1 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields. 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even 4 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: in the straged beer of normalcy here. Welcome everyone to 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: a Wednesday edition of One Bill's Live. There's a Bill's 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: roster news, there's forty nine ers roster news, and uh well, 7 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: it's game week and even though the game is a 8 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,319 Speaker 1: day later on Monday Night football. We also found out 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: through the bill social media channel that the Bills will 10 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: be adorned in white from head to toe on Monday Night, 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: including the face mask, which is going from gray to white. 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: White helmets, white face mask, white jerseys, white pants. We'll 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: see how many guys wear white shoes. I don't know 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: what the overunder is on that, but I'm some guys 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 1: might jump right on board and go white shoes as well. 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: So be a be a pretty clean look out there 17 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: in Arizona on Monday Night. I like it where they 18 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: return to the scene of the crime from week ten. 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: Coach McDermott was asked about that question, which I think 20 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: is kind of I don't know that's a media narrative. 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: If ever, there was one like, oh, they're going back 22 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: to where they played in Week ten and lost on 23 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: a hail area. Are they gonna think about that and 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: the game? It's like they're playing the forty nine ers. 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: I said, I think it's a plus. You know, same hotel, 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: same trip, same locker room. Is gonna feel you know 27 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: a little bit, uh, you know, second second lap in 28 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: the block. You know it's gonna be I don't think 29 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: it's a problem at all. I think it's a good thing. 30 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: Also gonna be a It's a familiar stadium for the 31 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: forty nine ers, two being that they play there once 32 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: a year against the Arizona Cardinals. So even though it 33 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: is for all intents and purposes, a lost home game 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: for the Niners after Santa Clara County prohibited con taxed 35 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: sports in their county until December twenty first, thereby forcing 36 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: the Niners to find somewhere else to play, and they'll 37 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: be playing at the Cardinal Stadium, who you know, And 38 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers were effusive in their praise for 39 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: the cooperation that they got from the Cardinals to set 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: them up down there on practice fields and you know, 41 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: in a hotel. So the forty nine ers are actually 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: flying to Arizona today to set up shop there for 43 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: the rest of the week and essentially for the next 44 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: three weeks. So you talk about all the isolation, Steve 45 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: that these players and coaches have been asked to undertake 46 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: to stay as safe as possible in steering clear of 47 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: of COVID. You know, it's holiday season and now they're 48 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: not going to be around their families in any way, 49 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: shape or form for the better part of the next 50 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: three weeks. I mean, that's an additional ask. That stinks. Yeah, 51 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: that stinks. That's pretty that's pretty lousy. But it is 52 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: what it is, and obviously, and the other thing that 53 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: we should not forget is, oh, there's a game this afternoon. 54 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: This is like the Thanksgiving leftovers of week twelve. I'm 55 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: gonna say is we're on Wednesday already. We're six days 56 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: removed from Thanksgiving. If you've got leftovers in your refrigerator 57 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: from Thanksgiving, don't eat them, right, I mean, at this 58 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: point you're it's past the expiration and shelf life date 59 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: for sure. We dispatched Avours on Monday. That was the 60 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: end of the line for us. If it hasn't been eaten, 61 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: we're chucking it and the Ravens Steelers game is essentially 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,839 Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving leftovers of NFL Week twelve, and it's going 63 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: to kick off this afternoon at three forty. And there 64 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: are developments here. Two more positive tests for the Ravens, 65 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: one player, one staff member. That player practiced with the 66 00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: team yesterday and it just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter 67 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: on the plane they go flying to Pittsburgh. Now, obviously 68 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: that player who tested positive did not make the trip 69 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: and was not on the plane. And we also thought, 70 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: or at least it was reported yesterday that running backs 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins, who were on the COVID list, 72 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: today was day ten and while they could not travel 73 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: with the team or yesterday to fly to Pittsburgh because 74 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: it was only day nine, for them, today was day ten, 75 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: and the anticipation was they were going to travel to 76 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh today and make it in time for the game tonight. 77 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: But now there are reports from a number of national 78 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: reporters saying they will not play in tonight's game. So, 79 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: you know, we talked about back in week five all 80 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 1: of this, Hey, are we're going to play the Titans 81 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: or we're going to play the Chiefs for the Bills 82 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: and how that messed with their collective psyche and probably 83 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: factored into how that game turned out. How about the 84 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: Ravens getting jerked around here? Now, it's partly because, I 85 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: mean it's due mainly to their own outbreak, but um, 86 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna have our Oh we're gonna get our top 87 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: two running backs back for this game. We don't have Lamar, 88 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: but we'll have our top two running backs. Well, no, 89 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 1: you won't like all of this. It's just messages with 90 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: your head, doesn't it. That's a pump fake manh Yeah, 91 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,799 Speaker 1: you're gonna get those guys back. No you're not. That stinks. 92 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: And it's uh this game. There's a lot of curveballs 93 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: in this thing. The Pittsburgh Steelers, I mean, what are 94 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: they thinking? You know they got to play tonight and 95 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: both these teams got to play what this weekend too? Right? 96 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: Are either it's Monday, will play the following Monday because 97 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: they're playing Monday. I gotta look, I can't remember when 98 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: the Ravens were staying Tuesday. Again. I can't remember somebody 99 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: one of these two teams had a Thursday game that 100 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: got moved to Monday. I want to say it was 101 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: the Ravens that had the Thursday game and they got 102 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: moved to Monday, And we'll have to find out where 103 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: the Steelers are already I'd already slipped my mind, but 104 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: I'll check on that. But yeah, it's it's a schmozzle. 105 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: It's a schmozzle, to say the least. But I think 106 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: it just shows the steamrolling nature of this league to 107 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: play all two hundred and fifty six regular season games, 108 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: come hell or high water. Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna 109 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: get an idea about how tough it is or how 110 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: likely it is. And we haven't seen any player on 111 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: any team reportedly get COVID from playing against a team 112 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: who had COVID or an opponent who had COVID. Right, 113 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: so it seems like that's the safest place to be. 114 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: He is on the field. But the travel, the practice, 115 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: the preparation has been an issue. And now they got 116 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: the you know, these guys catching from family members and 117 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: stuff because of the holidays, and oh my gosh, Yeah, 118 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: they're getting it in. They're gonna do whatever they can 119 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: to get it in. They're gonna do whatever they can 120 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: and short of fifty players on a team where you 121 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: just can't replace enough bodies to play a football game. 122 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: Short of that, they're playing everything. They're not stopping. It's 123 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: full speed ahead, and it's been that way since the offseason. 124 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: People were wondering back in April, Oh, they gonna have 125 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: a draft, How are they gonna do that? Full speed ahead? 126 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: We're doing the draft. Oh my gosh, are they gonna 127 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: delay OTAs or whatever. No, we're gonna do it virtually. 128 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: Moving on. Are they gonna have a preseason? Well, if 129 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: they do, they do. If they don't, they don't. But 130 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: the regular season is going on as scheduled. And you know, 131 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: I mean we've seen this time and time and time again. 132 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: And the thing that it almost amuses me, and I 133 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: don't mean to be flip, you know, with a situation 134 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: as serious as COVID, but in terms of how a 135 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: lot of these national reporters have reacted when it seems 136 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: like the stuff has hit the fan, most recently with 137 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: this outbreak with the Ravens, they they interpreted it just 138 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: as they did the Week five scenario with the Titans. 139 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: There's no way they're gonna be able to play this game. 140 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: It's like, well, it just happened weeks ago they had 141 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: twenty The building was closed for like ten days, and 142 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: they played the game anyway. I mean, granted they delayed it, 143 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: but they played the game. Why did you think it 144 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: was gonna be any different between the Ravens and the 145 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: Steelers this time around? It there, it was gonna be 146 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: the same exact thing. There was no way they were 147 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: forfeiting the game, canceling the game. It was gonna move 148 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: it back right. They don't care if they have to 149 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: play Wednesday at two in the morning. They're gonna play 150 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: the game. Yeah. It's amazing and and and this I 151 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: don't know whether to feel encouraged by it or sickened 152 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: by it. Uh no, pun intended. Yeah, they are. They're 153 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: gonna get this done. And that is an amazing feat 154 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: in the atmosphere that the country's in right now. We're 155 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: in a we're in a hot spot right now. We're 156 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: having the second wave, which you know, all the experts 157 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: said was gonna come, and here it is. But the 158 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: league is gonna get through it. You know, by their 159 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: own account, they're gonna They're gonna try and get through it. 160 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's it's something and I have to imagine 161 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: just based on the law of averages, the league is 162 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: likely to run into another one of these scenarios in 163 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: the near future with one or maybe multiple teams. Who 164 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: knows that's an issue. We'll have to see how they 165 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: handle it. Likely they'll handle it much the same way 166 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: they've handled these previous two. So just cross your fingers 167 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: and toes and hope for the best as they try 168 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: to steamroll their way to Week seventeen unscathed and without 169 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: a need to create a Week eighteen and push everything back. 170 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: There is Bill's roster news today. The most notable one 171 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: is that linebackers Matt Milano and Tyrrell Dodson will begin 172 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: practicing today. They are still on injured reserve, but they 173 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: are back practicing today. Milano, obviously, with the partially torn 174 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: peck hasn't done anything for the better part of a 175 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: month in terms of football related work. That will change. 176 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: He will be practicing today and so we'll see where 177 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: that goes. Tyrell Dotson coming back from a hamstring injury, 178 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: I think the likelihood is stronger that at the end 179 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: of the week he could be activated to the fifty 180 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: three man roster and be available, you know, as a 181 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: depth player behind you know, the two linebackers that get 182 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: most of the work in A. J. Klein and Tremaine 183 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: Edmonds Milano. However, coach McDermott was asked about him specifically 184 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: in his press conference this morning, just about thirty minutes ago, 185 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: and he said, we are going to take this a 186 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: day at a time. Today is really the first look. 187 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: See his words as to what Matt ken and cannot 188 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: do and how that goes, in addition to how he 189 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: comes back from his first day of action on the 190 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: practice field tomorrow, will largely shape their expectations as to 191 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: when and if they can add him back to the 192 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: active roster and get him on the field for games. 193 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Steve, but I would find 194 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: it very difficult for him to be ready for Monday 195 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: night after a one month layoff to play the role 196 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: that we usually see him in for this defense. Now 197 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: we've seen him on the side, you know, going through 198 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: some conditioning stuff on the side in practice. He hasn't 199 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: been sitting on the couch for a three weeks. But nevertheless, 200 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: you're right, particularly with the way the defense is playing now, 201 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: and I hate, you know, I hate just you know, 202 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: say that good players don't help you, because they do. 203 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, if if he's one hundred percent there, they'll 204 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: find a place for him, no question. So what this 205 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: does by starting practice today, it opens up a twenty 206 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: one day decision window for the Bills to make that 207 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: call on when they want to add Dodson and or 208 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: Milano back to the fifty three man roster. So today 209 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: is day one. They have until three weeks from today 210 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: to decide when they pull the trigger on that decision 211 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: to had one or both back to the roster. And 212 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: they're they're independent of one another, but they're on the 213 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: same exact timeline since both were returned to practice today. 214 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: The other roster move, wide receiver Jake Kumero was signed 215 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: to the active roster from the practice squad. Kumero has 216 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: been up from the practice squad the last few weeks 217 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: and has played a role on special teams, mostly on 218 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: coverage units. Got in for one play last week down 219 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: in the red zone and then promptly came right back 220 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: off the field. But I think he's proven that he 221 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: can be a cover's team asset. I mean he is 222 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: a long player, but he can run. I mean he 223 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: you've you've watched him. I know you've watched him as 224 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: a He's a six three, six four guy, and he 225 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: can cover some grounds, got some speed, and he's been 226 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: he's been an asset on their coverage team. So he 227 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: gets to stay, you know, and that and that's saying 228 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: something because you just added him to an active roster 229 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: as the I believe he's the fifty third player. I'll 230 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: have to add him up again. I thought they were 231 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: a seventh receiver. I thought they were at fifty two 232 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: active players, so they had a vacant spot there for him. 233 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: I believe it was fifty two. I don't think it 234 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: was less than that. And I found that interesting because 235 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: now you're working your way towards getting Milano and Dodson 236 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: back healthy, and we don't know what the timeline is. 237 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: Obviously they know better than we do. But I saw 238 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: that and I said, oh wow, they thought enough to 239 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: add him to the active roster, make him the fifty third. 240 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: I do think they are out of call ups for 241 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: him without exposing him to waivers, so that could be 242 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: a factor in this, because he's already been called up 243 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: a couple of times, and you get two free call 244 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: ups where you can just stick him back down on 245 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: the practice squad, not expose him to waivers. I believe 246 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: that that comes into play now, so maybe that's the 247 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: reason they put him on the active roster at this juncture. 248 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: But in any event, those are the roster moves for 249 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: today practices indoors today. So we're not sure as to 250 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: exactly how much access we will have with our colleague 251 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: Maddi Glab. We're still waiting for clarity on that because 252 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: with all these enhanced COVID rules, everything has changed in 253 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: terms of who can be in there, who can't, Is 254 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: there going to be a pool report, all of that stuff. 255 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: So we're trying to iron that out to find out what, 256 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: if anything, we can bring to you with regards to 257 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: information as to who's practicing and who's not. And the 258 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: reason why is because with it being a Monday night game, 259 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: the Bills don't have to issue their first injury report 260 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: of the week until tomorrow. Usually the first injury report 261 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: comes out late in the afternoon after the first practice 262 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: of the week on Wednesday, but now with the game 263 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: on Monday night, they do not have to do They're 264 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: not obligated to do that until Thursday, so we may 265 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: not get any injury related information today or we could, 266 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: but there won't be a formal injury report until Thursday, 267 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: so just wanting to make everybody aware of that as well. 268 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: We also want your participation on today's show at eight three, 269 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: five fifty one eighty five fifty two, five fifty as 270 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: our Twitter question of the day and essentially a poll 271 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: concerns the stretch run that the Bills are in. Here 272 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: five games left on the regular season schedule, one NFC opponent, 273 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: four AFC opponents left on the schedule, the Niners obviously 274 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: being the NFC opponent that remains, and so our question 275 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: for you is, other than the Steelers, what do you 276 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: feel is the trickiest game for the Bills left on 277 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: their schedule and why? So basically your choices are Niners, Broncos, Patriots, Dolphins. 278 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: So other than the Steelers, what's the trickiest game of 279 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: that group left on the schedule? And in early polling, 280 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: Dolphins are far and away the leader at forty point 281 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: eight percent of the vote, the Niners and Patriots in 282 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: a dead heat for the second choice, and the Broncos 283 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: pulling up the rear. They're a little bit of a mess. 284 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: Do mainly to in jury and to a quarterback situation 285 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: that is muddled at best right now, even though they 286 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: are expected to get Drew locked back for their game 287 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: this week at quarterback, which one grabs you as as 288 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: one that could be a potential hurdle, Steve a trip 289 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: up if you will, a pitfall. To me, it's always 290 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: the Patriots. They're just hard to beat. They don't make 291 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: it easy. They don't make it easy. I think that 292 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: the Dolphins will if that game has meaning for Buffalo. 293 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: I like Buffalo in that one, But the Patriots are 294 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: always the ones I worry about. And so that's the 295 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: way I'm gonna say. I'm gonna stick with Patriots. Yeah, 296 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: I mean, believe it or not. I voted. I voted 297 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: there too. I voted in the poll today and I 298 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: voted for the Patriots game because I mean, you can 299 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: even go back to Week eight, the Bills ran for 300 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety yards and needed a force fumble 301 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: at the end of the game to win it to 302 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: seal the win. Otherwise, the Patriots are going in to 303 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: either kick the game tying field goal or potentially win 304 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: the game in the final minute. So and I know 305 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: that Cam Newton has been up and down even since 306 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: playing the Bills. Cam Newton's play a quarterback for the 307 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: Patriots has been very up and down the last few weeks. 308 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: Their running game is slightly healthier. They lose Rex Birkhead, 309 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: but they get Sony Michelle back, and they just find 310 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: a way to Flummock's young quarterbacks. They did it last 311 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: week against Kyler Murray. They beat the Cardinals last week 312 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen. I think Kyler Murray through for under 313 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: two hundred yards for the first time, I believe in 314 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: his career, aside from maybe his first or second career start. 315 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: So Belichick just has a way of getting to young 316 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: quarterbacks and neutralizing them so effectively. And he was able 317 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: to do that last week with that Patriots defense, and 318 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: they went a game twenty to seventeen on a field 319 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: goal at the end by Nick Folk. So as much 320 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: as the Patriots are probably not part of the playoff conversation, 321 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: they can still give you plenty of headaches in the 322 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: games that remain. And so that was my vote too, Steve, 323 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: So I think that's a good call not to say 324 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: that these other games couldn't be potential trip ups. Denver 325 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: has really STiMi some people on the defensive end themselves. 326 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: The Dolphins, we know what they've been able to do. 327 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 1: They've been very resourceful on defense and special teams to 328 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: help the offense put points on the board, whether it's 329 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: by giving them short fields or scoring points themselves. So 330 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 1: they've they've kind of excelled in that area. And then 331 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers another team that has leaned heavily 332 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: on their defense and is getting a little bit healthier 333 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: on that end. I know they got Richard Sherman back 334 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: last week. Of course, they lose two other corners that 335 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: have to go on ir In Webster. Ken Webster had 336 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: a hamstring injury and he had to go out of 337 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: the game, and Jamar Taylor suffered a knee injury in 338 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: last week's game against the Rams. He was put on 339 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: i R as well. So neither of those corners for 340 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: the Niners will be part of Monday night's game against 341 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: the Bills. But eight oh three oh five fifty to 342 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: number two call one eight eight five fifty two five 343 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:02,679 Speaker 1: to join us and let you know, let us know 344 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: which game on the schedule besides that Steelers game do 345 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: you believe to be the trickiest for the Bills. The 346 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: rest of the way. Let's go to the phones and 347 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: joining us there is Greg and Amhurst to lead us off. Greg, 348 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills live, 349 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: gregor you're there? Yeah, yeah, I got a question for you. 350 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: And I know it's not on the Steelers game, but 351 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: it's on the forty nine Ers game. Yeah, I'll come 352 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: Buffalo couldn't play in Buffalo on that Monday night? Well, 353 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: I think first and foremost it's deemed a home game 354 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers. And while I understand with 355 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: nobody in the stands you might say, well, what the 356 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: heck's the difference whether you're play in San fran or 357 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: you're playing Buffalo, I think the forty nine ers will say, yeah, 358 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: you know what, not really keen on making a cross 359 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: country flight when we weren't supposed to. We've made enough 360 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: of those already. Time change, you know, playing the AFC 361 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: East this year. So yeah, thanks, but no thanks. And 362 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: I think that's where it started. So I think the 363 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: NFL put it on the forty nine Ers to find 364 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: a new location for this game in light of the 365 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: rulings made by the Santa Clara County, you know, local 366 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: government there, and so it was on the forty nine 367 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: ers to find a new destination. Fortunately they found a 368 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: willing partner in the Cardinals, and there it is. I 369 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: don't think the Bills ever had an opportunity to even 370 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: weigh in on it, and that's probably why it went 371 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: the way that it did. So I thank you for 372 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: the phone call, Greg. We appreciate it. Eight oh three 373 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: five fifty the number to call as we you know, 374 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: there's tricky games left on the schedule. You don't want 375 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: to sleep on anybody in this league. Steve talks all 376 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: the time about the margin for error and how how 377 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: minimal it is, and if you come out sleepwalking in 378 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: the first half of a game, or heck even in 379 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: the second half of a game, things can turn quickly 380 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: and you don't want to throw a game away that 381 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: you've got in hand, especially with all of these AFC 382 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: Conference games here the rest of the way. That's the deal. Yeah, 383 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: and uh, that's the changing of the venue. That the 384 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: Niners wanted to stay in the West Coast time zone. 385 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: They wanted to get a and believe me that the 386 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: whole team had to move to the city. So They 387 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: didn't want to fly across the country and become an 388 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: East Coast team for this one game. They wanted to 389 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: stay in the West Coast time zone so that they 390 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: could because they're trap. They're traveling today to Arizona. They're 391 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: making Arizona their home game, their hometown for the next 392 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: three weeks. So they didn't want to do that to 393 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: any city like Buffalo where they played here once, but 394 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: their next game. Uh and I could guess, I could. 395 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: I could check what their their next game would be 396 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: for you know, San Francisco, and it's yeah, they go 397 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: from Buffalo and they go back to Washington, then they 398 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: go to Dallas. So um, you know, they didn't want 399 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: to travel to Buffalo and play out of Buffalo or 400 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: live in Buffalo for three weeks and then to go 401 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: to Washington then go to Dallas or whatever. So that's 402 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: that's the reason it was up to It was up 403 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: to the Niners. It was their call. And I don't 404 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: think anything in the Eastern time zone was even a 405 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: remote thought. They're thinking, how can we best stay on 406 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: the east, on the West coast the least upheaval possible 407 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: and make this work eight O three five fifty one 408 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Tell us what 409 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: you think is the trickiest game left on the Bills 410 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: schedule besides the Steelers. Um, we all know the Steelers 411 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: are going to be a bear to play against. They're 412 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: still undefeated. We'll find out if they remain that way 413 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: after this afternoon's game. But besides them, there are some 414 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: games that could present a hiccup if the Bills don't 415 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: bring it. So which one do you think is the trickiest? 416 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: Eight three five fifty. We go back to the phones. 417 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: We go to Jim in Lockport. So, Jim, I'm trying 418 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: to punch you up here forgive me. Jim. Are you there? No, 419 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: he's not. Yeah, I'm here. Okay they are, Jim, Yeah, 420 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 1: I'm here. What do you have for us? Sir? Are 421 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: you doing? Guys? Congratulations on another nomination for the prop 422 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: All of same, Thank you. UM. I had a question. 423 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: They postponed the Steelers Ravens game like three times, I 424 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: think in an up come. They didn't postpone the Denver 425 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: game when they had no quarterbacks and a lot of 426 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: people out would COVID. Yeah, they didn't get positive tests 427 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: every day. Denver got the positive tests and the and 428 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 1: the close proximity on the day and then that was 429 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 1: it for them. They didn't get any more positive tests. Yeah, 430 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: and then you know, on top of that, there's precedent 431 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: there too. I mean you look at the Patriots. Cam 432 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: Newton tested positive back in week three or four, and 433 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: he didn't get to play against the Chiefs. So you know, 434 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: the the Patriots had to play without their starting quarterback. 435 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: Granted they still had their number two and number three 436 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: quarterbacks available to them, and that's why you know, Brian 437 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: Hoyer started the game. He was a disaster. So they 438 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: brought in Stidham. They had quarterbacks to put on the field, 439 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: which is different than the Denver situation, but they were 440 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: close contacts and they didn't have time to get the 441 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: negative testing done right now. That's that's what happened in 442 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: the Tennessee thing. When the Bills game got pushed to 443 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: a Tuesday earlier in the week five, I think was 444 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: because they got a positive one day, then they got 445 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: a negative, and then they got add an all negative, 446 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: and they got a positive another day. Another day they 447 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 1: got a positive. So it was a string of positive 448 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: which is exactly what it was for the Baltimore Ravens too. 449 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: So that's why the Ravens kept getting pushed back because 450 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: they just kept getting positive and even though they were 451 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: all out of the building, they kept having guys getting 452 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: turned up, you know, And that was that was the crusher. 453 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: Eight oh three, oh five fifty the number to call, 454 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: and uh, you gotta forgive me. I'm having trouble pulling 455 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: up these callers, so I'm gonna have to ask the 456 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: board up to help me pull these up. Tom and 457 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: fort Erie, you're on one bills live. What do you 458 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: have for us? Tom? Hey, guys, I'd like to offer 459 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: two opinions. First opinion, as I agree, I think New 460 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: England's the toughest one here. Miami doesn't scared me. McDermott 461 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: has owned him over the last couple of seas and 462 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: uh that that game doesn't scare me at all. Second 463 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: opinion i'd like to offer is on Tyler Bass. Six 464 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: weeks ago, a lot of people were calling for this 465 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: rookie's job, and I think he's really pulled it together 466 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: the last month. I'm really happy we stuck with him. 467 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: I know, Steve, you've really been singing his phrases to 468 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: stick with this rookie. He's got a strong leg and 469 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: he's impressed me. And I'm really happy we have stuck 470 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: with him. I'd like to hear your opinions. I agree. 471 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: I think he's really come unto his own. I think 472 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: he's turned into a solid pro kicker. Um, he's working 473 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: hard at getting better. Um. You know the last kick 474 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: I remember him missing was the what sixty one yard er? Um, 475 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: he's been. He's been great. He has been. He's hit 476 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: his last eight in a row. I believe, Yeah, he's been. 477 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: He's been great. And a couple of kicks this last 478 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: week I thought were very big. The last one he hit, 479 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: the forty three yard or to put the Bills back 480 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: up by ten late in the game was big, was 481 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: really big and uh and he got it done. And 482 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: his kickoffs have been, uh, exactly what the Bills have 483 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: been asking him to do. So UM, I'm with you, 484 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: Uh totally. I think Tyler bass is turned into a 485 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: real find. Seven of his last he's hit his last 486 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: seven in a row. Let me see here, one, two, three, 487 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: four or five six seven in a row? Yep, So 488 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 1: seven of his last eight he's like seven his last day, 489 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: Eleven of his last twelve he's hit but eleven of 490 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: his last twelve. The only miss is, as Steve mentioned, 491 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: the sixty one yarder. That's that's pretty darn impressive. Not 492 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: worried at all about Miami at all, Not worried at all, 493 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: not yet, not yet yet they I gotta say, if 494 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: you've watched some of their games, their defense is holding 495 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: it down right now. I mean, they are playing some 496 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: really good football on that side of the ball. It's 497 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: funny because I know you and I have talked about this. 498 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: They remind us a little bit of the twenty twenty 499 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: nineteen Bills. Maybe not quite the level yet, but pretty 500 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: close to what the twenty nineteen Bills were. They just 501 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: don't have the offense completely they put together yet, and 502 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: it's due mainly to the inexperience of Tua more than 503 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: anything else. But when with defense, offense does just enough. Yeah, 504 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: you know, the defense right now for Miami second in 505 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: the league and points allowed, and that's right where the 506 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: Bills were last year, right in that same territory. Back 507 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: to the phones, and we go to Kevin in Hamburg. Kevin, 508 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: what do you have for us, sir? For taking my call? Yeah, 509 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco scared me for the only point that we're 510 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,360 Speaker 1: not used to play in San Francisco and they can 511 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: be weird. They can get killed by someone some week 512 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: and then the next week play like they're ready for 513 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And Denver only scared me because of elevation. 514 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: I've seen teams to go to Denver and they're by 515 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: the time to get the fourth quarter, they are pooped 516 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: out and dragging like they're ready to drop over dead. 517 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: Even if they're a better team than Denver. And New 518 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: England's a cliche. They're New England Miami. Well, now they're better. 519 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: But San Francisco can be worrisome because they're not used 520 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: to playing them and all that. Yeah, no, that's that's 521 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: a valid point. I'll buy that for a dollar. I mean. 522 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: And the thing too is and we were talking about 523 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator yesterday as a head coaching candidate this offseason, 524 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: Roberts Sobart sala he. I mean, what he's been able 525 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: to do with that defense this year maybe even more 526 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: impressive than what he did last year because last year 527 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 1: he had all his guys. This year he's I mean, 528 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: he's got a triage unit. With all the injuries they've 529 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: sustained Nick Bosa, Solomon Thomas. I mean that would be 530 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: like the late nineties Bills losing Bruce Smith and Ted 531 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: Washington for the year. Now go be the number one defense. 532 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: Now defense is still sixth in the league, tenth against 533 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: the run, fourth against the pass, and he's had a 534 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: myriad of injuries in the secondary. They just got Richard 535 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: Sherman back. They lost two more corners for another three weeks. 536 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I was watching some of their games. 537 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: Steve fred Warner is a beast. That linebacker. He's unbelievable. 538 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: He is all over the place. I mean he's kinda 539 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: so you say, well, who does he remind you of? 540 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: He he's got ranged like r locker Head. I mean, 541 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: he is all over the place. And they are They're 542 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: strong and linebacker. They they've got some good guys at 543 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: the second level. Um, it's gonna be interesting to see 544 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: what the approach is offensively. Brian Dable in that offensive 545 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: staff with this group. We mentioned it yesterday too. They're 546 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: getting Brandon Ayuk off off the COVID list. DJ Jones 547 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: is off the COVID BO, Samuel's back, Samuels, Jordan Willis 548 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: is off the COVID list, and Daniel helm is off 549 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: the COVID list as well. You know some of those 550 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: guys that you know, they're contributors and they're getting healthier, 551 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: you know, so they're gonna have four guys that they 552 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: apparently they need who well, yeah, because you don't have 553 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: Kittle back Garoppolo's still out and we already mentioned two 554 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: of the air starting defensive linemen who are Pro Bowl 555 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: level players out as well. Um, but they're holding it down. 556 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: They are holding it down on the defensive end, and 557 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: it's why they're staying in games and they're win last 558 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: week was very impressive over the Rams, and you know 559 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: that's the difference too. Mike Shanahan. Shanahan is one of 560 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: those coaches in this league that I believe is capable 561 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: of winning their team an extra two games a year. 562 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: You have a high end coach that knows how to 563 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: manage clock, game situations, time and score and scheme things 564 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: up to cover up some of their deficiencies. Shanahan's in 565 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: that top in the top three, He's in the top 566 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: three on that list in my estimation. I think he's 567 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: that good. So you cannot take that San Francisco team 568 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: lightly because of the way they're able to cover up 569 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: their deficiencies due to absences from injury. So something to 570 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: think about is the Bill's head into this game. But 571 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: you let us know what you think is the trickiest 572 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: game left on the bill schedule besides that Steelers matchup? 573 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: Is it San franc is it Miami? Is it New England? 574 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: Is it Denver? Where is the potential pitfall? You tell 575 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: us at eight five fifty, Jim and Penfield hang tight. 576 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: You'll be first up after the break when we return 577 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, 578 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, one Bills 579 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: Live as we are discussing with you the stretch run 580 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. Five games left on the schedule. 581 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: Everybody knows we've got the Niners on Monday night. But 582 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: besides that Steelers game, which I think everybody knows is 583 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: going to be a major challenge, which game is the 584 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: trickiest one left on the schedule, the potential stub your 585 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,479 Speaker 1: toe game one that worries you a little bit as 586 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: you survey the remaining five games on the schedule. Here 587 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: you can hit us up at the tweet sheet at 588 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: one bills Live, or you can give us a call 589 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: open line for you at eight oh three five fifty 590 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty. We said 591 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,479 Speaker 1: we were going to do it, so away we go. 592 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: We lead off with Jim in penfield for this segment. Jim, 593 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills Live. Hey, 594 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: how you doing guys? Thanks for taking right cars to Steve. 595 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: Thanks man. Yeah. Anyway, Um, obviously, depending upon the standings 596 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the year, that Miami game scares 597 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: me simply because they can they can smell something in 598 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: the air right now. I mean, they are playing some 599 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: good ball. Not sure if two is going to be 600 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: there or if it's going to be fisk, but you know, 601 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: that's a dangerous game to me. So yeah, I think 602 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people Jim are are hoping, 603 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: certainly at least on this end of the ledger, that 604 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: that game really doesn't hold a lot of meaning for 605 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: Buffalo in week seventeen. The likelihood is that it will 606 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: no matter what for Miami. As as tight a race 607 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: as the AFC Wildcard picture is right now, as big 608 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: as the playoff picture has become with seven teams in 609 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: it instead of six, and a possibility of there maybe 610 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: they're going to be an eighth if if things continue 611 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: to go south with COVID, Miami's definitely going to be 612 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: in that mix and they'll be talking. We'll be talking 613 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: about you know, seedings and things like that, if not 614 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: division titles. What do you think about, Steve, the fact 615 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: that beginning of the year, I would I think you 616 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: could make the argument that beginning of the year, perceptions 617 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: of the Dolphins to the to the perception of the 618 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: team now may have changed the most of any team 619 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: in the league. I mean, this was a team that 620 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: was expected to be in languishing down near the lower 621 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: dredges of the league. Nothing was really expected of them. 622 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: There were even some people who thought that Jets were 623 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: going to be a better team than Miami. Um, I 624 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: don't know. Have the perceptions on Miami changed from the 625 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,719 Speaker 1: beginning of the season to now more than any other 626 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: team in from football? Yeah, I'm going down the list 627 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: of other teams what I thought about him? Really? It 628 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: might be right, Yeah, I you can say what you want. 629 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: You thought maybe maybe did Troit was gonna come out 630 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: and do it all something. Uh really, yeah, I mean 631 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: just because of the third year and yeah, but yeah, 632 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: Miami's transformed itself, no question about it. They're playing well, 633 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: and I think the thing about it is for me, Brownie, 634 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 1: is the fact they're playing good defense. I mean, two 635 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: is thrown for he's having a year like Josh did 636 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 1: he he can't throw uh yeah because of his thumb. 637 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: But right, you know, it's just it's it's hard to 638 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: play like that this year. There's not too many teams 639 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: that are winning with defense. Yeah, I mean there's teams 640 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: have good defenses, but you know, but the point scoring 641 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: is so high to just you got to keep your 642 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: stamp on it and say we're winning with defense. Yea 643 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: is almost fools gold. I mean when you think of it, men, 644 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: I guess they've happened some of these games, but you 645 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: don't see these ten seven games any anywhere. Well, what 646 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 1: was I mean Sunday for the Bills, there was some 647 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: of that thing about that. I mean Sunday for the Bills. 648 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: What is that the second time they've held a team 649 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: or maybe third time they've held a team to seventeen 650 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: or less. Third time two times it was against the 651 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 1: Jets that was the only team they've held unders held 652 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 1: to seventeen or less besides the Jets. This year, you 653 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: gotta holding teams down on the scoreboard is a much 654 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: much taller task this year league wide. I mean, people say, 655 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: what happened in this Bills defense that holds other teams down. 656 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,920 Speaker 1: There's no defense that's really doing a great job of 657 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: that right now. You got you know, like last week, 658 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: you got a nineteen seventeen game, Bengals Giants, Bengals Giants, 659 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: you know, everybody else one of them, you know, at 660 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 1: least one of the teams is up, you know in 661 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,720 Speaker 1: the high twenties. Yeah, I mean the Jets, the Dolphins, 662 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: Jets games twenty to three, you know, and the Patriots 663 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: Cardinals game seventeen to twenty, Niners Rams last week was 664 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 1: twenty three twenty. Most of these games. One of these 665 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: teams though, was way high, you know, the Seahawks Eagles 666 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: twenty three seventeen. You feel like coming into this, you 667 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: know now that we're getting in a week thirteen, maybe 668 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: things are changing in the league. Maybe we're looking at 669 00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: it right here in front of us as we talk 670 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,359 Speaker 1: about it. You know, the league's not going to be 671 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 1: one of those thirty five thirty games. Every game, you know, 672 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 1: maybe they maybe the defenses are catching up with these teams. 673 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,720 Speaker 1: But nevertheless, you gotta feel like going into these games 674 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: this year, you gotta score in the high twenties to 675 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: have a shot at beating to somebody because teams are 676 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,399 Speaker 1: hanging points up. But I don't know, And you look 677 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: at these scores, and I was with you, I was 678 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 1: thinking that, But I mean, you see here these games. 679 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: You know, Washington scored forty one, Falcon scored forty three, 680 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: Titan scored forty five, this last this is all this 681 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 1: last weekend, and the Packers scored forty one. So there's 682 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are lightened it up. And 683 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: it's not thirty plus, it's forty, it's forty. It's just 684 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: it's a different animal this year, it really is. You 685 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: don't see that very much. Back to the phones at 686 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty one eight eight eight 687 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty open line for you there 688 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: as we're asking what is the trickiest game left on 689 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: the Bills schedule besides that Steelers contest? And we go 690 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 1: to Barry and cheek Towaga, Barry, what do you have 691 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: for us? You're on one bills live? Are you doing? Guys? Good? Good? 692 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: I would say Miami's gonna be a tough one, but 693 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: like they reready says that, you know they our coach 694 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,800 Speaker 1: has his number. I have a question. I don't know 695 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: if it was brought up or not. I didn't listen Monday. 696 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: I had Dennis and the whole whole Shi bang, Uh. 697 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,839 Speaker 1: Why can't we just tackle a guy who two games 698 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 1: in a row with the helmet or mary catching is unreal? 699 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: They've got to stop that. Why can't they just a 700 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,319 Speaker 1: tackle a guy take the penalty and so as if 701 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: they give him their chance, at least they didn't get 702 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: it on that one or like the first game and 703 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: one second left, what's the difference just annihilated from catching it. Yeah, 704 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: it was in the end zone. And if there was 705 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,240 Speaker 1: one play left, it's first down. It's fun. It's first 706 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: down on the one. Uh. And it's an even if 707 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: it was the last play of the game, it's an 708 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: untimed down they get, they get a shot then from 709 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 1: the one yard line. It's better than losing that way. Yeah, 710 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though you might have a point here, 711 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: and what you might have an idea if if there 712 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: are six, if there's one last, if it's one player 713 00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: two plays left, yeah, uh. If it's two plays left 714 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: and you're they're gonna get another play after this, and 715 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 1: they're gonna run this hail Mary, you know, you go out, 716 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: you line up on DeAndre Hockmans, you tackle him and 717 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: hold him on the ground. Pass interference or illegal contact 718 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: five yards automatic first down. I don't care. Rightdown, I 719 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: don't care. I like Steve's idea even better than yours. 720 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 1: Berry tackle him five yards up the field, illegal contact 721 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,399 Speaker 1: five yards? Yeah, first down, Fernians where he can go 722 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, take your chance on getting him down. Yeah, 723 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 1: that's that's true. But I had a guy I was 724 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 1: arguing guy with in the store. Is that sounds so great? 725 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,959 Speaker 1: I mean, why not, just Tony, what do you gotta 726 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: there's up the ball for you don't just stop the touchdown? Yeah, 727 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: knock it down, knock it down, knock right down. Yeah. 728 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: But two games on their own, don't you guys think 729 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,919 Speaker 1: that's a little much? It's kind of worried. Well, yeah, 730 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: I mean coach McDermott, I mean I mentioned it on 731 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 1: Tuesday show Leslie Fraser was asked about that question specifically, 732 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: like what has to be done to get that fixed? 733 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: And I'm not joking when I say this. Leslie Frasier 734 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,240 Speaker 1: on the zoom call says, yeah, it's a head scratcher, 735 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: and he's literally scratching his head as he's saying it, 736 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 1: and I'm like this, poor man. I mean, can you 737 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: imagine how many times Frasier has gone over this over 738 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,240 Speaker 1: the last two weeks and they're still they still can't 739 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: stop it. I mean, he's got to be he's got 740 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,959 Speaker 1: to be pulling his hair out. Here's the thing, too, 741 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to overcoach it. You know, you don't 742 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,719 Speaker 1: want to say you've got to do this, You've got 743 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 1: to do this, You've got to do this, and then 744 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: somebody don't and that doesn't work either. So here's the thing. 745 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 1: At this level, you expect guys like Tredevious, White, Jordan, 746 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 1: Poor your, Micah Hide and whoever else is there. You 747 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,680 Speaker 1: expect them to make the play that is there to 748 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: be made. Go up, knock it down, catch it if 749 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: you've got a chance to catch it, catch it. If 750 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 1: you've got to knock it down, knock it down. But 751 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,879 Speaker 1: you got to make the play there. Now, you don't 752 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: like unlike what we were talking about with this call, 753 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: or you're not going to tell him out there to 754 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 1: go take the guy out, you know that's you're not 755 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: gonna do that because that lead that opens up, that 756 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,880 Speaker 1: leads to other problems. Yeah, it's a spot foul and 757 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,279 Speaker 1: you gotta get Yeah, then they're gonna get another shot 758 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: at it. You don't coach him to get a penalty, 759 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: but you coach him make the play that's there. Now, 760 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: if it's a six five tight end and these guys 761 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: are gonna try and go up with him, you know, 762 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,319 Speaker 1: how do you defend that? Well, you gotta you gotta 763 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:21,960 Speaker 1: get on him, and you gotta make it impossible for 764 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: him to jump. First of all, you gotta get in 765 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,319 Speaker 1: on his legs so when he when he goes down 766 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: to gather himself to jump, he can't jump, or you're 767 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: leaning on him. He's gonna he can't jump straight, or 768 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,960 Speaker 1: all of that stuff. You're leaning on him. But you 769 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 1: gotta play the ball. But every one of these things, 770 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,720 Speaker 1: while they're all they all call him all Hail Mary, 771 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,799 Speaker 1: they all kind of look the same. The idea is 772 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,239 Speaker 1: the same. The play call is probably the same. They're 773 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,319 Speaker 1: all different. Every one of them is unique. Yeah, and 774 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 1: you can't coach there's not you know, you say, knock 775 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: it down if you can knock down, Yeah, okay, I 776 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: get it. But what if you knock it down, you 777 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 1: knock it five yards? You tip it right to a guy, 778 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,280 Speaker 1: because that's what the coach to do. One guy goes up, 779 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: tips it and the other guys while all the defenders 780 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,640 Speaker 1: are up around him. You're there for the rebound. That's 781 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 1: the way. That's the way they're coached offensively. So that 782 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,799 Speaker 1: doesn't work as well all the time either. So you 783 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,160 Speaker 1: can't overcoach. You can't really over coach it. You just 784 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: gotta watch them and be alert and know in that 785 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,840 Speaker 1: moment what your best chance for making the play is 786 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:27,319 Speaker 1: and make it easier said than done. Yeah, the last right, 787 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 1: Apparently it is. But it is a head scratcher for sure. 788 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 1: We have to take a break. But when we return, 789 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,799 Speaker 1: more of your phone calls and maybe some comments from 790 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,400 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Kevin and Rochester, hang on, you'll be 791 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: first in line when we return. Here on One Bill's 792 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Pills Radio, 793 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: Bills in ad Pro Sports proud to one again partner 794 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,719 Speaker 1: to recognize some of the best coaches that Western New 795 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,840 Speaker 1: York has to offer through the twenty twenty high school 796 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,640 Speaker 1: Football Coach of the Week program. With games not being 797 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,200 Speaker 1: played in twenty twenty, still like the opportunity to recognize 798 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 1: the outstanding work that high school football coaches have done 799 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: with their programs, both on and off the field. Section 800 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: six Coach of the Week this week Wilson head coach 801 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,839 Speaker 1: Bill Atlas. Atlas has coached at Wilson for twenty years, 802 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,959 Speaker 1: the last twelve is the varsity head coach. He's also 803 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,240 Speaker 1: coached youth baseball and wrestling in the community. In twenty nineteen, 804 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,880 Speaker 1: Wilson led the Lakeman to a nine and one record, 805 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 1: so they advanced to the Section six Class C championship 806 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 1: game at Bill's Stadium, sending a school record for most 807 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 1: wins in a season. In Section five, the coach of 808 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,840 Speaker 1: the Week is Honeyoi Falls Lineman head coach John Russ. 809 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: Russ has coached football at HF dash L for thirteen seasons, 810 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: including the last seven as head coach, and is a 811 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: two thousand and two graduate of the school. Last season, 812 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,120 Speaker 1: he led his team to the school's first ever Section 813 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,600 Speaker 1: five championship game. In addition to serving as the varsity 814 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,360 Speaker 1: head foot ball coach, Russ coaches JV baseball and modified 815 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: basketball in the district. So good on those men. Yeah, yeah, 816 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,480 Speaker 1: Bill Atlas, John Russ, I have a new I guess 817 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,960 Speaker 1: I was going to say, a nephew named Atlas. His 818 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,279 Speaker 1: first name's Atlas, Is that right? Yeah? But it's a 819 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,840 Speaker 1: grand nephew, not anaph. Oh wow, my niece gave birth Atlas. 820 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,880 Speaker 1: Does he look muscular? U? Yeah, he's a little strapping 821 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,960 Speaker 1: young man, strapping now that he's up off the floor. 822 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 1: Tough name to live, right, tough name to live up to? 823 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,200 Speaker 1: You many he better have some better hit the gym 824 00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,719 Speaker 1: early right? Uh? Eight oh three oh five fifty one 825 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,319 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty to join us? 826 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,839 Speaker 1: Is we're kind of asking you what is the game 827 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 1: of greatest concern for you on the stretch run of 828 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: this bill schedule? Aside from the Steelers game, I think 829 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: everybody knows that it's going to be a challenging contest. 830 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: But besides that, one of the other four, which one 831 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,680 Speaker 1: do you see as a as a tricky one? Not 832 00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,040 Speaker 1: an easy one for the for the bills here eight 833 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 1: O three oh five fifty, we begin this segment with 834 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,040 Speaker 1: Kevin and Rochester. Kevin, what do you have for us 835 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: here on one bill's life? How are you doing it? 836 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: I just want to congratulate Steve and the Biscuit on 837 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,359 Speaker 1: their similar final Hall of fame now, but then there 838 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,640 Speaker 1: you go, well you and Cornelius Bennett as well. Yeah, 839 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,800 Speaker 1: that's I'm glad you mentioned that. We haven't said anything 840 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,399 Speaker 1: about it. But Biscuit is up for it as well, 841 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 1: and I'm I'm pulling hard for him here. He deserves it. 842 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,279 Speaker 1: He's a he's a Hall of Fame guy. I know that. 843 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,239 Speaker 1: Go ahead. I'm pulling for both of you, guys. I'm 844 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,279 Speaker 1: an old school nineties fan. Three. There you go. I'm 845 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,839 Speaker 1: gonna get to thank you so much. I'm gonna get 846 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,200 Speaker 1: to my question. And my question was this, like I 847 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,840 Speaker 1: just want to take the negative connotation like off of 848 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,360 Speaker 1: the bills, like everybody like they worried, they're worried, worried. 849 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,680 Speaker 1: I just want people to understand that this isn't like 850 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,240 Speaker 1: the early two thousand, late two, mid two thousand bills, 851 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,799 Speaker 1: Like we honestly got a very very good football team 852 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,480 Speaker 1: and we could compete with anybody. And we obviously know 853 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,240 Speaker 1: that the Pittsburgh game is gonna be a very strong 854 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,959 Speaker 1: game and a very tough game. But I'm really thinking 855 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,839 Speaker 1: in my head, if you, um, you can't overlook anybody, 856 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: but if you really like concern about a Denver team, 857 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: a Patriots team, or even a Dolphins team, even though 858 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: you don't overlook them, I think he's just looking too 859 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: much into it. I think we have the talent and 860 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: the coaching to be all of those teams. So I'm 861 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,000 Speaker 1: not overly worried. But i will say this, the new 862 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 1: England Patriots game is a very interesting game because maybe 863 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,480 Speaker 1: they don't have nothing to play for. We don't know 864 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,360 Speaker 1: that far down the line. But also they're still the Patriots, 865 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,120 Speaker 1: and they still have Bill Belichick and that mystique and 866 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,480 Speaker 1: everything that goes along with it. But I also want 867 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,799 Speaker 1: to remind people that we're the new Buffalo Bills, not 868 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,080 Speaker 1: the old Buffalo Bills. And I'll let you guys take it, 869 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:58,520 Speaker 1: and thank you for letting me call in Kevin. I've 870 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 1: been telling this to people off the air, and all 871 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,759 Speaker 1: my buddies and and you know, the guys that the 872 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,160 Speaker 1: old guys that I still text and all that, Jim 873 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:12,600 Speaker 1: Bruce Thurm and all those guys. This Bills fans, you've 874 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,759 Speaker 1: got a really good football team. Not just a really 875 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 1: good football team, a really really good football team. The 876 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:24,400 Speaker 1: Bills are really good. And it's not doesn't seem to 877 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,800 Speaker 1: be a one year thing. This is a solid foundational 878 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,799 Speaker 1: program they've got here. Sean mcdermots in his fourth year 879 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,960 Speaker 1: as their head coach. He is and I heard some 880 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,360 Speaker 1: people say it and he didn't want to say it. 881 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:43,560 Speaker 1: He out coached the other guy last weekend. This is 882 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,320 Speaker 1: not the Buffalo Bills of the drought because you've got coaching. 883 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 1: You've got a coaching staff here now that is getting 884 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,600 Speaker 1: the most out of the roster. They are agile in 885 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:59,120 Speaker 1: their planning. They're out in front of trends. They are 886 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,720 Speaker 1: on the fly a justing. They are taking time outs 887 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,319 Speaker 1: in a timely manner. They're they're not blowing that kind 888 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:10,000 Speaker 1: of stuff. They are on it on at every level 889 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,439 Speaker 1: of this organization. And they are good. And I've told 890 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,800 Speaker 1: people I think the Bills can go in and beat Pittsburgh. 891 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:23,440 Speaker 1: I think they will. They're that good. This team is 892 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,960 Speaker 1: that good. If this team's healthy, which it seems to be. 893 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: They're getting a little healthier now, particularly just after the 894 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,160 Speaker 1: bye week. When this team gets fully healthy, when John 895 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 1: Brown gets back in, if Milano can come back and 896 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,680 Speaker 1: play and all that stuff, and they can stay away 897 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,160 Speaker 1: from COVID, when this team's healthy under the right weather conditions, 898 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: I pick them over just about a name, the Chiefs is. 899 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,279 Speaker 1: I want to see him play the Chiefs again. I 900 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:49,880 Speaker 1: want to see that game. I think they'll beat the 901 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,680 Speaker 1: Titans if they play again, and I think they can 902 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,480 Speaker 1: beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. This is a team that is 903 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,839 Speaker 1: really really good from top to bottom. Don't don't shy 904 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,800 Speaker 1: away from thinking than saying it, and believe in it. Yeah, 905 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,719 Speaker 1: I just think it's something that great, Frankie. The fans 906 00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,440 Speaker 1: aren't a customers. A lot of scar two shot out 907 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,720 Speaker 1: here not used to seeing this team as a favorite 908 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,399 Speaker 1: or a team that is expected to win. And there 909 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,960 Speaker 1: are still some national analysts that still don't pick the 910 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,239 Speaker 1: Bills even now going into games each week. Um so 911 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: there it is. I mean, how many of them picked 912 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,279 Speaker 1: the Bills against the Seahawks. Almost none of them, No, 913 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,799 Speaker 1: none of them. There's like one. Uh so, you know, 914 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,839 Speaker 1: the the narrative outside of Buffalo hasn't changed, and so 915 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,880 Speaker 1: I think that's why it's been hesitant for some Bills 916 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,000 Speaker 1: fans in Buffalo or in parts unknown well to change 917 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,920 Speaker 1: that thinking as well. Steve's here to tell you to 918 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,759 Speaker 1: change that thinking. Yeah, this, yeah, and these primes. Now 919 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,640 Speaker 1: here's the thing too. In Buffalo fans know this better 920 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,279 Speaker 1: than anybody. We can take a break now after this. 921 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,160 Speaker 1: But these four primetime games they got coming up, how 922 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,920 Speaker 1: are you playing? Those? Gonna is gonna set the narrative 923 00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,759 Speaker 1: for months? Well, right, because that's all people are gonna see. 924 00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,239 Speaker 1: All They're gone to the Bills for the next month. 925 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,720 Speaker 1: That's all they're gonna is these primetime games. So hopefully 926 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,560 Speaker 1: they show up and show up, they show up and 927 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:09,080 Speaker 1: show off and play like they've been playing. You're gonna 928 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,200 Speaker 1: have a lot of people around the country taking notice, 929 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,040 Speaker 1: no question. Break time for us. When we return NFL Networks, 930 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,520 Speaker 1: Judy Batista will be joining us. We're gonna get her 931 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,759 Speaker 1: take on the COVID landscape that has kind of affected 932 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,040 Speaker 1: the league of late, including this afternoon's game between the 933 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,319 Speaker 1: Steelers and the Ravens. So we'll check in with her 934 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,880 Speaker 1: on that amongst some other topics along the NFL landscape. 935 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,239 Speaker 1: When we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by 936 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:47,080 Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio 937 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,239 Speaker 1: Network Sports date their sports update from One Bill's Drive. 938 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,120 Speaker 1: Bills back on the practice field indoors as they ready 939 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,080 Speaker 1: for Monday night football in Arizona against the forty nine Ers. 940 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,400 Speaker 1: A couple of roster moves today, including the designation that 941 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,000 Speaker 1: lineback Matt Milano can return to practice. He'd been out 942 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,120 Speaker 1: of action since Week ate with a pectoral injury and 943 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:09,759 Speaker 1: placed on injured reserve. Linebacker Tyrrell Dotson also designated to 944 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,000 Speaker 1: return to practice. He's working his way back from a 945 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,280 Speaker 1: hamstring injury. Meanwhile, wide receiver Jake Kumero has been elevated 946 00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,600 Speaker 1: to the active roster from the practice squad. Later today, 947 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,560 Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers, Buffalo's opponent on Monday, 948 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,200 Speaker 1: will fly to Phoenix to set up shop for the 949 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,319 Speaker 1: next three weeks in Glendale, Arizona. Once there, the team 950 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,400 Speaker 1: will stage all of their operations at the Renaissance Hotel 951 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,880 Speaker 1: close to the Cardinals practice fields and State Farm Stadium 952 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,600 Speaker 1: in Glendale. Niners expected to be there at least through 953 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 1: December twenty first, when the Santa Clara County ban on 954 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,520 Speaker 1: contact sports ends transactions for the Niners, they place cornerbacks 955 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,760 Speaker 1: Jamar Taylor and Ken Webster on injured reserve. Taylor suffered 956 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,960 Speaker 1: a knee injury and Webster a hamstring injury. And last 957 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,759 Speaker 1: week's game against the Rams, It's Wednesday, and you know 958 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,640 Speaker 1: what that means, NFL Afternoon Football. Because of a rash 959 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,640 Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen positives on the Ravens, their game against 960 00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,040 Speaker 1: the Steelers will take place this afternoon three forty pm 961 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,919 Speaker 1: after their third postponement. Two of the players, running backs 962 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,759 Speaker 1: mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins, were considered eligible to play 963 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,799 Speaker 1: for today's game, but there are reports now that they 964 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,360 Speaker 1: will not suit up, so we'll try to get to 965 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,359 Speaker 1: the bottom of that before kickoff. Robert Griffin will get 966 00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,840 Speaker 1: the start in place of Lamar Jackson at quarterback. And 967 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,520 Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns closed their practice facility Wednesday after a 968 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,920 Speaker 1: staff member tested positive for COVID nineteen. Team announced the 969 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,560 Speaker 1: contact tracing is ongoing to identify any potential high risk 970 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,040 Speaker 1: close contacts. This is the sixth time the facility has 971 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:39,200 Speaker 1: been closed for contact tracing since November thirteenth, and that 972 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,239 Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, 973 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,640 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number two of the program 974 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,439 Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now to help 975 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,680 Speaker 1: us make some heads or tails of the latest in 976 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,320 Speaker 1: the way that the COVID nineteen pandemic has gripped the 977 00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,319 Speaker 1: NFL is NFL Networks. Judy Batista joining us, who's been 978 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,440 Speaker 1: one of the few that's had the privilege of actually 979 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:08,520 Speaker 1: interviewing Doctor Sills, the NFL's head infectious disease specialist. I 980 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,239 Speaker 1: know it was way back early in the season when 981 00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,600 Speaker 1: you talk to him initially, Judy, have you I was 982 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,600 Speaker 1: trying to track you down online. Had you had an 983 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:18,120 Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to doctor Sills Since that early season 984 00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:22,200 Speaker 1: sit down with him, Yeah, we've been really fortunate. He's 985 00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,600 Speaker 1: done weekly sit downs on the NFL Network every Thursday, 986 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,279 Speaker 1: and he's been to his credit, I think he's been 987 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,759 Speaker 1: pretty candid about the roller coaster they're riding right now. 988 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,320 Speaker 1: It's you know, it's obviously been a very difficult season. First, 989 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,839 Speaker 1: the last week in particular, kind of bonkers, right, and 990 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,080 Speaker 1: he's been pretty honest about you know what forces they're 991 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,800 Speaker 1: facing right now. How fragile is it because it seems 992 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,759 Speaker 1: like they don't care. They're bulling the NFL's a bull 993 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,880 Speaker 1: in the Chinese shop, and they're crashing through and getting 994 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,040 Speaker 1: out the back door if they can. But this last 995 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: scenario with the Ravens seems to be, you know, the 996 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,960 Speaker 1: one that really is the problem. They get a positive 997 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,000 Speaker 1: test everyday, consecutive days, and that kind of pushes things 998 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,040 Speaker 1: back back, back, back back. What scenarios are going to 999 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:11,600 Speaker 1: take for them to get derailed? Is there one, you know, 1000 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,879 Speaker 1: after the last week or ten days, I'm not sure 1001 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,600 Speaker 1: there is one. They are determined to play all regular 1002 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,319 Speaker 1: season games, and they certainly appear to be determined to 1003 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,359 Speaker 1: not even have to add a week eighteen. They want 1004 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,040 Speaker 1: to do it in a seventeen weeks, which you know, 1005 00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,400 Speaker 1: they've been clear that that is their preference. But this 1006 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,640 Speaker 1: I think was the biggest test what they went through 1007 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,480 Speaker 1: in these last week or so with the Ravens outbreak, 1008 00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,360 Speaker 1: because as you said, it was an outbreak, but it 1009 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,640 Speaker 1: was an outbreak that was sort of spread out, right, 1010 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,480 Speaker 1: I mean, the test just kept coming and coming and 1011 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:46,880 Speaker 1: coming and coming. They do very elaborate, detailed contact tracing 1012 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,239 Speaker 1: way above my pay grade to try to understand scientifically 1013 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,920 Speaker 1: what they're doing. But they also do genomic testings, so 1014 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,480 Speaker 1: testing of the genomes of the virus, and they can 1015 00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,239 Speaker 1: tell how a virus is spreading in a building if 1016 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,120 Speaker 1: it is if it's just a question of our people 1017 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,920 Speaker 1: getting it from the outside, like when they go home 1018 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,399 Speaker 1: at night, are they getting it from family members? That's 1019 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:11,120 Speaker 1: one thing that is not as alarming as our teammates 1020 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,680 Speaker 1: spreading it amongst each other. Right, Like if you were 1021 00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,920 Speaker 1: in a meeting and one guy is positive and the 1022 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,719 Speaker 1: other guys who were in that meeting room catch it, right, 1023 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,440 Speaker 1: that's spread. That's much more alarming, because that's an outbreak 1024 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,200 Speaker 1: within the building. And that's what happened with the Ravens. 1025 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,520 Speaker 1: And you're right. I think what really complicated things is 1026 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,319 Speaker 1: it kept going and going and going, and I think 1027 00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,919 Speaker 1: it was nine consecutive days of at least one positive test. 1028 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,319 Speaker 1: Finally they seemed to be at the end of it. 1029 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,799 Speaker 1: They told us. Doctor Sills told me last Wednesday afternoon 1030 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,200 Speaker 1: that they thought the Ravens were getting close to the 1031 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,239 Speaker 1: end of the tale of transmission. And as it turned out, 1032 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,000 Speaker 1: it went a few more days and they are finally 1033 00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:49,600 Speaker 1: at the end, and so the game is on. The 1034 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,879 Speaker 1: league just gave us the heads up that the game 1035 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,960 Speaker 1: is definitely on for this afternoon. So Wednesday afternoon football, 1036 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,359 Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah, and help clarify this for us, 1037 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,480 Speaker 1: if you could, Judy just the last two positives that 1038 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,600 Speaker 1: came out of the Ravens. One was a player, one 1039 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,920 Speaker 1: was a staff member. Can you just help us with 1040 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,040 Speaker 1: the timeline? There was that a positive that came back 1041 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,440 Speaker 1: yesterday being Tuesday from monday's testing or was it today? 1042 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,279 Speaker 1: Was it today from tuesday's testing? Or help me out 1043 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,480 Speaker 1: with that the positives that the positives that came out 1044 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,840 Speaker 1: for the Ravens yesterday were taken yesterday mornings tests and 1045 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,480 Speaker 1: they got the results back yesterday afternoon. There were no 1046 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,160 Speaker 1: positive tests taken this morning. The Ravens were not positive, 1047 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:37,080 Speaker 1: no positives, So that's very good news finally, but yesterday's positives. 1048 00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,360 Speaker 1: The critical question about, well, why isn't that you know 1049 00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,760 Speaker 1: enough to stop the game is the player who tested 1050 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,279 Speaker 1: positive was already identified as a close contact, so he 1051 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,960 Speaker 1: had already been isolated the team, which is why you know, 1052 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,080 Speaker 1: if there's no risk that he's further spreading it because 1053 00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,719 Speaker 1: he'd already been identified previously and had been isolated, So 1054 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,319 Speaker 1: game on, obviously, everybody these fingers across. But they feel 1055 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,200 Speaker 1: like the transmission the look they would not let the 1056 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,480 Speaker 1: game go forward today if they felt that the virus 1057 00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 1: was still rampaging, if there was still transmission going on, 1058 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,799 Speaker 1: they would just keep pushing it back, presumably, But they 1059 00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:15,080 Speaker 1: feel confident that the transmission period is over and that 1060 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,440 Speaker 1: they have identified all of the potential positive cases, so 1061 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,960 Speaker 1: they're going to play. Do you know the parameters that 1062 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,640 Speaker 1: the league is using for close contact? What constitutes is 1063 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,920 Speaker 1: it six feet and thirty seconds or six There's a 1064 00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,480 Speaker 1: whole list of things. A big part of it is 1065 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,160 Speaker 1: are they wearing masks. It's not just close contact, it's 1066 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,040 Speaker 1: what they call high risk close contact. And a few 1067 00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,359 Speaker 1: things that going to that are again, if they're not 1068 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,680 Speaker 1: wearing masks, if they are in close proximity to each other, 1069 00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:47,720 Speaker 1: physical proximity, if they're eating together, which is not supposed 1070 00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,040 Speaker 1: to be having it at all in facilities anymore. Everything 1071 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,319 Speaker 1: is supposed to be grab and go, because that's a 1072 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,080 Speaker 1: real bad time for transmission. If you're sitting down with 1073 00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,840 Speaker 1: a table across from your body and you're talking and 1074 00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,600 Speaker 1: you both have masks on and you're off and you're eating. 1075 00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,520 Speaker 1: That's a tough carriage. You're sitting very close to each 1076 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,000 Speaker 1: other and you don't have mass on. So there's a 1077 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,200 Speaker 1: whole list of things that can make you identified as 1078 00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:13,000 Speaker 1: a high risk close contact. And that's what wiped out 1079 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,120 Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos quarterbacks room for this weekend, right. I mean, 1080 00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,800 Speaker 1: the guys went in for a film session, just as 1081 00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,000 Speaker 1: normal as players do and their off day, except they 1082 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,840 Speaker 1: were sitting in a meeting room and they did not 1083 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:27,840 Speaker 1: have their masks on all the time, and they were 1084 00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,080 Speaker 1: in close enough proximity for a couple of hours without 1085 00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:32,720 Speaker 1: their masks all the time, and that was enough to 1086 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,640 Speaker 1: wipe it all out. They were that one guy was 1087 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,040 Speaker 1: positive and then the other three were labeled high risk, 1088 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,400 Speaker 1: and so they're all out talking with Judy Battista from 1089 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,880 Speaker 1: NFL Network and initially the Ravens, and we've talked about 1090 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,120 Speaker 1: this here because five short weeks ago, the Bills were 1091 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,000 Speaker 1: kind of getting jerked around as to whether they were 1092 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,360 Speaker 1: playing the Titans, maybe they're still playing the Chiefs. Who 1093 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,600 Speaker 1: are they playing? And it really messed with their mental 1094 00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,680 Speaker 1: psyche Steves of the belief that it really kind of 1095 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,560 Speaker 1: played head games with them, and it's why they kind 1096 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,360 Speaker 1: of laid an egg against the Titans when they down 1097 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,760 Speaker 1: there in Week five. You know, here are the Ravens. 1098 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,200 Speaker 1: They know they don't have Lamar Jackson. They think they're 1099 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,560 Speaker 1: getting mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins back, and now it 1100 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:11,800 Speaker 1: looks like they're not. I'm just wondering the mental psyche 1101 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,600 Speaker 1: that that's got to have on a football team whose 1102 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,000 Speaker 1: life has already been turned upside down just by the 1103 00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,640 Speaker 1: nature of their daily operations because of the restriction with 1104 00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,720 Speaker 1: the COVID outbreak. Yeah, and the Steelers too for that matter, right, 1105 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:27,160 Speaker 1: I mean they're playing, they're not playing the games being pushedback, 1106 00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,080 Speaker 1: So both teams I think here, Obviously, the Ravens have 1107 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,640 Speaker 1: a much higher hurdle because they have so many players 1108 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:36,840 Speaker 1: who are out, including Lamar Jackson. So obviously this has 1109 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,919 Speaker 1: been very difficult on the Ravens. They haven't practiced much. 1110 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,600 Speaker 1: I mean they had to walk through the other day, 1111 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:46,320 Speaker 1: they had to practice, very little work done on the field. 1112 00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,080 Speaker 1: They haven't been allowed in the building. So this is 1113 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,120 Speaker 1: a tremendous challenge. Let's say honest, for the Baltimore Ravens. 1114 00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,440 Speaker 1: It's also a challenge for the Steelers to sort of 1115 00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,680 Speaker 1: keep their focus going because you know, they thought they 1116 00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:58,520 Speaker 1: were playing Thanksgiving night and then all of a sudden, 1117 00:58:58,520 --> 00:58:59,960 Speaker 1: all right, you're not playing Thanksgiving that you're going to 1118 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,880 Speaker 1: play Sunday. You sort of lost that mini buy there 1119 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,040 Speaker 1: are Okay, so now you're gonna play Sunday. Well, no, 1120 00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,400 Speaker 1: now you're gonna play Tuesday, and then you're gonna play Wednesday. 1121 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,400 Speaker 1: So it's tough. Look, I don't think there's any question 1122 00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,720 Speaker 1: this is tough for everybody in the NFL. Players, coaches, 1123 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,760 Speaker 1: staff were warned before the season even started. You're going 1124 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,000 Speaker 1: to have to be really flexible, and the teams that 1125 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,080 Speaker 1: sort of adapt the best are probably the ones they're 1126 00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,160 Speaker 1: going to be the most successful. And we're seeing why. 1127 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,800 Speaker 1: I you know, I think we may all have gotten 1128 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,080 Speaker 1: lulled into a sense of security like maybe this isn't 1129 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,360 Speaker 1: going to be so bad. They had some quiet weeks there, 1130 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,400 Speaker 1: but I think the last week really showed us like 1131 00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,960 Speaker 1: this is going to be tough. And doctor Sills has 1132 00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,800 Speaker 1: been very honest about this point. It's only going to 1133 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,560 Speaker 1: get tougher. The virus as we know is surging all 1134 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,040 Speaker 1: over the country. They're not in a bubble. Everybody's living 1135 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,720 Speaker 1: at home. It's gonna be tough this the next you know, 1136 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,560 Speaker 1: five or six weeks and then into the cliffs, it's 1137 00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,800 Speaker 1: going to be tough. I would maintain though that since 1138 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,480 Speaker 1: you know the pressures on the players as it is, 1139 00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,680 Speaker 1: and I guess as it should be end the coaches, Yeah, 1140 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,640 Speaker 1: they gotta you know, you're gonna you see other teams 1141 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,320 Speaker 1: make mistakes. It's like, hey, it's so easy to point 1142 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,720 Speaker 1: them say don't do that. Um see how easy it happens. 1143 01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,160 Speaker 1: You know, it kind of heightens the awareness at least 1144 01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,479 Speaker 1: maybe you know, at least for a minute. These players again, 1145 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:16,800 Speaker 1: you know what they're right. You know, we got to 1146 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,440 Speaker 1: wear a mask when we're in this room. We've got 1147 01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,280 Speaker 1: to do this, and we can't eat together. So to me, 1148 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,480 Speaker 1: the gravity of what happened to the Baltimore Ravens and 1149 01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,960 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans back in Week five, and the scare 1150 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,600 Speaker 1: that the Steelers are going through and now they're moving 1151 01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,280 Speaker 1: the finish line for the Steelers Ravens game all over 1152 01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,000 Speaker 1: the place. I think that really heightens the awareness and 1153 01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,320 Speaker 1: gives them, gives these teams a chance through their own 1154 01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,000 Speaker 1: diligence to you know, maybe make it. You know there's 1155 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,680 Speaker 1: gonna be I would say, you know, at the end 1156 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,560 Speaker 1: of the year, maybe we'll have an award the bet 1157 01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:52,720 Speaker 1: the team that the NFL Medical Awards. Yeah, the virus award. Right, 1158 01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,800 Speaker 1: you handled it, the bet you had no you had 1159 01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,560 Speaker 1: no positive cases. You're like the attendets at the end, 1160 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,480 Speaker 1: you get that there's some of that's going to have 1161 01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,800 Speaker 1: to happen because I mean, because I deserve it. I 1162 01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:09,680 Speaker 1: don't think there's any question that I am sure this 1163 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:14,040 Speaker 1: week in meetings, the Denver Broncos or a cautionary tale 1164 01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,920 Speaker 1: that everybody's using. Look when the season started, when they 1165 01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:19,080 Speaker 1: went to training camp and Major League Baseball was in 1166 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,240 Speaker 1: the middle of their season and they were having issues. 1167 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,000 Speaker 1: Coaches were saying to players, don't be the Miami Marlins. 1168 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,080 Speaker 1: Remember the Marlins had an outbreak like four days after 1169 01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:27,920 Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball season started and they had to 1170 01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,880 Speaker 1: shut the team down for a while. And then the 1171 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,720 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans thing happened. You know, people were saying, don't 1172 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,600 Speaker 1: be the Titans, right, we can't let this happen to us. Well, 1173 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,120 Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Ravens are perfect examples of These 1174 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,520 Speaker 1: were situations that were created, unfortunately at their own hands, right. 1175 01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,600 Speaker 1: I mean the Baltimore Ravens situation the same thing. It 1176 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,440 Speaker 1: was a strength and conditioning coach who had symptoms, didn't 1177 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,040 Speaker 1: report them, wasn't always wearing the mask, wasn't always wearing 1178 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,960 Speaker 1: their contact tracing thing. And look what happened. You better 1179 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,280 Speaker 1: believe every other team in the league is pointing to 1180 01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,760 Speaker 1: these teams and saying like that could just as easily 1181 01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,320 Speaker 1: have happened to us. Got to be diligent and then 1182 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,880 Speaker 1: a completely different scenario, Judy, that was completely out of 1183 01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:09,080 Speaker 1: the realm of power for the NFL to act Santa 1184 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:13,800 Speaker 1: clar accounting with what they decide unilaterally. Hey, three weeks 1185 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,760 Speaker 1: no contact sports, best Eluctia Niners find a place to play. 1186 01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,800 Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow. I mean that's and fortunately they 1187 01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,240 Speaker 1: found a very willing and accommodating partner in the Arizona Cardinals. 1188 01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,400 Speaker 1: But I mean that's probably something that they didn't even 1189 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,080 Speaker 1: have well, I mean, did they have it on their radar. 1190 01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,200 Speaker 1: I guess they had to think about shut down as 1191 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:36,320 Speaker 1: a possibility. They actually had it on their radar. Since 1192 01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,360 Speaker 1: all the way back in the summer in June, because 1193 01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,200 Speaker 1: back at that point Santa Clara County, the local government officials, 1194 01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,320 Speaker 1: it was clear they were going to have the strictest 1195 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,920 Speaker 1: rules for gatherings, and there was concern even before training 1196 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,320 Speaker 1: camps open, when the league was just trying to get 1197 01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,960 Speaker 1: the league years started up again. There was concerned then 1198 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,640 Speaker 1: about whether the Niners were going to be able to 1199 01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,280 Speaker 1: have training camp at home and be able to play 1200 01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,680 Speaker 1: their home games at home. So, yes, this was on 1201 01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,520 Speaker 1: the radar as a potential issue that Santa Clara could 1202 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,480 Speaker 1: crack down at some point, and then when it happened, 1203 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,280 Speaker 1: I think it caught them off forward because Santa Clara 1204 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,800 Speaker 1: County did not give them a heads up on Saturday, right, 1205 01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,720 Speaker 1: and so they just announced it it happened. It affects college, 1206 01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,400 Speaker 1: high school, pro sports in Santa Clara County. But certainly 1207 01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,920 Speaker 1: in the desk drawer at Niners headquarters, they were alternative 1208 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,200 Speaker 1: plans because they had they had already started looking back 1209 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,160 Speaker 1: in June, so this was not something that you know, 1210 01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,200 Speaker 1: they had to scramble and put together in a few hours. 1211 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,520 Speaker 1: They had something ready to go in case this happened, 1212 01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,320 Speaker 1: And look it's unfortunate that it's happened in December. Kyle 1213 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,040 Speaker 1: Shanahan and said, you know, it's really tough to tell 1214 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:38,600 Speaker 1: the guys you're going to be away from your families 1215 01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,840 Speaker 1: in December. He's saying, you know, we're not going to 1216 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,240 Speaker 1: be away from our families for Christmas. We'll figure something out. 1217 01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,040 Speaker 1: It's tough at the time of the year. But it 1218 01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,600 Speaker 1: did not completely blindside them. They had plans in place 1219 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,880 Speaker 1: because you know, they knew that there was a chance 1220 01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,360 Speaker 1: this could happen. Yeah, and he really had nobody here. 1221 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,920 Speaker 1: We're Buffalo fans every in The Niners are in another 1222 01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,120 Speaker 1: conference on the West Coast, but man oh Man sending 1223 01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:05,280 Speaker 1: them away for three weeks in December before the holidays. 1224 01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,000 Speaker 1: Nobody signs up for that. And you've got to tip 1225 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,800 Speaker 1: your hat to them for their willingness and their ability 1226 01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,920 Speaker 1: to do it. And as we talk about the league 1227 01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:14,760 Speaker 1: plowing on and things going now, we've got a rash 1228 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:21,280 Speaker 1: of firings. Matt Matt, Patricia, Bob Quinn. The Niners are done, 1229 01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,680 Speaker 1: of course, Bill O'Brien and the Houston Texans, the general 1230 01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:28,240 Speaker 1: manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars and some other I can't 1231 01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,320 Speaker 1: remember all the other guys, But what are your what 1232 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,120 Speaker 1: are your what are your take on this recent rash 1233 01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:39,280 Speaker 1: of firings. Falcons are the other one. I think. I'm 1234 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,560 Speaker 1: always struck by that it seems to get earlier and 1235 01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,560 Speaker 1: earlier in the year. I mean, we're only December second 1236 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,080 Speaker 1: and we've already got all of these GM and head 1237 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,600 Speaker 1: coach openings. I'm struck by how many GM openings they 1238 01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:51,200 Speaker 1: are going to be. I mean, you know, we're used 1239 01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,040 Speaker 1: to sort of always having seven or eight head coaching openings, 1240 01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,120 Speaker 1: but this is We're already got a lot of GM 1241 01:04:56,160 --> 01:05:00,360 Speaker 1: openings too. Look, none of the ones that have happened 1242 01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:02,720 Speaker 1: so far have really been a surprise. I mean, obviously 1243 01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,400 Speaker 1: the teams have been disappointing, so I don't think any 1244 01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:09,080 Speaker 1: of the ones that have happened so far come as 1245 01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,800 Speaker 1: a surprise. But again, I think teams are getting owners 1246 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:16,240 Speaker 1: seem to want to get a jump earlier on the process, 1247 01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,680 Speaker 1: on the vetting process, and I think once one team 1248 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,960 Speaker 1: goes you know, Atlanta or Houston, you know, once one 1249 01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,600 Speaker 1: team gets in, if you're an owner who's thinking about 1250 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:31,080 Speaker 1: making a change, you're looking at the other, at your competition, 1251 01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,600 Speaker 1: who's also got to make a change and know that 1252 01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:35,840 Speaker 1: they're getting ahead, start on it. Now. You can't talk 1253 01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:39,240 Speaker 1: to the coaches, but you can certainly start looking around 1254 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:43,000 Speaker 1: and vetting people and talking to other people about your 1255 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:46,560 Speaker 1: potential candidates. So I think if you're an owner and 1256 01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,720 Speaker 1: you see others jump out ahead, there's some incentive to, 1257 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,880 Speaker 1: you know, just make the move now and get started, 1258 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,080 Speaker 1: Like what are we waiting for? I think that was 1259 01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:57,040 Speaker 1: really the case with the Detroit Lions, right they had 1260 01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,960 Speaker 1: those two terrible losses in a row, blowouts is um, 1261 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:04,080 Speaker 1: including on Thanksgiving, which is just awful. The entire country 1262 01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,560 Speaker 1: roots for the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day and they 1263 01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:10,760 Speaker 1: get blown out. And so she made made the move, 1264 01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,080 Speaker 1: And to me, it's like, I think everybody knew that 1265 01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,640 Speaker 1: Matt Patricia was on thin ice, and it was like, 1266 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,040 Speaker 1: you might as well do it now that you're you're 1267 01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,000 Speaker 1: not you know, you're not making a rash decision. You've 1268 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:21,880 Speaker 1: had plenty of time to think about this. Just do 1269 01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:24,880 Speaker 1: it and get started on the process. Yeah. And my 1270 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,160 Speaker 1: next question is, since we're playing the forty nine ers 1271 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,760 Speaker 1: this weekend the Buffalo Bills, how soon will it be 1272 01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:32,560 Speaker 1: before Robert sala Is, the head coach of the Detroit Lions. 1273 01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he's a Michigan native. He's a dearborn native. 1274 01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,840 Speaker 1: So we we all like that sort of going home idea. 1275 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,320 Speaker 1: Those are two think he's probably going to have opportunities. 1276 01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,640 Speaker 1: You know, he's he's going to have opportunities not just 1277 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,960 Speaker 1: in Detroit but elsewhere because frankly, the work he's look, 1278 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,080 Speaker 1: he's that defense has been really good for a few years. 1279 01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,560 Speaker 1: The work he's done this year with that defense really 1280 01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,160 Speaker 1: stands out because they're decimated by injuries, um and and 1281 01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,560 Speaker 1: they're still really competitive. I mean, they're in the playoff 1282 01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,680 Speaker 1: mix in what I think we would all agree is 1283 01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:08,360 Speaker 1: the toughest division in the league. And the fact that 1284 01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,040 Speaker 1: they've done that with at one point they have more 1285 01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,280 Speaker 1: players on I R than any team in the league. 1286 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,680 Speaker 1: That's a credit to the entire coaching staff. So I 1287 01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:18,280 Speaker 1: suspect Robert Slow will have plenty of interest. We all 1288 01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:20,480 Speaker 1: love the sort of idea of going home to Detroit 1289 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:23,919 Speaker 1: to fix the Lions. So I'm rooting for that, But 1290 01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,400 Speaker 1: you know, I think he'll be His name will be 1291 01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,520 Speaker 1: high on all on the list this year. Talking with 1292 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:31,840 Speaker 1: NFL Networks, Judy Bautista. Last one I have for you, 1293 01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,160 Speaker 1: Judy is in that vein. You know, Bills fans are 1294 01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,200 Speaker 1: finally excited that they've got a good team, they've got 1295 01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:39,720 Speaker 1: a good coaching staff, and now they're already gripping and 1296 01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:43,120 Speaker 1: worried that people like Brian Dable and Leslie Frasier are 1297 01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:45,360 Speaker 1: going to show up on some head coaching lists as well. 1298 01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what buzz you're hearing out there, but 1299 01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:51,280 Speaker 1: they are certainly two names that have put themselves in 1300 01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:56,280 Speaker 1: good conversation with what they've done here the last three years. Yeah. Right, 1301 01:07:56,320 --> 01:08:00,000 Speaker 1: this is the downside of being excellent, which I think 1302 01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,280 Speaker 1: Patriots fans can probably appreciate. Right, when you're a winning franchise, 1303 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,000 Speaker 1: other teams want to come and pick off your brain power, 1304 01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,240 Speaker 1: and that's going to happen. I don't know if it 1305 01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:11,440 Speaker 1: will happen with these two in particular this year. It 1306 01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:15,120 Speaker 1: always depends on how many openings there are, and you know, 1307 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,120 Speaker 1: and we'll see and who the other you know, who 1308 01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:21,040 Speaker 1: the other hot candidates are. But you know, that's that's 1309 01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,639 Speaker 1: a risk, right. I mean, it's a great compliment. It's 1310 01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,800 Speaker 1: a great compliment to the Bills organization. That you have 1311 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,519 Speaker 1: a strong coaching staff. Number one, it's a great compliment 1312 01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,880 Speaker 1: to the players that they played well enough that those 1313 01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,840 Speaker 1: coaches have risen on everybody's radars. But it is, you know, 1314 01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,200 Speaker 1: it's a downside because then you got to retool, You 1315 01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,920 Speaker 1: got to go out and change your staff, which your 1316 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:44,080 Speaker 1: hope is that John McDermott's staff is runs deep, and 1317 01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,200 Speaker 1: so if you lose people at a coordinator level, if 1318 01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,800 Speaker 1: they get jobs elsewhere, that you know that you have 1319 01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,720 Speaker 1: a deep enough pool of coaching talent already on your 1320 01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:54,760 Speaker 1: staff that you would just elevate those guys and you 1321 01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,000 Speaker 1: don't have to go outside and then retool your schemes. 1322 01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,120 Speaker 1: We've spent a lot of time in the early this 1323 01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,960 Speaker 1: last one I want to ask you about. The COVID 1324 01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,479 Speaker 1: is obviously the overriding topic of conversation, But as you 1325 01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:08,800 Speaker 1: look around at the football that's being played this year, 1326 01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:14,879 Speaker 1: it seems different. It seems higher scoring defenses are struggling 1327 01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:17,280 Speaker 1: a little bit more around the league. There's a ton 1328 01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:20,800 Speaker 1: of young quarterbacks that look really good, and usually young 1329 01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:24,840 Speaker 1: quarterbacks don't look good, well, not every single week, right not. 1330 01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,160 Speaker 1: I mean, they're killing it. What is you know what 1331 01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:29,880 Speaker 1: do you see in the league that makes this year 1332 01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,559 Speaker 1: aside from a global pandemic that we're all living through, 1333 01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,920 Speaker 1: what's different about the football this year? And why are 1334 01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,880 Speaker 1: we seeing so much success from young players in a 1335 01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,360 Speaker 1: quarterback position where we you know, we're not used to 1336 01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: seeing that. Well. First of all, I think that's a 1337 01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,639 Speaker 1: relief because there was a lot of concern about coming 1338 01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,439 Speaker 1: into the season with no real offseason work. You know, 1339 01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:56,960 Speaker 1: players didn't have access to offseason programs, no preseason games. 1340 01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,280 Speaker 1: They totally revamped the training camp schedule. There is a 1341 01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,920 Speaker 1: lot of concern that the football would not be of 1342 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,040 Speaker 1: the highest quality, that it would be really sloppy, and 1343 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,080 Speaker 1: that has not panned out. The football has been really 1344 01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,519 Speaker 1: high quality really since the beginning, so that's good news. 1345 01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,920 Speaker 1: Why are we seeing such good offense? First of all, 1346 01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,960 Speaker 1: the number of flags has been down, which I think 1347 01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,639 Speaker 1: most fans would agree is a good thing. We don't 1348 01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:21,920 Speaker 1: want games to be over officiated, but that's certainly helps 1349 01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,880 Speaker 1: drive offense up if there's not a ton of calls 1350 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:29,719 Speaker 1: being made. As for why young quarterbacks are so successful, 1351 01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:31,760 Speaker 1: first of all, I think it bubbles up from college, right, 1352 01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,759 Speaker 1: I mean college that college offenses are much more similar 1353 01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,559 Speaker 1: to pro style offenses now than they've ever been before. Right, 1354 01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,120 Speaker 1: We're seeing more of that college game in the NFL now, 1355 01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:45,720 Speaker 1: so that helps the adaptation process. And look, I mean, 1356 01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:49,440 Speaker 1: we are very lucky to have really talented young quarterbacks. 1357 01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,679 Speaker 1: I was one of the writers. We all wrote the story. 1358 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:53,240 Speaker 1: We all talked about it a few years ago where 1359 01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:54,640 Speaker 1: we said, you know, where is the league going to 1360 01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,439 Speaker 1: be when you know the Peyton Mannings and the Drew 1361 01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:02,240 Speaker 1: Breeses and the Tom Brady eventually and and Roethlisberger and 1362 01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:07,400 Speaker 1: sort of older guys retire Hall of famers all, but WHOA, 1363 01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,160 Speaker 1: that's going to be bad for the league. Well, and 1364 01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,000 Speaker 1: then Patrick Mahomes comes along and it's like everything's fine, 1365 01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:13,720 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's all gonna be fine. And now 1366 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:17,519 Speaker 1: we've got even more right Lamar Jackson, obviously, Justin Herbert 1367 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,760 Speaker 1: who has has just been fantastic to watch, Josh Allen. 1368 01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:24,400 Speaker 1: So the league is in a great spot, um, And 1369 01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,000 Speaker 1: I think it's a credit to these young guys how 1370 01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:30,840 Speaker 1: they are coming out of college much more prepared to 1371 01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,439 Speaker 1: play at the NFL level than I think ever before. 1372 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,800 Speaker 1: NFL Network column is Judy Batista, We thank you all 1373 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:41,320 Speaker 1: for the time and as always, enjoy your Wednesday afternoon football. 1374 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:48,080 Speaker 1: I like the weird schedule so very much, looking tail, Yes, 1375 01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:49,639 Speaker 1: it can be great. Always good to have you Judy. 1376 01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,280 Speaker 1: Thanks again for the time. We appreciate it. Great to 1377 01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,759 Speaker 1: see you guys. All right, that's NFL Networks Judy Batista 1378 01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,120 Speaker 1: joining us here in our number two of one Bills 1379 01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:59,880 Speaker 1: Live and I almost feel bad asking her as many 1380 01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,360 Speaker 1: COVID related questions as we have to, but she is 1381 01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,280 Speaker 1: on those conference calls every single week with doctor Sills. 1382 01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,200 Speaker 1: It's usually right when we're doing our show. I'd love 1383 01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,160 Speaker 1: to sit in and just listen to one of those 1384 01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:13,320 Speaker 1: conference calls that he does with NFL media every week, 1385 01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,799 Speaker 1: but she is on every single one from start to finish. 1386 01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:17,719 Speaker 1: So she is the perfect person to kind of tap 1387 01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:20,920 Speaker 1: into to get a feel for just where the league's 1388 01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:25,439 Speaker 1: positioning is at from their philosophical perspective on handling the 1389 01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:29,080 Speaker 1: COVID issues, and then where they could be going forward 1390 01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,160 Speaker 1: with it, you know, the rest of the way here. 1391 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,960 Speaker 1: And Judy's just so good at encapsulating at all. So 1392 01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,120 Speaker 1: we're glad we had an opportunity to have her on 1393 01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,280 Speaker 1: and not only educate ourselves, but you know, our listening 1394 01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,800 Speaker 1: audience as well, so hopefully enjoyed that and have a 1395 01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:43,679 Speaker 1: better sense as to where the league is headed, which 1396 01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,840 Speaker 1: is basically full steam ahead. Yeah, there is no stopping there, 1397 01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:53,760 Speaker 1: not stopping, man, And I'm okay with it because in 1398 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,600 Speaker 1: a lot of ways, you know, the guys that the 1399 01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:58,439 Speaker 1: players knew what they were signing up for. They came in, 1400 01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:00,400 Speaker 1: they come into work every day, they get test They've 1401 01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,519 Speaker 1: got a lot of protocols in place, and it's how 1402 01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:05,840 Speaker 1: they handled their family and their support system at home 1403 01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:08,160 Speaker 1: is a big factor. That's probably well, it's a bigger 1404 01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:11,800 Speaker 1: factor that has ever been. Yeah, but they kind of 1405 01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,760 Speaker 1: know what they were signing up for, and there, if 1406 01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,559 Speaker 1: they're smart, they're handling them right and day and virus 1407 01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:23,560 Speaker 1: free by their own protocols and caution and cautions that 1408 01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:26,280 Speaker 1: precautions are taken. And when I when I thought about 1409 01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,320 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers situation to ask her about it, 1410 01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:30,240 Speaker 1: you heard me as I'm asking her the question, I 1411 01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,200 Speaker 1: was like, did they foresee I'm like, wait a second, 1412 01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:37,240 Speaker 1: they planned for a potential you know, regional shutdown that 1413 01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:39,439 Speaker 1: we saw at the initial stages of the pandemic in 1414 01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,760 Speaker 1: the spring. I know people, you know, cities shut down, 1415 01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:46,240 Speaker 1: completely shuttered, and they had to know, based on their 1416 01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:49,679 Speaker 1: medical experts advice that a second wave was coming, probably 1417 01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,280 Speaker 1: sometime during the regular season, and they were going to 1418 01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,920 Speaker 1: have to plan for potential shutdowns in hotspot areas that 1419 01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,240 Speaker 1: could affect teams directly where they can't do anything in 1420 01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,160 Speaker 1: their particular locale and have to go elsewhere. So there 1421 01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,200 Speaker 1: was a plan in place for that. We've seen it too. 1422 01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,880 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you know, somewhat controversial. I mean, 1423 01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,360 Speaker 1: people they got tired of being shut down. You know, 1424 01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,040 Speaker 1: well this country, people don't like it. Pandemic fatigue. Yeah, 1425 01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:16,040 Speaker 1: you're you're they're sick of it. And whether that has 1426 01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,360 Speaker 1: as much to do with, you know, this second spike 1427 01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:20,120 Speaker 1: that we're seeing, this surge that we're seeing around the 1428 01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:23,040 Speaker 1: country or not, you know, it's people that are just 1429 01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:27,000 Speaker 1: sick of it, and that when that started to happen 1430 01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:31,439 Speaker 1: in Santa Clara where they're gonna buckle down again, you 1431 01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,760 Speaker 1: had to know. And I agree with you, I'd like 1432 01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,599 Speaker 1: to know how that timeline went with that, how they 1433 01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:39,760 Speaker 1: got to tarcause it happened pretty fast. Yeah, I mean, 1434 01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,719 Speaker 1: they got that word like over the weekend and they're 1435 01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,559 Speaker 1: already flying out. Yeah, but as Judy said, at the 1436 01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,360 Speaker 1: beginning of the season, they got a letter that's probably 1437 01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,200 Speaker 1: sitting in their desk drawer as to what would happen 1438 01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:56,880 Speaker 1: if their particular area where they do business, namely Santa 1439 01:14:56,920 --> 01:14:59,640 Speaker 1: Clara County gets shut down because of you know, a 1440 01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:03,840 Speaker 1: pan dem spike. And that's exactly what happened. So they 1441 01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,400 Speaker 1: probably didn't get any notice that that information that the 1442 01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,839 Speaker 1: shutdown was happening when it happened, But they had plans 1443 01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:13,320 Speaker 1: in place already, and the file was probably right there 1444 01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:15,160 Speaker 1: for them to pull out of their desk drawer and say, Okay, 1445 01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,120 Speaker 1: well it's happening, let's see what are we gonna do here? 1446 01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,000 Speaker 1: And off they go and yeah, I mean here we 1447 01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:23,000 Speaker 1: are what they make that announcement Saturday Sunday? I think, 1448 01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:25,720 Speaker 1: ye o the week I mean, here we are on 1449 01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:28,000 Speaker 1: Wednesday and they're flying out to Arizona. They got it 1450 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,360 Speaker 1: all set up, did they? I don't want that's not 1451 01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:33,559 Speaker 1: I don't want to talk politics. I'm the most a 1452 01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:37,160 Speaker 1: political person ever. But you think they picked a state 1453 01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:40,080 Speaker 1: that they you know, like they had that under like 1454 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:42,160 Speaker 1: Arizona is like you know what, they're not doing anything 1455 01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:44,439 Speaker 1: in Arizona. We're gonna go there. You know they'll be 1456 01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:46,599 Speaker 1: they'll be open for business. Yeah, that kind of thing. 1457 01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:51,080 Speaker 1: You got to think about it. Sure, they got a 1458 01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:54,040 Speaker 1: Florida and then and Arizona has four thousand fans in 1459 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:57,240 Speaker 1: the stands. Now that's gonna be interesting. Well, San Francisco, 1460 01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,799 Speaker 1: have any fans at the game on Monday night because 1461 01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,479 Speaker 1: they're allowing Because when the Bills played the Cardinals down there, 1462 01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:06,439 Speaker 1: they had forty two hundred fans in the seats. Lorenzo 1463 01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:09,080 Speaker 1: Alexander was at the game. That is a brilliant observation 1464 01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:10,920 Speaker 1: by you, and I hadn't thought about it. Go where 1465 01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:14,200 Speaker 1: you can have fans in the stands. Yeah, plus with 1466 01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,360 Speaker 1: the mafia. Hears about that, the Bills mafia will go. 1467 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,800 Speaker 1: It's a Monday on it's a Monday night game. That's hard. Hard. 1468 01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:22,280 Speaker 1: But if there's a lot of there's a lot of 1469 01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,760 Speaker 1: Bills trans there's a lot of Buffalo transplants in Arizona. 1470 01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:29,439 Speaker 1: That that's something. We gotta asks a division as a 1471 01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:33,160 Speaker 1: division rival for the Arizona for the San Francisco. So 1472 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,280 Speaker 1: there's not gonna be any San Francisco fans in Arizona. 1473 01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,320 Speaker 1: There's a ton of Bills fan Well, it's ton of 1474 01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:43,880 Speaker 1: Bills fans everywhere. Yeah, but in Arizona. Yeah, home game man, 1475 01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:47,400 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta ask his on Friday if he's going. Yeah, 1476 01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:52,120 Speaker 1: we gotta find attention staff. Find out if they're gonna 1477 01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,160 Speaker 1: have fans in the stands in Arizona for the money 1478 01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:59,720 Speaker 1: for the Niners games. Attention staff. Yeah, check that out. 1479 01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:05,000 Speaker 1: Gets Steve a whistle. That's right, troops, somebody find that out. 1480 01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:08,280 Speaker 1: The dinner bell is being run, right, because that's pretty big, 1481 01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,200 Speaker 1: and it's and it's a a cur because we've seen it. 1482 01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:13,680 Speaker 1: You know, they were out there to a couple of weeks. 1483 01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,599 Speaker 1: There's a ton of Bills jerseys out there. Yeah, it's 1484 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:20,519 Speaker 1: a fair representation. So it's time to mobilize. Bills fans 1485 01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:27,679 Speaker 1: assemble at State Farm State Farm Arena on Monday night football. 1486 01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,439 Speaker 1: Yeah right, we are past the break, So break time 1487 01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:32,360 Speaker 1: for us when we come back. More of your phone 1488 01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,080 Speaker 1: calls at eight oh three five fifty one, eight five 1489 01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:37,800 Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty get into a little tweet sheet 1490 01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:39,519 Speaker 1: as well. Back in a moment here on one. Bills 1491 01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:56,960 Speaker 1: Live presented by Klatta Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, 1492 01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,240 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker one Bills Live. Second half of the show 1493 01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,519 Speaker 1: under way, and some of the national reporters are chiming 1494 01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:07,360 Speaker 1: in with updates on this afternoon's game between the Ravens 1495 01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:09,920 Speaker 1: and the Steelers. Doctor this is from Ian Rappaport of 1496 01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,400 Speaker 1: NFL Network. He says, doctor Allan Seals confirms all on 1497 01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:17,519 Speaker 1: field Ravens personnel have tested negative. There is no active 1498 01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:21,920 Speaker 1: infection on the field today. This quote, This outbreak began 1499 01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,480 Speaker 1: before we put all of our clubs in the intensive 1500 01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,800 Speaker 1: protocols now. Ian Rappaport about an hour ago also reported 1501 01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:31,920 Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh is placing center more Keys Pouncy on the 1502 01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:35,320 Speaker 1: reserve COVID list and he's out today, but the game 1503 01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:39,360 Speaker 1: is still on. Steelers have elevated running back Wendell Smallwood 1504 01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,240 Speaker 1: and offensive lineman Anthony Coyle to the game day roster 1505 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:47,240 Speaker 1: as COVID replacements. So even though the game is still 1506 01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:49,600 Speaker 1: being played, there's still some players being pulled out of 1507 01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,840 Speaker 1: the mix in terms of what's going to go on 1508 01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,479 Speaker 1: on the field today. So COVID still the headliner of 1509 01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,680 Speaker 1: this game more than anything else. It's insane. I'll tell 1510 01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,799 Speaker 1: you it's that's the disconcerting thing I think for players. 1511 01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:04,360 Speaker 1: We saw that, and I will I will still pound 1512 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,839 Speaker 1: the table. Over the Tennessee Buffalo game. They kept moving 1513 01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:09,960 Speaker 1: the finish line for Buffalo as to win the game 1514 01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,639 Speaker 1: was going to be, and at one point even flipped 1515 01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,519 Speaker 1: it is going to be a different opponent for Buffalo 1516 01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,759 Speaker 1: than than that they anticipated. The game ended up happening 1517 01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,599 Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, and the Bills just couldn't didn't show 1518 01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,519 Speaker 1: up because that the Finnish line had been moved so 1519 01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:29,400 Speaker 1: many times they couldn't get their mind around the actual 1520 01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:32,519 Speaker 1: opponent they were supposed to face. So I think that's 1521 01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:38,160 Speaker 1: a real issue in this game, probably more so for 1522 01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:43,800 Speaker 1: the Steelers. They've been they've been open their players Roethlisberger, 1523 01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:45,800 Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster and some of the other players. They've 1524 01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:51,000 Speaker 1: been openly disgruntled on their social media about you know, 1525 01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:53,200 Speaker 1: they're getting the short into the stick. There you know, 1526 01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:56,439 Speaker 1: nobody whatever complaining about the schedule and the way it 1527 01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:58,360 Speaker 1: was handled and all the stuff that's happened to them 1528 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,559 Speaker 1: this season. But there they said at ten and oh, 1529 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,519 Speaker 1: we'll see, if you know, if this has an effect 1530 01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,720 Speaker 1: on them I think this might be the one time where, yeah, 1531 01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,680 Speaker 1: it might, this might affect the Steelers to a point 1532 01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:12,679 Speaker 1: where they don't play as well as they think they should. Well. 1533 01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:15,240 Speaker 1: And here's the other thing to think about, you know, 1534 01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:19,160 Speaker 1: the repercussions on the back end of all this that 1535 01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:21,720 Speaker 1: has impacted the Steelers. They're gonna play three games in 1536 01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:27,439 Speaker 1: eleven days. So they're playing today, then they got to 1537 01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:30,080 Speaker 1: play the following What are they playing Monday? I think 1538 01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:32,720 Speaker 1: I think their next game is Monday or Tuesday moved 1539 01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:35,960 Speaker 1: to Tuesday. Tuesday, so their next games in six days, 1540 01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:38,600 Speaker 1: and then they got any Sunday games and they have 1541 01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,840 Speaker 1: the Bills Sunday night, Sunday night game against Bills. Yeah, 1542 01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,280 Speaker 1: so I mean it's basically three games in eleven days. 1543 01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:46,880 Speaker 1: They're gonna be hanging a little bit when they come 1544 01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:49,720 Speaker 1: in here to play Buffalo. It's not unprecedented because you 1545 01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,120 Speaker 1: still get seven days and then a Thursday game. That's 1546 01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,439 Speaker 1: that's an eleven day for three games. Three games. But 1547 01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:58,080 Speaker 1: this is weird because it's it was like since the 1548 01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:01,160 Speaker 1: last time they played, it's been what is it now 1549 01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:05,800 Speaker 1: going on ten days since their last game. Then it's 1550 01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,040 Speaker 1: gonna be four days between this game and the Sunday 1551 01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:12,519 Speaker 1: game or the Tuesday Tuesday six days and then it's 1552 01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:16,439 Speaker 1: gonna be another another six days. So if they can 1553 01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:19,200 Speaker 1: get this game, that's actually pretty good. Six days as 1554 01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:21,439 Speaker 1: you can live with. The four day thing is rough. 1555 01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:26,599 Speaker 1: Six days back to back Sunday Thursday, that's hard. I know, yes, 1556 01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:30,160 Speaker 1: Sunday Thursday is hard. But as I look at it, 1557 01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,760 Speaker 1: like this should be like a Sunday games with six 1558 01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:36,600 Speaker 1: days to get ready consecutively, I think there's a cumulative 1559 01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:42,160 Speaker 1: effect there potentially. Yeah, plus yeah, plus the delay and 1560 01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,040 Speaker 1: the you're out of the routine and yeah, that it's 1561 01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,040 Speaker 1: it's they're going to have to do a really nice 1562 01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,720 Speaker 1: job of concentrating on where they're at every day and 1563 01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:53,200 Speaker 1: getting their mind around it, because these guys are creatures 1564 01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:56,320 Speaker 1: of habitum. And it sounds like, well, I got it. Yeah, 1565 01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:57,960 Speaker 1: certainly they're gonna show up and they're gonna show up 1566 01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,720 Speaker 1: on time game day. But the preparation, and I've said 1567 01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:06,280 Speaker 1: it a ton, you win these games Monday through Saturday 1568 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,880 Speaker 1: and then Sunday you get to prove it, right, Well, 1569 01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:12,680 Speaker 1: now you don't get to prepare Monday through Saturday. It's like, 1570 01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,000 Speaker 1: when was it it was last Monday through this last 1571 01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:18,559 Speaker 1: weekend and Thanksgiving and then until Tuesday. You know, so 1572 01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:20,800 Speaker 1: how you know, what do you and you've been out 1573 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:22,960 Speaker 1: of the building if you're of Ravens, and the Steelers 1574 01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:25,080 Speaker 1: have been out too a little bit, right, they're starting 1575 01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:29,200 Speaker 1: to were they sent home one day or something? Anyway, 1576 01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:33,320 Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at, is what they're They're not 1577 01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:37,280 Speaker 1: even gonna know what day of the week it is. Yeah, 1578 01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:41,639 Speaker 1: that's why there's today. I'm thinking a little bit differently 1579 01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:43,960 Speaker 1: about that Sunday night game now, just knowing everything that 1580 01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:45,840 Speaker 1: all the hoops that Pittsburgh's gonna have to jump through 1581 01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,840 Speaker 1: to get ready for two games consecutively with one fewer 1582 01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:52,160 Speaker 1: day to get ready, and I'm just I'm thinking mostly 1583 01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:57,759 Speaker 1: about physical recovery. Two games, two games in consecutive weeks 1584 01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:00,759 Speaker 1: on one fewer day of rest. Now, obviously the coaching 1585 01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,240 Speaker 1: staff will adjust the schedule and probably lighten the load 1586 01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:05,960 Speaker 1: on the practice field, probably be a lot more walkthroughs 1587 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,760 Speaker 1: and you know, hitting and whatnot. And you know, the 1588 01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,799 Speaker 1: Steelers are a veteran team. They know how to prepare 1589 01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,559 Speaker 1: and all of that. But still, I gotta believe there's 1590 01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,680 Speaker 1: a human and you conack there physically, a guy like 1591 01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:19,320 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. I mean, they'll spin this into a rallying cry. 1592 01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:23,880 Speaker 1: You know, they're you know, we'll we'll say, hey, let's 1593 01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:26,280 Speaker 1: get through this. We get through this. We've really accomplished 1594 01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,320 Speaker 1: something aside from just winning football games. You know, Um, 1595 01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:32,600 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little bit us against them, attitude 1596 01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,200 Speaker 1: against you know, the whole league is trying to mess 1597 01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:37,320 Speaker 1: with our schedule because we're so good and we're ten 1598 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,639 Speaker 1: to oh yeah, all that kind of that narrative. Will 1599 01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,160 Speaker 1: you can all spin all this into a into a 1600 01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:45,920 Speaker 1: a motivational way as well, and Mike tom will probably 1601 01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:48,320 Speaker 1: use every trick in the book to do that. You know, 1602 01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:55,240 Speaker 1: so I but wins. It's upside down, man. We're playing 1603 01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:58,080 Speaker 1: a game on a Wednesday, Yeah, you know, three oh 1604 01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,720 Speaker 1: five fifty. We go back to the phone because we're 1605 01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,120 Speaker 1: asking you on the Twitter poll today other than the Steelers, 1606 01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:05,160 Speaker 1: what is the trickiest game left on the Bill schedule? 1607 01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:08,040 Speaker 1: And why we go to Dave in Florida for answers? Dave, 1608 01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:09,760 Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life. 1609 01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:14,680 Speaker 1: Aw you guys doing good? All right? Listen, I got 1610 01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:18,400 Speaker 1: all the confidence in the world, our coaching staff. Dunley's 1611 01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:22,960 Speaker 1: game scare me coming up. But I have one other 1612 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:27,280 Speaker 1: thing to ask you. Are you there, we're here? What 1613 01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:31,040 Speaker 1: do you got? Okay, okay, Clin you Where've been watching 1614 01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:34,639 Speaker 1: Clin the last couple of games? Yep, this guy been 1615 01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,479 Speaker 1: playing some good ball, Yes he has. Yeah. And the 1616 01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,559 Speaker 1: last thing I want to ask you is on these 1617 01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:43,400 Speaker 1: hell Mary passes, how tall was that receiver? Did you 1618 01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,679 Speaker 1: say earlier? Six to five? That was yes, yeah, Kumro 1619 01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:52,400 Speaker 1: sixty four? Okay? And how tall is Trey Emmons? Tremaine 1620 01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:56,519 Speaker 1: and Romaine six five, Jermaine Ms six five? No way 1621 01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:58,519 Speaker 1: we could have shifted him around to get back there? 1622 01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,679 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean option it's yeah, Yeah, it's something 1623 01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,000 Speaker 1: to think about. I'm with you, Dave. Yeah. And I 1624 01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:08,360 Speaker 1: like the way they coached when McDermott called that time 1625 01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,559 Speaker 1: out on the last play, and I just want it 1626 01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,599 Speaker 1: called the run play the quarterbacks. We're trying to sneak 1627 01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:19,479 Speaker 1: it in. Yeah, calling a football game. Yeah, yeah, I agree, Dave. 1628 01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:22,519 Speaker 1: And thankful and he had a good challenge, yeah said, yeah, 1629 01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:24,439 Speaker 1: he got a good challenge. And thanks for the called Dave. 1630 01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:26,479 Speaker 1: That's that's good stuff. And you're right. I got a 1631 01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:28,920 Speaker 1: lot of confidence in this coaching staff as well. I 1632 01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,679 Speaker 1: did a little monologue early in the show about how 1633 01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,040 Speaker 1: good I think this coaching staff is and you know, 1634 01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:37,759 Speaker 1: and I said, he out coached those guys last weekend, 1635 01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:42,479 Speaker 1: no question, Um he is. He and his staff are 1636 01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:45,160 Speaker 1: on it. And this is a team that shows up 1637 01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:50,519 Speaker 1: every week. Um. They they're hard to beat. They're really good. 1638 01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:52,519 Speaker 1: And the thing about about Clin, You're right, A lot 1639 01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:57,360 Speaker 1: of people have noticed Aj Klein. Uh. I don't want 1640 01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,840 Speaker 1: to overstate it, but I'm kind of I'll overstate it 1641 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:02,320 Speaker 1: to make a point. The guy's been transformed into a 1642 01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,519 Speaker 1: different guy than he was a month and a half ago. 1643 01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:07,680 Speaker 1: And that's partly due to the coaching staff recognize that 1644 01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:11,400 Speaker 1: what his strengths are and maximizing them within the scope 1645 01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:15,240 Speaker 1: of the scheme. I think they recognized that him dropping 1646 01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:18,920 Speaker 1: into coverage and operating in reverse isn't the thing that 1647 01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,559 Speaker 1: he does best. Not to say he can't do it. 1648 01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:23,679 Speaker 1: He can get to the flat, you know, and cover 1649 01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:27,400 Speaker 1: a back, but you know, anything ten yards downfield that's 1650 01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:29,800 Speaker 1: not his forte. So what do they do? They use 1651 01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,000 Speaker 1: him as a blitzer? And man, is he effective in 1652 01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:36,400 Speaker 1: that role. I mean, guy had fourteen tackles last week, 1653 01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,200 Speaker 1: sack and a half, three tackles for loss, forced fumble, 1654 01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:43,160 Speaker 1: pass breakup. I mean, the guy was all over the place. Yeah, 1655 01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,280 Speaker 1: they've they've you know, you tip your hat to Bob Babbage, 1656 01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:49,400 Speaker 1: the linebackers coach, the defensive coordinator, Leslie Fraser, and you say, 1657 01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:52,840 Speaker 1: good on you for finding what he does best and 1658 01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:56,680 Speaker 1: then incorporating it into your defensive game plan. And it 1659 01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:00,280 Speaker 1: worked like a charm. I mean, and that was just 1660 01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:03,360 Speaker 1: this week. We're watching some highlights now, our MSG viewers. 1661 01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:06,200 Speaker 1: The game he played against Seattle had a huge game 1662 01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:09,360 Speaker 1: in that one, too, So good on the good on 1663 01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:11,759 Speaker 1: the defensive staff for putting him in position to succeed, 1664 01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,679 Speaker 1: and then good on aj for executing. Yeah, he's he's 1665 01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:20,200 Speaker 1: been playing well. I mean, you can't say it any 1666 01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:21,720 Speaker 1: other way. He's been playing well. And there were a 1667 01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:23,960 Speaker 1: lot of people when he first came in and started 1668 01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,280 Speaker 1: to replace Matt Milano. There's a lot of people that 1669 01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,080 Speaker 1: didn't have any faith that he was going to do 1670 01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:31,000 Speaker 1: anything but but stink all year. Um, if it wasn't 1671 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,479 Speaker 1: for Joey Bosa, he's the defensive player of the game. Yeah, seriously, Yeah, 1672 01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:38,760 Speaker 1: that's true in the entire game, both teams. Yeah, if 1673 01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:40,559 Speaker 1: Bosa doesn't have the game that he has, he's the 1674 01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:44,040 Speaker 1: player of the game defensive right, you're right, Brownie ye. 1675 01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:46,160 Speaker 1: And yeah, he's played well. So yeah, we we're seeing 1676 01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,720 Speaker 1: him too, Dave, thanks for the call. And um and 1677 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,479 Speaker 1: he's you're right. I got a lot of fun confidence 1678 01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:53,679 Speaker 1: in this coaching staff as well. And and and I'm 1679 01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,639 Speaker 1: with you. None of these And I don't know if 1680 01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,120 Speaker 1: if you can characterize that, you say, I'm not afraid 1681 01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:00,920 Speaker 1: of any of these teams left on the schedule. No, 1682 01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:03,559 Speaker 1: nobody's really afraid of him. There. I'll tell you this. 1683 01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:09,479 Speaker 1: It's been a long time, I think since we've got 1684 01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:13,679 Speaker 1: a team at one Bill's Lot, One Bill's Drive, where 1685 01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,200 Speaker 1: teams in other places when they see the build that 1686 01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:18,720 Speaker 1: Buffalo team on their schedule, they don't go, you know 1687 01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,439 Speaker 1: how we all do it. That's a win. We'll beat 1688 01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:23,080 Speaker 1: that team. That's a win. That's when not too many 1689 01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:25,320 Speaker 1: people are putting the W right in front of their 1690 01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,800 Speaker 1: game against Buffalo before they play. That's gonna be a battle. 1691 01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:32,160 Speaker 1: I don't know, they're yeah, you know, all right, break 1692 01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,559 Speaker 1: time for us. When we return more of your phone calls. 1693 01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,960 Speaker 1: Ben and Charlotte. Hang tight, you're leading us off after 1694 01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:39,400 Speaker 1: the break. One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health. 1695 01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:56,200 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live. 1696 01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:58,599 Speaker 1: I want to jump right back on the phones here 1697 01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,640 Speaker 1: when we go to Ben in Charlotte, Man, what do 1698 01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:04,679 Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Good afternoon, Hey, 1699 01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:09,599 Speaker 1: good afternoon. Thanks for taking the call. Um A little disappointed, Chris. Uh. 1700 01:29:10,479 --> 01:29:14,680 Speaker 1: Normally when you introduce folks on the show, you know, 1701 01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:17,439 Speaker 1: players and coach at whatnot, you say that there's one 1702 01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:22,719 Speaker 1: Sean McDermot. I think Ben from Charlotte, Ben from Charlotte. 1703 01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,960 Speaker 1: How are you sir? There you go? Um, the question 1704 01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:30,840 Speaker 1: is uh for Steve really came home from work yesterday 1705 01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:34,120 Speaker 1: and my son ten years old, he on YouTube, was 1706 01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:38,559 Speaker 1: watching some of the older games. Kind of got me thinking, Um, 1707 01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:43,040 Speaker 1: do you think we're if you were compared today's team 1708 01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:47,559 Speaker 1: to those teams you know, in the nineties whatever, And 1709 01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:51,000 Speaker 1: it's fun to do because it's that's when we're relevant. Um, 1710 01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:54,200 Speaker 1: do you think we're closer to the team that played 1711 01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:58,120 Speaker 1: and lost to Cleveland? Um? In the playoffs. Do you 1712 01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:02,559 Speaker 1: think we're closer to the team maybe like ninety two 1713 01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:07,120 Speaker 1: they went on the road. Um, you know, beat Pittsburgh, 1714 01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:11,360 Speaker 1: had to come back, beat Pittsburgh, beat Miami. Nick close 1715 01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:13,200 Speaker 1: to that team. And by the way, Steve, you had 1716 01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:17,040 Speaker 1: a hell of a partial block punt block in that game, 1717 01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:20,719 Speaker 1: do you recall, Yeah, in the Miami championship game. Yeah, 1718 01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:22,960 Speaker 1: it was fun to watch. Yeah, that's a good question. 1719 01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:26,200 Speaker 1: I like that question. It's a good question, Ben, because 1720 01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,639 Speaker 1: you know those like you know, you tend to roll 1721 01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:31,559 Speaker 1: those teams all together into one and they're very different. 1722 01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:33,320 Speaker 1: You know, a Super Bowl twenty five team was very 1723 01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:36,760 Speaker 1: different from the Super Bowl twenty eight team. Uh so 1724 01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:40,400 Speaker 1: uh what about this year's team do they compare to 1725 01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:43,920 Speaker 1: any of those or do they resemble or looked like 1726 01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,200 Speaker 1: they're on the same track as any one of those teams. 1727 01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:49,439 Speaker 1: Now he's mentioning the team that lost to Cleveland. We're 1728 01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:54,880 Speaker 1: talking about the Ronnie Hart that was the bickering Bills team. Yeah, 1729 01:30:54,960 --> 01:31:01,120 Speaker 1: that team was really talented, but it wasn't cohesive unit. 1730 01:31:01,439 --> 01:31:04,160 Speaker 1: And I think those teams back then and maybe it 1731 01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:07,360 Speaker 1: will come to this. Uh. Obviously you can compare the 1732 01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:12,439 Speaker 1: two quarterbacks both of them. Uh, you know, big arm 1733 01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:14,960 Speaker 1: guys and with some with some abilities that you know 1734 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:18,519 Speaker 1: not too many guys had. But I think around the roster, 1735 01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:23,640 Speaker 1: you can look at Steph Diggs say yeah, okay, but 1736 01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:27,840 Speaker 1: there's nobody on this defensive team that is Bruce Smith 1737 01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:33,040 Speaker 1: or Cornelius Bennett. Bruce Smith was the greatest pass rusher 1738 01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:36,360 Speaker 1: and greatest defensive linemen of all time. He's the goat 1739 01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:41,840 Speaker 1: that this team doesn't have that right. Uh, now they've 1740 01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:44,840 Speaker 1: got Tremanius Tardavious White. T Davious White could play any 1741 01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:47,680 Speaker 1: in any era and he would he would match. But 1742 01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:51,880 Speaker 1: Nato Nato Odo's pretty good. Uh. Henry Jones was a 1743 01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:55,559 Speaker 1: really good safety. Um. But I think when you get 1744 01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:58,599 Speaker 1: down to it, the guys who really made that team go, 1745 01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:02,400 Speaker 1: there were some guys there were There's four Hall of 1746 01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:04,360 Speaker 1: Five Hall of famers on that club and a Hall 1747 01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,240 Speaker 1: of Fame head coach. You had a Hall of Fame 1748 01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:08,680 Speaker 1: running back, Hall of Fame quarterback, hall two Hall of 1749 01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:10,760 Speaker 1: Fame wide receivers, and that was on one side of 1750 01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:13,760 Speaker 1: the ball, and then he had the best defensive alignment 1751 01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:17,240 Speaker 1: of all time on the other. So that's an unfair comparison. 1752 01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,200 Speaker 1: Because we have not yet to see these guys who 1753 01:32:19,240 --> 01:32:22,120 Speaker 1: live out their career trajectory of their careers. But you know, 1754 01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,400 Speaker 1: it's interesting. I like the question, Ben, it's a good question. 1755 01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:32,920 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Um. Yeah, I don't know. I The 1756 01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:36,519 Speaker 1: eras are different. The way you play for football so different. 1757 01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:38,360 Speaker 1: If you're gonna play those two teams against each other, 1758 01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:41,760 Speaker 1: whose rules are gonna use nineteen early nineties, late late 1759 01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:46,320 Speaker 1: eighties rules or today illegal contact? Yeah? You know, yeah, 1760 01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:48,479 Speaker 1: you you could do whatever the hell you wanted to 1761 01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,639 Speaker 1: kill a quarterback. Yeah, quarterbacks were getting shots of the head. 1762 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:55,599 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, a little bit different animal. You don't 1763 01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:57,280 Speaker 1: if you can slide if you want, but you're still 1764 01:32:57,320 --> 01:33:04,479 Speaker 1: gonna get popped at the end of it. What's a catch? Right? That? 1765 01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:07,280 Speaker 1: That was the don bbe head bounce game too. No 1766 01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:11,960 Speaker 1: coaching challenges or coaching challenges, no count Yeah, what are 1767 01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:14,320 Speaker 1: you doing there? There you go? I mean, that's a 1768 01:33:14,360 --> 01:33:16,160 Speaker 1: great one. Yeah. And that's so that's just a small 1769 01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:19,040 Speaker 1: example of house and different. Plus, the old Cleveland Stadium 1770 01:33:19,120 --> 01:33:23,960 Speaker 1: was a sandbox. That game, municipal stadium, that place, that 1771 01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:28,080 Speaker 1: place was in a tross all right, break time for 1772 01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:31,599 Speaker 1: us when we return we will have forty nine Ers 1773 01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:35,800 Speaker 1: analyst and former defensive back Eric Davis joining us as 1774 01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:39,040 Speaker 1: we will dive in a little bit deeper into the 1775 01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:41,519 Speaker 1: matchup between the Bills and Niners when we return here 1776 01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:43,519 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's 1777 01:33:43,560 --> 01:34:02,880 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hello Bills, Radio Net Sports Sports update 1778 01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:05,200 Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Bill's back on the practice field 1779 01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:07,639 Speaker 1: as they ready for Monday night football in Arizona against 1780 01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:09,920 Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. A couple of roster moves today, 1781 01:34:09,960 --> 01:34:14,760 Speaker 1: including the designation of linebacker Matt Milano, who now returns 1782 01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:18,080 Speaker 1: to practice. He's been on IR since we gate with 1783 01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:21,640 Speaker 1: a pectoral injury. Linebacker Tyrell Dotson also on IR, but 1784 01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:25,519 Speaker 1: he too, designated to return to practice today. Meanwhile, wide 1785 01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:27,920 Speaker 1: receiver j Kumero has been elevated to the active roster 1786 01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:31,000 Speaker 1: from the practice squad. Later today, the forty nine Ers 1787 01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,680 Speaker 1: will fly to Phoenix to set up shop for the 1788 01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:36,360 Speaker 1: next three weeks in Glendale, Arizona. Once there, the team 1789 01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:39,600 Speaker 1: will stage all operations at the Renaissance Hotel, close to 1790 01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:42,520 Speaker 1: the Cardinals practice fields and State Farm Stadium in Glendale. 1791 01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:44,720 Speaker 1: The Niners are expected to be there at least through 1792 01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:47,840 Speaker 1: December twenty first, when the Santa Clara County ban on 1793 01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:52,080 Speaker 1: contact sports is scheduled to end. Meanwhile, transactions for the 1794 01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:55,559 Speaker 1: Niners they place cornerbackstra Mar Taylor and Ken Webster on ir. 1795 01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:58,840 Speaker 1: Taylor suffered a knee injury, Webster a hamstring injury in 1796 01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:02,640 Speaker 1: last week's game against the Rams. It's Wednesday, and you 1797 01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:05,840 Speaker 1: know what that means, NFL Afternoon Football. Because of a 1798 01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:09,080 Speaker 1: rash of COVID nineteen positives for the Ravens, their game 1799 01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:11,799 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh against the Steelers will take place this afternoon 1800 01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:16,799 Speaker 1: three forty pm kickoff after three postponements. Two of those players, 1801 01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:20,800 Speaker 1: running backs Mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins, were initially thought 1802 01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:23,080 Speaker 1: to be eligible to play today's game, but we're hearing 1803 01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:25,639 Speaker 1: now reports they will not. Robert Griffin gets to start 1804 01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:29,280 Speaker 1: a quarterback in place of Lamar Jackson. Cleveland Browns closed 1805 01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:32,400 Speaker 1: their practice facility today after a staff member tested positive 1806 01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:35,439 Speaker 1: for COVID. The team announced the contact tracing is ongoing 1807 01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:38,760 Speaker 1: to identify any potential high risk closed contacts. This is 1808 01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,800 Speaker 1: the sixth time the Browns facility has been closed for 1809 01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:45,840 Speaker 1: contact tracing since November thirteenth, and finally, one basketball note. 1810 01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:49,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers star Lebron James has agreed to a 1811 01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:53,600 Speaker 1: two year, eighty five million dollars maximum contract extension with 1812 01:35:53,760 --> 01:35:57,400 Speaker 1: the franchise. That is your sports update, our number three 1813 01:35:57,439 --> 01:36:00,720 Speaker 1: of one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you 1814 01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,599 Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now, the host 1815 01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:05,479 Speaker 1: of the belief In forty nine Ers podcast on the 1816 01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:09,879 Speaker 1: Belief Podcast Network. Former NFL corner who played for thirteen 1817 01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:11,960 Speaker 1: seasons his career asked as long as this guy to 1818 01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,120 Speaker 1: my left, two Pro Bowls, three time All Pro, and 1819 01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:17,800 Speaker 1: won Super Bowl thirty nine with the forty nine ers. 1820 01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:20,519 Speaker 1: It is Eric Davis joining us on the line right 1821 01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:23,000 Speaker 1: now to talk Bill's nine Ers for Monday Night Football. 1822 01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:27,479 Speaker 1: Mister Davis, how are you, sir? I'm well holding on 1823 01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:30,360 Speaker 1: for an old man. No lick still under me. All 1824 01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:32,720 Speaker 1: those years having to chase Steve around. I didn't tear 1825 01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:35,639 Speaker 1: up my Hams range too much. But yeah, yeah I'm 1826 01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:38,519 Speaker 1: still here. Yeah, yeah, you caught me enough times said 1827 01:36:39,080 --> 01:36:43,000 Speaker 1: that I remember it. So yeah, how is how is it? 1828 01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:44,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, you're you're on a FaceTime with us. 1829 01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:47,679 Speaker 1: Your outdoors? What is it? What's the environment? Like out there. 1830 01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:51,280 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, we hear. All we hear is that 1831 01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:53,800 Speaker 1: that everything's shut down for the forty nine ers. What's 1832 01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:58,000 Speaker 1: it like for everybody else? Um, well, you know what's 1833 01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:01,439 Speaker 1: you I'm actually in LA and everything's been shut down. 1834 01:37:01,479 --> 01:37:04,040 Speaker 1: We've never really come out of it since since some 1835 01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,640 Speaker 1: things really went down. We never really got back to 1836 01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:10,080 Speaker 1: full speed. So we're going backwards, and they're talking about 1837 01:37:10,080 --> 01:37:13,559 Speaker 1: possibly shutting everything down here in Los Angeles and Los 1838 01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:18,120 Speaker 1: Angeles County completely. So uh, you know, you know, you 1839 01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:20,559 Speaker 1: never got back into restaurants. There are things that were 1840 01:37:20,560 --> 01:37:23,360 Speaker 1: slowly opening, you know, curbside people could go out and 1841 01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:28,200 Speaker 1: eat outside. They transferred all the parking lots into restaurants again, 1842 01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,320 Speaker 1: into dining. But all of that is starting to disappear. 1843 01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:33,920 Speaker 1: As far as the you know, it's the players, and 1844 01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:36,200 Speaker 1: you know, I think you can talk to told everyone 1845 01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:39,640 Speaker 1: as far from a flare standpoint, you just kind of 1846 01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:43,200 Speaker 1: just go with the flow. It's you are accustomed to 1847 01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:47,040 Speaker 1: that bunker mentality, I think, Um, and you know you 1848 01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,240 Speaker 1: just have to deal. You know, injuries are always a 1849 01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:51,439 Speaker 1: part of it. COVID is just another one of those things, 1850 01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:55,400 Speaker 1: the only, the only cay, the idea is all the 1851 01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:58,040 Speaker 1: risks that you take as a player, all the concerns 1852 01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:01,000 Speaker 1: that you have, you take those on. Firstly, this is 1853 01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:03,559 Speaker 1: something that you can take home to your family. And 1854 01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:06,559 Speaker 1: they didn't sign up for football injury. They didn't find 1855 01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:08,680 Speaker 1: sign up for the risks, So you don't want that. 1856 01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:12,439 Speaker 1: But beyond that, and I know that's a big heel, 1857 01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:15,320 Speaker 1: that's a big hurdle for the players. I don't think 1858 01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:18,280 Speaker 1: it's as big a deal as everyone's making it out 1859 01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,719 Speaker 1: to be. What about having an uproot your entire daily 1860 01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,240 Speaker 1: football operation though for the next three weeks and move 1861 01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:28,840 Speaker 1: it to Arizona. Is that a different animal? Yes? And 1862 01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:33,080 Speaker 1: no again, once you get in I mean, I'm a player. 1863 01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:35,880 Speaker 1: I don't have to worry that. That's the great thing 1864 01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:38,040 Speaker 1: about being a player. I don't have to worry about 1865 01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:40,000 Speaker 1: all the wood if I don't have to get paralyzed 1866 01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:42,000 Speaker 1: by the What if you put me, you put me 1867 01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:43,639 Speaker 1: in the room, you say, be at the meeting at 1868 01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:46,360 Speaker 1: this time, watch film at this time. You're gonna have 1869 01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:48,960 Speaker 1: time on the practice field at this time, walk through 1870 01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:52,080 Speaker 1: the certain time, practice a certain time, treatments a certain 1871 01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:55,240 Speaker 1: time for your any any type of injuries you have 1872 01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:57,640 Speaker 1: to deal with I'm just going to stick to the routine. 1873 01:38:58,200 --> 01:39:00,800 Speaker 1: Whether I'm doing that in Santa Clara, whether I'm doing 1874 01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:03,600 Speaker 1: that in Arizona, it doesn't really matter. If I'm on 1875 01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,920 Speaker 1: the road for road game. We always left on Fridays, 1876 01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:11,240 Speaker 1: and if you have to spend time around another facilities, 1877 01:39:11,280 --> 01:39:13,240 Speaker 1: you just do it. And it Actually when I played 1878 01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:15,720 Speaker 1: for the forty nine Ers, there were times during the 1879 01:39:15,720 --> 01:39:19,120 Speaker 1: playoffs where we would actually leave because it would be 1880 01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:20,920 Speaker 1: in the middle of rainy season, so to get in 1881 01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:24,840 Speaker 1: quality work. They would actually Eddie Dubartelo would actually put 1882 01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:27,800 Speaker 1: us up over in Arizona and we would practice in 1883 01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:35,400 Speaker 1: Arizona because it was dry. So outside of not having 1884 01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:38,840 Speaker 1: your family, the rest of it is just what ball 1885 01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:41,320 Speaker 1: players do. Yeah, I would agree with that. It's also 1886 01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:43,080 Speaker 1: something the forty nine ers have had to do, even 1887 01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:46,120 Speaker 1: when they were in Santa Clara. They're setting a team record. 1888 01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:49,880 Speaker 1: They got seventy four players have been on their team 1889 01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,040 Speaker 1: on the field for a game this year. Would give 1890 01:39:53,120 --> 01:39:57,400 Speaker 1: us an idea what that atmosphere must be like. Well, 1891 01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,360 Speaker 1: you never know who's playing. It's very difficult. Part of 1892 01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,559 Speaker 1: the reason I think the coaching staff is doing a 1893 01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:06,240 Speaker 1: great job this year. There has been a lot put 1894 01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:09,280 Speaker 1: on these guys because of the injuries. There have been 1895 01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:12,240 Speaker 1: a lot of people having to figure out who's going 1896 01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:14,599 Speaker 1: to play. I mean cal Shanahan has had weeks where 1897 01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:19,519 Speaker 1: he has literally gone into the work week and a 1898 01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:23,160 Speaker 1: couple of days before the game you lose. You know, 1899 01:40:23,280 --> 01:40:26,840 Speaker 1: both starting wide receivers are running back a tackle. You 1900 01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:29,880 Speaker 1: can't game plan around that. When you have less than 1901 01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:32,960 Speaker 1: twenty four hours to bring up guys from the practice 1902 01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:35,680 Speaker 1: squad and get them ready, it's going to limit what 1903 01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:38,920 Speaker 1: you have on that call sheet. They've been finding ways 1904 01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:41,640 Speaker 1: to still be competitive. There are very few times you 1905 01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:45,000 Speaker 1: would look at this squad, even with the raster vendors 1906 01:40:44,600 --> 01:40:47,000 Speaker 1: injuries that they have, where you would look at them 1907 01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:51,160 Speaker 1: and say they weren't competitive and this is not the 1908 01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:53,880 Speaker 1: forty nine ers team. That's one thing I feel good 1909 01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:56,720 Speaker 1: about because you know, one of the one of the 1910 01:40:56,760 --> 01:40:58,880 Speaker 1: better teams in the league this year is the forty 1911 01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:02,760 Speaker 1: nine ers i R. So they're not rebuilding. They just 1912 01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:06,400 Speaker 1: have to get healthy and they may actually even end 1913 01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:10,120 Speaker 1: up better off next year because the scheduling and you know, 1914 01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:12,559 Speaker 1: their win loss record may put them in a position 1915 01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:16,360 Speaker 1: because of these injuries to draft some really good players 1916 01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:19,160 Speaker 1: moving forward to add to what's already in the cover. 1917 01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:22,920 Speaker 1: So you know, it's been tough knowing who's going to play, 1918 01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,400 Speaker 1: when they're gonna play, and there are certain elements that 1919 01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:28,280 Speaker 1: you have to have to be successful within this defense 1920 01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:30,720 Speaker 1: and offense for the forty nine ers, and they just 1921 01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:33,920 Speaker 1: don't have their frontline guy. So I'm not mad about 1922 01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:35,880 Speaker 1: what's going on. I'm not looking at this as a 1923 01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:37,960 Speaker 1: championship team. I'm not upset if they don't make the 1924 01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:41,679 Speaker 1: playoffs because I know the reason why they're there. Talking 1925 01:41:41,680 --> 01:41:44,680 Speaker 1: to Eric Davis from the Believing forty nine Ers podcast, 1926 01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:49,080 Speaker 1: former dB for the Niners as well, and Eric, I 1927 01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:51,240 Speaker 1: know that you mentioned a lot of the frontline players 1928 01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,519 Speaker 1: are down, but the defense is still playing pretty lights 1929 01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:58,519 Speaker 1: out football and last week's you Know game probably is 1930 01:41:58,520 --> 01:42:00,880 Speaker 1: the most recent example of that at with the win 1931 01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:05,519 Speaker 1: that they helped stage over the Rams. All that being said, 1932 01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:07,760 Speaker 1: I you might find this hard to believe because you 1933 01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,240 Speaker 1: watch this team all the time, but I still don't 1934 01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:15,240 Speaker 1: think Fred Warner gets the respect league wide or on 1935 01:42:15,280 --> 01:42:19,800 Speaker 1: a national scale that he probably deserves. How much has 1936 01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,799 Speaker 1: he been a lynchpin for an injury riddled defense this season. 1937 01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:31,320 Speaker 1: Did we lose him? Did he freeze? Are you back? 1938 01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:33,680 Speaker 1: I lost here? I am I lost you there for? 1939 01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:35,960 Speaker 1: Did you get my full question about Fred Warner? How 1940 01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:39,880 Speaker 1: much of a lynchpin has he been for this defense? Um? Well, 1941 01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:43,639 Speaker 1: Fred is he's that dude, He really is. He's he's 1942 01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:47,479 Speaker 1: a standard standards bearer. Um. One of the great things 1943 01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:49,840 Speaker 1: that happened to him, and it happens for all young 1944 01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:52,479 Speaker 1: players when you have, you know, a veteran guy that 1945 01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:55,640 Speaker 1: can come in and and sort of teach you certain things, 1946 01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:57,559 Speaker 1: to show you the rope, to teach you what it's 1947 01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,200 Speaker 1: like to be a fro as one of the most 1948 01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:01,200 Speaker 1: important things I was part of the great themes that 1949 01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,320 Speaker 1: I was on it. I'm sure Steve would say the 1950 01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:05,840 Speaker 1: same thing. One of the elements that you have to 1951 01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:08,160 Speaker 1: have to have a good organization and to have guys 1952 01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:11,040 Speaker 1: that veterans that aren't afraid to teach the next guy 1953 01:43:11,080 --> 01:43:14,120 Speaker 1: how to take their job. And Fred has always been 1954 01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:16,679 Speaker 1: a sponge and any old head guys that have told 1955 01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:20,200 Speaker 1: him anything, he has taken in, taken it in and 1956 01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:23,840 Speaker 1: incorporated it into his game. And the thing about it 1957 01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:29,120 Speaker 1: is that he is just so incredibly gifted that he 1958 01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:31,360 Speaker 1: is capable of just making great plays. And I get 1959 01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:33,160 Speaker 1: asked all the time, what do you expect from Fred? 1960 01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:35,200 Speaker 1: And I just I always say, I just expect him 1961 01:43:35,200 --> 01:43:38,200 Speaker 1: to play like Fred and come in I make all 1962 01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:41,360 Speaker 1: the time is that he hunts wisely and he then 1963 01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:44,679 Speaker 1: I mean, he's out there. He knows how to look 1964 01:43:44,720 --> 01:43:47,320 Speaker 1: at the information in front of him and discern what 1965 01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:50,400 Speaker 1: needs to be done. He takes the right angle, he 1966 01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:54,160 Speaker 1: makes the right play, He puts himself into position to 1967 01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:57,400 Speaker 1: come up with something big in a timely manner. And 1968 01:43:57,920 --> 01:44:00,760 Speaker 1: it's just been huge having him out there with all 1969 01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:04,160 Speaker 1: especially with all the injuries that you have. I mean, 1970 01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,280 Speaker 1: you lose your frontline guy in the secondary. In term, 1971 01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:11,040 Speaker 1: you lose your front guy. Frontline guys up front and 1972 01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:15,040 Speaker 1: m nick Bosa before you lose that fast for us. 1973 01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:18,519 Speaker 1: So that middle guy, he's been able able to be, 1974 01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, a stabilizing force for them. And I think 1975 01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:27,200 Speaker 1: how you started as the league, we're sleeping on him. 1976 01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:31,360 Speaker 1: I think those days are over. If everyone sees that 1977 01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:34,000 Speaker 1: Fred the pro bowler, he's an all pro. Yeah, I 1978 01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,120 Speaker 1: don't think he has to worry about that anymore. Yeah, 1979 01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:38,000 Speaker 1: And one of the other guys that you know, that 1980 01:44:38,320 --> 01:44:40,000 Speaker 1: is a kind of standard bearer, or at least the 1981 01:44:40,040 --> 01:44:42,479 Speaker 1: face of the franchise was Jimmy Garoppolo and he's not 1982 01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:45,400 Speaker 1: there and Nick Mullin's taking over for him. Uh, there's 1983 01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:47,000 Speaker 1: a I could go down the list, but I want 1984 01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:48,639 Speaker 1: to start just may as well start with the quarterback 1985 01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:55,160 Speaker 1: since it's a position everybody knows is Yeah, how is 1986 01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:58,880 Speaker 1: the franchise. What's the opinion of the franchise about Jimmy 1987 01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:01,640 Speaker 1: Garoppolo going forward ward? I mean, it's amazing to me that, 1988 01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, he got him to the Super Bowl and 1989 01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:06,280 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he plays against a team 1990 01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:09,559 Speaker 1: that's really good and everybody, you know, outside of the 1991 01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:12,720 Speaker 1: organizations thinks he stinks all of a sudden. What's the 1992 01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:15,200 Speaker 1: franchise think about him? And is he and their plans 1993 01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:19,160 Speaker 1: and what are their plans for him going forward? Um? Well, 1994 01:45:19,200 --> 01:45:23,040 Speaker 1: the plans that's always the tricky one because of the 1995 01:45:23,080 --> 01:45:25,400 Speaker 1: way they put together his contract. I mean, they can 1996 01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:27,599 Speaker 1: they can walk away from Jimmy. I think it's an 1997 01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:29,599 Speaker 1: excellent job of the way they did it, because they 1998 01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:31,960 Speaker 1: can walk away from Jimmy, no harm, no file, they 1999 01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:35,920 Speaker 1: won't you know, no dead money. You know it won't 2000 01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:37,960 Speaker 1: cost them any They don't have to worry about draft 2001 01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:40,880 Speaker 1: picks or anything if they if they decide to move on, 2002 01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:45,360 Speaker 1: they can. So from that aspect, what m what John 2003 01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,720 Speaker 1: Lynch did? I always said he gm just tail off 2004 01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:51,800 Speaker 1: putting that deal together. Now as far as Jimmy goes, yeah, 2005 01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:54,800 Speaker 1: a lot of people can say Jimmy can't he or 2006 01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:58,559 Speaker 1: he doesn't have the strong arm, he can't handle pressure 2007 01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:02,759 Speaker 1: into pocket, he can't do these things. Jimmy wins. And 2008 01:46:03,960 --> 01:46:08,120 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has this Moniker being you know, the next 2009 01:46:08,160 --> 01:46:12,840 Speaker 1: and this genius play caller. But without Jimmy under center, 2010 01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:15,519 Speaker 1: he's lost a lot of football games here for the 2011 01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,080 Speaker 1: forty nine ers, he has a losing record. Now with 2012 01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:22,559 Speaker 1: Jimmy under center, they win. So the organization understands the 2013 01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:25,559 Speaker 1: importance of him being here. You get you hear all 2014 01:46:25,600 --> 01:46:27,760 Speaker 1: of this talk about anyone can do it and it's 2015 01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:30,800 Speaker 1: a systems guy. Well, he hasn't found another guy that 2016 01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:33,479 Speaker 1: can do it here. And Jimmy is by far the 2017 01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:35,720 Speaker 1: best quarterback on the forty nine ers team. Now, whether 2018 01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:39,200 Speaker 1: or not they're gonna move on from him, I think, 2019 01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:40,880 Speaker 1: just like in every position, that has a lot to 2020 01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:43,400 Speaker 1: do with who's gonna be on the market, right You know, 2021 01:46:43,439 --> 01:46:45,320 Speaker 1: if you have an Aaron Rodgers on the market, I 2022 01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:47,880 Speaker 1: think you have to consider that, Matt Ryan, even though 2023 01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:51,080 Speaker 1: that Dak Prascott, Dak Prescott. There are things that you 2024 01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:54,519 Speaker 1: have to consider if these guys are there. But bottom line, 2025 01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:57,880 Speaker 1: Jimmy wins. He's taken him to a Super Bowl. I 2026 01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:00,080 Speaker 1: think they'd have a better record right now if he 2027 01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:04,200 Speaker 1: was understenter because history says while he's there, they win 2028 01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:08,280 Speaker 1: football games. Talking to Eric Davis and you know the 2029 01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:10,000 Speaker 1: next thing I wanted to bounce off you. You know 2030 01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:12,439 Speaker 1: Mullins is in the lineup. Kittle is not going to 2031 01:47:12,520 --> 01:47:15,439 Speaker 1: be back anytime in the immediate future. I know they 2032 01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:18,000 Speaker 1: got debo back, but it seems as though most teams 2033 01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:20,599 Speaker 1: are saying, all right, well, let's just stack the box 2034 01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:24,200 Speaker 1: against this Shanahan design run game and force Mullins to 2035 01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:27,880 Speaker 1: beat us with his arm. How has that gone for 2036 01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:30,800 Speaker 1: the most part, that kind of approach defensively against this 2037 01:47:30,920 --> 01:47:35,280 Speaker 1: Niners team. It makes it very difficult to call the 2038 01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:38,200 Speaker 1: game if you're a college Shanahan because you just touched 2039 01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:42,800 Speaker 1: on it. I said on my podcast that it would 2040 01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:46,640 Speaker 1: have been impossible. It's impossible for Nick Mullins to have 2041 01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:48,479 Speaker 1: a good day for any of the secondaries that I've 2042 01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:50,840 Speaker 1: played in, because I've seen enough of them, and I like, 2043 01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:52,200 Speaker 1: I know the guys that I played with, and we 2044 01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:55,200 Speaker 1: would have realized, Nick Mullens, they played the game within 2045 01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,600 Speaker 1: an eighteen yard box. It's an eighteen yard bubble, and 2046 01:47:59,000 --> 01:48:01,759 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about throwing beyond that eighteen yard bubble 2047 01:48:01,800 --> 01:48:03,920 Speaker 1: because your arm is not strong enough. This is not 2048 01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:06,840 Speaker 1: this is not a Patrick mahon's arm where I have 2049 01:48:06,880 --> 01:48:09,240 Speaker 1: to worry about chasing down a ball seventy yards in 2050 01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:11,280 Speaker 1: the air. You can't throw it that far, so you 2051 01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:13,680 Speaker 1: can't throw it over my head um far enough for 2052 01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:15,080 Speaker 1: me to not be able to catch up to it. 2053 01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:20,000 Speaker 1: So everyone's playing everything downhill. So without the speed rahe 2054 01:48:20,160 --> 01:48:23,280 Speaker 1: moster coming back changes things dramatically because he puts so 2055 01:48:23,360 --> 01:48:26,519 Speaker 1: much pressure and the way he's stressed, the way he 2056 01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:29,360 Speaker 1: can press and stress the edge of a defense that 2057 01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:33,439 Speaker 1: you have to move immediately. When you're a secondary level 2058 01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:37,439 Speaker 1: defender or or you know a linebacker, you have to 2059 01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:40,479 Speaker 1: be able to move quickly to get in position to 2060 01:48:40,479 --> 01:48:43,559 Speaker 1: tackle him, which leaves the misdirection and the openings for 2061 01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:46,559 Speaker 1: nick Mullins to make plays, So him coming back should 2062 01:48:46,600 --> 01:48:50,400 Speaker 1: help Devot coming back again with the with the you know, 2063 01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:52,960 Speaker 1: the jet speak runs and those type things. The hands off, 2064 01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:56,760 Speaker 1: that'll help Nick Mullins create some space with the misdirection. 2065 01:48:57,160 --> 01:48:59,600 Speaker 1: But it's gonna be difficult because you just touched on it. 2066 01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:01,439 Speaker 1: We all know, we all see it. He doesn't have 2067 01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:03,559 Speaker 1: that long that's gonna push the ball down the field. 2068 01:49:04,479 --> 01:49:07,120 Speaker 1: Everyone keeps saying, Kyle, you know, why don't you call 2069 01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:09,519 Speaker 1: those plays? It makes no sense to call them because 2070 01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:12,280 Speaker 1: you don't have the quarterback that can throw them. So 2071 01:49:12,320 --> 01:49:15,920 Speaker 1: it's going to continue to be difficult. But you we 2072 01:49:16,040 --> 01:49:18,600 Speaker 1: talked about this defense being able to play at a 2073 01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:21,920 Speaker 1: high level and keep games close. That's the way they're 2074 01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:24,559 Speaker 1: gonna play it. Now. They're gonna not try to have 2075 01:49:24,600 --> 01:49:27,160 Speaker 1: a quarterback win the game. They're gonna try to let 2076 01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:29,080 Speaker 1: the defense do some things and keep them in it 2077 01:49:29,160 --> 01:49:31,960 Speaker 1: and try to win them close. And you bring up 2078 01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:35,160 Speaker 1: a good question about Kyle Shanahan, which plays he calls 2079 01:49:35,800 --> 01:49:38,479 Speaker 1: from outside and over back here in the East Coast 2080 01:49:38,479 --> 01:49:42,439 Speaker 1: time zone. Yeah, there's a lot of respect flying around 2081 01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:45,120 Speaker 1: for Kyle Shanahan and what he's done for that organization. 2082 01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:47,240 Speaker 1: You've watched him, He's gotten them to the Super Bowl, 2083 01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:49,920 Speaker 1: back to the super Bowl where they were so that 2084 01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,040 Speaker 1: they were so familiar with back in the nineteen eighties. 2085 01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:57,280 Speaker 1: What is your like when you're describing Kyle Shanahan as 2086 01:49:57,320 --> 01:49:58,840 Speaker 1: a guy who pays a lot of attention to the 2087 01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:01,200 Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine and you were there before he 2088 01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:04,040 Speaker 1: got there, and you've watched his entire career there, what 2089 01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:07,880 Speaker 1: strikes you about why he is such an effective head coach. 2090 01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:10,000 Speaker 1: Obviously he's a play caller, but there's got to be 2091 01:50:10,120 --> 01:50:13,240 Speaker 1: there's way more to it than that, You know what. 2092 01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:16,639 Speaker 1: I think he's a pro. He's a pro and by 2093 01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:21,519 Speaker 1: that I mean he knows what he's doing. He knows 2094 01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:24,320 Speaker 1: how to explain it. Um. He has a system. There 2095 01:50:24,320 --> 01:50:27,320 Speaker 1: are a lot of different systems that can win, but 2096 01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:31,880 Speaker 1: it's but it's difficult to if guys don't believe in 2097 01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:36,920 Speaker 1: the system, and he is. He is such a professional 2098 01:50:37,439 --> 01:50:41,120 Speaker 1: and understands how to communicate and get the information across 2099 01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:44,000 Speaker 1: through the guys in an effective manner that they that 2100 01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:47,240 Speaker 1: it's believable. That's the number one thing. He's straight with 2101 01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:52,479 Speaker 1: the guys. He lets them know what he expects from them. 2102 01:50:53,200 --> 01:50:57,200 Speaker 1: He doesn't deviate from that. They're a certain standard that 2103 01:50:57,320 --> 01:51:00,320 Speaker 1: he holds himself too. He holds an all of the 2104 01:51:00,360 --> 01:51:02,960 Speaker 1: players to his coaching staff too as well, and I 2105 01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:05,800 Speaker 1: think that's a very important part of it. Another thing 2106 01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:08,400 Speaker 1: that he does that I have been very impressed with 2107 01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:11,840 Speaker 1: m and I've seen it happen this season. He'll take 2108 01:51:11,840 --> 01:51:15,360 Speaker 1: the hit for his players. There there are a time 2109 01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:18,880 Speaker 1: he understands the importance of certain players on the team, 2110 01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,679 Speaker 1: what they're the juice that they have with the rest 2111 01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:24,200 Speaker 1: of the guys, and there are some guys that you 2112 01:51:24,320 --> 01:51:28,120 Speaker 1: just can't undress. There are certain players. The guys in 2113 01:51:28,160 --> 01:51:30,320 Speaker 1: the locker room know when when one of the leaders 2114 01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:33,599 Speaker 1: are screwed up. But but it's something about a head 2115 01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:37,759 Speaker 1: coach or coordinator play call or not undressing these guys 2116 01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:40,320 Speaker 1: in front of the press. And he's been able to 2117 01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:44,080 Speaker 1: do that and take the hits I think when when necessary, 2118 01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:47,440 Speaker 1: to keep guys from having to be thrown under the bus. 2119 01:51:47,479 --> 01:51:50,360 Speaker 1: And that carries weight. I think that carries a lot 2120 01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:52,879 Speaker 1: of weight in the locker room. And I think moving forward, 2121 01:51:53,360 --> 01:51:55,840 Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot more belief in the 2122 01:51:55,920 --> 01:51:59,439 Speaker 1: system to where when these guys talk. You don't have 2123 01:51:59,479 --> 01:52:01,160 Speaker 1: to say ah a lot. That's how it was with 2124 01:52:01,240 --> 01:52:03,519 Speaker 1: Bill Walsh, That's how it was with George Seyffert. It 2125 01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:06,240 Speaker 1: got to a point where you knew what they what 2126 01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:08,639 Speaker 1: they had you doing, would work, and you start to 2127 01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:12,040 Speaker 1: listen to any critiques that they have in a different manner. 2128 01:52:12,080 --> 01:52:14,640 Speaker 1: And I think that's what it is, and that's why 2129 01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:17,000 Speaker 1: I started it off by saying, he's just a pro. 2130 01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:21,120 Speaker 1: And when you're dealing with other professionals, you need they 2131 01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:23,759 Speaker 1: need to know that, hey, he can make me better. 2132 01:52:24,240 --> 01:52:27,280 Speaker 1: I can get better at my craft if I listen 2133 01:52:27,360 --> 01:52:29,640 Speaker 1: to this guy and what he's saying and what his 2134 01:52:29,680 --> 01:52:32,599 Speaker 1: coaching staff are saying, and they believe it. Last one 2135 01:52:32,640 --> 01:52:36,519 Speaker 1: I've got for you, Eric concerns the other matchup coaching wise, 2136 01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:40,639 Speaker 1: and that's between Bill Zoc, Brian Dabele and the DC 2137 01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,800 Speaker 1: out there, Robert Slay. So you know, you look at 2138 01:52:43,840 --> 01:52:46,920 Speaker 1: the job that the Niners DC has done this year. 2139 01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:48,920 Speaker 1: It might be his best year yet, I mean, keeping 2140 01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:52,360 Speaker 1: that a top ten unit with all the injuries they've sustained. 2141 01:52:52,640 --> 01:52:54,439 Speaker 1: I mean he's probably on a rocket ship to a 2142 01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:56,400 Speaker 1: head coaching job. But a lot of people are starting 2143 01:52:56,439 --> 01:53:01,360 Speaker 1: to mention Dabel's name in head coaching candidacy circles as well. Um, 2144 01:53:01,920 --> 01:53:04,280 Speaker 1: is there anything that intrigues you about the matching of 2145 01:53:04,320 --> 01:53:08,360 Speaker 1: wits there for this game on Monday night? Uh? Well, yeah, 2146 01:53:08,360 --> 01:53:10,600 Speaker 1: I want to see Um, you know, kryptonite down to 2147 01:53:10,840 --> 01:53:14,760 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers defense. Um has been even before 2148 01:53:14,840 --> 01:53:17,880 Speaker 1: the injuries, a running quarterback. Uh, you when you have 2149 01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:21,679 Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback and and and I now I say that, 2150 01:53:21,760 --> 01:53:25,479 Speaker 1: but I spend all sorts of time constantly telling people 2151 01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:29,040 Speaker 1: a running quarterback is kryptonite to every defense because there's 2152 01:53:29,120 --> 01:53:31,120 Speaker 1: rare that you're going to design defense is to account 2153 01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:34,800 Speaker 1: for a quarterback. But you've got a big athletic guy 2154 01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:37,200 Speaker 1: under center up as you guys all know about. And 2155 01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:39,519 Speaker 1: by the way, I liked him a lot. I always 2156 01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:42,960 Speaker 1: liked him Um, and I'm a big fan of where 2157 01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,720 Speaker 1: he can possibly turn into UM and Alan. I really 2158 01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:50,040 Speaker 1: do like it. So it's going to be intriguing to 2159 01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:53,080 Speaker 1: see what he does this week. You know, they have 2160 01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:55,360 Speaker 1: you know, you look at this division with Kyler Murray 2161 01:53:55,400 --> 01:53:57,960 Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson that they've had to battle with. You know, 2162 01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:02,080 Speaker 1: Salou is as as a d as the DC. He 2163 01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:06,240 Speaker 1: understands the stress and the pressure that that that the 2164 01:54:06,360 --> 01:54:09,400 Speaker 1: mobile quarterback can put on it, but you also have 2165 01:54:09,439 --> 01:54:13,719 Speaker 1: to deal with that strong arm that he has. So um, 2166 01:54:13,760 --> 01:54:15,960 Speaker 1: the chess match is going to be how much I 2167 01:54:16,160 --> 01:54:20,040 Speaker 1: would like to see how much he's going to commit 2168 01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:25,040 Speaker 1: to not allowing Josh Allen to be the guy outside 2169 01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:28,360 Speaker 1: of the pocket. What is he going to try and do? Um? 2170 01:54:28,640 --> 01:54:31,679 Speaker 1: And and I would imagine he has to have something 2171 01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:33,960 Speaker 1: knowing that you down the road that you have to 2172 01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:37,800 Speaker 1: deal with Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson. Again, you have 2173 01:54:37,880 --> 01:54:40,760 Speaker 1: to already be implementing that end. But so that's that's 2174 01:54:41,240 --> 01:54:43,880 Speaker 1: that's really what I'm looking at. How you know, how 2175 01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:46,560 Speaker 1: are you going to contain him and not let him 2176 01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:48,760 Speaker 1: get outside of the tackle box to make plays against you? 2177 01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:53,320 Speaker 1: All right, Eric, thanks man, appreciate it, all right, no problem. 2178 01:54:53,320 --> 01:54:55,040 Speaker 1: Glad to join you guys. Yeah, good to see it. Well, 2179 01:54:55,120 --> 01:54:56,920 Speaker 1: we'll catch up with you down the line. Here. That's 2180 01:54:57,160 --> 01:55:01,160 Speaker 1: Eric Davis, former NFL cornerback for the Niners, thirteen years 2181 01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:04,320 Speaker 1: in the league and three time pro bowler, and he's 2182 01:55:04,360 --> 01:55:06,960 Speaker 1: the host of the Believe in forty nine Ers podcast. 2183 01:55:07,240 --> 01:55:10,880 Speaker 1: So if you're out there and you want to get 2184 01:55:11,320 --> 01:55:14,240 Speaker 1: the inside scoop on the Niners. There's your source, so 2185 01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:17,280 Speaker 1: good to spend some time with him. Yeah, I'm I'm 2186 01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:20,520 Speaker 1: really intrigued to see table inside, the kind of match up, 2187 01:55:20,760 --> 01:55:24,360 Speaker 1: match wits against one another and see who's got the 2188 01:55:24,440 --> 01:55:28,520 Speaker 1: upper hand there. It's the interesting thing that I always 2189 01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:32,360 Speaker 1: like as a player when coordinators and who Teddy Moore, Tabrota, 2190 01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:35,400 Speaker 1: Tom Bresion a hand and you know Nick Nikolau as well, 2191 01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:38,120 Speaker 1: our position coaches, and when they get up there in 2192 01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:40,560 Speaker 1: front of the room and they're they're installing the game plan, 2193 01:55:42,160 --> 01:55:44,080 Speaker 1: you always get an inkling about what they think about 2194 01:55:44,120 --> 01:55:46,760 Speaker 1: that other coordinator. You get an inkling about what the 2195 01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:50,160 Speaker 1: guy's opinion is or at least and you certainly about 2196 01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:53,320 Speaker 1: how their team plays. They said, listen, this is a 2197 01:55:53,320 --> 01:55:55,600 Speaker 1: team that we're playing that you know does A B 2198 01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:58,200 Speaker 1: and C and this is and they they got a 2199 01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:00,640 Speaker 1: couple of guys up here that are really problem or whatever. 2200 01:56:01,240 --> 01:56:03,920 Speaker 1: And they also they do a nice job mixing you 2201 01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:05,440 Speaker 1: know this kind of you get you get kind of 2202 01:56:05,440 --> 01:56:09,040 Speaker 1: a rundown of the other team's philosophy from guys who 2203 01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:12,440 Speaker 1: were in the business. I'd love to hear what Sala 2204 01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:15,160 Speaker 1: says about day ball and what day Ball says about 2205 01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:19,040 Speaker 1: him to his players. I think the interesting dynamic here is, 2206 01:56:19,080 --> 01:56:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, if you look at a lot of coordinators 2207 01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:23,760 Speaker 1: look at the other team's last four games looking for 2208 01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:25,920 Speaker 1: recent trends, what are they doing, what are they not doing. 2209 01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:30,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't until last week that we saw Josh run 2210 01:56:30,440 --> 01:56:33,120 Speaker 1: as much as he did ye against the Chargers, and 2211 01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:34,440 Speaker 1: I think it was due in part to the fact 2212 01:56:34,520 --> 01:56:36,320 Speaker 1: that you know, he had to ding the left shoulder, 2213 01:56:37,480 --> 01:56:38,960 Speaker 1: you know, from earlier in the season. I think they 2214 01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:41,160 Speaker 1: didn't want to expose him to extra hits, knowing that 2215 01:56:41,160 --> 01:56:44,920 Speaker 1: shoulder probably wasn't one hundred percent. And then last week 2216 01:56:45,440 --> 01:56:48,000 Speaker 1: he's no longer on the injury report, that left shoulder 2217 01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:50,240 Speaker 1: is good to go. And then oh, by the way, 2218 01:56:50,280 --> 01:56:53,760 Speaker 1: there's eight designed runs for him in the game. And 2219 01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:56,920 Speaker 1: I don't think that's by accident, not only in terms 2220 01:56:56,960 --> 01:56:59,000 Speaker 1: of the game plan for the Chargers, but it's something 2221 01:56:59,040 --> 01:57:01,640 Speaker 1: that they probably wanted to put on tape again because 2222 01:57:01,640 --> 01:57:04,480 Speaker 1: it's something else that that a defense has to plan 2223 01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:07,640 Speaker 1: for all week and prepare for. Um. When you got 2224 01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:10,560 Speaker 1: a guy like this, especially someone who can move that quick, 2225 01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:15,000 Speaker 1: who is that big, who shucks linebackers like you know people, Yeah, 2226 01:57:15,040 --> 01:57:17,280 Speaker 1: he's shuck leaves off of it. I keep going back, 2227 01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:19,520 Speaker 1: I keep going back to that. We laughed about it 2228 01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:22,640 Speaker 1: at the time that Rams game when Josh backed out 2229 01:57:22,680 --> 01:57:24,920 Speaker 1: as the winning drive, when he took the pent face 2230 01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:29,720 Speaker 1: mask penalty, he's steering defensive lineman into the other like 2231 01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:32,760 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're trying to get play with match 2232 01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:35,200 Speaker 1: box scars. He's like moving this guy over here to 2233 01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:37,680 Speaker 1: get him away, and then he changes the ball and 2234 01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:39,640 Speaker 1: throws it out of the back of the end zone. 2235 01:57:39,800 --> 01:57:44,280 Speaker 1: He takes the penalty. But that's how big and strong 2236 01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:47,400 Speaker 1: that dude is. And I haven't forgotten the Kyle van 2237 01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:50,920 Speaker 1: Noy shove him into the ground. Yeah. I mean it's 2238 01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:53,960 Speaker 1: like he was putting him in a planter. Yeah. Yeah, 2239 01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:57,840 Speaker 1: it's just and listen, not for nothing either. This is 2240 01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:00,800 Speaker 1: also the week where he got whisted up with Joey 2241 01:58:00,840 --> 01:58:04,120 Speaker 1: Bosa and the entire season was hanging in the balance 2242 01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:07,880 Speaker 1: and all of that. So, um, it's happened. It's happened 2243 01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:10,040 Speaker 1: a lot. And uh, you know we're seeing now van 2244 01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:13,160 Speaker 1: Noya from Miami and this is where that's when they 2245 01:58:13,160 --> 01:58:17,879 Speaker 1: that's when they they like blew this play dead. Yeah, 2246 01:58:17,920 --> 01:58:21,560 Speaker 1: and Uh, that's yeah, officials, I can't believe it, but 2247 01:58:22,480 --> 01:58:26,080 Speaker 1: continues to continues to a week two, it's still uh 2248 01:58:26,240 --> 01:58:30,760 Speaker 1: still chaps, Yeah, that's right. There's some stuff about this 2249 01:58:30,760 --> 01:58:33,400 Speaker 1: Bill's team now that other teams are looking at going. 2250 01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:36,320 Speaker 1: You know, like Eric Davis Um, he's like, man, I 2251 01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,600 Speaker 1: don't know, man, that scares me, you know, like you 2252 01:58:38,600 --> 01:58:42,280 Speaker 1: know they see Kyler Murray Russell Wilson, Um, this guy's 2253 01:58:42,280 --> 01:58:44,720 Speaker 1: a little bit different. They're all different. They're all different 2254 01:58:44,720 --> 01:58:47,000 Speaker 1: from each other. Yea, Kyler as quick as a hiccup. 2255 01:58:47,200 --> 01:58:51,360 Speaker 1: So Kyler out runs people and just and he's so 2256 01:58:51,560 --> 01:58:54,360 Speaker 1: shifty too. I mean he throws a little run you over, 2257 01:58:55,160 --> 01:58:57,320 Speaker 1: but he can also get the edge on Josh, can 2258 01:58:57,360 --> 01:58:59,000 Speaker 1: outrun you. But he's not gonna give you them. He 2259 01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:00,640 Speaker 1: gave a little bit. He'll give a little bit of that. 2260 01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:05,240 Speaker 1: But a he know Kyler Murder Russell Wilson's kind of guy. 2261 01:59:05,400 --> 01:59:08,800 Speaker 1: That guy plays quarterback like a snake. I mean, you slippery. 2262 01:59:08,960 --> 01:59:11,440 Speaker 1: He is so slippery. He it's like he's duck a 2263 01:59:11,520 --> 01:59:15,040 Speaker 1: shoulder right, So he backs up out, he'll back up 2264 01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:17,000 Speaker 1: out of the pocket. No one, there's nobody behind him. 2265 01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:19,360 Speaker 1: You know. He goes to the vacant area, and you think, well, 2266 01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:20,920 Speaker 1: how did he how did he know to do that? 2267 01:59:21,600 --> 01:59:25,880 Speaker 1: You know, that's that's slippery. You know, that's and that's 2268 01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:28,760 Speaker 1: why he's different than than Josh and different than Kyler. 2269 01:59:29,120 --> 01:59:31,720 Speaker 1: Break time for us. When we return, we'll finally get 2270 01:59:31,760 --> 01:59:33,560 Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet. Haven't done it yet, as we're 2271 01:59:33,600 --> 01:59:36,520 Speaker 1: checking to see which game you think is trickiest left 2272 01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:39,240 Speaker 1: on the Bills stretch run schedule aside from that Steelers game, 2273 01:59:39,560 --> 01:59:41,560 Speaker 1: and it's a pretty balanced vote so far. So we'll 2274 01:59:41,600 --> 01:59:43,640 Speaker 1: get to that when we return. Here on one Bill's Live, 2275 01:59:43,680 --> 02:00:00,760 Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown, 2276 02:00:00,800 --> 02:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker won Bills Live final half hour of the program, 2277 02:00:04,560 --> 02:00:08,080 Speaker 1: and we've been asking you through the course of today's show, 2278 02:00:09,880 --> 02:00:13,280 Speaker 1: other than the Steelers game, what is that trickiest game 2279 02:00:13,400 --> 02:00:16,920 Speaker 1: left on the Bills stretch run schedule? Here? Niners, Broncos, 2280 02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:22,440 Speaker 1: Patriots or Dolphins, And Steve I will tell you it's 2281 02:00:22,480 --> 02:00:25,960 Speaker 1: pretty balanced in terms of the tweet sheet voting to 2282 02:00:26,040 --> 02:00:29,080 Speaker 1: this point. There's a there is a front runner, Don't 2283 02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:32,320 Speaker 1: get me wrong. It's the Dolphins game in week seventeen. 2284 02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:35,720 Speaker 1: They're getting over forty percent of the vote, but Patriots 2285 02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:39,160 Speaker 1: getting a respectable thirty one percent of the vote, Niners 2286 02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:42,720 Speaker 1: getting twenty six percent of the vote, and nobody's worried 2287 02:00:42,720 --> 02:00:45,160 Speaker 1: at all about the Broncos. Some people, you know, you 2288 02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:48,080 Speaker 1: think about it. Some people are probably sitting there thinking, 2289 02:00:48,120 --> 02:00:51,160 Speaker 1: you know what, I think it's the Niners because they're 2290 02:00:51,160 --> 02:00:56,080 Speaker 1: the next one. We'll see. This is a good Niners 2291 02:00:56,120 --> 02:00:59,120 Speaker 1: football team. They're in the most competitive division in football. 2292 02:00:59,720 --> 02:01:02,160 Speaker 1: They're at the bottom of that division, but they were 2293 02:01:02,160 --> 02:01:06,200 Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl this past year. Yeah, how quickly 2294 02:01:06,280 --> 02:01:10,000 Speaker 1: we forget. But let's go to the tweet sheet, which 2295 02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:12,800 Speaker 1: is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official 2296 02:01:12,800 --> 02:01:16,920 Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and Tiffany leads 2297 02:01:17,000 --> 02:01:19,360 Speaker 1: us off today. She says, for me, it's the Patriots. 2298 02:01:19,800 --> 02:01:22,000 Speaker 1: You can never count them out and they're still mathematically 2299 02:01:22,000 --> 02:01:24,480 Speaker 1: alive for a playoff spot. They still have the mad 2300 02:01:24,560 --> 02:01:27,120 Speaker 1: genius coaching the team until he retires. They will always 2301 02:01:27,120 --> 02:01:29,240 Speaker 1: have a chance to make the playoffs, no matter the 2302 02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:31,640 Speaker 1: level of the talent he has. What do you think 2303 02:01:31,680 --> 02:01:34,000 Speaker 1: of that opinion? No matter the level of talent he has, 2304 02:01:34,040 --> 02:01:37,960 Speaker 1: you still think they're always a playoff threat. Yeah, yeah, 2305 02:01:38,040 --> 02:01:45,120 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's he takes guys that from yeah, 2306 02:01:45,160 --> 02:01:48,680 Speaker 1: off the scrap heat, Yeah, guys that don't jump off 2307 02:01:48,720 --> 02:01:54,360 Speaker 1: the page on a scouting sheet. Wes Welker, Julius Julian 2308 02:01:54,520 --> 02:01:58,280 Speaker 1: Edelman was a college quarterback. It can't say, you know 2309 02:01:58,440 --> 02:02:01,120 Speaker 1: now he's you know, he's been. He's got more stats 2310 02:02:01,280 --> 02:02:05,280 Speaker 1: in the playoffs than anybody at his spot. You know, 2311 02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:09,520 Speaker 1: they're just a ton of guys that just you know, 2312 02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:14,840 Speaker 1: they're and and yeah, that's it. I mean, certainly when 2313 02:02:14,840 --> 02:02:17,360 Speaker 1: he has players that are stars, like with Randy moss 2314 02:02:18,440 --> 02:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Um and Brady Gronkowski and I forget the I hate 2315 02:02:24,760 --> 02:02:27,520 Speaker 1: to say his name, but Aaron Hernandez. When they've got 2316 02:02:27,520 --> 02:02:32,040 Speaker 1: guys with physical talents, you can't beat them, you know, 2317 02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:35,000 Speaker 1: they unless they make a mistake or one of your 2318 02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:37,600 Speaker 1: guys does something extra special, you don't win. You don't 2319 02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:40,120 Speaker 1: beat those teams. And so I think they're always a 2320 02:02:40,120 --> 02:02:43,800 Speaker 1: factor in this and they're not by no means mathematically eliminated. 2321 02:02:43,880 --> 02:02:46,960 Speaker 1: You and I both voted for them today from Dinah. 2322 02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:49,440 Speaker 1: I think they all have the potential to be problematic, 2323 02:02:49,440 --> 02:02:51,920 Speaker 1: but I went with the Dolphins because we'll be holding 2324 02:02:51,920 --> 02:02:55,520 Speaker 1: out many starters because the division will be ours already. 2325 02:02:55,560 --> 02:03:00,360 Speaker 1: Ha ha, I like it. Yeah, that's there is some 2326 02:03:00,400 --> 02:03:03,960 Speaker 1: of that in there. Ye last year to the Jets, Yeah, 2327 02:03:03,960 --> 02:03:06,760 Speaker 1: I mean that was that was a forgettable thirteen to 2328 02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:10,840 Speaker 1: seven game. They killed me on my eleven and five predictions. Well, 2329 02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:14,600 Speaker 1: yeah they did. They did do that, and you know 2330 02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:16,800 Speaker 1: I've got them at twelve and four. They may do 2331 02:03:16,840 --> 02:03:18,440 Speaker 1: it again. I've said it already. I don't think that 2332 02:03:18,560 --> 02:03:20,560 Speaker 1: Miami game is gonna mean anything to the Buffalo Bills 2333 02:03:20,600 --> 02:03:23,600 Speaker 1: at that Bam. It may not, it may not, and 2334 02:03:23,640 --> 02:03:25,760 Speaker 1: that and I think that would be a welcome thing, 2335 02:03:25,880 --> 02:03:28,520 Speaker 1: a good thing. Give this team an extra week to 2336 02:03:28,840 --> 02:03:31,960 Speaker 1: you know, rest a lot of their regulars. That's that 2337 02:03:32,000 --> 02:03:36,120 Speaker 1: could be valuable because, as we know, only the number 2338 02:03:36,120 --> 02:03:39,000 Speaker 1: one seat is getting to buy, you know, with seven 2339 02:03:39,040 --> 02:03:43,320 Speaker 1: playoff teams in the conference now. So yeah, from Jack 2340 02:03:43,400 --> 02:03:45,520 Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, I know we beat them once, 2341 02:03:45,560 --> 02:03:48,440 Speaker 1: but I never count out the Hoodie and the Pats 2342 02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:52,560 Speaker 1: to ruin our lives and crush our dreams. Wow, that's 2343 02:03:52,560 --> 02:03:57,280 Speaker 1: a sentence, Oh the cow Jack, especially in Foxborough, which 2344 02:03:57,320 --> 02:03:59,760 Speaker 1: is our house of horrors this century. So I'll be 2345 02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:02,240 Speaker 1: nerve us about that one. No, one game plans for 2346 02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:08,160 Speaker 1: an opponent defensively better than the hoodie hard to argue. Yeah, 2347 02:04:08,240 --> 02:04:12,720 Speaker 1: but a sentence. Yeah, the Pats to ruin our lives 2348 02:04:12,720 --> 02:04:18,640 Speaker 1: and crush our dreams. Oh yeah, Jack needs therapy. There's another. 2349 02:04:18,720 --> 02:04:20,520 Speaker 1: Here's another one from Marty. He says the same thing 2350 02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:23,120 Speaker 1: I would say. The Patriots. They're obviously well coaching. It 2351 02:04:23,120 --> 02:04:25,440 Speaker 1: seems Cam is getting better. The forty nine ers and 2352 02:04:25,440 --> 02:04:27,520 Speaker 1: Broncos have too many holes in their roster. In Miami's 2353 02:04:27,560 --> 02:04:30,040 Speaker 1: getting there, but I think they're a year away. If 2354 02:04:30,080 --> 02:04:33,640 Speaker 1: Fits starts for the Dolphins, I'll be more concerned. Well, 2355 02:04:33,720 --> 02:04:35,720 Speaker 1: Fitz has always got a game up his sleeve, you 2356 02:04:35,760 --> 02:04:37,680 Speaker 1: know what I mean. You may get, you may get 2357 02:04:37,680 --> 02:04:40,600 Speaker 1: the Fitz may throw for four hundred and three touchdowns. 2358 02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:45,440 Speaker 1: It's either magic or tragic. And you know we'll see 2359 02:04:47,400 --> 02:04:49,720 Speaker 1: the NFL is better with Fits in it. That's all 2360 02:04:49,760 --> 02:04:55,640 Speaker 1: I can say. Just playing for somebody else, Yeah, right, gotcha, 2361 02:04:55,800 --> 02:04:58,520 Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm so, I'm I'm such a fan, 2362 02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:01,200 Speaker 1: but I don't know if I could live with him 2363 02:05:01,240 --> 02:05:04,800 Speaker 1: being a guy riding that roller coaster. But you're right, 2364 02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:09,480 Speaker 1: he's always got a game. Yeah. From Billie. Dolphins for sure, 2365 02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:12,800 Speaker 1: because fitz is very comfortable playing US or anyone for 2366 02:05:12,840 --> 02:05:15,680 Speaker 1: that matter. We all know they're gonna hype to his injury, 2367 02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:18,520 Speaker 1: so they can keep fitz he in without fan recourse. 2368 02:05:18,840 --> 02:05:22,280 Speaker 1: Plus it might be a division winning slash losing game 2369 02:05:22,320 --> 02:05:25,080 Speaker 1: at that point. So this is somebody that thinks it 2370 02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:29,400 Speaker 1: will be tight down the stretch here, um season nefarious 2371 02:05:29,440 --> 02:05:33,480 Speaker 1: motivation for Bills are eight and three, Dolphins seven and four. 2372 02:05:33,520 --> 02:05:37,840 Speaker 1: There's still just a game back. So well, yeah, and 2373 02:05:37,920 --> 02:05:42,120 Speaker 1: we had a head to head tiebreaker right now, right Yeah, 2374 02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:46,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not that I think that game 2375 02:05:46,360 --> 02:05:48,040 Speaker 1: is gonna be fun to watch, no question. I think 2376 02:05:48,080 --> 02:05:50,520 Speaker 1: because it we're gonna get a look at Tuah. He'll 2377 02:05:50,560 --> 02:05:52,000 Speaker 1: be back in Do you think it will be too 2378 02:05:52,080 --> 02:05:57,720 Speaker 1: in week seventeen he's healthy, Yeah, yeah, uh in week seventeen, Yeah, 2379 02:05:57,760 --> 02:06:02,040 Speaker 1: if he's not, If it's not Tah and he's healthy, 2380 02:06:03,080 --> 02:06:05,920 Speaker 1: because that's the question, like, if that game means something, 2381 02:06:06,040 --> 02:06:08,360 Speaker 1: who are they playing a quarterback? I mean they just 2382 02:06:08,400 --> 02:06:10,280 Speaker 1: brought Fits in for a two minute drill in a 2383 02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:13,280 Speaker 1: game against the Broncos two weeks ago, and he almost 2384 02:06:13,320 --> 02:06:16,640 Speaker 1: did it and he almost won. But that was just 2385 02:06:16,680 --> 02:06:18,840 Speaker 1: to win a game in the regular season. If you 2386 02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:20,880 Speaker 1: have if you have a must have game in week 2387 02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:23,080 Speaker 1: seventeen and you're the Dolphins, who are you playing a quarterback? 2388 02:06:23,080 --> 02:06:24,760 Speaker 1: Don't know? Let me see the let me see the 2389 02:06:24,760 --> 02:06:27,640 Speaker 1: four games playing now and there. Now you're an edging 2390 02:06:27,760 --> 02:06:29,920 Speaker 1: But if it was today, now your heads, it was today, 2391 02:06:30,200 --> 02:06:34,160 Speaker 1: and two is healthy? I ain't playing him. Yeah, you're 2392 02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:37,400 Speaker 1: playing Fits plays, Yeah, in a one off game to 2393 02:06:37,520 --> 02:06:41,480 Speaker 1: win to get in the playoffs. The and then you 2394 02:06:41,520 --> 02:06:43,040 Speaker 1: gotta figure out what you're gonna do in the playoffs 2395 02:06:43,040 --> 02:06:44,720 Speaker 1: if you're the Beards. But I'm telling you what, that 2396 02:06:45,880 --> 02:06:50,840 Speaker 1: is a very very dark room for the Dolphins to 2397 02:06:50,880 --> 02:06:53,160 Speaker 1: find themselves in when they've got a they've got a game, 2398 02:06:53,200 --> 02:06:56,360 Speaker 1: and they got a healthy toa and Fits his saye 2399 02:06:56,360 --> 02:07:02,280 Speaker 1: Fits wins this week? Yeah, throws for three bills. They 2400 02:07:02,320 --> 02:07:05,040 Speaker 1: got They got a big issue there because they there 2401 02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:07,960 Speaker 1: and I get it, the expectations weren't where they're playing 2402 02:07:08,040 --> 02:07:11,360 Speaker 1: right now. But if you're well, you win this week, 2403 02:07:11,360 --> 02:07:14,680 Speaker 1: you're eating four, that's a good season. You can't look 2404 02:07:14,680 --> 02:07:17,360 Speaker 1: at gift horse into mouth, you got I mean, yeah, 2405 02:07:17,440 --> 02:07:19,400 Speaker 1: put this guy over here on hold for a second. 2406 02:07:19,680 --> 02:07:24,720 Speaker 1: Well they're winning with him too. Yeah, not in the 2407 02:07:24,760 --> 02:07:28,400 Speaker 1: same way. No, not in the same way, of course not, 2408 02:07:28,480 --> 02:07:30,800 Speaker 1: but still, I mean, yeah, that's a huge man. That 2409 02:07:31,960 --> 02:07:35,040 Speaker 1: let's man, I'm gonna watch I'm gonna watch them like 2410 02:07:35,040 --> 02:07:36,520 Speaker 1: a hawk from now on. I want to see how 2411 02:07:36,560 --> 02:07:40,000 Speaker 1: that plays. From Chris on the tweet sheet, I think 2412 02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:42,400 Speaker 1: it's the Dolphins because that final game of the season 2413 02:07:42,480 --> 02:07:44,520 Speaker 1: might be for the division title. Hopefully the Bills have 2414 02:07:44,560 --> 02:07:46,400 Speaker 1: the division locked up by then, but you never know 2415 02:07:46,440 --> 02:07:48,240 Speaker 1: how it's going to go. A couple of tough games 2416 02:07:48,240 --> 02:07:50,880 Speaker 1: down the stretch, but we got this, go bolls, believe. 2417 02:07:52,360 --> 02:07:54,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if Chris is he's kind of waffling 2418 02:07:54,400 --> 02:07:56,120 Speaker 1: there a little bit, don't you think with his language 2419 02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:59,480 Speaker 1: name it Yeah, well yeah, hopefully, but maybe not. And 2420 02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:01,520 Speaker 1: it could be for the division title. A couple of 2421 02:08:01,600 --> 02:08:05,720 Speaker 1: tough games, but we got them, you know, go Bills. 2422 02:08:06,360 --> 02:08:08,560 Speaker 1: You know he's all over the place. Yeah, he's got 2423 02:08:08,560 --> 02:08:11,720 Speaker 1: a wedgie. He's straddling the fence, heel a toe going 2424 02:08:11,760 --> 02:08:14,040 Speaker 1: down the top of the fence right there, walking a 2425 02:08:14,080 --> 02:08:17,080 Speaker 1: tight rope. I'm with him though, a little bit of it. 2426 02:08:17,240 --> 02:08:22,240 Speaker 1: This is the Bills are better than the Dolphins. Yeah, uh, 2427 02:08:22,280 --> 02:08:25,360 Speaker 1: And they're better than a lot of the teams left 2428 02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:27,800 Speaker 1: on their schedule too. You can't say that about the 2429 02:08:27,840 --> 02:08:32,640 Speaker 1: Steelers because their record speaks for itself. But the Bills, 2430 02:08:34,000 --> 02:08:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, they're better than the Broncos right now, You'd 2431 02:08:38,320 --> 02:08:40,040 Speaker 1: say they're better than the forty nine ers because of 2432 02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:42,160 Speaker 1: the injuries at the forty nine ers in the record 2433 02:08:42,200 --> 02:08:46,560 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. The New England Patriots, uh, is 2434 02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:49,480 Speaker 1: that they're the kryptonite you know, of this team. So 2435 02:08:49,560 --> 02:08:51,960 Speaker 1: you can't just say, yeah, okay, they're they're five and 2436 02:08:52,080 --> 02:08:55,440 Speaker 1: six and they're they're gonna stink. They don't. And of 2437 02:08:55,440 --> 02:08:59,160 Speaker 1: course the Dolphins. I think the easiest, the easiest game 2438 02:08:59,160 --> 02:09:01,120 Speaker 1: on the schedule would be appear to be the Broncos. 2439 02:09:01,200 --> 02:09:06,680 Speaker 1: But after that, I'm throwing a dart at the Dolphins. Yeah, 2440 02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:09,280 Speaker 1: and this is the last week of the three week 2441 02:09:09,360 --> 02:09:13,040 Speaker 1: stretch of quote unquote easy games for Miami. They have 2442 02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:17,160 Speaker 1: the Bengals this week with their backup quarterback, but then 2443 02:09:17,200 --> 02:09:23,080 Speaker 1: they have the Chiefs, and I guess the hope there is, well, 2444 02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:25,839 Speaker 1: there they will be well we will still be battling 2445 02:09:25,840 --> 02:09:27,880 Speaker 1: for the number one seeds, so they will be playing 2446 02:09:27,920 --> 02:09:30,720 Speaker 1: with something to play for. Well, we got look at 2447 02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:33,160 Speaker 1: that though. If you compare the Bills to the Dolphins. 2448 02:09:33,760 --> 02:09:36,720 Speaker 1: They've got the Chiefs next week. The Bills got the Steelers. Yeah. 2449 02:09:37,360 --> 02:09:42,440 Speaker 1: To ten win teams, yeah, and they each face the Patriots. 2450 02:09:42,480 --> 02:09:44,720 Speaker 1: It's going to be a tight division race for the 2451 02:09:44,760 --> 02:09:49,040 Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Anyway. Yeah, all right, break time 2452 02:09:49,080 --> 02:09:51,720 Speaker 1: for us. When we come back, it's what have we learned? 2453 02:09:52,560 --> 02:09:58,040 Speaker 1: And we'll be recognizing a special Bills fan that deserves 2454 02:09:58,040 --> 02:10:00,440 Speaker 1: some recognition. We'll get to that when we return. Here 2455 02:10:00,480 --> 02:10:02,960 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo 2456 02:10:03,000 --> 02:10:21,400 Speaker 1: Bills Radio Time for what have we Learned? Brought to 2457 02:10:21,440 --> 02:10:24,440 Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of 2458 02:10:24,480 --> 02:10:27,200 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had NFL Networks Judy Bautista on 2459 02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:30,760 Speaker 1: earlier today and we really kind of got some enhanced 2460 02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:36,160 Speaker 1: four one one info on this whole COVID situation. You know, 2461 02:10:36,200 --> 02:10:39,280 Speaker 1: she's on those conference calls every week with doctor Sills, 2462 02:10:39,320 --> 02:10:43,440 Speaker 1: and the reason the game's happening is because they believe 2463 02:10:43,560 --> 02:10:46,520 Speaker 1: there's well, first of all, there's no infectious players on 2464 02:10:46,560 --> 02:10:49,800 Speaker 1: the field obviously, and that this infection took place before 2465 02:10:49,840 --> 02:10:52,360 Speaker 1: the enhanced protocols, which is why things kind of changed 2466 02:10:52,400 --> 02:10:54,720 Speaker 1: on the fly, so it's kind of interesting to map 2467 02:10:54,760 --> 02:10:59,760 Speaker 1: all that out going forward. And she also noted there 2468 02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:01,640 Speaker 1: was a plan in place for what the forty nine 2469 02:11:01,680 --> 02:11:03,720 Speaker 1: ers are dealing with right now too, which was interesting. 2470 02:11:03,800 --> 02:11:05,800 Speaker 1: They anticipated that that could happen. There could be a 2471 02:11:05,800 --> 02:11:08,120 Speaker 1: shutdown somewhere around the country that affects an NFL team, 2472 02:11:08,200 --> 02:11:10,120 Speaker 1: it forces them to move. And it would be obvious too. 2473 02:11:10,200 --> 02:11:12,120 Speaker 1: That's given the Bills the only team that plays in 2474 02:11:12,160 --> 02:11:14,040 Speaker 1: New York that they would be very attuned to what 2475 02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:17,400 Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo's doing, and particularly back in March and April 2476 02:11:17,480 --> 02:11:19,040 Speaker 1: when things would look like they were going to really 2477 02:11:19,040 --> 02:11:21,440 Speaker 1: shut down. But they may Bills may be thinking about 2478 02:11:21,480 --> 02:11:25,120 Speaker 1: having a plan now for them that happening to them 2479 02:11:25,480 --> 02:11:29,480 Speaker 1: if if you know, Erie County goes to a red 2480 02:11:29,560 --> 02:11:32,080 Speaker 1: zone instead of an orange zone or yellow zone or 2481 02:11:32,080 --> 02:11:33,680 Speaker 1: green zone something like that, if they if they lock 2482 02:11:33,720 --> 02:11:37,360 Speaker 1: it all down, that may be. That may be it's 2483 02:11:37,400 --> 02:11:39,520 Speaker 1: something the Bills have to do. Oh my gosh, Yeah, 2484 02:11:39,760 --> 02:11:41,880 Speaker 1: three weeks off in the middle of December. Just take 2485 02:11:41,920 --> 02:11:44,400 Speaker 1: off and leave your family. It's a tough road to hoe. 2486 02:11:44,760 --> 02:11:47,000 Speaker 1: I mean it just I mean, once they get settled. 2487 02:11:47,120 --> 02:11:49,320 Speaker 1: As Eric Davis was telling us, earlier on the show. 2488 02:11:49,360 --> 02:11:51,960 Speaker 1: You know they'll just get into their normal football game 2489 02:11:52,000 --> 02:11:56,080 Speaker 1: preparation week routine. But going home is going back to 2490 02:11:56,120 --> 02:11:58,440 Speaker 1: a hotel room where they're spending most of the day 2491 02:11:58,440 --> 02:12:01,760 Speaker 1: in virtual meetings. Anyway, holiday season, I mean, holy crow, 2492 02:12:03,280 --> 02:12:06,520 Speaker 1: that's going to take some doing that. We did want 2493 02:12:06,560 --> 02:12:09,920 Speaker 1: to take a minute or two to give a shout 2494 02:12:09,920 --> 02:12:12,800 Speaker 1: out to a special Bills fan that we lost way 2495 02:12:12,840 --> 02:12:16,440 Speaker 1: too soon. Chris Sura was a dedicated Bills fan lost 2496 02:12:16,520 --> 02:12:21,440 Speaker 1: a twenty one month long battle with brain cancer Thanksgiving Week. 2497 02:12:22,080 --> 02:12:24,800 Speaker 1: To say it was a courageous battle would be an understatement. 2498 02:12:25,120 --> 02:12:27,600 Speaker 1: Living in Rochester, he and his boys were regulars of 2499 02:12:27,680 --> 02:12:30,240 Speaker 1: training camp every summer at Saint John Fisher always made 2500 02:12:30,240 --> 02:12:32,280 Speaker 1: sure to say hi to me, and they were at 2501 02:12:32,280 --> 02:12:34,800 Speaker 1: Bills games both home and away. His affinity for the 2502 02:12:34,840 --> 02:12:37,760 Speaker 1: Bills and the way this season has gone for the 2503 02:12:37,760 --> 02:12:40,760 Speaker 1: team was a bright spot for him over these last 2504 02:12:40,800 --> 02:12:43,960 Speaker 1: few months of his cancer battle, and he was a 2505 02:12:44,040 --> 02:12:47,240 Speaker 1: daily viewer of our program here at One Bill's Live. 2506 02:12:47,320 --> 02:12:51,040 Speaker 1: So our condolences to his wife, Kim, and his three boys, Nathan, Braden, 2507 02:12:51,080 --> 02:12:53,400 Speaker 1: and Justin, and the rest of his family. We know 2508 02:12:53,520 --> 02:12:58,120 Speaker 1: Chris will be sitting right next to Poncho, Billa, Tim 2509 02:12:58,200 --> 02:13:01,760 Speaker 1: Russert and mister Wilson in the front row of the 2510 02:13:01,800 --> 02:13:06,080 Speaker 1: Bills section upstairs and pulling whatever strings he can to 2511 02:13:06,160 --> 02:13:08,880 Speaker 1: ensure Bill's victories the rest of the way this season. 2512 02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:12,240 Speaker 1: God speed to him. Just a tough loss gone way 2513 02:13:12,240 --> 02:13:14,840 Speaker 1: too soon at fifty two years of age, but a 2514 02:13:14,840 --> 02:13:17,760 Speaker 1: courageous battle there against brain cancer. Thanks for sharing that, Brown. 2515 02:13:17,880 --> 02:13:21,120 Speaker 1: I know that you attended his services. That's where you 2516 02:13:21,160 --> 02:13:23,280 Speaker 1: were on Monday when we were doing the show, Maddie 2517 02:13:23,280 --> 02:13:25,720 Speaker 1: and I and appreciate you sharing that with him. Nobody 2518 02:13:25,760 --> 02:13:29,360 Speaker 1: Bill's fan through and through, and they even, I mean 2519 02:13:29,520 --> 02:13:32,440 Speaker 1: even said people, they gave remarks that the service said, 2520 02:13:32,720 --> 02:13:34,640 Speaker 1: you know, he's probably sitting in the front row somewhere 2521 02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:38,040 Speaker 1: upstairs in the Bills section. He most definitely will be 2522 02:13:38,320 --> 02:13:41,080 Speaker 1: Bill's fan through and through. So just wanted to express 2523 02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:43,440 Speaker 1: our condolences to the family, gone way too soon and 2524 02:13:44,000 --> 02:13:47,000 Speaker 1: a tough week Thanksgiving week, and we'll carry on with 2525 02:13:47,080 --> 02:13:49,200 Speaker 1: them tomorrow. Actually we're gonna carry on. Peter King's gonna 2526 02:13:49,200 --> 02:13:51,000 Speaker 1: come on the show with us tomorrow. That's right. It's 2527 02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:52,680 Speaker 1: been a long time since we've had Pete on. It'll 2528 02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:54,720 Speaker 1: be nice to hear from him. Yeah, and we'll have 2529 02:13:54,760 --> 02:13:57,320 Speaker 1: our first practice update of the week. Nothing today because 2530 02:13:57,360 --> 02:13:59,720 Speaker 1: of the Monday night games, and a recap of today 2531 02:13:59,800 --> 02:14:02,240 Speaker 1: this afternoon's game that starts in about forty minutes. That's right, 2532 02:14:02,360 --> 02:14:05,120 Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens will recap that as well. All right, for 2533 02:14:05,160 --> 02:14:07,480 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, I'm Chris Brown. We'll catch you tomorrow here 2534 02:14:07,480 --> 02:14:08,280 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live