1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: Steve Taskers done, done, still time. Bye week is here. 2 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: We're Steer here still here for a day or two. Anyway, 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, and welcome to One Bill's Live. Welcome to 4 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, nwer Afield right next door. It's a 5 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: beautiful sunny autumn day in western New York here on 6 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 1: Norcher Park. It's not hot, it's not cold. It's perfect. Actually, 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: Blue Skies Stadium looks great if you're watching on the 8 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: MSG side. Welcome to our show, John Murphy and Steve 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: Tasker in our Seneca studio at One Bills Drive. Here 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: for the next three hours. As we said out in 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: Orchard Park, insaide the ed Pro Sports Training Center in 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: the Seneca studio. It's happy to be here with you 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: here today, Steve. You good. Yeah, I am good. I actually, uh, 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: I'm not sleeping well lit the last couple of nights. 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: I think the main reason is because I'm excited about 16 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: the weekend, the bye week. I got stuff going on, 17 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: and uh, I hope that's the reason. I was not caffeine. 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: I'm impounded caffeine. I've seen a lot of caffeine. Go 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: now I might have to. I'm drinking water today. Hopefully 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: that'll help not sleeping well and that what impact might 21 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: that have on in today's program? Well, I might get 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: a little cranky, but other than that, it will be 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: normal because I'm not so it might get a little cranky. 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: You might not the way you approach each day. You 25 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: might Yeah, you might not notice exactly difference, right, exactly. 26 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Steve is here. Might get a 27 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: little franky. We are forewarned, and forewarned is forearmed. So 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: we got a good show. We got a trade to 29 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: talk about, we got a bye week to talk about, 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: we got the rest of the NFL to'll talk about, 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: and we have Kyle Brandt to talk with. Kyle Brandt, 32 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: NFL Network hoast, he is the host of Good Morning Football, 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: joins us at one o'clock today. We're putting together the 34 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: rest of the show as we go along, so stay tuned. 35 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: We only have three shows this week, and this is 36 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: number two. We're here tomorrow noon to three, and just 37 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: make your plans now. Thursday and Friday we are off 38 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: because of the bye week, and there's nobody here at 39 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive these days. Players are scattered, coaches scattering, 40 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: most much of the staff is going to be gone 41 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: Thursday Friday, including us, So yeah, we won't have a 42 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: show Thursday Friday. Make your plans now, all those things 43 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: you've been meaning to do instead you get caught up 44 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: in our show. Work around the house, maybe paint a 45 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 1: few bedrooms around the house, whatever you've got on you 46 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: to do list, whatever, Because I got stuff that I'm 47 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: going to get done this weekend Thursday Friday. But whatever 48 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: you've got Thursday and Friday the day to do it, 49 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: because you won't be compelled to watch or listen to 50 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: our show anymore, I think, interestingly enough, there's a lot 51 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: to talk about. We had the Monday night football game 52 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: last night. The you know, the the Browns and the 53 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: forty nine forty Niners looked pretty good and the Browns 54 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: didn't a lot of a lot of layers of that. 55 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: And then during the game, and it's one of the 56 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: things I like about the days in today's culture we 57 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: live in. During the game, you find out Zay Jones 58 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: got traded to their Oakland Raiders. I'm trying to watch 59 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: the Monday night football game between the Niners and the Browns, 60 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: and I'm also trying to keep track of the Saves game. Right, 61 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: and the saves are on this rampage. Comeback, they score, 62 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,239 Speaker 1: they pull the goal. I'm not being rude here for 63 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: your text. They pulled the goal goal goalie and scored 64 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: to tie it up and then lost it in overtime. 65 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: As it's like a nice comeback victory. I remember I said, 66 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: Boom Jones Zay to Oakland eight fifty one last night 67 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: Boom Capitals Zay gone to Oakland for a fifth From 68 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker to myself and uh and Jay Harrison producers. 69 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: Not that I could not I like Zay, uh, but 70 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: all of us kind of thought like they're gonna do something, 71 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: and the and the Duke Williams call up last weekend. 72 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: Maybe it will and maybe they're not. They got Robert 73 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Foster on the roster. Isa McKenzie's getting like eighteen that 74 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: he's getting between three percent and eighteen percent of the snaps. 75 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: You know, Cole Beasley and John Brown are going to 76 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: be on the field now. Duke Williams took almost all 77 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: of Zay Jones snaps and was in there and made 78 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: some catches, and you know, gosh, are they gonna do something? 79 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: All these teams, you know, you got all these names 80 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: out there that are, you know, the Trent Williams, the 81 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: tackle from Washington. Uh Aj Green is now being hotly 82 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: contested around the league, thinking they're gonna do something with 83 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: him because since the NAST season's going nowhere and he's 84 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: a thirty one year old receivers starting to get injured 85 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: a little bit, he might be out there available. All 86 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: these guys that people are and Jalen Ramsey and Jacksonville, 87 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: who's a great player who wants out of there. All 88 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: this stuff's going on, and you think, well, gosh, you 89 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: know Zay Jones, you package him up, what's gonna happen? 90 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: And they end up trading him to Oakland for a 91 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: fifth round pick, And of course right away they take 92 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: a little heat trading a second round guy who you 93 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: trade it up for up to get three years later 94 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: for a fifth rounder. Two years two years later for 95 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: a fifth rounder. Yeah, well was his third year right right, right? 96 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: So it was the draft of twenty seventeen, right, And 97 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: you're thinking, you know, and I get it too. I'm 98 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: I was disappointed it didn't work for him. Here me too. 99 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: You know, well, let's talk about that. Does a Jones 100 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: trade happened last night? And it's not official yet. They're 101 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: waiting for the Raiders. I guess who announced it they get. 102 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: The Bill's trade Za Jones to the Raider for a 103 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: fifth rounder has not been officially made yet. Chris Mortenson 104 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 1: reports it. That's good enough for all of us. But yeah, 105 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: so Draft twenty seventeen draft, and you know the setup 106 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: then Sean McDermott was here, Brandon Bean was not, and 107 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: the Bills, in need of a wide receiver a compliment 108 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: at the time for Sammy Watkins, went to East Carolina 109 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: and drafted this amazingly productive receiver, Zay Jones. I mean, 110 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: he had a ton of catches in college at East Carolina. 111 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: He was amazing productive at East Carolina, came here, I 112 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: had a decent rookie year, and last year he was 113 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: the leading receiver on the team fifty six catches a 114 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: year ago. And yet there was always something missing right 115 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: from Zay Jones, and especially this year when the Bill's 116 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: ranks improved with the addition to Cole Beasley and the 117 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: addition of John Brown and then the emergence of Duke Williams, 118 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: plus you know some others still on the roster. Andre 119 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: Roberts takes a roster spot at wide receiver. Even though 120 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: he's mostly a special teamer, Zay Jones became expendable. He 121 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: was essentially the third wide receiver the first four games 122 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: this year, and then this past Sunday at one snap, 123 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: one snap that was like a red flag. We talked 124 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: about it yesterday, a red flag one snap for Za 125 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: Jones and Sundays win at Tennessee. Um. You know, Chris Brown. 126 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: We sat there and talk with Chris about it last 127 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: week and Chris or yesterday rather and Chris said, you know, 128 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: watch that. There's there's something going on there. And I 129 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: think most of us, may included, thought, you know, Zay 130 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: might be released. They get a fifth rounder from him, 131 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: which is something. It's some value, and that's okay. But 132 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: if you do, you're right. You used to go back 133 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: to the twenty seventeen draft and see that they traded 134 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: up to get a guy, and you know, and they 135 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: expected more from him. Quite frankly, he was drafted to 136 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: be the number two guy. He's not drafted as a 137 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: number one wide receiver. Last year, he ended up being 138 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: leading the team in receptions because of the way the 139 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: offense was going last year, the struggles with the offensive 140 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: line and everything else piled on top of it, four 141 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: different starting quarterbacks and goes on and on. He ended 142 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: up being the top guy, mostly in my opinion because 143 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: he played the most snaps last year. But he was 144 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: never drafted to be a number one guy. And quite frankly, 145 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: the offense around him, in the receiver room, in the 146 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: running back room, and the tight end room got better. 147 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: Everybody got better around him, and I think they outgrew 148 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: their need for Za and got to a point where 149 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: they liked who they had other than him. And I'll 150 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: tell you this too. Yeah, the one statistic that gets 151 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: you is Zay's catch ratio for the times he was 152 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: targeted was not good. He didn't catch enough of the 153 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: targets he got and then he put plugged Duke Williams in. 154 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: He only got targeted four times, he caught all four. 155 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: That's kind of the statistic that for me is like 156 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: when you go to a guy, particularly a guy who's 157 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: gonna be your number three, number four, like Duke Williams 158 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: is gonna be like Za Jones was, when you go 159 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: to him, you gotta have him catch those and Duke 160 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: Williams that was what he has done best in his 161 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: short time here in Buffalo, so he gets elevated and 162 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: Sean once again. Yeah, Sean McDermot has always said, hey, 163 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: you earn your spot on the man oh man, he does. 164 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: He live by that mantra. You earn what you get 165 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: on this field. When you're not performing, you sit down, 166 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: you really sit down. That's for everybody, and man oh man, 167 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: he lives by it. Yeah. And draft i've ever seen 168 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: I agree draft status notwithstanding. Right, you can be the 169 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: second round or you can be a guy they traded 170 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: up to get in the second round. And if you're 171 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: not producing, these guys will walk away from you and 172 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: take the hits that they might get criticism for. Hey, 173 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: wait minute, you traded up for that guy in the 174 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: second round and two years later, two and a half 175 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: years later, to ship them off for a fifth round. 176 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: They're they're okay to do it. Yeah, we did that, 177 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: and we got a guy side for that. They think 178 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: they got a better guy. Yeah, and they got better 179 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: people in his place. So it's an interesting move, one 180 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: that's worthy of discussion, and we will discuss it today. 181 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: More Zay Jones reportedly going to the Raiders. The Bills 182 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: added to their practice squad already today they've signed defensive 183 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: end Wyatt Ray to the practice squad. They had a 184 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: vacant spot there. He went to Boston College. Teammate. He's 185 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: six foot three inches tall, teammate of Tommy Sweeney and 186 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: Matt Milano. He was undrafted last spring side with the 187 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: Browns as an undrafted free agent, was cut when the 188 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: Rosters went to the final cut. Nine sacks in twelve 189 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: games in his final nine sacks in his final year 190 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: at Boston College. Seventeen sacks for his career. And an 191 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: interesting note, he is the grandson of Nat king Cole, 192 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: the nephew of Natalie Cole. That's kind of cool, yeah, 193 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: Nat king Cole, I think about it right into talking 194 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: about this, we could have had Nico Leary and Ray 195 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: the grandson of Jack Nicholas and Nat king Cole King 196 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: Cole in my right now, how must listening to Nat 197 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: king Cole. That is the best. That's good, that's a 198 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: good fun by what these grandson Wyatt Ray on the 199 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: Bill's practice squad. Let's see if he's unforgettable. He's his 200 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: grandfather is the great, late great Nat king Cole. You 201 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: don't remember Nat king Cole. I really don't either. My 202 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: parents were big nat king. You're obviously know who who 203 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: he is. But yeah, it's kind of cool. I don't know. 204 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. So welcome to the show. We 205 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about him this bye week. 206 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: As he said, Kyle Brandt's gonna join us at one 207 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: o'clock and we have a good show tomorrow. That's all 208 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: I'll say about the rest of today show. There, No, 209 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: we have a good show today as well. Twitter poll 210 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: deals with where they're at and look and yet, by 211 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: the way, I want to this kind of got my 212 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: attention today. See and we know, you know the Buffalo 213 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: offense is lacking, right, what are they average in fifteen 214 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: points a game? Right? Or less? Um? They are? And 215 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: points per game the Bills they're twenty six in the NFL. 216 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: That's not good. But where do you think I have 217 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: the numbers? So this is unfair, But where would you 218 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: guess the Buffalo offense is ranked overall in the NFL 219 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: in terms of yards per game? Oh, yards per game? Yes, 220 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 1: I know they're doing not too bad at that. I 221 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: would say middle of the I'll say sixteen, right in 222 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. Twelve. It's a little bit 223 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: better than normal, which surprised me today. Right they are. 224 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: They are moving the bowl number seven and rushing average 225 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: per game. They don't pass it as well as they 226 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: run it. Um they eighth and first downs per game, 227 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And points per game is they lacked twenty 228 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 1: sixth overall in points, so work to do obviously on 229 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, we know that. Now 230 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: there's this too. The defense is number three after last 231 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: night's game, number three in the NFL, so top five defense. Still, 232 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: they were two last year. Total yards per game they 233 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: are second, or total yards per play they are second 234 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: rather eighth, and rushing defense third and past defense had 235 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: been good at that for a couple of years. Points 236 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: per game they're third in the NFL. They're really good defensively. 237 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: We know that. And that takes us to our Twitter 238 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: poll today. And we kind of hatched it yesterday and 239 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,199 Speaker 1: we were talking about this five games and we know 240 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: it's only five. You know, we're not assessing the season. 241 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: There's plenty of time to do that at the offseason. 242 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: Will be here before we want it to be. But 243 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: through five games, who's been the Bill's best defensive player? 244 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: Simple question? Right, we talked about it, we said. We 245 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: talked about it today and here's a little inside baseball. 246 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: We talked about should we do position group? Is the best? 247 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: Should we do? Who has outperformed what you thought? No, 248 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: let's keep it simple, right, simple polls? Or do you 249 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: think is the best defensive player? It's hard to identify that. 250 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: And we got this out. We ran out of choices. 251 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: I mean, we couldn't put eleven names out very right, 252 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: So we only have four spots. So we started with 253 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: the with the ox or what we thought. I hoped 254 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: they're obvious. We started out with Micah Hyde, Tremaine Edmonds, 255 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: Tredavious White, and then you pick one. Yeah, so maybe 256 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: it might not be one of those three. It might 257 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: be my mac Bolano, could be given last week's game, 258 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: could beat Jordan Phillips for goodness, Lorenzo Alexander's been playing 259 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: really strong defensively. So they've got some guys that are candidate, 260 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: but but they've got you know, they've getting such contributions 261 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: from every place. Trent Murphy's playing really well defensively. What 262 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: do you think who has been the Bill's best defensive 263 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: player through five games? Let us know what you think. 264 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. Eight o three oh five fifty 265 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: toll free from Outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five 266 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. On the Twitter poll, which has 267 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: only been up for a little while, um five hundred 268 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: eighty votes in so far. On the Twitter poll, forty 269 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: five percent or forty six percent say Micah Hyde, forty 270 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: two percent say Tremaine Edmunds, only four percent say Tredavious White, 271 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: seven percent say somebody else. And we want to hear 272 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: from all of you, whoever you vote for him, and 273 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: maybe the name is not on your list of the 274 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: best defensive player through five games, I'm surprised there's not 275 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: more backing there for Dredevious White. Look teams are not 276 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: throwing his way because those guys aren't open when Dredevious 277 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: White is on him. So he has not been involved 278 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: in a lot of plays. But I think he's been 279 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: a really strong player. Mike Hyde has been sensational, I 280 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: think Pro Bowl caliber safety for the Bills. And you 281 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: know who's right behind him, Jordan Poyer. I think he's 282 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: played outstanding. Jordan has been a force in the run game. 283 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer has been a force tackling in the run 284 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: game and Tremaine Edmonds has taken giants said, look, there's 285 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: plenty of candidates, right. We have trouble identifying who's the 286 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: best defensive player on the Bills. I have a hard 287 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 1: time telling you, Yeah, they're they're playing so well, so disciplined, 288 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: such team oriented, particularly run defense, pass rush. They've gotten 289 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: contributions at different times from different guys in their pass rush. 290 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: Bam Johnson got in on the act last week, Lorenzo 291 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: got a sack, and then of course Jordan Phillips had 292 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: three of them. They just played really well against Tennis. 293 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: See upfront and then in the back end they gott 294 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: Levi Wallace is a surprise guy who you know, you 295 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: can't get him off the field. He's an undrafted rookie 296 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: free agent who held off a former first rounder, you know, 297 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: to stay on the field. I mean, they're getting some 298 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: contributions from some guys who are around. Tarren Johnson has 299 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: been out of the game with a hammy, and look 300 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: who's Niels played well. So they've got some guys who 301 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: have not only surprised, but also guys like Matt Malana, 302 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: who you thought might come back coming off a back 303 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: leg injury. He's played extremely well. I think he's really 304 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: played well. He's playing the best football career. I do too. 305 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: I think I think he picked up right where he 306 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: left off last year and late in the year. Last year, 307 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: I remember reading it somebody thought, man, the guys playing 308 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: at Pro Bowl level level don't know if he'll make 309 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. But man, oh man, some there's some 310 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: guys on this defense that should. But because they don't 311 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: have any of these statistical you know, juggernauts there, maybe 312 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: they won't. Maybe they won't, but I'll tell you what 313 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: it's they're gonna get some notice as a team, as 314 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: a group, there's no question they're hard to overlook this year. 315 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: So it's a simple Twitter question, Twitter poll question. You 316 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: can vote in the poll, you can send in a tweet. 317 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: We'll read it on the tweet sheet perhaps, or you 318 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: can give us a call. We got phone lines open 319 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: eight oh three fifty toll free one eight eight eight 320 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: by fifty two five fifty. Who has been the Bill's 321 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: best defender through the first five games. Let's start listening 322 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: to some feedback. Let's go to the tweet sheet. Brought 323 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of 324 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills Bill's best defensive players so far this year? 325 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: What do you have on the tweet cheats see from 326 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: from Andrew, who says Tremaine Edmonds has definitely been more 327 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: productive this season than last. He's making smart plays and 328 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: attacking the offense. So there's a vote for Tremaine Edmonds. 329 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: From Jack, he says Micah all Day, he's the quarterback 330 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: of the defense. He's seemingly never out of position. But 331 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: to mention hide, do you have to add poyor Those 332 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: two are cornerstones of that defense and the reason they're 333 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: so successful. Jack's onto something and Max writes in similar Similarly, 334 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: tweets in it's Jordan Poyer to me, I can't believe 335 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: he's not on this poll. We can We only have 336 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: room for four selections. Poyer got the game Ball in 337 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: Week one for being tasked with slowing down living on Bell, 338 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: closed out the game with an interception against the Giants 339 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: and had twelve You had twelve tackles against Cincinnati. Good one. 340 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer has been outstanding. There's no question about Jordan 341 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: Poyer has been great for the Bill's defense. Max backing 342 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: up his argument with facts. Yes, that's unheard of and 343 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: on Twitter facts the facts on Twitter, we don't really 344 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: like to go to Joey. Joey also getting and he says, 345 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: really like to play from Matt Milano. Seems like he's 346 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: in on every play. Also, maybe just the high from 347 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: the Titans game, but Jordan Phillips is looking elite and 348 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: I was kind of chuckling because you know, Jordan Phillips 349 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: has got to get some play. I mean, the guy 350 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: was a wrecking crew against the Titans this last week 351 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: in three sacks and in the first half it was Yeah, 352 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: it was a great day for Jordan Phillips career day. Yeah. Basically, 353 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: you remember last week, I think I'm sure we had 354 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: Andy Benoit on from MMQB and what did he say. 355 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: He said, the best defensive lineman for the Bill so 356 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: far has been Jordan Phillips. And we're like, oh, okay, okay, 357 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: our attention is an interesting take. Yeah, okay, that's fine. 358 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: Then he comes down as three sacks. Yeah. Now, I 359 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: texted Andy yesterday. Unfortunately, Andy was part of that Sports 360 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: Illustrated shake up and he is out at Sports Illustrated. 361 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,959 Speaker 1: But as I told him in the text, he's been 362 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: a great guest over the years. But better than that, 363 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: he's He's a great football analyst who just grinds tape. 364 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: And I'm sure Andy Benoit will find a landing spot 365 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: because that's how good he is. But I said two things. One, 366 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: sorry to hear that you're gone from SI. I think 367 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: they laid off forty percent of their workforce. Two, you're 368 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: absolutely right about Jordan Phillips. Did you see his game? 369 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: And Andy responded in kind, But we wish Andy Benoit well, 370 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 1: as I said, a friend of the show for years now, 371 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: an astute football analyst, and he was on it when 372 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: it came to Jordan Phillips last he was ahead of 373 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: the curve. And of course we didn't know, and Jordan 374 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: Phillips probably didn't know he's going to come in and 375 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: wreck that game like he did for the Titans. But nevertheless, 376 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: Benoit was all over and we had him on our 377 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: as a as a guest last week, and he was 378 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: ahead of it. I gotta tell you, let's take some 379 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: calls on this question, Bill's best defensive player through five games. 380 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: We'll go to Joe in Tonawanda. Hi, Joe, welcome to 381 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: the show. You're on the air with this Hi, guys, 382 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: Um John, I agree with you and with Trey White, 383 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: because they're not throwing his way, and uh, that's making 384 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: the other back. The other guys are really watching the 385 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: other receivers. So the pressures, you know, So Trey White 386 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: is uh, you know, doing most of it just by 387 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: his being there. And uh a question is uh day Jones, 388 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: is he going to be eligible to play very soon 389 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: or is he just going to be on the you know, 390 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: practice squad or something. I mean for Oakland a chance 391 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: to start. They wanted to play. He can play right away. 392 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: This is a trade. He doesn't. We didn't cut him 393 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: and then get signed to their practice roster. No, he is, No, 394 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: he's a member there. If this when this trade is 395 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: announced and goes through, he'll be a member of the 396 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: team and walk right out. He can play. This Sunday, 397 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: I was looking at the Raiders a depth chart and 398 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: their needs at wide receivers. So you know, Anthony Antonio 399 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: Brown was their guy, and of course that flamed up, 400 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: that blew up in their face. Two receivers injured were 401 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: the Raiders, Tyro Williams and J. J. Nelson. So this 402 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: past Sunday, when the Raiders played the Bears in London. 403 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: Their wide receiver corps included Trevor Davis, a fifth round pick, 404 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro, we know him. It was a Clemson I 405 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: believe undrafted rookie Hard Knocks, standout Keelan Doss and practice 406 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: squad call up Marcel Aidaman Adamant. So they needed help. 407 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: The Raiders did at receiver. That's why they got Zay Jones. 408 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: And there was also this I came across Mike Mayock, 409 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: Raiders general manager loves A Jones coming out of college 410 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: SIS back when Mike Mayock was on the NFL Network 411 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: Draft analyst Mike Mayock Raiders GM. Now back then what 412 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, he had Zay Jones ranked as his fourth 413 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: wide receiver in the twenty seventeen draft. He had him 414 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: ahead of Juju Smith, Schuster and Cooper cup may I 415 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: liked them. Bills probably identified that early on and said 416 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: why don't we call them and made that deal and 417 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: got a fifth rounder out of it. It was clear 418 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: the Bills had I mean, one snap was an eye 419 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: opener on Sunday in Sunday's game, right, um Andre Roberts 420 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: had more snaps and not a whole lot more Isaiah 421 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: McKenzie had more snaps, and of course it was you know, 422 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: ten to one, what fifty one snaps for for Duke 423 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,239 Speaker 1: Williams and one snap for Za Jones. That was an 424 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: eye opener for me, like, wow, this Za does not 425 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: figure in their plans. Pretty obvious here. And also Chris 426 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: Brown was in yesterday said, you know, Zay Jones doesn't 427 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: play special teams either. You've got to if you're the 428 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: last guy at a roster spot, as a wide receiver, 429 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: as a defensive back, as a linebackers, a defensive lineman, 430 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: you name it. If you're the last guy on that 431 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: spot down the roster, you're you've got to play special teams. 432 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: And Zay Jones didn't, wasn't asked to contribute in that way. 433 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: And you've got to get forty five guys on game 434 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: day on the field contributing in some way, shape or forming. 435 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: And it was at the point now for Zay Jones 436 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: that they wasn't there. He wasn't even gonna be asked 437 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: to help out. So yeah, that the writing was on 438 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: the wall. When you look back on it, it's it's 439 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: a little bit like a racing form Murphy. It's easy 440 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: to figure it out after it's over. But there's always 441 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: a few possibilities in the cupping, like we didn't. We 442 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: could have been a Zay Jones, could have been you know, 443 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: tweaked something in in pregame he's be ready for an emergency, 444 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: or could have been something injury related, health related or 445 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: personal related that they didn't want him to play. Could 446 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: that we weren't aware of. But as it turns out, 447 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: it was nothing. It was all of that. It was 448 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: all about production and all about where they were headed 449 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: with the roster, and and now it looks as though 450 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: he's going to be traded to the Oaklandragon. It's not 451 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: official yet, but it's pretty much a done deal. And 452 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: you know, they gave Duke Williams a month on their 453 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: practice squad to go with the Duke was signed in January, 454 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: started working out with the team back in April, so 455 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: he had all the OTAs and all the mini camps 456 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: and then a month of training camp. And it was 457 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: only we talked about it yesterday Week two, really game 458 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: two of the preseason where he finally emerged, but the 459 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: game a month in the regular season on the practice 460 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,239 Speaker 1: quad to kind of see how he practice. Obviously, they 461 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: like what they saw. So the Bill's receiving corps now 462 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley, m Andre Roberts is your special 463 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: team or Duke Williams, Isa McKenzie and Robert Foster. Who 464 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 1: is a lot of guys active? Well, one, two, three, four, five, six? Right? Yeah? 465 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: Seven is too many, obviously, Yeah, yeah, and six is 466 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 1: about right. I guess for this day and age when 467 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna play so many of them. But I you 468 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: think about it too. We had Lee Smith on the 469 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: show yesterday and he had talked about Duke Williams. He's 470 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: got that in factor and I get it. He's a 471 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 1: strong personality. He's a guy who's he's got some charisma, 472 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: and I think two guys like that show up big 473 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: on game day, you know what I mean. Duke certainly 474 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: has done that in his time here in Buffalo in 475 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: the preseason, and we didn't hardly see him take reps 476 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: at practice. He didn't, you know, did a couple of 477 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: things maybe one in a while, and it's like everybody does. 478 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: When that game light came on, he was in a 479 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: real snap in a real game. He was on When 480 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: the ball goes to him, he fights for it and 481 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: he's strong on the ball. He came up big in 482 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: all the game situations he's been exposed to as a 483 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, and I think that says a lot about 484 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: what they expect from him and the kind of player 485 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: he is. He seems like a big moment guy, you 486 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: know what I mean? And those in the two touchdowns 487 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: in the preseason we're testaments to that. I mean, he 488 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: was under the radar forever and he's just popped out. 489 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: He had one chance to do it, and man, oh man, 490 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: he looked good doing it too. I gotta say this too, 491 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: and maybe this is what you're saying as well, Steve 492 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: to hear and I'll admit it caught me a little 493 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: bit by surprise Sunday in the locker room at Tennessee 494 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: and yesterday here and we heard Lee Smith talking about 495 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: it yesterday and our show. To hear the affinity his 496 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: teammates have for Duke Williams. To hear the respect and 497 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: how many you know he had fans in the locker 498 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: room right, People were really rooting for him. That means 499 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: something on a team that's sort of built on here 500 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: it comes. Here's that word culture. It's built on this 501 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: team culture. It means something when a guy gets that 502 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: much respect and that much support from his teammates. I 503 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: think that resonates with the coaching staff, with the personnel department, 504 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: who makes this decision to trade away somebody else, right, 505 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 1: they see, Wow, Duke really fits in here. People are 506 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 1: rooting for him. People really want him to succeed. Uh, 507 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: let's make a let's make a spot for him. And 508 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: by the way, he played well too, that's the most 509 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: important thing. And it showed up that that sentiment by 510 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: his team had showed up in the celebration after the 511 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: touchdown and they all none of them could have been happier. 512 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: They were. They were all running right at him, to him, 513 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: and he was gay. He was going crazy too. I 514 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: love this. And if you're on MSG, you'll see him 515 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: start to take off his helmet, gets to the sideline, 516 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: takes his helmet off, and then he couldn't find it. 517 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: And he was supposed to go in for kickoff, yea, 518 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: and he couldn't find his helmet. Even Josh Adam what 519 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: makes his way over there, and he you know, everybody's 520 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: just so stoked for him, and it was great to see. 521 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: And so it really does genuine Lee Smith alluded to 522 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: it yesterday when we had him on and you could 523 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: see it there, and we've seen it at different times 524 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: over the Sean McDermott era of how happy these guys 525 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: are for each other's success, and that goes a long 526 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: way in tough moments. One of there's great video that 527 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: is not safe for work, not safe for our show. 528 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: But it's end of the game and somebody from one 529 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: of the local TV stations in Tennessee shot it from 530 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: the tunnel looking down up the field. Duke Gulliams is 531 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: walking up the field and behind him, his quarterback Josh 532 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: Allen tells Duke Williams that he loves him. There's an 533 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: extra word in there, but he tells him, hey, Duke, 534 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: I love you. I mean, that's crazy, but that I 535 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: think resonates with this coaching staff and not just Josh 536 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: fields that way, but the entire team was was rooting 537 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: him on. And look, I know culture doesn't matter, it 538 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: really does, but I think but I think that it 539 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: resonates with this coaching staff and this personel department when 540 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: they see how people respond to his success and how 541 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: much they root for him. I think that is a 542 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: bit of a factor here. Yeah, and he can. That's 543 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: the most seems to be able to play. And I think, uh, 544 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: you know, given his success last week and the and 545 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: the economy of what he does, the success he has 546 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: with the economy of opportunities that he gets, they only 547 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: got four four targets. It wasn't like they were targeting him. 548 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: It was the number one guy. But they need somebody 549 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: to make some good catches so that Cole Beasley stops 550 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: getting doubled all the time because he gets pounced on 551 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: because they know how easy those throws are for Josh 552 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: Allen and John Brown had got loose a little bit 553 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: early this last week, but then Duke Williams kind of 554 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: took up the slack. Even so, this team still struggles 555 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: to get into the end zone. Yep, and they've got 556 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: a score. They're looking for solutions, they're they're shuffling stuff around. 557 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: It starts with those guys who are out there to 558 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: get separation for Josh Allen throw it too. They're trying 559 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:54,719 Speaker 1: to get They're trying to do this to get bet. 560 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: This isn't about, you know, feel good story with Duke Williams, 561 00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: although it's part of it. The real part of his 562 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: they're trying to get better. They got work to do offensively, 563 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 1: they got to score points and this last week the 564 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: thing the tweak that they made this last week work 565 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: because it got him to go ahead and the winning 566 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: touchdown and from Duke Williams. Yep, all right, we got 567 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, as you can tell them. 568 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: We got a lot of calls teat up. We're gonna 569 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: get to those when we come back, including the trade 570 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: away of Zay Jones. Will talk about that. Our Twitter question, 571 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: who's the best Bills defensive player to the first five games? 572 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: Like to hear your thoughts on that. All of it's 573 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: on the table. John Murphy was team Tasker. We're just 574 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: getting rolling here. It is one Bills Live presented by 575 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: Kalada Health Live from the Seneca Studio on Buffalo Bills Radio. Murphy, 576 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, bye week. The Bills are four and one, No, 577 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,479 Speaker 1: and it's not unexpected right there there, four and one right, 578 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: but it's it's it's delightful. I don't know how else 579 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,959 Speaker 1: to phrase it, right, delightful I could for that last touchdown. 580 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: I guess the Patriots that have been delightful. Little change 581 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: over here. It happens at the eleven fifty five am 582 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: every day when the instigators move off the set and 583 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: we move on, and just you know, it kind of 584 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: was an interchange between like traffic passing, and I stopped 585 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: and looked at Andrew Peters Pete, and he looked at me, 586 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: and we both just started smiling. We got the Sabers 587 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: are going well even with last night's overtime loss, and 588 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: the Bills are going really well. And we both just said, 589 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: you know, the sun's in the sky and God's in 590 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: his heaven and everything's ride his way. Baby, you can't 591 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: help it. Even the instigators here and not at the 592 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 1: arena makes a difference. All right, A couple of big 593 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: things to talk about. We got a lot to talk 594 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: about here. Who's the best Bills defensive player through five games? 595 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: Who do you think? We got a Twitter poll about it, 596 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: but you're welcome to throw in your choice and the 597 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: Za Jones trade. What do you make of that? Give 598 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: us a call eight O three five fifty toll free 599 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or 600 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: sending a tweet. We can read it on the tweet sheet. 601 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: Here we go, Steve Phone calls ready, Are you ready? 602 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: I am, Greg and Buffalo. Go ahead, Greg, you're on 603 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: the are Hey, guys, thanks for taking the call. Sure, yeah, 604 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: I have to agree with the guys. I mean, it 605 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: was sad to see that z Jones didn't work out 606 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: for us. I was very hopeful for him, especially come 607 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: out of college. You know. I decided a question though. 608 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: I mean, given that we only got a fifth round 609 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: and pick out of him, which I'm not really upset 610 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: about because we gave him his chance. It didn't work out, 611 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: that's fine. Do you think it's likely that we try 612 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: to pursue another receiver like maybe an AJ Green. I 613 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: don't think we'd go first to find Diggs because of 614 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: the price. If do you think it's likely that, you know, 615 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: we could even package someone like Robert Foster. As much 616 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: as I'd hate to say it, but do you think 617 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: that's the possibility of us letting him go and kind 618 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: of getting in an upgrade for maybe a number one 619 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: receiver on their aster. I'll tell you this, I'll tell 620 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: you this. It would be my guest. I don't know anything. 621 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to Brandon Bean or Sean McDermot or 622 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: any of those guys, but I would say this. They've 623 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: probably made inquiries about all those guys and know the 624 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: specifics of what the teams are asking for or whether 625 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: those guys are actually available at all. But I would 626 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: not put it past this front office not to have 627 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: made phone calls about a lot of guys we know 628 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: and some more likely guys we don't even know about 629 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: that they like, you know what I mean, Like we 630 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: all had this thing, like I'll give you an example. 631 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: Last offseason, we all thought they were gonna get Matt 632 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: Paradis from the Denver Broncos because he was this big, 633 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: high quality guy, but he was thirty one years old. 634 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: They end up signing Mitch Moore too, I didn't even 635 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: know existed. He's twenty six and played for the best 636 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: offense in the league last year. He was a better 637 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: sign than Paradise was for me. And so I think 638 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: that's probably what you can think about. They probably have 639 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: inquired about guys who are available, and they're probably guys 640 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: that aren't even on our radar because they like different 641 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: things than we are aware of. You know what I'm saying. 642 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. The one thing about A J. Green, too, 643 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: is he's not ready to play yet that's got a 644 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: factor into it, right. Do you want to trade for 645 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: a guy with a foot injury, right, and a pretty 646 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: serious one that has kept him out for months now. Yeah, 647 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: he's got great production in his past. But I look, 648 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: I don't rule anything out with this group because these guys, 649 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: they're a little crazy, and they've got what three weeks 650 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: from today's trade deadline, I believe, right, So I don't 651 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: rule anything out. But that would surprise me, And that 652 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: would surprise me if they traded for j Green's over thirty. Yeah, 653 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: he's a little injury prone. In the last two or 654 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: three years he's been He's missed some games, like eighteen 655 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: games or so. And Cincinnati is notoriously hard to bargain with. 656 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: They get what they want or they don't make the deal. 657 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: They don't care if the players happy, or if he's 658 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: not playing or is playing or anything. So there's a 659 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: lot of factors that kind of stack up against the 660 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: AJ Green thing happening. And there's no way you're going 661 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: to get Julio Jones out of Atlanta. There's you know, 662 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins use these same names all the time, t 663 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: Y Hilton, You're not getting those players away from those teams, 664 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: So throw that away and look down for productive, high 665 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: quality receivers who are under your radar, under the radar 666 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: for the headlines kind of guys. I think those are 667 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: the kind of guys you're thinking about, Guys like Robert 668 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: Robert Woods, you know, the guy that we low. A 669 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: guy like that would be a gritty addition to this 670 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,479 Speaker 1: team that we lost and made. He made a ton 671 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: of money with LA. It's a guy you and I 672 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: both like, right, yep. So guys like that I think 673 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: are more likely to make changes for this team because 674 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: I think those are the kind of guys with that 675 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: DNA that this club kind of roots out, they kind 676 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: of find out about and get. I was just checking 677 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: on AJ Green yesterday. Zach Taylor, Bengals coach, said that 678 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: he's not going to practice again this week, still coming 679 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: back from ankle is ankle's surgery. Zach Taylor says he'll 680 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: be on the rehab field making good progress ankle injury 681 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: early in training camp and he's yet to play or 682 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: really practice surgery and Lee July, so he's not and 683 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: Zach Kayler says we'll get through without We'll get Aj 684 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: through this week. He will not practice and they hope 685 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: to have him back next week. It was like first day, 686 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: first practice of training camp at Bowling Green College. I 687 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: remember they were on a and the Bowling Green field 688 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: was a little bit substandard, a little hard, and AJ 689 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: Green's foot gave out. He tweaked his ankle. Yeah, and uh, 690 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: he didn't even hit the ground. It was non contact, 691 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: none of that. He was like a stop and go 692 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: or something like that. He just had to walk off 693 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: the field. He was injured. And the latest trade rumors 694 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: for Green center on him maybe going to New England. 695 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: But whatever, we'll see. Yeah. Uh, call here from Bob 696 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: and Rochester. Go ahead, you're on the air with us. 697 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: Hello Bob, Bob once twice gone. Steven Niagara Falls, Hello, Steve. Hey, 698 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: how you guys doing. Man, Thanks for taking my call, 699 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: great man, Thanks you calling him, Steve. I will say 700 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: one thing, I will be in Kenton when you get 701 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: inducted into the Hall of Fame. What's the date on that? Yeah, 702 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: but I want to go to If I probably won't be, 703 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: it's gonna be posthumously, so I appreciate you being there 704 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: for the NFL is one fiftieth exactly. I'm going to 705 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: miss ay Jones. I wish him luck. He's going to 706 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: an up and coming team. But my my big thing 707 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: is get rid of that jersey that says number eleven 708 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: on it. Why is that? That's a bad jersey. It's 709 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: bad mojo. It's just a bad mojo. Get rid of 710 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: day Who is it? What? Rob Johnson was eleven? Right? Yes? Right? 711 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: And well what was Roscoe Parish? Was he eleven? Yeah? Yes? Rob? 712 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: Who else? Mister Norwood? Oh? Come on? Is he eleven? Was? Okay? Norwood? 713 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: Was this a great guy? Norway guy? I just talk, Yeah, 714 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: that's not bad mojo? Uber And finally, like the defensive player, 715 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: it's hard to pick one out of him, but I 716 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: would pick Edmonds. I would, Okay, I think he I 717 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: think he's fabulous. He's all over the field. That guy 718 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: has got he's up and coming. He's not pointing anywhere. 719 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: If Buffalo gets rid of him, who that be? Dunk? 720 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: They're not getting rid of him. And I want to say, 721 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 1: Steve's got something to say about this too. When you 722 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: mentioned Jose's going to the Raiders, an up and coming team, 723 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: he's leaving a team that is even more up and coming. 724 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: Would say that, but go ahead, Stevie. I just think, um, yeah, 725 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: I agree with you. Termaine Edmonds has been a guy 726 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: as a guy who's started to spread his wings, and 727 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: he's seen We've seen him defend a couple of passes. 728 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: I thought he probably should have picked off the Tom 729 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: Brady passed last week. He had a chance to get 730 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: the Mariota pass. Same thing. He just kind of snugs 731 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: up the line, shuffles over with the eyes and gets 732 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: up into the passing lane. I think he's playing extremely well. 733 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: Zay Jones, You're right. He's going to a Raiders team 734 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: that is finn at wide receiver right now. He'll stand 735 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: out there athletically, and you know, we earned but we 736 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: rarely are glad to see people go u and Zay 737 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: Jones is one of those guys. Certainly didn't work out 738 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: the way we wanted it to. But he was never 739 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: drafted to be the number one. He was drafted to 740 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 1: be a number two behind Sammy and the team on offensive. 741 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 1: His side of the ball really went through a dark 742 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 1: age there with Tyrod and then last year with the 743 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: four different quarterbacks that were starting and Josh just getting 744 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: his feet under him as a starting quarterbacks. There's a 745 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: lot of things working against him here in Buffalo. But 746 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: I tell you what too, this is a team, if 747 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,720 Speaker 1: you want to, if there's anybody we're here in Buffalo 748 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 1: see it. This is a team that's on the rise. 749 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: Oakland certainly thinks they've bottomed out and they're starting to 750 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: get it together and put their team together the way 751 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: they want to. But they are at least a year 752 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 1: a whole season behind where the Buffalo Bills are right now. 753 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 1: You know he's talking. We're talking about Zay Jones and 754 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: is what two and almost two and a half seasons 755 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 1: in Buffalo and his first season here is rookie season. 756 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 1: Z Jones caught twenty seven passes. But I'm just looking 757 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,720 Speaker 1: at the wide receiver roster at that point. Deante Thompson 758 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: was a starter at wide receiver. He's like a good 759 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 1: guy journeyman at best. Though, right who else was a 760 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: wide receiver on that team. Jordan Matthews they acquired in 761 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: a trade, didn't do much here, still trying to hang 762 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,200 Speaker 1: on around the league, Calvin Benjamin. The point is the 763 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: receiving corps is dramatically upgraded, and Sammy Watkins obviously as well. 764 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: For the at least the first couple of weeks year, 765 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 1: but the receiving corps is dramatically upgraded for the Bills 766 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 1: since then. We were talking in our office about eleven 767 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 1: or so this morning about Zay Jones first getting here 768 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,760 Speaker 1: and who he was in the room with it wide receiver. 769 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: He had a different coach then, obviously, right, Yeah, different 770 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: wide receivers coach. And now that it's only two years ago, 771 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: it seems like twenty years ago, doesn't It seems like 772 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: a long time time. Yeah, so much has changed. So 773 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: much has changed so much. The team has changed around 774 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,240 Speaker 1: him in that room, the building has changed, the coaching 775 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: staff has evolved. I mean it's yeah, it's everything's different, 776 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: and uh uh and it kind of grew away from 777 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: where he was at. I mean, he just he's one 778 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: of the guys that that didn't survive the transition into 779 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: what the offense is becoming. Uh And this team, and 780 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: I keep going back to it that this team is 781 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: not afraid to pull the trigger on getting guys on 782 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: the field that need to be on the field. You 783 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: earn your way onto the field and this team, and 784 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: you will earn your way off of it. And that's 785 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: that's I think what happened? Is A Jones. You look 786 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 1: back at you said he had twenty seven catches in 787 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: twenty seventy, had one hundred and eighteen targets, and he 788 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: only caught twenty seven of those footballs. And it's that 789 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: that kind of ratio continued into this year as well. 790 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 1: He was on the wrong end of three all three 791 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: or three of the four interceptions last week against the Patriots. 792 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,399 Speaker 1: He was on. He was the guy they were trying 793 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: to get the ball too. So it was it was 794 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: it was not working out here, and the numbers bear 795 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: that out, and so did the naked eye, just them 796 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: anecdotal watching him. He's on his he was Z Jones 797 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: had his college coach, Phil mcgagan, as the receiver's coach 798 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,920 Speaker 1: here in twenty seventeen, his first year. Hearing out right 799 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 1: now they have cha at hall and you know what, 800 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,320 Speaker 1: and one place stands out to me a lot I 801 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: think about I was thinking about this last night. Was 802 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: A Jones. So it had to be his second game 803 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. And it wasn't his fault. You know, 804 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: we're not a signing fault here, but it would have been. 805 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: It would have been a changing play if he had 806 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 1: made it the Bills wanted. I will go to Carolina 807 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,919 Speaker 1: Week two. It's a nine to three score fourth quarter 808 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 1: and Tyrod Taylor's a quarterback and Tyrod tries to find 809 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,839 Speaker 1: Za Jones deep down field for the go ahead, game 810 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: winning touchdown pass and the final seconds of the game, 811 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 1: and it just didn't connect. Wasn't a drop. I don't 812 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 1: think we're looking at it here on MSG. Wasn't a 813 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,760 Speaker 1: drop it it didn't fall into his hands. He almost 814 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 1: I remember the extensive analysis of that play and that throw, 815 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 1: that potentially game winning play after it was over, and 816 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,399 Speaker 1: people thinking just a misconnection between Tyrode and Za Jones. 817 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,320 Speaker 1: Only a second game have he makes that play, I 818 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,320 Speaker 1: would argue that he's still a Buffalo Bill. But it 819 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: was like the first sign that it just wasn't all 820 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: right there for z Jones. You're given me a skeptical look. Yeah, 821 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,279 Speaker 1: I don't know if a play that long ago would 822 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 1: make a difference, although again it's two years ago, right, 823 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 1: that long ago. Yeah, And I think also the reason 824 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: that play didn't work is also the reason he's not here. Yeah, 825 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Ball skills, the ability to elevate 826 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: your play certainly, you know, he didn't get as a 827 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 1: wide receiver in the offense when Tyrod Taylor was here. Yeah, 828 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: it was a struggle. Tyrod didn't throw it until you 829 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,920 Speaker 1: had made such huge separation that you there was no way, 830 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,400 Speaker 1: and then after you were opened, then he threw the football. 831 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 1: It was really difficult to play wide receiver in that offense. 832 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: That play that we just saw you and I just 833 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: watched it was a throw that was behind him where 834 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: it had to be, and he was a little late 835 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: to adjust to it, probably for the reason that the 836 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 1: same reason Tyrod just waited waited to throw it. It 837 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: was a corner route that Tyrod threw high and behind him, 838 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,960 Speaker 1: and Zay just couldn't get there. He had two hands 839 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: on it, but he couldn't elevate to get it. And 840 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: that's you know, those kind of plays are the ones 841 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: you need a guy like that to make. And then 842 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,880 Speaker 1: there were some others that were just probably you know, 843 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,760 Speaker 1: there were others that were there were even more egregious. 844 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 1: Jones had three different position coaches in his two and 845 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 1: a half years in Buffalo, right, Yeah, and that means 846 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 1: something too. And this is not an attempt to find 847 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: excuses for him, but the fact that he never fired, 848 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,239 Speaker 1: that he never really took off the way they were 849 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: hoping a second round pick with all of that production. Again, 850 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 1: his numbers that East Carolina were amazing, right, and amazing 851 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,919 Speaker 1: FBS records for as many catches. I know, different level, 852 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 1: I get all that. I gotta look it up. It'll 853 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,040 Speaker 1: blow you away. In twenty sixteen he had one hundred 854 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,799 Speaker 1: and fifty seven hundred fifty eight catches seventeen hundred yards um. 855 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,080 Speaker 1: He said, a FBS record three hundred ninety nine catches 856 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: during his college career. Amazing production. And then we never 857 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,800 Speaker 1: really saw it here. Different level, I get it, I 858 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: get it. He's you know, he's big enough. He was 859 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,879 Speaker 1: a he was a very willing blocker in the run 860 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: games we've seen even this year. But he's It was 861 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 1: just one of those things where and I said this 862 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 1: a lot, he said, three different position coaches. I get that. 863 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,800 Speaker 1: But plus he had some guys in the room with 864 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: him that were, you know, Kelvin Benjamin. You can say, okay, 865 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 1: he was a number one draft pick and a number 866 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,719 Speaker 1: one wide receiver, but he got here to Buffalo. He 867 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: did not have that persona about him where he was 868 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,239 Speaker 1: grinding it out. He was gonna go, he was gonna 869 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: play hard. You know. Kelvin Benjamin always looked like he 870 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: was in idol. There were no good role models there 871 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,279 Speaker 1: were now, Sammy Watkins. I don't think there was a 872 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: good role model for him. They were no good mentors 873 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: for him in that room his entire first two full 874 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 1: years here. Yeah, all right, we'll talk more about Zay 875 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,600 Speaker 1: Jones being traded away. We'll talk about your pick for 876 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 1: the Bill's best defensive player through five games. All of that. 877 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,719 Speaker 1: As the show moves along, we got Kyle Brant coming 878 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: up at one o'clock from NFL Network. Come on back, 879 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,200 Speaker 1: One Bill's I presented by Colota Health Line from the 880 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:50,319 Speaker 1: Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close, Hey, 881 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,279 Speaker 1: Time for New York LOADO inside the Numbers. John Brown 882 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,319 Speaker 1: seventy five yards receiving against the Tennessee Titans a game. 883 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: How Hi now? John Brown? Smoke has fifty or more 884 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,279 Speaker 1: yard in all five games he's played this year. John 885 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,360 Speaker 1: Brown is the first Bill to open a season with 886 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 1: such a streak since Lee Evans did it in two 887 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Lee Evans had seven consecutive games of 888 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: fifth year or more yards. It's the sixth time a 889 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 1: Bill has had fifty or more yards receiving in the 890 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,320 Speaker 1: season's first five games. There's the guy that fits in, 891 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: John Brown. Yeah, he does, you know, And it's funny. 892 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 1: It's not funny. We were talking about Duke Williams earlier. 893 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,880 Speaker 1: Did you see who? I think he might have been 894 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 1: the first one to jump him after the jo John 895 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,879 Speaker 1: Brown smoke. You know, it was pretty impressive. Yeah, I'd 896 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,560 Speaker 1: take some phone calls. Let's go to u Zaire in 897 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 1: Buffalo's here. I hope I got your name right today. Hey, 898 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 1: yes you did. You did great, Thank you coming on 899 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,279 Speaker 1: the air. How are you guys doing today? Thanks for 900 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,400 Speaker 1: having me, you bet, no problem. I just wanted to 901 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 1: talk about Duke Williams. I think that Duke Glims could 902 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: be Josh adam s favorite target in the red zone. 903 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: Just like Josh Allen turned on in the fourth quarter 904 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: and when the lights come on, I think Duke Williams 905 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 1: does the same. And those guys could be the perfect match. 906 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,239 Speaker 1: And I also think our entire receivering group as a 907 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,880 Speaker 1: whole is just right as it is right now. We 908 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: have a guy for every possibility on the field that 909 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: can go long. We have red zone guys, the guy 910 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 1: guys that can work to middle of the field, and 911 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 1: we have complimentary tight ends and back fan in the backfield. 912 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,360 Speaker 1: So I think our office is out enought to be 913 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,959 Speaker 1: pretty nice right now. All right, So you're a good point. 914 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,480 Speaker 1: The receiving corps is worth talking about, Steve, especially with 915 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,000 Speaker 1: the trade of Zay Jones. And look what you got here. 916 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: You got smoke. We talked about him and you got 917 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,440 Speaker 1: Cole Beasy. We know his role, right. Robert Foster, who 918 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,359 Speaker 1: enacted the last two games. As he comes, I think 919 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,799 Speaker 1: he's got a groin, right, he has something to add 920 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: when he's healthy. I think Robert Foster, I'm not right 921 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: in the end of his chapter yet. Duke Williams, we 922 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,600 Speaker 1: saw what he can do, Isaia McKenzie and Andre Roberts, 923 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: I mean six of them. I know people get excited 924 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,440 Speaker 1: and the trade deadline, it's only going to get more activity, 925 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,799 Speaker 1: yaching about trade for this guy, trade for that guy. 926 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,279 Speaker 1: I get that three weeks away, But like Zaire, I 927 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,040 Speaker 1: can live with the group they have right here. I 928 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,040 Speaker 1: think John Brown is more than capable well number one 929 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,960 Speaker 1: receiver on the team and I like saying here. I 930 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,560 Speaker 1: think Duke Williams demonstrated in one short appearance four catches 931 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,800 Speaker 1: that he can be the red zone target. I really do. 932 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:15,160 Speaker 1: I agree. And they've they've got enough speed. John Brown's fast, 933 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 1: Andre Roberts has got some speed, of course, Robert Foster, 934 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,879 Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie. They've got enough speed to put on the field. 935 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, the great possession receiver. He It's been my 936 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,959 Speaker 1: observation when Cole Beasley's on the field, he gets doubled. Yeah, 937 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: they really Teams who have seen the early games of 938 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,879 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have really noticed how much Josh Allen 939 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,960 Speaker 1: is willing to lean on Cole Beasley. If they don't 940 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,360 Speaker 1: cover him up, he's getting the ball and he's getting 941 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,440 Speaker 1: it right now. So that it's what tennessee. It crushes 942 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,240 Speaker 1: a defense on two ways. One, it's an easy completion 943 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,960 Speaker 1: with a chance at an easy first down if Cole 944 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,800 Speaker 1: Beasley makes one guy miss. Secondly, the ball's out of 945 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,600 Speaker 1: Josh Allen's hands, it's it's an easy throw, easy completion, 946 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,279 Speaker 1: and they get no chance to make Josh Allen run 947 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,360 Speaker 1: around and try and throw the ball deep laid over 948 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: the middle for an interception that that takes that right 949 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,720 Speaker 1: away from the defense when Cole Beasley is not doubled, 950 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,839 Speaker 1: So the Titans were all over him. They were jumping 951 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,839 Speaker 1: him quick, which is why one of the reasons John 952 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,440 Speaker 1: Brown was having some success early in that game last week. 953 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,200 Speaker 1: So they've got I'm kind of with Zaire on this, 954 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,120 Speaker 1: the caller, they've got skill sets. The problem when you 955 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 1: get guys like this in a situation like this right 956 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,400 Speaker 1: now is maybe you become a little predictable, Like you know, 957 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,160 Speaker 1: you're you're not really gonna worry about Duke Williams when 958 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: you're out in the field. Maybe in the red zone 959 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 1: he becomes your number one guy or your number one 960 00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,480 Speaker 1: focal point of your defense, but not out in the field. 961 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:49,359 Speaker 1: Then you focus on Cole Beasley. I think they've got enough, though, 962 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,120 Speaker 1: like he says, I think they got enough when you 963 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: add the tight ends and the running backs in that mix, 964 00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: they got enough to worry about and then enough dependable 965 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,680 Speaker 1: guys that Josh Allen should be able to find a 966 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,640 Speaker 1: guy as long is this team and they haven't been 967 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,360 Speaker 1: doesn't become predictable. If they don't say, wow, this formation 968 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,880 Speaker 1: that they always go to the tight end or at 969 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: this formation they always go to the slot receiver. If 970 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 1: this formation, they always go to the wide single receiver, 971 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,239 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I don't think they're at that 972 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,480 Speaker 1: point yet, although you know, don't I don't know the 973 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: analytics and the down breakdown, but I think that's the 974 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,120 Speaker 1: only risk you run with a group of receivers who 975 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,080 Speaker 1: were kind of specialized like this one seems to be. 976 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,560 Speaker 1: Gotcha all right? To break here? We got cole Brand say, 977 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,440 Speaker 1: anybody to join us in the next hour. He is, 978 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,880 Speaker 1: of course, the NFL network host. He is the co 979 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,680 Speaker 1: host of Good Morning Football. He joined us every Tuesday 980 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,080 Speaker 1: and one and what do you know, it's Tuesday and 981 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,440 Speaker 1: it's almost one o'clock. Come on back, One Goes Live 982 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. Coming here from the Seneca Studio 983 00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:51,200 Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. This radio 984 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,719 Speaker 1: network sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills ready 985 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,520 Speaker 1: to trade wide receiver Zay Jones to the Opland Raiders 986 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: for a fifth round pick in twenty twenty one. That's 987 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: according to ESPN. The trade not confirmed by either the 988 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,600 Speaker 1: Bills or the Raiders just yet, but it should be 989 00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,320 Speaker 1: later today. Z Jones Bills second round pick in twenty 990 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,480 Speaker 1: seventeen out of East Carolina, had a huge college career. 991 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,040 Speaker 1: He was the leading receiver for the Bills last year, 992 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,200 Speaker 1: but failed to make an impact so far this year. 993 00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 1: Seven catches on sixty nine yards. Duke Williams emergence last 994 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,520 Speaker 1: Sunday in the game against Tennessee obviously a factor the Raiders. 995 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,640 Speaker 1: GM Mike Mayock was a fan of Za Jones coming 996 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,080 Speaker 1: out of East Carolina. That plays into the trade as well. 997 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,120 Speaker 1: Bill sev added to their practice squad signing defensive end 998 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,120 Speaker 1: Wyatt Ray the Philip Bacon spot they had there. Titans 999 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,400 Speaker 1: moving on from kicker Cairo Santos after his disastrous outing 1000 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,440 Speaker 1: against the Bills, miss four field goals in Tennessee's fourteen 1001 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,880 Speaker 1: to seven lost to the Bills, apparently more than enough 1002 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,360 Speaker 1: for them to make a move. The expected replacement that 1003 00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,520 Speaker 1: is going to be former Bears kicker Cody Parkey, the 1004 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,160 Speaker 1: author of the double joint that knocked Chicago at the 1005 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,640 Speaker 1: last year's playoffs. Giants running back Sequon Barkley unlikely to 1006 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,800 Speaker 1: play Thursday night against New England despite returning to practice 1007 00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,399 Speaker 1: late last week. The Giants also could be without tight 1008 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,280 Speaker 1: end Evan Ingram in that game as well. Patriots released 1009 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,280 Speaker 1: veteran tight end Benjamin Watson yesterday. Is roster exemption expired 1010 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,439 Speaker 1: four pm yesterday and they cut him, and the forty 1011 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: nine Ers could be without a key piece of their 1012 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,680 Speaker 1: offensive attack for a long time. The report is that 1013 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,319 Speaker 1: the Niners fullback Kyle Uschek suffered an MCL injury during 1014 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,600 Speaker 1: San Francisco's romp over the Cleveland Browns last night. Uscheck. 1015 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 1: We'll undergo an MRI exam today to determine the severity 1016 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,960 Speaker 1: of the injury. Sabers lost last night. They came back 1017 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,360 Speaker 1: from behind, though lost four to three in overtime to Columbus. 1018 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,960 Speaker 1: Victor Olison tied the game late. Lenas allmarked with forty 1019 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,360 Speaker 1: saves to keep the Sabers in the game. They're practicing 1020 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,400 Speaker 1: today home Tomorrow night against the Montreal Canadians. Started a 1021 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,720 Speaker 1: three game homestand at Key Mac Center for the Buffalo 1022 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,440 Speaker 1: Sabers and the baseball scheduled down to one game. Tonight. 1023 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,200 Speaker 1: It is game four of the American League Division series 1024 00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,920 Speaker 1: Houston at Tampa Bay. The Asteroids are up two games 1025 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,319 Speaker 1: to one in that series. An see update from our 1026 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,520 Speaker 1: Seneca studio in Archard Park. John Murphy's team tasker, joined 1027 00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: on the line by our new Tuesday buddy. He is 1028 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,319 Speaker 1: a host at NFL Network Coast Good Morning Football. Happy 1029 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,640 Speaker 1: to have him on. Kyle Brand joined just Kyle, John 1030 00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve here in Buffalo. Thank you very much 1031 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,279 Speaker 1: for joining us, Mark, Steve, glad to be here. I 1032 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,360 Speaker 1: told you guys, the Titans weren't going to be a problem. 1033 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:15,640 Speaker 1: Never worrying that one, right, Yeah, yeah, I just hope 1034 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,360 Speaker 1: we win the bye week, that's all. I'm just listen, Steve, 1035 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,359 Speaker 1: It's not just the bye week. The bye week is fine. 1036 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,000 Speaker 1: I'm starting to look at this bill's schedule, and far 1037 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 1: be it from me to get ahead of myself with 1038 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,319 Speaker 1: this team. But I know the record is four and one, 1039 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:34,839 Speaker 1: and I see Dolphins twice, I see a woebegune Redskins team. 1040 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:40,480 Speaker 1: I saw a Broncos team that's really struggling. Guys, this 1041 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,000 Speaker 1: looks pretty good. If you're already at four and one, 1042 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:47,239 Speaker 1: are we already thinking like nine wins, ten wins, I'm 1043 00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,160 Speaker 1: gonna get way ahead of myself. I think they're ready. 1044 00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,839 Speaker 1: I mean, this schedule is beautiful. I don't even mind 1045 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,920 Speaker 1: the Steelers right now, or the Ravens and you got 1046 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,120 Speaker 1: the Jets again. This thing is pretty tasty, guys. I 1047 00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,960 Speaker 1: mean it yea if Kyle. Even the short term schedule, 1048 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,720 Speaker 1: three straight home games coming up for the Bills, Dolphins, Eagles, Redskins. 1049 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,759 Speaker 1: Two of those teams are winless. I mean, you can 1050 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,360 Speaker 1: do some damage here in the next three weeks for 1051 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,440 Speaker 1: the Bills. No, it's fantastic. And then you kidding me, 1052 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,640 Speaker 1: you gotta go. You go to three game Homestead in 1053 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,080 Speaker 1: two very winnable games and who who knows what happens 1054 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,000 Speaker 1: against Philiy And then you got to go to the Browns. 1055 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,040 Speaker 1: Did you see that team last night? I mean that's 1056 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,959 Speaker 1: any kind of defense, any kind of pressure. Their line 1057 00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,680 Speaker 1: is just a mess. Like that's a very winnable game. 1058 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,479 Speaker 1: I'm looking at these twenty nineteen Bills as a ten 1059 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: win team. I really mean that. It's it's it's intoxicating 1060 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,040 Speaker 1: to look at the schedule right now, the way they're playing. Yeah, 1061 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,160 Speaker 1: I know you should mentioned the last night's game and 1062 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,040 Speaker 1: something coming out of it. Richard Sherman was a little 1063 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,080 Speaker 1: critical of the Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield about not shaking 1064 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:48,080 Speaker 1: hands pregame did, And I mean I did some of 1065 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,080 Speaker 1: that when I was playing. I mean I was a 1066 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:51,640 Speaker 1: team cabin I went out and shook a lot of 1067 00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,200 Speaker 1: hands at the middle of the field. What's your take on, 1068 00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,160 Speaker 1: you know, game day etiquette at the center of the field. Well, 1069 00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,319 Speaker 1: there's so many layers to this take because of two 1070 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,759 Speaker 1: of the great personalities in Sherman and Baker. But Steve, 1071 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,479 Speaker 1: let me throw it back to you first. Like you mentioned, 1072 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:05,880 Speaker 1: I know you're a modest guy, but you were a 1073 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,040 Speaker 1: captain for a long time and fantastic bills teams. Take 1074 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,719 Speaker 1: us through it. What is the ritual? Like you walk 1075 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,680 Speaker 1: out there to center field? Do you shake everybody's hand? 1076 00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:16,480 Speaker 1: Did you back in the day? Like, take us through 1077 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,200 Speaker 1: the motions of this thing house Now, I think you 1078 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,080 Speaker 1: got to greet every guy that they brought out there. 1079 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,279 Speaker 1: And I think because you were a team captain, you 1080 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,279 Speaker 1: were supposed to be a level above you know, regular guy. 1081 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,960 Speaker 1: You weren't supposed to be one of those guys that 1082 00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,839 Speaker 1: you know, pounded his chest and got in their face 1083 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:31,560 Speaker 1: and screamed at him at the tacoin Ta You were 1084 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,319 Speaker 1: you know, you were supposed to have a little level head. 1085 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,560 Speaker 1: You were a leader of the team you want to represent, 1086 00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,320 Speaker 1: and by doing so, you spelt you felt like you 1087 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,600 Speaker 1: need to show some respect to those guys, right, because 1088 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,839 Speaker 1: you were smart enough to know that they're on scholarship too. 1089 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,040 Speaker 1: It's a tricky thing because Sherman, they have this incredible 1090 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:48,920 Speaker 1: win and they just beat the hell out of the Browns. 1091 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,759 Speaker 1: Sherman talks to Mike Silver from NFL dot Com and 1092 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,800 Speaker 1: goes on this long Richard Sherman rant, which we love about. 1093 00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,200 Speaker 1: Baker refused to shake his hand and how dare he 1094 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,719 Speaker 1: hasn't proved anything this league? And Mahomes would never do that. 1095 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,560 Speaker 1: I found myself wondering, Now, this was on Monday Night Football. 1096 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,680 Speaker 1: There's about five hundred cameras around. It's the center field 1097 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,200 Speaker 1: coin toss handshake. Would there not be video of maybe 1098 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,040 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman getting snubbed by Baker Mayfield. There's sure enough 1099 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,839 Speaker 1: is video out there. You don't have to go fire 1100 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:15,800 Speaker 1: on Twitter to find it. In fact, you're showing it 1101 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,800 Speaker 1: to your viewers right now. I'm not the detective on 1102 00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,720 Speaker 1: this thing, but it doesn't appear to be a slight. 1103 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,880 Speaker 1: I don't see it. If it's there, we can dissect 1104 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,399 Speaker 1: it a million times six ways the Sunday if we want. 1105 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,120 Speaker 1: But my point on this guy's You know, if Richard 1106 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,719 Speaker 1: Sherman has a problem with Baker Mayfield violating NFL etiquette, 1107 00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,880 Speaker 1: as he put it, well, then Richard Sherman would have 1108 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,680 Speaker 1: really hated young Richard Sherman because this is the guy. 1109 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:43,799 Speaker 1: Let's not mess around with this. This is the guy 1110 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,839 Speaker 1: when he was young, before he had accomplished a ton 1111 00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,120 Speaker 1: in this league, had a big moment when he got 1112 00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,479 Speaker 1: in Tom Brady's face after a game and it turned 1113 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,360 Speaker 1: into this whole you mad bro Twitter thing. This is 1114 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,440 Speaker 1: a guy in Richard Sherman, and God love him, it's 1115 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,719 Speaker 1: his right. I loved it one at the time after 1116 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,480 Speaker 1: his biggest moment, after his team's biggest win against San 1117 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,120 Speaker 1: Francisco is on national television and his first words are 1118 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,080 Speaker 1: I am the best corner in the game, and then 1119 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,279 Speaker 1: turned an absolutely trashed Michael Crabtree. So does that not 1120 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,279 Speaker 1: violate NFL etiquette? You want to do that, that's fine, 1121 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,520 Speaker 1: and he's got national commercials and huge contracts because of it. 1122 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,960 Speaker 1: But I think a young Richard Sherman would have maybe 1123 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,560 Speaker 1: looked at a young Baker Mayfield a lot differently. That's 1124 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,080 Speaker 1: a good point too. I mean, and that's the age 1125 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,320 Speaker 1: we live in. Nothing you do on the football field 1126 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,839 Speaker 1: goes unviewed for eternity, really, or at least the next yehake, Steve, 1127 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if Baker Mayfield did this. I don't 1128 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,480 Speaker 1: know if Richard Sherman made it up or again to 1129 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,279 Speaker 1: your point, sometimes when these handshakes are going on and 1130 00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,560 Speaker 1: there's eight to ten guys out there, it gets a 1131 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,600 Speaker 1: little messy. I kind of point at you, I handshake you. 1132 00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:50,560 Speaker 1: It's very rushed. Maybe there is a misinterpretation from Sherman 1133 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,480 Speaker 1: because I can't see Baker Mayfield guys, mind you in college. 1134 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,640 Speaker 1: What really set him off? Never mind the flag planting 1135 00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,400 Speaker 1: with Ohio State. In Oklahoma, he had a day against 1136 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,520 Speaker 1: Kansas where he grabbed his crotch on the sideline. He 1137 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,759 Speaker 1: had to apologize for his his whole thing. What sent 1138 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,480 Speaker 1: him off that Daggin's Kansas was that the Jayhawks refused 1139 00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,680 Speaker 1: to shake his hand. That's right at the coin toss, 1140 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,800 Speaker 1: That's exact. Would think if anything was the sin that 1141 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,520 Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield wouldn't commit, it wouldn't be the handshake snub. 1142 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,280 Speaker 1: And watching the video, I don't think he did commit 1143 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,280 Speaker 1: that sin. And it could be that we got handshake 1144 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,359 Speaker 1: game right. It could be it could be that Richard 1145 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,960 Speaker 1: Sherman it wasn't as good a handshake or as big 1146 00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,640 Speaker 1: as an acknowledgement as he wanted, and he projected all 1147 00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,560 Speaker 1: this onto Baker Mayfield just because he was in a 1148 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,440 Speaker 1: game state. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, I mean, 1149 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,760 Speaker 1: and now we're splitting hairs about it was that a handshake? 1150 00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,160 Speaker 1: Hug right? I don't even know what it was, But 1151 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,520 Speaker 1: I think to your point, I think there's a lot 1152 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,960 Speaker 1: of people who are looking to hate Baker Mayfield. He's 1153 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,359 Speaker 1: really off footing. If you don't like that kind of thing. 1154 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,120 Speaker 1: I would just think if anybody could relate to a young, fiery, 1155 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,880 Speaker 1: charismatic player who broke some etiquette rules, it might be 1156 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,720 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman. I guess not. We're with com Brand NFL Network. 1157 00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,359 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the other non football takeaway for last 1158 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,560 Speaker 1: night's convincing San Francisco. When Nick Bosa planning the flag? 1159 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,160 Speaker 1: What do you make of that? I loved it. I 1160 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 1: thought it was hilarious and napropole. What did you think? 1161 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,000 Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible? You remember you go back to that game 1162 00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:13,880 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in the Horseshoe in Columbus, 1163 00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,440 Speaker 1: when Baker did the OU flag, the Buck guys had 1164 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,120 Speaker 1: left the field. Nick Bosa was on that team. He 1165 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,640 Speaker 1: was in the locker room at the time, licking his wounds, 1166 00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,839 Speaker 1: removing the tape, doing whatever. It gets back to them 1167 00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:27,880 Speaker 1: later that I don't know if you guys know this, 1168 00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,360 Speaker 1: but when you left the field, you know Baker Mayfield 1169 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,960 Speaker 1: from OU, Well, he planted a flag in the middle 1170 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,200 Speaker 1: of the stadium and the Horseshoe. So the fact that 1171 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,960 Speaker 1: Nick Bosa admitted I would waiting to do this for 1172 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,280 Speaker 1: two years. I couldn't wait to get in the NFL 1173 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,160 Speaker 1: so I could do this, that Baker Mayfield is awesome. 1174 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,640 Speaker 1: This Nick Bosa has something to say. I know he's 1175 00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,640 Speaker 1: got thoughts on politics that are some people like some don't. 1176 00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,959 Speaker 1: I know he has thoughts on Baker Mayfield. He said 1177 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,279 Speaker 1: during the game he was chanting Baker's name at him 1178 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,520 Speaker 1: on the field, saying, come on, Baker, do better. We 1179 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,279 Speaker 1: need a challenge. This guy is a revelation if you 1180 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,200 Speaker 1: like good old fashioned revenge smack talk. And he's a 1181 00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,680 Speaker 1: hell of a player. Yep, yeah, he is. I gotta 1182 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:08,520 Speaker 1: ask you to get back to the Buffalo Bills. You said, 1183 00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,040 Speaker 1: you said that you love the schedule how it plays out. 1184 00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,759 Speaker 1: This is obviously a team at this point that's leaning 1185 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,480 Speaker 1: on what is really and this year's NFL it's an 1186 00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,400 Speaker 1: elite defense. It's been my take a little earlier in 1187 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,560 Speaker 1: the week and that this team, the Bills are gonna 1188 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,720 Speaker 1: go as far as their defense takes him. Do you 1189 00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,960 Speaker 1: ascribe that and do you agree with it or do 1190 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,320 Speaker 1: you think there's more to the offense than we've seen 1191 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,440 Speaker 1: so far. Well, it depends on how how they want 1192 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,000 Speaker 1: to go. You know, right now we can look at 1193 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,040 Speaker 1: the schedule and say, well, the Dolphins are terrible and 1194 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,360 Speaker 1: this team's terrible, and that would be a real nice 1195 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,440 Speaker 1: story if the Bills got to the playoffs and everything, 1196 00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,080 Speaker 1: and then what happens they go one and done. Well, 1197 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,520 Speaker 1: they saw that a couple of years ago. Right, this 1198 00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,440 Speaker 1: defense and the schedule right now is good enough that 1199 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,280 Speaker 1: the Bills could win ten games, get their wild card, 1200 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,320 Speaker 1: and then show up to the playoffs and lose if 1201 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,640 Speaker 1: they want to win in the playoffs. Guys, we've talked 1202 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,439 Speaker 1: about it for a month now, we got it. Josh 1203 00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,720 Speaker 1: Allen's got to just play a little cleaner. It's even 1204 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,240 Speaker 1: the win in Buffalo when he plays a pretty clean game. 1205 00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:05,919 Speaker 1: There's just that one interception where he just he hates 1206 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,000 Speaker 1: throwing the ball away. He hates it. You can tell. 1207 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,960 Speaker 1: I don't know about it for you guys. But I 1208 00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,680 Speaker 1: got a couple of little kids at home, and we 1209 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,880 Speaker 1: can have a nice family reality and everyone gets along 1210 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,080 Speaker 1: and we do the pumpkin patch or the apple picking 1211 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:17,880 Speaker 1: or whatever it is, and it's a great family day. 1212 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,360 Speaker 1: And as we're driving home, my five year old will 1213 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,200 Speaker 1: say one little thing or throw one little fit to 1214 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,880 Speaker 1: ruin a nice time. If we could eliminate that one 1215 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,200 Speaker 1: moment from our family, you just get a perfect sunday. 1216 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:31,520 Speaker 1: If we could eliminate the one irritating Josh Allen interception, 1217 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,440 Speaker 1: then we can go places. But no, Steve, the defense 1218 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,320 Speaker 1: can get them to the playoffs, but we got to 1219 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,240 Speaker 1: put up some points once you get there. That sounds 1220 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:39,800 Speaker 1: like a daddy problem to me, Kyle. I don't know 1221 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,040 Speaker 1: if that's a huge daddy problem. You can getting me 1222 00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,040 Speaker 1: in the apple picking? Is it so expensive? I can't 1223 00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:47,600 Speaker 1: even afford it? Come out up here in Niggard County, 1224 00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,320 Speaker 1: we got good cheap apples count brand NFL Network, What 1225 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,960 Speaker 1: did you think of the emergence of Duke Williams from 1226 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,760 Speaker 1: the CFL, the go ahead touchdown for the Bills again 1227 00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,360 Speaker 1: Tennessee and last night straight of z A. Jones. What 1228 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,280 Speaker 1: do you make all that? Well, first of all, I'm 1229 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,320 Speaker 1: in Westchester County and the apples are ridiculous. There's the 1230 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,960 Speaker 1: apple picking out is about spending seventy five bucks to 1231 00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,920 Speaker 1: bring home fifteen dollars worth of apples, right, come right 1232 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,960 Speaker 1: down the street. Right. But in relation to your question, 1233 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,480 Speaker 1: I love the Duke thing, and it says, look, who 1234 00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:20,440 Speaker 1: doesn't love a former Edmonton Eskimo, the idea that they 1235 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,840 Speaker 1: could pull from him, And now you talked about it 1236 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,720 Speaker 1: leading with your sports report, Murph. Now they're getting rid 1237 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,120 Speaker 1: as ay, the so called high priced talents and the 1238 00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,480 Speaker 1: big talents and the deep threat and everything. Who cares. 1239 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:31,840 Speaker 1: We're in the middle of the season right now. I 1240 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,400 Speaker 1: don't care if you're in Edmundton Eskimo or in West 1241 00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,560 Speaker 1: Virginia Mountaineer, Alabama Crimson Tide. You gotta have guys like 1242 00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,760 Speaker 1: this to make plays. And it's like we've seen it 1243 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,640 Speaker 1: from him. We've seen it from Dawson Knox, my guy. 1244 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,520 Speaker 1: The good teams don't just show up with their starters 1245 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,880 Speaker 1: and say this is what we're gonna roll with. Players emerge. 1246 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,560 Speaker 1: The Patriots do it every single year. There's some guy 1247 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,439 Speaker 1: who comes out of the practice squad or undrafted who says, 1248 00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,480 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're in the Super Bowl making plays. 1249 00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,080 Speaker 1: You need the Duke Williams of the world to show up. 1250 00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,160 Speaker 1: You know what you're getting from Frank Gore, know what 1251 01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,080 Speaker 1: you hope you get from Devin Singletary, the former Edmonton 1252 01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Eskimo or the current Dawson Knox. Those are the guys 1253 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,160 Speaker 1: who get you again from getting to the playoffs to 1254 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,000 Speaker 1: maybe you win in the playoffs. I love it. I 1255 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,120 Speaker 1: know that you're busy on weekends. You got a family 1256 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:14,600 Speaker 1: just like I do, and you like to you know, 1257 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,440 Speaker 1: you parachute in on all the games. You catch the 1258 01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,680 Speaker 1: highlights and all that. Did you see the atmosphere in 1259 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:24,960 Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium in Nashville and it's hilarious? Yeah, yes, I did. 1260 01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,720 Speaker 1: It is and then listen. It's one thing. If the 1261 01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,960 Speaker 1: Mafia goes to a game here at MetLife, the Jets, 1262 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,480 Speaker 1: the Giants, sir, not that long of a trip. Tennessee 1263 01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,600 Speaker 1: is a jump, guys. I mean to go all the 1264 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,240 Speaker 1: way down there and to get to Nashville and to 1265 01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,800 Speaker 1: take it over like that. You see the Bills running 1266 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,280 Speaker 1: out of the tunnel, and it's not a bunch of 1267 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,360 Speaker 1: Titans fans screaming at him and tell them to get 1268 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,919 Speaker 1: out of here. It's it's Bills Country. There's a woman 1269 01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:51,080 Speaker 1: holding a flag that says you're in Bills Country. Bills, 1270 01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,240 Speaker 1: They're ten minutes from the Grand ol Opry. They're nowhere 1271 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,000 Speaker 1: close to the Bills Country. And yet they took it over. 1272 01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:58,680 Speaker 1: And I have to imagine that the Bills fans did 1273 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,640 Speaker 1: some of those pedaling bachelor party things that bars on 1274 01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,200 Speaker 1: wheels that they do. And they were at all those 1275 01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:06,640 Speaker 1: old honky tongs where the draft was this past year. 1276 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,520 Speaker 1: I think it was incredible. There's about five or six 1277 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,480 Speaker 1: fan bases in the NFL who I think really travel 1278 01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,000 Speaker 1: And when I see a Nashville, Tennessee stadium filled with 1279 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,680 Speaker 1: Poyer jerseys and all Josh Allen jerseys, you know the 1280 01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:21,320 Speaker 1: Bills were one of them. We're on the line with 1281 01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,000 Speaker 1: Kyle Brad, NFL Network co host of Good Morning Football 1282 01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:25,960 Speaker 1: on the NFL Network. Let me move around the league 1283 01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:27,520 Speaker 1: a little bit if I can with you, Kyle and 1284 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,919 Speaker 1: talk about the Sunday night game the Colts. We're both 1285 01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,120 Speaker 1: here fond of Frank Craik, as you might imagine, and 1286 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,160 Speaker 1: I thought Frank was masterful in what he had planned 1287 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,240 Speaker 1: and how his team ran the ball against Kansas City 1288 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,120 Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Is currently the most underrated coach out 1289 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,760 Speaker 1: of all thirty two. What he's done is absolutely incredible 1290 01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,400 Speaker 1: since showing up there, and it's you know, it's funny 1291 01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,560 Speaker 1: because every sports show certainly ours every single one that's 1292 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,600 Speaker 1: on TV anywhere. Anytime somebody really good loses all of 1293 01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,960 Speaker 1: a sudden, like the Chiefs, did they just dust off 1294 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,480 Speaker 1: the old question, was a blueprint revealed to beat the 1295 01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:04,360 Speaker 1: chief was a blue No. The blueprint is have Quentin Nelson, 1296 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,800 Speaker 1: have the best offensive line that money can violate the 1297 01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,040 Speaker 1: Colts do, and have a head coach that can will 1298 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,400 Speaker 1: anybody to win in any time. If you have that, 1299 01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,800 Speaker 1: yes you can beat the Chiefs. But this was a 1300 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,840 Speaker 1: revelation because this was supposed to be the Colts show up, 1301 01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:19,120 Speaker 1: the Chiefs hang forty points on them because the Indie 1302 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,840 Speaker 1: defensive backs are out and it's and they was couldn't 1303 01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,680 Speaker 1: have gun differently because the Colts know how to run 1304 01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,280 Speaker 1: the ball and Frank Ry can get them to run 1305 01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,640 Speaker 1: through a brick wall. As you know, Steve, and I 1306 01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:30,640 Speaker 1: would imagine on your team, Steve, the k gun teams 1307 01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:32,200 Speaker 1: going up and down the field with a no huddle. 1308 01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:34,760 Speaker 1: I bet that every other week there was some team 1309 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,400 Speaker 1: or some broadcaster who said, well, you know the way 1310 01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,200 Speaker 1: you gotta beat the Bills is you gotta run the 1311 01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,680 Speaker 1: ball and keep that offense off the field. That doesn't 1312 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,360 Speaker 1: always work. Everyone wants to do that, but you look 1313 01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,880 Speaker 1: up and you're down seventeen. Nothing that goes out the window. Yeah, 1314 01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,000 Speaker 1: it worked once in Super Bowl twenty five when Bill 1315 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,840 Speaker 1: Belichick and Bill Parcells got it done. You're right though, 1316 01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,200 Speaker 1: that it was the way to do it. And there's 1317 01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,600 Speaker 1: a number of games like this that really become interesting. 1318 01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:57,960 Speaker 1: And I gotta ask you this. We know it's a 1319 01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,640 Speaker 1: quarterback in the league with Mahomes, with Drew Brees of 1320 01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,760 Speaker 1: being in and out and Teddy Bridgewater taking over all 1321 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,440 Speaker 1: these great quarterbacks that kind of drive the league. Is 1322 01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,000 Speaker 1: there any way that are running back like Christian McCaffrey 1323 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,520 Speaker 1: can play well enough to win the MVP. It's a 1324 01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,440 Speaker 1: great question. We've been talking about it all week. I 1325 01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,840 Speaker 1: think for a running back to do it right now, 1326 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,360 Speaker 1: I think he would take two things. I think one, 1327 01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,840 Speaker 1: you gotta make the playoffs, like so the Caroline Pas 1328 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,320 Speaker 1: have to make the playoffs. We know that you're not 1329 01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,000 Speaker 1: gonna win the MVP if you go eight and eight 1330 01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,720 Speaker 1: or seven and nine. But I think more importantly, you 1331 01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,520 Speaker 1: have to do something really special. You can't just have 1332 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,800 Speaker 1: a great season in great highlights. The last time we 1333 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,960 Speaker 1: saw it, for example, Adrian Peterson won the MVP. Adrian 1334 01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,240 Speaker 1: Peterson had a two thousand yard rushing season less than 1335 01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,920 Speaker 1: a year after completely blowing his knee out. He had 1336 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,560 Speaker 1: the story, he had the stats. He carried that team 1337 01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:49,360 Speaker 1: with a young Teddy Bridgewater to the playoffs. What Christian 1338 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,080 Speaker 1: McCaffrey would have to do to beat out someone like 1339 01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,320 Speaker 1: Mahomes who will come running Russell Wilson who's been unconscious, 1340 01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,360 Speaker 1: he'd have to do something specially. He'd have to go 1341 01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,400 Speaker 1: a thousand and a thousand. He'd have to rush for 1342 01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,400 Speaker 1: two thousand. You know his all purpose yards. Right now, 1343 01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,160 Speaker 1: through five weeks, he's on a top five list with 1344 01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:08,880 Speaker 1: guys like OJ and Jim Brown, like Rare Air. So 1345 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:10,800 Speaker 1: that's what I mean. The answer to the question. The 1346 01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,720 Speaker 1: short answer is yes, McCaffrey. Right now, if the Panthers 1347 01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:15,640 Speaker 1: didn't happen, they be an own five team and no 1348 01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,920 Speaker 1: one's playing better football. But for a running back in 1349 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,680 Speaker 1: today's era, you got to give those voters, those writers 1350 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,160 Speaker 1: something really they can sink their teeth into more than stats, 1351 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,760 Speaker 1: and McCaffrey, it'd have to be something astronomical, which he 1352 01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,760 Speaker 1: is capable. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. 1353 01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:29,800 Speaker 1: It's got to be something nobody's done in ten years. 1354 01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,800 Speaker 1: With numbers, I mean, statistics you can sink your teeth into. 1355 01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:36,320 Speaker 1: I think he's got a chance at it, particularly after 1356 01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,720 Speaker 1: the game that Pat Mahomes had and all that stuff. 1357 01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:40,600 Speaker 1: They can go wrong with our quarterback, but it's got 1358 01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,880 Speaker 1: to be something statistically, some statistical anomaly has to put 1359 01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,200 Speaker 1: him there. Right, It could be that or you know what, 1360 01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,920 Speaker 1: Steve next week, Mahomes could come out and literally throw 1361 01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,760 Speaker 1: for nine touchdowns in one game and be back. Homes 1362 01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,440 Speaker 1: can do anything, right then Kyle Brand Joye just going 1363 01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:57,840 Speaker 1: around the NFL with Kyle Brand of the NFL Network 1364 01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,200 Speaker 1: the coaching ranks of the league one Bruden after the 1365 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:04,640 Speaker 1: firing of Jake Gruden. Your thoughts on that move, who's 1366 01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,400 Speaker 1: the long term solution for coaching Washington and what do 1367 01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,480 Speaker 1: they do about their quarterback Dween Haskins. Does he need 1368 01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,040 Speaker 1: to play right away? It's wild, you know, it's it's 1369 01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,720 Speaker 1: big around here, and it's it's if I'm Jay Gruden. 1370 01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,040 Speaker 1: The first of all, I'm so disappointed that you couldn't 1371 01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:20,320 Speaker 1: give me one more week. You couldn't fire me after 1372 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,840 Speaker 1: the Dolphins game, because there's what's gonna happen. You know, 1373 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna win this weekend. They're gonna beat the Dolphins 1374 01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:28,040 Speaker 1: and it's gonna see, well that fixed everything. And Gruden said, 1375 01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:29,760 Speaker 1: I could have beat the Dolphins. I don't care who 1376 01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,880 Speaker 1: they pick quarterback. We've been really polarized in the morning 1377 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,200 Speaker 1: on this about Haskins. You know, Nay Burlis and my 1378 01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,400 Speaker 1: Cohart at the table says put him in, let him 1379 01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:40,800 Speaker 1: take his lumps, and I just say, I don't know. 1380 01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:43,480 Speaker 1: The team is really bad, the roster is not good. 1381 01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,720 Speaker 1: And if you're gonna take this guy and the Washington's 1382 01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,160 Speaker 1: been looking for a quarterback, I don't know. Twenty years, 1383 01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,640 Speaker 1: even to go right through RG three and Cousins. They're 1384 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,200 Speaker 1: looking for the fixed thing for decades. I don't see 1385 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,760 Speaker 1: the rush. And if you're if you're a young quarterback 1386 01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,240 Speaker 1: who's learning to drive, you don't want to learn to 1387 01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,600 Speaker 1: drive a car that's dragging the fen and has no 1388 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,200 Speaker 1: rear view and barely starts. All that's gonna do is 1389 01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:05,439 Speaker 1: get you wrapped around the phone fall. I would wait. 1390 01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,560 Speaker 1: I don't see that that's a lost season. I've seen 1391 01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,720 Speaker 1: guys come in and never be the same. You know, 1392 01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,040 Speaker 1: people want to point to Baker Mayfield last year that 1393 01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,040 Speaker 1: he was just thrown right in on a bad Browns team. 1394 01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:18,160 Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, that Jarvis Landry, Nick Chubb, David and Joe 1395 01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:21,280 Speaker 1: who these are blue chip talent guys. I washed Washington 1396 01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:22,960 Speaker 1: and I don't even know what Dwayne Haskins would have 1397 01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,360 Speaker 1: to work with. And the fact that John J. Gruden 1398 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,880 Speaker 1: could have played him to maybe save his job and 1399 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,919 Speaker 1: he didn't must tell you that maybe the guy's not ready. 1400 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:34,080 Speaker 1: I actually liked that they're taking cautiously. Yeah, I agree 1401 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:35,280 Speaker 1: with you, and I think one of the things that 1402 01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:37,680 Speaker 1: you look back at RG three when he was in 1403 01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,160 Speaker 1: Washington he played, tried to play hurt, went through. What 1404 01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:42,520 Speaker 1: do you think too about There's not gonna be any continuity. 1405 01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:45,520 Speaker 1: He can go in and play bad or good and 1406 01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:47,640 Speaker 1: it won't matter because you're gonna learn a new offense 1407 01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,280 Speaker 1: under a new head coach, under a new system next year, 1408 01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,760 Speaker 1: and he has to start from scratch again with maybe 1409 01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:57,120 Speaker 1: a better roster. I just it's almost a lose lose 1410 01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:00,560 Speaker 1: at this point for Dwayne Haskins to me, and it's 1411 01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,520 Speaker 1: just been so messy. You know, they insert him in 1412 01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:05,280 Speaker 1: the middle of a game a couple of weeks ago, 1413 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't look good, he throws three picks, and then 1414 01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,760 Speaker 1: there's like, all right, well we're gonna go with Haskins, 1415 01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,520 Speaker 1: and they say, well, you know we're playing the Patriots. 1416 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,200 Speaker 1: We can't go with him there. Then you're hiding him 1417 01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,479 Speaker 1: from certain opponents. You would play him against this team, 1418 01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,000 Speaker 1: but not. It seems like a total mess. When Jay 1419 01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,960 Speaker 1: Gruden was just saying I want continuity, clearly he did 1420 01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:25,760 Speaker 1: not want Haskins, did not want to play Haskins, and 1421 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,960 Speaker 1: that's probably why his key card doesn't work right now. 1422 01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,160 Speaker 1: I think Steve the best cases, you take your sweet time, 1423 01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:33,080 Speaker 1: you take your lumps. You get a top five pick 1424 01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:35,400 Speaker 1: this year, you get somebody to pair him with young 1425 01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,400 Speaker 1: offensive coach and get the most out of him. And 1426 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, Dwite Haskins will see N's training camp. 1427 01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,760 Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Which way to the does 1428 01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,000 Speaker 1: Washington go? Does Dan Snyder go to kind of rebuild 1429 01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:47,120 Speaker 1: what they have there, either this year or in the offseason. 1430 01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,320 Speaker 1: God only knows. You know, I'm hearing a lot of 1431 01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:54,000 Speaker 1: smoke about Mike Tomlin going to Washington. He was even 1432 01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:56,680 Speaker 1: asked about it today and said, listen, you know that 1433 01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,840 Speaker 1: Steelers are going to play the Chargers. Tom said, I'm 1434 01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:01,120 Speaker 1: about to take a third string quarterback and go play 1435 01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:03,439 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback. I'm not exactly thinking about 1436 01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,800 Speaker 1: that right now. And you know how it is with Pittsburgh, 1437 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,959 Speaker 1: they're extremely loth to fire head coaches. They just don't 1438 01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,120 Speaker 1: do it. I also wouldn't fire Mike Tomlin. They're bad 1439 01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,560 Speaker 1: this year because their franchise quarterback got hurt and now 1440 01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,040 Speaker 1: their backup got hurt. So I don't buy into that. 1441 01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm if I'm guessing what Dan Snyder would do. He 1442 01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,519 Speaker 1: likes the big, flashy things right in free agency, he 1443 01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,400 Speaker 1: likes the Albert Haynesworth and Adam Arceletta as an Antoine 1444 01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,880 Speaker 1: Randall allows. My guesses he'll go for a big name. 1445 01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,479 Speaker 1: He'll try to make them grab at somebody like a 1446 01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:32,800 Speaker 1: young McVay who used to be in the building, and 1447 01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:34,479 Speaker 1: he'll probably pay a lot of money for it. But 1448 01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,679 Speaker 1: it's all gonna come down to Dwayne Haskins. I don't 1449 01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:40,080 Speaker 1: care if it's Nick Saban, Vince Lombardi, Eric Taylor. If 1450 01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,280 Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins has to be able to play, Yeah, and 1451 01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:46,320 Speaker 1: they've got to find out as well as because if 1452 01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,760 Speaker 1: he can't play, they got to move on and with 1453 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:50,800 Speaker 1: a new head coach and maybe a different head coach 1454 01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,800 Speaker 1: than this one. Can you imagine a scenario where it 1455 01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:58,280 Speaker 1: might get worse in Washington? Is there one? Well? Listen, 1456 01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,800 Speaker 1: it could? Sure said he what would just what would 1457 01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,920 Speaker 1: just happened with the Arizona Cardinals. They take Josh Rosen, 1458 01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:06,280 Speaker 1: He's the future, he's the future, but oh my gosh, 1459 01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:08,639 Speaker 1: we fired our head coach and there's this draft pick 1460 01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,599 Speaker 1: that we really like and screw it, We're gonna take 1461 01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:13,479 Speaker 1: him and get rid of them. So sure, yeah, I mean, 1462 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,519 Speaker 1: if they bring in somebody young, especially from college. And 1463 01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,680 Speaker 1: let's say Washington has the number one pick or the 1464 01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,320 Speaker 1: number two and they say, you know this too, a 1465 01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,320 Speaker 1: guy is incredible, that could be it, that could be 1466 01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,280 Speaker 1: in from Haskins, especially if they get one of these 1467 01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,320 Speaker 1: young offensive coaches. So then you'd be saying, well, did 1468 01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,080 Speaker 1: he play at all? Do we even know we're getting out? 1469 01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:34,080 Speaker 1: It's here's the point. Thirty two teams right now are 1470 01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,599 Speaker 1: in some tough trouble. We got all these backups guys, 1471 01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,519 Speaker 1: We get third strings Gardner, Minshew's and Kyle, and they're 1472 01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:42,320 Speaker 1: doing okay. Like teams are trending water maybe other than 1473 01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,760 Speaker 1: the Jets, but they're getting Donald back. Now there's one 1474 01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:48,120 Speaker 1: team out of thirty two that is just chaos. The 1475 01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:51,160 Speaker 1: coach is gone, is the quarterback staying? Who's calling the shots? 1476 01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,120 Speaker 1: If I had to rank all thirty two in terms 1477 01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:56,040 Speaker 1: of stability and versus chaos, Washington is in the thirty 1478 01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:58,920 Speaker 1: two spot. Right Hey, Calbefer, let you go. I gotta 1479 01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,880 Speaker 1: tell you you managed to stop for a couple of weeks. 1480 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:05,280 Speaker 1: Now stop our pre show production, meaning cold when the 1481 01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:08,160 Speaker 1: Angry Runs comes up on Tuesday mornings, that's the best 1482 01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:10,439 Speaker 1: couple of minutes of TV congratulate. I don't know where 1483 01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:12,360 Speaker 1: you get the energy and how you survive. You usually 1484 01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,439 Speaker 1: just drop the mic and walk off the stage after 1485 01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:16,280 Speaker 1: you do Angry Runs. It doesn't get any better. NET. 1486 01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,040 Speaker 1: The pre meetings stopped one of these weeks. My heart 1487 01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,680 Speaker 1: is gonna people say, are you like that? At home? 1488 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,760 Speaker 1: I said, my wife can't get a word out of me. 1489 01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm falling asleep on the couch at eight at night 1490 01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,240 Speaker 1: because I dump it all on set. But I love that. 1491 01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,320 Speaker 1: You guys love it. I love doing it. Well. We'll 1492 01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,479 Speaker 1: look forward to next weeks as well. Thanks Kyle. Any 1493 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,600 Speaker 1: time take Cayle Brand NFL Network, you gotta see it 1494 01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,000 Speaker 1: on Good Goals to Good Morning Football. They got a 1495 01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:42,519 Speaker 1: great cast. Well, heap it on every day and on 1496 01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:44,760 Speaker 1: Tuesday mornings and he had Dawson Knocks. It's got our 1497 01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:46,839 Speaker 1: attention to a couple of weeks ago. But he highlights 1498 01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,120 Speaker 1: what he calls angry runs, and he goes crazy right 1499 01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:53,320 Speaker 1: on the set. He dances around jumping for Josh Allen 1500 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:55,439 Speaker 1: on early in the and then he had the Dawson 1501 01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,840 Speaker 1: Knox on of course again twice and uh yeah, it 1502 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,280 Speaker 1: was it's great, good stuff. We love talking to Kyle, 1503 01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:02,479 Speaker 1: and we thank you. We're being on the air with 1504 01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,679 Speaker 1: us today. We're gonna get back to our Twitter poll today. 1505 01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,360 Speaker 1: We want to hear from you. What do you think 1506 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,639 Speaker 1: who's the best player on the Buffalo defense so far 1507 01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,719 Speaker 1: through five games? A lot of candidates, a lot of candidates, 1508 01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:13,240 Speaker 1: and we've got a Twitter poll up we will look 1509 01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,400 Speaker 1: at in a minute or two and then let you discuss. 1510 01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,200 Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight 1511 01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:21,320 Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty one. Bill's Line presented 1512 01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,040 Speaker 1: by Collot of Health Line from the Seneca Studio Seneca 1513 01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:38,760 Speaker 1: Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. I love having Kyle 1514 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,160 Speaker 1: Brand on the show I do every Tuesday. You know why. 1515 01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:45,960 Speaker 1: It's great to work with like you other broadcasters who 1516 01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,560 Speaker 1: who bring energy, you know what I mean. And he's 1517 01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,639 Speaker 1: all energy. It's great. Yeah, he's got great energy. He's 1518 01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,639 Speaker 1: got a real modern take on a lot of stuff 1519 01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,920 Speaker 1: that he talks about and that it's fun to listen 1520 01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,400 Speaker 1: to that. You're right that Angry runs the best five minutes. 1521 01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:04,080 Speaker 1: That's a good show. We watch that show every day 1522 01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,080 Speaker 1: and that is the best five minutes all week. You'll 1523 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,200 Speaker 1: get It's unbelievable. It's really good. He's pretty good. It's great, 1524 01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,000 Speaker 1: and yeah, thanks to Kyle Brand. Our Twitter poll today 1525 01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,800 Speaker 1: is a good one, we think, and we usually like him. 1526 01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:16,920 Speaker 1: This one I like a lot because of its simplicity, 1527 01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,559 Speaker 1: because we paired it down to the bare minimum. Here, 1528 01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:21,880 Speaker 1: what do you think? Five games? We know it's only 1529 01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,519 Speaker 1: five games. There's a long way to go. Nobody's writing 1530 01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,000 Speaker 1: a book about the Bills yet. But through the first 1531 01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:29,760 Speaker 1: five games, who's been the Bill's best defensive player? We 1532 01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,000 Speaker 1: ask that question because we think it's difficult to answer. 1533 01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:34,080 Speaker 1: It really is hard to identify one guy is the 1534 01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:37,040 Speaker 1: best defensive player on this roster through the first five weeks. 1535 01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:39,280 Speaker 1: But try give us a call. Eight O three five 1536 01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,280 Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two 1537 01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,320 Speaker 1: five fifty vote in the Twitter poll right now, almost 1538 01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:48,120 Speaker 1: fourteen hundred votes in the Twitter poll, and it's fairly close. 1539 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:51,360 Speaker 1: Micah Hide gets forty four percent of the respondents say 1540 01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:53,880 Speaker 1: he's the Bill's best defensive player. I cannot argue with that. 1541 01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,320 Speaker 1: Tremine Edmund scats forty two percent. That's stuff to argue 1542 01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,880 Speaker 1: with as well. Todays White only six percent. I'll our 1543 01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,599 Speaker 1: you with that, and nine percent of somebody else in mind. 1544 01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,479 Speaker 1: Let's hear who else you have, or let's hear what 1545 01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,680 Speaker 1: you think eight oh three oh five fifty. Phone line 1546 01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,040 Speaker 1: is open at twelve three as well one eight eight 1547 01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,559 Speaker 1: eight five two fifty. We got tweets on this, Steve, Yeah, 1548 01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,920 Speaker 1: it's amazing too. We got this Twitter poll, we got 1549 01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,479 Speaker 1: we got an elite defense without a star, without a 1550 01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,920 Speaker 1: big name start. It's tough to pick it out Aaron 1551 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Donald here, there's no clue back here, right, There's no 1552 01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,560 Speaker 1: buddy who's knocking it out of the park statistically, and 1553 01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:28,320 Speaker 1: so you have to kind of I thought it was 1554 01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,240 Speaker 1: a really good question, and we're getting, you know, split 1555 01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:34,120 Speaker 1: between Mike and Tremaine, but from coach Millery, says Edmunds athleticism, 1556 01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:37,439 Speaker 1: anticipation and length have him on the verge of being elite. 1557 01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:39,879 Speaker 1: That tipped pass he had on the Titans last possession 1558 01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:45,360 Speaker 1: showed all of the above plus his smarts. Edmonds is there. 1559 01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,479 Speaker 1: I mean, we get a lot of people who from 1560 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,439 Speaker 1: outside this area. We have guests on from across the 1561 01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,800 Speaker 1: country to set Edmonds is great and he's getting better. 1562 01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:56,800 Speaker 1: It's a great spot to be in for a young player. 1563 01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,439 Speaker 1: One on the tweet sheet. By the way, the cheat 1564 01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:03,160 Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers 1565 01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:05,720 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. From Eric on the tweet sheet says, 1566 01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:09,320 Speaker 1: hello Western New York. You both agree defensive performances a 1567 01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,519 Speaker 1: team effort. Picking out a player is not fair to 1568 01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,960 Speaker 1: the team. I could say Levi Wallace as he keeps 1569 01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,960 Speaker 1: up with his more famous teammates. Well the way to 1570 01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,840 Speaker 1: ruin our twitter poll, Eric, You've done your best there. 1571 01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,200 Speaker 1: Picking out a player not fair to the team. Why not? 1572 01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,800 Speaker 1: There are no consequences here, there's no rules, there's no 1573 01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,479 Speaker 1: make the rules. I get you, I know what it's true. 1574 01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:31,320 Speaker 1: And then, and that's part of what we're saying here, 1575 01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,599 Speaker 1: when how difficult it is to identify the one best player, 1576 01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,680 Speaker 1: the one key player in the defense is because it's 1577 01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:38,880 Speaker 1: a great team defense. And no, by the way, you know, 1578 01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:41,800 Speaker 1: the most important figure for the Buffalo Bills defense might 1579 01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:45,160 Speaker 1: be Leslie Fraser. You know, for what he's done and 1580 01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,639 Speaker 1: they're great defense. We gotta get him on the show. 1581 01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,320 Speaker 1: Jay Harris, producer, I know they're not around this week, 1582 01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,160 Speaker 1: but because I think and I can look this up, 1583 01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:55,719 Speaker 1: but I'm too lazy. But I have a feeling the bills. 1584 01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,439 Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier has dialed up more pressures, dialed up more 1585 01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:00,400 Speaker 1: blitzes this year than he had the first two years. 1586 01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:06,000 Speaker 1: Don't you get that sense from the previous two years? 1587 01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,000 Speaker 1: I think one one of the benefits they get from that, 1588 01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:12,160 Speaker 1: although it's it's it's you know, tamed a little bit 1589 01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,439 Speaker 1: by the fact that you said, they don't do it 1590 01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,360 Speaker 1: very often, that when they do, it's unexpected. He picks 1591 01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:21,519 Speaker 1: his spots really well. When the offense and every every 1592 01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,479 Speaker 1: defense does this. They try to do this. They watch 1593 01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,760 Speaker 1: an offense, they watch an offense, They look at the 1594 01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,640 Speaker 1: front that the offense sees and then decipher what the 1595 01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,720 Speaker 1: offensive line rules are. If they line up like this 1596 01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:36,519 Speaker 1: and they drop back to pass and you rush him, 1597 01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:38,680 Speaker 1: this guy and this guy and this guy are going 1598 01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,160 Speaker 1: to do that, you know the offensive line are gonna 1599 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,600 Speaker 1: be here, right, so you try and put stunts in 1600 01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:49,040 Speaker 1: that hit that protection scheme where it hurts. Every team 1601 01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:51,400 Speaker 1: does it. It's part of the job of film guys 1602 01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:55,080 Speaker 1: who dissect and decipher what the rules of that offensive 1603 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,160 Speaker 1: line are so that when you give him a look, 1604 01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,599 Speaker 1: you know what their assignments are going to be. Before 1605 01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:01,880 Speaker 1: the snap and by doing so, you get some pressure. 1606 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,559 Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier has dialed that up. When he calls pressure, 1607 01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:09,800 Speaker 1: he just calls his shots really well. Yeah, they do 1608 01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:12,479 Speaker 1: it really well. And for a lot of times they're 1609 01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:14,360 Speaker 1: not a high blitz team. I don't think I don't 1610 01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,240 Speaker 1: think so. But it's more than the last two, right, 1611 01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:21,920 Speaker 1: and so they they're getting solid, consistent pressure when they 1612 01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:25,240 Speaker 1: need it, and one of the reasons is because they 1613 01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,280 Speaker 1: got a really good back end of that defense. We 1614 01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:31,080 Speaker 1: struggle with this, you said it Earlder in the show. 1615 01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:33,559 Speaker 1: We struggle with his Twitter poll best Bills defender through 1616 01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:36,080 Speaker 1: five games. We were trying to go, well, what's the 1617 01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:39,720 Speaker 1: best Bill's defensive position group through five games? And we thought, well, 1618 01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,200 Speaker 1: maybe it's the defensive backs. The linebackers are defensive front, 1619 01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,280 Speaker 1: and we thought, no, just keep it simple. Who's the 1620 01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:47,840 Speaker 1: best guy. That's even harder, It's right, it's really hard 1621 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:51,120 Speaker 1: sick a call on this issue. I believe Bart on 1622 01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:52,840 Speaker 1: the line with us. Hello Bart, welcome to the show. 1623 01:16:55,880 --> 01:17:02,080 Speaker 1: Hey Im, you know I we talked about Ken in 1624 01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,880 Speaker 1: the seasons and stuff like that. You know, are you 1625 01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:09,200 Speaker 1: not condition? I want the Bills to be the best, 1626 01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:15,360 Speaker 1: but until we put somebody really away. I must consist 1627 01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:22,439 Speaker 1: they should have been able to put away anybody we played, Babe, 1628 01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:28,520 Speaker 1: save the Patriots. We watched a bullet with the Titans. 1629 01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:35,800 Speaker 1: But we just haven't put anybody away. What about the Giants, Giants? Well, 1630 01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:39,760 Speaker 1: even the Giants we let back into the game late. No, 1631 01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:41,880 Speaker 1: they won by fourteen. The Bills scored the last in 1632 01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,200 Speaker 1: that game. They won by fourteen points. Bart, The Bills 1633 01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,200 Speaker 1: defense held the Titans to seven points. They held the 1634 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,800 Speaker 1: Patriots offense to ten points, and that was on the 1635 01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,599 Speaker 1: short field where they gave were in field goal range already. 1636 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:57,720 Speaker 1: They held the Jets to sixteen points. They held the 1637 01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,679 Speaker 1: Giants to fourteen points. I mean, what are you saying 1638 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,439 Speaker 1: you want to only if they allow zero points? They 1639 01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:09,960 Speaker 1: are you happy? Offense? Well, it's but we have to 1640 01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,439 Speaker 1: have an offense to get can put away a team 1641 01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:17,880 Speaker 1: when they have the opportunity. The defense play is fantastic, 1642 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,439 Speaker 1: and that's step us in the game and available to 1643 01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:28,120 Speaker 1: hear everything. But we have not away any team except 1644 01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,760 Speaker 1: the Jelling. Okay, now it's accept the Janets, Okay, Bart, 1645 01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,320 Speaker 1: I hear you, and you know they are a great 1646 01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,519 Speaker 1: defense and they played some good defenses too uh, and 1647 01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:40,799 Speaker 1: just quick analysis that they lost barely to the Patriots, 1648 01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,479 Speaker 1: number one defense in the league. They they beat the 1649 01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:46,800 Speaker 1: Titans fourteen to seven, got fourteen points against the number 1650 01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,559 Speaker 1: nine defense in the NFL. The Jets are the number 1651 01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:52,320 Speaker 1: twelve defense in the NFL. My point is, yeah, they 1652 01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:54,519 Speaker 1: need to be better on offense, There's no question, and 1653 01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure that's the focus of attention for the coaching 1654 01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:59,960 Speaker 1: staff during this bye week. We got to generate more points. 1655 01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:01,439 Speaker 1: And one of the things that they have been up 1656 01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:04,040 Speaker 1: against some pretty good defensive teams and they've moved the football. 1657 01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:06,320 Speaker 1: They're in the top ten or is it a top twelve, 1658 01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:10,599 Speaker 1: they're twelfth and moving the football. They're they're moving to football. 1659 01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,200 Speaker 1: The problem is they've had trouble putting it in the 1660 01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,880 Speaker 1: end zone. But this is an offense that has been 1661 01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:19,680 Speaker 1: productive and moved the football. Remember that in the three 1662 01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:23,840 Speaker 1: and oz start, they didn't have a TD drive that 1663 01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,479 Speaker 1: was less than seventy yards on a three and o record. 1664 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:28,800 Speaker 1: So they've moved the football and gotten a lot of 1665 01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:31,720 Speaker 1: first downs and that's been a huge difference from a 1666 01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:35,680 Speaker 1: year ago. So I'm with you, there's no question they 1667 01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,920 Speaker 1: haven't put Pete teams away. But we're and I maybe 1668 01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Bar you called in and said the team. 1669 01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:44,240 Speaker 1: I get it. We're talking about the defense. And if 1670 01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,800 Speaker 1: you're going to talk about the defense not holding up, 1671 01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:48,280 Speaker 1: it's into the bargain or that the fact that the 1672 01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:51,599 Speaker 1: team hasn't scored enough points to put teams away, that's 1673 01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,880 Speaker 1: one thing. But we've been talking about the defense. Who 1674 01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:56,880 Speaker 1: the best defender is? So, I mean, I get it. 1675 01:19:57,280 --> 01:20:00,120 Speaker 1: We all know they need to score more points, and 1676 01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,280 Speaker 1: but as far as this defense goes, I think it's 1677 01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:05,160 Speaker 1: hard to ask them to do any more than they're doing, 1678 01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,960 Speaker 1: although they're asking it of themselves, no doubt. Scoring they 1679 01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:12,040 Speaker 1: average eighteen points per game. Scoring, they give average defensively, 1680 01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,160 Speaker 1: give up fourteen points per game. You can win a 1681 01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:17,360 Speaker 1: lot given up fourteen points a game, and they've they've 1682 01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,720 Speaker 1: won for their first five. You you're gonna need to 1683 01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,839 Speaker 1: do better than eighteen points a game to make the playoffs, 1684 01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,040 Speaker 1: to continue to win, don't you think you know? Get 1685 01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,439 Speaker 1: up to twenty one, twenty four points. If you're gonna 1686 01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:29,880 Speaker 1: be a really good team, you gotta go twenty four 1687 01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:33,360 Speaker 1: points plus. They need an extra touchdown forget the extra point, 1688 01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,200 Speaker 1: just two field goals to get to twenty four points. 1689 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,280 Speaker 1: If you if you do that, think about where this 1690 01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:41,360 Speaker 1: team would be if they would have scored a touch 1691 01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,760 Speaker 1: six more points a game, Well, they would have tied 1692 01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,160 Speaker 1: the Patriots. So they you know, I mean, they would 1693 01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:49,000 Speaker 1: have beaten that team. They could have beaten that team. 1694 01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:53,280 Speaker 1: This is you know, this is a team that's really 1695 01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,360 Speaker 1: playing well, and certainly their defense is carrying them. But 1696 01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,040 Speaker 1: it's a nice place to be for this offense for me, Murph, 1697 01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:01,519 Speaker 1: and that we always feel like and I don't know 1698 01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,400 Speaker 1: if I don't know if our listeners agree with this 1699 01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:06,400 Speaker 1: or not, but I watched the Bills. There always seems 1700 01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,280 Speaker 1: to be a lot more under the hood offensively, and 1701 01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:12,080 Speaker 1: when Josh turns it over it kind of hamstrings their 1702 01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:15,479 Speaker 1: ability to rev their engine. Am I right? You get 1703 01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:17,840 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's not like it was when 1704 01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:21,519 Speaker 1: we had Tyrod playing quarterback. It's like throw it, you know, 1705 01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:24,160 Speaker 1: you were you just didn't feel like the offense was 1706 01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:27,799 Speaker 1: getting anything done because they just couldn't throw the football 1707 01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:32,360 Speaker 1: at all. This offense is not like that. I think 1708 01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:35,080 Speaker 1: this offense it's just there and they're striving to do 1709 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,720 Speaker 1: more and more going for the big play, using end 1710 01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:41,840 Speaker 1: a rounds, you know, innovative play calling, misdirection, They're using 1711 01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,439 Speaker 1: speed on the field. Their running game and Frank Gore 1712 01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:47,639 Speaker 1: have been great. They're tight ends, They're getting contributions from 1713 01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,519 Speaker 1: all over. So I think this offense has a much 1714 01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,960 Speaker 1: better feel to it that at some point the lid 1715 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,080 Speaker 1: could come off and they could hang thirty points on it. 1716 01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:59,519 Speaker 1: And they're playing without some key pieces, right having single 1717 01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,400 Speaker 1: theories three games, they've got offensive line shuffle going on. 1718 01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:04,800 Speaker 1: We'll see all that plays itself out over the break 1719 01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,040 Speaker 1: over the bye week here, but they are playing without 1720 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,719 Speaker 1: some key pieces, and look not these aren't excuses because 1721 01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:12,400 Speaker 1: they know what they need to be better on offense. 1722 01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,840 Speaker 1: I think, as Steve says, they got a lot under 1723 01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:16,960 Speaker 1: the hood. They got to get everybody healthy number one, 1724 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,320 Speaker 1: including a singletary and Robert Foster, who I believe has 1725 01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,160 Speaker 1: something to add. Tyler Croft, Tyler Croft is still know 1726 01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:25,840 Speaker 1: what he does right. And they got to stop the 1727 01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:30,120 Speaker 1: turnovers right. I mean the turnovers first half turnovers against 1728 01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,320 Speaker 1: the Jets. They dodged a bullet there. They managed to 1729 01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:35,240 Speaker 1: come back and win the turnovers all game against New England. 1730 01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:39,680 Speaker 1: They never overcame right, so dodge turnovers get healthy, and 1731 01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:41,760 Speaker 1: like Steve says, I think there's a lot more to 1732 01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,080 Speaker 1: come from the Buffalo offense. Ryan in North Carolina on 1733 01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:46,519 Speaker 1: the line wants to talk about the Buffalo defense. What 1734 01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,600 Speaker 1: do you have, Ryan, Yeah, just a few observations. You know, 1735 01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,439 Speaker 1: First of all, you know, at Oliver got a lot 1736 01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:53,960 Speaker 1: of love in the preseason. You know, you know, making 1737 01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:55,640 Speaker 1: a lot of strides. Hasn't been a lot of talk 1738 01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:58,799 Speaker 1: about them lately, but I've been really impressed with especially 1739 01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,519 Speaker 1: the game against Tennessee. There are at least two maybe 1740 01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,959 Speaker 1: three plays where there you know, he made down steel tackles. 1741 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,800 Speaker 1: I mean that are down the field. One was on 1742 01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,680 Speaker 1: a Derrick Henry run inside the ten yard line when 1743 01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:12,719 Speaker 1: he was about to plow over one of our dvs 1744 01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:15,880 Speaker 1: and he came and tackled them from behind. So yeah, clearly, 1745 01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's one of our standouts because 1746 01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,120 Speaker 1: he's the first year player and he's been such a 1747 01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,120 Speaker 1: quick study. I agree, and Ryan just want to d 1748 01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:24,120 Speaker 1: Oliver is still learning to play, right, He's got a 1749 01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:26,200 Speaker 1: third of an NFL season under his belt, still learning. 1750 01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:28,439 Speaker 1: He doesn't have the stat up, but he's got the 1751 01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,400 Speaker 1: motor Yeah, the Kyle Williams motor, which I think is 1752 01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,360 Speaker 1: you know, invaluable, and he's going to serve them all 1753 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:36,040 Speaker 1: for a long time. You know. Also, obviously you know 1754 01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:39,160 Speaker 1: that our safety's high employer, I mean match made having 1755 01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:41,240 Speaker 1: it's easy to go with them. Seems like we kind 1756 01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,080 Speaker 1: of turned the corner with this franchise when we got 1757 01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:44,880 Speaker 1: them on board a couple of years ago. But I 1758 01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:47,200 Speaker 1: have to go with my defense to standout as tremain Evans. 1759 01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,519 Speaker 1: I mean, he's out there, you know, calling the defense. 1760 01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,439 Speaker 1: He's making the stops from the running game. He's back 1761 01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:54,800 Speaker 1: there with the long arms, knocking passes down. Like he 1762 01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,439 Speaker 1: said on that third down against Sennec. He seems to 1763 01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,479 Speaker 1: be really stepping into that role. The one criticism might 1764 01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:03,759 Speaker 1: have with this defense, and maybe it goes to Edmonds, 1765 01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,560 Speaker 1: maybe it goes somewhere else, is our vulnerability against the 1766 01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:09,560 Speaker 1: screen pass. You know Joe Mixon with the mangles, you 1767 01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,240 Speaker 1: know they were that was their biggest play of the game, 1768 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:15,519 Speaker 1: you know, thirty five yards screen pass when nobody was 1769 01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:17,760 Speaker 1: out there, he still saw the backfield. Same thing with 1770 01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,479 Speaker 1: the Tennessee game. I don't know who caught the screen pass, 1771 01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:23,160 Speaker 1: but went for fifty six yards or whatever. So I 1772 01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:24,600 Speaker 1: don't know if that's done for Maine. That was the 1773 01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:26,720 Speaker 1: tight end, right, wasn't it the John O? Smith? I 1774 01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:29,320 Speaker 1: think the tight end screen I think it was that 1775 01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,479 Speaker 1: went for fifty six But whatever, I think that might 1776 01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:36,160 Speaker 1: be Edmond's responsibility. Someone's slipping out of the backfield. We'll say. 1777 01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:38,040 Speaker 1: On that particular play, if you look at it again, 1778 01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:41,479 Speaker 1: Trey White was on the edge and the right tackle, 1779 01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:43,439 Speaker 1: you know, gave him a little hold. I know the 1780 01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:45,840 Speaker 1: league is trying to not call as many holding penalties, 1781 01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,759 Speaker 1: but if you watch that play closely, you know White's 1782 01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:51,519 Speaker 1: kind of there in possible position to make the stop 1783 01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,479 Speaker 1: and then you know their their tackle grabs them Yanks 1784 01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:56,320 Speaker 1: and for were just a little bit. You know, it 1785 01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,040 Speaker 1: kills his momentum and then the play is off and running. 1786 01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:00,760 Speaker 1: So you know, that's one thing I think we need 1787 01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,720 Speaker 1: to fix up. I'm always worried about the screen pass 1788 01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:05,720 Speaker 1: with this Bill's young Bill's defense. I think that's one 1789 01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,559 Speaker 1: of our biggest vulnerabilities. The one other thing I want 1790 01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:10,960 Speaker 1: to mention was, I think a lot of our success 1791 01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,280 Speaker 1: this year has been the lack of past interference calls 1792 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,920 Speaker 1: against their defense. I mean, I can only recall maybe one, 1793 01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,519 Speaker 1: you know, penalty with Trey White against the Patriots after 1794 01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:22,160 Speaker 1: he twisted an ankle and he was kind of, you know, 1795 01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,800 Speaker 1: a little you know, can't be out there. But we 1796 01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,679 Speaker 1: haven't had any of those big pass interference thirty yard 1797 01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,479 Speaker 1: penalties that have killed us in the past. So I 1798 01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,840 Speaker 1: think that and I think that's a tribute to to 1799 01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,920 Speaker 1: our safeties and in the back their TVs know that 1800 01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,000 Speaker 1: they're going to get help back there. So I think 1801 01:25:39,080 --> 01:25:42,000 Speaker 1: I think that's been a huge kind of piece to 1802 01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:43,880 Speaker 1: our success. A lot of good stuff there, Ryan, What 1803 01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:45,920 Speaker 1: do you think, Steve, I agree with a lot of it. 1804 01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,880 Speaker 1: I haven't noticed a lot of penalties down the field, 1805 01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,840 Speaker 1: and those are those are really crusher penalties. And I 1806 01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:57,320 Speaker 1: think our defensive secondaries really playing extremely well. Uh they're 1807 01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,599 Speaker 1: not giving up very many passes. They've been good against 1808 01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,320 Speaker 1: the run and the past. They you know, they're just 1809 01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,320 Speaker 1: they're doing a lot in the back end to help 1810 01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,080 Speaker 1: those guys up front. I think one of the things 1811 01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:08,000 Speaker 1: that it showed last week and the fact that Marcus 1812 01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,320 Speaker 1: Mariota didn't have anybody to throw too. And I think 1813 01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,519 Speaker 1: if you're doing that, yeah, you're volume you can't take 1814 01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,559 Speaker 1: everything away, and I think I agree with him. There's 1815 01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,160 Speaker 1: been some times when they've gotten so and I think 1816 01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,080 Speaker 1: this Tennessee game was one of those times when they 1817 01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,519 Speaker 1: got so focused up front on rushing the passer and 1818 01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,559 Speaker 1: getting Mariote on the ground, they do leave a guy 1819 01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:27,639 Speaker 1: like that open. One of the plays he talked about 1820 01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:29,960 Speaker 1: was when Tremaine Edmonds got locked up with an offensive 1821 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:33,479 Speaker 1: lineman just as the pass was thrown. He saw it 1822 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,599 Speaker 1: a half a second, not even a half two tenths 1823 01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,680 Speaker 1: of a second too late, and it costs. That was 1824 01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:40,800 Speaker 1: the big run down the sideline and the screen passed 1825 01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,880 Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. So he's right. They have been nicked a 1826 01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:46,400 Speaker 1: couple of times by those screen passes, but those come 1827 01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:48,680 Speaker 1: about because I think of the way their defense is 1828 01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:53,839 Speaker 1: playing in those other areas. So I'm with him the caller, Ryanite. 1829 01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:56,960 Speaker 1: I think he's right. I think I think he saw 1830 01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:58,960 Speaker 1: a lot of good things, and I think this defense 1831 01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:01,680 Speaker 1: is going to continue to get better, and I think 1832 01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:05,000 Speaker 1: it's that's the reason we asked this question today. Who's 1833 01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,439 Speaker 1: the best defender through first five games? It's hard to 1834 01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:09,519 Speaker 1: put your finger on it. Certainly everybody's got a favorite 1835 01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,400 Speaker 1: but man, oh man, you can point to a lot 1836 01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:13,719 Speaker 1: of guys and say they've been the guy. Ryan. Thanks, 1837 01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,320 Speaker 1: good point. I just looked up the penalties. He makes 1838 01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,920 Speaker 1: a good point about defensive pass interference. Of Bills have 1839 01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:21,960 Speaker 1: had one through five games of the league average is 1840 01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,840 Speaker 1: about two point eight, about three. The Bills one of one, two, three, four, five, 1841 01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,720 Speaker 1: six seven. Eight teams with just one defensive pass interference 1842 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:34,679 Speaker 1: Cleveland and Jacksonville, I have no defensive pass interference penalties. Interesting, 1843 01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:37,320 Speaker 1: good point. A break. We're back. It's One Bills Live, 1844 01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:40,200 Speaker 1: presented by Kalaia Health Live from the Seneca Studio. This 1845 01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:56,200 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, One Bills Live. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, 1846 01:27:56,280 --> 01:28:01,320 Speaker 1: time now four reads milestones. Jordan Phillips recorded three sacks 1847 01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,200 Speaker 1: in the first half against the Titans. You know that. 1848 01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:07,840 Speaker 1: You saw that. His first multi multi sack game for 1849 01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:10,720 Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips. And he's the first Buffalo Bill with three 1850 01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,920 Speaker 1: sacks in a game since Lorenzo Alexander did it a 1851 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:18,240 Speaker 1: couple of years ago October nine, twenty sixteen at the 1852 01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:20,639 Speaker 1: Alien Rams and Jordan Phillips is the first Buffalo Bills 1853 01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:22,639 Speaker 1: play with three in the first half of a game. 1854 01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:26,960 Speaker 1: Since Mario Williams did it in twenty thirteen against Carolina. 1855 01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:30,799 Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips with today's Reads Milestones presented by Reads Jewelers, 1856 01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:33,680 Speaker 1: the official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. What a game. 1857 01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,320 Speaker 1: I hope there's more to come from Jordan Phillips. Do 1858 01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:37,240 Speaker 1: you think that's foolish to expect that, Steve? I hope 1859 01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:41,280 Speaker 1: for that. Nor. We had somebody chiming in this morning. 1860 01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:43,640 Speaker 1: I saw trying to get hold of us on our 1861 01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:48,240 Speaker 1: through Twitter saying, Yo, they should probably extend Jordan Phillips Whalley. 1862 01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:51,080 Speaker 1: You know, he has played well for him since they 1863 01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,519 Speaker 1: picked him up from Miami last year. I don't know 1864 01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:59,280 Speaker 1: how long his contract, what his contract situation is. I 1865 01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:01,559 Speaker 1: think he's in them. This might be the last year 1866 01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:03,840 Speaker 1: of his deal, sure, but I'm no, I'm not sure 1867 01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,559 Speaker 1: on a new deal in the offseason. Maybe they did. Literally, 1868 01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:09,280 Speaker 1: remember we had him on the show, go to your 1869 01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:14,960 Speaker 1: handy dandy thing, go website, All right, do that, and 1870 01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,720 Speaker 1: you do it and I won't. So I it's a 1871 01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:22,720 Speaker 1: it's a it's a thought. Depending on where his contract is. 1872 01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:30,000 Speaker 1: He has certainly thrived in this culture. He certainly seems 1873 01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:33,040 Speaker 1: to be he's he's a first round talent. I mean, 1874 01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:37,040 Speaker 1: the guy's enormous. He also plays the exact position that 1875 01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:40,519 Speaker 1: ed Oliver plays, and he's a different kind of player 1876 01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:43,519 Speaker 1: than ed Oliver is. So a team really has to 1877 01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:46,960 Speaker 1: do their due diligence and do their prep for a 1878 01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:52,360 Speaker 1: guy two different guys. Jordan Phillips is a big, massive, strong, 1879 01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:55,320 Speaker 1: high motor guy, and of course ed Oliver is smaller, 1880 01:29:55,720 --> 01:30:00,280 Speaker 1: much more athletic and lightning fast. So that gives you 1881 01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:03,080 Speaker 1: two different kinds, completely different kinds of guys that play 1882 01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:06,920 Speaker 1: the three technique on your D line. That I think 1883 01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:09,320 Speaker 1: that's hard to prepare for, you know, I think it's 1884 01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:11,920 Speaker 1: really hard to prepare for. Plus, if you can do 1885 01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:14,120 Speaker 1: if you if you can stop one guy, if that's 1886 01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:15,880 Speaker 1: your you know, you've got a guy that's good at 1887 01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,639 Speaker 1: that stopping that, but he's not good at the other. Well, 1888 01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,680 Speaker 1: guess who gets most of the snaps that that week 1889 01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:22,560 Speaker 1: and the guy who he can't stop, you know. So 1890 01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:24,080 Speaker 1: I think it's a really good spot for the Bills 1891 01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:25,600 Speaker 1: to be in with ed Oliver in the mix with 1892 01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,400 Speaker 1: with Jordan Phillips. Jordan Phillips looked it up on Mike 1893 01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,880 Speaker 1: Janitty Spot trek dot Com. Jordan Phillips got the one 1894 01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,560 Speaker 1: year deal just signed last offseason deal worth four and 1895 01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:38,280 Speaker 1: a half million dollars two million dollars signing bonus, two 1896 01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:40,680 Speaker 1: million guaranteed as signing. So he's free agent next year, 1897 01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:43,400 Speaker 1: understricted free agent. Good point. Maybe they should look into 1898 01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,360 Speaker 1: that at some point. All right, we got a break. 1899 01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:47,040 Speaker 1: We're coming back with the third and final hour of 1900 01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:48,640 Speaker 1: the show, and let's hear more from you about the 1901 01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:51,559 Speaker 1: Buffalo defense. Who's played the best on the Buffalo defense 1902 01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:54,439 Speaker 1: or the first five games? Tough question, isn't it. We 1903 01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,720 Speaker 1: asked the tough questions here. We'll do more of that 1904 01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:00,360 Speaker 1: when we come back. John Murphy, Steve Tasker un Bills 1905 01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:02,720 Speaker 1: live from our Seneca studio in Archerd Park. This is 1906 01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:18,280 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Day. The update 1907 01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:21,280 Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills ready to ship Zay 1908 01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:23,840 Speaker 1: Jones to the Oakland Raiders. The trade and out official yet, 1909 01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:26,479 Speaker 1: but it will be trading Zay Jones second round pick 1910 01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:28,280 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago to the Raiders in exchange 1911 01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:30,720 Speaker 1: for a fifth round pick in twenty twenty one. Zay 1912 01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,479 Speaker 1: Jones out of East Carolina, a tremendous record of production 1913 01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:35,840 Speaker 1: at East Carolina, never was able to do it in 1914 01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:38,240 Speaker 1: the NFL for the Bills anyway. He was the Bills 1915 01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:41,439 Speaker 1: receiver in most major receiving categories last year, but did 1916 01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:44,000 Speaker 1: not make an impact yet this year. Seven catches sixty 1917 01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,400 Speaker 1: nine yards and the Bills got a good production out 1918 01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:49,320 Speaker 1: of the Duke Williams who came up the practice squad 1919 01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:51,880 Speaker 1: and score the go ahead touchdown Sunday in Tennessee. So 1920 01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:55,120 Speaker 1: Zay Jones is gone, traded to the Raiders. Raiders GM 1921 01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:57,080 Speaker 1: Mike Mayock was a fan of z Jones coming out 1922 01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,240 Speaker 1: of college. He made that clear he had him as 1923 01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:01,960 Speaker 1: his fourth wank Ride receiver. That year, a Juju Smith 1924 01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,000 Speaker 1: Schuster and Cooper cup Bill seb signed a new player 1925 01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:08,560 Speaker 1: to their practice squad. Defensive end Wyatt Ray added to 1926 01:32:08,600 --> 01:32:11,519 Speaker 1: the Buffalo practice squad six three. Product of Boston College, 1927 01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,040 Speaker 1: went to camp with the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted 1928 01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,599 Speaker 1: free agent cut when the Rochers were trimmed right before 1929 01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:19,120 Speaker 1: the season began. Wyatt Ray now added to the Buffalo 1930 01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:21,439 Speaker 1: practice squad. The New York Jets are ready to bring 1931 01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:25,320 Speaker 1: Sam Darnold back. He's been cleared free of mono nucleosis 1932 01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:27,640 Speaker 1: and ready to play again. Sam Donald will start from 1933 01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,880 Speaker 1: New York Jets this Sunday. Titans ready to move on 1934 01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:33,160 Speaker 1: from kicker Cairo Santos, one day after his bad performance 1935 01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:34,960 Speaker 1: against the Bills, where he missed four field goals in 1936 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:39,519 Speaker 1: buffalo seven point win at Tennessee. His expected replacement is 1937 01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:42,240 Speaker 1: a former Bears kicker, Cody Parkey, who was the man 1938 01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:44,599 Speaker 1: behind the double joint that knocks Chicago out of last 1939 01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,599 Speaker 1: season's playoffs. It'll be Parky's first shot at redemption since 1940 01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,080 Speaker 1: he was released by the Bears during the off season. 1941 01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,880 Speaker 1: Giants say that running back se Quon Barkley is unlithy 1942 01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,760 Speaker 1: to play thirty night against the Patriots. He did to 1943 01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,360 Speaker 1: return to practice late last week, but not quite ready 1944 01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,800 Speaker 1: to play. Benjamin Watson says he's beyond disappointment after being 1945 01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,799 Speaker 1: released from the Patriots Pastry It's released in league yesterday 1946 01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:07,760 Speaker 1: after he just returned from a four game NFL suspension, 1947 01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:10,800 Speaker 1: and the forty nine Ers might be without fullback Kyle 1948 01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:13,920 Speaker 1: us Check. He suffered an MCL injury in last night's game. 1949 01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:18,240 Speaker 1: Savers oh tomorrow against what they play in Montreal tomorrow night. 1950 01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:21,639 Speaker 1: And baseball tonight Houston to Tampa Bay and our American 1951 01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:24,880 Speaker 1: League Division series. Houston up two games to one. I'm 1952 01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:26,720 Speaker 1: going to the Save seven all right tomorrow night. I'm 1953 01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:28,400 Speaker 1: going to the Saves game tomorrow night. And you won't 1954 01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:31,600 Speaker 1: be stopped. You are determined. I'm gonna catch one of 1955 01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:33,880 Speaker 1: those T shirts they dropped from the rafters too. Do 1956 01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,160 Speaker 1: you do that every game? I don't know, I think so. 1957 01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:37,920 Speaker 1: And what are you gonna eat at the game? Steve? 1958 01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:40,360 Speaker 1: You're gonnat cotton came? Usually I don't do that. Usually, 1959 01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:42,519 Speaker 1: catch a little bite beforehand, you know, go to one 1960 01:33:42,520 --> 01:33:46,200 Speaker 1: of the outlying establishments, have a pop for the game, 1961 01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:54,000 Speaker 1: and head in. It's a pop soda, No, not a soda. Um. Yeah, 1962 01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:55,960 Speaker 1: it's a great night. We're a great atmosphere down there. 1963 01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:58,080 Speaker 1: It's so fun, man, I love going to Savers games. 1964 01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:04,000 Speaker 1: So fun. You I'm not going to Are you you 1965 01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,479 Speaker 1: like going there though? Could you like going? Yes? Yeah, okay, 1966 01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:09,679 Speaker 1: I've been a Sabers fan longer than you. Well yeah, 1967 01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:11,680 Speaker 1: he took a hiatus though. For a minute. I know 1968 01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:15,479 Speaker 1: that too, so they yeah, um, look here we are. 1969 01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:17,040 Speaker 1: We got a Twitter poll up. I'm sorry. I had 1970 01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:19,040 Speaker 1: some technical issues with my little thing trying to get 1971 01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:21,080 Speaker 1: that fat. So you can't hear Jay talking. Yeah, Jase 1972 01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:23,000 Speaker 1: might be Jason Creeman at us. I don't know. You 1973 01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:26,280 Speaker 1: can't hear it. It might be a benefit the producer 1974 01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:28,800 Speaker 1: Twitter poll today. It's a good one. Who's the Bill's 1975 01:34:28,840 --> 01:34:31,400 Speaker 1: best defender through the first five games? Give us a call? 1976 01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:33,760 Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five fifty toll free one eight 1977 01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:36,960 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet. 1978 01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:38,920 Speaker 1: Can't take calls if I can't hear. So let's go 1979 01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,599 Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems, 1980 01:34:41,640 --> 01:34:44,040 Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Who is the 1981 01:34:44,120 --> 01:34:46,040 Speaker 1: Bill's best defender through the first five games? What are 1982 01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:48,280 Speaker 1: you got on the tweet that? It says From Daryl, 1983 01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:49,920 Speaker 1: he says in the safety combination of poor Year and 1984 01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:52,120 Speaker 1: Hide anchors the Bill's defense and allows Edmunds and others 1985 01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:55,040 Speaker 1: to make plays. Defense is built from back to front. 1986 01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:59,360 Speaker 1: Also from Tiffany Uh, he says, I voted for Tremaine, 1987 01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:01,720 Speaker 1: he's been off him so far. Would like to add Lorenzo. 1988 01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,679 Speaker 1: He's been He's had an impact play in each game, 1989 01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:07,320 Speaker 1: from tip passes to key sacks to clutch tackles. He's 1990 01:35:07,360 --> 01:35:09,920 Speaker 1: a Swiss Army knife for the best defense in the 1991 01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:12,280 Speaker 1: National Football League. There's a lot of them. There's a 1992 01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:13,720 Speaker 1: lot of meat on this The reason we ask this 1993 01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:17,160 Speaker 1: question seems obvious. Who's the best Bills defender through first 1994 01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,400 Speaker 1: five games? Because yeah, they don't have any these superstar guys, 1995 01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:24,080 Speaker 1: like you said, there's no Aaron Donald, there's no Khalil Mack, 1996 01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:29,160 Speaker 1: there's no Joey Bosa, there's no you know, Richard Sherman. 1997 01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:31,280 Speaker 1: You know, we do have guys like Tredavious White. We've 1998 01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:33,560 Speaker 1: got to Levi Wallace, who's playing well. The two safeties 1999 01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:38,160 Speaker 1: in tandem. Our safeties are awesome, But that's not a 2000 01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:40,720 Speaker 1: guy who stands out on the defense. Tremaine Edmonds, I 2001 01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:43,679 Speaker 1: think has made a real quiet difference for the guys 2002 01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:45,920 Speaker 1: on the defense. You'd have to dig deep and do 2003 01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,360 Speaker 1: you know, talk to each guy on the defense is 2004 01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:52,080 Speaker 1: to see what kind of contribution Tremaine has made to 2005 01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:54,599 Speaker 1: each of them into elevating their play. Matt Milano has 2006 01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,840 Speaker 1: come back with a vengeance this season. He's made some 2007 01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:02,559 Speaker 1: great tackles in space, plays down the field. You remember 2008 01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:04,760 Speaker 1: the play that set up the Patriots first touchdown and 2009 01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:09,040 Speaker 1: only touchdown offensively on the play down the sidelines. Milano 2010 01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:11,880 Speaker 1: had tremendous coverage and it was a perfect throwing, a 2011 01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:14,840 Speaker 1: great catch that beat him. And that's really the only 2012 01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:17,439 Speaker 1: downer play you've seen him be even a part of. 2013 01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:19,160 Speaker 1: And now on that one, it wasn't even a downery. 2014 01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:21,600 Speaker 1: They made a great play. So you know, there's a 2015 01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:23,360 Speaker 1: lot of names on the list when you go down 2016 01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:25,439 Speaker 1: this about you know, through the first five games. And 2017 01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:27,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you this, Murph, just for you and 2018 01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:28,880 Speaker 1: me before we get to the back of the tweet, 2019 01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,080 Speaker 1: a question for you Tube. We'll go ahead. If it 2020 01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:34,960 Speaker 1: was if you're gonna go like secondary linebackers defensive front, 2021 01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:39,160 Speaker 1: that may be even a harder question. Which group? Okay, 2022 01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:40,960 Speaker 1: and this plays into my question I got for you, 2023 01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:42,479 Speaker 1: and it goes back to the first tweet you just 2024 01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:45,760 Speaker 1: read there from Darryl about the safety combination payer and 2025 01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:50,640 Speaker 1: hoy hi hide. Now they're they're throwing me kleenexes to 2026 01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:55,479 Speaker 1: clean off my airpiece, he says. Darryl says, the defense 2027 01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:58,240 Speaker 1: is built from back to front. My question for you, 2028 01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:01,400 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, can you do that and be effective? Have 2029 01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:03,760 Speaker 1: you seen that before, because I'll be honest, I've thought 2030 01:37:03,760 --> 01:37:06,320 Speaker 1: about that the last couple of weeks. Yeah, what if 2031 01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:08,280 Speaker 1: we got a defense here? I mean, clearly they got 2032 01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:10,479 Speaker 1: talent on the back end, I know that, But can 2033 01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:13,240 Speaker 1: you can you build your defense from the back side 2034 01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:15,920 Speaker 1: to the front side. Have you seen that done before successfully? Well, 2035 01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,080 Speaker 1: here's the thing. We had this huge debate this last 2036 01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:21,080 Speaker 1: offseason when we were starved for content. We kept getting 2037 01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,320 Speaker 1: people calling us and it was the analytics guys. I 2038 01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:28,280 Speaker 1: don't know where. It was Steve Palozzolo from foot Pro 2039 01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:30,800 Speaker 1: Football Focus. So we had on the show one time. 2040 01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:36,760 Speaker 1: But there's this huge debate, and the analytics people will 2041 01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:39,479 Speaker 1: tell you that it's more important to have coverage than 2042 01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:43,120 Speaker 1: it is pressure. It's more it helps your team more 2043 01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:47,559 Speaker 1: to have great dbs than it does have great pass rushers. 2044 01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:50,639 Speaker 1: All right, So there's a great debate. So you're talking 2045 01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,840 Speaker 1: about building a team that way, I'd say, yeah, there's 2046 01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:55,800 Speaker 1: evidence to say you can build it from the back 2047 01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:59,360 Speaker 1: to the front if particularly if you got quarterbacks. There's 2048 01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:01,240 Speaker 1: not too many backs that are is athletic because the 2049 01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:03,519 Speaker 1: Buffalo quarterback, you know, you go around the league, you 2050 01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:05,080 Speaker 1: can kind of name them. There's a few of them 2051 01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:07,559 Speaker 1: that can run around and do some stuff, but certainly 2052 01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:09,680 Speaker 1: the best ones are the ones that aren't runners but 2053 01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:14,880 Speaker 1: more scramblers, the guys that don't scramble to run, they 2054 01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:19,120 Speaker 1: scramble to throw, like Russell Wilson, Drew Brees, even Baker 2055 01:38:19,200 --> 01:38:21,599 Speaker 1: Mayfield when he's had his best stepping away from pressure. 2056 01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:25,360 Speaker 1: So guys like that that are really effective aren't really runners. 2057 01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:28,880 Speaker 1: So your pressure isn't really about keeping the guy from 2058 01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:33,120 Speaker 1: running down the field behind man coverage. It's about making 2059 01:38:33,160 --> 01:38:35,880 Speaker 1: them throw the football, and particularly in this day and age, 2060 01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:38,559 Speaker 1: with offenses advanced as they are, being you know, centered 2061 01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:40,559 Speaker 1: around throwing the football like so many of them are, 2062 01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:45,240 Speaker 1: all of them all are. Mostly it's about getting offenses 2063 01:38:45,280 --> 01:38:48,360 Speaker 1: have more ways to combat pressure in the front than 2064 01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:50,720 Speaker 1: they do in the back end. There's only so many 2065 01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:53,160 Speaker 1: concepts you can throw at a at a group in 2066 01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:55,080 Speaker 1: the back end and not having be able to come 2067 01:38:55,160 --> 01:38:58,800 Speaker 1: up with an answer up front. There's a lot of 2068 01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:01,360 Speaker 1: ways because you get rid of the football fast before 2069 01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:02,960 Speaker 1: the pressure you can get there. You can run the 2070 01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:05,960 Speaker 1: football effectively. You can throw screen passes, whip screens, you 2071 01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:08,439 Speaker 1: can do end around, you can do misdirection, there's a 2072 01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:10,559 Speaker 1: lot of things you can do to negate their ability 2073 01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,479 Speaker 1: to rush the passer. Because of that, I like the 2074 01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:15,679 Speaker 1: fact that maybe there's a guy out there or away 2075 01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:19,120 Speaker 1: and this builds defense. Maybe an exception or maybe an 2076 01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,439 Speaker 1: example that says, yeah, you do build your defense from 2077 01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:24,680 Speaker 1: back to front. So I you know, I get it. 2078 01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:26,920 Speaker 1: I've heard it and seen it, so maybe it is true. 2079 01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:29,240 Speaker 1: Thanks for covering for me. May your piece works again. 2080 01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:33,680 Speaker 1: I kept going take the day a couple of calls here, 2081 01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:37,000 Speaker 1: it works, sounds good. Don't you take a call now? Yes, 2082 01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:39,760 Speaker 1: Bruce calling from Michigan. Where in Michigan are you? Bruce? 2083 01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:41,519 Speaker 1: Showing me on your hand, where in Michigan are you? 2084 01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:48,200 Speaker 1: So I am here's Michigan the joint of the thumb. 2085 01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:52,160 Speaker 1: I'm right near Detroit. Okay, you go all right? That 2086 01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:54,320 Speaker 1: says it all perfect, Go ahead, verse, what do you 2087 01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:59,040 Speaker 1: go ahead? So? I wanted to touch on the quote 2088 01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:03,160 Speaker 1: unquote lack of offense really quick because I do feel 2089 01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:05,120 Speaker 1: like there have been a couple of times that we've 2090 01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:09,160 Speaker 1: left points on the board. Twice in the game against 2091 01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:13,040 Speaker 1: the Titans, where early in the game we went forward 2092 01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:14,680 Speaker 1: on fourth when we were in field goal range. We 2093 01:40:14,760 --> 01:40:17,560 Speaker 1: could have kicked the field goal, and late in the 2094 01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:20,439 Speaker 1: game if we needed to, we could have scored as well. Right, 2095 01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:23,120 Speaker 1: it's also a drive with the Patriots, we could have 2096 01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:26,680 Speaker 1: kicked the field goal and went forward anyways. And I 2097 01:40:26,760 --> 01:40:28,600 Speaker 1: believe there was a couple other times earlier in the 2098 01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:31,960 Speaker 1: season as well. So I don't necessarily think we have 2099 01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:35,400 Speaker 1: a problem scoring points. I think that sometimes we just 2100 01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:38,880 Speaker 1: are less conservative than we used to be, or don't 2101 01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:40,840 Speaker 1: need to. You know, you don't need to blow a 2102 01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:43,519 Speaker 1: team out to win. The wins a win, right, You're right, Right, 2103 01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:45,599 Speaker 1: you're right, And I think you're you've got a headcat 2104 01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,320 Speaker 1: and I see what you see, Bruce, and I don't 2105 01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:50,320 Speaker 1: think And here's the thing, also, two things about what 2106 01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:52,599 Speaker 1: you said. I don't think it's a lack of I'm 2107 01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:54,000 Speaker 1: kind of with you. I don't think it's a lack 2108 01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:56,160 Speaker 1: of offense, though the way you called it. I think 2109 01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:59,559 Speaker 1: it's just because they're moving the football. They're their number, 2110 01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:01,719 Speaker 1: they're in the top twelve in the league and moving 2111 01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:04,680 Speaker 1: the football. Now. They haven't gotten in the end zone enough, 2112 01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:07,360 Speaker 1: we all know that, but they move the ball, and 2113 01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:09,680 Speaker 1: certainly there are a lot of times, particularly in the 2114 01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:12,360 Speaker 1: last couple of games where this team has gone forward 2115 01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:14,800 Speaker 1: on fourth down. They got one last week, and then 2116 01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:17,200 Speaker 1: they got stymied in that same drive on another fourth 2117 01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:19,920 Speaker 1: down where they were going for it. So they go 2118 01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:21,840 Speaker 1: for it on fourth down a little more than we've 2119 01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:24,920 Speaker 1: seen teams do that here in Buffalo teams teams do 2120 01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:26,880 Speaker 1: that in the past. I don't have a problem with that, 2121 01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:29,160 Speaker 1: And I'm with you. When you've got a head coach 2122 01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:32,160 Speaker 1: who is willing to go for it, a lot of 2123 01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:34,519 Speaker 1: times it's because he's got a defense. He says, you 2124 01:41:34,560 --> 01:41:36,240 Speaker 1: know what I You know, even if we don't get 2125 01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:38,200 Speaker 1: it here, we're in their end and we're gonna you know, 2126 01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:40,040 Speaker 1: they still got to go the length of the field 2127 01:41:40,040 --> 01:41:42,519 Speaker 1: on our defense. So I'm with you. There have been 2128 01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:44,680 Speaker 1: times when they've left points on the board. And I 2129 01:41:44,760 --> 01:41:47,000 Speaker 1: thought that Tennessee game that when they were going forward 2130 01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:49,840 Speaker 1: on fourth and they didn't get it, I thought, not 2131 01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:51,880 Speaker 1: the quarterback sneak. They got to stop. But like the 2132 01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:53,720 Speaker 1: fourth and three, I guess it was Murph. Is that 2133 01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,840 Speaker 1: what I mean? Sounds right? And they elected not to 2134 01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,880 Speaker 1: go for the field goal. I was kind of iffy 2135 01:42:00,040 --> 01:42:02,080 Speaker 1: on that one because I thought points would be a premium, 2136 01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:03,600 Speaker 1: they would have put them up three to nothing in 2137 01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:05,760 Speaker 1: the game. So there's a long way to go. But 2138 01:42:05,880 --> 01:42:09,120 Speaker 1: as you said later in that game, at the end 2139 01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:10,519 Speaker 1: of the game, if they would have made three of 2140 01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:12,800 Speaker 1: the field goals that they tried, you said they missed four. 2141 01:42:12,840 --> 01:42:16,720 Speaker 1: In the update they got one block. They missed three 2142 01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,240 Speaker 1: and got one blocked. So they make those three and 2143 01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:22,120 Speaker 1: go from seven to sixteen points. The Bills are still 2144 01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:23,559 Speaker 1: in field goal range at the end of that game 2145 01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:26,439 Speaker 1: to kick the field goal to win it at sixteen fourteen. 2146 01:42:26,479 --> 01:42:28,120 Speaker 1: Do you ever think you'd be around to take your 2147 01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,000 Speaker 1: callum where people said they're not going for it or 2148 01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:32,160 Speaker 1: they're going forward on fourth down too much? Oh my gosh, 2149 01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:37,880 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Conservative, But I think I 2150 01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:40,800 Speaker 1: think they've got really good reasons for doing it. I 2151 01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:43,320 Speaker 1: think they're listening to those people now, and I think 2152 01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:46,240 Speaker 1: they're they're getting some benefit from their four they're four 2153 01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:48,400 Speaker 1: and one. Yeah, you know, you make a good point, 2154 01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:52,439 Speaker 1: and please help us someday. Let's a plea to our 2155 01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:54,760 Speaker 1: co workers here. Get not to the bottom of this. 2156 01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,400 Speaker 1: But I know I can tell you can tell if 2157 01:42:57,439 --> 01:43:01,519 Speaker 1: you're watching closely. They are employing analytics game types and 2158 01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:05,360 Speaker 1: analytics covers a myriad of things, including evaluating how players 2159 01:43:05,439 --> 01:43:08,800 Speaker 1: conditioning is and who they should draft. But in game analytics, 2160 01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,240 Speaker 1: I think they have beefed up. The Bills have beefed up. 2161 01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:14,040 Speaker 1: There a team doing that, And I think Sean McDermott 2162 01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:17,880 Speaker 1: is as receptive as he has ever been towards going 2163 01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:20,880 Speaker 1: the way the analytics show him. And I look, I'm 2164 01:43:20,880 --> 01:43:24,040 Speaker 1: not saying he's you know, what's his name, riverboat Ron 2165 01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:25,800 Speaker 1: down there, but I do think he is much more 2166 01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:28,080 Speaker 1: open to listening to what the numbers show him than 2167 01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:30,200 Speaker 1: he's ever been in two plus years heeries of Bills coach. 2168 01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:32,640 Speaker 1: I'd love to get to the bottom of it, you know, 2169 01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,240 Speaker 1: get some of those analytics people on the show. If 2170 01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:38,519 Speaker 1: we could, probably never happened. But and even talk to Sean, Sean, 2171 01:43:38,680 --> 01:43:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, maybe I think you're right, you know, and 2172 01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:42,640 Speaker 1: I think are you using him? When do you use him? 2173 01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:45,560 Speaker 1: It comes what the analytics have told you to do 2174 01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:49,600 Speaker 1: in a game. It comes from his preaching to his 2175 01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,439 Speaker 1: players always about this growth mindset. You know, we gotta 2176 01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:54,960 Speaker 1: get better, we gotta get better today coaching, and he 2177 01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:56,680 Speaker 1: says we've got to get better. I gotta get better 2178 01:43:56,800 --> 01:43:59,280 Speaker 1: He was quoted this week saying, what are your things 2179 01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:01,519 Speaker 1: on the body has I'm gonna self evaluate. We got 2180 01:44:01,640 --> 01:44:03,760 Speaker 1: to look at how I'm doing things on game day, 2181 01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:06,800 Speaker 1: how we're doing things during the week, always looking to 2182 01:44:06,880 --> 01:44:10,200 Speaker 1: see if we can do it better, more efficiently, or 2183 01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:14,439 Speaker 1: completely differently to get a better result. That's all on 2184 01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:16,679 Speaker 1: the table all the time, it seems with these guys, 2185 01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:22,439 Speaker 1: And I think the differences we see in twenty nineteen 2186 01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:26,080 Speaker 1: that are so vastly different than the way they handled 2187 01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:28,880 Speaker 1: their game day stuff in twenty seventeen speak to the 2188 01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:31,439 Speaker 1: fact that they have been critical of themselves and the 2189 01:44:31,439 --> 01:44:34,000 Speaker 1: way they've done it and have changed. So I think 2190 01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,840 Speaker 1: you're right there's these fourth down go for its are 2191 01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:40,080 Speaker 1: I'm okay with them because it speaks to me that 2192 01:44:40,120 --> 01:44:43,000 Speaker 1: they got percentages tucked away somewhere that they're going with. 2193 01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:45,400 Speaker 1: Let's go to time in West Seneca. Hello Time, Welcome 2194 01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:48,560 Speaker 1: to the show, John Steve's thank you so much for 2195 01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:52,559 Speaker 1: having me. Sure we all agree that every fan has 2196 01:44:52,560 --> 01:44:57,280 Speaker 1: a right to an opinion. It's just that from my perspective, 2197 01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:04,200 Speaker 1: I think that the the critiquing is getting little old. Now. 2198 01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:08,320 Speaker 1: This is a team that's four and one. Their defense 2199 01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:12,200 Speaker 1: is playing phenomenal. They proved that the last two games. 2200 01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:18,679 Speaker 1: They held a juggernaut Brady Patriot offense to sixteen points. 2201 01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:22,080 Speaker 1: That is saying something, and that is a game we 2202 01:45:22,120 --> 01:45:25,920 Speaker 1: should have won. They held the Titans to seven points, 2203 01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:30,759 Speaker 1: who won fourteen to seven. Josh Allen, he's an exciting 2204 01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:35,280 Speaker 1: quarterback to watch. He has all the right stuff. He 2205 01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:39,920 Speaker 1: could always hit any time, make something big happen because 2206 01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:43,560 Speaker 1: he is He's versatile, he can run the ball, he 2207 01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:48,639 Speaker 1: has great peripheral vision. And our phenomenal arm and our defense, 2208 01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,519 Speaker 1: they are playing phenomenal. And to the other colors that 2209 01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:58,360 Speaker 1: critique about our offense, we don't have to score eighty 2210 01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:03,160 Speaker 1: eight points to be considered a good team. That's ridiculous. 2211 01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:07,880 Speaker 1: We are four and one. We're doing great. I love 2212 01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:11,880 Speaker 1: our dife, our defense, and I think our defense. I 2213 01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:14,439 Speaker 1: couldn't pick one player out and say, oh, it's him 2214 01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:18,040 Speaker 1: or him that's doing great. It's a concerted effort and 2215 01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:22,759 Speaker 1: this team plays for sixty minutes with all their hearts. 2216 01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:26,000 Speaker 1: And that being said, I would like you to comment 2217 01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:29,960 Speaker 1: on one thing. I had a question about concussion protocol 2218 01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:33,720 Speaker 1: when a man of Josh Allen was clearly knocked out 2219 01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:38,719 Speaker 1: man that game and the concussion protocol when it comes 2220 01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:43,040 Speaker 1: to the final decision, is it because the doctor says 2221 01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:46,160 Speaker 1: it's okay to play? Or is a doctor and the 2222 01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:50,200 Speaker 1: player talk it over and they make they make the 2223 01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:54,760 Speaker 1: decision a couple of things. The player has a saying 2224 01:46:54,840 --> 01:46:56,760 Speaker 1: because he tells them what his symptoms are. I mean, 2225 01:46:56,800 --> 01:46:58,479 Speaker 1: he tells them how I feel. This is why I feel, 2226 01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,120 Speaker 1: to say, And then they all whatever hardcore stuff they 2227 01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:03,840 Speaker 1: can test electronically with an EKG or what happened on 2228 01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:08,000 Speaker 1: an EKG. But whatever they do, that's how you do it. 2229 01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:10,920 Speaker 1: I mean, they whatever hard evidence they have, they evaluate 2230 01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:14,880 Speaker 1: and with baseline reading. So the concussion thing, the player 2231 01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:19,080 Speaker 1: has to be honest about his symptoms and the doctor 2232 01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:21,880 Speaker 1: makes the final determination. You can't trust a player to 2233 01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:25,599 Speaker 1: make a medical evaluation about himself. And I was going 2234 01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:28,920 Speaker 1: to ask, as Tom's still there, okay, I was gonna say, 2235 01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:30,600 Speaker 1: he says all this good stuff a boy, Okay, if 2236 01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:32,840 Speaker 1: all this thing is honkey during we're playing, how good 2237 01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:34,840 Speaker 1: are they going to be? You know? I mean that's 2238 01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:38,519 Speaker 1: the question. Let's go to Mike and North Carolina. Mike, 2239 01:47:38,520 --> 01:47:41,240 Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the ear with this Hey, thanks 2240 01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:43,559 Speaker 1: for taking the call. Um. Actually I was at the game. 2241 01:47:43,640 --> 01:47:47,479 Speaker 1: It was great oftentime and shout out to build Mafia 2242 01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,040 Speaker 1: for sure. I mean we were walking up and down, 2243 01:47:50,160 --> 01:47:52,080 Speaker 1: me and my dad. Second road gate i've been to. 2244 01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:54,240 Speaker 1: The other one was in Jackonville for the playoff game. 2245 01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:56,720 Speaker 1: Same kind of atmosphere. I mean, it was felt like 2246 01:47:56,760 --> 01:48:00,519 Speaker 1: a playoff atmosphere at least from the fans. And so 2247 01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:04,360 Speaker 1: I'd like to dominate the Twelfth Man as the defensive 2248 01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:07,400 Speaker 1: Player of the Year for the Pills because there were 2249 01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:10,080 Speaker 1: times when he got really loud in that stadium that 2250 01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:12,519 Speaker 1: you know, I think, Micah, I talk to you guys 2251 01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:15,439 Speaker 1: about this, that Bills players were actually pumping up the 2252 01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:17,880 Speaker 1: crowd when the Titans had it off third down. I 2253 01:48:17,960 --> 01:48:20,280 Speaker 1: mean I was in the one of the end zones. 2254 01:48:20,400 --> 01:48:23,920 Speaker 1: They fall started several times on that end of the field. 2255 01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:27,760 Speaker 1: Second play of the game, right, yeah, you were there. 2256 01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:29,760 Speaker 1: Second play the game they got a false start. That's 2257 01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:33,120 Speaker 1: how noisy it was down it was. It was fantastic, Um. 2258 01:48:34,080 --> 01:48:36,880 Speaker 1: And also it was just funny to see. I mean 2259 01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:38,840 Speaker 1: we were walking up and now Broadway and going into 2260 01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:40,840 Speaker 1: bars and we got you know, there was so much 2261 01:48:40,880 --> 01:48:42,800 Speaker 1: great live music and we got you know, the band 2262 01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:46,200 Speaker 1: to start playing the Buffalo Bills fight song. Really, it 2263 01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,600 Speaker 1: really just felt like a like a bill of atmosphere 2264 01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:51,760 Speaker 1: in Nashville's a really hospital city, great, great place to 2265 01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,880 Speaker 1: tailgate and all that. Um. Also Jordan Phillips, I mean, 2266 01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:59,560 Speaker 1: who would have thought that through five games he'd be 2267 01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:03,400 Speaker 1: the lead guy with sacks on the defense? I mean, 2268 01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:06,760 Speaker 1: like just the unstung guys. Daryl Johnson chipped in a sack. 2269 01:49:07,080 --> 01:49:08,960 Speaker 1: I mean that was and that was like a big 2270 01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:11,160 Speaker 1: complaint if you didn't want to say it's a complaint, 2271 01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:13,880 Speaker 1: because I still think that the Bill's defense generated pressure. 2272 01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:16,000 Speaker 1: He was out the big sack numbers, but the one 2273 01:49:16,040 --> 01:49:18,599 Speaker 1: thing that was missing was the sack numbers through five 2274 01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:20,800 Speaker 1: games when we got five of them, and it didn't 2275 01:49:20,840 --> 01:49:23,360 Speaker 1: come from the marquee guys. It didn't come from Jerry Hughes, 2276 01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:27,400 Speaker 1: it didn't come from Trent Murphy. And it was awesome 2277 01:49:27,439 --> 01:49:29,720 Speaker 1: to see the middle of the defense really collapsing in 2278 01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:32,280 Speaker 1: the pocket. And I really hope that continues. I know 2279 01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:36,000 Speaker 1: the Titans have struggled the offensive line thus far this year, 2280 01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:38,400 Speaker 1: but I think it's awesome. I mean, I definite didn't 2281 01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,880 Speaker 1: expect Jordan Phillips. That have four sacks? A good Twitter 2282 01:49:41,960 --> 01:49:45,040 Speaker 1: foll question. Who finishes with the sack lead on this team. 2283 01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:47,680 Speaker 1: That's a good one. Interested to see how that plays out. 2284 01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,000 Speaker 1: That's a good one. That might you might see that 2285 01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:52,759 Speaker 1: I'm writing that. I'm running that down right now. Jordan 2286 01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:54,800 Speaker 1: leads team with four. He had three the other day, 2287 01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,519 Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander his two, Jerry Hughes one and a half, 2288 01:49:58,800 --> 01:50:01,519 Speaker 1: Bam Johnson won, everybody else has just one. That's a 2289 01:50:01,560 --> 01:50:06,080 Speaker 1: really good one. Thanks very much for your call, Mike. Yeah, okay, 2290 01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:08,880 Speaker 1: see just switching gears here before we get to the break. 2291 01:50:10,080 --> 01:50:14,200 Speaker 1: We talked about Baker Mayfield earlier, and supposedly Richard Sherman's 2292 01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:17,000 Speaker 1: postgame comments were that he disrespected him, did not shake 2293 01:50:17,080 --> 01:50:19,920 Speaker 1: his hand in the pregame meeting of the captains, and 2294 01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:22,439 Speaker 1: Kyle Brant talked about it. Here's what Kyle Brandt said 2295 01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:23,880 Speaker 1: to us in the first hour of the show about 2296 01:50:23,920 --> 01:50:28,720 Speaker 1: that a charge from Richard Sherman. Listen to this. There's 2297 01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:30,479 Speaker 1: sure enough is video out there. You don't have to 2298 01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:32,559 Speaker 1: go fire on Twitter to find it. In fact, you're 2299 01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:35,200 Speaker 1: showing it to your viewers right now. I'm not the 2300 01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:38,080 Speaker 1: detective on this thing. But it doesn't appear to be 2301 01:50:38,280 --> 01:50:41,320 Speaker 1: a slight. I don't see it. If it's there, we 2302 01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:43,960 Speaker 1: can dissect it a million times, six ways the Sunday 2303 01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:46,560 Speaker 1: if we want. But my point on this, guys is, 2304 01:50:47,080 --> 01:50:50,519 Speaker 1: you know, if Richard Sherman has a problem with Baker 2305 01:50:50,640 --> 01:50:53,960 Speaker 1: Mayfield violating NFL etiquette as he put it, well, then 2306 01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:58,639 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman would have really hated young Richard Sherman. That's 2307 01:50:58,720 --> 01:51:01,040 Speaker 1: kind of funny way to put it. And there's new video. 2308 01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:04,040 Speaker 1: We have new video evidence now, uh And is it 2309 01:51:04,120 --> 01:51:05,880 Speaker 1: a slight? Is it a snub? I don't know. Take 2310 01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:08,439 Speaker 1: a look to side for yourself. It certainly doesn't look 2311 01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:12,160 Speaker 1: like one. Here's a reverse angle shot Richard Sherman Baker Mayfield. 2312 01:51:12,160 --> 01:51:15,280 Speaker 1: If you're watching on the MSG, they shake hands. I 2313 01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:18,479 Speaker 1: don't know what rich shook hands. Yeah, I don't have 2314 01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:20,200 Speaker 1: a problem with that, and I have a problem with 2315 01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:21,840 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman making an issue out of it. To be 2316 01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:25,559 Speaker 1: honest with you, yeah they shook hands, but they didn't 2317 01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:28,200 Speaker 1: come in for the man hug, you know, the sideway 2318 01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:33,280 Speaker 1: and yeah, and maybe maybe Baker Mayfield gate you know, 2319 01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:36,080 Speaker 1: stood stiff and didn't you know kind of made a 2320 01:51:36,120 --> 01:51:40,080 Speaker 1: little something something there in that handshake, but I didn't. Yeah, 2321 01:51:40,560 --> 01:51:43,640 Speaker 1: there's nothing there that know that generates a tweet for 2322 01:51:43,720 --> 01:51:45,880 Speaker 1: me to start grating people on the quality of their 2323 01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:48,200 Speaker 1: pregame handshake. Is that what we're talking about. He shook 2324 01:51:48,200 --> 01:51:49,920 Speaker 1: hands with him, and he you know, and then here's 2325 01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:52,800 Speaker 1: here's what Sherman said, quote Michael Silver NFL dot com, 2326 01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:55,240 Speaker 1: who loves being in the middle of this stuff. To 2327 01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:58,800 Speaker 1: quote from Richard Sherman via Michael Silver, Richard Sherman said, 2328 01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:01,360 Speaker 1: what's amazing and annoying was him not shaking hands at 2329 01:52:01,400 --> 01:52:05,639 Speaker 1: the beginning. That's some college blank, it's ridiculous. Uh, shake 2330 01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:08,680 Speaker 1: and Andrew your opponent, that's NFL etiquette. Well he did it. 2331 01:52:08,800 --> 01:52:11,960 Speaker 1: He did shake hands Richard. I mean maybe he didn't 2332 01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:14,040 Speaker 1: give him a big enough handshake or whatever, but he 2333 01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:16,680 Speaker 1: did shake hands with Richard Sherman. He gave the other 2334 01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:18,639 Speaker 1: forty nine or captain a big you know, a big 2335 01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:20,320 Speaker 1: man hug too, you know. I mean, so there was 2336 01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,240 Speaker 1: I mean we were talking about he was all right, 2337 01:52:23,400 --> 01:52:27,000 Speaker 1: he's fine, and ye know. I here's the thing. And 2338 01:52:27,160 --> 01:52:30,400 Speaker 1: I had some teammates, most notably our Friday guest Thurman 2339 01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:33,799 Speaker 1: Thomas or Thursday. Guess was he coming Thursday? Guess Thurman? 2340 01:52:33,840 --> 01:52:40,120 Speaker 1: Thomas Thurman had the ability to churn up, you know, 2341 01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:46,800 Speaker 1: anger about the smallest things. For instance, Thurman was incensed 2342 01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,639 Speaker 1: over an article in the paper and Super Bowl Week 2343 01:52:49,680 --> 01:52:51,600 Speaker 1: that called him the greatest all around running back in 2344 01:52:51,640 --> 01:52:54,960 Speaker 1: the league. He got mad about, right, He got mad 2345 01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:59,680 Speaker 1: about that headline. And so this is kind of what 2346 01:52:59,720 --> 01:53:02,719 Speaker 1: I think Richard Sherman did. He didn't give him quite 2347 01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,719 Speaker 1: the same greeting as he gave everybody else. Didn't maybe 2348 01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:08,839 Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield or maybe he did, and and Richard Sherman 2349 01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,280 Speaker 1: chose to see it a different way, but he wasn't 2350 01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,120 Speaker 1: perfect and his etiquette in the pre game. So Richard 2351 01:53:14,200 --> 01:53:17,360 Speaker 1: Sherman took it, internalized it, used his motivation and picked 2352 01:53:17,400 --> 01:53:19,000 Speaker 1: him off during the game and then called him out 2353 01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:23,960 Speaker 1: postcame I get that, what do you get That's what 2354 01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:29,639 Speaker 1: guys do, Chard, Richard Sherman. Now the step too far 2355 01:53:30,040 --> 01:53:32,280 Speaker 1: is saying that's why you did it, because it makes 2356 01:53:32,320 --> 01:53:36,080 Speaker 1: you look like a goober, like, well, what are you doing? 2357 01:53:36,120 --> 01:53:37,760 Speaker 1: I mean, guy shook your hand. I mean, what do 2358 01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:40,400 Speaker 1: you want him want? What do you want him to genuflect? 2359 01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:41,880 Speaker 1: And kiss your ring? What do you want? And what 2360 01:53:41,960 --> 01:53:43,880 Speaker 1: do you want? Kiss your Super Bowl ring? I mean 2361 01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:48,040 Speaker 1: he's not going to do that, So yeah, it's Richard 2362 01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:51,639 Speaker 1: Sherman um over. I think he used it for motivation. 2363 01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:53,559 Speaker 1: It obviously helped him because he picked the guy off. 2364 01:53:53,880 --> 01:53:57,559 Speaker 1: But he's reaching, he's really reaching. Why are we talking 2365 01:53:57,560 --> 01:54:00,360 Speaker 1: about this because kind of it's kind of it's kind 2366 01:54:00,400 --> 01:54:03,519 Speaker 1: of funny. We're funny. We're gonna hear from Sean McDermott 2367 01:54:03,560 --> 01:54:05,240 Speaker 1: and hear from you when we returned. Come on back. 2368 01:54:05,280 --> 01:54:07,640 Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Alatta Health. We're in the 2369 01:54:07,680 --> 01:54:10,360 Speaker 1: Seneca studio at One Goes Drive and this is Buffalo 2370 01:54:10,439 --> 01:54:25,280 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We do this every Tuesday. On the show, 2371 01:54:25,320 --> 01:54:27,800 Speaker 1: we announced the ad Pro high school football Coaches of 2372 01:54:27,880 --> 01:54:29,559 Speaker 1: the Week for the weekend that just passed. We got 2373 01:54:29,600 --> 01:54:31,680 Speaker 1: two of them, one for Section six here in the 2374 01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:35,240 Speaker 1: Buffalo area, head coach Jason Beckman of the Amherst Tigers. 2375 01:54:35,680 --> 01:54:37,920 Speaker 1: Coach Beckman led his team to a twenty six sixteen 2376 01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:39,760 Speaker 1: win over a long time rivals, Sweet Home and the 2377 01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:43,160 Speaker 1: Big Cat Bowl. Last time Amherst beat Sweet Home was 2378 01:54:43,160 --> 01:54:46,440 Speaker 1: two thousand and one. Jason Beckman the Section six high 2379 01:54:46,480 --> 01:54:48,640 Speaker 1: school Coach of the Week at Pro High School Coaches 2380 01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,480 Speaker 1: of the Week Section five Rochester the coach of the 2381 01:54:51,520 --> 01:54:54,600 Speaker 1: Week from Alexander High School, Tim Sawyer. He led his 2382 01:54:54,680 --> 01:54:56,440 Speaker 1: team to an eleven to eight win of a red 2383 01:54:56,520 --> 01:54:58,240 Speaker 1: jacket last week. They're five a O in the year. 2384 01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:01,520 Speaker 1: Tie Woods lent at ender twenty nine carries one hundred 2385 01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:04,400 Speaker 1: thirty eight yards rushing. They're only touchdown and Tim Sawyer 2386 01:55:04,440 --> 01:55:08,360 Speaker 1: Alexander Coaches the ad Pro Sports Section five Coach of 2387 01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:11,760 Speaker 1: the Week. Congratulations coaches. Good for them, that's great. Talking 2388 01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:14,240 Speaker 1: about the Bills defense, who's been the Buffalo's best defender 2389 01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:17,200 Speaker 1: through the first five games? I haven't checked the Twitter poll. 2390 01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:19,320 Speaker 1: It's been close, it's been fun to watch. So let's 2391 01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:21,200 Speaker 1: do that the Twitter poll on this question, who has 2392 01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:23,680 Speaker 1: been the Bills best defender through the first five games? 2393 01:55:23,720 --> 01:55:25,400 Speaker 1: And we only can put three names up there and 2394 01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:30,400 Speaker 1: other and on your voting so far on the Twitter poll, 2395 01:55:30,440 --> 01:55:33,320 Speaker 1: the Bill's best defender with sixteen hundred votes, and that's 2396 01:55:33,320 --> 01:55:35,400 Speaker 1: a lot. See forty three percent. We got a horse 2397 01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:38,720 Speaker 1: race here, forty three percent. Forty four percent say Micah Hyde, 2398 01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,760 Speaker 1: forty one percent say Tremaine Edmunds. Only six percent say 2399 01:55:42,840 --> 01:55:46,680 Speaker 1: tredevious White nine percent say somebody else, let's hear from 2400 01:55:46,720 --> 01:55:48,920 Speaker 1: you eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight 2401 01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:52,360 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty or sending a tweet. 2402 01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:53,680 Speaker 1: We can read it on the tweet sheet. We got 2403 01:55:53,760 --> 01:55:55,920 Speaker 1: a call on the line from Tom and Chick Dwaga. Tom, 2404 01:55:55,960 --> 01:56:00,760 Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air a kind of concerned 2405 01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:03,120 Speaker 1: about the Bill's offense. How much should we get against 2406 01:56:03,200 --> 01:56:11,160 Speaker 1: New England? We got ten points against UHL. Again, the 2407 01:56:11,240 --> 01:56:14,760 Speaker 1: average fifteen points a game, fourteen points a game? Eighteen? 2408 01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:17,560 Speaker 1: Oh they ever? Yeah, they give up fourteen points a game. 2409 01:56:17,600 --> 01:56:20,320 Speaker 1: They average eighteen points a game. Right, we're getting eighteen 2410 01:56:20,360 --> 01:56:22,440 Speaker 1: points a game on the average. Tom, we and we 2411 01:56:22,520 --> 01:56:24,680 Speaker 1: agree with you. They need to score more points. What's 2412 01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:31,360 Speaker 1: the best way to do that? Tom, Toms and getting hitting? 2413 01:56:32,160 --> 01:56:35,400 Speaker 1: We have the quarterbacks Gunna Rym and we're not getting 2414 01:56:35,480 --> 01:56:40,200 Speaker 1: long downfield passes. Is its receivers or is this the 2415 01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:44,000 Speaker 1: accuracy of Allen? What do you think? That's a valid question? Yeah, 2416 01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:46,080 Speaker 1: but I think it's probably both. I think Josh has 2417 01:56:46,080 --> 01:56:47,800 Speaker 1: had a hard time putting it right on guys, no 2418 01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,320 Speaker 1: question about it. I think they've called some shots that 2419 01:56:50,400 --> 01:56:52,920 Speaker 1: were there that they've missed on. And there's been some 2420 01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:55,560 Speaker 1: times when he's forced it into coverage and it turned 2421 01:56:55,560 --> 01:56:58,040 Speaker 1: into interceptions as well. So I don't know. I think 2422 01:56:58,080 --> 01:57:00,560 Speaker 1: you can put it on the the sievers and the 2423 01:57:00,680 --> 01:57:04,720 Speaker 1: quarterback on any given play. I don't think there's like 2424 01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:08,320 Speaker 1: one reason these plays aren't working, or that you know 2425 01:57:08,440 --> 01:57:10,120 Speaker 1: that they're not called or they're not getting you're not 2426 01:57:10,120 --> 01:57:12,800 Speaker 1: seeing them in this stat sheet. I don't think it's 2427 01:57:13,440 --> 01:57:15,920 Speaker 1: all Josh's fault. I don't think it's all the receiver's fault. 2428 01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:18,120 Speaker 1: I think each one's different. So I you know, they're 2429 01:57:18,160 --> 01:57:20,000 Speaker 1: just not hitting on enough of them. I think they 2430 01:57:20,120 --> 01:57:23,520 Speaker 1: call them than more than they get. I think they 2431 01:57:23,560 --> 01:57:26,520 Speaker 1: call them more than they get credit for, and for 2432 01:57:27,480 --> 01:57:30,160 Speaker 1: other reasons that either either Josh doesn't see it, or 2433 01:57:30,240 --> 01:57:35,120 Speaker 1: the guy's covered, or the pressure comes or yeah, or 2434 01:57:35,200 --> 01:57:38,360 Speaker 1: he scrambles whatever, for whatever reason, they don't pull the trigger. 2435 01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:40,560 Speaker 1: But I think they get called and the shots are 2436 01:57:40,640 --> 01:57:43,880 Speaker 1: there a lot more than they get credit for because probably, frankly, 2437 01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:45,640 Speaker 1: like you said, Tom, they don't just don't hit it. 2438 01:57:46,600 --> 01:57:48,400 Speaker 1: M let's go to the tweet sheet brought to you 2439 01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:51,160 Speaker 1: by Cargain Moving Systems. The official movers of the Buffalo 2440 01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:53,960 Speaker 1: Bills responses to our question who's been the bills best 2441 01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:57,760 Speaker 1: defender the first five games and a couple of interesting responses. 2442 01:57:57,840 --> 01:58:01,680 Speaker 1: Add tweets in Matt Milano as he regularly finishes tackles 2443 01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:04,880 Speaker 1: and I'm not sure other players can make very good pointed. 2444 01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:08,360 Speaker 1: I think Milano has been outstanding and open field tackles. 2445 01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:11,240 Speaker 1: I know he's fast, but still that's tough against the 2446 01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:13,720 Speaker 1: running back or a tight end. Matt Milano is there 2447 01:58:13,760 --> 01:58:17,320 Speaker 1: to make the stop almost every time reliably so far 2448 01:58:17,480 --> 01:58:20,200 Speaker 1: this season. Five games, and I agree he might be 2449 01:58:20,280 --> 01:58:22,680 Speaker 1: the Bill's best defender through five games. Yeah. Chris also 2450 01:58:22,760 --> 01:58:25,120 Speaker 1: says Levi Wallace, the kid is amazing at closing in 2451 01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:27,640 Speaker 1: on wide receivers for pass breakups. We've seen a lot 2452 01:58:27,680 --> 01:58:29,920 Speaker 1: of content. I think that's the one thing too. There 2453 01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:33,480 Speaker 1: have been flash at plays from guys all over the defense. 2454 01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:41,360 Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, Jerry Hughes, Jordan Phillips, Matt Milano, ed Oliver 2455 01:58:42,440 --> 01:58:47,520 Speaker 1: Bam Johnson, you know Levi Wallace, and of course Poyer 2456 01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:49,959 Speaker 1: and Hide. I mean all these guys have have flashed 2457 01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:52,960 Speaker 1: a lot alone. Tremaine Edmond, who's broken up a couple 2458 01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:55,600 Speaker 1: of passes late in games that were huge. So it's 2459 01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,040 Speaker 1: it's been a whole team effort. And that's one of 2460 01:58:58,080 --> 01:58:59,840 Speaker 1: the reasons we thought this was going to be a 2461 01:59:00,040 --> 01:59:03,160 Speaker 1: really good question for people to answer, because I think 2462 01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:05,680 Speaker 1: it comes down to who your favorite player is, you know, really, 2463 01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:08,360 Speaker 1: because they've all made contributions at some point, they need 2464 01:59:08,440 --> 01:59:10,280 Speaker 1: more from the offense. We know that they need more 2465 01:59:10,360 --> 01:59:12,760 Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. We know that. Sean McDermot talked about 2466 01:59:12,800 --> 01:59:16,200 Speaker 1: Josh Allen yesterday, UM and Josh said after the win 2467 01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:18,320 Speaker 1: at Tennessee he thought it was the most his most 2468 01:59:18,720 --> 01:59:21,440 Speaker 1: complete game. And Sean McDermott was asked yesterday if he 2469 01:59:21,560 --> 01:59:24,240 Speaker 1: thought the same thing about Josh Allen's performance against the 2470 01:59:24,280 --> 01:59:29,040 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. I thought it was a well rounded game. UM. 2471 01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:34,320 Speaker 1: Outside of that one play. I thought he was accurate. 2472 01:59:34,560 --> 01:59:37,200 Speaker 1: He got the ball out on time. I was growing 2473 01:59:37,240 --> 01:59:40,200 Speaker 1: he understood that the uh, the look the defense was 2474 01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:43,600 Speaker 1: giving him pre snap, and that speaks to his preparation 2475 01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:46,720 Speaker 1: and UM, and then I thought from a from a 2476 01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:50,000 Speaker 1: the ability to use his feet UM timing wise on 2477 01:59:50,160 --> 01:59:52,160 Speaker 1: that as well, he was he was in and out 2478 01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:55,560 Speaker 1: of the pocket, UM on time. And then he checked 2479 01:59:55,600 --> 01:59:57,160 Speaker 1: the ball down when he needed to check the ball 2480 01:59:57,200 --> 01:59:59,680 Speaker 1: down and so um, I thought it was a It 2481 01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:01,320 Speaker 1: was a well rounded game as far as that goes. 2482 02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Jeohan McDermot on Josh Allen's performance against Tennessee. Nobody asked me, 2483 02:00:04,560 --> 02:00:06,680 Speaker 1: but I will say this. I thought it was a 2484 02:00:06,840 --> 02:00:09,720 Speaker 1: dramatic step forward from what Josh looked like and played 2485 02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:13,840 Speaker 1: like against New England coming off the concussion protocol. And 2486 02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:16,400 Speaker 1: he talked about it during the week about you know, 2487 02:00:16,560 --> 02:00:18,120 Speaker 1: everything else he had to do to get ready to 2488 02:00:18,160 --> 02:00:19,920 Speaker 1: play just because of the knock to the head and 2489 02:00:20,800 --> 02:00:23,200 Speaker 1: do his homework and practice and get ready for the game. 2490 02:00:23,200 --> 02:00:24,760 Speaker 1: I give him a lot of credit for that, but 2491 02:00:24,880 --> 02:00:26,720 Speaker 1: I thought it was a step forward for Josh Allen. 2492 02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:29,720 Speaker 1: And look, you know the one interception. Okay, guys are 2493 02:00:29,720 --> 02:00:32,480 Speaker 1: gonna throw interceptions. This just in and Josh will throw more. 2494 02:00:32,800 --> 02:00:34,880 Speaker 1: But I thought I didn't follow him so much for that. 2495 02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:38,240 Speaker 1: I thought it was smart decisions, including when to slide, 2496 02:00:38,320 --> 02:00:41,240 Speaker 1: when to run, when to not run, when to run 2497 02:00:41,280 --> 02:00:43,560 Speaker 1: out of bounds, when to stay in bounds, on the formaute, 2498 02:00:44,200 --> 02:00:46,280 Speaker 1: the formative offense at the end of the game, where 2499 02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:48,080 Speaker 1: to go with the football. I thought, in terms of 2500 02:00:48,200 --> 02:00:51,480 Speaker 1: general overall making good decisions. I thought this was Josh 2501 02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:53,360 Speaker 1: Allen's probably his best game of the year so far 2502 02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:56,040 Speaker 1: against Tennessee. I think some of it you kind of 2503 02:00:56,040 --> 02:00:58,360 Speaker 1: get into that mindset of where Josh was last week, 2504 02:00:58,800 --> 02:01:02,440 Speaker 1: and maybe, you know, going through the concussion protocols and 2505 02:01:02,520 --> 02:01:06,320 Speaker 1: having all this stuff going on, maybe he felt this 2506 02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:08,320 Speaker 1: was a game where, man, I just gotta let everybody 2507 02:01:08,320 --> 02:01:10,000 Speaker 1: else do it. I mean, you know what I mean. Well, 2508 02:01:10,040 --> 02:01:11,680 Speaker 1: he said, I didn't have the reps, I didn't have 2509 02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:12,920 Speaker 1: anything like that. I'm not going to try and do 2510 02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:15,160 Speaker 1: all this myself. I gotta be more careful. I can't 2511 02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:18,120 Speaker 1: go back into concussion protocol, all that stuff right in 2512 02:01:18,200 --> 02:01:19,680 Speaker 1: the back of his mind, in the back of his mind. 2513 02:01:19,760 --> 02:01:21,480 Speaker 1: So just let me get rid of this ball. Try 2514 02:01:21,480 --> 02:01:24,640 Speaker 1: and just take what's there, and you know, he's a 2515 02:01:24,680 --> 02:01:27,280 Speaker 1: complete seventy two percent of his passes and away they go, 2516 02:01:27,560 --> 02:01:30,080 Speaker 1: you know, to a fourteen seven win. One more thing 2517 02:01:30,160 --> 02:01:32,680 Speaker 1: from Sean mcdermot's news conferences City. He was asked this 2518 02:01:32,800 --> 02:01:35,160 Speaker 1: question about the bills for and one schedule, about some 2519 02:01:35,440 --> 02:01:37,960 Speaker 1: doubters that might be out there, and that's okay to 2520 02:01:38,040 --> 02:01:40,480 Speaker 1: doubt saying maybe the bills are not for real. They 2521 02:01:40,560 --> 02:01:42,400 Speaker 1: played a week schedule. We know that it gets a 2522 02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:44,200 Speaker 1: little weaker in the next couple of weeks. By the way, 2523 02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:46,760 Speaker 1: they played a couple of teams with kickers who really 2524 02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:49,920 Speaker 1: struggled right. Both the Tennessee Titans and the New York 2525 02:01:50,000 --> 02:01:53,520 Speaker 1: Jets fired their kicker after they played the Bills, and 2526 02:01:53,760 --> 02:01:56,000 Speaker 1: McDermott was asked about that what you think teams are 2527 02:01:56,040 --> 02:01:58,720 Speaker 1: People are underestimating the Foreign one Buffalo Bills. Here's what 2528 02:01:58,760 --> 02:02:03,200 Speaker 1: Sean McDermott said. Our focus really is on what happens 2529 02:02:03,240 --> 02:02:06,480 Speaker 1: inside these walls and just focusing on one week at 2530 02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:08,520 Speaker 1: a time continuing to grow as a football team. So 2531 02:02:10,240 --> 02:02:12,520 Speaker 1: that's all we can control. You know, we're four and 2532 02:02:12,640 --> 02:02:16,320 Speaker 1: one and and you know, whisker away from being five 2533 02:02:16,360 --> 02:02:18,360 Speaker 1: and all. But the fact is we're four and one 2534 02:02:18,440 --> 02:02:20,760 Speaker 1: and with a lot of room for growth, a lot 2535 02:02:20,840 --> 02:02:24,600 Speaker 1: of good progress to this point in the season, and 2536 02:02:25,840 --> 02:02:27,400 Speaker 1: a lot of good football that we've played. So I 2537 02:02:27,480 --> 02:02:30,880 Speaker 1: give credit to the players and the staff, and we've 2538 02:02:30,880 --> 02:02:33,720 Speaker 1: got to continue to work and grow as we move forward. 2539 02:02:33,960 --> 02:02:36,560 Speaker 1: Sean McDermot yesterday I was thinking about this, and we 2540 02:02:36,640 --> 02:02:38,240 Speaker 1: didn't ask Lee Smith about this eve, but I was 2541 02:02:38,240 --> 02:02:40,760 Speaker 1: thinking about it yesterday thought about asking Lee for coach 2542 02:02:40,880 --> 02:02:43,960 Speaker 1: McDermot and what we know about him. He loves being 2543 02:02:44,040 --> 02:02:46,400 Speaker 1: in this spot, being four and one, okay, off to 2544 02:02:46,480 --> 02:02:49,640 Speaker 1: a really good start with areas he can point to 2545 02:02:49,720 --> 02:02:51,680 Speaker 1: and say, hey, we gotta get better at this. We 2546 02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:53,800 Speaker 1: gotta cut down penalties, we gotta run the ball better, 2547 02:02:53,840 --> 02:02:55,240 Speaker 1: we gotta throw the ball better, we got to make 2548 02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:58,000 Speaker 1: better decisions at quarterback. We gotta get separation. But he's 2549 02:02:58,040 --> 02:03:00,280 Speaker 1: got a list of things he could hand into his 2550 02:03:00,400 --> 02:03:02,320 Speaker 1: players when they return to work next week and say 2551 02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:04,600 Speaker 1: do better, we gotta do better. And there he is 2552 02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:06,760 Speaker 1: with So I saw the little smile on his face 2553 02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:08,800 Speaker 1: when he answered that question, and he probably the thought 2554 02:03:08,800 --> 02:03:11,200 Speaker 1: occurred to him, Oh I got stuff. I got stuff 2555 02:03:11,240 --> 02:03:13,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna work on. But I also got to form 2556 02:03:13,200 --> 02:03:16,440 Speaker 1: one record. Yeah for him, And that goes for the 2557 02:03:16,480 --> 02:03:18,320 Speaker 1: defensive side of the football too. I mean, they haven't 2558 02:03:18,320 --> 02:03:20,640 Speaker 1: been perfect, they've been great, but there's been times when 2559 02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:23,080 Speaker 1: the when the team has busted out on him, and um, 2560 02:03:23,800 --> 02:03:26,320 Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff everywhere that they can work 2561 02:03:26,360 --> 02:03:29,680 Speaker 1: on a special team's offense, defense, and it's easy for 2562 02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:31,560 Speaker 1: him to point to and say, hey, you gotta do better. Here. 2563 02:03:31,560 --> 02:03:34,680 Speaker 1: You gotta do better there. And uh so you're right, 2564 02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:37,400 Speaker 1: I think secretly, and he's and I think this is 2565 02:03:37,480 --> 02:03:39,640 Speaker 1: a culture and a staff and a team that is 2566 02:03:39,680 --> 02:03:42,920 Speaker 1: like very okay with being under the radar at five 2567 02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:46,360 Speaker 1: games into the season. If you just keep winning games, 2568 02:03:46,480 --> 02:03:49,440 Speaker 1: you'll get all the attention you need. Believe me. Call 2569 02:03:49,520 --> 02:03:51,520 Speaker 1: here from Jim and Orchard Park. Go ahead, Jim, you're 2570 02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:54,880 Speaker 1: onund the ear team, Trough future, hoble favor and Jam. 2571 02:03:54,960 --> 02:03:58,040 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, fellows, Good afternoon. Hey. I just want to 2572 02:03:58,080 --> 02:04:02,520 Speaker 1: mix comment about the Buffalo Bills organization. I think they 2573 02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:04,480 Speaker 1: changed and they're going in the right direction. I think 2574 02:04:04,600 --> 02:04:07,440 Speaker 1: years a goal. When you hear a high draft choice 2575 02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:11,360 Speaker 1: like to Zay Jones, the old organization wouldn't have cup 2576 02:04:11,440 --> 02:04:13,080 Speaker 1: this guy. They'd keep this guy a couple of years. 2577 02:04:13,200 --> 02:04:16,120 Speaker 1: Nobody would want to admit that they made a mistake, 2578 02:04:16,200 --> 02:04:18,560 Speaker 1: but as a player wasn't working out for us, So 2579 02:04:19,240 --> 02:04:21,560 Speaker 1: get rid of them and move on. Just a comments 2580 02:04:21,600 --> 02:04:26,720 Speaker 1: on that. It's an interesting question, Jim. I see what 2581 02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:29,160 Speaker 1: you're saying. I think too, it helps when there was 2582 02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:31,480 Speaker 1: a different general manager when they selected them two years ago. 2583 02:04:31,560 --> 02:04:34,960 Speaker 1: But no, you can't. You gotta acknowledge that right you 2584 02:04:35,040 --> 02:04:37,160 Speaker 1: have to. The Bills will swallow a little bit of 2585 02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:40,320 Speaker 1: their their pride having to move on from Zay Jones. 2586 02:04:40,400 --> 02:04:42,000 Speaker 1: But it's for the betterment of the team. I think 2587 02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:43,920 Speaker 1: they're comfortable with that part of it. What do you think. 2588 02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:46,120 Speaker 1: I think it also comes down from ownership. What do 2589 02:04:46,200 --> 02:04:50,120 Speaker 1: you mean nobody felt like their job was going to 2590 02:04:50,200 --> 02:04:52,600 Speaker 1: be in jeopardy if they missed on a second round 2591 02:04:52,640 --> 02:04:54,800 Speaker 1: draft pick or their second round draft pick wasn't playing 2592 02:04:54,840 --> 02:04:57,640 Speaker 1: well enough, because they can always point to the other guys. 2593 02:04:57,640 --> 02:05:00,200 Speaker 1: Because listen, there's only like, what two guys on this 2594 02:05:00,320 --> 02:05:04,520 Speaker 1: team that we're here before this this regime took over. 2595 02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:09,560 Speaker 1: Is it like Lorenzo and who House scare somebody? Maybe 2596 02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:12,960 Speaker 1: I don't know read Ferguson. Everybody else on this team 2597 02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:15,800 Speaker 1: was signed by this coaching staff and this general manager 2598 02:05:16,200 --> 02:05:20,400 Speaker 1: almost everybody. So so you're saying they're comfortable, they don't 2599 02:05:20,440 --> 02:05:22,000 Speaker 1: have to worry about, Well, we might have missed on 2600 02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:24,080 Speaker 1: that guy, but we found Levi Wallace, So you're gonna 2601 02:05:24,400 --> 02:05:26,000 Speaker 1: doc us for that. You give us a pay raise 2602 02:05:26,080 --> 02:05:28,040 Speaker 1: for Levi Wallace and then do you know what I mean? 2603 02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:31,560 Speaker 1: They don't. This is not an atmosphere and because of 2604 02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:34,360 Speaker 1: the ownership and the attitude they have about letting them 2605 02:05:34,520 --> 02:05:36,800 Speaker 1: do their job and make mistakes and learn from the 2606 02:05:36,880 --> 02:05:39,680 Speaker 1: mistakes and do better the next time. That growth mentality 2607 02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:41,800 Speaker 1: comes down from the top, and I think Sean has 2608 02:05:41,840 --> 02:05:44,760 Speaker 1: infected everybody with it. Yeah, they had to say goodbye 2609 02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:47,080 Speaker 1: to a second round draft pick that now they wish. 2610 02:05:47,240 --> 02:05:49,240 Speaker 1: Now there's a couple of guys. There's some guys on 2611 02:05:49,320 --> 02:05:50,920 Speaker 1: the board. You can go back and look at what 2612 02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:54,680 Speaker 1: they missed in that draft. Juju Smith, Schuster, Alvin Kamara 2613 02:05:54,800 --> 02:05:57,920 Speaker 1: were in that draft that were drafted later than Zay. 2614 02:05:58,000 --> 02:06:00,960 Speaker 1: You can always go back and you know, stick needles 2615 02:06:01,000 --> 02:06:03,400 Speaker 1: in that draft about what you could have done, should 2616 02:06:03,400 --> 02:06:05,400 Speaker 1: have done. But this has got to be about now 2617 02:06:05,480 --> 02:06:07,440 Speaker 1: what we do from here forward. And I think the 2618 02:06:07,600 --> 02:06:09,360 Speaker 1: atmosphere is that, you know what, we're going to get 2619 02:06:09,400 --> 02:06:12,600 Speaker 1: better because we got better players, and we're if the 2620 02:06:12,680 --> 02:06:14,560 Speaker 1: guy's not earning his way on the field, we don't 2621 02:06:14,680 --> 02:06:17,600 Speaker 1: care where he came from or how high he was drafted. 2622 02:06:17,640 --> 02:06:20,080 Speaker 1: This is about the here and now, and they're not 2623 02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:25,840 Speaker 1: afraid of having their job hanging the balance because of 2624 02:06:25,920 --> 02:06:28,240 Speaker 1: something they did three years ago. And I think it's 2625 02:06:28,280 --> 02:06:30,080 Speaker 1: a great place for the organization to be, to feel 2626 02:06:30,120 --> 02:06:33,080 Speaker 1: confident that they're going to get better this week, even 2627 02:06:33,160 --> 02:06:36,280 Speaker 1: after acknowledging a mistake or a guy that's something that 2628 02:06:36,320 --> 02:06:38,440 Speaker 1: didn't quite work out as good as they wanted it 2629 02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:40,360 Speaker 1: to two years ago, three years ago, I think got 2630 02:06:40,440 --> 02:06:42,600 Speaker 1: some bad place to be in when you have an 2631 02:06:42,680 --> 02:06:45,240 Speaker 1: organization is going to hold that over you down the line, 2632 02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:46,800 Speaker 1: I think they're in a better place. You know what 2633 02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:49,400 Speaker 1: else it says to me? It highlights again And if 2634 02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:51,560 Speaker 1: you haven't learned this following pro football, you should think 2635 02:06:51,560 --> 02:06:54,200 Speaker 1: about it. The random nature of the NFL draft. You 2636 02:06:54,280 --> 02:06:56,680 Speaker 1: don't know will you're drafting. You don't know how their 2637 02:06:56,800 --> 02:06:59,880 Speaker 1: tremendous production in this case and Zay Jones production in college, 2638 02:07:00,120 --> 02:07:02,760 Speaker 1: how that translates to the NFL level. What's what's the 2639 02:07:02,840 --> 02:07:04,680 Speaker 1: guy's skill set? What's the guy made of? How does 2640 02:07:04,720 --> 02:07:06,920 Speaker 1: he practice? How does he interact with teammates? What's it? 2641 02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:09,200 Speaker 1: Where's his heads at? You don't know. No matter how 2642 02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:12,120 Speaker 1: much studying you do, you don't know. I lived through 2643 02:07:12,200 --> 02:07:15,000 Speaker 1: it myself, and I saw a ton of good teammates 2644 02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:19,000 Speaker 1: and great guys live through it as well. You try 2645 02:07:19,040 --> 02:07:20,600 Speaker 1: to live your life the right way you have a 2646 02:07:20,640 --> 02:07:22,800 Speaker 1: good value system. Some of these guys come in and 2647 02:07:23,560 --> 02:07:28,000 Speaker 1: they come from different backgrounds, from poor backgrounds, West coast backgrounds, 2648 02:07:28,040 --> 02:07:31,480 Speaker 1: Southern backgrounds, northern backgrounds, you know, all that stuff that 2649 02:07:31,560 --> 02:07:36,760 Speaker 1: you from our country. It's so big. Nobody knows how 2650 02:07:36,840 --> 02:07:39,240 Speaker 1: you're going to react to somebody handing you a check 2651 02:07:40,560 --> 02:07:46,000 Speaker 1: for over a million bucks. It changes your life for 2652 02:07:46,120 --> 02:07:48,600 Speaker 1: at least for the time being, and it's something you 2653 02:07:48,680 --> 02:07:50,800 Speaker 1: never thought about having to deal with, but all of 2654 02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:52,840 Speaker 1: a sudden it drops in your lap, and everybody says, wow, 2655 02:07:52,840 --> 02:07:54,600 Speaker 1: I wish somebody to do that to me. Yeah, that's fine, 2656 02:07:54,600 --> 02:07:56,200 Speaker 1: it's easy to say, and you're right. It is a 2657 02:07:56,280 --> 02:07:58,640 Speaker 1: good thing to have that happen to you, But it's 2658 02:07:58,680 --> 02:08:00,520 Speaker 1: a hard thing not to have it affect you in 2659 02:08:00,560 --> 02:08:02,160 Speaker 1: the way you do your job and live your life 2660 02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:07,120 Speaker 1: day to day. That's almost impossible. And so these teams 2661 02:08:07,200 --> 02:08:10,680 Speaker 1: have to decipher the kind of player that will continue 2662 02:08:10,760 --> 02:08:12,600 Speaker 1: to be a good player and a pro and a 2663 02:08:12,680 --> 02:08:15,000 Speaker 1: good person and a right kind of guy. When you 2664 02:08:15,120 --> 02:08:18,560 Speaker 1: hand him that check, you think you think the Steelers 2665 02:08:18,600 --> 02:08:21,720 Speaker 1: are regretting handing Antonio Brown the check they handed him 2666 02:08:21,720 --> 02:08:23,920 Speaker 1: too that turned him into whatever it is he is now. 2667 02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:27,120 Speaker 1: You think there are teams out there that that don't 2668 02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:32,080 Speaker 1: you know, haven't seen players go a wall when they 2669 02:08:32,200 --> 02:08:36,720 Speaker 1: finally something happened in their career that changing. A guy 2670 02:08:36,760 --> 02:08:38,040 Speaker 1: goes to the Pro Bowl, all of a sudden, he 2671 02:08:38,080 --> 02:08:40,720 Speaker 1: becomes a different guy. He doesn't have to practice anymore, 2672 02:08:40,760 --> 02:08:42,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't have to go to OTAs, he didn't have 2673 02:08:42,240 --> 02:08:45,160 Speaker 1: to lift in the offseason. That happens. You got a 2674 02:08:45,240 --> 02:08:47,320 Speaker 1: guy like Carlos Williams four years ago when he was 2675 02:08:47,360 --> 02:08:49,240 Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, had a great year as a rookie. 2676 02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:51,640 Speaker 1: Great his goal was to play in the NFL. Well, 2677 02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:53,520 Speaker 1: you got hey, that's great, I'm awesome. We're gonna draft 2678 02:08:53,560 --> 02:08:55,160 Speaker 1: this kid. He's he wants to play in the NFL. 2679 02:08:55,360 --> 02:08:56,960 Speaker 1: That's his only goal. Well, he played in there for 2680 02:08:57,000 --> 02:08:58,720 Speaker 1: a year and his goal was reached. He had no 2681 02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:01,600 Speaker 1: place to go. He ate himself out of the National 2682 02:09:01,680 --> 02:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Football League. That happens to guys. It's a crapshoot. Yeah, 2683 02:09:07,240 --> 02:09:10,240 Speaker 1: the draft, it's a crapshoot. And some guys last a 2684 02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:13,280 Speaker 1: few years, handful of years, two three, some last sixteen. 2685 02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:17,000 Speaker 1: At running back the most you know, the most physically 2686 02:09:17,120 --> 02:09:20,680 Speaker 1: grueling job there is in sports and he last sixteen 2687 02:09:20,760 --> 02:09:22,640 Speaker 1: years because he does it right no matter what the 2688 02:09:22,720 --> 02:09:24,560 Speaker 1: money is or no matter how good the team is playing. 2689 02:09:24,800 --> 02:09:27,120 Speaker 1: Squeezing one more called Jeff and Kenmore. Go ahead, Jeff, 2690 02:09:27,120 --> 02:09:29,560 Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Hey, how you doing. Yeah? 2691 02:09:29,640 --> 02:09:31,960 Speaker 1: I was watching the games and it seems like the 2692 02:09:32,080 --> 02:09:33,800 Speaker 1: defense and I hear people say, you know, they want 2693 02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:36,840 Speaker 1: more turnovers, you want more things. But it seems like 2694 02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:40,760 Speaker 1: like they got back to fundamentals of tackling. Yeah, it's 2695 02:09:40,760 --> 02:09:42,960 Speaker 1: always kind of had a had an issue when I 2696 02:09:43,040 --> 02:09:45,600 Speaker 1: watched games, didn't matter who, you know what team, and 2697 02:09:45,720 --> 02:09:47,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, how do these guys not tackle them? 2698 02:09:47,640 --> 02:09:49,120 Speaker 1: And I guess they were always going for the ball, 2699 02:09:49,400 --> 02:09:51,800 Speaker 1: thought to snock the ball out and they weren't tackling, 2700 02:09:51,920 --> 02:09:54,600 Speaker 1: or maybe the rule changes in tackling has affected it, 2701 02:09:54,840 --> 02:09:56,440 Speaker 1: But seems like you got back down to the core 2702 02:09:56,520 --> 02:09:58,840 Speaker 1: fundamentals of tackle and the guy first, if there's a 2703 02:09:58,920 --> 02:10:00,880 Speaker 1: chance to pop out the ball, you go for the ball. 2704 02:10:01,400 --> 02:10:04,880 Speaker 1: And I think that's and they're focused on three and out. Yeah, 2705 02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:07,280 Speaker 1: putting the play instead of trying to get the turn 2706 02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:09,600 Speaker 1: on Jeff, it's a really good point. Before the Patriots game, 2707 02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:12,760 Speaker 1: I came across the research that through what three games, 2708 02:10:12,840 --> 02:10:14,800 Speaker 1: Through three games this year, the Patriots were the best 2709 02:10:14,880 --> 02:10:17,640 Speaker 1: tackling team in the NFL. The Bills were right there 2710 02:10:17,720 --> 02:10:19,360 Speaker 1: with them. Two of the best, I think two of 2711 02:10:19,400 --> 02:10:21,520 Speaker 1: the top three tackling teams in the NFL played a 2712 02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:23,800 Speaker 1: couple of Sundays ago year the Bills in New England. 2713 02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:26,000 Speaker 1: I think it is their strong suit. They're not bad. 2714 02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:29,200 Speaker 1: I'm takeaways, They've got eight, only six teams in the NFL. 2715 02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:31,280 Speaker 1: I think get more takeaways in the Buffalo defense. But 2716 02:10:31,400 --> 02:10:34,960 Speaker 1: they are solid tacklers and that yes, there's no I've 2717 02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:38,280 Speaker 1: said it before on the show. During my time with CBS, 2718 02:10:38,320 --> 02:10:40,040 Speaker 1: when I was you know, looking at film and all 2719 02:10:40,080 --> 02:10:42,960 Speaker 1: these teams, the best defenses statistically were the ones where 2720 02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:45,360 Speaker 1: that first defender that gets to the ball wherever it's 2721 02:10:45,360 --> 02:10:48,560 Speaker 1: a running back or a wide receiver or whoever's got 2722 02:10:48,600 --> 02:10:51,080 Speaker 1: the ball, the first guy to get there that makes 2723 02:10:51,120 --> 02:10:53,800 Speaker 1: the tackle. Yeah he doesn't. You don't see broken tackles 2724 02:10:53,800 --> 02:10:56,120 Speaker 1: against great defenses. And I think I agree with you. 2725 02:10:56,200 --> 02:10:58,200 Speaker 1: I saw that last week. I saw it against the Patriots. 2726 02:10:58,480 --> 02:11:00,760 Speaker 1: This Bills team is one of the where the first 2727 02:11:00,800 --> 02:11:03,800 Speaker 1: guy there makes it. And when a guy does break 2728 02:11:03,840 --> 02:11:07,120 Speaker 1: a tackle, it's like, oh wow, it's almost startling because 2729 02:11:07,200 --> 02:11:09,480 Speaker 1: it does get your attention because it happens so infrequently. 2730 02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:11,880 Speaker 1: Gonna take a break One Bill's line, presented by Kalana 2731 02:11:11,960 --> 02:11:14,839 Speaker 1: Health Line from the Seneca Studio Seneca Resorts in Casino. 2732 02:11:15,320 --> 02:11:34,000 Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. Hey, what do we learn from today's show? 2733 02:11:34,040 --> 02:11:37,360 Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental 2734 02:11:37,440 --> 02:11:40,440 Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. What do we learned? Kyle 2735 02:11:40,480 --> 02:11:42,520 Speaker 1: Brandt joined us from NFL Network, the host of Good 2736 02:11:42,560 --> 02:11:45,040 Speaker 1: Morning Football, and you're talking about what the Bills need 2737 02:11:45,120 --> 02:11:46,960 Speaker 1: to do to win in the playoffs. Believe it or not, 2738 02:11:47,040 --> 02:11:52,120 Speaker 1: Here's what he said. This defense and the schedule right 2739 02:11:52,160 --> 02:11:54,560 Speaker 1: now is good enough that the Bills could win ten games, 2740 02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:57,000 Speaker 1: get their wild card, and then show up to the 2741 02:11:57,040 --> 02:11:59,920 Speaker 1: playoffs and lose if they want to win in the playoffs. Guys, 2742 02:12:00,000 --> 02:12:02,720 Speaker 1: we've talked about it for a month. Now, we got it. 2743 02:12:02,920 --> 02:12:05,000 Speaker 1: Josh Allen's got to just play a little cleaner. It's 2744 02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:07,400 Speaker 1: even the win in Buffalo when he plays a pretty 2745 02:12:07,400 --> 02:12:11,120 Speaker 1: clean game. There's just that one interception where he just 2746 02:12:11,280 --> 02:12:13,160 Speaker 1: he hates throwing the ball away. He hates it. You 2747 02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:15,200 Speaker 1: can tell I don't know about it for you guys. 2748 02:12:15,280 --> 02:12:17,120 Speaker 1: But I got a couple of little kids at home 2749 02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:19,040 Speaker 1: and we can have a nice family reality and everyone 2750 02:12:19,120 --> 02:12:21,120 Speaker 1: gets along and we do the pumpkin pass or the 2751 02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:22,920 Speaker 1: apple picking or whatever it is, and it's a great 2752 02:12:22,960 --> 02:12:25,720 Speaker 1: family day. And as we're driving home, my five year 2753 02:12:25,720 --> 02:12:27,600 Speaker 1: old will say one little thing or throw one little 2754 02:12:27,640 --> 02:12:30,040 Speaker 1: fit to ruin a nice time. If we can eliminate 2755 02:12:30,120 --> 02:12:32,880 Speaker 1: that one moment from our family, you be a perfect Sunday. 2756 02:12:33,080 --> 02:12:37,200 Speaker 1: If we could eliminate the one irritating Josh Allen interception, 2757 02:12:37,640 --> 02:12:40,080 Speaker 1: then we can go places. But no, Steve, the defense 2758 02:12:40,160 --> 02:12:41,960 Speaker 1: can get them to the playoffs, but we got to 2759 02:12:42,000 --> 02:12:44,320 Speaker 1: put up some points once you get there. There's something 2760 02:12:44,360 --> 02:12:46,120 Speaker 1: to think about there, and we'll talk about that tomorrow. 2761 02:12:46,120 --> 02:12:48,480 Speaker 1: We got a good show coming up tomorrow. Field Gates 2762 02:12:48,600 --> 02:12:50,800 Speaker 1: joins us on Wednesdays from NFL and I'll do a 2763 02:12:50,840 --> 02:12:53,320 Speaker 1: little fantasy football with him as well from ESPN and 2764 02:12:53,360 --> 02:12:55,680 Speaker 1: great go sell. We moved him up to Wednesday instead 2765 02:12:55,680 --> 02:12:57,240 Speaker 1: of Friday, So tomorrow show will be a good one. 2766 02:12:57,240 --> 02:12:59,680 Speaker 1: Steve really good last year, last show of the week. 2767 02:12:59,720 --> 02:13:01,560 Speaker 1: We're in a close it with a Fluria. We're gonna 2768 02:13:01,600 --> 02:13:04,240 Speaker 1: get finish strong. Yeah. On the air of twelve noon tomorrow. 2769 02:13:04,280 --> 02:13:06,520 Speaker 1: Hope you can join us tomorrow our final final show 2770 02:13:06,560 --> 02:13:09,040 Speaker 1: the week is Steve said, Thursday Friday off for the bye. 2771 02:13:09,040 --> 02:13:12,320 Speaker 1: I want to thank our production assistance, George Blast, Jeff 2772 02:13:12,400 --> 02:13:15,760 Speaker 1: Coltonick come around to a plus, Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude. 2773 02:13:15,760 --> 02:13:18,080 Speaker 1: I'm going slow, we have time. J J. Taredo. Does 2774 02:13:18,160 --> 02:13:20,920 Speaker 1: JJ even work on our show anymore? He chimes in, 2775 02:13:21,720 --> 02:13:25,320 Speaker 1: cross him off, Kevin Cardius, James roboled Our producer Jay Harris. 2776 02:13:25,640 --> 02:13:27,680 Speaker 1: We will see tomorrow at twelve noon with One Bill's 2777 02:13:27,720 --> 02:13:31,000 Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalidah Health Comedy from the Seneca Studio 2778 02:13:31,080 --> 02:13:34,000 Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio