
Speaker 1: you watch him play every single game, the amount that

1893
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 1: he's usually even more close on. I mean, he could

1894
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 1: probably have ten this season if if he would have

1895
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:30,680
Speaker 1: made a couple of those that he was close on.

1896
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:33,280
Speaker 1: Also close to housing a couple as well. This season.

1897
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 1: You know, he's gotten some and he's very good, and

1898
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 1: he was good when he came here from LSU, and

1899
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: he's so much better now. Remember his first year, he

1900
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:42,760
Speaker 1: would he had a couple of rough games and he

1901
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 1: would kind of sulk for a while. He would. He

1902
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,120
Speaker 1: would take it to heart. He would say, I, I

1903
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:49,000
Speaker 1: can't play like that. It's not going to happen to

1904
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: me again. You know, it was kind of you know,

1905
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:52,360
Speaker 1: you don't need somebody to be that kind of a

1906
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: Dow Jones or to react that. And he has not been.

1907
01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: He's been very reliable, very very good in terms of

1908
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:03,080
Speaker 1: every game consistent performance. Yeah, Trey White, I think is

1909
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 1: mister reliable. Yeah, I would. I would say that same thing.

1910
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:08,240
Speaker 1: He was one of the few cornerbacks, maybe the only

1911
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: one in Pro Football Focus era, that has had five

1912
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,040
Speaker 1: hundred snaps of coverage not giving up a TD and

1913
01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: led the league in interceptions. Talk about it. You talk

1914
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:19,479
Speaker 1: about a guy who gives you a big plus every game,

1915
01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: that's the guy. And to do that throughout the course

1916
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 1: of sixteen game, well fifteen games yesterday, you know, he

1917
01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:29,200
Speaker 1: didn't play much yesterday. Phenomenal. Yeah, he had a phenomenal

1918
01:33:29,320 --> 01:33:31,360
Speaker 1: year and he got recognized and he should be All Pro.

1919
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 1: But he is a Pro Bowlers, Yeah, for sure. You

1920
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: know it's weird about this many I don't. So we're

1921
01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:39,519
Speaker 1: wrapping up the twenty nineteen season, and yet I feel

1922
01:33:39,560 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: like there's a little bit more to go here. I mean,

1923
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:43,640
Speaker 1: I think they've got more in store for us than

1924
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: just this one playoff game. I really do. I think

1925
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:49,000
Speaker 1: so too. I really liked this matchup with Houston Texans.

1926
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:51,840
Speaker 1: They're a past happy offense. Hey, guess what we can

1927
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 1: guard the past pretty dang well. And Houston's defense not

1928
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: the best. We've faced some pretty great defenses the last

1929
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 1: few weeks. Yeah's top ten defenses. We got a break on.

1930
01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:05,240
Speaker 1: They're going to pense. Even to go on the road

1931
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:08,679
Speaker 1: is a break. It'll be nice weather. They play really

1932
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,799
Speaker 1: great on the road. Too. Tough stadium, you're playing, no question,

1933
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:15,760
Speaker 1: good good Houston crowd. They'll show up big and it'll

1934
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 1: be loud. But man, oh man, I think this is

1935
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: everything you want in a playoff game for both these teams.

1936
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:23,600
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a fun, fun week and

1937
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:25,800
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get get deeper into it this week.

1938
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: Thank you, Madie, Thank you very much. Yeah, Maddy glad

1939
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 1: you'll catch her on the show before the kickoff on.

1940
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 1: You'll catch her on this show Friday doing the show

1941
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: for me Friday on the bills. What do you call it?

1942
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:39,920
Speaker 1: Not scouting report? Feel passed steel pass Saturday before the

1943
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:42,720
Speaker 1: game and then postgame show on Saturday night as well

1944
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: after the game. Chris Brown say, anybody to join us

1945
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:47,559
Speaker 1: Next Bills Insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com. It's one

1946
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:50,799
Speaker 1: Bills Live from the Seneca Studio Seneca Resorts in Casino.

1947
01:34:50,960 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close Bill s Radio Network stories. It comes

1948
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,679
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive. Player's day off for the Buffalo Bills.

1949
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:11,400
Speaker 1: They're getting set for their playoff game on Saturday afternoon

1950
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: four thirty five pm. The Bills have been scheduled to

1951
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:17,360
Speaker 1: play the Houston Texans now Saturday four thirty five pm,

1952
01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:21,280
Speaker 1: the first AFC Wildcard playoff game this weekend. After that

1953
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:23,360
Speaker 1: at Tennessee in New England in the other wild card

1954
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 1: to eight fifteen pm on Saturday evening Sunday, Vikings at

1955
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,680
Speaker 1: Saints the early game one oh five, and Seahawks at

1956
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:32,800
Speaker 1: Philadelphia at four to forty. Bills the day off, but

1957
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: they have a couple of injuries to deal with. Levi Wallace,

1958
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:38,439
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury suffered late in the first quarter yesterday,

1959
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 1: made a second interception of the season and then had

1960
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 1: to limp off the field with his right foot caught

1961
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 1: in the turf. Meantime on the offensive one tie and

1962
01:35:46,160 --> 01:35:48,719
Speaker 1: Seki left the game with an ankle injury, same ankle

1963
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:50,280
Speaker 1: that kept him out of the lineup for the last

1964
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 1: five games. Cody Ford replaced him. Those are the injuries

1965
01:35:53,160 --> 01:35:54,680
Speaker 1: of Bills will deal with when they come back to

1966
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,840
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow. We know the Bill's opponents for twenty twenty now,

1967
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:01,719
Speaker 1: outside of the AFC East Division rivals. At home, they'll

1968
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: play Kansas City, the Chargers, the ram Seattle in Pittsburgh.

1969
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:06,880
Speaker 1: On the road, the Bills will play at Denver, at

1970
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:11,320
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, at Arizona, at San Francisco, and at Tennessee. Houston.

1971
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:16,040
Speaker 1: Texans rested players yesterday and their loss to the Tennessee Titans.

1972
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:18,599
Speaker 1: They lost at thirty five to fourteen. Quarterback to Shaun

1973
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:21,439
Speaker 1: Watson and wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins at the day off

1974
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:24,000
Speaker 1: even though they were active. The Texans also without left

1975
01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: tackle Laramie Tunsel, wide receiver Will Fuller, wide receiver Kenny Stills.

1976
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:31,240
Speaker 1: They were inactive as well. Texans will get Fuller back

1977
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:34,120
Speaker 1: this week to play the Bills. Browns have fired coach

1978
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens after one season. The Giants fired coach Pat Shermer.

1979
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:40,040
Speaker 1: The Redskins are set to hire Ron Rivera as coach.

1980
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,040
Speaker 1: They have fired president Bruce Allen. The Cowboys are gonna

1981
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: wait to make a decision on Jason Garrett. They will

1982
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: have meetings a couple of days this week, and the

1983
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Morone says he is concerned about

1984
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:55,760
Speaker 1: his future. He is meeting scheduled for later this week

1985
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:58,160
Speaker 1: as to whether he will continue as coach of the Jacks.

1986
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 1: Savers gave up a couple of power play goal second

1987
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:03,000
Speaker 1: to part third period last night, lost to the Bruins

1988
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 1: street to two. Their home tomorrow night against Tampa Bay.

1989
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:08,840
Speaker 1: Saturday's game home game against the Florida Panthers has been moved.

1990
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:11,960
Speaker 1: It was seven pm, it is now one pm on Saturday.

1991
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:14,160
Speaker 1: That's because of the Bill's playoff game. That's what we're

1992
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the next several minutes or so. Joining

1993
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and meet in studio. Is our friend, our colleague?

1994
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 1: Are all right? Bills Insider from my body, Yeah, I

1995
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:29,760
Speaker 1: don't have nothing. We're running out of this Chris Brown.

1996
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:32,639
Speaker 1: This is Chris Brown, Bills Insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com. Hello, Chris,

1997
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: how are you I'm doing good, good afternoon. The work

1998
01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 1: is accelerated all week, and already Coach Bill O'Brien has

1999
01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 1: had a conference call with members of the Buffalo media

2000
01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:44,120
Speaker 1: you were fortunate to sit in on earlier today. Fortunate

2001
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: is a is a relative term. There wasn't a lot

2002
01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: to be divulved there, as anticipated by coach O'Brien, who

2003
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 1: comes from the Bill Belichick school of press conferences. All right,

2004
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 1: all right, first first contest of the week. Who said less?

2005
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,800
Speaker 1: Coach McDermot, Sean McDermott. Yeah, Well, we'll wait and see.

2006
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: I have faith in coach McDermott that he'll be doing

2007
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: more than what Bill O'Brien gave us, which gets basically nothing.

2008
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:11,640
Speaker 1: The only bit of information that he gave, which I

2009
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: tweeted out earlier, was that JJ Watt's availability for Saturday's

2010
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 1: game was going to be determined by midweek. They started

2011
01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:23,680
Speaker 1: him back in the practice setting last week to try

2012
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:25,880
Speaker 1: to evaluate him. They're going to evaluate him through these

2013
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:27,840
Speaker 1: next couple of days in the early part of this week,

2014
01:38:28,280 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: and then a determination will be made. Now he could

2015
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:35,759
Speaker 1: just be blowing smoke, um, you know, it's probably already

2016
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:37,640
Speaker 1: decided to a large degree because you got to put

2017
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 1: the game plan in tomorrow. Um, so I would tend

2018
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 1: to think that a decision has already been made, they

2019
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 1: just don't want to reveal it for competitive advantage. But really,

2020
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: are the Bills expecting him not to play at this

2021
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: point after he's been activated in practicing for over a week.

2022
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: I highly do not to not to gloss over player

2023
01:38:57,040 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 1: safety or the wisdom of playing when you're not one

2024
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 1: hundred percent or that stuff. But what's he got to lose?

2025
01:39:01,680 --> 01:39:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you got nine months to heal up from

2026
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 1: whatever it's going to happen to you. And basically the

2027
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:11,839
Speaker 1: only the one thing you'd worry about that you wouldn't

2028
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,719
Speaker 1: worry about in a normal weekend would be, probably given

2029
01:39:14,840 --> 01:39:17,439
Speaker 1: his lack of time on the field for the last

2030
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:19,600
Speaker 1: couple of months, would be a soft tissue injury like

2031
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 1: a pulled muscle or whatever. And that's a you know,

2032
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:23,200
Speaker 1: that's a and he's had plenty of those. Yeah, that's

2033
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:25,360
Speaker 1: a shaving nick. You're gonna cover recovery that you had.

2034
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:27,800
Speaker 1: You know, February, you'll be one hundred and ten percent again,

2035
01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:30,240
Speaker 1: you'll be working out. So there's no reason not to

2036
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 1: put him in particularly if he can stand up to

2037
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:40,040
Speaker 1: the rigors of what it takes, you like, they can

2038
01:39:40,120 --> 01:39:42,400
Speaker 1: isolate the muscle that was this peck muscle was torn.

2039
01:39:42,640 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: They can test it and evaluate it. If it'll hold up,

2040
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,960
Speaker 1: it'll hold up. Yeah, And everything else is is you know,

2041
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 1: you're in the same boat as every other player on

2042
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,720
Speaker 1: the field. So there's really no reason not to go

2043
01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:56,000
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And I'll say this, I don't I'm

2044
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:57,720
Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know all the ins and

2045
01:39:57,800 --> 01:40:01,240
Speaker 1: outs of defensive and offensive line play. But what he

2046
01:40:01,320 --> 01:40:03,720
Speaker 1: does have is his wheels. I mean, he might not

2047
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 1: be as strong up top, you know, with that packet,

2048
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: might compromise some of his ability to get a push

2049
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: up top, or you know, might compromise his array of

2050
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 1: pass rush moves or ability to shed and you know,

2051
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:17,879
Speaker 1: don't make him play some rush. But he's got his wheels,

2052
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:22,320
Speaker 1: and you know that's half the battle oftentimes, and so

2053
01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:26,600
Speaker 1: he should be an effective player. Should he be, you know,

2054
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:28,680
Speaker 1: defensive player of the year? JJ Watt, I think that

2055
01:40:28,840 --> 01:40:30,840
Speaker 1: might be asking a lot. Yeah, he I mean, he'll

2056
01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:32,960
Speaker 1: he might be rusting his hand fighting and his technique

2057
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 1: up top, Yeah, that kind of thing. But he might

2058
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:39,800
Speaker 1: be sacrificing strength without that pack. Maybe at full speed,

2059
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:42,240
Speaker 1: but he's still going to make an impact on the

2060
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 1: game just by virtue of the talent and he is.

2061
01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 1: We're with Chris Brown, Bills Insider, Buffalo Bills dot com.

2062
01:40:47,080 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 1: If you have comments, questions, get Chris's thoughts on Saturday's game,

2063
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: give us a call. Eighth three five fifty toll free

2064
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:56,800
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Even

2065
01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:59,519
Speaker 1: when he was healthy, I think you'd be hard pressed

2066
01:40:59,560 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: to say j Watt was the most important or significant

2067
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:06,000
Speaker 1: player on the Houston defense. Right. They have some other guys.

2068
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless comes off the edge, pretty strong player. They

2069
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: have Arcadius Mingo who gets a regular turn in the

2070
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:15,400
Speaker 1: rotation to defenseimen, pretty good player. They have some pretty

2071
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:17,679
Speaker 1: decent linebackers. We'll talk about the back end in a minute,

2072
01:41:17,680 --> 01:41:20,320
Speaker 1: where there are some deficiencies. It's not a great defense

2073
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,519
Speaker 1: by any means, but there are some pretty good players

2074
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 1: on the Texans defense. Yes, but statistically they have not

2075
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 1: done well this year at all. I mean, going into

2076
01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:30,080
Speaker 1: yesterday's game, they were the worst red zone defense in

2077
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: football by a wide margin. Going into yesterday's slate of games,

2078
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:39,879
Speaker 1: they were lasting the league in red zone touchdown percentage

2079
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: allowed at almost seventy percent. That is a really high number.

2080
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 1: And in terms of scoring percentage, what's the team enters

2081
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: the red zone, they're also last ninety three and a

2082
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:52,120
Speaker 1: half percent in terms of scoring and even yards per

2083
01:41:52,200 --> 01:41:54,839
Speaker 1: play in the red zone. They are a poor defense

2084
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:57,400
Speaker 1: almost four yards of play, which is a lot. That's

2085
01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: a fat figure down in there where it's tight, and

2086
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:03,040
Speaker 1: most teams average about two to two point three yards

2087
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: to play. The Texans are given up three point eight

2088
01:42:05,960 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 1: yards per play. So they've got deficiencies on defense in

2089
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:13,760
Speaker 1: a lot of areas and in the scoring territory where

2090
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:16,559
Speaker 1: the Bills tend to struggle to cash in and finish drives,

2091
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: you know, and they've been middle of the pack to

2092
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:21,879
Speaker 1: lower third for most of the year. This is an

2093
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: even bigger deficiency for the Texans red zone defense. So

2094
01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: I think that's a help for Buffalo's offense this week,

2095
01:42:28,760 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: along with the fact that they give up a good

2096
01:42:30,320 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 1: amount of big plays. Yeah, they've given up almost one

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01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:35,559
Speaker 1: hundred first downs rushing over the course of the year,

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01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: you know, against the run, twenty ninth against the pass.

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01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,799
Speaker 1: There will be plays to be had for Buffalo's offense

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01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,439
Speaker 1: in this game. They put a good scheme together with

2101
01:42:47,560 --> 01:42:49,479
Speaker 1: some good execution, they're gonna be able to move the

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01:42:49,520 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 1: football on this team. This is not the Steelers defense.

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01:42:52,600 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: This is not the Patriots defense. This is, you know,

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01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: not Baltimore's defense. This is a defense that can be had.

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01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:01,160
Speaker 1: So which kind of defense is it? Is it like Miami?

2106
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,680
Speaker 1: The Bill scored thirty seven against They scored a ton

2107
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:06,679
Speaker 1: of points against Denver, twenty points at least against Denver.

2108
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: They scored a lot of points against Miami. UM twenty

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01:43:09,560 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 1: four points against Washington. How good is the defense? Who

2110
01:43:12,800 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: do they compare with? They don't compare. I agree with Baltimore,

2111
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh, with New England. But who do they compare

2112
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:20,479
Speaker 1: with that the Bills have faced this year defensively? Um,

2113
01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,599
Speaker 1: I don't know. Cincinnati, Okay, you know, well, listen, they're

2114
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: their third down percentage there. Their offense is getting forty

2115
01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: three point five of their third down conversions, but they're

2116
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:34,640
Speaker 1: giving up forty eight percent, almost half the downs or conversions.

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01:43:34,640 --> 01:43:36,559
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to flip and talk about

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01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 1: oh you're talking about their defense still, I think you

2119
01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:40,040
Speaker 1: were flipping it around to their offense. Yeah, I mean,

2120
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 1: they just they're having trouble getting in favorable down and

2121
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:47,800
Speaker 1: distance to let their pass rush go to work because

2122
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:51,759
Speaker 1: they haven't been effective against the run, and opposing offenses

2123
01:43:51,760 --> 01:43:53,800
Speaker 1: have been able to stay on schedule. And when the

2124
01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 1: Bills offense has been able to stay on schedule this year,

2125
01:43:57,080 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: that's when their point total has gotten beyond seventeen points.

2126
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:01,960
Speaker 1: And I think they need to get to at least

2127
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,519
Speaker 1: twenty four to have a chance to win this game

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01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:09,160
Speaker 1: against the Texans on Saturday. Other than the real bad

2129
01:44:09,200 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 1: teams the Bills have beaten this year. I look at

2130
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:13,679
Speaker 1: the Dallas game, is the last game with the Bills

2131
01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:16,120
Speaker 1: offense was, as you say, on schedule and they scored

2132
01:44:16,160 --> 01:44:21,040
Speaker 1: what twenty six? Yeah, they've played that game pretty well.

2133
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:23,160
Speaker 1: They played that game pretty well execute. That might have

2134
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 1: been their best execution start to finish on offense the

2135
01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 1: entire season. And still they only got to twenty six. So,

2136
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:31,880
Speaker 1: like I said, they got to get to twenty four

2137
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 1: I think to have a chance to win this game

2138
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:37,600
Speaker 1: because and the reason why is because Houston is a

2139
01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:40,360
Speaker 1: big playoffense to a large degree, both on the ground

2140
01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 1: and in the air. They have running backs that can

2141
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: break runs, not something that the Bills tech usually give

2142
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 1: up all that often, but they are capable of doing that,

2143
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,479
Speaker 1: and they've got more than one guy. They are good

2144
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 1: at extending drives off of short yardage. Carlos Hide is

2145
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:59,560
Speaker 1: nine for eleven on third and shorts this year. I

2146
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:02,040
Speaker 1: mean that's high percentage. That's almost eighty two percent. So

2147
01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:05,320
Speaker 1: they get the job done to stay on the field,

2148
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: and then inevitably if you leave them on the field

2149
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 1: for nine or a ten play drive or even five

2150
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:14,040
Speaker 1: six seven plays, they hit that big play and get

2151
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:17,080
Speaker 1: the easy money touchdown very often. That's why will Fuller's

2152
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:21,400
Speaker 1: availability is so critical, I think to how potent the

2153
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: Texans can be on offense. If he is not on

2154
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:27,160
Speaker 1: the field, it changes the dynamic because Deshaun Watson simply

2155
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:30,519
Speaker 1: does not go deep as often when Fuller's off the field.

2156
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:32,719
Speaker 1: When Fuller's on the field, they go deep seventeen percent

2157
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:34,640
Speaker 1: of the time. When he's off the field, it's down

2158
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: around ten to eleven percent. So there's I know, seven

2159
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:39,280
Speaker 1: percent doesn't sound like much, but when you're only taking

2160
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:41,800
Speaker 1: three or four shots a game, now it goes from

2161
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:44,400
Speaker 1: four or five to one or two and that's less

2162
01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:46,120
Speaker 1: you got to worry about is a defense. You know

2163
01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 1: what else doesn't sound like a lot? The Bills average

2164
01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:51,760
Speaker 1: now nineteen point seven points per game scored offensively, and

2165
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: you're looking for twenty four points a game. That's a lot.

2166
01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 1: That's five points more than they get on a regular basis.

2167
01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:59,080
Speaker 1: That's right. But you're playing one of the worst defenses,

2168
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:01,840
Speaker 1: and clearly the worst defense in the playoffs right now.

2169
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 1: So if you had to pick an opponent, this was

2170
01:46:04,720 --> 01:46:08,040
Speaker 1: the one because this defense is bad enough to help

2171
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 1: your deficiency on offense and hopefully that means more points.

2172
01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:13,960
Speaker 1: Where's Chris Brown Bills Inside or Buffalo Bills dot com.

2173
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 1: If you have comments questions, give us a call. Eight

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty twelve three one eight fifty. It falls.

2175
01:46:20,720 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: It falls to where we've we've seen this team. Now.

2176
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: This team is going to go as far as this

2177
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:27,080
Speaker 1: offense can get it in the playoffs. The defense is

2178
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: as good as anybody in the playoffs there, that's not

2179
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:31,960
Speaker 1: going to be an issue. You know, you're gonna hold

2180
01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:37,080
Speaker 1: teams that you're playing below their season averaging points or well,

2181
01:46:37,240 --> 01:46:39,840
Speaker 1: we're confident in that this offense has got to do

2182
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 1: something different. Than it's done to get on the board

2183
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:45,640
Speaker 1: somehow by hook or by crook, by trick play or

2184
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 1: by some philosophy or game plan, whatever plan it is,

2185
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: they gotta find a way to score. Say that this

2186
01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:55,760
Speaker 1: is you get sixteen games of evidence that chose who

2187
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:58,280
Speaker 1: their offense is. You're looking for something different. I just

2188
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 1: don't think that's realistic. Yeah, that's how they got to

2189
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:04,360
Speaker 1: twenty six in Dallas with a trick playing. Yeah, I

2190
01:47:04,400 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 1: mean that's how they got to twenty six. The only

2191
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: game you can really look at and say, well, they

2192
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,080
Speaker 1: scored some was a twenty eight to fourteen win over

2193
01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:12,640
Speaker 1: the Giants in Week two where they scored four touchdowns.

2194
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:15,439
Speaker 1: They looked solid, they were on schedule, Like you say,

2195
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 1: they're on schedule, and I think this is gonna be

2196
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 1: And even in that game they had a lull in

2197
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:20,720
Speaker 1: the third quarter, and I think this is one of

2198
01:47:20,760 --> 01:47:23,880
Speaker 1: those teams where they're gonna get out against this team

2199
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be some things that you're gonna see

2200
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 1: a Devin singletary, You're gonna snap off a couple of

2201
01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:31,800
Speaker 1: twelve yard runs because this Houston defense is going to

2202
01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: be It's not Baltimore Pittsburgh or Patriot, and they've had

2203
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: trouble in the secondary all season long. Jonathan Joseph's coming

2204
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:41,840
Speaker 1: off a hamstring injury from Sunday's game. He's claiming it's

2205
01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:44,280
Speaker 1: not a big deal that Beer's watching through the course

2206
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: of this week. He's a thirty five year old cornerback.

2207
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:51,320
Speaker 1: They made trades to try to address their poor cornerback situation.

2208
01:47:51,760 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 1: Gary and Conley comes over from the Raiders via trade.

2209
01:47:54,479 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: They pick up Vernon Hargraves after he's clipped by after

2210
01:47:58,320 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 1: he was clipped by Tampa. But these are this is

2211
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:04,320
Speaker 1: a patchwork secondary that they're trying to fill holes with.

2212
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:08,519
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's got issues. And on top of that,

2213
01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, in a game of this magnitude, high stakes,

2214
01:48:12,400 --> 01:48:14,439
Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of guys in that secondary that

2215
01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:16,439
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of games under their belt together.

2216
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:19,479
Speaker 1: So when the stuff hits the fan, guys start looking

2217
01:48:19,479 --> 01:48:21,960
Speaker 1: at each other. Back there, you only played four games

2218
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:24,960
Speaker 1: with Vernon Hargraves, you only played two games with Gary

2219
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:27,360
Speaker 1: and Connolly. I mean you may not trust the guy

2220
01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:29,960
Speaker 1: like you do, like Micah Hi trust Jordan Poyer, Do

2221
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:31,720
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? There's a difference there and

2222
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 1: that can have an impact on the outcome of games too. Yeah,

2223
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:36,120
Speaker 1: take a phone call here for Chris Brown. We'll go

2224
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:40,519
Speaker 1: to John in Idaho. Hello, John, Are you there? Yeah? Hi? Gun?

2225
01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:47,640
Speaker 1: What you got for us? John? Are you still there? Maybe? Nothing? Yes?

2226
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:49,679
Speaker 1: And hung up. I'm there And that's all I wanted

2227
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:52,639
Speaker 1: to say. We've got the phone lines open eight fifty

2228
01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:56,200
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2229
01:48:56,439 --> 01:48:59,360
Speaker 1: Your comments, your questions for Chris Brown. Yes, Chris, here's

2230
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:03,240
Speaker 1: the only concern I have in terms of lining up

2231
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:07,400
Speaker 1: with the Bills defense against Houston's offense. Okay, the Texans

2232
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:11,919
Speaker 1: line up empty set more than any other team in football,

2233
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:15,639
Speaker 1: and that has me just a little bit concerned about

2234
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:19,240
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace's availability because you know, if they're gonna go

2235
01:49:19,320 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: empty and they're gonna go four wide, Kevin Johnson's already

2236
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:25,479
Speaker 1: on the field, and now you got to match up

2237
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:28,240
Speaker 1: there across the board. You know you're going three deep

2238
01:49:28,280 --> 01:49:30,240
Speaker 1: with your set. You know, with your corners is a

2239
01:49:30,280 --> 01:49:33,920
Speaker 1: safety coming down to cover? How are you working that

2240
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:38,920
Speaker 1: through with the corners that you have, especially if Levi

2241
01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:41,880
Speaker 1: is a little questionable for the game. Terren Johnson said

2242
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:43,200
Speaker 1: he was going to come back and play in the

2243
01:49:43,240 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: locker room this week and be fine to play after

2244
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:47,599
Speaker 1: he left late in the game yesterday, So hopefully he's

2245
01:49:47,640 --> 01:49:50,799
Speaker 1: fine to play in the slot. But when they spread

2246
01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:54,160
Speaker 1: the field like that, you know, I just wonder how

2247
01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:56,080
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna be able to match all of

2248
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 1: that up, knowing the talent they have at received right,

2249
01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:00,559
Speaker 1: it is a matchup problem because they do go deep.

2250
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:03,880
Speaker 1: Particular Stills as healthy, if Fuller's healthy and Degandre Hopkins

2251
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:06,320
Speaker 1: is healthy, those are three guys that can bring a

2252
01:50:06,400 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 1: lot of speed and a lot of experience. Yeah, and

2253
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 1: you gotta go you gotta go deep into your roster

2254
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 1: in your secondary to cover those guys up. And with

2255
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:16,920
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson his ability to scramble around the runner and

2256
01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:20,439
Speaker 1: they got their problems. Yeah, so you know, you hope

2257
01:50:20,479 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: that Trey can hold Hopkins in check. I still forgot.

2258
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: I forgot I was gonna do it this morning, And

2259
01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:28,679
Speaker 1: I forgot to look at Hopkins numbers last year against

2260
01:50:28,720 --> 01:50:30,640
Speaker 1: the Bills when Trey was locked up on him for

2261
01:50:30,760 --> 01:50:33,840
Speaker 1: most of the game. I'm trying to remember in jog

2262
01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: my memory. I think it was something like five catches

2263
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:38,559
Speaker 1: for fifty something yards. I think he had a touchdown

2264
01:50:38,680 --> 01:50:40,720
Speaker 1: late Hopkins, but I don't think it was when Trey

2265
01:50:40,840 --> 01:50:42,760
Speaker 1: was covering him. But I'm gonna have to go back

2266
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:45,479
Speaker 1: and look. But I think for the most part, Trey

2267
01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:49,000
Speaker 1: did a decent job on DeAndre Hopkins in that game,

2268
01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:51,639
Speaker 1: which was a game that I think the Bills would

2269
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:55,040
Speaker 1: be very happy with score wise in this edition. Twenty

2270
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,559
Speaker 1: to thirteen was the final there the Bills forced to fumble,

2271
01:50:58,600 --> 01:51:01,680
Speaker 1: had a loose ball, didn't up on it, couldn't get it.

2272
01:51:02,080 --> 01:51:04,800
Speaker 1: They had to play a couple of quarterbacks in that

2273
01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 1: game because Josh got hurt with the elbow injury when

2274
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,360
Speaker 1: he got hit in the pocket, So there were a

2275
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:12,519
Speaker 1: lot of extenuating circumstances. I would say where Houston is

2276
01:51:12,600 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 1: most different from that game is their offensive line play

2277
01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 1: in terms of protection is noticeably better again trading to

2278
01:51:20,560 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 1: fix holes. Laramie Tunseil trade he's the other left tackle. Now.

2279
01:51:24,479 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 1: Their pass protection is a lot better. So you know,

2280
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:31,559
Speaker 1: I think they've allowed Yeah, they've allowed pressure on twenty

2281
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:34,160
Speaker 1: two percent of their dropbacks this season. That ranks eighth

2282
01:51:34,240 --> 01:51:38,799
Speaker 1: in the league. Last year they were. Their past pressure

2283
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,200
Speaker 1: allowed was up around thirty percent, So they've improved in

2284
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: that area. They've taken steps to improve their offensive line.

2285
01:51:44,040 --> 01:51:46,599
Speaker 1: Because we remember Murph last year in Week five, they're

2286
01:51:46,600 --> 01:51:48,479
Speaker 1: coming down there to play Deshaun Watson. He looked like

2287
01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 1: a sixty year old man. He could barely move out

2288
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:52,800
Speaker 1: there because his back was all messed up and his

2289
01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:55,200
Speaker 1: ribs and he was getting the tar beat out of him.

2290
01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:57,559
Speaker 1: Last year, we had John McLean from the Houston Chronicle

2291
01:51:57,880 --> 01:51:59,479
Speaker 1: on the show Earlder in the Day and he said that,

2292
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:02,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking about guys trading to phil holes,

2293
01:52:02,360 --> 01:52:05,720
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel over from the Dolphins, Kenny Steals over as well,

2294
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:08,880
Speaker 1: trading to fix holes. He said that, you know, Bill

2295
01:52:08,920 --> 01:52:10,960
Speaker 1: O'Brien has done actually a better job as a general

2296
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:12,760
Speaker 1: manager than he has as a head coach. He likes

2297
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:15,200
Speaker 1: him better as a general manager than a play caller. Um,

2298
01:52:15,240 --> 01:52:17,639
Speaker 1: and they do have some Laramie Tunsel has really helped them.

2299
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:21,640
Speaker 1: He is He's a really good left franchise, he really is,

2300
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:23,800
Speaker 1: and to get him that has really helped them a lot.

2301
01:52:23,840 --> 01:52:26,760
Speaker 1: And I think Deshaun Watsons as seeing the benefits of it.

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01:52:27,360 --> 01:52:29,479
Speaker 1: I don't know how good they are in the run game,

2303
01:52:29,520 --> 01:52:32,080
Speaker 1: although they're exactly what the Bills are. They're like the

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01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:34,400
Speaker 1: Bills are eight, they're nine, and they're not that far

2305
01:52:34,479 --> 01:52:36,800
Speaker 1: apart per in yards per game rushing. So they've got

2306
01:52:36,960 --> 01:52:40,080
Speaker 1: two proven guys that are very versatile players. Yeah, and

2307
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:43,840
Speaker 1: they're good in the passing game too, That's what I mean. Yeah,

2308
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:46,640
Speaker 1: those guys are really versatile there. And I think a

2309
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 1: game like this, I think you're gonna see Matt Milano

2310
01:52:49,439 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 1: be in the center of a lot of plays. If

2311
01:52:51,240 --> 01:52:53,679
Speaker 1: he's on, I think they're gonna I think they're gonna

2312
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:55,320
Speaker 1: find him out and see if he can guard those

2313
01:52:55,400 --> 01:52:57,120
Speaker 1: running backs, to see if they can, if they can

2314
01:52:57,160 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: get some separation on him. I think that's gonna be

2315
01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:01,320
Speaker 1: a big matchup. Calls, Well, Chris is with us. We'll

2316
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: go to Ken in Watertown, New York. O. Ken, you're

2317
01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:08,559
Speaker 1: on the air. Good afternoon, guys, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, Hey,

2318
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 1: don't you guys agree with me? We got to be

2319
01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:16,320
Speaker 1: able to start Duke Williams this week. I mean, when

2320
01:53:16,360 --> 01:53:18,839
Speaker 1: you got him on one side with Brown and Beasley

2321
01:53:18,880 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: on the other, chances are they're gonna double team Brown

2322
01:53:22,200 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 1: and that's gonna leave Williams one on one end and

2323
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:30,400
Speaker 1: he's not only a great receiver, but he makes he

2324
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 1: makes yards after the catch. And let me find out

2325
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:37,800
Speaker 1: if we agree with you, can we appreciate your call? Uh?

2326
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:39,920
Speaker 1: Duke Williams had a big game yesterday, Chris, and he

2327
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:43,200
Speaker 1: has something to offer the offense. I do think a

2328
01:53:43,280 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 1: lot of his playing time this week will depend on

2329
01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:51,519
Speaker 1: whether Andre Roberts is ready. Right Roberts, that's sure, that's

2330
01:53:51,600 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 1: part of it. That would create an opening for him,

2331
01:53:53,439 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: no question about it. Let's just say hypothetically, Andre Roberts

2332
01:53:57,160 --> 01:53:59,160
Speaker 1: is fine, his footheels up, and he can play this

2333
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:03,080
Speaker 1: week and be a factor in the return game. So

2334
01:54:03,280 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: now that leaves you with a decision to make, and

2335
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:08,360
Speaker 1: I think it's decision between whether you want Duke Williams

2336
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:11,360
Speaker 1: or Robert Foster. And the reason I say that is

2337
01:54:11,360 --> 01:54:14,599
Speaker 1: because Robert Foster's played in about fourteen thirteen fourteen games

2338
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:15,960
Speaker 1: this year. Do you want how many times he's been

2339
01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 1: targeted in the passing game? Sixteen times? Sixteen targets in

2340
01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:25,040
Speaker 1: thirteen games. Yeah, I know he's a gunner on punt team,

2341
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:27,639
Speaker 1: but how many times are you punt of game Steve? Six?

2342
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:32,120
Speaker 1: Maybe seven? So that's six plays on punt team, where

2343
01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,480
Speaker 1: you're taking him out of the equation and putting Duke

2344
01:54:35,520 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: Williams in your lineup on offense to make a difference

2345
01:54:38,200 --> 01:54:42,440
Speaker 1: in your passing game. I mean, which is to to you,

2346
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 1: what is more valuable for your outcome of the football game.

2347
01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 1: To me, it's the passing game. So I would put

2348
01:54:47,560 --> 01:54:50,200
Speaker 1: Duke Williams in the lineup just by virtue of how

2349
01:54:50,320 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 1: little they use Robert Foster on offense. Robert Foster's place. Well,

2350
01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:57,880
Speaker 1: that's that's the debate. And now you've got to figure

2351
01:54:57,920 --> 01:55:00,320
Speaker 1: out do I have a dB that can keep probably

2352
01:55:00,320 --> 01:55:03,440
Speaker 1: feel that role, you know, because Duke Williams can't feel

2353
01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:05,320
Speaker 1: that role. He only runs a four to seven. He

2354
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:08,120
Speaker 1: can't be a gunner. He just can't. So if you

2355
01:55:08,200 --> 01:55:11,680
Speaker 1: are devoid of another option besides Robert Foster, well then

2356
01:55:11,720 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 1: maybe you can't afford to do it in your estimation.

2357
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:18,280
Speaker 1: But for six plays, I would like to think they

2358
01:55:18,320 --> 01:55:21,560
Speaker 1: could find gunner number two to play on punt team

2359
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 1: to help your passing offense and give you give you

2360
01:55:25,800 --> 01:55:28,560
Speaker 1: a wide receiver who is open even when he is

2361
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:30,760
Speaker 1: not open. This is a guy who can wall off

2362
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 1: defenders and the caller's right he does get yards after

2363
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:36,480
Speaker 1: the catch, he gets away from traffic. And you want

2364
01:55:36,480 --> 01:55:37,960
Speaker 1: to know what the Bills are ranked in and yards

2365
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:41,200
Speaker 1: after the catch this year thirty first they don't get

2366
01:55:41,320 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. Now, that's due in part to

2367
01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:45,680
Speaker 1: the fact that they have a quarterback who's not an

2368
01:55:45,760 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 1: expert at ball location. He doesn't always put it in

2369
01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:51,000
Speaker 1: the ideal spot for a receiver to catch it in

2370
01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:54,080
Speaker 1: stride and keep going and get yards after the catch.

2371
01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:57,000
Speaker 1: There have been some exceptions, you know against New England,

2372
01:55:57,280 --> 01:56:00,920
Speaker 1: perfect ball to John Brown yards after the catch, touch down. Okay,

2373
01:56:01,120 --> 01:56:04,080
Speaker 1: it has happened on occasion, just not enough. And I

2374
01:56:04,200 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 1: think if you got a guy that can wrestle away

2375
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,800
Speaker 1: from would be tacklers, he can get you yards that way.

2376
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,400
Speaker 1: I'll say this about all that you just said, Brownie

2377
01:56:12,040 --> 01:56:17,600
Speaker 1: a lot. I was rambling ditto. Yeah, yeah, I haven't

2378
01:56:17,640 --> 01:56:19,880
Speaker 1: clined to agree. I said earlier in the show today,

2379
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:22,960
Speaker 1: I think that Duke Williams showed enough yesterday to take

2380
01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:24,720
Speaker 1: a chance to kind of pump some life into a

2381
01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:28,840
Speaker 1: sagging buffalo passing off. I really do. Yeah, when I

2382
01:56:28,960 --> 01:56:31,440
Speaker 1: get it, I get into specialty. There was no one.

2383
01:56:31,480 --> 01:56:33,080
Speaker 1: I mean, who else are they gonna throw to yesterday.

2384
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: John Brown's not playing Colbe's he's not playing. Devin Singletary

2385
01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:38,520
Speaker 1: is not playing. Dawson Knox isn't playing. I mean, okay,

2386
01:56:38,560 --> 01:56:41,760
Speaker 1: so Duke was the guy who has actually played some

2387
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:43,960
Speaker 1: in the and he's, you know, playing that spot where

2388
01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:47,200
Speaker 1: they were playing against starters. They didn't. This wasn't the

2389
01:56:47,280 --> 01:56:51,360
Speaker 1: third preseason the guy. The guy showed up and if

2390
01:56:51,400 --> 01:56:53,040
Speaker 1: you want him to earn his spot onto the field,

2391
01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing in practice or off

2392
01:56:54,840 --> 01:56:56,640
Speaker 1: the field, or in meetings or all that that's not

2393
01:56:57,240 --> 01:56:59,680
Speaker 1: helping his cause. But I'll tell you what what I

2394
01:56:59,800 --> 01:57:02,520
Speaker 1: see him on the field. He's done nothing to hurt

2395
01:57:02,560 --> 01:57:05,800
Speaker 1: his cause. And you could make the argument right now

2396
01:57:06,760 --> 01:57:10,000
Speaker 1: that he is your best blocking receiver in the run game.

2397
01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:12,120
Speaker 1: There was a lot of that yesterday too. Right now

2398
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 1: you can make that argument and you'd probably win it.

2399
01:57:14,240 --> 01:57:19,280
Speaker 1: Ye take your call here from Gary and Buffalo. Go ahead, Gary, Hey, guys,

2400
01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: how y'all doing? Okay? I would like to ask an

2401
01:57:23,040 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: offensive question. That's Chris Brown there. He knows everything about

2402
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:28,960
Speaker 1: the stats. You know, how they're playing lately. The last

2403
01:57:29,240 --> 01:57:31,120
Speaker 1: I say five games that to me that have been

2404
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: aggressive enough on first second down. Yeah, I know they've

2405
01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:37,960
Speaker 1: been playing th staud defenses, but I'm hoping we open

2406
01:57:38,040 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: it up. Obviously, Duke Williams, I think he should start

2407
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:42,880
Speaker 1: to or at least play a lot. I think they

2408
01:57:42,920 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 1: could figure out the Gunner situation. I'm sure they will.

2409
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure Duke will play. But man, I think if

2410
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:49,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna win these games, we gotta let it. We

2411
01:57:49,400 --> 01:57:52,200
Speaker 1: gotta open it up, guys. We can't play conserver. That

2412
01:57:52,240 --> 01:57:54,160
Speaker 1: game against New England was two a service best that

2413
01:57:54,240 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: second half. You knew they were gonna run it on

2414
01:57:56,040 --> 01:57:58,080
Speaker 1: first down and if he was second eight, they were

2415
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna run it. I'd just like to see him more so,

2416
01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, to help the running game. I don't know

2417
01:58:03,040 --> 01:58:05,160
Speaker 1: if you guys, what do you think, Chris? I mean,

2418
01:58:05,240 --> 01:58:08,160
Speaker 1: their twentieth and first downs this year tied for twentieth

2419
01:58:08,200 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 1: in the league and first downs. This kind of goes

2420
01:58:12,840 --> 01:58:15,840
Speaker 1: back to an argument that Steve made last week when

2421
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:19,960
Speaker 1: he was saying, Josh Allen, Well, Thurman was in here

2422
01:58:20,000 --> 01:58:23,800
Speaker 1: with us when when you were out and we were arguing,

2423
01:58:24,080 --> 01:58:27,200
Speaker 1: not arguing, but we were talking about the approach to

2424
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:30,000
Speaker 1: take on the early downs, and Thurman was sitting here,

2425
01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:33,520
Speaker 1: and Thurman said, Josh Allen's your best athlete on the

2426
01:58:33,720 --> 01:58:36,400
Speaker 1: entire team, or at least on the entire offense. And

2427
01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:39,800
Speaker 1: he said, he's your best athlete. Let him throw it more.

2428
01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:43,360
Speaker 1: Let him throw it more. Don't just run on first

2429
01:58:43,400 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 1: down and then throw it on second down. Thurman saw

2430
01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:48,120
Speaker 1: a pattern where he felt that if they ran it

2431
01:58:48,200 --> 01:58:50,000
Speaker 1: on first down, they were throwing on second down. If

2432
01:58:50,040 --> 01:58:51,600
Speaker 1: they threw it on first down, they were running on

2433
01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:54,080
Speaker 1: second down. And Thurman said, the hell with that. Josh

2434
01:58:54,120 --> 01:58:55,920
Speaker 1: Allen's your best player on offense. Have him throw it

2435
01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:58,160
Speaker 1: first down, second down, third down, throw it, throw it,

2436
01:58:58,240 --> 01:58:59,880
Speaker 1: throw it now. I don't know if I agree with

2437
01:58:59,920 --> 01:59:03,680
Speaker 1: it to that degree, but I do think that you

2438
01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:08,160
Speaker 1: can change the conversation and maybe even the early rhythm

2439
01:59:08,320 --> 01:59:10,920
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen if you let him throw it a

2440
01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:13,160
Speaker 1: little bit more. I go all the way back to

2441
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:16,520
Speaker 1: Week one. They start in that no huddle and Josh

2442
01:59:16,680 --> 01:59:19,640
Speaker 1: is throwing these short little completions here, there and everywhere.

2443
01:59:20,200 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 1: When was the last time we saw him in that

2444
01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:25,960
Speaker 1: good of a rhythm early in a football game. You

2445
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 1: could probably count on one hand how many times that

2446
01:59:28,480 --> 01:59:31,280
Speaker 1: happened this season, and I'm not saying that that's a

2447
01:59:31,280 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 1: poor reflection on Josh or a poor reflection on Brian Dable.

2448
01:59:34,200 --> 01:59:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm just saying we haven't seen enough of it. So

2449
01:59:36,400 --> 01:59:39,480
Speaker 1: maybe you change the dynamic in how you call or

2450
01:59:39,600 --> 01:59:43,320
Speaker 1: script your first set of ten to fifteen plays to

2451
01:59:43,520 --> 01:59:46,480
Speaker 1: try to kick him into an early rhythm, because when

2452
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:49,040
Speaker 1: he's in an early rhythm, he can get hot, and

2453
01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:51,920
Speaker 1: when he gets hot, he can be special. And that's

2454
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:53,640
Speaker 1: what you need to be in the playoffs so you

2455
01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: can put enough points on the board to win the game.

2456
01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:58,800
Speaker 1: I've played Devil's advocate here. They won ten games, right,

2457
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:02,800
Speaker 1: are you changing everything? How many games would you would

2458
02:00:02,840 --> 02:00:07,000
Speaker 1: you hand to the offense for winning those ten? Uh? None? Yeah?

2459
02:00:07,120 --> 02:00:09,360
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, no we're not We're not saying yeah,

2460
02:00:09,360 --> 02:00:11,160
Speaker 1: they did win ten games and all that, and it

2461
02:00:11,280 --> 02:00:14,160
Speaker 1: was great, but how many games do you attribute it

2462
02:00:14,240 --> 02:00:16,120
Speaker 1: to an offensive performance that they want? That's what I

2463
02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:18,160
Speaker 1: was just saying, And he said, no, you know, you gotta.

2464
02:00:18,640 --> 02:00:21,320
Speaker 1: I think they are who they are. They're a defensive team.

2465
02:00:21,440 --> 02:00:22,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's good enough to win you

2466
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:25,440
Speaker 1: playoff game. Here's the thing, too, you're in a one

2467
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:28,000
Speaker 1: You're in a one game one game series. You know,

2468
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:31,280
Speaker 1: you win or win or go home. And I think

2469
02:00:32,800 --> 02:00:35,360
Speaker 1: that does change your attitude as a coaching staff. Was

2470
02:00:35,520 --> 02:00:37,839
Speaker 1: and you know, you can throw the Jet game completely

2471
02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:43,040
Speaker 1: out the window. Um, it was meaningless. Nobody was playing.

2472
02:00:43,920 --> 02:00:45,600
Speaker 1: And you go back also to the fact that they

2473
02:00:45,640 --> 02:00:49,720
Speaker 1: were playing the New England Patriots defense, the Baltimore Ravens defense,

2474
02:00:49,880 --> 02:00:53,120
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers defense, the top three, the top four

2475
02:00:53,240 --> 02:00:56,800
Speaker 1: defenses in the league. And you're not gonna look good.

2476
02:00:57,000 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna look good. And I when you get into

2477
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:02,360
Speaker 1: a game like this next one, I think there's gonna

2478
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:04,400
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a bump in your production

2479
02:01:04,640 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: and on all counts. And by no means am I

2480
02:01:06,760 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: saying change who you are offensively. I'm not saying you

2481
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:12,160
Speaker 1: have to change your identity. But I think you have

2482
02:01:12,280 --> 02:01:14,960
Speaker 1: to tweak a couple of things because what is really

2483
02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:18,360
Speaker 1: important is to have your quarterback on point from the

2484
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:21,240
Speaker 1: start of the game. And you do that, I think

2485
02:01:21,480 --> 02:01:25,240
Speaker 1: by giving him opportunities to make the easy plays. Josh

2486
02:01:25,280 --> 02:01:27,440
Speaker 1: even said it after the New England game, I should

2487
02:01:27,480 --> 02:01:30,080
Speaker 1: have taken more of the easy completions. Put him in

2488
02:01:30,120 --> 02:01:32,440
Speaker 1: a position to do that again, make him take what

2489
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 1: the defense is giving him, and hopefully he gets into

2490
02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:36,920
Speaker 1: a better early rhythm than he did in New England

2491
02:01:36,920 --> 02:01:38,720
Speaker 1: when it was four for ten and they went three

2492
02:01:38,760 --> 02:01:41,000
Speaker 1: and out on three of their first four possessions. I'm

2493
02:01:41,040 --> 02:01:43,839
Speaker 1: not saying you change who you are identity wise on offense,

2494
02:01:44,080 --> 02:01:47,280
Speaker 1: but give him a few more opportunities to kick himself

2495
02:01:47,320 --> 02:01:51,760
Speaker 1: into a rhythm, because when he's rolling, that offense is dangerous. Right.

2496
02:01:52,120 --> 02:01:53,600
Speaker 1: Can you spend a few more minutes with us? Ten

2497
02:01:53,680 --> 02:01:56,840
Speaker 1: more minutes? Yeah? Okay, you sure, Okay, we're gonna come back.

2498
02:01:56,920 --> 02:02:00,960
Speaker 1: Take a breath. We got more problem when we returned.

2499
02:02:01,080 --> 02:02:04,720
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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio One Bill five, John Murphy,

2501
02:02:20,600 --> 02:02:23,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tansker, a show that is rocketed by today and

2502
02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:26,400
Speaker 1: we're not done yet. Busy, busy, busy. It's been busy,

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02:02:26,480 --> 02:02:28,360
Speaker 1: and and we didn't talk much about the coaching moves

2504
02:02:28,400 --> 02:02:31,200
Speaker 1: around the NFL. We'll do that tomorrow, okay, seem I

2505
02:02:31,240 --> 02:02:34,120
Speaker 1: mean it'll be good because we'll have some more clarity. Obviously,

2506
02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:37,520
Speaker 1: there's there's words that maybe the Jacksonville isn't official yet.

2507
02:02:37,560 --> 02:02:40,600
Speaker 1: We've heard that they had informed Doug Morone that he

2508
02:02:40,720 --> 02:02:43,720
Speaker 1: was gonna be released after the game, Yester before he

2509
02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:45,120
Speaker 1: was told before the game that he was gonna be

2510
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:48,960
Speaker 1: really staffing right, and then there seems to be some

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02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:52,960
Speaker 1: uncertainty with the Dallas job. Jason Garrett is gonna meet

2512
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:56,600
Speaker 1: with Jerry and and uh his son, there's Stephen Jones

2513
02:02:57,800 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 1: local reporters in Dallas at the entire coach staff has

2514
02:03:00,520 --> 02:03:03,800
Speaker 1: been dismissed. I haven't seen that confirmed by a national

2515
02:03:03,880 --> 02:03:06,120
Speaker 1: reporter yet. So and then you have all the list

2516
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:10,240
Speaker 1: of candidates that are out there that have been you know,

2517
02:03:10,640 --> 02:03:13,240
Speaker 1: formerly asked for permission of. And then the guys like

2518
02:03:13,400 --> 02:03:17,480
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis, Mike McCarthy and Ron Rivera, who are guys

2519
02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:19,880
Speaker 1: who are fired within the last twelve or thirteen months

2520
02:03:20,720 --> 02:03:23,400
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, they're out there and take an interview.

2521
02:03:23,520 --> 02:03:26,080
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that tomorrow. I don't miss having that,

2522
02:03:26,760 --> 02:03:28,800
Speaker 1: having a horse in that race, you know what I mean, baby,

2523
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:31,840
Speaker 1: And we thank you know, for a couple of well,

2524
02:03:31,880 --> 02:03:34,520
Speaker 1: it was a couple of years apart several times, right,

2525
02:03:35,040 --> 02:03:36,720
Speaker 1: it was just not fun. It was not fun to all.

2526
02:03:37,200 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 1: Even when that wasn't the case, there was a coordinator.

2527
02:03:39,320 --> 02:03:42,200
Speaker 1: They were on the huns right. Defensive coordinators every year,

2528
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:46,520
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators every year. Thank you know, um, let's take

2529
02:03:46,560 --> 02:03:48,120
Speaker 1: a phone call for Chris Brown. He's got a few

2530
02:03:48,120 --> 02:03:50,960
Speaker 1: minute slap Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot com. Paul

2531
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:53,560
Speaker 1: and Ken Moore. Hop, Paul, you're on the air, guys

2532
02:03:53,560 --> 02:04:01,560
Speaker 1: that promises what? Thank you? Go ahead, Paul? What do Chris?

2533
02:04:01,680 --> 02:04:04,800
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about Shack Lawson? And what

2534
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:07,840
Speaker 1: will I know they could franchise him, but he's having

2535
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:12,120
Speaker 1: a career year. Probably he was I would say average

2536
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:14,600
Speaker 1: his first couple of years. What do you think the

2537
02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:17,280
Speaker 1: Bills are thinking about him? And how much do you

2538
02:04:17,400 --> 02:04:20,040
Speaker 1: think because I think he's going to get money on

2539
02:04:20,080 --> 02:04:21,800
Speaker 1: the free agent because people are going to need him,

2540
02:04:21,840 --> 02:04:23,600
Speaker 1: But like, how much do you think it will cost

2541
02:04:23,760 --> 02:04:27,560
Speaker 1: to keep him with to be a Bill? That's a

2542
02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:30,800
Speaker 1: good question. I don't know that I have a definitive

2543
02:04:30,840 --> 02:04:32,400
Speaker 1: answer for you. There's going to be a lot of

2544
02:04:32,440 --> 02:04:35,560
Speaker 1: decisions that they're gonna have to make with their defensive line.

2545
02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:39,280
Speaker 1: You just signed Jerry Hughes to an extension. I don't

2546
02:04:39,360 --> 02:04:41,520
Speaker 1: know that he's been the same player that he's been

2547
02:04:41,560 --> 02:04:45,560
Speaker 1: in previous years. You've got Trent Murphy. We played an

2548
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:48,000
Speaker 1: awful lot of time in the game yesterday when a

2549
02:04:48,080 --> 02:04:50,400
Speaker 1: lot of other starters did not. I don't know if

2550
02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:53,720
Speaker 1: that means anything. It probably doesn't. But he's entering the

2551
02:04:53,800 --> 02:04:57,040
Speaker 1: last year of his contract. So if the coaching staff

2552
02:04:57,120 --> 02:05:01,120
Speaker 1: and the front office come to the decision at we

2553
02:05:01,280 --> 02:05:04,720
Speaker 1: need Shack Lawson for our future, it may come at

2554
02:05:04,760 --> 02:05:09,320
Speaker 1: the expense of somebody else's job security here at that position.

2555
02:05:09,480 --> 02:05:14,320
Speaker 1: Do you now need to decide keeping check and or Phillips?

2556
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:17,440
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips is what the Phillips. Phillips is the other

2557
02:05:17,560 --> 02:05:19,400
Speaker 1: part of the equation. And after you know, a nine

2558
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:22,360
Speaker 1: and a half sack season, I know you're getting Harrison

2559
02:05:22,400 --> 02:05:25,960
Speaker 1: Phillips back off the ACL, but I think if they

2560
02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:28,800
Speaker 1: had their druthers, they'd prefer to have Jordan Phillips. Can

2561
02:05:28,880 --> 02:05:31,280
Speaker 1: they keep both Check Lawson and Jordan Phillips. Well, I

2562
02:05:31,320 --> 02:05:32,720
Speaker 1: got the money for it. I don't know if you

2563
02:05:32,760 --> 02:05:34,520
Speaker 1: want to spend it all on those two Scotts spot

2564
02:05:34,560 --> 02:05:38,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's there's the things draft, another pass

2565
02:05:38,480 --> 02:05:40,680
Speaker 1: rushing defensive end, and that might be the way that

2566
02:05:40,720 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 1: they ultimately look at it. They've got a bevy of

2567
02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:46,200
Speaker 1: draft picks to work with um to either maneuver up

2568
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:48,800
Speaker 1: and down the board to get a prized prospect. So

2569
02:05:49,360 --> 02:05:52,080
Speaker 1: it's really hard to say, but I think what Shack

2570
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:55,320
Speaker 1: has become is a complete defensive end. This year, Uh,

2571
02:05:55,880 --> 02:05:58,200
Speaker 1: you could make the argument he's the best one of

2572
02:05:58,240 --> 02:06:03,000
Speaker 1: the best run defender undefending ends on the roster. He's

2573
02:06:03,040 --> 02:06:06,640
Speaker 1: really advanced his game in that area. He's been consistent

2574
02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:10,840
Speaker 1: in getting pass pressure, He's made game changing plays. So

2575
02:06:11,040 --> 02:06:15,640
Speaker 1: I think he certainly Marrits consideration. The concern is he's

2576
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:19,120
Speaker 1: played so well that he's going to attract interest elsewhere

2577
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:22,240
Speaker 1: if you don't resign him before free agency, and that's

2578
02:06:22,280 --> 02:06:24,240
Speaker 1: when the bidding gets out of control. And that's when

2579
02:06:24,240 --> 02:06:26,360
Speaker 1: I think the Bills say we're going to take our

2580
02:06:26,400 --> 02:06:29,000
Speaker 1: money and look elsewhere to fortify the position. And here's

2581
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:32,800
Speaker 1: the thing too, what do you try and foreshadow Why

2582
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:34,760
Speaker 1: was he not that good in the first three years

2583
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:38,160
Speaker 1: of his career and why was Jordan Phillips such a

2584
02:06:38,280 --> 02:06:44,840
Speaker 1: talented guy discarded by a Miami Dolphins team? And the reality, cold,

2585
02:06:44,880 --> 02:06:47,000
Speaker 1: harsh reality of it is they didn't play well enough

2586
02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:49,960
Speaker 1: in those years and they were highly as motivated as

2587
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:51,960
Speaker 1: they were when they were under the contract year like

2588
02:06:52,040 --> 02:06:54,520
Speaker 1: they are this year. They were highly motivated to stane

2589
02:06:54,560 --> 02:06:56,920
Speaker 1: league and get another contract. And what you have to

2590
02:06:57,000 --> 02:06:59,720
Speaker 1: ask yourself are they going to become the other guy

2591
02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:02,600
Speaker 1: if they do sign the big contract because they worry

2592
02:07:02,600 --> 02:07:04,960
Speaker 1: about that. Big guys, you worry about that because it's

2593
02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:06,680
Speaker 1: easy to shut it down as a big guy just

2594
02:07:06,800 --> 02:07:08,720
Speaker 1: kind of you kind of coast a little bit. They

2595
02:07:08,760 --> 02:07:11,320
Speaker 1: don't want guys on their team that aren't highly motivated

2596
02:07:11,360 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: to play well and get better. And you have to

2597
02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:17,320
Speaker 1: ask yourself, is Shack going to maintain the same level

2598
02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:23,120
Speaker 1: of intensity after he gets eight figures guaranteed? Is Jordan

2599
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 1: Phillip's going to be that guy eight figures guaranteed that

2600
02:07:25,640 --> 02:07:27,960
Speaker 1: he's going to keep the keep the throttle all the

2601
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:31,760
Speaker 1: way up? I think, And don't forget. You got Starlatula

2602
02:07:31,800 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 1: lay on the books for three more years a ten

2603
02:07:33,360 --> 02:07:36,520
Speaker 1: million a year, So you got these right, So you

2604
02:07:36,640 --> 02:07:41,320
Speaker 1: got these guys. I would think, given the history of

2605
02:07:41,400 --> 02:07:43,720
Speaker 1: this team, this franchise is going to go out and

2606
02:07:43,880 --> 02:07:46,280
Speaker 1: find guys that they can sign to a one or

2607
02:07:46,360 --> 02:07:51,640
Speaker 1: two year deal for medium money, get good production, maybe

2608
02:07:51,760 --> 02:07:53,560
Speaker 1: better production out of them because they're gonna be highly

2609
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:56,200
Speaker 1: motivated for their next contract, and I think they'll probably

2610
02:07:56,240 --> 02:07:58,480
Speaker 1: take that same philosophy. They'll sign some guys who are

2611
02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:02,440
Speaker 1: pretty good with him, maybe a big high end potential,

2612
02:08:03,040 --> 02:08:04,760
Speaker 1: and sig him to a short term deal hope, and

2613
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:07,200
Speaker 1: they are highly motivated to earn another contract everybody else

2614
02:08:07,320 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 1: or the Bills. So my inclination to answer the caller's

2615
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:14,520
Speaker 1: question is this, Jordan Phillips may have priced himself out

2616
02:08:14,560 --> 02:08:16,360
Speaker 1: of where the Bills want to go in terms of

2617
02:08:16,440 --> 02:08:18,680
Speaker 1: a future contract based on the season that he had.

2618
02:08:19,120 --> 02:08:21,680
Speaker 1: He's going to be getting premium money on the market.

2619
02:08:21,760 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: He he just is. He's twenty five year old guy

2620
02:08:25,120 --> 02:08:27,600
Speaker 1: who's going to make big money in the off season,

2621
02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:31,360
Speaker 1: right or wrong, Shack. I think there is still a

2622
02:08:31,400 --> 02:08:33,840
Speaker 1: glimmer of hope that you can get him for that

2623
02:08:34,080 --> 02:08:37,040
Speaker 1: Tier two kind of money to get him back in

2624
02:08:37,080 --> 02:08:39,360
Speaker 1: the fold. He's made no bones about the fact that

2625
02:08:39,480 --> 02:08:42,280
Speaker 1: he likes it here. He wants to play here. I

2626
02:08:42,400 --> 02:08:45,320
Speaker 1: think he feels that, even though he comes from a

2627
02:08:45,400 --> 02:08:49,880
Speaker 1: previous regime, that he has been readily accepted here as

2628
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:52,600
Speaker 1: a player that can contribute and make a difference for

2629
02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:55,720
Speaker 1: their defense. So I think all of that has been

2630
02:08:55,760 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 1: smoothed over where there are no lingering concerns from him,

2631
02:09:00,720 --> 02:09:02,040
Speaker 1: you know, And then it's just going to come down

2632
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:04,640
Speaker 1: to the money. And if his agent believes they can

2633
02:09:04,720 --> 02:09:07,320
Speaker 1: command significantly more money than whatever the Bills may or

2634
02:09:07,360 --> 02:09:10,440
Speaker 1: may not offer, they're gonna wait until free agency hits him.

2635
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:11,920
Speaker 1: He's going to go to the highest bidder. And Chris,

2636
02:09:12,200 --> 02:09:15,200
Speaker 1: the Bills start the practice week in earnest tomorrow. What

2637
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,480
Speaker 1: are you looking for when you go to practice tomorrow, Well,

2638
02:09:17,520 --> 02:09:21,000
Speaker 1: we gotta see where Levi Wallace is at. That's probably

2639
02:09:21,240 --> 02:09:24,080
Speaker 1: a number one. I'll have to see how tarn Johnson's

2640
02:09:24,120 --> 02:09:26,880
Speaker 1: moving around. We'll have to see how Cody Ford's moving around.

2641
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:31,520
Speaker 1: Those are two players that left the game. Although Cody

2642
02:09:31,600 --> 02:09:33,480
Speaker 1: came back right yes he did, there were so many

2643
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:35,040
Speaker 1: guys I was trying to remember who came back and

2644
02:09:35,080 --> 02:09:37,080
Speaker 1: who didn't. He came back, which is still you know,

2645
02:09:37,240 --> 02:09:40,000
Speaker 1: a day or two after the game, things start cropping

2646
02:09:40,040 --> 02:09:41,600
Speaker 1: up and maybe something feels a little sore than it

2647
02:09:41,640 --> 02:09:44,480
Speaker 1: did right after. So we'll have to see where everything's

2648
02:09:44,520 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 1: at there in terms of assessing who's trending towards playing

2649
02:09:49,600 --> 02:09:51,960
Speaker 1: on Saturday and who they could run the risk of

2650
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:55,760
Speaker 1: being without and how that might impact you know, who's

2651
02:09:55,800 --> 02:09:58,560
Speaker 1: playing where, and how effective and how deep a unit

2652
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:01,000
Speaker 1: they are on whatever side the ball we're discussing. We

2653
02:10:01,080 --> 02:10:04,200
Speaker 1: just went through a Saturday short week two weeks ago

2654
02:10:04,240 --> 02:10:06,560
Speaker 1: before the Patriots game, and I don't think they'll feel

2655
02:10:06,600 --> 02:10:08,840
Speaker 1: it like it's not a real short week. It's it's

2656
02:10:08,840 --> 02:10:11,280
Speaker 1: a little abbreviated, but it's not going to be a

2657
02:10:11,840 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: late game, so that you know, it's a four o'clock

2658
02:10:13,760 --> 02:10:15,360
Speaker 1: game out of one o'clock game, So that helps a

2659
02:10:15,440 --> 02:10:17,840
Speaker 1: little bit. You are traveling though, and that has an

2660
02:10:17,880 --> 02:10:22,040
Speaker 1: impact on the body too, So it's gonna you know, well,

2661
02:10:22,800 --> 02:10:25,720
Speaker 1: it's also gonna bear watching how the coaching staff approaches

2662
02:10:25,760 --> 02:10:29,400
Speaker 1: these practices. How intense are they? You know? I think

2663
02:10:29,440 --> 02:10:33,200
Speaker 1: you get a couple couple more one more padded practice.

2664
02:10:33,240 --> 02:10:35,080
Speaker 1: I think once you get to the postseason, do they

2665
02:10:35,160 --> 02:10:37,680
Speaker 1: do that? Do they say forget it? I don't know.

2666
02:10:37,880 --> 02:10:39,960
Speaker 1: So we'll have to We'll have to see how the

2667
02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:41,880
Speaker 1: practice week shakes out in terms of what the coaching

2668
02:10:41,880 --> 02:10:43,480
Speaker 1: staff is looking to get out of these guys to

2669
02:10:43,560 --> 02:10:46,000
Speaker 1: have them ready for the game, and how nicked up

2670
02:10:46,080 --> 02:10:48,280
Speaker 1: some players are, which may make the coaching staff think

2671
02:10:48,320 --> 02:10:50,840
Speaker 1: twice about just how hard to go. Yeah, but it's

2672
02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:53,320
Speaker 1: not like this is Believe me, this isn't like something

2673
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:55,920
Speaker 1: bolt out of the blue. I hate to say it

2674
02:10:55,960 --> 02:10:58,000
Speaker 1: like that. I'm laughing. I say, it's a process. This

2675
02:10:58,120 --> 02:10:59,880
Speaker 1: has been under the hood. They're ready for this all

2676
02:10:59,880 --> 02:11:01,520
Speaker 1: the time. They got guys nicked up all the time.

2677
02:11:02,120 --> 02:11:04,160
Speaker 1: It's just more of the same and this they're gonna

2678
02:11:04,200 --> 02:11:06,520
Speaker 1: try and all of those areas. They're gonna treat this

2679
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:09,120
Speaker 1: just like they treat every other ready game, single game.

2680
02:11:09,280 --> 02:11:10,920
Speaker 1: If the guy's ready, he'll be ready. They want to

2681
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:13,200
Speaker 1: get in practice, they'll practice him. But the one guy,

2682
02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:15,240
Speaker 1: even the injured guys, no matter who they are, they're

2683
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:18,080
Speaker 1: not going to affect the way they handle the team

2684
02:11:18,160 --> 02:11:19,960
Speaker 1: on the practice field or whatever. It's that one guy,

2685
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:22,240
Speaker 1: he's you gotta deal with him separately, but you gotta

2686
02:11:22,280 --> 02:11:24,320
Speaker 1: handle the team like you would handle the team if

2687
02:11:24,360 --> 02:11:26,400
Speaker 1: everybody was healthy and if it was a regular season

2688
02:11:26,440 --> 02:11:29,080
Speaker 1: game or what have you. Chris, thank you, you got it.

2689
02:11:29,120 --> 02:11:31,400
Speaker 1: We got you on the practice field tomorrow. Chris will

2690
02:11:31,400 --> 02:11:34,320
Speaker 1: be ye field with us. We're moving up a day here.

2691
02:11:34,400 --> 02:11:39,919
Speaker 1: Playoffs practice, the playoffs. Where would you rather be than playoffs?

2692
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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, So what have

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Speaker 1: we learn from today's show. It is brought to you

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We had John McLean on from the Houston

2705
02:12:34,400 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 1: Chronicle has been covering pro football down there for forty

2706
02:12:37,120 --> 02:12:40,440
Speaker 1: five years or so. John McClean talked about what he

2707
02:12:40,520 --> 02:12:43,600
Speaker 1: sees from the Houston Texans offense going into this playoff game.

2708
02:12:45,520 --> 02:12:47,480
Speaker 1: But I think they should score more. They have not

2709
02:12:47,640 --> 02:12:52,000
Speaker 1: scored at least thirty points since October thirteenth, when they

2710
02:12:52,040 --> 02:12:55,400
Speaker 1: won thirty one twenty four Kansas city, and they've only

2711
02:12:55,480 --> 02:12:58,480
Speaker 1: had at least thirty points twice, so they did a

2712
02:12:58,560 --> 02:13:01,800
Speaker 1: made don't scores any points as they should, and they're

2713
02:13:02,120 --> 02:13:04,800
Speaker 1: good on third day, they're good in the red zone,

2714
02:13:05,240 --> 02:13:07,680
Speaker 1: but they don't make a lot of big plays down

2715
02:13:07,720 --> 02:13:10,520
Speaker 1: and feel you would think with this much talent and

2716
02:13:10,600 --> 02:13:15,240
Speaker 1: with Watson who is a very accurate passer sixty seven percent,

2717
02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:18,920
Speaker 1: and so it's just mainly they don't hit a lot

2718
02:13:18,960 --> 02:13:22,120
Speaker 1: of big plays like they should. McClean he was very

2719
02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:24,800
Speaker 1: even handed about how we think this game might play

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Speaker 1: out seven. I think he might be ready to pick

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Speaker 1: the Bills actually in this game. Well, he knows it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a tussle. And he was talking about

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Speaker 1: how the Houston Texas they haven't scored thirty points but twice.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm like going mad. Wouldn't we like to

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Speaker 1: be in there? You haven't seen us very much, have you.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really going to be a good game.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be another single score game. Bills

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Speaker 1: are kind of used to that. The road's gonna cause

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Speaker 1: some problems because it's gonna be a loud crowd down there.

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Speaker 1: But if you can keep the lid on that offense

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Speaker 1: of the Texans and not give them any big plays.

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