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Speaker 1: Oh a good time, Steve tasst time we go Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Welcome to a Tuesday afternoon in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park, New York. Welcome to One Bill's Live, or

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Speaker 1: right next door to the new air Field. On a cloudy,

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Speaker 1: kind of gloomy day in Orchard Park. The Bills have

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Speaker 1: played three in a row. Here. It's time to hit

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Speaker 1: the road, and they will the Sunday when they go

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland to play the Browns. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: returning home after two straight on the road, for them,

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Speaker 1: they get to play at home. Hi, everybody, I'm John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: and look who we got. Steve Tasker is back after

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Speaker 1: a couple of days off that weekend, good family weekend? Right?

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Speaker 1: Can I say where you went? Yeah? Sure, because I

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Speaker 1: have question for Steve spent a great family weekend. He

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Speaker 1: can go into as much as to tail as he wants.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. But he was in Savannah, Georgia, where

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Speaker 1: I have never been. You know me pretty well, I

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Speaker 1: have a feeling I would love Savannah, Georgia. I just

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Speaker 1: I think it's my kind of It's a nice little town.

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Speaker 1: It was It's a where Savannah College of Art and

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Speaker 1: Designs where our youngest son goes to school. He's finishing

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Speaker 1: up his senior year. We have and you have when

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Speaker 1: you send him there, you go down, you visit the stuff,

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Speaker 1: and you have all these stuff you want to do

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Speaker 1: before they graduate. And we had this one last weekend

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Speaker 1: to get some with two of my sons, the oldest son,

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Speaker 1: youngest son, and my wife all ran the half marathon

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Speaker 1: in Savannah, George. That a marathon, half marathon, ten k

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Speaker 1: what and you know, different distances, big road race, fourteen

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Speaker 1: thousand people, big weekend. It was fun for us. We

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Speaker 1: went down and and hung out. I got to see

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Speaker 1: my son and his friends there at Savannah College of

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Speaker 1: Art and Design SCAD they call it. And it was

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Speaker 1: it was one of those weekends. It was a long

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Speaker 1: weekend and it's felt long. Yeah. We did a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's good. We did a lot. Yeah, it was not

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Speaker 1: that it was dragging out, No, No, we had we

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Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. It was a nice break

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Speaker 1: for me. Uh and of course too, it was rare

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Speaker 1: do that. Good weather, I would think this time year

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Speaker 1: area weather. Yeah, it's great weather. Um and uh fun weekend,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was great. We gotta tell me about Savannah.

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Speaker 1: I think town the South. I love Civil War history.

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Speaker 1: It's it's deep South yea, and all the pluses and

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Speaker 1: minuses of that. It's a cross between the Bible Belt

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Speaker 1: kind of on the ocean. It's on the waterway that's

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Speaker 1: just in from the ocean, you know. It's on the river,

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Speaker 1: the one. It's kind of the marshy lands that come

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Speaker 1: the few towns, larger cities at that point that we're

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Speaker 1: got some really old archestraction the right and uh uh,

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Speaker 1: it's got great architecture. It's got ninety green space I

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Speaker 1: Like every there's town squares. There's a ton of them,

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Speaker 1: a ton of town squares, and every one of them's

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Speaker 1: They've got River Street, which is old old buildings that

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Speaker 1: are continually had been in continual to use now there.

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Speaker 1: Now it's pubs and taverns, kind of a kind of

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Speaker 1: gentrified now where you go down and kind of spend

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Speaker 1: was great its history there, Yeah, big big history. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I love it's it was. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: great little architecture and uh, SCAD has has filled a

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Speaker 1: real liberal, real art sea And it doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: So they've confiscated, not confiscated, they've acquired and bought all

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Speaker 1: America next to New York City. Why would that interest me?

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Speaker 1: I think you know somewhere in there that would interest you.

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Speaker 1: It interested me, and I'm not Irish. Yeah it was

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Speaker 1: But welcome back. Good to having Chris brown I appreciate

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Speaker 1: thanks Brownie for show, for letting me get away like

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Speaker 1: to see the Bills game. Bill's wedged in the victory

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Speaker 1: while you were gone. It's interesting trying to watch you know,

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Speaker 1: I was watching the game following on the Twitter banter,

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Speaker 1: Twitter sometimes kind of keep abreast of, you know, breaking

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Speaker 1: Twitter hated that game for the Bills. They just thought

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Speaker 1: it was and I was like, wow, we must we

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Speaker 1: I was watching it. Oh, but I wasn't hearing any commentary,

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Speaker 1: it didn't go perfectly well. There were issues, and there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be issues in the remaining half of the season.

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Speaker 1: But the offense I think took a step forward. The

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Speaker 1: was all right. I think it was a pretty good,

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff for having the discipline to do it.

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Speaker 1: They just they were no question, they were a little

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Speaker 1: the score never indicated how much in control that team was.

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. Once again, they've shown me how discipline they are,

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Speaker 1: even in the midst of a game there was one possession,

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Speaker 1: it was an eight point game. Yeah, But it never

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Speaker 1: felt like I said this, I thought this Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: Eric said it yesterday on the show. Here with this.

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Speaker 1: Never felt as if that game was in jeopardy, that

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Speaker 1: of Washington. Most of it is because the Bills were

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Speaker 1: after Corey bar work has had a fifteen yard punt.

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Speaker 1: in field goal arrangement, they got it, and that's you know,

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Speaker 1: because you know, the score didn't indicate how much can

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that a lot today before we

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Speaker 1: get to that, though. Today Steve Election Day, I voted

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Speaker 1: Here's what I went with my wife. They accidentally gave her.

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Speaker 1: You know how you get the sheet and you fill

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Speaker 1: the in the vote counter. Yeah, they actually gave her two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah did she say she handed to me? I said, well,

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Speaker 1: vote twice here, you know, we'll vote twice. But we

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Speaker 1: didn't do that. We handed it back. I was tempted

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Speaker 1: out and then they hand them then. But it's important

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Speaker 1: Well it does, and even more so a day like

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Speaker 1: today when there's not going to be a heavy heavy

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Speaker 1: a sense of me too. I love them. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it's. I don't know what you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just like you know what I did. It's a

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Speaker 1: really deep sense of doing the right thing. Yeah, whether

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Speaker 1: no matter how you vote, which side of the point,

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Speaker 1: Some of us knew John Brown a little bit from

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Speaker 1: his days in Arizona. Some of us glad he'd be

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Speaker 1: a good pick up a year ago. The Bills included

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Speaker 1: they negotiated with him. Some of us had a good

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Speaker 1: feeling about John Brown going into this year, going into

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Speaker 1: last year. See, yeah, you gotta let it go. I

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Speaker 1: just said everyone in a while, I gotta give you

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Speaker 1: a credit. I gotta give you credit. Though you were

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Speaker 1: on him last year and this year. You liked him

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Speaker 1: even last year in Week one when the Bills got

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Speaker 1: hand you know, got man handled in that opening game

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Speaker 1: in the rainstorm. You liked him then and you have

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Speaker 1: never gotten off that training For good reason. He is.

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Speaker 1: He was a difference maker this last week, that third

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Speaker 1: and eighteen. He made some spectacular catches that third and

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Speaker 1: eighteen conversion was huge. And I'll tell you what the

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Speaker 1: thing that got me was when Josh threw him one.

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Speaker 1: He could have had another big play and it went

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Speaker 1: right off his hands on the scrambled play down towards

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Speaker 1: the tunnel end near side. Josh tried to fit it

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Speaker 1: into him and it just went off the tip of

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Speaker 1: his hands and he couldn't pull it in. That would

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Speaker 1: have been another big play. But yeah, John Brown, I

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Speaker 1: think has been a very pleasant surprise for a lot

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Speaker 1: of Bills fans. And we saw it, and I got

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Speaker 1: to tell you, the Bills were right. They tried to

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Speaker 1: get him two years ago. They are last year it

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Speaker 1: couldn't get him. They got him this year. They were

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Speaker 1: right because you can see right from the opening day

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Speaker 1: at training camp the guy was a cut above everybody

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Speaker 1: else on the roster going out on the outside. Remember

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Speaker 1: that day. I just have fun memories. The first day

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Speaker 1: at camp, sunshining seventy five degrees. You and I are

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Speaker 1: watching practice, both of us come back to do our

459
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Speaker 1: show saying the same thing. You can John Brown as

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Speaker 1: a player, you can tell from among the group of

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, and they had a ton at camp, as

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Speaker 1: most teams do. John Brown was a cut above, like

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Speaker 1: a big cut above, and Cole Beasley was right behind

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Speaker 1: him too. Yeah, that was fun. Eighth three five fifty

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

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Speaker 1: What's the most pleasant surprise you've seen from the Bills

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Speaker 1: at the midway point of the season. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Jerry and Kenmore. Hello, Jerry, Welcome to the show. Good morning.

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Speaker 1: You know what a pleasant surprise to me is that

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Speaker 1: they're six and two. I think they've they've struggled in

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Speaker 1: a lot of areas, and you know, special teams has

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Speaker 1: been above average on the returning games. Still, the punt games,

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Speaker 1: you know, seems to have some issues. I'm they're keeping

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Speaker 1: bad teams in games longer. I think the conservative approach

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Speaker 1: might hurt them the second half. But I have two

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Speaker 1: questions if I could ask them. First, Steve, I know

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Speaker 1: you're you're you played a lot of wide receiver and

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Speaker 1: I think the deep ball with us is part accuracy

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Speaker 1: and part is are these receivers picking up the ball

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Speaker 1: soon enough to make an adjustment on that deep ball

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Speaker 1: to run to it? And the second question I have

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Speaker 1: is in week one, Murph, I heard you say on

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Speaker 1: a third and one that we got stuffed on and

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Speaker 1: people complained that while they're just playing the the you

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Speaker 1: know the odds, that isn't the odds anymore. And it

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Speaker 1: was proof again this week not how you make a

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Speaker 1: yard in this league anymore. The best athletes play on defense.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to win six one on one battles to

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Speaker 1: gain a yard. The good teams spread it and run

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Speaker 1: it especially, have fourteen bodies in a very small area

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Speaker 1: that I'll wait, two hundred and seventy five are more

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to get a yard. It's it's counterintuitive

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Speaker 1: now the league, the good teams don't do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you about Jerry. Here's the thing and all

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Speaker 1: let me I'm sorry. I just want to say I

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Speaker 1: don't recall saying that I may have because I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure you're right about that. You do a little bit

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Speaker 1: of mix of stuff. I mean, we said it on

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Speaker 1: the broadcast Sunday. You know that if we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the first and goal at the one second and goal

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Speaker 1: to one third and goal to one, Frank Gore up

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Speaker 1: the middle. By the way, Brian Dable said, they were

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Speaker 1: not the same place called they looked like it, but

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Speaker 1: I have a problem with that. Yeah, you'd like to

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Speaker 1: see something else done down there, you know, a play

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Speaker 1: action pass for example, But go ahead, think about it.

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Speaker 1: They were first and goal on the one, and they

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Speaker 1: got in on a quarterback play on the fourth play, right,

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Speaker 1: it was successful. That's all you gotta look at. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. I was thinking about this

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Speaker 1: a lot. I think they were as you to use

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Speaker 1: your word, Jerry, I think they were conservative on all

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Speaker 1: of those plays. I think they've got bigger things on

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Speaker 1: their mind in the future. I don't think they want

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Speaker 1: to put certain things on film. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: want to show us run game. I don't think, especially

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Speaker 1: in the red zone. I think this is a team

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Speaker 1: that was thinking a week or two ahead when they

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Speaker 1: had a first and goal on the one, knowing they're

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Speaker 1: having full faith that they were going to get in somehow,

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Speaker 1: some way, and even if they didn't, that the offense

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be good enough to get out of

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Speaker 1: that into the into the field. So they were willing

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Speaker 1: to be conservative on their play selection. They're knowing that

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Speaker 1: other teams weren't gonna they weren't going to get a

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Speaker 1: look at their spread run offense in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: and they were perfectly willing to live with the result

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Speaker 1: if they stopped them on short hardiest plays runs up

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Speaker 1: the middle and then a quarterback sneak. They didn't. They

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Speaker 1: got the touchdown. But I think that's all in the mix.

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Speaker 1: I just I think that was nothing but a conscious

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Speaker 1: effort to stay conservative on their play calling because they

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Speaker 1: got teams coming up that they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: do something different than that to beat. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think the Bills felt like they had to do anything

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Speaker 1: different than that to still win that game, even if

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Speaker 1: they did get stopped on fourth short and fourth and short.

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Speaker 1: I think that went into that mix right there in

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Speaker 1: that and I think it happened throughout the game quite

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Speaker 1: Are you back on the play calling is a problem issue?

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Speaker 1: Is that where you're going with this? Well? My question

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Speaker 1: is about the deep ball. Is that I see some

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Speaker 1: balls that the adjustment is just wrong, Like they don't

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Speaker 1: like a pass that is a foot off on a

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Speaker 1: deep pattern. Doesn't seem to me logically that it should

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Speaker 1: be an accuracy issue. Maybe it's one picking up the

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Speaker 1: ball as an adjustment issue. I mean, you know they're

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Speaker 1: throwing it into a spot and the receiver needs to

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Speaker 1: run under it at some point or run to it.

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Speaker 1: And I like the play that they want to pass

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Speaker 1: interference on. I don't know if he picks that ball

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Speaker 1: up late, but he doesn't make an adjustment to where

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Speaker 1: the ball is. It feels like, help us out with that,

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Speaker 1: mister Farmer NFL recep. Well, here's the Yeah, the ball

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Speaker 1: comes at a velocity and I don't know that John

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Speaker 1: Brown would have caught it anyway, but you know when

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Speaker 1: he's got his legs wrapped up by the dB and

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the guys, what's the Josh Gordon Norman.

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Speaker 1: Josh Norman had his arms wrapped around John Brown's legs

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Speaker 1: before the ball got there, just before the goat ball

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Speaker 1: got there, and he couldn't pull it in. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right that it was a little bit of an

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Speaker 1: accuracy issue, a little bit of a timing issue on

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Speaker 1: the dB and the receiver on the and now that

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Speaker 1: and that, to me, it's a deep throw like it's

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five yard throw, but it's on a

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Speaker 1: comeback route that's on a little bit on a quarterback

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Speaker 1: and on the receiver as well, that's a different type

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Speaker 1: of ball than throwing it over the top, like the

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Speaker 1: one over the top that he tried to get to

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster yesterday. Was an atrocity. That ball missed by

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Speaker 1: twelve yards. Can you say this, We're a thank you

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Speaker 1: for your called Jerry. And the wind was a factor.

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Speaker 1: It was just about as windy as it was the

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Speaker 1: week before against Philadelphia. If you're going to evaluate the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo passing game and the accuracy of passes and the

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Speaker 1: adjustments made down the ball, you don't pick us Sunday

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Speaker 1: in November in Orchard Park because it was It's been

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Speaker 1: tough to throw for a couple of weeks, and people

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. They think, oh, that's an excuse.

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Speaker 1: It's a factor. It was tough to throw the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks for both And I'll tell you what. I

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Speaker 1: didn't think about that, but that does now that I

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Speaker 1: think about it, that that ball to John around where

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Speaker 1: Josh had his ankles and stuff. That's right into the

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Speaker 1: spot in the in the in the field where the

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Speaker 1: wind starts to kick it up. And he saw it

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Speaker 1: early in the first half. And I didn't really give

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Speaker 1: it credit when I was because I watched the game.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't in the stadium that punt, that

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Speaker 1: first punt that the Redskins got loose it. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: looked like Andre Roberts is going to catch that, and

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Speaker 1: he started waving guys off it landed. He thought he

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Speaker 1: was gonna catch it, and then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: it landed fifteen yards away from him. I couldn't believe that.

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Speaker 1: So that, Yeah, the wind really crushed that. And if

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Speaker 1: it was the same factor again on that pass late

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Speaker 1: that I was talking about with the pass interfairs, everybody

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Speaker 1: thought he should have challenged. Yeah, that that ball was

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Speaker 1: definitely moving around. And that's also why Robert Foster ball

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Speaker 1: had no shot either. I mean, the ball was just

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Speaker 1: getting whipped around by the wind. So, uh, maybe if

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Speaker 1: the Bills go to Cleveland, it's not so windy when

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Speaker 1: in their stadium on their lake. Yeah, maybe it's maybe

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Speaker 1: it'll it'll be worth better. I'm afraid to look at

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Speaker 1: the forecast. I fear it might be just the same.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got a breakcare. We'd love to get

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Speaker 1: this discussion going with you. I think we got it

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Speaker 1: going pretty well. As a matter of fact, what's the

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Speaker 1: most pleasant surprise for the pills at the midway point

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Speaker 1: of the season. That's our Twitter poll. We got a

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Speaker 1: couple of suggestions there. You may have something else. Come

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Speaker 1: on back and let's discuss. Steve is back. Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: is back. Everybody call the kids home from school. You

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Speaker 1: got a day. All Steve Taskers at work today? Wow?

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Speaker 1: is back. Ladies and gentlemen. Happy to have you with

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Speaker 1: us here today. We're at the midway point of the season.

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Speaker 1: Steve has called a timeout. He wants to call our

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Speaker 1: attention to something. Well, I was just saying, I was whistling,

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Speaker 1: Oh that you're back. I don't want to contribute. I'm

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Speaker 1: just back. I tell you what, I can't recall it, Yes,

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Speaker 1: six and two. It's funny. I think the question came

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Speaker 1: up with Sean McDermot yesterday and somebody asked about six

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Speaker 1: wins and what do you think and blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: and his answer was pretty simple. I can't find it

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Speaker 1: now in the transcript, but he says six No Leslie Frazier,

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Speaker 1: who said that yesterday, six and two feels pretty good.

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Speaker 1: It does, right. I mean, we all know the issues

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Speaker 1: and there are issues, and you know what, there'll be

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Speaker 1: new issues coming up to second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: and there'll be new good things happen in second half

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Speaker 1: of the season. That's the way it goes in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's a long season. Stuff changes, it's a week to

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Speaker 1: week league. But to be at this point and having

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Speaker 1: issues on offense primarily and now issues stopping the round

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, to have six wins and two losses,

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Speaker 1: you just got to take a step back and go, good, Wow, yeah,

641
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: that's good, I think. And there's no question a lot

642
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: of things have come. You can't deny that the Bills

643
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: have put together a good record. You know, they beat

644
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: the Jets, and the and the Dolphins, Okay, the Titans

645
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: and the Bengals and the Giants. I mean these are

646
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: all teams that you know, you've seen struggle weeknd week out.

647
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: But by the same token you've seen the Tennessee Titans

648
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: weren't a struggle, weren't struggling when the Bills played him

649
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: at the time, and the Philadelphia Eagos you got a

650
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: punch in the mouth from them, Washington Redskins. Yeah, the

651
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: Bills are benefiting from the schedule a little bit because

652
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: the AFC has gone somewhere else than it has been

653
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: in the recent years. But this is this is a

654
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 1: team that's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. They

655
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: didn't set the schedule like playing who's in front of him,

656
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: And this is a team is also a franchise and

657
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: all of us have seen this team not be able

658
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: to do that in a lot of years in recent memory.

659
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: And that's pretty satisfying when you put together a double

660
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: digit win against the team you're supposed to beat at

661
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: home on a Sunday and just move on, you know,

662
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: just and go to six and two. We're taking stack

663
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: and where the Bills are at the midway point, six win,

664
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Speaker 1: two losses, and we're asking you what's the most pleasant

665
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: surprise at the midway point of the season. What do

666
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: you think. Let's take a call here from Nick Ian Rochester. Hello, Nick, welcome,

667
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey, good guys, So yeah, I

668
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: want my most pleasant surprise is the fact that we're

669
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: six and two and Josh Allen hasn't even played a

670
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: tout game yet. You know, I wanted to touch base

671
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen. You know, I feel like within the

672
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: fan base there's still a lot of people that are

673
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: still doubting him. I don't know if that based on

674
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: his pre draft assessment. A lot of draft analysts, you know,

675
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: weren't big fans of them, but even the draft analysts

676
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: that really liked him, like the mel Kuypers, the Daniel Jeremiah's,

677
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: they all said he needed time to develop, and you know,

678
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, he's still learning. I mean,

679
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: you look at the beginning of the year, the interceptions

680
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: were a little bit of a problem. He hasn't thrown

681
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: an interception of what three four weeks, yeah, eighty nine

682
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: consecutive passes, not since a Tennessee game. Is he thrown

683
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: in interception? Right? And I was concerned about all the

684
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: running he was doing. He took that unfortunate big hit

685
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: against New England, and he's been more conservative that, he's

686
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: sliding more, he's being smarter about running. So we've seen

687
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: growth there. You know. Now, the one thing I want

688
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: to see him do is, you know, the fumble issue

689
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: has come up the last three or four games. I mean,

690
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: you know, I hope he makes that correction. You know,

691
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: he's developed. You know, he's taken steps from last year. Um,

692
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm excited about him. And and just

693
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: let me saying that, and you know this, but he's

694
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: lost one fumble in the last four games. He said,

695
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: one interception and lost one fumble. Now the ball comes out,

696
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: but they recover. And by the way, quarterbacks, Steve helped

697
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: me up. Quarterbacks usually are your leading fumbler right on

698
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: your roster at the end of the year. But go ahead,

699
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to interrupt your name. No, I mean yeah,

700
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you hope he corrects it because you never know,

701
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: takes the backcounts and the other team. But you know,

702
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: he he's made growth, and you know, I think that.

703
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people are given, like for example,

704
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson a lot of hype, but you know, yeah,

705
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: he beat New England. He played a turnover free game,

706
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: but you know he only threw for one hundred and

707
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: sixty yards. And you know, I just want to see Allen,

708
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Speaker 1: you know, I we lose you, Nick, I feel like

709
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: that'll get a lot of the you know, the people

710
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: that you know that critique him too much. Get the

711
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: monkey off at back per se. Nick, Yeah, Nick, did

712
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: you listen to our show yesterday? Did you hear dan

713
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: Orlovsky on the show yesterday? Dan Or? I think next going.

714
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: Dan Orlowski, of course, played thirteen years quarterback in the

715
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: NFL now with ESPN NFL analysts. He's kind of a

716
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: deep thinker. You know, I'm Steve. He looks at video.

717
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: He said this, I have a quote right in front

718
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: of me, and this is an impartial observer who's played

719
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: the position. He says about Josh Allen, there's much more

720
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: consistency there. He's playing a much more consistent brand of football.

721
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: He's doing a nice job of not trying to be

722
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: the hero all the time. Earlier in his career is

723
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: trying to make a wild play. Now there's a little

724
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: bit of boring football there, and it's complimentary boring football.

725
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: It's not just us saying Josh has improved, and it's

726
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: actually what thirty percent of our Twitter pull right now.

727
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: But people on the outside looking in don't have a

728
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: horse in the race. Notice that Josh Allen is playing better.

729
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: He's not great, he's not perfect, but there is improvement there, Steve. Yeah,

730
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Speaker 1: And I think we were just talking about this segments

731
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: he's cut out and we're talking about the interception of

732
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: the turnovers. And I said this back then. I said,

733
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Speaker 1: if he can cut off the bottom of the roller

734
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: coaster and just stick to the you know, just get

735
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Speaker 1: more consistent, and he has now, I think we can

736
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Speaker 1: look forward to him taking some steps forward. There was

737
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: some there's some stuff going on on. You know, you

738
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: read some film breakdowns that guys do and they're all noticing,

739
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: like you know, for instance, on the screen pass that

740
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: he hit to Singletary, that was the big play in

741
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: the first half. Yeah, forty nine yards yep, Josh, look

742
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: look left, look left, look left, look left, look left,

743
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: and then came back and right without you know, without

744
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: staring down. Singletary brought it back. And there's little things

745
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: like that where his eyes were, how disciplined he was

746
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: about not giving away where he was going to throw

747
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: the football, let the screen pass develop and then come

748
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: back late and deliver the ball and it turned into

749
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: the big play. That just subtle things like that he's

750
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: gotten better at that he couldn't do he or couldn't

751
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: but didn't do last year. The turnovers are the easiest thing.

752
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: The running has changed dramatically now. He's still does a

753
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: lot of quarterback sneaks. I think the team calls a

754
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: lot of sneaks for him in power runs. He's big,

755
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: and they're getting pretty good at doing it and being

756
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: successful doing it. There's a couple yesterday they called quarterback

757
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: sneak on a one and three quarter yard quarterback sneak

758
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: that he got, so they're relying on him a lot.

759
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't have as much a problem doing that, despite

760
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: what happened to Patrick Mahomes at the quarterback sneak in

761
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: Kansas City where he dislocated his kneecap. I don't have

762
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: much of a problem for guys running quarterback sneaks. I

763
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: don't think it's as risky a play as it comes

764
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: off as because the collisions aren't high velocity, and so

765
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: I think it's okay. But you know, they're pretty good

766
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,959
Speaker 1: at it and they could use it a lot. He's

767
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: getting better and just about every aspect of the game.

768
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: He completed seventy percent of his passes the other day.

769
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: Those high percentage of completion games are coming on a

770
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: little more often. You know, there are fewer games between

771
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: those than we've seen. So it's getting there. It is

772
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: no question about it. He is not lightening it up

773
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: as a passer in the NFL yet, but he's not

774
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: flaming out either, No, Right, So that's I mean, and

775
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, hey, well that's a small low bar. Well,

776
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: he did flame out. I mean, he was throwing three

777
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: picks a game and they were ugly. Yeah, right, and

778
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: they were still managing to win. Now they're doing it,

779
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: and those wins that we were getting a late field

780
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: goal against Tennessee last season turns into a double digit

781
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: win against the Washington Redskins this season because he didn't

782
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 1: have any turnovers. Sean McDermott was asked about it yesterday,

783
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen not throwing interceptions as much, just the

784
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: one pick in the last four games, eighty nine consecutive

785
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: pass attempts without an interception. McDermott was asked about his development,

786
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: and here's what the Bill said. Coach had to say

787
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: about that yesterday at his news conference. Just his development,

788
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: his maturing on and off the field, that's all part

789
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: of it. His understanding more and more each week, each

790
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: rep of what we're trying to get done both situationally

791
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: and schematically. And then really I think he's taken a

792
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: very unselfish team first approach, which is which is important

793
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: for all members of our team, including our quarterback and

794
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: Josh in this case, through of all the twenty games. Now,

795
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: how do you says the job? Bran? Yeah, Brian and

796
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey both have worked together to be the voice

797
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: in Josh's ear, and so Josh is very coachable, He's

798
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: receptive to it, and there's good communication and collaboration week

799
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: to week and that's all been part of Josh's development

800
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: as well. John McDermott yesterday on Josh Allen and the

801
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: work that quarterback coach Ken Dorsey and offensive coordinator Brian

802
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 1: dorsetuld have done with him. Nineteen starts. Now for Josh Allen,

803
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: you know his numbers are better than Baker Mayfield. By

804
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: the way, I was doing a little research this morning,

805
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: this first time they played against each other, right, two

806
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: of the five members of the quarterback class of twenty

807
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: eighteen first round. Mayfield was great last year thirteen starts,

808
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: sixty four percent completion, twenty seven touchdowns, fourteen interceptions. This year,

809
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: Mayfield seven touchdowns, twelve interceptions. He's been outplayed by Josh Allen.

810
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's quarterback rating is eighty two point nine, Mayfield

811
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: seventy one point three, and who knows if that maintains,

812
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: but it's notable on a guy who, as the caller

813
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: pointed out a minute ago, came in. Josh came in

814
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: with a lot of questions in his draft status. And

815
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: I think, by the way, the caller is right, many

816
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: people who have yet to appreciate the progress that Josh

817
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: has made, and he's not a finished product. But many people,

818
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: I think, were surprised that the Bills chosen where they

819
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: did and may be angry that they didn't choose Rosen

820
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: or somebody else like that. Well, they were wrong, and

821
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: maybe as Josh gets better, they're even proven more wrong,

822
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: and that might contribute to some of the doubts that

823
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: exist out there about Josh. Well, you and I sitting

824
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: here in the billion talking about the Bills every day,

825
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and watched him practice during training camp and

826
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: seeing all the games and kind of, you know, spend

827
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: some time on this. We've seen how hard Josh has

828
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: worked away from the lights outside the lines of the

829
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: football field. We've seen him put the effort in, so

830
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: it's easy for us to say, hey, it's good. But

831
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: one thing too that has made an enormous difference, and

832
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: I give the Bill's organization credit for this, is the

833
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: stability Baker Mayfield. You can say what you want. He's

834
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: had some turmoil in Cleveland with the coaching staff. His

835
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: coach Hugh Jackson gone, and then it turned into Greg Williams.

836
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: Then it turned into Freddie Kitchens, and Freddie Kitchens is

837
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: struggling as a head coach, and now Baker Mayfield's dealing

838
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: with that. Sam Darnold new head coach, new offense, a

839
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: new play caller, and he's and he's been injured in

840
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: and out of the lineup. He's dealing with that. And

841
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: he threw some horrible interception just at least one last

842
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: week that I saw. It was terrible. These guys are

843
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: struggling with that. One of the things that the reasons

844
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has had a steady, if it albeit kind

845
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: of slow for a lot of us, a steady rise

846
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: in his production and his stats and the way he's

847
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: perceived as a quarterback has been the stabilit around him.

848
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: Brand day Ball and Sean McDermott have been able to

849
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Speaker 1: give him help, particularly talent around him in the offseason

850
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Speaker 1: and now through the same system and through the acclamation

851
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Speaker 1: and giving him more of what he does well and

852
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: giving him more and more on his plate and doing

853
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: it slowly and incrementally in the same system is starting

854
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: to pay dividends now. And I think it'd be nice

855
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: if now that they're getting to this point where he's

856
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: got like what twenty starts or nineteen nineteen starts, where

857
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: maybe he'll shift gears a minute now and say, Okay,

858
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: now I'm starting to see some stuff for the second time. Now,

859
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see some things I've seen before. Now

860
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm getting this because we have, like I said, with

861
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Speaker 1: his eye discipline and the things that he's doing, he

862
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: is doing it in some respects, and I think if

863
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: he can hang in there and keep getting better and better,

864
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: at a certain point, there's going to be an exponential

865
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: jump in his play. And I think I think we'll

866
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Speaker 1: be able to see that too. What do you think

867
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Speaker 1: what's the most pleasant surprise at the midway point of

868
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: the season for the Buffalo Bills. We'll take your phone calls.

869
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: We'll read some tweets when we come back? Why don't

870
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Speaker 1: you come back? One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health

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Speaker 1: Live from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, And this

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00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, Team Tasker. He's back

873
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: with a good Jai back, Steve. I look, Brownie's great.

874
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 1: I love Brownie. It's good to have you back here. Yeah,

875
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: you know you know why. I figured out why too,

876
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: because you laugh at my jokes. I don't think Brownie

877
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: laughs enough at anybody who laughs at my jokes is

878
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: my loosing Brownie Apple. We'll get him in here. And

879
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: do you want to beat my friend? Just laugh at

880
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 1: virtually everything that I say. Right, that's right. Eight. Time

881
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Speaker 1: for the tweet sheet, brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. And see if

883
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Speaker 1: I've lost my tweet sheet, I got it. Okay, let

884
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: me get you. I got here somewhere. Wandering Jack, we

885
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: cannot who's the most pleasant surprise for the Bills in

886
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: the midway point of the season. Wandering Jack says, now

887
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: we cannot blame them for the schedule they have to

888
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: play and the fact that the majority of the conference

889
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: and the NFC East in particulars rather underwhelming, as may

890
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: this Bill season a pleasant surprise. I just wish they

891
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: could crush a few of these teams and connect on

892
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: a deep ball or two. I get it. Why do

893
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: we need a crush? You know, it's hard to broadcast

894
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: games that are one sided. I don't mind close games

895
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: because it makes it more compelling broadcast. The Bills had

896
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: the large the second largest margin of victory in the

897
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: league this weekend. This past weekend. Who was it that?

898
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: I think it was the the Tennessee the Texas, the

899
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: Houston Texans against the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty four to three

900
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: or twenty six to three was the final and that

901
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: was the only game that was decided by a wider

902
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: margin than the Bills game this last weekend. From a

903
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: purely personal standpoint, I like close games. You're a broadcaster,

904
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: you'd rather have a competitive the game comes to you, then, yes,

905
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: just sit there and riot and just tell them tell

906
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: everybody was about. What's going on? Is wing wandering? Jack's

907
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: other point? Connect on a deep ball or two? Yes,

908
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: that needs to happen. They're trying. You see them trying.

909
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: I think it'll happen. I really do that ball that

910
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: I say missed by twelve yards the wind was whipping.

911
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: That's just see I can't I didn't see it on TV.

912
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: And now you say that's like, oh, of course that's exactly.

913
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: And you know what, And I watched the Fox broadcast.

914
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,959
Speaker 1: They do a great job. And that's her second straight

915
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: game here. I don't think they talked about the wind

916
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Speaker 1: as much as yeah, I know, as we did on

917
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: the radio, because it was a fact. I agree. Also

918
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, Nicky Boy says Devin Boy Nicky Boy,

919
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary has been the most pleasant surprise for the

920
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: Bills at the halfway point. Initially, he was an unexpected,

921
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: somewhat controversial third round pick, but in a half a season,

922
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: he's already proven to be a difference maker. He's still developing,

923
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: but if he continues like this, he may end up

924
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: being a first round talent that we stole in the third.

925
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,959
Speaker 1: I think that I agree with that we we didn't

926
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Speaker 1: not commercial third round pick. I don't know. Some people

927
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: were like, hey, he's not a breakaway guy, you know,

928
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: and he's small, he's undersize, he's not you know, he's

929
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: got all this stuff going on, and I don't nobody

930
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: knew about him, all right, question number two from Nicky Boy,

931
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 1: and as Singletary are already proven to be a difference maker,

932
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: I think they have just begun to scratch the surface

933
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: with Devin's singletary. Let me say that. And this game

934
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: on this past Sunday two days ago, I think was

935
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Speaker 1: the one that gets you interested in Now. I's like, whoa,

936
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: I see what we got here. Here's the thing. And

937
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: because he finally got touches, he finally got carries and catches.

938
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: But here's the thing he's doing it on. We can

939
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: all agree he's doing it on the offense that's underperforming. Yeah,

940
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: so you know, I want to see him doing it

941
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Speaker 1: on an offense where they're scoring thirty five points a game,

942
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, I mean because right now on this offense,

943
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: he's the guy that's got their most reliability on a

944
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: number of touches. He's gonna get his touches now. I

945
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: think we can see that, you know now, And it's

946
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: been up until this point has been Frank Gore yea.

947
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: And in the passing game, it's John Brown. Cole Beasley's

948
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: become a red zone target in the passing game. But

949
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, let's yeah, he has been a difference maker

950
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: for this offense that has been struggling. Let's say that

951
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: I feel like he's just getting started. I do too.

952
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: I really agree with that, and I think it's gonna

953
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: happen that And I you know, you and I are

954
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: both as anti fantasy football as you can get. But

955
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be one of those guys

956
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: that a lot of teams are gonna say, Wow, I

957
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: gotta get my hands on that guy, because he's gonna

958
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: get a lot more touches. Speaking of fish football, Yeah,

959
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: he's definitely gonna get more touches. And I had the

960
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: stats yesterday. Yeah, I got to run this by two

961
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: before we move on. Yesterday on the show, right here

962
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: on our stage, Devin Singletary set right here and Eric

963
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: asked him, look at the three games out right with

964
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: a hamstring string. He got hurt in the second half

965
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: of the Giants game, sat out three straight after that.

966
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: Eric said to him, at this point, now, looking back

967
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: several games later, was that a blessing? And describe the

968
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: disguise and sing He said, yeah, it was, He said,

969
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: you know, rookie season, I've got the quote right here.

970
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: At rookie season, it's NonStop work, work, work. But during

971
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: that time I was able to get back to one

972
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: hundred percent. So I'm definitely definitely feeling good going into

973
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. He's got fresh legs

974
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: and he's a he's a rookie, and that's going to

975
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: serve them well. I think. Let me ask you this though,

976
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: are you concerned about Frank gore rough game? Yes on Sunday,

977
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: and I think he'll he'll he'll have he'll have a

978
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: diminished role, But I do think there are big runs

979
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: coming up for Frank goin the future. Are you talking

980
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: about the short yardage stuff? In general? He wasn't very productive.

981
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 1: He had like a two point one yard per carry,

982
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: and of course they were giving it to him between

983
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: the guards too against a really good defensive front, and

984
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: Washington got amazing penetration on those. I think Frank's gonna

985
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: is fine. I do like the fact that at this

986
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: point they're gonna reverse the rolls and let yes and

987
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: let Singletary have the ball, you know, twenty twenty five

988
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: times and Gore ten like it was the opposite. Um,

989
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: I think that'll keep Frank Gore fresh. I think there's

990
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: gonna be games down the line in this season that

991
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: we're gonna say, Man, oh man, I'm so glad Frank

992
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: Gore is still here, you know what I mean? Oh yeah,

993
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: I think he's got I still think he's got some

994
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: gas in the tank. I do think it's a halfway point.

995
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: I think, uh, he's there's no question he needs some space.

996
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,240
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna get my running down inside the tackles.

997
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: There's going to be a physical, hard second half of

998
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: the year form too. But I do I'm like you.

999
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be good games for Frank Gore ahead.

1000
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: Can I tell you about some numbers I crunched over

1001
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: the weekend when you were enjoying yourself in Savanna. I

1002
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: have to do, I have to act. No, but listen,

1003
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: it's about Singletary. But it plays in the Gore too.

1004
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: And I said this on the show, said it on

1005
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: broadcast Sunday up until Sunday, up until the Washington game.

1006
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary was in on fifty two percent of the

1007
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: running back snaps and had twenty percent of the carries.

1008
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: And that totally flipped Sunday, you know, totally flipped now

1009
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: he had he was and a bunch of raps, a

1010
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: bunch of snaps, but he had more than half of

1011
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: the year carries. And I think that we may have

1012
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: seen the template for how they're going to play that

1013
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: in the future second half of the year. Yeah, I agree.

1014
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: I think those two guys are going to carry the

1015
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: ball for the Bills. I'll be interested to see when

1016
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: they put them on the field at the same time

1017
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: what happens if they do they have it yet? Have

1018
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: they I can't sure they have? I can't. I mean,

1019
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: we do so much on offensive different there's so many

1020
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: comment You got DeMarco, You've got um Gore and Singletary.

1021
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: You put both those guys out there at the same time.

1022
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: And then not only when you put them out there

1023
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: at the same time, who's out there with him? Is

1024
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: it Cole Beasley, John Brown, Duke Williams? Or is it

1025
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, Tyler Croft? John Brown? Or is it Dawson Knox,

1026
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft and Duke Williams? You know what I mean?

1027
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: You got a lot going on out there, and I

1028
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: think Brian Daybole is gonna, you know, start mixing it

1029
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I think those two guys out

1030
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: there together give you a little something something, yep. And

1031
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: not that the tight ends don't. But I love the

1032
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: multiplicity and the guys that they have on the field

1033
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: and they can put on the field, and how they

1034
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: deploy them. I think it's been fun to watch. But

1035
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: there's no doubt we were talking about this in the

1036
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: break that the way that game went down yesterday, Josh

1037
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: Allen threw twenty ten. He averages thirty times a game.

1038
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: It was a total week by week league. And that

1039
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: game plan yesterday was on Sunday against the washing Redskins,

1040
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: was totally totally conservative. Those short yardage stops, the short

1041
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: yardage called runs, the basic straight ahead formations, wind factor,

1042
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yea, all that stuff was a factor.

1043
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: But I think it was a week to week thing.

1044
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen's averaging thirty attempts a game passing

1045
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: he had twenty YEA, that says a lot. Hey, we

1046
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: got a break here, we talked about he met Steve

1047
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: mentioned fantasy football. We've got field Yates coming up, hosts

1048
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: of the fantasy focused football podcasts the ESPN NFL Insider,

1049
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: field Yates. If you've got fantasy football questions, send them

1050
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: in via Twitter at One Bills Live. And we got

1051
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: other questions for Field as well, because he can talk

1052
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: about just about anything. Field Yates from ESPN coming up

1053
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,640
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Speaker 1: players have the day off coachings to have hard at

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Speaker 1: work on the game plan for this week's game, the

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Speaker 1: Bills at six and two and the Cleveland Browns at

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Speaker 1: two and six coming at one o'clock on Sunday. The

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Speaker 1: Bills looking for to win their first four road games

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Speaker 1: of the season for the first time since nineteen sixty five,

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00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: and they have not won four in a row on

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Speaker 1: the road since two thousand and four. It's a homecoming

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Speaker 1: for Bills safety Jordan Poyer, who played the first three

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Speaker 1: two thirteen through two thousand and sixteen. Now a mainstay

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo defense. Bills and Browns coming up Sunday

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock. Former Brown's safety Germaine Whitehead has apologized

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Speaker 1: for his profanity laced and threatening comments on social media

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Speaker 1: after Sunday's loss at Denver. He called his Twitter out

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Speaker 1: first totally out of character. The Browns wave Whitehead in

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Speaker 1: response to his social media rant. They did that yesterday morning.

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Speaker 1: Around the National Football League, A Dwayne Haskins got his

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Speaker 1: first start for Washington this past Sunday here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Who knows if he starts again. Redskins coach Bill Callahan

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Speaker 1: not ready to name Haskins as the starter going forward.

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Speaker 1: He said that after Sunday game and reiterated the stance yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Callahan was pressed thereafter about a number of questions on

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Speaker 1: why not go with Dwayne Haskins, and he said he's

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00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: not yet ready to make that decision. Speaking of quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: the MRI results on the left knee of Colts quarterback

1083
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Speaker 1: Jacobe Brissette revealed an MCL sprain. That's what they were

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Speaker 1: hoping for, according to head coach Frank Reich. The Colts,

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Speaker 1: according to Reich, will play it by ear determining whether

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Speaker 1: Brissette can play Sunday against the Dolphins. Dolphins running back

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Speaker 1: Mark Walton suspended four games for violating the NFL Conduct

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00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: Policy and Substance Abuse Policy. It is a four game

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Speaker 1: suspension without pay. It stems from Walton's three offseason arrests

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Speaker 1: between January and March. And wide receiver Josh Gordon passed

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00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: his physical with Seattle. He's been metally medically cleared to

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Speaker 1: participate Thursday when they get ready for practice. They've got

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Speaker 1: a Monday night game against unbeaten San Francisco coming up.

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Speaker 1: Should be a great game. That's the update from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our as

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio on the line with us. We've flipped a

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Speaker 1: little bit. We got Kyle Brandt coming on tomorrow at one.

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Speaker 1: We've got field Yates ESPN and fell Insider, the host

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Speaker 1: of the Fantasy football Fantasy Focused Football podcast. Field Yates

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Speaker 1: on the line with his field. John Murphy and Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on with the

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being flexible coming on with us today. Hello Field,

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Speaker 1: are you there? Don't have him yet? We had him,

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Speaker 1: I had him, we lost him, joined us. We got

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Speaker 1: to ask him by there's I have a question for

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Speaker 1: him about fantasy football. It's and it's my only question

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Speaker 1: of the entire year, and it was given to me

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Speaker 1: by the instigators. Okay, what is it? Can you tell me?

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00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: Ottavia's Murray, the running back for the U SIT New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, has been crushing it. That's because Alvin Kamara

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Speaker 1: has been out. Now Kamara is back. What do you

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Speaker 1: do with those two guys? It's a good one. That's

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Speaker 1: an interesting question because the guy has really been Ottavius

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Speaker 1: Murray has been really well within the absence of how

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Speaker 1: do you trade one of them? Yeah, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know what you mean. I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about this both as a football guy, not a

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Speaker 1: fantasy but but the pay the Saints. What do they

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Speaker 1: do now? The Saints have got these two guys that

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Speaker 1: have now been proven that if you can get him

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Speaker 1: with the ball, they're great. We're not gonna lead with

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Speaker 1: the fantasy stuff with field right now. We're gonna lead.

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Speaker 1: We'll push that off to the back burner. But to

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Speaker 1: our listeners and viewers, if you have a field yates

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Speaker 1: questions about fantasy football, we will take them on the air.

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Speaker 1: Eighth three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: to send him in via Twitter at one goes Live.

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Speaker 1: I believe he's on the line with us. Now, Field,

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Speaker 1: are you there? Hello? Field? Got me? Now? Guys, all

1131
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: right there, that's coming on. Good to have you with us. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: you're being flexible as I've been thinking about this, and

1133
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: you were getting set for Buffalo and Cleveland on Sunday.

1134
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo at Cleveland on Sunday, and you know, it's another

1135
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen game against another member of the twenty eighteen

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00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: quarterback draft class. He's one and one against Darnold. He's

1137
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: yet to face Rosen, and he'll get a crack at

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00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: at Baltimore's Lamar Jackson Jackson in a couple of Weeks's right, Yeah,

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00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield versus Josh Allen. I know Mayfield had as

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00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: outstanding twenty eighteen season, but Josh's numbers are better than

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00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. I'm not asking you to tell me who's better,

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Speaker 1: but I think in some respects people might be surprised

1143
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: to learn that that Josh Allen has has come around

1144
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: and done a pretty good job this season so far. Yeah,

1145
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: and more importantly is that I would just say this

1146
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: from an intangible standpoint from being the leader of a franchise,

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00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: from fitting in and ways in which he is supposed

1148
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: to fit in and helping the team win and do

1149
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: so in critical situations. Josh Allen's been more effective than

1150
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield this season. Who knows which player will ultimately

1151
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: have the more memorable career. Both of them have some

1152
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: pretty unique skills, both of them have had some bright moments.

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00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: Both of them have also had some moments that you

1154
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: expect out of a young quarterback. But ultimately, I'm a

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00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 1: wins and losses type of person and evaluator. And Josh

1156
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: Allen has helped the Bills to one of the best

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Speaker 1: records in the AFC right now. And Baker Mayfield and

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00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,720
Speaker 1: the Brown spent the entire off season making us believe

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00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: that there are reasons to be hopeful. And here we

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00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: are and they are two and six and a team

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00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure there's any hope for them to

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Speaker 1: turn this around this season. Let me and Steve's got

1163
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: a question for you too, but on Baker Mayfield, and look,

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Speaker 1: I'm I've got to call the game out today. I'm

1165
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Speaker 1: not one of those guys who wants to dump on

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield for his attitude or for his you know, bravado.

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Speaker 1: But there's something there, right and you mentioned that, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of his demeanor maybe, or there's something there

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Speaker 1: that he doesn't seem like he is off to a

1170
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: good start as far as being a teammate down there

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. I don't want to make too much of it,

1172
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: but I feel that that's that's real for them, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't speak to how he is as a teammate.

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Speaker 1: I will just say this because what is interpretation or

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Speaker 1: what the interpretation of players in that huddle is of

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00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is different than what I know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm not there every single day, and obviously none of

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Speaker 1: us are, so we don't know the full context of

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Speaker 1: what he is. I would just say that I think

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that I respect and

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00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: trust that if they could, they would tell Baker Mayfield

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00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: that it's time to stop talking and it's time to

1183
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: start winning. And I understand that Baker Mayfield is the

1184
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: quarterback is put behind the microphone several times a week,

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00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: and that's a responsibility, that's an obligation. It's not a

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00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: choice that he makes. So I'm not saying that you

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00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: can't do your duties as the franchise quarterback to answer questions.

1188
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, I think a lot of what's happening right

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Speaker 1: now is the residual effect of how the Browns offseason went.

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Speaker 1: And it felt like every time you turned on your

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00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: TV or opened up a magazine or went to a

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00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: new stand at the airport, there was something related to

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Heck, there are still commercials right now

1194
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: that run a Baker Mayfield. So I think that ultimately,

1195
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: when you do that, if you don't deliver and deliver

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00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: in a significant way, then you're going to spend an

1197
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: entire season answering questions about it. And that's what's happened

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Speaker 1: to the Browns is that nobody had a better offseason

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Speaker 1: than them on paper, we think, and yet in terms

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Speaker 1: of disappointments this season, I think there are two clear

1201
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: cut most disappointing teams in the NFL. It's them and

1202
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: it's the Atlanta Falcons. Yeah, I have to agree with you.

1203
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you too about the Buffalo Bills

1204
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: this last weekend as we get a halfway point of

1205
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: the season, Devin Singletary finally got the bulk of the

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00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: carries for Buffalo. But it was also one of those

1207
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: interesting games where all the percentages of run pass were

1208
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Speaker 1: kind of flipped flipped on end for the Buffalo Bills.

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00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: They ran the ball a ton, they only threw the

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Speaker 1: ball twenty times and came out with a double digit victory.

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Speaker 1: What did that game tell you about the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: in their win against Washington, Well, no mystery that Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary is by far the most explosive runner in the

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Speaker 1: Bill's backfield. The Bills know that, Frank Gore knows that.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I think there is somebody to be said though,

1216
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: for slow paying, slow playing a young player who up

1217
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: until about August thirtieth looked like he was going to

1218
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: be the third string running back. And then Lashaw McCoy

1219
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: is released, and then Frank, you know, Frank Gore, I

1220
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: still think there's an obligation. Is an obligation, but there

1221
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: still is a commitment to making sure that Frankcore stays involved.

1222
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: He's an incredible part of that Bill's locker room, despite

1223
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: the fact that it's his first season there. But Devin

1224
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: Singletary looks like the future, He looks like the present.

1225
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: In some ways the sort of juggling act that Brian

1226
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: Dave all the offensive Cordiner probably needs to conduct is

1227
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Speaker 1: one not doing too much with Devin Singletary because of

1228
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Speaker 1: the recent health concerns missing multiple games because of a

1229
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: hamstring injury, to making sure that you do find ways

1230
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Speaker 1: to get Frank or involved because there are just a

1231
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: couple of guys in the NFL right now, Leonard Purnett

1232
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Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliott and Christian McCaffrey being amongst those names,

1233
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Speaker 1: they can really play basically ninety plus percent of the snaps.

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Speaker 1: And then three is I would say not just using

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, but using him in the ways it is

1236
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Speaker 1: most effective. Certainly electric in the passing game this past week,

1237
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: and run ran the football effectively. But I think going forward,

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Speaker 1: I would expect plenty more of Devin Singletary than we've

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Speaker 1: seen up to this point. With Field Yates ESPN NFL

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Speaker 1: Insider talking about the Bills and the rest of the

1241
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Speaker 1: NFL this question about the Bills, Field, and we're at

1242
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Speaker 1: the eight games now. The Bills are won six of

1243
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Speaker 1: their first eight, and they're doing it without big contributions

1244
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,479
Speaker 1: from the passing offense. Or twenty six in the league

1245
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: and passing offense. Is that sustainable if can they be

1246
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: a playoff team, maybe even a legitimate contender if they're

1247
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: that down low in the effectiveness of their passing game.

1248
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: More often than not, it is sustainable because you have

1249
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: a really, really good defense, especially a pass defense. I

1250
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: know the run defense is some cause for a concern

1251
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: right now, and maybe being pierced up in the middle

1252
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: of the defense is sudden. The Bills are looking to

1253
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: hope to fortify going forward, But it's sustainable over the

1254
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: course of the sixteen game season. Where it gets trickier

1255
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: is when you get into the postseason and it's steward

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00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: die and if you don't find a way to keep up,

1257
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: or you are not capable of keeping up, and you

1258
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Speaker 1: run into one of the buzzsaw offenses. And we know

1259
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Speaker 1: that in the playoffs, you might very well see a

1260
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Speaker 1: team like the Baltimore Ravens, or like the Kansas City

1261
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Speaker 1: Chiefs or Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans, a team

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01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: that can certainly put up a lot of points. And

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Speaker 1: I think along those lines that's where it grows. Concerning

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Speaker 1: that being said, there's a lot of time left ahead,

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Speaker 1: the defenses rock solid, and you know, I know the

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Speaker 1: Bills fans want to win every game, but I think,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we've talked about this a handful of

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Speaker 1: times so far this season, there was reason to believe

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Speaker 1: there was a strong trajectory of this franchise overall going forward.

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Speaker 1: And that's been the case. And maybe I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that Bills fans should just be happy with six and two,

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Speaker 1: but I understand that there are some concerns about whether

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Speaker 1: the passing offense is electric enough, whether the run defense

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Speaker 1: is good enough. But for now, like I do, think

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Speaker 1: there should be an overwhelming sentiment of progress being made

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Speaker 1: and trust in the people that are getting this process

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Speaker 1: this progress or allowing this progress to be made, and

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Speaker 1: feel good about the overall prospects going forward. What about

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Speaker 1: the Bills run defense in the last three or four weeks,

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Speaker 1: Is it concerning and can it be fixed? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely concerning because on the one hand, I mentioned the

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Speaker 1: possibility of playing some really dynamic offenses in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: with passing players like Patrick Mahomes and the Shawn Watson.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, there's the old adage of needn't

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Speaker 1: run the football a lot come in January, right, I mean,

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01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: you guys know better than ever the weather can get funky,

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01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: whether it's in Western New York, Foxboro, Massachusetts, Baltimore, Maryland,

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Speaker 1: you name it, Kansas City where it gets bitterly cold,

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Speaker 1: and running the football tends to work pretty effectively. It's

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Speaker 1: a concern and can it get better, yes, but it's

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Speaker 1: going to have to be more, in my opinion, about

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Speaker 1: self improvement than it is external assistance because I know

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Speaker 1: the team did visit with Corey Legion veteran who spent

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Speaker 1: three games with the Oakland Raiders earlier on this season,

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Speaker 1: but there are not a lot of players right now

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Speaker 1: that are road graders on that defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: It's about it's about making tackles. I know that sounds

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01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: ridiculously simple, but if you look at some of the

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Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL every single year, talent certainly helps,

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01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: but fundamentally sound football and football, you know, it sounds

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Speaker 1: really really simple, perhaps ridiculous, but winning football as opposed

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01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: to not losing football can go a long way in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So I think the Bills slightly stronger at

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01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: the point of attack, better run fits, and just more

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01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: reliable tackling. All of that will contribute to the team

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01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: making some progress. You know, they're not going to turn

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01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: into a brick wall, but they can at least become

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01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 1: more serviceable because that is essential for this defense going forward,

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01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: and they got to do it quickly. Field. They got

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01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: a pretty good test with Cleveland's run game, right Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubbs had a good start of the season, and now

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Speaker 1: they add Kareem Hunt. Do you anticipate Kareem Hunt will

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Speaker 1: have a significant role to play this Sunday. Yeah. I

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01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: don't have a great feel for what the rule will be,

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01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: but I think there will be a role. And it's

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01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: impossible to separate Kareem Hunt the player from what Kareem

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01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: Hunt has done in his past. But if you try

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Speaker 1: to just think about the player for his seconds, he's

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01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: one of the most talented running backs in football. Prior

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Speaker 1: to his suspension and prior to his release from Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: I mean there was a case for him as one

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Speaker 1: of the six or eight best runners in all of football.

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Speaker 1: I mean he is absolutely He's very powerful, very explosive

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01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 1: as a runner, good vision, excellent in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: He can do a bit of everything. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that he ended up in Cleveland. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was a reflection at all of Cleveland Tooleland. It didn't

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Speaker 1: have a very talented runner of their own, I think Chubb.

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Speaker 1: It was much more about the circumstances. John Dorsey, the

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Speaker 1: general manager of the Browns, had previously drafted him in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. He has ties to the Cleveland area bead

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Speaker 1: from there. Obviously, it was a low risk proposition in

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01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: the sense that Kareem Hunts came on a very minimal

1334
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: contract because of the circumstances that led to his release.

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01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: He's a really, really talented runner, and if the Browns

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01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: do use him quite a bit this again, then there's

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01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: no question about this that the Bills will have their

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01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: handful on the ground. Well, we've talked about the Browns

1339
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: and their off season with and also the problems that

1340
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has been having, at least in the public eye,

1341
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna have Kareem hunt in. What is

1342
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: there any way to simply generalize generalize why the Browns

1343
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: have been so disappointing this year? You know, I don't

1344
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: this is going to sound like hyperbole, but I can't

1345
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: think of another team that comes to mind this year,

1346
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: but they're ill prepared and they're on discipline. The Browns.

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01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: I just mentioned a minute ago, how it's simple, you

1348
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: gotta play winning football. The Browns play losing football consistently.

1349
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: They take way too many penalties. Situational football is not great.

1350
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that they adjust well within the game.

1351
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,919
Speaker 1: I should say this, all of these things are so far,

1352
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: so far undisciplined, so far, lack of ability to adjust

1353
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: within the course of a game. I'm surprised by how

1354
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: little they've gotten out of their best players too. And

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01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: you know, I know that when you have a really

1356
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: talented wide receiver like Odell Beckham Junior, that defenses are

1357
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: going to pay a lot of attention to him. I

1358
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: also believe that it's incumbent upon coaches, and I believe

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01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: that the good ones do this where they are able

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01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: to make the most of whatever skill they have. And

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01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior might be might be the most talented

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01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver in football. He's at least in the conversation

1363
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: I most productive this year is Michael Thomas, and Julio

1364
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: Jones has been tremendous and Mike Evans is a stud

1365
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: in Campa Bay. There are a lot of very good

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, but Odell is at least in the conversation

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01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: for the most talented. And yet it seems like the

1368
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: Browns have found a way to neutralize Odell Beckham more

1369
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: than any defense has ever been able to neutralize Odell Beckham.

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Speaker 1: And that's a really scary thought. Yeah, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: they'd be hard to do field ESPN NFL Insider a

1372
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: field that. Let's move around the league a little bit.

1373
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 1: Did the Ravens Sunday Night provide a blueprint a template

1374
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: for how teams should go after knowing the Patriots? What

1375
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah, sort of yes, and no answer

1376
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: because what the Ravens did was run the football in

1377
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: a way. Patriots didn't have an answer for the difference

1378
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: between the Ravens everybody else is that they have a

1379
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: quarterback they can do that. Lamar Jackson is just that

1380
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: talented guys and he's such a dynamic player. He's a

1381
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,959
Speaker 1: good thrower, He's an unbelievable athlete. There are so many

1382
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: things that are just so hard to do. It's you're

1383
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: playing math all game against the Ravens, trying to find

1384
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: a numbers advantage and you can never get it because

1385
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: they always have it on offense. That's gonna be really

1386
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: tough to stop consistently. Now, the game kind of got

1387
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: kilted when the Patriots were down seventeen and nothing stormed

1388
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: back the twenty four to twenty. They're driving the ball

1389
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: with ease, and Julian Leman just coughs the football up

1390
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: and gift wraps the Ravens a touchdown. The Patriots had

1391
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: some uncharacteristic Patriots play. I think we all agree on

1392
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: Monday night, Sunday night, excuse me that being said, Ravens

1393
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: are just a They're a wagon on the running game

1394
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: right now. They're really tough to stop, whether it's the

1395
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: design runs, whether it's the not designed runs, the just

1396
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: the the unbelievable non scripted variety that really right now,

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01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 1: there's nobody better than Lamar Jackson doing that. Yeah, I

1398
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think they're really difficult to defend

1399
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: because once you even if and there were a couple

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01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: bunch of times at least more than a handful in

1401
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: that game the other night with the New England Patriots

1402
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: where the Patriots had the play defended and he just

1403
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: out athleticized them to win the play and that's got

1404
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 1: to be really frustrating for anybody that's facing that team,

1405
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: and that's really what you can't plan for. Yeah, and

1406
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, the question

1407
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: will be, you know, until you this is not a

1408
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or the Ravens thing, but it's just a

1409
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: reality of sports, is that until you do something at

1410
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: the highest level, people are going to one or whether

1411
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: you can do it at the highest level. So for

1412
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: the Ravens right now, the question is, Okay, it's working

1413
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: in this moment, Well that work again when they play

1414
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, whether it's the Patriots or somebody else.

1415
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: Because as we saw last year, it took the Chargers

1416
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,719
Speaker 1: a full go around. They were not able to handle

1417
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,719
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the regular season. They got him again

1418
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: in the postseason, and they found a way to really

1419
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: neutralize him. This is much easier said than done. But

1420
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Speaker 1: the very simple answer of how you find a way

1421
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: to slow down Lamar Jackson is contain them and make

1422
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: him a thrower. Because the vertical passing game of late

1423
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: has not been a huge part of the Baltimore offense,

1424
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 1: but again, that is so much easier said than done.

1425
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 1: We'll get We're going to talk more about the Ravens

1426
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 1: as this Bill season moves along. Why don't talk about

1427
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: fantasy football with your field? Field Yates, host of the

1428
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: fantasy focused football podcast ESPN NFL Insider. We have some

1429
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: questions that have been tweeted in from Jack. Here we

1430
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: go for a flex Melvin Gordon or Tevin Coleman? Thanks,

1431
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: what do you think? I'm gonna stick stick with Tevin

1432
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: Coleman here. Very encouraging to see Melvin Gordon this past week.

1433
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: He ran much more effectively. Good to see that Chargers

1434
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: offense get things rolling. But I'm gonna stick with Tevin Coleman.

1435
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: What about? Would you take Marlon Mack or Devin Singletary

1436
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 1: in a flex spot? Yeah? I go with Devin Singletary Here.

1437
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: The Colds do play Miami, so you can make a

1438
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 1: case there. But again, I think the Bills find a

1439
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: way to really make the most of Devin Singletary in

1440
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: Cleveland on Sunday, Here's an interesting question from Killer Kell.

1441
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: Should I continue dropping the Patriots defense on their bye week?

1442
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: Should consider considered it? Yeah? I don't think you should.

1443
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: I you know their schedule becomes difficult or more difficult

1444
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: or did last week than it has been up to

1445
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: that point, with you know, the exception of a couple

1446
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: of games. Um, but I would continue to rely on

1447
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,120
Speaker 1: that Patriots defense if you have the extra roster spot

1448
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: to drop somebody else. What are some good tight end

1449
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:58,839
Speaker 1: streaming options for this week? A lot of names to consider.

1450
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: A guy's like Vance McDon hold the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cow

1451
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: Rudoff for the Minnesota Vikings, Jacob Hollister of the Seattle Seahawks.

1452
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: You might get some value out of Jason Witten or

1453
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: Dallas God Oh excuse me, gut us on a buy.

1454
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 1: But some of the names that I just mentioned there

1455
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: are guys to consider. Jack Doyle to be another one

1456
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Colts. I got one last question for you,

1457
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 1: and this is more of a football and it could

1458
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: be a fantasy question as well. Latavius Murray has been

1459
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: really playing well for the New Orleans Saints and now

1460
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara is going to come back and be healthy.

1461
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: What do you think happens there with their opportunities? Yeah,

1462
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: I think it means that Kamara is back to where

1463
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,840
Speaker 1: he normally is and part of the reason why the

1464
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: Saints son Latavius Murray was that if something happened to

1465
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, they could keep the freight train rolling, and

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01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: they sure did during Alvin Kamara's two game absence. That

1467
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,759
Speaker 1: being said, I think it's you know, seventy percent Alvin Kamara,

1468
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: thirty percent to Latavius Murray, and there's at least a

1469
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: case for them being the best running back duo in

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Speaker 1: the NFL right now. I mean, I know there are

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Speaker 1: other really really good ones, but that right there is

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Speaker 1: up there for one of the best in the NFL. Hey, Field,

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01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We'll talk next week. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, talk to you next week. Thanks Field.

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Speaker 1: Field Yates, host of the fantasy focused football podcast, The

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01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Insider, joining us on the line he does

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Speaker 1: every week, and happy to have him with us here today.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got more to come, including your answers

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Speaker 1: to our question about the Bills at the midway point

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: of the season. What's the most pleasant surprise for the

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01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: Bills at the mid season mark? Give us a call

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01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: to discuss. Eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet.

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Speaker 1: We can read him on the tweet sheet. One Bills

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01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health from the Seneca Studio on

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01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, and this is Buffalo Bills Readio. Welcome back,

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01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: One goes Live John Murphy, Here is Steve Casker here

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01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: here until three. Happy to have you with us. We've

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Speaker 1: got a pretty good Twitter poll today. Let's check and

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01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: see how what's going. What's the most pleasant surprise for

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01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: the Bills at the midway point of the season. What

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01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: do you think. There's a lot of things have gone well.

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01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: We know they got some shoes as well, but we're

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01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: talking about the surprises on a pleasant standpoint. Here. We

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01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: got eleven hundred votes in so far the most pleasant

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: surprise for the Bills midway point of the season littlement.

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Speaker 1: More than half of you fifty two percent say the

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01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: most pleasant thing that's happened is that the competition in

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01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: the AFC has been underwhelming. It's true, it has been,

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Speaker 1: and it is pleasant. Thirty five percent of you say

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: the fact that Josh Ellen is making progress, seven percent

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01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: say the fact that the defense is better than it's expected.

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01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: Six percent of something else in mind, give us a

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01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 1: call to discuss. It's also extremely pleasantest to see the

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: Jets absolutely yes, in flames, I mean in flames. I

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01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: can't believe it. They had it all together yep. In

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01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: January February, the Jets were poised to pounce. Yep. They

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01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: had their quarterback, they had a chance to hire a

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01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: new head coach. Levion Bell was on the horizon. C. J.

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01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 1: Mosley was in the house. Robbie Anderson was coming back.

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01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean that all these things in place, and here

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01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: they stand. We shouldn't make note of this um couple

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 1: of local and I mean local connections with the Bills

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01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: and Browns, including tight end number eighty nine, Stephen Carlson,

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01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,680
Speaker 1: just added to the active roster by Cleveland before their

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: game last week against Denver, A twenty fifteen product of

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: Jamestown High School used mostly as a blocking tight end,

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01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,759
Speaker 1: but he's on the roster. He's on their practice squad,

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01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:35,640
Speaker 1: went to the roster on Saturday, and he's expected to

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01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: be there again. Stephen Carlson, tight end from Jamestown, on

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01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: the Cleveland roster. And they have JC Tretter, who's been

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01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,719
Speaker 1: around the league a little bit from Akron, New York.

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01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: I met him at the NFL or at the Senior

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01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago. But you knewhim. He

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01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 1: played with your son at Cornell, right, he was all

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01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:54,839
Speaker 1: four years my son went to Cornell. JC was his roommate.

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01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 1: They were buddies from there from the opening semester of

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01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 1: their freshman years at Cornell to their final time. They

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01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: lived together all four years and um really good yeah,

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01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: and good family everything. They're getting married hunt, Yeah, and

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01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 1: so that's that's all taken place. So that's yeah. CJ's uh,

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01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:18,520
Speaker 1: he grew up Jay C SJ. A nephew named CJU.

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: Jac grew up and interestingly enough an akron as a

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01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: Vikings fan. Huh. So he shows up at Cornell with

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01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: Vikings room decorations like a bed spring, you know, all

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: the stuff that freshman kids show up. He's like, yeah,

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01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: what can I say? So? Yeah, So now he's played,

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01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,599
Speaker 1: he's got He played for the Green Bay Packers, of course,

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01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 1: for US three or four years or two or three

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01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: years of his career, and then went to Cleveland signed

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01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 1: a nice contract and he's been there ever since. A

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01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: couple of local connections. Uh, let's talk about the bills

1543
01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:48,560
Speaker 1: at the midway point of this season. The most pleasant

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01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 1: surprise for the Bills. Halfway through the season, a couple

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01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: of phone calls. Here Tony on the line from north Tonawanda.

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01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 1: Are you hanging in there, Tony, you're still there with us? Yes,

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01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: I am. Hi. Go ahead, you're on the ara UM. Yeah,

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01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you my you know, most pleasant surprise.

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01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: And then I got a quick technical question. But my

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01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: biggest surprise is the coaching. I think that coach McDermott

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01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: has created a charisma within the team that there's no individuals.

1552
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: You can see it on the sideline. You can even

1553
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: see it on your show. When the guys talk, they

1554
01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:25,600
Speaker 1: don't say I or me. It's always we us or

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01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,680
Speaker 1: they or the team. And I think that has a

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01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: big part in you know, their schedule or excuse me

1557
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: as a schedule, in their achievements, because you know, the matter,

1558
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: how good are bad you are, everything stems from the

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01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: head coach. He creates the activity, he creates the positive

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01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: feeling that is within the organization. And he has taught

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01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: that the most important man in the locker room is

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01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: the guy sitting next to you. And I think that's amazing. Yeah,

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01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 1: I'll agree with you. There's a lot of people who

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01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: don't get the culture thing. I think there's plenty of

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: evidence to the contrary on this bill's roster, at least

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01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: that it has made a difference. What's your what is

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 1: your technical question, Tony um? Mouth guards? Is that mandatory

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01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,720
Speaker 1: or if you don't wear them, could that be a penalty?

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01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: Because I've noticed I watched miss Patrick when he's playing,

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01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: he's always true in gum, so I don't know if

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01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: he's wearing a mouth guard or not. And I've seen

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01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: other guys who have been on the field and they

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01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: keep them stuck in their helmets, but they do a play.

1574
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: Is that a penalty or is that it's not? Mouthpieces

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01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 1: I think are optional and most guys do wear them

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01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:43,680
Speaker 1: because when when you get hit or whatever it when

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01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: you grit your teeth, it keeps you from getting a concussion. Um,

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01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's not there to protect your teeth. It's

1579
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: there too when you clench your teeth against it. It's uh,

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: it helps cut down on on concussion stuff. That's what

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01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:02,879
Speaker 1: I understand. I could completely wrong, but that's why I understand.

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01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: But it is optional, Tony. Thanks. Let's go to Ken

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01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo welcome to the show. Ken, Hi, Hey, how

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01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: are you guys? Good? Good? Hey. First of all, I mean,

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01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: like everybody else, very happy, excited with the season. We

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01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: had a week schedule, we're doing what, we're taking care

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01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 1: of business. Everything's great and that's awesome. One of the

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01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: things though, that I kind of got a little bit

1589
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: of a problem, is it seems like everybody's kind of

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01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: force feeding that Josh Allen's making these great strides and

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01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:32,400
Speaker 1: he's he's doing this, and we're looking at intangible all summer.

1592
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: When you've got nothing going on the program, you bring

1593
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: in the stuff about analytics and how many times the

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01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:40,679
Speaker 1: ball turns and this and everything's measurable, how many reps?

1595
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 1: How fast apart he this, that and the other thing.

1596
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: The Bills and the Savers are bringing in analytic dudes.

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01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: This is the way of the future. Now, you look

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01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: at Josh's stats last year, where do you usually find

1599
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 1: his name near the bottom quarter or third of the

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01:17:56,400 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 1: stats on a quarterback on any given any given ledger.

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01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: You look at it this year, where are you're finding

1602
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: at the bottom third the bottom quarter. You talk about

1603
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: a leadership, you see us in the bad time or

1604
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: one of our only bad games against the Patriots, he's

1605
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: sulking on the sidelines. So no defense is playing great.

1606
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: The running games coming around, all the moves look great,

1607
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: but I'm not really seeing a progression. And when you

1608
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 1: listen to the national media, it's almost as if they're

1609
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 1: like using him as an example of what's not working. No, Kevin,

1610
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 1: let me see he's got something to say. Let me

1611
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 1: just do the stats real quick. Ken Last year Josh

1612
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: Allen's numbers, he completed fifty two percent of his passes.

1613
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: This year, he completes sixty one percent of his passes.

1614
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: Last year at the end of the year ten touchdowns,

1615
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: twelve interceptions. He was up to tide down this year

1616
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns, seven interceptions. Last year's quarterback granting for Josh

1617
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:55,799
Speaker 1: Allen sixty seven point nine, this year eighty two point nine.

1618
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: So from a statistical standpoint, there is progress, and it's

1619
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: it's evident, and it may be and it may be

1620
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,599
Speaker 1: that he's ranked on the bottom half or bottom quarter

1621
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: of a lot of quarterbacks in the league right now.

1622
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: But by the word the stats that Murph just read you,

1623
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: and for the for the untrained eye, he's a different

1624
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: player than he was last year. There's no question he's

1625
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: not a finished product. And you're right, he's not. He's

1626
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:22,560
Speaker 1: not Drew Brees and he's not um Aaron Rodgers or

1627
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: in these guys. But he's a much better version of

1628
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: who he is right now. So I and if you're

1629
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 1: still there, Ken, what's your take? Should they bail on him?

1630
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 1: Should they start looking for his replacement? Is that? Is

1631
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 1: that what you're asserting here or what not? Necessarily? I

1632
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: think it's a little a little early to do that,

1633
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 1: and I think that there's a lot a lot of

1634
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: positives there. But when we when we talk about work,

1635
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: when we talk about the the things that don't show

1636
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: in the stats and all that, it kind of belies

1637
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: what you talk about all the time, that that's the

1638
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: way the game's going. I don't know about that, and

1639
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 1: I don't understand that. I will tell you this too.

1640
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 1: I spent most of last week on this show, Steve,

1641
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,400
Speaker 1: and even in the pregame before kickoff on Sunday against

1642
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: Washington saying, yes, you know, no trades, Okay, they didn't

1643
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: acquire more offensive talent, blah blah blah, they need this,

1644
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: they need that. How many times did I say last

1645
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: week what they really need is for Josh Allen to

1646
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: get better, and there were signs against Washington that he

1647
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 1: took a step forward. He's not a finished product, he's

1648
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:18,640
Speaker 1: not even close to being a finished product. But he

1649
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: took a step forward this past week. But it's not

1650
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: as if we've ignored Josh's shortcomings. I kind of played

1651
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: it up all last week. You recall you were here

1652
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 1: a little bit later. You couldn't help it. When the

1653
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: season started, we was throwing picks. You know, during the

1654
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 1: first month of the season, they were winning in spite

1655
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: of it. The three picks or whatever it was he

1656
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: threw against the Patriots with really the difference in the game.

1657
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:38,680
Speaker 1: You go back and look at it like that, and

1658
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 1: that's what we were calling for. First. Let's just cut

1659
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,400
Speaker 1: out the picks now. And he's done that. He's cut

1660
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: down on he's now. He's got a fumbling issue that

1661
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 1: reared its head against the Philadelphia Eagles, and then it

1662
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: did this last week too. He had one fumbling law

1663
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: and got it back. They got it back. But you know,

1664
01:20:56,200 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: so that's still there. But I think, you know, I think,

1665
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: and I said this a little earlier in the show,

1666
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: he's getting better in increment. It's no question. I think

1667
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:10,520
Speaker 1: he's got to been an steady increment to the positive

1668
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: each week we've seen him go by, and I think

1669
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:15,400
Speaker 1: it's going to get to a point where we're gonna

1670
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 1: start to see him have some aha games where this

1671
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: seventy percent completion percentage that he did this week is

1672
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: going to be on thirty passes instead of just twenty,

1673
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:27,280
Speaker 1: and it's going to be one of those things where

1674
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna see the yardage that he's thrown for. It's

1675
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:31,600
Speaker 1: going to start to climb a little bit. Instead of

1676
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 1: being around one hundred and fifty or two hundred or

1677
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: two twenty or whatever, it's going to climb to two

1678
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: fifty two seventy five, and he'll spring and he'll have

1679
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: a three hundred yard game finally, and then that will

1680
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: happen more often, and then you know, ultimately he'll be

1681
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: the kind of quarterback we we think he can be.

1682
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: He's not there yet, and I think it's going to

1683
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: be a steady ascent, but he's got a long way

1684
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: to go, and I think the club is going to

1685
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: show the patients with the stability around him, then he's

1686
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 1: gonna get there. But how long it's gonna take I

1687
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: do not know, but he's not there yet. He is

1688
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 1: not there. Here's a call from James in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: Welcome James, Thank you. How are you guys doing okay? Yes,

1690
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm surprised with the coaching. You know, the discipline from

1691
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: years ago. You don't hear Jared's Hugh's name no more

1692
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: but the to the leave and they just want to

1693
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 1: throw this out there. I believe it's not Josh Allen,

1694
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: the lack of office. I believe it's a offensive coordinator,

1695
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 1: Brian dablem Greg Broman. I'm gonna go back to Greg Roman.

1696
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 1: You see what he's done with Martimore Now. Back in

1697
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, Jim Harbaugh, he fired his offensive

1698
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: coordinator right before the playoffs and they were winning games,

1699
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: so he wasn't content with that offense. And Greg Roman

1700
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: was fired. What at the game two thirty seven thirty

1701
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: one the Jets that's firing fired Greg Roman. And it

1702
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: wasn't the offense, it was the defense. And I believe

1703
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: it was a stapegoat. But I believe it's Brian Babel.

1704
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 1: He has to come up with a better game plan,

1705
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: put more points on the board. What was wrong with

1706
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:12,719
Speaker 1: the game plan last Sunday? So watching the game, well,

1707
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't to ten. I know, I like the six

1708
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: and two records, but what was wrong with the game plan?

1709
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:22,719
Speaker 1: It's well, I want to see more of a down field,

1710
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:26,600
Speaker 1: more screens, more play action, even you know at the

1711
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: goal line. It took us three try three or four

1712
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: tries again, and that game plan, the blocking scheme, even

1713
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: the blocking scheme, like he said, going Frank Gore where

1714
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: he you know he was, he went in between the guards. Yeah,

1715
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: that's all with the offensive coordinator. No it's not. It's

1716
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: not with the offensive coordinator. No, it's not, Steve, I'm

1717
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:51,719
Speaker 1: already doing well. I mean, I get you. But here's

1718
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 1: the thing, James, and I understand a lot of people

1719
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: are frustrated. And I said this early in the show,

1720
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: is Mike, when I see that game in total, and

1721
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: I watched a couple of times, there is no doubt,

1722
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: particularly given the fact that Murph and I have Vincent

1723
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: here watching these seven games before, and I'm sure you

1724
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:11,879
Speaker 1: have two James. But here's the thing. That game reeked

1725
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:17,599
Speaker 1: of game plan percentages. They did everything out of the

1726
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 1: ordinary that they have been doing all year. Josh threw

1727
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: for thirty three percent less attempts than he does usually

1728
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 1: in the in the short yard is, particularly in the

1729
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: red zone. Short yard is that you're talking about down

1730
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: on the goal line. When his first and goal on

1731
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: the one, this team decided that if we're not going

1732
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: to score touchdown, we're not. We're gonna let them have

1733
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,280
Speaker 1: the ball at their own half yard line, but we're

1734
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 1: gonna have four shots to do it. We're not gonna

1735
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: show any spread runs. We're not gonna show any screens

1736
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: because you know what, they got the Cleveland Browns this week,

1737
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: and after that they got the Miami Dolphins, and after

1738
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: that they got the Baltimore raven or the Dallas Cowboys.

1739
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: I mean, they are gonna do everything. It was their plan.

1740
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:59,200
Speaker 1: They just this Bill's team, this coaching staff felt they

1741
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: were gonna troll this game and they were not going

1742
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: to do anything creative or anything yeah, creative, or anything

1743
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,839
Speaker 1: that they have not shown a hundred times against this defense.

1744
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: Knowing that their offense was not going to be able

1745
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:15,679
Speaker 1: to score on this on their defense, they just did

1746
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:18,759
Speaker 1: not believe that they had that much to worry about offensively,

1747
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 1: so they didn't show any spread out run game in

1748
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:24,839
Speaker 1: the red zone. They didn't show Josh running the quarterback

1749
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: sweep into the end zone like they did last week

1750
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Eagles. They didn't show any they had

1751
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: quarterback sneaks were they ran those as often as anything.

1752
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: They'd ran one jet sweep that was stuffed. I mean,

1753
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: they just they totally pulled in the sales offensively, and

1754
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 1: everybody says, Wow, they didn't know and that game was

1755
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:49,559
Speaker 1: going to be in control. They're doing this because they

1756
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: know they're gonna get scouted by these teams they've got

1757
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 1: coming down the pike in the next week or two.

1758
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: They don't want to show those teams anything they were

1759
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: gonna do. They've got they've got weapons. They've got bullets

1760
01:25:58,360 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: in their gun now that they don't have to pull

1761
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: out against the Washington Redskins that they may need it

1762
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 1: against Cleveland. So yeah, they took three straight shots right

1763
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: up the middle on the one yard line with Frank

1764
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: Gore and they couldn't do it. They finally got in

1765
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: on a quarterback sneak. You know what that means. They

1766
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,040
Speaker 1: got a touchdown on first and goal situation. It doesn't matter.

1767
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:22,799
Speaker 1: They got stuff three times they got the touchdown and

1768
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: the other one. Now there was a couple other times

1769
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 1: when the conservatism then conservative approach bit them. They turned

1770
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 1: it over on downs in the third quarter and they

1771
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:31,600
Speaker 1: got shut down on the third and short where they

1772
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: punted on one other time. So it didn't work all game,

1773
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 1: but they won by fifteen. That's what the bottom line

1774
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: is for this coaching staff. And I think that they

1775
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: showed great discipline and not getting antsy and spread it

1776
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 1: out and trying to squeak one in on the gaps.

1777
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: Win on a one yard run. There's no doubt this

1778
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 1: was all game plan. There's no doubt to me. I mean,

1779
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: it just it just jumps off the page. Statistically and

1780
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 1: by the naked eye, they ran the ball seven seven

1781
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 1: percent of the time on first down seventy seven percent.

1782
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,840
Speaker 1: They haven't done that all year. Hasn't been closed. It

1783
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: was all what went into this game. They just did

1784
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: not believe and they were right. They didn't believe Washington

1785
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 1: was gonna score enough points to win, and they were right.

1786
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: They got thirty three percent of their point Washington because

1787
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 1: of a fifteen yard punt that was a by orquest

1788
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 1: punt against the win. That's how Washington scored their last points. Hey,

1789
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: there's quarterback news from around the league, from Carolina and

1790
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville. We'll talk about that when we return. We're

1791
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:33,519
Speaker 1: headed to a break here, I want to give you

1792
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: the milestones presented by Reeds Jewelers, the official jeweler of

1793
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. With seventy six receiving yards against Washington,

1794
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: John Brown has fifty or more yards in all eight

1795
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: games so far this season, becoming only the second Buffalo

1796
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,679
Speaker 1: Bill to open a season with an eight plus game streak,

1797
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 1: joining Eric Moultz, who did it in nine in a

1798
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 1: row in two thousand and two. Reds Milestones presented by

1799
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:57,800
Speaker 1: Reichs Jewelers, the official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. We're

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01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,160
Speaker 1: coming back with more. One Bill slide presented by the

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01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: Hell from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. On Buffalo

1802
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Welcome back One Bills Live. John Murphy, Steve Canstor.

1803
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,680
Speaker 1: It is a quiet Tuesday here at One Bills Live.

1804
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 1: We didn't really jump on under follow up on it,

1805
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: but uh um Field Yates mentioned the word is out

1806
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: that the Corey h Corey Legit, Luke Legit was here

1807
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:28,719
Speaker 1: working out for the Bills. No word of any signing,

1808
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 1: but field Yates reported that, um, look, they're trying to

1809
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: find something up front right defensively, that would be the

1810
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: one of the answers answer. I think they're and I

1811
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: think it's a strong message to the guys up there. Um,

1812
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:45,520
Speaker 1: it has always been Sean McDermott sometimes to his detrimenty.

1813
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 1: You got to admit it's to his detriment that you

1814
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: got to earn your way on the field, and you

1815
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,720
Speaker 1: earn your way off the field as well. Um some

1816
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, but when you rotate all these guys up

1817
01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: front and some of them aren't playing well, or even

1818
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: they're not doing what you want him to do, or

1819
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: whatever is happening with your run defense, you gotta do something.

1820
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 1: And I think it's there's no question it's a strong

1821
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: message to guys in the locker room that you better

1822
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 1: start picking it up a little bit and earn your

1823
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 1: money and earn your playing time. When they start working

1824
01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: guys out, Corey Legid was he's a really really good

1825
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: defensive lineber has been in his past. Obviously he's on

1826
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:23,600
Speaker 1: the street for a reason. But it'll be interesting to

1827
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:28,880
Speaker 1: see what they do. They activated Taylor Vincent Taylor off

1828
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: their practice squad. He got a little bit of time Agay,

1829
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:35,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're they're looking for some answers, and I

1830
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: think it's been clear throughout his time here. Sean McDermot

1831
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:40,520
Speaker 1: doesn't wait around and say we'll fix it in the offseason.

1832
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: A couple of not time quarterbacks around the league, both

1833
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 1: the noteworthy the Carolina Panthers that put quarterback Cam Newton

1834
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:50,680
Speaker 1: on injured reserve, still experiencing pain in his foot. They

1835
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:53,559
Speaker 1: say it's impossible to put a timetable on when he

1836
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 1: might be better. It's going to take significant time. They said.

1837
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 1: They've decided the best decision, they say, is to try

1838
01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 1: to bring his foot back to one percent before this year.

1839
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 1: Cam Newton missed just or before last year. Rather, Newton

1840
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: missed just three starts over seven years. MVP of the

1841
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: league not too long ago. Missed the final two games

1842
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:14,559
Speaker 1: of last year with a shoulder injury and this surgery

1843
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 1: in the offseason. At the time the Bills went down

1844
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: there in August, he was just kind of coming back

1845
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:21,640
Speaker 1: from that and then suffered a left midfoot sprain in

1846
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: the third week of the preseason, so he only played

1847
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: two games this year and Cam Newton goes to injured reserve.

1848
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: That's a team you know, we were there, we were

1849
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 1: down there in uh yeah, Spartanburg. That's a team that

1850
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 1: considered themselves playoff caliber, right, playoff contenders, maybe not so much, yea.

1851
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:38,640
Speaker 1: And they've got they've still got what some people think

1852
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:41,640
Speaker 1: are an MVP candidate and Christian McCaffrey down there as well,

1853
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: So they've got something going forward. There's no question. I

1854
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 1: don't think they believe they're out of that division race

1855
01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,760
Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imaginations. But Cam Newton's not

1856
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:51,000
Speaker 1: going to be a part of it this year. And

1857
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 1: quarterback news from Jacksonville, where Doug Moron has made a

1858
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 1: decision on who his starter will be moving forward. He

1859
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,919
Speaker 1: announced today that Nick Foles will be their starting quarterback

1860
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 1: Week eleven against rookie Gardner. Minshew will return to being

1861
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,200
Speaker 1: the backup. Foles was injured in the first quarter of

1862
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: Week one, Minshew had been the starter since then. He's

1863
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:09,840
Speaker 1: done all right, maybe better he's done Okay, he's done

1864
01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: better than okay Minshew actually, but Nick Foles gets the

1865
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 1: job backed again. Any thoughts on that, No, I know.

1866
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin kind of runs the show down there. Yeah,

1867
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:23,439
Speaker 1: and he seems a little old school. An old school

1868
01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:25,080
Speaker 1: tells you that the guy making the most money, he's

1869
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:26,960
Speaker 1: gonna play, whether he's ready or not, or whether he's

1870
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 1: or whether he's the best option or not. And I

1871
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 1: think nick Foles is everything they expected him to be

1872
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,679
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and I think he gives them a little

1873
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: something more he's got He's got a better arm, no

1874
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: question about it, than Minshew does. But hey, they found

1875
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 1: some things out they like about Gardner Minshew. He's gonna

1876
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: be around for a while. And however long long nick

1877
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Foles is there, I think he'll play. But Gardner Minshew's

1878
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. I don't think. I think he's gonna

1879
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:53,920
Speaker 1: be there. Apparent to nick Foles, they got a week

1880
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:56,360
Speaker 1: plus to get him ready, to get nick Foles ready

1881
01:31:56,400 --> 01:32:00,360
Speaker 1: to bye week this week and then week eleven when

1882
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: they played the Colts. I'll have nick Foles any quarterback.

1883
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:05,200
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about those issues and about the Bills issues.

1884
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: We're at mid season for the Bills, and we want

1885
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,400
Speaker 1: to know from you what's the most pleasant surprise for

1886
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:11,800
Speaker 1: the Bills at the midway point of the season. We

1887
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Speaker 1: got a whole hour to talk about it, So come

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Speaker 1: on back for that one Bills Live presented by Kalida

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Speaker 1: Health coming in from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills Radio Network Stories Tuesday Off

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Speaker 1: Day four Bills players, They're back at work tomorrow getting

1892
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Speaker 1: set for this Sunday's game, game number nine this year,

1893
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Speaker 1: the six and two Buffalo Bills head down the Lake

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland to play the two and six Brown Sunday

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Speaker 1: one o'clock at First Energy Stadium. The Bills trying to

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Speaker 1: win their first four road games of the season for

1897
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Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen sixty five. They won an

1898
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Speaker 1: AFL championship this year, and they are off to a

1899
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Speaker 1: really good start. Six and two. Field Yates, ESPN NFL

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Speaker 1: analyst joined us earlier today on the show, and he

1901
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Speaker 1: reports that the Bills worked out a defensive tackle prospect yesterday,

1902
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Speaker 1: Corey Legit, twenty nine year old defensive tackle as a

1903
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Speaker 1: free agent. He was a former first round pick of

1904
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Speaker 1: the Chargers in two eleven, spent eight years with the

1905
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Speaker 1: Chargers and then signed by Oakland. Just released by Oakland

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Speaker 1: last Wednesday. The Bills reportedly, according to Field Yates, worked

1907
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Speaker 1: on Corey Legit Yesterday, Bills and Brown's coming up on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and the former Browns safety Germaine Whitehead as apologized for

1909
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Speaker 1: his profanity laced and threatening comments on social media that

1910
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Speaker 1: came after Sunday's loss at Denver. Whitehead was waived in

1911
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 1: response to his social media rant. Shortly after the game.

1912
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Speaker 1: He responded to those who had criticized his play, including

1913
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Speaker 1: former NFL player Dustin Fox. Quarterback news in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the Panthers had put quarterback Cam Newton on injured reserve

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Speaker 1: still with pain in his foot. He saw two foot

1916
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Speaker 1: specialists last year or last week. Rather, they agreed that

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Speaker 1: he should continue to recover. They don't know when he

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Speaker 1: would be back, so they put him on injured reserve

1919
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Speaker 1: before this, before last year. Rather, Newton had missed three

1920
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Speaker 1: starts in seven years with Carolina. Jaguars coach Doug Moron

1921
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Speaker 1: has made a decision on his quarterback. They've got a

1922
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Speaker 1: bye week coming up. When they return, Morone says they'll

1923
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Speaker 1: go with Nick Foles as their starting quarterback against the Colts.

1924
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Speaker 1: Rookie Gardner Minshew will return to being the backup. Poles

1925
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Speaker 1: was injured in the first quarter of Week one, when

1926
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Speaker 1: Minshew had been the starter. Since then one four lost

1927
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Speaker 1: five in that span. The MRI is back on Colts

1928
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Speaker 1: quarterback Jacoby Brissette. He has a sprain MRI or MCL

1929
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Speaker 1: in his knee and they're thinking that he might be

1930
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Speaker 1: able to play on Sunday. And that's the update from

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Speaker 1: one Bills, Right, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our one

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Speaker 1: Buffalo studio. Good to have you back, Steve. We're into

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Speaker 1: our number three. You good, you haven't fun? Yeah, I

1934
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Speaker 1: wish you were back in Savannah, Georgia. Chilling Man. Well, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I like being here. We like having you here. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being part of it. Thank you. We got we

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Speaker 1: got a big role for listeners and viewers to play

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Speaker 1: in this hour. We have no guests, we have phones

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Speaker 1: wide open eight oh three oh five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two fifty,

1941
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Speaker 1: and we have what I believe is a pretty solid

1942
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Speaker 1: mid season Twitter poll. Would you agree, Steve? This is

1943
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Speaker 1: a good Twitter poll considering it is the exact midseason

1944
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a pretty solid mid season Twitter poll.

1945
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Speaker 1: We got eleven hundred votes in so far, and the

1946
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Speaker 1: question on Twitter, what's the most pleasant surprise for the

1947
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Speaker 1: Bills at the midway point of the season, And it's

1948
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:21,280
Speaker 1: been fairly consistent response wise, eleven hundred votes in now,

1949
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Speaker 1: fifty two percent of respond and say the most pleasant

1950
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Speaker 1: surprise the fact that around the AFC the competition is underwhelming.

1951
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: Thirty six percent respond and say the progress they see

1952
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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen is the most pleasant surprise midway through

1953
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Speaker 1: the season. Seven percent, that's all, say they're surprised pleasantly

1954
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 1: that the defense is better than expected. Five percent have

1955
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Speaker 1: something else in mind. Those are the people we'd loved it,

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Speaker 1: like here from all of you, give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight o three fifty toll free one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: by fifty two five fifty Yes, sir, Are you surprised

1959
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:56,240
Speaker 1: at the people who were concerned about the play calling? Yes,

1960
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 1: I am. You know I am because you heard me

1961
01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:01,639
Speaker 1: say it during the break. I am. And here's the thing,

1962
01:36:01,880 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 1: I get it. It was frustrating for people to watch

1963
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Speaker 1: because you look at what happened on during the game,

1964
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Speaker 1: and you know it happened a couple of times on

1965
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 1: the first and goal from the one in the first

1966
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: drive when the Bills got in went up seven to nothing.

1967
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,680
Speaker 1: They got in on a quarterback sneak after running it

1968
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:25,720
Speaker 1: into the gut just about every three straight plays, so

1969
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:30,559
Speaker 1: they finally get in. So everybody's upset about that, even

1970
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:34,680
Speaker 1: though it worked. And then later in the game they

1971
01:36:34,680 --> 01:36:36,559
Speaker 1: got stopped on a third and one and then again

1972
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,240
Speaker 1: on a fourth and one where they turned it over.

1973
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 1: And I've been telling you all day, you go back

1974
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:45,760
Speaker 1: and look, there's absolutely no doubt to me. They just

1975
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:49,160
Speaker 1: particularly on that goal to go situation. They just didn't

1976
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:51,080
Speaker 1: believe Washington was gonna be able to score enough points

1977
01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 1: on to win when they went up and got seventeen points.

1978
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: The only way Washington even got close to scoring in

1979
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:01,120
Speaker 1: the second half was when by Kiss punted one against

1980
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 1: the win and went fifteen yards and they gave him

1981
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: the ball in field goal range. And that's what they

1982
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 1: settled for, is a field goal. They got three points

1983
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:10,639
Speaker 1: in the second half. That was it. So you could

1984
01:37:10,720 --> 01:37:13,759
Speaker 1: bet that Sean McDermott was on the on Brian Dable's

1985
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: little shoulder going no, no, don't show that, you know,

1986
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 1: don't don't run that play, and don't run that play either,

1987
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:21,800
Speaker 1: Just run gore up the middle, get a couple of

1988
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:25,320
Speaker 1: first downs. I mean that after they went up, after

1989
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: they went up seventeen to nine, and they gave him,

1990
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 1: they gave him the three points after the bad punt.

1991
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:33,759
Speaker 1: The Bills went like one, two, three and out twice,

1992
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 1: and then they went I think six and out the third.

1993
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:40,400
Speaker 1: They had three series where they punted the ball away

1994
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:42,720
Speaker 1: and then they went and got the late touchdown on

1995
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: the on the drive. But they just absolutely pulled in

1996
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,320
Speaker 1: the sales and went totally on offense. I don't know

1997
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:52,920
Speaker 1: what they did on defense, but they didn't stop. They

1998
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,719
Speaker 1: didn't pull off the dogs on defense. And that's really

1999
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 1: what the game boiled down to. They felt they felt

2000
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 1: like they were in total control of that game. They

2001
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 1: pretty much were. You know, um, we spent a lot

2002
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,080
Speaker 1: of time last week talking about play calling, and I

2003
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: said this in I'll just repeat it once. I think

2004
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:12,439
Speaker 1: play calling is overrated as a factor in an NFL game,

2005
01:38:12,479 --> 01:38:14,879
Speaker 1: And as far as the job of an offensive coordinator,

2006
01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:17,280
Speaker 1: it is a portion of the job. It is not

2007
01:38:17,360 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 1: the sum total of the job. Might not be the

2008
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 1: most important part of the job. You know, what counts

2009
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 1: is your overall offensive approach. Eric would made this point

2010
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:28,840
Speaker 1: yesterday on our show. If you're watching the Bills, you

2011
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:30,679
Speaker 1: see it. I see it every week because I'm trying

2012
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 1: to figure out who's on the field every play. They

2013
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:36,479
Speaker 1: are as varied and as multiple offensively this year now

2014
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Speaker 1: then they've been in years, Steve. I mean the number

2015
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:42,519
Speaker 1: of different personnel combinations, a number of different looks that

2016
01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 1: they give their opponents. It's it's amazing that they're doing

2017
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Speaker 1: this right. And just the what eighteen NFL starts for

2018
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:52,639
Speaker 1: nineteen starts now for Josh Allen and and that's an

2019
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:55,200
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator's job as well. Right now, you know what

2020
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: they're doing in Cleveland down there whereas it Barrea Heights.

2021
01:38:58,120 --> 01:38:59,559
Speaker 1: You know you've been to their coverts. You know what

2022
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: those coaches you're doing. Those defensive coaches they're like, oh,

2023
01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: they probably did it late last night too. Here's another

2024
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:07,479
Speaker 1: personnel group for Buffalo. What are you gonna do with this? Right?

2025
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:09,639
Speaker 1: They're doing it right now because the Bills show people

2026
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 1: a lot, right. And here's the thing as well. You

2027
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 1: look at that game, and I'm not saying the Bills

2028
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 1: were sitting back there with their feet up saying that

2029
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 1: they can't beat us. We're just gonna do it. But

2030
01:39:20,600 --> 01:39:22,680
Speaker 1: they needed. They wanted to get an extra touchdown. They

2031
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,040
Speaker 1: that last drive of the game, they went down and

2032
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:29,840
Speaker 1: remember they ran a quarterback option to Singletary for that

2033
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: second touchdown. They were pretty creative on that drive because

2034
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:35,639
Speaker 1: they didn't want to have to settle for another field

2035
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:37,559
Speaker 1: goal like they did, so they rolled about a couple

2036
01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: of play calls. They got two play calls and bang,

2037
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 1: they were in. They didn't they didn't mess around. They

2038
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: went up seventeen to six or seventeen to three, and

2039
01:39:44,920 --> 01:39:47,960
Speaker 1: went into the half halftime seventeen to six, and they

2040
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:52,479
Speaker 1: were like, we're good. We're good. You know, they're not

2041
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:55,240
Speaker 1: gonna beat us. So the second half they were just like,

2042
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: you know what, if Frank can get it, we'll take

2043
01:39:57,360 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: the first down. If not, we'll punt it away and

2044
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,280
Speaker 1: we'll get it back in three downs. I mean, that

2045
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:04,719
Speaker 1: was really the thought process that went into that second half.

2046
01:40:06,160 --> 01:40:09,760
Speaker 1: And I so, yeah, you're probably I'm just saying this.

2047
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 1: You're probably right. You didn't like the play calling from yesterday.

2048
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball probably didn't either. He was probably sitting there, Man,

2049
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:18,280
Speaker 1: I got some stuff I know is gonna work, and

2050
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:20,920
Speaker 1: I ain't using it because that was that was the mindset.

2051
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean that they couldn't really throw the ball deep

2052
01:40:24,160 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: because of the wind. They wn't was whipping the ball.

2053
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:32,439
Speaker 1: That ball down to Robert Foster wasn't even in the

2054
01:40:32,479 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 1: same zip code, and you know, and so that you

2055
01:40:36,920 --> 01:40:38,439
Speaker 1: know that's what it was. They were in control of

2056
01:40:38,479 --> 01:40:39,880
Speaker 1: that game, and I think I think it might be

2057
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 1: when you look at it from that science, like, Okay,

2058
01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:44,400
Speaker 1: we do have some stuff under the hood that we're

2059
01:40:44,400 --> 01:40:46,600
Speaker 1: not going to and let's see if we need it

2060
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:48,920
Speaker 1: here against the Cleveland Browns on the road. What's the

2061
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 1: most pleasant surprise from the Bills at mid season? What

2062
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:53,559
Speaker 1: do you think? What have you seen? Joe on the

2063
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: line in Tonawanda? Hello, Joe, Hi, guys. I had a

2064
01:40:57,400 --> 01:41:01,200
Speaker 1: couple of things in the first half. Why did we

2065
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 1: have to burn that time out before the halftime? It

2066
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:06,720
Speaker 1: looked like the play clock wasn't reset and there was

2067
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:10,600
Speaker 1: only five seconds left. I'm missing something there? Did they

2068
01:41:11,560 --> 01:41:14,680
Speaker 1: were talking about before the Josh Allen touchdown. Yeah, it

2069
01:41:14,680 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 1: looked like we had to burn a time out for

2070
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 1: some reason because it looked like the reps didn't restart

2071
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: the play clock because they were looking at at the

2072
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:24,800
Speaker 1: last play was over. The line. Yeah, I don't know.

2073
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't recall looking at the clock. I

2074
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:29,800
Speaker 1: didn't recall Josh using the time out thinking all right, good,

2075
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 1: good presence of mine, Josh good, read the clock's running down,

2076
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 1: and you don't want to take that penalty. I thought

2077
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:36,040
Speaker 1: at the time it was a good time out. I

2078
01:41:36,040 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: don't know, I didn't follow the clock. Yeah, see if

2079
01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 1: the screeners can find that. Okay, because it looked like

2080
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:42,840
Speaker 1: we had to burn a time out because because of

2081
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: the reps um. Next I got, uh, let's see and uh,

2082
01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:51,800
Speaker 1: let's see. Okay, Number two is the checklist. Well, I'm

2083
01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:54,880
Speaker 1: gonna lost that bumble. Last week we were looking at

2084
01:41:54,920 --> 01:42:00,040
Speaker 1: seventeen points again. That's what that looks like. Um, what

2085
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,960
Speaker 1: is that again? Joe important? Okay, hold on, I want

2086
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:05,680
Speaker 1: to stress how important winning these names. Well, go back

2087
01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: to your last point. What do you what do you

2088
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:12,120
Speaker 1: say if Alan had lost the fumble? What um Allen lost? Uh?

2089
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:14,920
Speaker 1: If he had lost that fumble, what you did? But

2090
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:17,680
Speaker 1: if he would have lost that, you know, we might

2091
01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: have ended up with seventeen points again. But he recovered that.

2092
01:42:21,680 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 1: But okay, well you know the old saying if my aunt, Yeah,

2093
01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 1: let Joe, go ahead, go ahead, Joe. Yeah. Uh, stress

2094
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: how important it is to win these next three winnable

2095
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:39,480
Speaker 1: games because starting Thanksgiving we're looking at four straight possible

2096
01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 1: losses and uh yeah, well you've only seen two losses

2097
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 1: so far, so I don't know how you identify those

2098
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:48,760
Speaker 1: as losses. Well, here's cut him off. Joe. Yeah, Joe,

2099
01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:53,760
Speaker 1: you've had eight games already that we were we're lost,

2100
01:42:53,800 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: could have been losses, and the only six only two

2101
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:58,680
Speaker 1: of them were. Um yeah, the whole rest of the

2102
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: half of the season could be a lost US. I

2103
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:04,880
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be. Let's let's play and see.

2104
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:06,600
Speaker 1: And I got a lot. I got some faith in

2105
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: this coaching staff and all these players about not no

2106
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: question that they have been challenged offensively to score points.

2107
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:17,400
Speaker 1: But they've won the they've won the time of possession,

2108
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:20,719
Speaker 1: they've had long drive, sustained drives, they've when the chips

2109
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 1: are down, as when this young quarterback has really played

2110
01:43:23,040 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 1: his best in the last couple of games and last

2111
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,080
Speaker 1: two wins. Anyway, he never got to that point in

2112
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia game that couldn't get it together. I'll give

2113
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:34,280
Speaker 1: you that, But this is a team and I'm ready

2114
01:43:34,280 --> 01:43:35,920
Speaker 1: to watch play again. I'm ready to see him go

2115
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 1: down to Cleveland, take that team on. That's a very

2116
01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:42,479
Speaker 1: talented team in New England and Cleveland, very talented team

2117
01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and we'll see if this culture can beat

2118
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:50,760
Speaker 1: that talent. Call here from Kevin and West Seneca. Hello Kevin, Hey,

2119
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:52,479
Speaker 1: how are you doing? I have a comment to make,

2120
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 1: but I've been trying to get down because I wanted

2121
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,920
Speaker 1: to ask Steve a specific question. Here you go play

2122
01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 1: and it leads all the way back to the Miami

2123
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:02,679
Speaker 1: game because it just sticks with me and I can't

2124
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 1: get rid of it. We were seventeen point favorites, and

2125
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:10,640
Speaker 1: I don't know who makes these up. I guess the betting,

2126
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:14,559
Speaker 1: Las Vegas or whoever. But but all these players that

2127
01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:18,360
Speaker 1: are professional. If you tell me, and I've been a

2128
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:21,080
Speaker 1: winner my whole life, that I'm going to lose by

2129
01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:24,640
Speaker 1: seventeen points, I'm going to dig in. I'm not going

2130
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 1: to be be the guy that's going to get buried

2131
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: out there. And so when Buffalo had a tough time

2132
01:44:30,040 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: with Miami, because Miami has some pride, the fans booed

2133
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: the team off the field at halftime. Now here's my

2134
01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 1: question as a player, Steve walking off the field with

2135
01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:47,679
Speaker 1: supposedly the greatest fans in the country, you get booed

2136
01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:50,479
Speaker 1: off the field because you're having a tough halt. It

2137
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: would seem to me with my mentality, which luckily isn't

2138
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:57,559
Speaker 1: the player's mentality, It's like the first time I have

2139
01:44:57,640 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 1: a tough you guys are going to boom me off

2140
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 1: the field? The hell with you. I'm just gonna play

2141
01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:07,439
Speaker 1: for myself and and for my teammates. That it really

2142
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: bothers me a lot. Well, I don't know what to

2143
01:45:10,479 --> 01:45:13,800
Speaker 1: tell you. I mean, it's human nature. Um, I know that,

2144
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: but I'm saying as a player, when you're walking off

2145
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: the feeling you've got a tough half and you can't

2146
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:21,960
Speaker 1: speak for everybody. And I get that, but I mean,

2147
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 1: there had to be some guys walking off they're thinking

2148
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:28,839
Speaker 1: to themselves, are you kidding me? We we're given everything

2149
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 1: we have and these these guys are boosting us up

2150
01:45:31,040 --> 01:45:34,599
Speaker 1: by booing us off the field. That's pretty tough for

2151
01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:36,920
Speaker 1: me to deal with. And I don't know if it's

2152
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:38,760
Speaker 1: tough for a player to deal with that or well,

2153
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 1: it's certainly not the best scenario, no question, usually as

2154
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: a player. If for me, and it happened to me,

2155
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: and it happened to me when I was playing on

2156
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl teams. So um, what you do is you

2157
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 1: put it in perspective. You understand why they're booing um,

2158
01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:55,880
Speaker 1: and you understand it's not personal, and you think and

2159
01:45:55,960 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 1: you got to take steps to fix it. It's it's

2160
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:02,720
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. It's it's a you know, kind

2161
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: of gotta like shrug your shoulders and kind of smile,

2162
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:07,559
Speaker 1: and you know that's the way it is. I mean,

2163
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: it's a it's a what have you done for me lately? League,

2164
01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:12,200
Speaker 1: and it's it's a it's the planet we live on,

2165
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,960
Speaker 1: So you get it. I mean, every every fan base

2166
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:18,240
Speaker 1: at one point or another's booed their own team because

2167
01:46:18,280 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 1: they did something silly or dumb. And the bar gets

2168
01:46:21,560 --> 01:46:24,479
Speaker 1: pretty low to get booed by some people. In fact,

2169
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, there'll be a handful of people that boo

2170
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 1: every play that doesn't go your way. Uh. You just

2171
01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 1: you learn to live with it as a player, particularly

2172
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 1: at the highest level here in the NFL. But same

2173
01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:39,519
Speaker 1: thing happened in college, Same things happens in uh in

2174
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:41,559
Speaker 1: high school. All that kind of stuff, but yeah, you

2175
01:46:41,560 --> 01:46:44,200
Speaker 1: don't take it personal. You under you know exactly why

2176
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:46,800
Speaker 1: they're booing, and if there's a good reason for it,

2177
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:49,799
Speaker 1: you understand it. If it's not, you kind of smile

2178
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:51,679
Speaker 1: Riley and say, you know you kind of say yeah,

2179
01:46:51,720 --> 01:46:54,280
Speaker 1: best fans in the world, thanks for call. Let's go

2180
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 1: to Ryan and Alden. Hello, Ryan, you're on the air.

2181
01:46:57,280 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 1: Hey guys, youre doing Wow that guy, I'm I'm on

2182
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: board him a little bit. Here is I've been watching

2183
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: the bill since I was a teenager, you know, kids

2184
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:07,679
Speaker 1: in the eighties, and I remember our Badgers of two

2185
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,800
Speaker 1: and fourteen, two and fourteen Kelly came went to four

2186
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:12,719
Speaker 1: n Twell. I mean, I remember all the years building

2187
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:15,160
Speaker 1: up man nineteen eighty eight. We started off four at

2188
01:47:15,160 --> 01:47:17,639
Speaker 1: all when we beat New England in that overtime game

2189
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:19,720
Speaker 1: and then we lost in Chicago. Right, I'm we go

2190
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:22,160
Speaker 1: eleven and one started the season, and I don't know

2191
01:47:22,160 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 1: if it's to the social media and we could talk

2192
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 1: to so many more people. I remember being mad about wins.

2193
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:28,840
Speaker 1: I remember, well, we're gonna win, we gonna win. I

2194
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:30,880
Speaker 1: remember calling us our team, Oh, we're not really good

2195
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:32,640
Speaker 1: because we lost for Champa Bay ten to five in

2196
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: camp was the worst team in football. I remember we

2197
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:37,920
Speaker 1: were winning the division and oh, we're going to I mean,

2198
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:39,760
Speaker 1: we haven't in the playoffs. You know, we weren't good

2199
01:47:39,800 --> 01:47:43,479
Speaker 1: and so long and we went from nothing to all

2200
01:47:43,520 --> 01:47:45,640
Speaker 1: these Super Bowl years and I may, you know, and

2201
01:47:45,840 --> 01:47:47,200
Speaker 1: maybe that's why I got to see it and a

2202
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:50,439
Speaker 1: lot of the new people didn't. But and now in

2203
01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:52,920
Speaker 1: while I'm jeurying and reading that, well, oh for sixty

2204
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:55,400
Speaker 1: super who do we beat? We've been NFL players, I

2205
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:58,280
Speaker 1: don't think fans And I'm friends with Laser Waddle and

2206
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 1: he fans understand how hardness to win a football game.

2207
01:48:02,640 --> 01:48:06,240
Speaker 1: Rectors tell you nothing. Sometimes eighty four what were we

2208
01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:08,560
Speaker 1: all alloting? And we beat Dallas and no one thought it.

2209
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,000
Speaker 1: Football is hard being to win. It's about winning, not

2210
01:48:12,080 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 1: about all the pretty status. I'm sorry, I don't mean

2211
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,320
Speaker 1: to go off on here, but it's almost like, God,

2212
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:20,559
Speaker 1: what had happened to our fan base where you know,

2213
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,720
Speaker 1: enjoy the winning. We're six and two. We're not looking like, Okay,

2214
01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:25,920
Speaker 1: who do we need to lose next week? So you know, okay,

2215
01:48:25,960 --> 01:48:29,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna have this. I'm gonna have this happen. Yeah, Hey, Ron,

2216
01:48:29,560 --> 01:48:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, and you just said it, and I was

2217
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:34,080
Speaker 1: kind of making this point yesterday. People should and I

2218
01:48:34,120 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: know most Bills fans do this right now, but relax

2219
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 1: and enjoy the ride. It's been a good ride. It's

2220
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 1: half season. There are things to celebrate, things to appreciate. Uh,

2221
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: And it's not everything. I get that. And you can

2222
01:48:44,520 --> 01:48:47,720
Speaker 1: watch the games closely and pick what's wrong, and we

2223
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,080
Speaker 1: all see many of their shortcomings, and they are there

2224
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:54,479
Speaker 1: are are several shortcomings. But I worry sometimes Steve that

2225
01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:57,080
Speaker 1: these fans who just want to pick it, why can't

2226
01:48:57,080 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 1: they stop to run? And why why can't we hit

2227
01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:03,040
Speaker 1: a deep pass? You know, why can't we get along

2228
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: passing game going that they're kind of missing the fund

2229
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:08,000
Speaker 1: that's out there for the six and two team. Look

2230
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:10,479
Speaker 1: at what's happening here, Look at look at what's happened.

2231
01:49:10,479 --> 01:49:13,120
Speaker 1: They've got six wins at mid season. They could go

2232
01:49:13,160 --> 01:49:14,680
Speaker 1: five hundred the rest of the way and get the

2233
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 1: ten wins. I think they'll probably do better than that.

2234
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:19,760
Speaker 1: But you don't have to blindly follow in the preach

2235
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:22,720
Speaker 1: and you know, support everything. But I feel that if

2236
01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:24,599
Speaker 1: you're just looking at where they fall short, you are

2237
01:49:24,640 --> 01:49:27,360
Speaker 1: missing the fund that many fans are having right now.

2238
01:49:27,439 --> 01:49:32,360
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because you forget in the stretch that

2239
01:49:32,400 --> 01:49:34,799
Speaker 1: the Bills fans have been through in the last two decades.

2240
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:38,000
Speaker 1: You forget that they eat the good teams like, for instance,

2241
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:41,040
Speaker 1: the perennial contenders like the Baltimore Ravens of the Steelers

2242
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:43,519
Speaker 1: and these end of the New England Patriots. Their fans

2243
01:49:43,760 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: are having the same conversations about their team that you

2244
01:49:45,960 --> 01:49:47,600
Speaker 1: do every week and say, Wow, it's good, but we

2245
01:49:47,720 --> 01:49:50,479
Speaker 1: you know, we almost I don't know about our run

2246
01:49:50,520 --> 01:49:53,400
Speaker 1: defense this last week, or you know, or Joe Flacco's

2247
01:49:53,479 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 1: got you know, when he's been Baltimore, Joe Flaccos got

2248
01:49:56,240 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ball. He can't take those

2249
01:49:57,800 --> 01:50:00,160
Speaker 1: bad sacks, or you know, our defenses start and to

2250
01:50:00,200 --> 01:50:01,559
Speaker 1: get old. I don't know if we can get you know,

2251
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:06,880
Speaker 1: every there's no perfect team out there, and you're gonna

2252
01:50:06,920 --> 01:50:11,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna have holes in your offense and defense or

2253
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:14,000
Speaker 1: wherever in your wins. Your your wins are gonna have

2254
01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:17,439
Speaker 1: spots where they didn't look like wins. Rarely do you

2255
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:19,439
Speaker 1: see a game in the NFL these days. I mean

2256
01:50:19,439 --> 01:50:21,360
Speaker 1: you look around the league and I told you this

2257
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,360
Speaker 1: people are like, going on, I don't know that we

2258
01:50:23,400 --> 01:50:26,360
Speaker 1: should have dominated the Redskins. They won by more points

2259
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:28,360
Speaker 1: than anybody else in the league last year except the Rave,

2260
01:50:28,479 --> 01:50:31,840
Speaker 1: except the Houston Texans. They blew their team out compared

2261
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:34,280
Speaker 1: to anybody else on the ross, on the on the schedule,

2262
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: they had the greatest margin of victory except for one

2263
01:50:37,560 --> 01:50:41,000
Speaker 1: game they you know that was that was a dominant win.

2264
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:44,519
Speaker 1: Most games, you know this, Most games in this league

2265
01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 1: are one score game seven points or less, like sevent

2266
01:50:48,160 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: of results or seven points or less. Yeah, it's eat

2267
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 1: and I get it. But even when things are going well,

2268
01:50:54,080 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 1: you're always gonna be particularly Bills fans who who watched

2269
01:50:57,120 --> 01:50:59,240
Speaker 1: this team and know you know, the ups and downs

2270
01:50:59,280 --> 01:51:01,439
Speaker 1: and the ins and out of how the roster was built,

2271
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:03,919
Speaker 1: and who you know about who's yet to prove themselves.

2272
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:07,240
Speaker 1: So you're always gonna find holes in victories and and

2273
01:51:07,760 --> 01:51:10,719
Speaker 1: and you're also gonna find positives in defeat as well.

2274
01:51:11,680 --> 01:51:14,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't that never stops whether you're winning or losing.

2275
01:51:14,120 --> 01:51:16,200
Speaker 1: You're you know, the holes get bigger when you lose,

2276
01:51:16,720 --> 01:51:20,760
Speaker 1: and the positives get more rare when you lose. But

2277
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:23,080
Speaker 1: it's the same thing when you're winning, you're gonna find

2278
01:51:23,160 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: little you know, chips and how pretty that win could

2279
01:51:26,520 --> 01:51:28,679
Speaker 1: have been if they would have scored one more touchdown

2280
01:51:28,760 --> 01:51:30,519
Speaker 1: in there in the second half or the third quarter,

2281
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:32,920
Speaker 1: if our offense wouldn't go to sleep in the third

2282
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:35,120
Speaker 1: quarter like it has in so many games, and you

2283
01:51:35,160 --> 01:51:38,080
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. So it's just gonna it's just

2284
01:51:38,120 --> 01:51:40,640
Speaker 1: the way football is. Yeah, you're not gonna have a

2285
01:51:40,680 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: perfect seat, even in a season when you're winning. Then

2286
01:51:44,120 --> 01:51:46,680
Speaker 1: it becomes like, well, that was almost not a win.

2287
01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: We I don't know, you know, because that's what we

2288
01:51:49,479 --> 01:51:51,160
Speaker 1: don't we don't have a control of it. Were the

2289
01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:53,760
Speaker 1: angst comes out, you know. And I told you that

2290
01:51:53,800 --> 01:51:55,599
Speaker 1: when I was listening to I was watching the game,

2291
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 1: I couldn't hear it, and I was reading the Twitter.

2292
01:51:58,920 --> 01:52:02,680
Speaker 1: So the ants, the hand ringing was just and it

2293
01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:06,360
Speaker 1: was just unbelievable that the Twitter is where anst lives. Yeah,

2294
01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:09,759
Speaker 1: people like we we we're not gonna win this game. Agaus.

2295
01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:12,400
Speaker 1: It was a residin they're gonna beat us. We're only

2296
01:52:12,479 --> 01:52:15,479
Speaker 1: up eight points of the third. You know, it's just, Oh,

2297
01:52:15,520 --> 01:52:19,479
Speaker 1: my games was born on Twitter. It's revealed, no question,

2298
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:22,439
Speaker 1: And so I was it's just where people live. That's

2299
01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:25,200
Speaker 1: the way we are as fans. A great game is

2300
01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: gonna be great, but you're always gonna say, you know,

2301
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: I wish you'd caught that one pass down, you know

2302
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, there's always gonna be that so

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Speaker 1: mustard and nothing. Just really, you know, put yours. They're

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Speaker 1: six and two, they're enjoyed. They're not gonna be six

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Speaker 1: and two this next week. They're gonna be seven and

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01:52:41,680 --> 01:52:44,360
Speaker 1: two or six and three. So you gotta be ready

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01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:46,960
Speaker 1: for both those scenarios. You know. Let's go to Twitter

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01:52:47,160 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: to get some more response. That's I just got a question. Listen. Yeah,

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01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 1: it's a question of the week, the question of the week.

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01:52:55,360 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 1: Can the culture of the Buffalo Bills beat the talent

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01:52:58,479 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: in Cleveland? That's the question. It's a good question. That's

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's Twitter poll. Today's Twitter poll. What's the most pleasant

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01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: surprise for the Bills at mid season? What do you think?

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01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:12,120
Speaker 1: We've got some responses on the Corrigan Moving Systems tweet sheet,

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01:53:12,200 --> 01:53:14,720
Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Matt Dee tweets this,

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01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:17,280
Speaker 1: and John Brown is a reliable number one. I knew

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01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:19,519
Speaker 1: he was talented, but it didn' not think he'd be

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01:53:19,680 --> 01:53:21,719
Speaker 1: the guy in the clutch like he has been. Also

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01:53:22,080 --> 01:53:25,000
Speaker 1: loving Colebs these contributions, although that's not a surprise to

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01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:27,559
Speaker 1: me at all. And this one from Team Anny twenty two,

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01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: he says, I think most expected the defense to be

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01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:32,760
Speaker 1: at least as good and Anna to make progress. Bad

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01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:36,479
Speaker 1: competition is a little surprising, but I chose other. Jordan

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01:53:36,520 --> 01:53:38,959
Speaker 1: Phillips has been a pleasant surprise. I'll give an honorable

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01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:41,600
Speaker 1: mention to Andre Roberts as well. He's been huge in

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Speaker 1: the return game. Gonna do one more from this tweet

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01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:47,280
Speaker 1: sheet Tiffany Daniels. I'm always interested in with Tiffany Daniels.

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01:53:47,880 --> 01:53:50,719
Speaker 1: She's okay, She's a good observer. Coming out of college,

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01:53:50,800 --> 01:53:53,720
Speaker 1: Josh was a raw athletic quarterback. Watching him evolved into

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01:53:53,760 --> 01:53:56,840
Speaker 1: an all around NFL Sunday starter has been fun to watch.

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01:53:56,920 --> 01:53:59,400
Speaker 1: She tweets. He has the potential to be great. The

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01:53:59,520 --> 01:54:02,759
Speaker 1: organization has done a fantastic job with his development, unlike

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01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:04,880
Speaker 1: some of the other quarterbacks in his draft class, which

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01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:07,160
Speaker 1: makes a very good point about the draft class. Yeah,

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01:54:09,479 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: have we ever done the thing about redrafting that eight

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01:54:12,520 --> 01:54:15,519
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen first round quarterback thing? We haven't got there yet.

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01:54:15,560 --> 01:54:18,200
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson would at the atlanta'll be an offseason one.

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01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:21,240
Speaker 1: But Lamar Jackson, right, yeah, Josh might be number two,

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01:54:22,040 --> 01:54:24,559
Speaker 1: right might? By Baker Mayfield, I mean, look at his

2340
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:26,920
Speaker 1: numbers this year, Look at the way he's played, Sam Darnold,

2341
01:54:26,920 --> 01:54:29,720
Speaker 1: look at what Field Yates said about the Baker Mayfield's

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01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,560
Speaker 1: kind of demeanor and his you know, his approach to

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01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:36,040
Speaker 1: the game, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen has lost interesting, very

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01:54:36,080 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: interesting importance there that people are still chiming. In Bill's

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01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:41,000
Speaker 1: Fan three sixty five on the most pleasant surprise for

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01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:42,360
Speaker 1: the Bills, he goes, I'll take a mix of B

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01:54:42,520 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 1: and C. Josh Alley making progress and the AFC competition

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01:54:46,400 --> 01:54:49,880
Speaker 1: is underwhelming. The AFC competition is underwhelming. However, Josh Allen's

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01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:52,560
Speaker 1: improvement from season one to two has not only been

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01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: pleasant but surprisingly good. In my estimation, he's ahead of

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01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:57,880
Speaker 1: where he should be on that learning curve for young

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01:54:57,960 --> 01:55:01,240
Speaker 1: QB's Go Bills. That's from Bills Fan three sixty five.

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01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 1: Max Galuley says, it's got to be Josh's progress. He's

2354
01:55:04,560 --> 01:55:06,640
Speaker 1: the hope for the next ten to twenty years, hopefully,

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01:55:06,800 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: and to see his numbers climbing gets me excited. I'm

2356
01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: not going to knitpick what he's not doing, but instead

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01:55:12,240 --> 01:55:13,960
Speaker 1: be happy for what he is doing. If he keeps

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01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:17,440
Speaker 1: winning games, people will have to believe in him. All Right,

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01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 1: there you go. We'll talk more about this issue, the

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01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: most pleasant surprise for the Bills at the midway point

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01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:24,640
Speaker 1: of the season. We're gonna talk when we come back

2362
01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:28,400
Speaker 1: about people have trouble now we do saying Los Angeles

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01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 1: Chargers instead of San Diego? Right? Are they gonna be

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01:55:30,520 --> 01:55:33,200
Speaker 1: the London Chargers? How do you feel about getting used

2365
01:55:33,200 --> 01:55:35,320
Speaker 1: to say the London Charges and they said they too

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01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:38,360
Speaker 1: that and this. Before we go to break, the word

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01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,920
Speaker 1: has it they're gonna change everything when if they were

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01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: to relocate to London, it would not be the London Charges.

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01:55:45,080 --> 01:55:48,120
Speaker 1: It would be like the old the USFL London Monarchs

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01:55:48,200 --> 01:55:50,480
Speaker 1: or somebody you know. They change their whole name and everything,

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01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:53,480
Speaker 1: and the Chargers would go completely away. We'll talk about

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01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:54,960
Speaker 1: that when we come back. In a moment. As we

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01:55:55,000 --> 01:55:56,240
Speaker 1: head to break, I want to let you know about

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01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:58,760
Speaker 1: the New York State Lottery inside the numbers. Take your

2375
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 1: break from the expected play scratch off games from the

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01:56:01,440 --> 01:56:03,880
Speaker 1: New York State Lottery with a rushing in a passing

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01:56:03,920 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: touchdown against Washington. Josh Allen now has seven games in

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01:56:07,160 --> 01:56:10,280
Speaker 1: his career with touchdowns via both methods. That's the third

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01:56:10,320 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 1: most in Bills franchise history, behind Jack Kemp who did

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01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:15,560
Speaker 1: it thirteen times, in Tyrod Daylor who did it ten

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01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:19,280
Speaker 1: Allen also tied with Tim tebow Or with the fourth

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01:56:19,320 --> 01:56:22,200
Speaker 1: most by an NFL quarterback in his first two seasons.

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01:56:22,240 --> 01:56:24,600
Speaker 1: There you go, New York State Lottery inside the numbers.

2384
01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:27,240
Speaker 1: Take a break from the expected play scratch off games

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01:56:27,280 --> 01:56:29,200
Speaker 1: from the New York Lottery. We're back with more One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalata Health from the Seneca studio.

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01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:46,920
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio any Time Now to announce

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01:56:46,960 --> 01:56:49,720
Speaker 1: the winners of the A Pro Sports High School Football

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01:56:49,760 --> 01:56:52,960
Speaker 1: Coaches of the Week. We started in Section six McKinley

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01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,160
Speaker 1: High School coach Brian Davis. McKinley beat West Seneca West

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01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:58,280
Speaker 1: seven and nothing in the Class A semi final. They

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01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 1: come to the Section six championship game here at New

2393
01:57:01,160 --> 01:57:03,520
Speaker 1: air Field for the first time in school history. This

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01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:06,440
Speaker 1: is Brian davis first year as McKinley head coach. Congratulation

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01:57:06,600 --> 01:57:10,880
Speaker 1: Am and in Sexton Section five, Rochester Area. The at

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01:57:10,880 --> 01:57:12,840
Speaker 1: Pro Sports High School Coach of the Week is Derek

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01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:16,960
Speaker 1: and Achino from Acquintas High School. They beat Hilton thirty

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01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:20,480
Speaker 1: five nineteen in the semi finals of the Double A Playoffs.

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01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:23,320
Speaker 1: Acquaintas now eight and one. They played McQuaid Saturday in

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01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:27,120
Speaker 1: the Double A Championship game. Congratulations to them. This note

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01:57:27,120 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: came across my desk today, Steve. We've we've had these

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01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:33,520
Speaker 1: guys on the show years ago before, really good guys.

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01:57:33,760 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: Pro Football Researchers Association they have a very special Uh,

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01:57:38,280 --> 01:57:40,200
Speaker 1: there's a hall of fame, right, Pro Football of Fame.

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01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:42,920
Speaker 1: The p f r A has the Hall of Very Good,

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01:57:43,400 --> 01:57:45,080
Speaker 1: which is cool, and they have a lot of very

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01:57:45,080 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: good players who either have not or will not make

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01:57:47,440 --> 01:57:49,320
Speaker 1: it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They have

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01:57:49,400 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 1: several bills including Cookie Gil Chris Jack. Are you in

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01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:56,000
Speaker 1: the I don't know how could I not be in

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01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:57,760
Speaker 1: a see I will get mad about not being in

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01:57:57,760 --> 01:58:00,720
Speaker 1: the Hall of very Good in the Hall of his name,

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01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:03,080
Speaker 1: But man, come on, very out. Is there a Hall

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01:58:03,120 --> 01:58:06,800
Speaker 1: of pretty good? Pete Pro Football Researchers dot Com look

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01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:08,640
Speaker 1: it up. You got a minute while I go ahead.

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01:58:08,760 --> 01:58:11,800
Speaker 1: Pro Football Researchers dot Com. All right, now, there, there

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01:58:11,800 --> 01:58:13,280
Speaker 1: you go. That's a tease. We're gonna find out if

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01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:15,400
Speaker 1: Steve is in the Hall of Very Good. There. I

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01:58:15,440 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: will tell you this before you're bitterly disappointed. They're kind

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01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:23,480
Speaker 1: of older guys. They take their time. Cookie go, Chris Jack, Kemp, Darrela, Monica,

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01:58:23,760 --> 01:58:27,600
Speaker 1: Isaiah Robertson, Tom Sestak, Fred Smerlas, Chuck Knox, Lou Saban.

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01:58:27,680 --> 01:58:29,200
Speaker 1: They are Bills in the Hall of Very Good. And

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01:58:29,280 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 1: this past weekend they put in wide receiver Art Powell,

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01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:35,240
Speaker 1: who played for the Bills in nineteen sixty seven. He

2425
01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:37,920
Speaker 1: started in the NFL, came to the AFL, went from

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01:58:37,920 --> 01:58:39,400
Speaker 1: the Raiders to the Bills, had a good year with

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01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:42,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo in nineteen sixty seven. Art Powell is now in

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01:58:42,880 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Researchers Association Hall of Very Good. Did

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01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:48,840
Speaker 1: you find your name there? No, I don't know where

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01:58:48,880 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. You might be too young. I

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01:58:50,680 --> 01:58:53,480
Speaker 1: think I got this thing turned on. Jay Harris says,

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01:58:53,520 --> 01:58:56,480
Speaker 1: you're not in. I'm not in. I'm not in the

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01:58:56,520 --> 01:58:58,320
Speaker 1: Hall of See now, how am I gonna get in?

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01:58:58,720 --> 01:59:02,880
Speaker 1: How good do you want us? We can start ringing

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01:59:02,880 --> 01:59:04,480
Speaker 1: the bell with people, said, Steve, I think you're belonging

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01:59:04,480 --> 01:59:06,040
Speaker 1: to the the hall of avery, not very good, No, just

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01:59:06,160 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 1: the hall of pretty good. Right, I should belonging in

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01:59:09,680 --> 01:59:11,200
Speaker 1: the hall of pretty good. We'll take a poll. Well,

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01:59:11,240 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 1: that'll be a very good, pretty good hall of fame,

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01:59:15,400 --> 01:59:20,640
Speaker 1: none of the above. You're not. Second time you've given

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01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:22,760
Speaker 1: me the stink. I thanks, you've back today. I do

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01:59:22,880 --> 01:59:26,280
Speaker 1: belong in the hall of pretty good. Sure you do, right, Yes,

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01:59:26,720 --> 01:59:34,840
Speaker 1: I won't dispute that. Thank you. This is interesting derailed here.

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01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pay tribute to Art Powell and you've

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01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:41,080
Speaker 1: turned it into a Steve Tasker. I apologize. I apologize

2446
01:59:41,080 --> 01:59:43,720
Speaker 1: for making that about me. Why don't you just say

2447
01:59:43,760 --> 01:59:45,560
Speaker 1: that like a couple of times every day? I should?

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01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Today I deserve it. I'm sorry. All right. Here's the

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01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:50,520
Speaker 1: interesting thing that came over. Now. Of course, there was

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01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: a London game, I think the final London game of

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01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:55,920
Speaker 1: the year this past weekend. Houston beat Jacksonville. Right now,

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01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:58,920
Speaker 1: there's a report on the Athletic dot Com from Vincent

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01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:02,520
Speaker 1: bunching your like the Chargers would listen. He says, if

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02:00:02,520 --> 02:00:07,120
Speaker 1: the NFL brookes the topic of permanently relocating them to London.

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02:00:07,400 --> 02:00:09,440
Speaker 1: Here's what he wrote. The Athletic has learned that NFL

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02:00:09,440 --> 02:00:13,400
Speaker 1: owners are concerned enough about the Chargers situation in LA

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02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:15,600
Speaker 1: where a crowded sports market and the presence of the

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02:00:15,720 --> 02:00:18,400
Speaker 1: Rams have resulted in a tepid embracement of the Chargers

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02:00:18,720 --> 02:00:21,520
Speaker 1: that the league would provide the necessary support for a

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02:00:21,600 --> 02:00:25,120
Speaker 1: relocation in London if the Chargers pursue. It not gonna

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02:00:25,160 --> 02:00:27,640
Speaker 1: happen next year. A change of scenery might work for

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02:00:27,640 --> 02:00:29,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers, right, you know, the situation for them out

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02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:34,400
Speaker 1: there interesting. I don't know. I hope it's not true,

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02:00:34,440 --> 02:00:38,680
Speaker 1: but I think the Chargers obviously an established flagship American

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02:00:38,720 --> 02:00:41,200
Speaker 1: Football League franchise, you hate to think that that might happen.

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02:00:41,480 --> 02:00:45,480
Speaker 1: And apparently the Chargers do as well. There's tweets out

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02:00:45,480 --> 02:00:48,040
Speaker 1: there today from the Chargers in which they make it

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02:00:48,080 --> 02:00:53,280
Speaker 1: pretty plain and it's pretty graphic and it's profane, where

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02:00:53,280 --> 02:00:55,640
Speaker 1: they say we're not leaving. They use a clip from

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02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:58,280
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies. And this tweet two. Chargers

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02:00:58,320 --> 02:01:01,360
Speaker 1: owner Dean Spanos calls the story speculating the move to

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02:01:01,400 --> 02:01:04,760
Speaker 1: London quote a lot of crap. We're not going to London,

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02:01:04,800 --> 02:01:07,280
Speaker 1: We're not going anywhere. We plan on being a Knight

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02:01:07,400 --> 02:01:11,040
Speaker 1: for a long blank time. That was blank that story.

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02:01:11,120 --> 02:01:15,280
Speaker 1: That's what the owner, Dean Spanos said. I think they're

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02:01:15,320 --> 02:01:20,360
Speaker 1: pretty clear that Spanos's are that they're not moving. Okay,

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02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,760
Speaker 1: maybe the league wants them too, and Spanos is trying

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02:01:22,760 --> 02:01:25,320
Speaker 1: to no doubt the league wants them too. They don't.

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02:01:25,360 --> 02:01:30,960
Speaker 1: They didn't want two teams in LA. They didn't want one. Well,

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02:01:31,440 --> 02:01:33,640
Speaker 1: the league might have wanted the league might have. That's

2481
02:01:33,680 --> 02:01:36,400
Speaker 1: going to be the showcase for the league that if

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02:01:37,120 --> 02:01:40,480
Speaker 1: if a team goes to London, the entire league or

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02:01:40,520 --> 02:01:42,320
Speaker 1: that conference, whoever it is, is is going to have to

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02:01:42,320 --> 02:01:45,680
Speaker 1: be realigned, unless it's a team from the Northeast or

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02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:50,280
Speaker 1: the East coast. If the Chargers went from California to London,

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02:01:50,320 --> 02:01:54,200
Speaker 1: they could not be in the AFC West right Well,

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02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:56,400
Speaker 1: now that you mentioned it, the one report I read

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02:01:56,440 --> 02:01:59,280
Speaker 1: said if the Chargers were moved to London, they would

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02:01:59,360 --> 02:02:04,200
Speaker 1: probably in the AFC East and with your Buffalo Bills

2490
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:06,720
Speaker 1: and where they'll be five team who'd leave I don't know,

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02:02:06,760 --> 02:02:09,840
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Who'd leave Miami would leave them being

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02:02:09,880 --> 02:02:12,000
Speaker 1: told okay, and then they go to the West or

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02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:14,240
Speaker 1: do they kick one of the teams. It's geography. They

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02:02:14,640 --> 02:02:17,120
Speaker 1: know it does kind of well, when you're playing in London,

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02:02:17,160 --> 02:02:20,640
Speaker 1: it matters. Yeah, right, yeah, it matters if you're going

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02:02:20,680 --> 02:02:24,640
Speaker 1: to play in London. But again the Chargers. Chargers say

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02:02:24,640 --> 02:02:27,080
Speaker 1: they have pooh pooed would be understatement, right, They are

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02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:29,120
Speaker 1: graphic in their denial. Well they have to because they're

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02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 1: selling seat licenses to the law in the new stadium,

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Speaker 1: and they're selling them cheap because nobody wants them. Thank you.

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02:02:38,160 --> 02:02:41,400
Speaker 1: It's interesting stuff. I just shot that across their bow. There.

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02:02:42,360 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 1: Take a few more calls on the surprise issue for

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02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:47,160
Speaker 1: the Bills. What's been their most pleasant surprise? John on

2504
02:02:47,240 --> 02:02:49,760
Speaker 1: the line from Arizona. Where in Arizona are you, John,

2505
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm located in Chandler, Arizona, which is south of Phoenix.

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02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:57,240
Speaker 1: I know where Chandler is. Welcome. What about one hundred

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02:02:57,240 --> 02:02:58,760
Speaker 1: and eight degrees there today or what what are we

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02:02:58,760 --> 02:03:02,920
Speaker 1: looking at? Eighty five? Beautiful perfect? Well that's a chamber

2509
02:03:02,920 --> 02:03:05,640
Speaker 1: of commerce weather now from here from until May. Yeah,

2510
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:08,880
Speaker 1: the beautiful weather perfect? What's on your mind? John Line?

2511
02:03:09,120 --> 02:03:14,200
Speaker 1: Offensive line gets my vote as far as something I

2512
02:03:14,240 --> 02:03:16,920
Speaker 1: didn't expect. And I only say that because I've watched

2513
02:03:16,920 --> 02:03:21,480
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill since nineteen sixty until now, and I've

2514
02:03:21,480 --> 02:03:25,720
Speaker 1: heard offensive line, offensive line, offensive line. Nothing got done.

2515
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:29,440
Speaker 1: This year. They brought in a ton of people and

2516
02:03:29,480 --> 02:03:32,840
Speaker 1: they've made a big improvement on that offensive line, which

2517
02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:36,040
Speaker 1: to me is the key to any offense. If you

2518
02:03:36,120 --> 02:03:38,720
Speaker 1: guys are old enough, and I think you're probably young enough.

2519
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:41,800
Speaker 1: You don't remember when OJ came to Buffalo. When OJ

2520
02:03:42,040 --> 02:03:46,520
Speaker 1: came to Buffalo, he did squat, but brought in a

2521
02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:49,440
Speaker 1: loose Aban. Louise Aban said it's going to be OJ right,

2522
02:03:49,560 --> 02:03:52,240
Speaker 1: OJ left and OJ F the middle. They brought in

2523
02:03:52,240 --> 02:03:54,800
Speaker 1: an offensive line and the rest, of course this history.

2524
02:03:55,320 --> 02:03:58,520
Speaker 1: He didn't do squat when he first came in because

2525
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:02,440
Speaker 1: he wasn't a good running back supporting cast. Now, my

2526
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 1: mom always said, my mom always said good better best.

2527
02:04:06,280 --> 02:04:08,680
Speaker 1: You never let it rest until you're good is better,

2528
02:04:09,080 --> 02:04:12,440
Speaker 1: and you're better is best. I like that the Bills.

2529
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:15,320
Speaker 1: I think the Buffalo Bills right now that offensive line

2530
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:19,160
Speaker 1: is good and creeping in on better now. Obviously the

2531
02:04:19,240 --> 02:04:23,920
Speaker 1: Pine the sky is the best. You cannot have an

2532
02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:28,120
Speaker 1: offensive line that is not continuously being improved because that's

2533
02:04:28,160 --> 02:04:30,800
Speaker 1: what gives that quarterback that extra half a second or

2534
02:04:30,840 --> 02:04:35,800
Speaker 1: split second that gives the offensive lineman or open up

2535
02:04:35,840 --> 02:04:38,600
Speaker 1: holes for your running back. Yep, it gives time for

2536
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:42,000
Speaker 1: the So the whole thing revolves around those five guys. Yep,

2537
02:04:42,320 --> 02:04:45,480
Speaker 1: you're making good points, John John with that growth mindset. Yes,

2538
02:04:45,600 --> 02:04:48,920
Speaker 1: good for your mindset, staying humble, staying hungry. There you go.

2539
02:04:49,120 --> 02:04:51,160
Speaker 1: Call here from Tim and Orchard Park. Go ahead, Tim,

2540
02:04:51,160 --> 02:04:54,960
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Great show. See thanks for everything

2541
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:56,920
Speaker 1: you've done for the Bills over the years. I've been

2542
02:04:56,960 --> 02:05:02,000
Speaker 1: following you guys for well, I'm sixty two, for five years.

2543
02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:05,640
Speaker 1: You know, ever since um, ever since we had that

2544
02:05:05,720 --> 02:05:08,080
Speaker 1: black kick against the Giant, or I mean against the

2545
02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:10,960
Speaker 1: Patriots for a touchdown, I've been watching our kicker, Corey

2546
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:16,000
Speaker 1: and I can't pronounce the lists. Yeah, but you know what,

2547
02:05:16,400 --> 02:05:20,000
Speaker 1: Stevie just looks like his movement is really slow and

2548
02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 1: it just bothers the heck out of me. And he's

2549
02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:27,920
Speaker 1: super inconsistent. Two questions, do you agree with that? And

2550
02:05:28,080 --> 02:05:31,960
Speaker 1: whatever happened to Colton Schmidt? And why isn't he still around? Okay,

2551
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:33,360
Speaker 1: that's good. I don't know. I couldn't tell you what

2552
02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:35,560
Speaker 1: happened to Colton Schmidt, but I will say this, I

2553
02:05:35,600 --> 02:05:38,240
Speaker 1: don't know about I don't care what Corey Burkes looks

2554
02:05:38,280 --> 02:05:39,760
Speaker 1: like or what his delivery, as long as his get

2555
02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: off time is the rights. You know, from the point

2556
02:05:42,040 --> 02:05:45,240
Speaker 1: where the ball is snapped till the time it travels

2557
02:05:45,280 --> 02:05:47,720
Speaker 1: back there, he catches it, takes his two steps and

2558
02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:50,800
Speaker 1: punts it. I don't care what it looks like, as

2559
02:05:50,840 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: long as when he kicks it, he kicks it well consistently.

2560
02:05:56,640 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 1: That's been the big problem with Corey Berkes. He doesn't

2561
02:06:00,600 --> 02:06:04,240
Speaker 1: punt consistently. You get you get a fifty nine yard

2562
02:06:04,320 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 1: or into a stiff wind against the Philadelphia Eagles, and

2563
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:09,920
Speaker 1: then he hits a thirty two yard or going with

2564
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:11,720
Speaker 1: the wind when he should really be able to boom it.

2565
02:06:11,880 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the problem, and that's what that's the

2566
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:18,920
Speaker 1: difference between a guy who punts and an NFL punter,

2567
02:06:19,080 --> 02:06:23,640
Speaker 1: a guy who can do it. The floor is much

2568
02:06:23,760 --> 02:06:26,200
Speaker 1: higher than we've seen the floor with by Orchis, and

2569
02:06:26,320 --> 02:06:28,480
Speaker 1: you need a guy that can do it every single time.

2570
02:06:29,080 --> 02:06:31,120
Speaker 1: As for cold Schmidt, I don't know, but believe me

2571
02:06:31,200 --> 02:06:34,160
Speaker 1: that it's not lost on the on the coaching staff.

2572
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're they got guys in here

2573
02:06:36,800 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: working them out. But if you look around the league,

2574
02:06:39,760 --> 02:06:43,040
Speaker 1: it's not it's not an unusual problem to have teams

2575
02:06:43,080 --> 02:06:45,720
Speaker 1: are running kickers in and out of games. I mean

2576
02:06:45,800 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 1: real games. I mean they're they've been through. Somebody's been through,

2577
02:06:49,280 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: uh like three or four punters, and there's been some

2578
02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:54,640
Speaker 1: teams with two through through two or three kickers as well.

2579
02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:58,480
Speaker 1: So the Bills aren't alone in that. I think right

2580
02:06:58,520 --> 02:07:01,080
Speaker 1: now they think they probably believe the the evil they've

2581
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:03,040
Speaker 1: got in their hands they know is worse than the

2582
02:07:03,080 --> 02:07:05,680
Speaker 1: evil they don't know. Colt Schmidt is I just looked

2583
02:07:05,680 --> 02:07:08,560
Speaker 1: it up in the xflle He's with the Los Angeles

2584
02:07:08,600 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: Wildcats of the XFL, which I did not know existed

2585
02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:16,680
Speaker 1: until this very minute. Let's go to Andrew and Cheektowaga.

2586
02:07:16,760 --> 02:07:21,280
Speaker 1: Hello Andrew, Welcome to the show. Hey Murphy, Tasker, Tasker,

2587
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:23,040
Speaker 1: you deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. What

2588
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:27,680
Speaker 1: about the Hall of very Good? Oh, he deserves the

2589
02:07:27,800 --> 02:07:32,760
Speaker 1: very best, Hall of the very best, all of pretty good.

2590
02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:37,680
Speaker 1: All about that La Chargers rumor. I know it would

2591
02:07:37,720 --> 02:07:41,480
Speaker 1: never happen, but if it did, I feel like the

2592
02:07:41,520 --> 02:07:44,160
Speaker 1: smartest move would be to put Miami in the AFC

2593
02:07:44,280 --> 02:07:48,760
Speaker 1: Salad and move to Texans to the Afcis that happened.

2594
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:51,800
Speaker 1: That's good, that's a good move. I could see that,

2595
02:07:52,720 --> 02:07:55,920
Speaker 1: and that would put the Chargers in the AFC East

2596
02:07:57,440 --> 02:07:59,680
Speaker 1: and we and the Bills would go to London once

2597
02:07:59,720 --> 02:08:03,360
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah. I just don't think that would ever

2598
02:08:03,440 --> 02:08:06,760
Speaker 1: happen though, to have to have a team just based

2599
02:08:06,760 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 1: in London, that would be tough. I'll tell you what's

2600
02:08:10,000 --> 02:08:12,480
Speaker 1: not that far from New York. I'll tell you this too.

2601
02:08:13,200 --> 02:08:15,040
Speaker 1: In this what makes me think of it? It was

2602
02:08:15,080 --> 02:08:17,320
Speaker 1: the last London game of the year the other day Sunday.

2603
02:08:17,640 --> 02:08:20,800
Speaker 1: The league wants to throw the great and they're great

2604
02:08:20,880 --> 02:08:23,920
Speaker 1: football fans, NFL fans in the UK. They probably want

2605
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:25,600
Speaker 1: to throw them a bone. Said, yet that's the end

2606
02:08:25,600 --> 02:08:28,000
Speaker 1: of another year. Thanks folks, And who knows, maybe here's

2607
02:08:28,000 --> 02:08:29,920
Speaker 1: an answer for what you're looking for, right, can't see

2608
02:08:29,920 --> 02:08:32,200
Speaker 1: it that kind of a public relations thing, like let's

2609
02:08:32,200 --> 02:08:34,200
Speaker 1: throw this out there. It's not serious, but just throw

2610
02:08:34,280 --> 02:08:36,800
Speaker 1: out is it not serious? I don't know. You know,

2611
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:39,879
Speaker 1: we've talked about the loss the Chargers. The current stadium

2612
02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:43,160
Speaker 1: situation is not tenable. They're getting to the new place

2613
02:08:43,160 --> 02:08:44,960
Speaker 1: where they're going to be the second class citizens at

2614
02:08:44,960 --> 02:08:46,840
Speaker 1: the new place. What next year or the year after.

2615
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:51,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what they having too. I don't know this.

2616
02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:53,760
Speaker 1: I literally don't know what having two teams in that

2617
02:08:53,880 --> 02:08:57,840
Speaker 1: huge Los Angeles market does for television ratings. But look,

2618
02:08:58,600 --> 02:09:01,280
Speaker 1: London is fertile ground. It's all of Europe fertile ground

2619
02:09:01,320 --> 02:09:03,640
Speaker 1: for the NFL. They've talked about it for years. I

2620
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:05,600
Speaker 1: can see the League throwing that out there, tribal noon,

2621
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 1: let's see who bite. Clearly the Spans they're not ready

2622
02:09:08,680 --> 02:09:11,320
Speaker 1: to take a bite out of that. That would be Listen,

2623
02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:16,520
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. It's with yeah, that would

2624
02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:18,280
Speaker 1: and you know what, that would be the Super Bowl

2625
02:09:18,280 --> 02:09:20,800
Speaker 1: the Bills go to, but be in London. I would

2626
02:09:20,800 --> 02:09:22,760
Speaker 1: go gladly. I would too, but I would learn the

2627
02:09:22,840 --> 02:09:27,960
Speaker 1: language right, I'd be a step in the right direction.

2628
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:32,640
Speaker 1: But I'm yeah, I get you, and I get there.

2629
02:09:32,920 --> 02:09:37,960
Speaker 1: I think there's probably some truth to the fact that,

2630
02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:42,320
Speaker 1: let's face it, if you go to London, it's as

2631
02:09:42,320 --> 02:09:44,440
Speaker 1: big as city as there is in the United States.

2632
02:09:44,440 --> 02:09:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's big. The revenues would be huge, The

2633
02:09:47,760 --> 02:09:49,520
Speaker 1: revenues for the league would be huge. And if you

2634
02:09:49,560 --> 02:09:53,200
Speaker 1: could trade a market like Green Bay or and let's

2635
02:09:53,240 --> 02:09:57,120
Speaker 1: face it, like Buffalo or like Jacksonville. For a team

2636
02:09:57,160 --> 02:10:01,680
Speaker 1: and a city the size of London, the league would

2637
02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 1: do it in a heartbeat and they wouldn't look back.

2638
02:10:04,400 --> 02:10:06,440
Speaker 1: I hate to say that, but that's the truth of

2639
02:10:06,480 --> 02:10:08,760
Speaker 1: the matter. We almost the Bills almost moved out of

2640
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:12,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo the last time. The ownership changed and it didn't happen.

2641
02:10:13,520 --> 02:10:16,600
Speaker 1: And there's only one thing stopping it from many of

2642
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:19,080
Speaker 1: these teams doing it, and that's the guy who owns them.

2643
02:10:19,200 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 1: That's it, because the league won't stop him. They can't

2644
02:10:22,720 --> 02:10:26,920
Speaker 1: stop him. If somebody wants to go over there, all right,

2645
02:10:26,960 --> 02:10:29,800
Speaker 1: Andrew thinks the Spanishes don't sound like they want to

2646
02:10:29,840 --> 02:10:32,879
Speaker 1: go there. You gotta, you gotta. If you get access

2647
02:10:32,880 --> 02:10:36,560
Speaker 1: to Twitter social media, check out how the Chargers responded

2648
02:10:36,840 --> 02:10:39,000
Speaker 1: to those reports about a possible move to London. It's

2649
02:10:39,040 --> 02:10:42,240
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. It's an NFL team. You responded like that, Yeah,

2650
02:10:42,280 --> 02:10:47,440
Speaker 1: you were offended. It's hard for the It's hard for

2651
02:10:47,440 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 1: the Charges to do anything to impress me. I mean, right,

2652
02:10:49,480 --> 02:10:51,160
Speaker 1: I mean the management in the league. They I mean

2653
02:10:51,160 --> 02:10:54,960
Speaker 1: they haven't. They got one of the best quarterbacks ever

2654
02:10:55,040 --> 02:10:57,440
Speaker 1: and they've had him for like seventeen eighteen years, and

2655
02:10:57,480 --> 02:11:00,320
Speaker 1: they they they can't get out of their own way

2656
02:11:00,320 --> 02:11:01,800
Speaker 1: to give the guys some help. Did you see Philip

2657
02:11:01,840 --> 02:11:03,440
Speaker 1: go to the podium postgame the other day with his

2658
02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:06,560
Speaker 1: little baby? One of us is what eight or nine babies? Oh? No,

2659
02:11:06,640 --> 02:11:09,480
Speaker 1: it's more than nine. How many? It's at least nine?

2660
02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:11,640
Speaker 1: It was nine last time I chat had, I hope

2661
02:11:11,640 --> 02:11:13,080
Speaker 1: it's the youngest. He had him at the podium with

2662
02:11:13,160 --> 02:11:15,000
Speaker 1: him postgame the other day. Pretty cool. Yeah, all right,

2663
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:16,800
Speaker 1: we gotta break here. We're coming back. One Bill's Live

2664
02:11:16,840 --> 02:11:19,480
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. Just yet, Philip isn't one of

2665
02:11:19,480 --> 02:11:21,840
Speaker 1: the all time great dudes. Too good for him. We're

2666
02:11:21,880 --> 02:11:25,080
Speaker 1: live from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing

2667
02:11:25,120 --> 02:11:41,960
Speaker 1: comes close. So the question is what have we learned

2668
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:44,320
Speaker 1: from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

2669
02:11:44,320 --> 02:11:47,200
Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had

2670
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:50,240
Speaker 1: Field Yates, ESPN NFL insider on the show with us today.

2671
02:11:50,720 --> 02:11:53,440
Speaker 1: We asked him, is it really essential that the Bills

2672
02:11:53,560 --> 02:11:57,720
Speaker 1: eventually developed a productive and viable NFL passing him this year?

2673
02:11:57,760 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 1: Here's what he said, More often than not, it is

2674
02:12:01,360 --> 02:12:04,400
Speaker 1: sustainable because you have a really really good defense, especially

2675
02:12:04,440 --> 02:12:06,640
Speaker 1: a past defense. I know the run defense is some

2676
02:12:06,760 --> 02:12:09,879
Speaker 1: cause for a concern right now, and maybe being pierced

2677
02:12:09,960 --> 02:12:12,040
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the defense is something the

2678
02:12:12,080 --> 02:12:15,600
Speaker 1: Bills are looking to hope to fortify going forward. But

2679
02:12:15,680 --> 02:12:18,400
Speaker 1: it's sustainable over the course of a sixteen game season.

2680
02:12:18,800 --> 02:12:21,120
Speaker 1: Where it gets trickier is when you get into the

2681
02:12:21,120 --> 02:12:24,240
Speaker 1: postseason and it's steward ie and if you don't find

2682
02:12:24,280 --> 02:12:26,320
Speaker 1: a way to keep up or you are not capable

2683
02:12:26,400 --> 02:12:28,560
Speaker 1: of keeping up, and you run into one of the

2684
02:12:28,560 --> 02:12:31,080
Speaker 1: buzzsaw offenses and as a team that can certainly put

2685
02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:33,600
Speaker 1: up a lot of points, and I think along those

2686
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 1: lines that's where it grows. Concerning that being said, there's

2687
02:12:37,120 --> 02:12:39,800
Speaker 1: a lot of time left ahead. The defenses rock solid,

2688
02:12:39,880 --> 02:12:42,000
Speaker 1: and you know, I know the Bills fans want to

2689
02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:44,840
Speaker 1: win every game. But I think we've talked about this

2690
02:12:44,840 --> 02:12:47,600
Speaker 1: a handful of times so far this season. There was

2691
02:12:48,600 --> 02:12:51,120
Speaker 1: reason to believe there was a strong trajectory of this

2692
02:12:51,200 --> 02:12:56,760
Speaker 1: franchise overall going forward, and that's been the case. Field

2693
02:12:56,840 --> 02:13:01,000
Speaker 1: Yates made sense. Field also reported and that the Bills

2694
02:13:01,000 --> 02:13:03,040
Speaker 1: brought in a defensive tackle the vetter in a former

2695
02:13:03,080 --> 02:13:06,040
Speaker 1: first round picked for her workout yesterday. Corey Legit twenty

2696
02:13:06,080 --> 02:13:08,280
Speaker 1: nine years old, former first round pick of the Chargers,

2697
02:13:08,280 --> 02:13:11,800
Speaker 1: been eight years there released by Oakland last Wednesday in

2698
02:13:11,880 --> 02:13:14,560
Speaker 1: for a workout yesterday. According to Field Gates of ESPN,

2699
02:13:15,480 --> 02:13:18,520
Speaker 1: a couple of quarterback notes today too. You should know

2700
02:13:18,520 --> 02:13:20,800
Speaker 1: if you're an NFL fan, we assume you are. Cam

2701
02:13:20,800 --> 02:13:23,600
Speaker 1: Newton goes to injured reserve from Carolina. He's been out

2702
02:13:23,600 --> 02:13:25,720
Speaker 1: for the last seven weeks with Payne in his foot

2703
02:13:25,800 --> 02:13:28,960
Speaker 1: note time Tammlana's return, so Cam Newton is out, goes

2704
02:13:29,000 --> 02:13:32,120
Speaker 1: to ir and Doug Morrowan and the Jaguars have decided

2705
02:13:32,160 --> 02:13:34,720
Speaker 1: to go with Nick Foles as they're starter when they

2706
02:13:34,760 --> 02:13:37,920
Speaker 1: returned to play in week eleven. Okay, all right, let's go.

2707
02:13:38,360 --> 02:13:40,720
Speaker 1: Let's go second half of the season. May Let's shift

2708
02:13:40,760 --> 02:13:42,880
Speaker 1: some gears. We'll talk more about that tomorrow. We'll have

2709
02:13:42,960 --> 02:13:45,760
Speaker 1: a Chris Brown from practice tomorrow, and Kyle Brandt from

2710
02:13:45,920 --> 02:13:49,240
Speaker 1: ESPN or from NFL Network will join us tomorrow as well. Producer,

2711
02:13:49,320 --> 02:13:52,520
Speaker 1: production assistants George Blasteff, Coltonick Thomas Donald or Kenny Rude,

2712
02:13:52,560 --> 02:13:55,200
Speaker 1: j J. Territo, Kevin Card, James Roebel, our producer Jay

2713
02:13:55,200 --> 02:14:01,800
Speaker 1: Harrison tomorrow at noon on Buffalo Bill's Radio