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Speaker 1: These One Bill's Live presented by Calida Help.

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Speaker 2: Good Evening, Bill's Mafia. Welcome to Round two of the

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Speaker 2: a f C Playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Here's the stat.

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Speaker 4: Alan's gonna keep it and run looking for the zone

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Speaker 4: and he's.

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Speaker 5: In Josh Allen, the feast has been released. It's a

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Speaker 5: five yard touchdown run per Buffalo Mahomes looking left pocket,

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Speaker 5: collapsing wide open and into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Who else? Travis Kelsey with a twenty two yard touchdown

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Speaker 4: reception on what.

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Speaker 5: Looked to be a blown coverage. Alan gonna keep it,

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Speaker 5: lowers his head and powers.

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Speaker 4: His way into the end zone.

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Speaker 5: Josh Allen turned into a bulldozer and went two yards

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Speaker 5: for the touchdown, his second rushing touchdown of the game.

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Speaker 1: And who might have better?

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Speaker 6: Cool said.

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Speaker 4: And by Mahomes under center Clyde Edwards.

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Speaker 2: A layer of the loan setback.

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Speaker 4: It's a screen to Travis Kelsey's trying.

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Speaker 5: To get the corner, lunges for the pylon and no.

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Speaker 4: And he signally he's got it.

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Speaker 7: It's a touchdown, a three yard touchdown by Travis Kelcey,

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Speaker 7: his second of the game on a tight end screen

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Speaker 7: to the left side, Gonna roll out to his left

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Speaker 7: go where to go?

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Speaker 4: Fires to the end zone zone and it's caught caught

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Speaker 4: in the end zone for a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: An unbelievable flick of the wrist from Josh Allen to

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Speaker 5: who else blue hands Khalil Shakir.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't drop anything.

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Speaker 2: Where's the snap? Give his to p Checko right up

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Speaker 2: the middle, cutting it back and he's into the end zone.

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Speaker 5: PSA rd between the lines, coming around the left side

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Speaker 5: where the head of steam as Hartman.

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Speaker 4: The ball comes out and it fumbled through the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Isn't a touchback, it is a touchback.

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Speaker 2: It's buffle ott ball.

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Speaker 4: Makes the handof throws it to Shakir. He's wide open.

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Speaker 5: Running down the left sideline, first down and four that

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Speaker 5: a bounds at the forty old, reliable Khalil Shakir with

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Speaker 5: a huge play to extend the drive.

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Speaker 2: Snap by Ferguson, hold by Martin, kicked by passes on

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Speaker 2: the way and it is no good, no good?

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Speaker 6: Why to the right?

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Speaker 2: He's mad and there is the last kneel down and

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Speaker 2: that will do it. The remaining twenty five seconds will

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Speaker 2: tick away as the Bills are only left thinking about

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Speaker 2: what could have been as their arch nemesis in the

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Speaker 2: playoffs strikes again the third time in four years, Buffalo's

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Speaker 2: postseason is ended prematurely by the Kansas City Chiefs. That

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Speaker 2: is your Toshiba game rewind Toshiba, the official copier company

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Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills. It is a blue Monday here

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Speaker 2: in Western New York, as another season has come to

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Speaker 2: an end for the Bills in the playoffs, and the

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Speaker 2: third straight season that it has ended in the divisional round.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve tasker with you to talk your way

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Speaker 2: through it. We've been therapists before on days like this.

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Speaker 2: We will do our best to serve in that capacity

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Speaker 2: again today for you phone number to get on board

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Speaker 2: eight oh three zero five fifty in the seven to

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Speaker 2: one six area code outside of the seven one six

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Speaker 2: area code one eight eight eight five point fifty two

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Speaker 2: five point fifty as we'll take your biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 2: this playoff defeat at the hands of a familiar opponent,

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Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs. Steve, where are you at first?

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Speaker 3: Blush, Yeah, East. They ran out of healthy bodies. Defensively,

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Speaker 3: they could not stop Pat Mahomes last night with a

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Speaker 3: lineup they were forced to play and as bold and

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Speaker 3: courageous an efforts. As the defensive players put forth. We've

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Speaker 3: seen it before and so is every other team that's

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Speaker 3: played the Chiefs. You just gotta you gotta be sound defensively,

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Speaker 3: not sound, you got to be almost spectacular defensively to

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Speaker 3: beat those guys, particularly in the playoffs. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the Bills they did what they could offensively. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they had seventy eight offensive plays. They stayed on the

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Speaker 3: field thirty eight minutes of possession time. But when Mahomes

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Speaker 3: got out there, they had eight plays of twenty yards

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Speaker 3: or more. They were just throwing it all over the yard.

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Speaker 3: The Bills had trouble communicating. I mean, the busted coverage

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Speaker 3: on the first touchdown to Kelsey is is case in

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Speaker 3: point number one. They just couldn't get you know, couldn't

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Speaker 3: get guys lined up every single time. And not only

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Speaker 3: do you have to line up right and know your assignment,

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Speaker 3: you got to play lights out. And the Bills couldn't

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Speaker 3: do that all the time. They couldn't play, they couldn't

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Speaker 3: playing lights out with the guys that they were that

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Speaker 3: were on the field. Defensively, the entire team tried to

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Speaker 3: tried to get through it together and tried to play

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Speaker 3: that kind of game, even get you know, even the

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Speaker 3: ill fated fake punt, you know, giving you that idea

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Speaker 3: that man, they got to go for it. And it's right,

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Speaker 3: it's true. They were I think two of three on

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Speaker 3: fourth down conversions in this game. Uh on third down conversions.

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Speaker 3: The Kansas City Chiefs had only five first third downs.

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Speaker 3: They only had five third downs in the entire game, and.

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Speaker 2: They only converted one of them.

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Speaker 3: But they didn't get forced a third down very often.

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Speaker 3: And Mahomes and Allen they're kind of you know, we've

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Speaker 3: seen it. They're two jokers cut from the same cloth.

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Speaker 3: You can't sack them. We had a couple of guys

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Speaker 3: get loose early in the game. Greg Russo looked like

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Speaker 3: he was gonna do it turns into a big first down,

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Speaker 3: an explosive play for the Chiefs. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 3: that's what teams look at when they when they make

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Speaker 3: those calls against Josh. They have those perfect defensive play

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Speaker 3: calls and it turns into a big play for the

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Speaker 3: Bills because of the quarterback. Both these clubs boast those

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Speaker 3: kind of players, the Bill, you know the drops on

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Speaker 3: the long balls. Yeah. Really frustrating for not just yeah

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Speaker 3: And you feel like you really missed out on some

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Speaker 3: opportunities that were there to be had.

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Speaker 3: And that's what it always feels like when you when

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Speaker 3: you exit the playoffs with a loss, You missed an opportunity.

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Speaker 3: You had a team that went put together an incredible

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Speaker 3: run to get there, got the two seed in the conference.

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Speaker 3: After all it was said and done, after the roller

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Speaker 3: coaster of a regular season, they played well against good teams,

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Speaker 3: seemed to play down to their competition when it wasn't

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Speaker 3: two seed. Uh, when it was all said and done,

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Speaker 3: one another playoff game. They seem to do that every

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Speaker 3: get to that final eight, the Bills have struggled to advance.

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Speaker 3: And it's been for different reasons. And this this next year,

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Speaker 3: they'll have a new group of guys, a very new

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Speaker 3: reminded bitterly you know this these teams every year, you

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Speaker 3: get one shot at it and no, and the Bills

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Speaker 3: are going home again.

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Speaker 2: Felt like the Bills had the right game plan to

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Speaker 2: milk the clock and run the ball. The plan worked

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Speaker 2: in the first half. They led seventeen thirteen at the

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Speaker 2: break almost two to one time of possession of your point, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Second half, if you want to criticize anything offensively, maybe

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Speaker 2: they could have thrown on first down and on those

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Speaker 2: timely downfield shots and plays were there to be made. Surefield,

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Speaker 2: two drops on big plays where he won on the

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Speaker 2: won on the route Alan, one missfire on the post

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Speaker 2: the final drive, he threw it flat footed and couldn't

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Speaker 2: up short. So you're missing on your primary downfield. You're

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Speaker 2: missing your primary downfield receiving Threatned Davis in this game,

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Speaker 2: out injured with the knee injury. Bills called some play

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Speaker 2: action on occasion and Alan just stood there begging for

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Speaker 2: somebody to be opened downfield, and it really never materialized

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Speaker 2: off play action last night. And so with the downfield

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Speaker 2: passing game not coming to fruition, the Bills used high

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Speaker 2: the sticks as best as they could. And as Steve said,

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Speaker 2: defense could not stop the Chiefs passing game Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: As we said, just five third downs, They're breaking off

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Speaker 2: yardage in big chunks the whole game, which only in

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Speaker 2: my estimation supported the intelligence of the Bills game plan.

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Speaker 2: McDermott tried to be creative. He used Saran Neil on

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey in a third down package from the first

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Speaker 2: series of the game. He had an alternate plan, knowing

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Speaker 2: how shorthanded they were going to be, he tried to

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Speaker 2: be creative. Defensive line disappointing, could not impact the game

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Speaker 2: at all. They were the healthiest group on the defense.

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Speaker 2: Ed Oliver did not make a play. Leonard Floyd invisible

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Speaker 2: for the last month of the season. Von Miller flashed

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Speaker 2: in this game. Greg russol I thought was one of

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Speaker 2: the only defensive linemen who had a solid game from

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Speaker 2: of his grasp, could not stop the run. No pressure

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Speaker 2: on Mahomes with the front four in a game where

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Speaker 2: they had to commit seven to coverage because of the

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Speaker 2: deficiencies back there and special teams hiccups. Again, it has

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Speaker 2: it has cost them football games this year. It's not

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Speaker 2: the only reason they lost last night, but it essentially

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Speaker 2: ended the game prematurely. And look, I'm gonna be the

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Speaker 2: first to say this, Okay, well, probably not the first

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Speaker 2: to say it. The Bills have a very good football team,

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Speaker 2: and I'm afraid of this. I'm afraid they're just playing

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Speaker 2: in an era where they may be in the same

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Speaker 2: conference as a Michael Jordan. Having personally lived through this

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Speaker 2: as a Knicks fan, I can tell you the Patrick

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Speaker 2: Ewing era Nix were good enough to win a title,

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Speaker 2: maybe a couple, but they had Michael Jordan in their conference.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes might be the Michael Jordan in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: He's gone to six consecutive AFC title games and he's

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Speaker 2: four and two in those, and he's an offside penalty

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Speaker 2: away from being five and one. Only Joe Burrow has

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Speaker 2: beaten him fair and square. So I know fans are

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Speaker 2: gonna call up. They're gonna say, we need a new vision,

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Speaker 2: We got to change something, We gotta do this. The

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Speaker 2: Bills aren't the only team that can't get over the

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Speaker 2: hump in the AFC. The Bengals got over once, and

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Speaker 2: the best QB in the history of the game, Tom

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Speaker 2: Brady got a lucky off sides call to get past

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Speaker 2: Mahomes to the Super Bowl. So this is not just

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Speaker 2: a Bill's issue as I see it. You may have

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Speaker 2: a different opinion. I don't. It's not just a Bill's issue.

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Speaker 2: It's an everybody can't beat Mahomes issue.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at the facts six can sect and look,

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Speaker 2: maybe Lamar beats him this weekend coming up.

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Speaker 6: Maybe he does.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that team's poised to get over the hump, and

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Speaker 2: I'll applaud him if they do. But Mahomes is the

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan of the AFC, and nobody can get past

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Speaker 3: And I'll say this too, it is We've said a lot.

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Speaker 3: You got to have that guy to get into the

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Speaker 3: into the dance and you get to the final eight

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the phones and see what you think.

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Speaker 9: I know if that's the point here, how much would

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Speaker 15: Is there maybe any benefit to change because we have seen.

438
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 9: So much continuity over the years. I mean.

439
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 8: Two systems that you two systems of thought that you

440
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 8: can have there. Sure, but I think you know, all

441
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 8: signs are still pointing up with this team.

442
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 6: I know.

443
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 8: It feels bleak and there's probably going to be a

444
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 8: lot of change, whether it's personnel, guys coming back, guys

445
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 8: not playing again. That's all speculation. That's nothing that I know,

446
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 8: nor can I you know, focus on to be honest,

447
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 8: I just got to continue to keep working hard and

448
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 8: bringing the guys that are here along and keep trying

449
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 8: to mesh everybody together. And you know, it takes an

450
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 8: entire organization, It takes every single person in this facility

451
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 8: to win the Super Bowl. And obviously we haven't gotten

452
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 8: it done yet. So some some good long looks in

453
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 8: the mirror and conversations with people that are in and

454
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 8: outside the building, just asking, you know, what can I

455
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 8: do more?

456
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 16: What?

457
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 8: What what can I be better at? And learning and

458
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 8: growing from that, And that's exactly what we're planning on doing.

459
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 9: Gosh that it's still fresh.

460
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Speaker 11: Do you worry about the window of opportunity for this team?

461
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 9: No, not at all.

462
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 11: Why not?

463
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 9: You know, I believe in the.

464
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 8: What we've got going on here and the people that

465
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 8: are in charge. I believe in myself and that'll never change.

466
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 13: Gosh, there's thirteen games in a row that stuff On

467
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 13: failed to reach one hundred yards to end the season.

468
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 13: What what went into his declining production as the year

469
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 13: went on And how do you guys reverse that?

470
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Speaker 17: Yeah?

471
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Speaker 8: Well, I think teams that were doing a good job

472
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 8: of playing too high and taking some thing is a

473
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 8: way that we were doing well or in the season.

474
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 8: I thought we ran the ball more and we're more

475
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 8: put more effort into the run game. And then I

476
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 8: missed a few throws early on in the season or

477
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 8: the middle of the season, late in the season that

478
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 8: could have changed the narrative about this whole thing. So

479
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 8: just getting back to to what we know how we

480
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 8: can play. And that's that's about it.

481
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 6: Heard all about that default.

482
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 9: I mean it's been shared on social media quite a bit.

483
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 9: It was this close. You guys talked about it all

484
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 9: after the game. No, I mean we were close. You know,

485
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 9: that's uh a close play. Who knows if it would

486
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 9: have impacted the game or not.

487
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 8: And again, you can't can't boil it down to one

488
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 8: play or two plays throughout the game. There's so many

489
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 8: opportunities that we had offense, defense, special teams, all three

490
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 8: phases that could have changed the outcome of the game.

491
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 8: So again, we got to find a way to to

492
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 8: put our best stuff on the field in these types

493
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Speaker 8: of games.

494
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Speaker 9: And I thought we were close. You know, I gotta

495
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 9: find a way.

496
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 18: Do you know what your off season plan is where

497
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 18: you work with Jordan or is all that still yet

498
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 18: to be determined?

499
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 8: Still still to be determined. Obviously, want to I want

500
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 8: to get back in the lab as soon as possible.

501
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 8: Still feel thurrill that you know, we're not practicing today

502
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 8: and didn't feel like our season was done yet, and

503
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 8: honestly still doesn't feel like that way. You know, I

504
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 8: feel like we we had a lot of good things

505
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 8: going in the right direction. You felt good throwing the

506
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 8: ball towards the end of the season, battling obviously some

507
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 8: some things early on, but just fell to a spot

508
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 8: right now where the ball was coming out really well

509
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 8: and going into this offseason and trying to hold onto

510
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 8: some of those those you know, swing thoughts if you will,

511
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 8: and then just movements and and try to try to

512
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 8: build off that going into this offseason.

513
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 13: Your part, Josh, regarding the shoulder injury, h anything it.

514
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 8: Has to have in this offseason that you know of, No, No,

515
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 8: you know, it just felt like it kept getting better

516
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 8: as the season went on, and especially these last probably

517
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 8: four weeks, felt like it. It didn't bother me at all. So, yeah,

518
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 8: I don't think there's anything going on. Surgery is off

519
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 8: the TA at the moment.

520
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 11: Yes, how much did you have to overcome during the

521
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 11: course you know earlier on when it was bothering you.

522
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 11: Now that we've reached this point, like reflecting on that.

523
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think if you talked to any any thrower, pitching, quarterback,

524
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 8: anytime you feel pain in your throwing shoulder or your

525
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 8: elbow or your hand, it's never never a good thing.

526
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 8: It's never comforting, and it can tweak sometimes how you

527
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 8: deliver the ball. And again throughout the season that's kind

528
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 8: of a mental gymnastic that sometimes you have to take

529
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 8: two of. All Right, the ball is not coming out

530
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 8: the right way mechanically, doesn't feel like me. What can

531
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 8: I do to fix this? Sometimes you revert to old ways,

532
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 8: but again continue to work hard and practice and just

533
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 8: trying to find the best way that it can. You know,

534
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 8: the ball can come out and like I said, sticking

535
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 8: to your some of your swing thoughts and different ways

536
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 8: you can talk to yourself and get back into that motion.

537
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 8: So again, feeling good about it right now. Yeah, gonna

538
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 8: have a good off season.

539
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 6: Hush.

540
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Speaker 11: At some point throughout the season, Sean drawing a lot

541
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 11: of criticism.

542
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 9: What do you think the job he did this season?

543
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 8: I thought he did a great job and I think

544
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 8: he had a lot on his plate this this year.

545
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 8: You know, us being six and six, having the confidence

546
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 8: in in the guys in this locker room. Never panicked

547
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 8: once throughout the season. You know, a lot of bs

548
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 8: that happened to off the field that shouldn't have happened.

549
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 8: But again, I think we rallied around him, and and

550
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 8: you know, he did a lot of really great things

551
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 8: for this team this last year.

552
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 11: Well, obviously understanding Chown is the head coach and you're

553
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 11: going to take division of head coach, do you feel

554
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 11: like your idea of what this offense should be is

555
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 11: in line.

556
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 8: With what his open Yeah, And I think he's grown

557
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 8: so much as a head coach, you know, as well

558
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 8: as me growing as a quarterback throughout the time that

559
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 8: I've been here, And you know, he's never never stepped

560
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 8: in the way of what you know, our offense should

561
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 8: look like. Obviously, he's got situations throughout the game where

562
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 8: he's got to make a decision for the betterment of

563
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 8: the team, But never once has he come into the

564
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 8: room and said, you got to run this play. This

565
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 8: is what our team needs to look like. You need

566
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 8: to run it forty times. It's never been been that way,

567
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 8: and I think his communication with especially with Joe this

568
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 8: last seven weeks was top notch in terms of, you know,

569
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 8: letting Joe kind of do what Joe needed to do

570
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 8: to put our off it's in good situations and him

571
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 8: trusting like even yesterday, I trusted us on that fourth

572
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 8: and one early in the game. You know, it stales

573
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 8: a lot of confidence in the offense and again, hit

574
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 8: a lot on us plate this year, and yeah, I

575
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 8: definitely think we're in line there.

576
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Speaker 6: Gosh, what are your reflections on Joe when with horrid softis?

577
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 19: Uh?

578
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I again, I know there's probably some

579
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 8: sort of interview process, and I'm sure he's going to

580
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 8: be asked to interview for a couple of different jobs,

581
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 8: whether it's head coaching or OC and you know, any

582
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 8: team would be lucky to have him, and hopefully we're

583
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 8: we're the lucky team.

584
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 19: A lot young players that developed from the year, Phil

585
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 19: help Osyrus James.

586
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: What does that developed mean for the open future of

587
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 6: the offense.

588
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's exciting to see what type of

589
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 8: group we can be. And you know, O Cyrus Torrant's

590
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 8: played every I think every single snap this year, which

591
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 8: for a rookie to do that after. You know, the

592
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 8: rookie wall is a real thing for so for him

593
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 8: to come out there and do that, I mean that

594
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 8: speaks volumes. He's going to be a heck of a

595
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 8: player in this league for a very long time, and

596
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 8: it's exciting to have him on our squad. And then again,

597
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 8: you look at you know, James and Khalil, young players

598
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 8: that have stepped up in a big way, and you know,

599
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 8: Dalton had a fantastic season as a rookie, and you know,

600
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 8: I only expect him to get better. So it's definitely,

601
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 8: you know, the future is bright for for these guys

602
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 8: and for myself included. And I'm just happy that, you know,

603
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 8: we've got a chance to play with these guys and

604
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 8: I think, uh, it could be pretty special moving forward.

605
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 9: I know this sucks and losing sucks, but a lot

606
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 9: of a lot to look forward to it.

607
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: She was asked about his future.

608
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 20: He sos, he got a lot of spawn track and.

609
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 8: It's the other guy that you're talking to, and make

610
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 8: sure that I hope so I've I've had him here

611
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 8: for quite some time now.

612
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 9: I love that guy.

613
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 8: Talk about a great man, husband, father, human being. You know,

614
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 8: he's on the top of the list when when I'm

615
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 8: asked about you know who those guys are in the

616
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 8: locker room. We've got a lot of love for him

617
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 8: and his family, and yeah, I would love to love

618
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 8: to have him back and hopefully he we can get

619
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 8: that done.

620
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 13: You feel like you and stuff are are in a

621
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 13: good spot, you know, on the field, off the field,

622
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 13: chemistry wise.

623
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's my brother. They'll never catch me

624
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 8: say anything other than a positive things. He's been such

625
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 8: a catalyst for this team in this offense over the

626
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 8: last four years.

627
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 9: He's he's done just things that I can't think him

628
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 9: enough for in my career.

629
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 13: So yeah, well, as somebody I know you were asked

630
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 13: kind of about the entire he's really kind of stepped

631
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 13: up in the last couple of weeks with uncertainty about

632
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 13: game because he had some free agency. What can Kualiil

633
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 13: do to take the next step become even a bigger

634
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 13: role in the offense.

635
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 8: I mean, he's just got to keep doing him, you know,

636
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 8: just you see the opportunities that he gets. And he

637
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 8: made some some unbelievable catches last night. He's made some

638
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 8: unbelievable plays these last few weeks. And again, just continue

639
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 8: to be him. He works extremely hard, he's very humble,

640
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 8: doesn't complain. He goes and does the dirty work, and

641
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 8: he'll go go get a linebacker, he'll get on an edge.

642
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 8: He's always around the ball like he's he's just a

643
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 8: guy that plays football the right way and he's just

644
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 8: got to keep doing that and his opportunity, more opportunity

645
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 8: will come his way and he's gonna make those those opportunities.

646
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Speaker 2: Thanks, all right, So that's Josh Allen addressing the media today.

647
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: Among the things that he discussed, thinks that the team

648
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: is on the right path going forward. Believes that their

649
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: offensive philosophy is good, although if Joe Brady stays on.

650
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: He gave them his voice of approval to Joe Brady

651
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 2: staying on as offensive coordinator. We'll see that goes in

652
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: the coming days and weeks, and yeah, is encouraged about

653
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: the future. He knows there are gonna be some tweaks

654
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: and changes, as there are every offseason, but generally likes

655
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: the path of things. Singing the praises of Khalil Shakir,

656
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: who was essentially the team's number one receiver for the

657
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 2: last month of the season, and said no plans for

658
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Speaker 2: any kind of surgery regarding his shoulder, which obviously got

659
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Speaker 2: dinged in the mid part of the season but got

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Speaker 2: better as the season war on, and said it felt

661
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Speaker 2: really good the last month of the season, So hopefully

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Speaker 2: he's good on exit physicals today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can see too, he's got to be

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Speaker 3: optimistic about where the thing's headed. And you're all gonna

665
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Speaker 3: we're gonna hear a lot this offseason. It's not gonna

666
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Speaker 3: be like it was two years ago, when the Bills

667
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 3: are the seat of preseason favorites and they're gonna have

668
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Speaker 3: to rebuild, and a lot of the any optimism that

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Speaker 3: comes back to the Bills this offseason gonna have to

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Speaker 3: do with Josh Allen and the young weapons they've got

671
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Speaker 3: around him. The offensive line is gonna come back intact.

672
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Speaker 3: All of that stuff is gonna be in place. But

673
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Speaker 3: there's gonna be some questions about the defensive side of

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Speaker 3: the ball how good it can be. But as long

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Speaker 3: as I mean, it's Josh, it's Patrick, Pat Mahomes, it's

676
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow some of the CJ strout.

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Speaker 3: As long as those guys are taking snaps, they're gonna

678
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Speaker 3: be in the conversation to be in the playoffs. They're

679
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Speaker 3: gonna be a hard teams to beat and the window

680
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Speaker 3: is gonna be open. So it's gonna be interesting to

681
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Speaker 3: see how they build this roster going forward with Ross.

682
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Speaker 3: But there's no question, there's no question Josh Allen should

683
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Speaker 3: be pretty optimistic about how it's gonna go.

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Speaker 6: Here.

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Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, but we'll get to your

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Speaker 2: phone calls when we return here on a locker clean

687
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Speaker 2: out Monday after the loss of the Chiefs in the

688
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Speaker 2: AFC Divisional Round. Will take a break and be back

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Speaker 2: with those here on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 9: Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: This week's Player of the Game is presented by Wegman's

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Speaker 2: download their app today and it is Khalil Shakir. Seven receptions,

694
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Speaker 2: forty four yards and the touchdown that kept the Bills

695
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Speaker 2: in the game, late and unlikely touchdown in the front

696
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Speaker 2: left corner of the end zone. Difficult catch to make and.

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Speaker 3: Six changes in this game, yeah, six of them. It

698
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: was exactly the kind of game we thought it was

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Speaker 3: probably gonna be. This catch on the two yard line

700
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Speaker 3: was an unbelievable catch. Nobody believed he caught it until

701
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Speaker 3: we saw the replay and he did. It was a

702
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Speaker 3: great call in this play when Josh rolls to his left,

703
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Speaker 3: which is not usual for him, throws this right down

704
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Speaker 3: at the pylon, Shakiri goes and gets it again. The

705
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Speaker 3: Chiefs can't believe Shakir caught the darn thing, and there's

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Speaker 3: no doubt he did. The film shows it and great.

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Speaker 3: It's just, you know, it's one of the sad moments

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Speaker 3: about this season ending. You don't get to see this

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Speaker 3: guy get better. You know, we saw him get better

710
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Speaker 3: right before our right, I mean, he started out as

711
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Speaker 3: an afterthought early in this season, then the coordinator change,

712
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he starts getting more catches and

713
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Speaker 3: he and it's been literally a month, month and a

714
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Speaker 3: half since he dropped a ball. It's just been fun

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Speaker 3: to watch and that he's not the only one. And

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Speaker 3: I was, you know, I was going through and a

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Speaker 3: lot of guys we found out about this year that

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Speaker 3: we didn't know about when it started, and this is

719
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Speaker 3: a franchise. He got to the number two seed in

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Speaker 3: the conference with guys who really stepped up you got

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Speaker 3: guys like you know, Terrell Dodson. We we didn't know

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Speaker 3: how good he was gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Khalil he improved as the season went.

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Speaker 3: He really did. Ed Oliver showed up this season. Now

725
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Speaker 3: this last game may be an exception, but he was.

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Speaker 3: He played outstanding football. Terrell Bernard.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, would we got a middle linebacker.

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Speaker 3: You might have cut your finger off to have that

729
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Speaker 3: guy in the game yesterday, right, Spencer Brown, best years

730
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Speaker 3: of pro Osirius Torrens, a rookie comes in and starts

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Speaker 3: every single takes every single There's a ton of guys

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Speaker 3: who developed and played really well this year that it's

733
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Speaker 3: gonna be fun to watch going forward. So it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's that's one of the sad things about it. You

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Speaker 3: don't get to see these young guys like Khalil, Shakir

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Speaker 3: and Osyrus and just get better and play better and

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Speaker 3: get more opportunities.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the phones, though, for your thoughts at

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Speaker 2: eight oh three oh five fifty and we go to

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Speaker 2: Bill in Old Forge to lead us off. What do

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Speaker 2: you got Bill?

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Speaker 16: Hey, guys, christ let me start by saying what you

743
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Speaker 16: guys said in the first twenty minutes of the show.

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Speaker 16: All that is completely one er percent true. I've been

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Speaker 16: telling family and friends that past I don't know since

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Speaker 16: the game i'd last night. Those are all great comments.

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Speaker 16: A few quick things exactly up for the season started

748
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Speaker 16: last year. It's almost karma he dropped that deep ball.

749
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Speaker 16: Hopefully he keeps quiet this offseason. Tyler Bass, I hope

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Speaker 16: he's not on the roster next year. I had to

751
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Speaker 16: fear he was going to miss a big kick in

752
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Speaker 16: yesterday's game, especially Chris, you were on the air talking

753
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Speaker 16: about his mechanics and yesterday I was like, thinking, they're

754
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Speaker 16: talking about a a a mechanic before a playoff game.

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Speaker 16: I don't know if I've ever heard that before. Albert

756
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Speaker 16: listening to Bills ready to like worried about mechanics. I

757
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Speaker 16: had a feeling he's gonna miss one. I wish they

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Speaker 16: had gone for the touchdown in that first drive of

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Speaker 16: the game instead of settle for a field goal, and

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Speaker 16: if they didn't get it, so be it. I thought

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Speaker 16: we needed more points. But regardless, this is this is

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Speaker 16: what I called about. Though obviously, like you guys said,

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Speaker 16: njerk reaction, I'm not that guy. I'm the stunt supporter

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Speaker 16: of McDermott. I think he's gonna have a job problem.

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Speaker 16: And you guys stated he's a great football coach, but

766
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Speaker 16: I'm getting pushed back by a lot of family and

767
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Speaker 16: friends say, man, we got to get over the help.

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Speaker 16: We can't just keep doing this. And it's not all

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Speaker 16: at McDermott's feet. And the only guy, the only guy

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Speaker 16: that is out there, and Devil Chuck's name is being

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Speaker 16: thrown out there. I'm not giving him GM power and

772
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Speaker 16: he's old. I do like Pete Carroll, but he's older.

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Speaker 16: The one guy that's available, and these coaches don't just

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Speaker 16: always become available one guy. And I love McDermott, but

775
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Speaker 16: this guy isn't upgrade in my opinion. And I think

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Speaker 16: if you pulled most Bills fans, they would sign up

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Speaker 16: for this. And my reason being was this, there's gonna

778
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Speaker 16: be ross their turnover. There's gonna be some almost hitting

779
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Speaker 16: a refresh going in the next year with this team.

780
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Speaker 16: There's no way around it with the cap and just

781
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Speaker 16: guys getting older in contracts ending if you're gonna refresh,

782
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Speaker 16: and I don't think Pool has got the guts to

783
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Speaker 16: make this move. But there's one guy available and why

784
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Speaker 16: would he not come here? I think at least kick

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Speaker 16: the tires on him. And I know what if bother McDermott,

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Speaker 16: if you did probably I don't know I Pogola would

787
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Speaker 16: do it. Jim Harbaugh is available, and that's the one

788
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Speaker 16: guy if you could get him to come to Buffalo.

789
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Speaker 16: You got Josh Allen here, why wouldn't he come here?

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Speaker 16: With the quarterback already in place, He's already looking at

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Speaker 16: Herbertson in Los Angeles. The one guy, the one that's it.

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Speaker 16: And it's not a shot on Sean McDermott. It's just

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Speaker 16: some coaches just just I think got a little more

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Speaker 16: to him. And that would be John Harbaugh. And my

795
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Speaker 16: question is this, do you think Poogola would think about

796
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Speaker 16: doing that? I know it's drastic, you could do it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand what you laid out there, Bill,

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Speaker 2: but I just don't.

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Speaker 3: I get your point. And yeah, Jim Harbaugh is a

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Speaker 3: great coach. It really is a good coach. And I

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Speaker 3: think that you were gonna say Mike Vrabel, you know,

802
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Speaker 3: because he's a hot, young, intelligent end of game, he's

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Speaker 3: kind of got everything that he's got. He's the guy

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Speaker 3: that you know that has what Sean doesn't, and Shawn's

805
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Speaker 3: got whatever he doesn't. But you know, Vrabel's another guy.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Jim Harbaugh is a is a really good coach.

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Speaker 3: I'm I mean, it's hard to switch horses in a

808
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Speaker 3: franchise when you're winning a playoff game every year, and

809
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 3: certainly only one is not gonna do it. And there's this,

810
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Speaker 3: and gosh, I can't believe it. I forgot I was

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Speaker 3: saying this at the end of last season. There is

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Speaker 3: no hump to get over. Okay, there is no hump

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Speaker 3: to get over. There's no hill to get over. You

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Speaker 3: guys got a play well on the day that you play.

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Speaker 2: And what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 3: This team, this season, this play, this team that lost

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Speaker 3: to the Chiefs yesterday is a different animal completely than

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Speaker 3: the one that lost the Bengals twelve months ago. And

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Speaker 3: that twelve months ago is a different animal than the

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Speaker 3: one that lost to the Chiefs twenty four months ago.

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Speaker 3: It's all different every year. There is no hump to

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Speaker 3: get over. Yes, you still have to get by Pat Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: You still have to get by Andy Reid, no question

824
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Speaker 3: about it. But it's a one time shot. It is

825
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Speaker 3: not an odyssey. The odyssey is about just getting the chance.

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Speaker 3: The hump is is his. It's a bad analogy. It's

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Speaker 3: a bad analogy. It's not like it's not a snowy

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Speaker 3: hill that you keep sliding down to the bottom of.

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Speaker 3: It's not like that. It's a different it's a different animal.

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Speaker 3: I get it. But yes, to your point, Bill, I

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Speaker 3: get it. There's there's always a guy that might be

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Speaker 3: the guy that would change things just enough, and the

833
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Speaker 3: mindset so that that Sherfield wouldn't drop two, steph wouldn't

834
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Speaker 3: drop one, Bass would make the kick right, that that

835
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Speaker 3: our defense somehow, some way wouldn't have been riddled with

836
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Speaker 3: injuries because Jim Harball was our coach, or that Josh

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Speaker 3: Allen would have turned the ball over nine times instead

838
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Speaker 3: of eighteen times, if Jim Harball was our coach, and

839
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Speaker 3: he would have had fifty six touchdowns instead of forty five,

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Speaker 3: forty six touchdowns. Whatever. I get all of that. I

841
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 3: get them that you want this thing to change. But you,

842
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Speaker 3: to me, the answer is absolutely no, absolutely no.

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Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, more of your phone calls.

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Speaker 2: When we come back on one, Bill's Live, stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen now has twenty one playoff touchdown passes, eyeing

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Speaker 2: Jim Kelly's Bill's career record. Alan is also second quarterback

848
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Speaker 2: in NFL history with at least twenty seven total touchdowns

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Speaker 2: in his first ten playoff games. The other one Patrick

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Speaker 2: Mahomes with thirty.

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Speaker 6: So there, you got to.

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Speaker 3: Get right back to the gives. It gives the phrase

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Speaker 3: what a time to be alive new meaning, doesn't it?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 2: Right, you kind of get the second quarterback in NFL history.

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Speaker 3: To do that, and he's getting a guy that beat

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Speaker 3: by the guys, the first guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got more. Let's get back to the phones, though,

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Speaker 2: I've got a lot of people holding want to get

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Speaker 2: to as many as we can. To Michael in Georgia,

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Speaker 2: we go, what's up? Michael?

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Speaker 21: Hey, guys, I've got I've got a question in a comment,

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Speaker 21: so real quick. I'm a pass to Shakira.

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Speaker 22: The pass attempt within the last two minutes.

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Speaker 21: I heard that I couldn't really see it, that that

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Speaker 21: his offensive lineman got pushed into him as he released

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Speaker 21: the ball. Is that is that what happened?

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Speaker 2: He was, Yeah, the space was closing and so Josh

869
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Speaker 2: couldn't step into the throw reset his feet. He had

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Speaker 2: to throw it flat footed. So that's why it came

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Speaker 2: up short.

872
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 21: Okay, now that's what I thought. Now with as far

873
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 21: as my comment, I'm pretty upset today. Of course, I'm

874
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 21: disappointed the Bills loss. But what's the most upsetting is

875
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 21: do people have such short term memories? Did they not

876
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 21: realize that this team was six and six? They had

877
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 21: faced all these injuries. You know, they lost two of

878
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 21: their best players on defense, they're getting banged up a

879
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 21: little here, and they're on offense. They've had a lot

880
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 21: of different issues. Six and six, they were counted out.

881
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 21: They wound up winning the e FC East. As we know,

882
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 21: they won six games in a row. And all these calls,

883
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 21: I think they're completely insane to call for, you know,

884
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 21: fiery McDermott, change the assays of coordinator. Even I think

885
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 21: it was choking the bulldog last night. Oh, they're running

886
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 21: too much over the last since Brady. They won six

887
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 21: games in a row. And it's not McDermott's fault that

888
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 21: the kicker missus, the kick that receivers dropped the ball.

889
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 21: Those are not mcdermin's fault. The punter is punting horribly,

890
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 21: and with all that, they're still in a position to

891
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 21: win this game or get the game into overtime. I

892
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 21: don't think mcservis out on the field playing. It's execution.

893
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 21: And granted there's a lot of issues. The other teams

894
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 21: are playing, they're trying to win, but I mean, any

895
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 21: idea to get rid of McDermott, it's like, you know

896
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 21: when we got rid of Phillips when the team went

897
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 21: to two playoffs two years in ago, went to the playoffs,

898
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 21: and then we go seventeen years in a playoffs drought.

899
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 21: We were losing in the playoffs. Losing teams don't go

900
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 21: to the playoffs.

901
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 22: Only winners do.

902
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 21: And you always have a chance to get to the

903
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 21: super Bowl if you're in the playoffs. Granted, I want

904
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 21: to do better, of course I do, but so does

905
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 21: this team, and so does McDermott. Guys, you're awesome. Thank

906
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 21: you so much for all you.

907
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 2: Dereck, thanks Miche.

908
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, anytime you go through a season like the one

909
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 3: the Bills did and you end it the way you

910
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 3: just did yesterday, where you kind of feel like it

911
00:46:54,800 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 3: was an enormously ripe opportunity. You got the Chiefs here,

912
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 3: you got them at home. Yes, your defense was nicked

913
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 3: up and you had, you know, all of the stuff

914
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 3: that goes into it. You're gonna get a lot of,

915
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: you know, emotional reaction from fans and even even media

916
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 3: guys who you know kind of usually try and kind

917
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 3: of steer it down the middle and see both sides

918
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 3: of it. Even media guys get caught up in it

919
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 3: because they, you know, like they become emotionally invested in

920
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 3: the team too. So everybody out there who's calling for

921
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 3: everybody to be fired or trading Josh Allen or whatever,

922
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 3: hiring a new head coach, I get it. I listen,

923
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 3: you're it's it's an overreaction. To me, it's a little

924
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 3: bit emotional, but I get it. I get it why

925
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 3: you want to fix things that were obviously broken. But

926
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: just because the game yesterday went the way it did

927
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 3: is not an indicative of the characteristics of the team

928
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 3: long term. Certainly, you can say, yeah, they always do this,

929
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 3: always do that, well, this ineration of this team. Yeah,

930
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 3: they they had some characteristics they do They did run

931
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 3: the ball well down the stretch and helped them to

932
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 3: win six games in a row, and it helped them

933
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 3: yesterday keep Mahomes off the field because they couldn't stop

934
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 3: them defensively. It was all part of a of a

935
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 3: plan that was well thought out and a lot of

936
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 3: it was well executed. But there were moments when they

937
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 3: couldn't live up to that or what it was going

938
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 3: to take to beat that team, and they lost as

939
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 3: a result of it. But I get the emotional you know,

940
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 3: the emotional reaction to it. People are bummed and they

941
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 3: want something done so they feel better about themselves going forward.

942
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 3: But this I think, when you sit back and look

943
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 3: at it, I think this coaching staff and the organization

944
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 3: they righted the ship when when it was faltering mid

945
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 3: season and they brought it down the stretch and got

946
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 3: to the number two seed of the conference because they

947
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 3: earned it. I mean they earned it. They had one

948
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: of the most difficult schedules out there. They went five

949
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 3: and one against playoff teams, a couple of couple three

950
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 3: of them were right down the stretch where they had

951
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 3: to win, and they and they swept them and they

952
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 3: got in. It was a two seed in the conference.

953
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 3: They finally got one more step towards getting you know,

954
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 3: beating the Chiefs in the playoffs by having a game

955
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 3: here in high Mark and these couldn't get it done

956
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 3: on the day they needed to because.

957
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 2: They're on their fifth and sixth lineas and fourth and

958
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: fifth outside corners.

959
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why they got some guys. They're telling me.

960
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 2: How many teams are putting a defense on the field

961
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 2: with their fifth and sixth linebackers, fourth and fifth corners

962
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 2: and are beating the Chiefs.

963
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 3: So there you go. I mean, it's uh, there's a

964
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 3: lot in that, and you're so have some grace for

965
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 3: the people who are losing their minds today and want

966
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 3: to blow up the stadium and everybody in it and

967
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 3: just you know, it's just give them a couple of

968
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 3: days to get over it and we'll start thinking about it.

969
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 3: It's it's a tough day to be a Bills fan

970
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 3: after yesterday, when you you know, when the the things

971
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 3: you point to are things that the Bills did to themselves, right,

972
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 3: not so much the injuries on defense, but you know,

973
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 3: drop passes, a miskicked, a miskick, you know all that

974
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 3: stuff that happened. It's really tough to sit here and see,

975
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 3: you know, a team like the one we were cheering

976
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 3: for all season. Do that to themselves at the end there.

977
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 3: That's just tough. So you're gonna get a lot of

978
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 3: emotional reactions. You got to kind of live with it.

979
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, more of your phone calls

980
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: when we come back to begin hour number two. A

981
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 2: little bit later. On Hour number two, we'll also hear

982
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: from Dion Dawkins in his locker room clean out address

983
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 2: to the media. All that coming your way. Next here

984
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live presented by Cold of Health. It's

985
00:50:38,200 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills Radio, the.

986
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Calllida Health.

987
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 2: All right, our number two here on a Buffalo Football Monday,

988
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 2: as the Bill season has come to an end once

989
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 2: again at the hands of the Chiefs for the third

990
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 2: time in the last four seasons, unfortunately. But we press

991
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 2: forward as we do after every one of these, and

992
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it with your phone calls, and we

993
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: go to Brian in Alabama.

994
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 9: Next.

995
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 2: What's up, Brian?

996
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 23: Hey, good afternoon fellas. How you guys doing do it

997
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 23: all right?

998
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 17: Yeah?

999
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 23: So just just watching last nice games to me. The

1000
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 23: game plan on offense was was good until obviously the

1001
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 23: second half I think they try to make Josh Allen

1002
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 23: more of a game manager, and I think that's because

1003
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 23: of the lack of true weapons on the outside. I

1004
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 23: know Shakira has been a good revelation him and Dalton,

1005
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 23: but I think the Chiefs was banking on that to

1006
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 23: get it tight towards the end of the game and

1007
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 23: force the Bills to go back to trying to spread

1008
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 23: the ball out, which they know that they couldn't. So

1009
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 23: with that being said, in my opinion, I really do

1010
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 23: think they need to do something drastic. But I'm more

1011
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 23: in the ompinion that they need to do something drastic

1012
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 23: in the draft. You have your quarterback for the next

1013
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 23: few years. Your offensive line is young, you have key

1014
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 23: pieces that are rookie contracts. On your defense. I know

1015
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 23: you'll have some holes in the back end somehow, but

1016
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 23: I really feel like they need to jump up and

1017
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 23: get a stud wide receiver. Give up give up your

1018
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 23: first two first first round draft picks for the next

1019
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 23: couple years. You're not going to need them. You're assuming

1020
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 23: that you're going to be a good team. You need

1021
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 23: to get They need to give Josh a true, true weapon,

1022
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 23: and that would make your care In my opinion, a

1023
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 23: stud slot receiver. I think teams with a good game

1024
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 23: plan could slow him down possibly, so with another stud

1025
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 23: wide receiver, I really think that would have helped that

1026
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 23: offense and that would have made it would have made

1027
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 23: last nice game look a whole lot different when it

1028
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 23: was time to really air the ball out. And then

1029
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 23: as far as the three catches, I mean the three

1030
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 23: drops that fans are talking about, I mean there was

1031
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 23: a low percentage plays. I mean, are we really thinking

1032
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 23: on a third and loan that Josh is throwing the ball.

1033
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 16: Deep to.

1034
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 17: Shrefield.

1035
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 23: I mean, we need the in between stuff and we

1036
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 23: need another wide receiver to make those type of plays.

1037
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 23: So that's all I got, all.

1038
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 2: Right, Brian Well said, I mean, I'll I'll be the

1039
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 2: first to tell you, Steve and I said here last

1040
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 2: year after the loss of the Bengals and said that

1041
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 2: they needed to get receiver talent and more weapons in

1042
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: what was very obviously in arms. The AFC and the

1043
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 2: Bills were behind in that arms race. Now where they

1044
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 2: were picking in Round one left them with no choice

1045
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 2: but to get the best tight end in the draft

1046
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 2: because the run on receivers had already happened and they

1047
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 2: traded up to do that to get Dalton Kincaid, who

1048
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 2: had seventy three receptions this year and has a very

1049
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 2: promising career in front of him. Shakiir emerges as I

1050
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: think the slot receiver for this team going forward, and

1051
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 2: I think he could be an elite number three guy

1052
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: in the slot. You need a one and you need

1053
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: a two. Stefan Diggs has trailed off in each of

1054
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 2: the last two seasons in the second half. Maybe it's

1055
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: a byproduct of them depending on him too much and

1056
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: the guys just flat out exhausted by the time he

1057
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 2: gets the second half of the season. I don't know

1058
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: what it is. I'm not smart enough and I'm not

1059
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 2: a coach to know the ex'es and o's as to why.

1060
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 2: But it's evident to me that you not only need

1061
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 2: to draft one, you need to draft two receivers potentially

1062
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 2: in the first three rounds, and augment this roster with

1063
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 2: more weapons for Josh Allen, so this offense can return

1064
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 2: to being the high flying attack that it was in

1065
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: twenty one and twenty two, more so twenty one, and

1066
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,879
Speaker 2: you can couple a dynamic running game with James Cook,

1067
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 2: who is also a receiving weapon. But you got to

1068
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: add weapons, and you have to do it now this year,

1069
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 2: and you have to do it with cheap labor, and

1070
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 2: that's in the draft. And fortunately for you, it's a

1071
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 2: strong receiver draft, so you're capable of doing that even

1072
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 2: if you do pick late in round one.

1073
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, I would agree with all of that.

1074
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 3: I think too, you might look at what the Chiefs

1075
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 3: were forced to do last year, not this year, but

1076
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 3: last year in twenty twenty two. They were forced to

1077
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 3: go very inexpensively defensively. They drafted a bunch of young

1078
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 3: guys and they hit. They played him, they had to

1079
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 3: play them. And I think if you're gonna draft guys,

1080
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 3: we've seen them draft people before, like a James Cook

1081
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 3: the only guy number one is the only high draft

1082
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 3: picks they play, or like Osirius Torrents played this year.

1083
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 3: Spencer Brown's been in there since he was drafted. Aj

1084
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 3: Epanessa played right out of the gate. All those guys drafted,

1085
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 3: but some of the other guys they were they have

1086
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 3: been hesitant to play. Kyrie Elam is a great example.

1087
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 3: James Cook is another great example. Guys that didn't get

1088
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 3: on the field right away. I'm all for it. But

1089
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 3: if you're gonna draft anybody, forget whatever position, wide receiver

1090
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 3: or whatever, you gotta get them. They got to be

1091
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 3: on the field. You've got to get something, and you

1092
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 3: got to let them develop through the regular season so

1093
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 3: that by the time you get to this point of

1094
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 3: the season, after you played literally nineteen games, they're you know,

1095
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 3: they're ready to be a pro. You know they're a

1096
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 3: pro then, right, so you can you can depend on

1097
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 3: them in big moments like you had yesterday. So I'm

1098
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 3: I'm all for it, but if you're going to do that,

1099
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 3: there has to be an understanding that they got to

1100
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 3: get on the field and you got to get benefit

1101
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 3: from them. You easing them in really shouldn't be an

1102
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 3: you gotta let them develop them kin k played right

1103
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 3: away this year. Yeah, and there have been some guys

1104
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 3: who have done it, but you know, certainly kyri Elam

1105
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 3: and James Cook did not.

1106
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 2: To Brian's point though, you know, he was saying he

1107
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 2: was in favor of the way the game plan was,

1108
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 2: and then when the Bills had to throw, they couldn't

1109
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 2: get the answers. You can talk about it being a

1110
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 2: low percentage play all you want. Three deep balls were

1111
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: well thrown by Josh Allen. They were accurate. They hit

1112
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 2: the player in the hands all three times. Stefan Diggs

1113
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 2: in the second half down the Bill sideline, Trent Sherfield

1114
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 2: once in the first half down the left sideline, and

1115
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 2: then once in the second half in between the safety

1116
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: and the corner perfectly places balls. They did not come

1117
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 2: up with them. And that's about eighty five to ninety

1118
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 2: yards of receiving and potentially one, maybe two touchdowns off

1119
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 2: the board for the Bills because you couldn't execute in

1120
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 2: the deep passing game. Receiver position has to get better.

1121
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 2: It must be upgraded this offseason with cheap labor in

1122
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 2: the draft.

1123
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 3: If there's a you know place, yeah, and you're right,

1124
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 3: Brian from Alabama, you're right it. It is a low percentage,

1125
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 3: But the low percentage is because it's easier to cover.

1126
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 3: You can ease the guy out about it's hard to

1127
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 3: get a guy you know a lot of separation. It's

1128
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 3: a long throw. It a little separation. When you when

1129
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 3: you nail it, you gotta make the play.

1130
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 9: You can't.

1131
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 3: You can't be the one to make a mistake. The

1132
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 3: defender can make a great play. He can stay hang

1133
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 3: in there. You can throw the ball up and see

1134
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 3: if your guy can make a play on it, no question.

1135
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 3: But when you get a chance, you gotta pull it

1136
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 3: in as a receiver. And that's and they just didn't

1137
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: do it yesterday.

1138
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 2: So you're right, it was a low percentage throws, but

1139
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 2: it's lack of execution. It wasn't that you gotta catch it.

1140
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 2: Gotta catch it, as simple as that. Let's go to

1141
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 2: Anthony in New York City. What do you got first, Anthony, Chris.

1142
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 16: Steve, listen.

1143
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 24: I don't blame mcdummock trying to keep the ball out

1144
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 24: of my home dance last night, trying to run the

1145
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 24: ball because he was just eating up our linebackers last night. Mahomes,

1146
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 24: he just up with didn't the last night. We couldn't

1147
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 24: stop it for nothing?

1148
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 3: Yeah right, we had Brownie said it. Brownie said it, Anthony.

1149
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 3: They had the fourth and fifth linebacker on the field,

1150
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 3: fifth and six, fifth and sixth linebacker on the field,

1151
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 3: and they had the third and fourth and fifth, fourth

1152
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 3: and fifth cornerbacks on the field. I don't say this too.

1153
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 3: I thought the defensive line needed to step up, and

1154
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 3: I thought the defensive line needed to carry more than

1155
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 3: their weight, and I thought they they fell short of

1156
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 3: that night.

1157
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 24: When was the passports last night?

1158
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was non existent. You really needed your defensive

1159
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 2: line to take control of that game, not only at

1160
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage against the checko, but on the

1161
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 2: edges where the Chiefs were perceived to be deficient. Juwan

1162
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 2: Taylor's the most penalized player in the entire league at

1163
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 2: right tackle, Donovan Smith at left tackle. And I'll give

1164
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 2: the Chiefs credit. They did game plan to address that.

1165
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 2: They knew it was a deficiency, and they went twelve

1166
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 2: and thirteen personnel an awful lot, and they had their

1167
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 2: tight ends chip to help and they did help. So

1168
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 2: credit to the Chiefs are knowing it was a liability

1169
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 2: and they had the bodies to address it. The Bills

1170
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 2: had liabilities, they just have the manpower to address it.

1171
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you got one guy starting who came off

1172
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 2: his couch two weeks ago, and you got another guy who,

1173
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 2: while he has improved greatly on defense through the course

1174
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 2: of the season, you know covering is not his forte.

1175
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 2: And they still tried to address it with different personnel usage.

1176
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 2: They had Saran Neil out there covering Travis Kelce in

1177
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 2: third down situations. You know, they've had Poyer in the

1178
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 2: dime package with Cam Lewis in center field, and it

1179
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 2: just was not enough. Simple as that. Let's go to

1180
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 2: on a sale next. What do you got for us, Matt.

1181
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 10: Hey, Chris Shrank, Steve Hey, listen, thank you so much.

1182
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 10: You guys did a wonderful job this season kind of

1183
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 10: talking us through the season. We had a we had

1184
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:18,439
Speaker 10: a little bit of a lull there going six and six.

1185
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 10: But you know, I think one thing Sean McDermott has

1186
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 10: taught us is like he's resilient and I think he's

1187
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 10: gonna come through this next season. It's going to be

1188
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 10: a challenge with all the free agency issues. But one

1189
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 10: thing about the game I want to notice this. I

1190
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 10: went to six games this year and Bill's mafia they

1191
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 10: affected every single quarterback and they just couldn't get to

1192
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 10: mahomes last night. It's too bad, but that's it. And

1193
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 10: I'll listen to what you guys have to say.

1194
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,959
Speaker 2: Thanks, Matt, I appreciate that. Uh glad you were listening

1195
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 2: all season long. Look you've got I'm just gonna say

1196
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 2: this because I know we're gonna take more calls, you know,

1197
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 2: about wanting a new vision and a change and all

1198
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 2: of that. Sean McDermott did more with less this season

1199
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 2: than maybe any other season as a head coach. I'm

1200
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 2: just gonna put this out there as an example to you. Okay,

1201
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 2: last year, Sean McDermott successfully navigated this team through a

1202
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 2: near death experience of one of their teammates and won

1203
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 2: a football game the following week, won a playoff game,

1204
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 2: and then lost a divisional playoff in a time where

1205
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 2: his team was in a state that maybe no other

1206
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 2: coach has experienced before, and he navigated his team through

1207
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 2: that and actually won a playoff game, which was shocking.

1208
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 2: This year, team is decimated by injuries, and not just

1209
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 2: regular injuries. We're talking three Pro Bowl caliber players for

1210
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 2: the balance of the rest of the season, Daikwon Jones,

1211
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 2: tra Davius White, Matt Malone, and there were others along

1212
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 2: the way. And he navigated this team out of a

1213
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 2: six and six abyss to win six consecutive games, including

1214
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 2: a playoff game, Deficient and shorthanded at a lot of positions.

1215
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 2: And I'm just going to pose this example to you

1216
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 2: as an alternative. Nick Siriani. Okay, head coach of the

1217
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 2: defending NFC champion Eagles. One of the most talented rosters

1218
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 2: in football. He has a couple of injuries, he has

1219
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 2: both coordinators changed. How'd they finish up this year? They

1220
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 2: lost five of their last six and made an abrupt

1221
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 2: exit in the playoffs. Okay, with a talented roster that

1222
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 2: had injuries. Sean McDermott did that this year and won

1223
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 2: the last six games and won a playoff game. So

1224
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 2: you know, you can tell me all you want. They

1225
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 2: need change, they need this, they need that.

1226
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 3: There are many.

1227
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 2: Guys capable of doing what he just executed with his

1228
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 2: football team down the stretch this season, and the defending

1229
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 2: NFC champion team couldn't do it with their head coach

1230
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 2: couldn't do it. So be careful what you wish for.

1231
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 2: It's all I'm gonna say. I mean, seriously, it's all

1232
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say. Let's go to Scott and Tanawanda next

1233
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 2: you're up.

1234
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 22: Scott, Hey, guys, great show. There's three players that I'm

1235
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 22: kind of wondering about whether or not they will be

1236
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 22: on this team next year. The first two Poyer and Hide.

1237
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 22: I think that they're starting to show their age a

1238
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 22: little bit, and I'm not sure they'll be here. The

1239
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 22: third player might surprise you, guys, But do you think

1240
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 22: Stefan Diggs will be back on this team next year?

1241
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 2: Well, his contract kind of indicates that he will. Bills

1242
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 2: really can't get out from under that contract until next

1243
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty five. Now, the two sides can

1244
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 2: always come to the table and renegotiate things and make

1245
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 2: it look different, So I suppose that's an option. Hyde's

1246
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 2: contract is up. He was asked today about his future.

1247
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 2: He said it's too early to determine that. But knowing

1248
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 2: his history of neck injuries and knowing he'd be in

1249
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 2: during his age thirty three season, I think he knows

1250
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 2: as well as anybody. He's much closer to the end

1251
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 2: of his career than the prime. And I think he

1252
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 2: could probably say the same for Poyer. Although Poyer may

1253
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 2: have had his best game of the season last night,

1254
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 2: he was the best defensive player on the field and

1255
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 2: it wasn't even close for the Bills. He looked like

1256
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 2: twenty eight year old Jordan Poyer last night. He was

1257
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 2: really phenomenal. I think there's still a place for Poyer

1258
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 2: on this roster, maybe in a different type of role,

1259
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 2: maybe not as a starting safety per se. Maybe he's

1260
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 2: a nickel linebacker maybe or a dime linebacker or something

1261
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 2: like that, because he excelled in that role for this

1262
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 2: team this season when they had to make changes with

1263
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 2: Milano out for the year. Yeah, there are going to

1264
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 2: be some players that were the foundation of this roster

1265
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 2: when Sean McDermot came here in twenty seventeen that are

1266
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 2: just simply going to age out. They're going to age

1267
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 2: off of this roster and there are going to be

1268
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 2: some hard decisions that are going to have to be made.

1269
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 2: As for Diggs, and I'll let you weigh in on this, Steve,

1270
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 2: but I think there are some real concerns about whether

1271
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 2: or not Diggs can be a number one receiver for

1272
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 2: this team going forward. I still think he can be

1273
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 2: a contributor on this team, be a very good number two.

1274
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 2: But if he's going to be your number two on

1275
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 2: this team, he can't be making twenty four million dollars.

1276
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's no question that you can start

1277
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 3: to see, and particularly if it comes around that they

1278
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 3: do grab a high level guy either in the draft.

1279
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 3: However they get one. I think you can make the

1280
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 3: case because the guy's thirty one, are going to be

1281
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 3: thirty one this year. He turned thirty this year. There's

1282
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 3: always kind of that line of right at this point,

1283
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 3: everybody kind of has this line of demarcation. When guys

1284
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 3: get to that age, they start to tail off because

1285
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 3: of the pounding you take training for games, let alone

1286
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 3: playing in games. So you can see an easy path

1287
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 3: toward an evolution of Steph Diggs's role in the offense.

1288
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 3: Either he you know, he's not the number one option

1289
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 3: every time. You're not gonna get nine thousand targets.

1290
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 2: He wasn't that over the last six games in the

1291
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 2: season and already, and.

1292
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 3: I think now he played up to it. In the

1293
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 3: first half of the season. He was getting one hundred

1294
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 3: yards of a game. But you can see there what

1295
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 3: happens when just because of the grind of the season,

1296
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Speaker 3: he can't keep doing it. He wears out. He exactly,

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01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 3: he wears out. So that's why they start giving all

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01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 3: these guys vet days, veteran rest days and stuffing. He's

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Speaker 3: exactly that reason. So you can see a path toward

1300
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 3: Steph's Diggs role evolving as the season wears on and

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01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 3: like you start out where you got this hot shot

1302
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 3: others receiver, where you draft, you draft a kid number

1303
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 3: one in the first round. He's he's like a Julio

1304
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 3: Jones type, whatever you want to call it. In the

1305
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 3: first half of the season, Diggs is the number one,

1306
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 3: and then they start to trade places a little bit,

1307
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 3: and it evolves in at the end of the season

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01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 3: when you get back to this point, he got this guy.

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01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:16,759
Speaker 2: We were asking for that to happen last year.

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01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 3: Right, So that's kind of where I see this thing headed.

1311
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 3: In a perfect world. Nothing's ever perfect, we'll see, but

1312
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 3: I don't think there's any question.

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01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 2: You have to start considering that the season really takes.

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,640
Speaker 3: Its toll on a guy when you get in you know,

1315
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:34,640
Speaker 3: when you get up in age. And Diggs has been

1316
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 3: going hard every season, you know, since he's been here

1317
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,759
Speaker 3: and when he was in Minnesota. So he's he's deep into.

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01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 2: It, right And as we've said, his own work ethics

1319
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 2: sometimes is his own worst enemy. He wants to be

1320
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 2: at practice, he wants to bust it out every single rep.

1321
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 2: And you know, he's entering his age thirty one season,

1322
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 2: and each of the last two second halves of the year.

1323
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 2: The last two years we've seen a dramatic drop off

1324
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 2: in his production. I just think the guy gets worn

1325
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 2: out because they've leaned on him enormously through the first

1326
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 2: half of the season because they didn't have any other answers. Now,

1327
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 2: fortunately for the Bills, Kincaid and Shakir stepped into larger

1328
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 2: roles in the second half of the year, but Diggs

1329
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 2: had Diggs was exhausted. I mean, he's taking himself out,

1330
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 2: his snap counts down. The guys wiped out because they've

1331
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 2: been leaning on him so heavily in the first half

1332
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 2: of the season. They have to get more answers so

1333
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 2: the load that he has to pull is not so

1334
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 2: daunting and heavy for a guy that's going to be

1335
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:30,720
Speaker 2: in his h thirty one season Next year. Let's go

1336
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 2: to Stuart in Florida next well, we got Stuart.

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01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 17: Hey, guys, John Hooper here, let's see, I was at

1338
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 17: the game yesterday and I have season tickets and last

1339
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 17: year being at Cincinnati, I agree with what you said

1340
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 17: earlier to a near death experience, and it's like you

1341
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 17: could feel that you could have put a pit in

1342
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 17: a balloon on the Bills team last year. But this

1343
01:09:54,840 --> 01:10:00,040
Speaker 17: year's team. What I see nice house first, i'd I

1344
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,760
Speaker 17: think we need to revamp the receivers. I agree with

1345
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:05,640
Speaker 17: what Steve just said that Diggs is no longer a

1346
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 17: number one. He doesn't have to speed or whatever the

1347
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 17: old age father times catch it up. He'd be a

1348
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:15,560
Speaker 17: good too. Gave Davis has to go, sheffields has to go.

1349
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 17: You could see Josh yesterday and being there he hadn't

1350
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 17: nowhere to go.

1351
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 23: With the ball.

1352
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 17: Yep, these guys weren't open. And lastly, you're not gonna

1353
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 17: like this. I don't think we're ever gonna win with

1354
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 17: McDermott because he's not a good game day coach when

1355
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 17: he goes up against guys like Andy Reid. I watched

1356
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 17: him being out coach yesterday. Granted, I agreed that we

1357
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 17: were totally decimated by injuries with you know, in the

1358
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 17: last six games of the year and then the beginning games.

1359
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 17: In fact, I went to the London game last this

1360
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 17: pad past year, and right in front of me when

1361
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 17: Milano went out and five minutes later daikwon Jones, it

1362
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,639
Speaker 17: was like, oh my god, but that's all I listening

1363
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 17: to you guys, and I'm broken hearted. But man, I'll

1364
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 17: tell you what. And then listening to on the plane

1365
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 17: coming home and I'm just fuming with this get up,

1366
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 17: this Ryan Clark going on with who else was there?

1367
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 17: Rex Ryan and Greenberg and I forget the other guy,

1368
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 17: and you know the way they're all blaming Josh and

1369
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 17: it isn't him. Because lastly I'm going to say is

1370
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 17: I won't ever forgive McDermott for thirteen seconds. That's all

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01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 17: I have to say.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, thanks for the call, appreciate it.

1373
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 3: And I'll say this, and I'll say that this is

1374
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 3: my take on old the McDermott talk about that, and

1375
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 3: I think this is the same guy that came in

1376
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 3: and we all know that he's the guy that built

1377
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 3: the program back up from the drought era to go

1378
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 3: taking Rex Ryan's players in the drought area that were

1379
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 3: that couldn't get out of their own way to the playoffs.

1380
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 2: You couldn't get a same roster, couldn't get eleven people

1381
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,639
Speaker 2: on the field, same same roster.

1382
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 3: This guy gets them to the playoffs. Then you go

1383
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 3: and you're right, they build it, They get the right

1384
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 3: players and they start to build and they had that

1385
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 3: thirteen second game, and let me tell you something I've

1386
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,839
Speaker 3: seen and I think I think you. Even his critics

1387
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 3: would have to acknowledge the guy is a different coach

1388
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 3: now than he was two three years ago, certainly before

1389
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 3: he is. He does things differently on game day than

1390
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 3: he did three years ago.

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01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 2: He's the first guy to admit that he has flaws.

1392
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 2: He did it in an open press conference. And he's

1393
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 2: tried to make good on the mistakes that.

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Speaker 3: He absolutely and his mindset that he has always preached

1395
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:42,560
Speaker 3: and we all everybody kind of like poop poos. It

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01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 3: is this growth mindset. It's a real thing. All those

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01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 3: He'll go back and not too many people do this

1398
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 3: outside of football, or maybe outside of the broadcast industry.

1399
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 3: When you go back and listen to yourself on the

1400
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 3: air or watch yourself. These guys go back and watch

1401
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 3: the game. They think about where their staff was talk

1402
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 3: and how they were talking on the sidelines, what decisions

1403
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 3: they were making and when and where, and they talk

1404
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 3: about why it worked, why it didn't work, what did

1405
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,720
Speaker 3: it mean in the overall ski all of that. It's

1406
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 3: hard to do because you know, particularly in the game

1407
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 3: like yesterday, it doesn't make you look all that good.

1408
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 3: But they go back and they pull all that apart

1409
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 3: and they chew it up and they you know, they

1410
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 3: own all the mistakes they made, whether they were conservative

1411
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,759
Speaker 3: mistakes or aggressive mistakes or just playing wrong play calls.

1412
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 3: They do all that. And my take on all this

1413
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 3: stuff is, if you bring another coach in here, certainly, hey,

1414
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 3: maybe they'll be good at that, but their team's gonna

1415
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 3: stink around them. They're gonna have their own problems. You're

1416
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 3: not gonna get a guy in there that's gonna be perfect.

1417
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,600
Speaker 3: So I this guy that the Bills have now is

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01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 3: a guy that has, along with all of us, has

1419
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 3: taken it on the chin and taken a couple of

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01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 3: gut punches and learn from it. I don't want to

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01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 3: throw all those lessons away, have him, befire him, go

1422
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 3: to the New York Jets and use him against us,

1423
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 3: because he would he would. Uh, I get it. There's

1424
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:16,560
Speaker 3: a there, and we had a caller earlier. Let's go

1425
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 3: get Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, okay, Jim Harball is a great coach.

1426
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 3: But you're not thinking. You're telling me this team right

1427
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 3: here would take a leap forward. Not it wouldn't take

1428
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 3: any step back. There would never be a year where

1429
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 3: they step back away from it, not make the wild guard,

1430
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:35,560
Speaker 3: new defense, new defense, new coaching staff, all of that

1431
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 3: new getting to know each other, having the having grown men,

1432
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 3: trust the guy. They would never take a step back

1433
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 3: from that. But you want to take a step back

1434
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 3: thinking that when it when you after taking the step back,

1435
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 3: you're gonna right back to this spot. I think it's unlikely.

1436
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:55,839
Speaker 3: I gotta say, I think it's unlikely.

1437
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 2: We have to take a break here. When we come back,

1438
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 2: we'll get to your phone calls and we'll also get

1439
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,600
Speaker 2: to Dion Dawkins and his locker clean out address to

1440
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 2: the media here on One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.

1441
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:26,600
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, time for us to

1442
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 2: go around the locker room here on this locker clean

1443
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,360
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01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:36,679
Speaker 2: donor network. As promised, here is offensive tackle Deon Dawkins.

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01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 6: Dean, how do you reflect on this season as a whole?

1446
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 9: I think.

1447
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 25: As a as an organization, which I speak about as

1448
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 25: a whole. You know, like we've did things that we

1449
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,679
Speaker 25: said we were gonna do, and then we did things

1450
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 25: that we said that we wanted to do, but they

1451
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 25: didn't do, which was the Super Bowl. When it comes

1452
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 25: down to it, right, we were six and six at

1453
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 25: one point, the world counted us out.

1454
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 6: Everybody turned in their back.

1455
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 25: Then we went on a run and won every game,

1456
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 25: won the division, hosted two playoff games home, which we've

1457
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 25: never done, and you know, ended like how we ended,

1458
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 25: which you know, we continue to go head to head

1459
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,639
Speaker 25: and toe to toe with the best of the best,

1460
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 25: which it shows us that we are right there. You know,

1461
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 25: it sucks, truly to hear that every year that we're

1462
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 25: right there. But it's hard to be right there every

1463
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 25: year with teams that change every year, you know, like

1464
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 25: the question will get asked like, oh, the team won't

1465
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 25: be the same, Yes, the team will not be the same,

1466
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 25: but we continue to get to a place that the

1467
01:16:57,479 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 25: world won't think that we're gonna get to every year.

1468
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 25: So uh, I think that that's a big r reflection

1469
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 25: of our coaching, of our like organization McDermott, Cromer, the coaches,

1470
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 25: and you know, the energy that is surrounded by in

1471
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 25: this place that keeps us going.

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01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 6: I think in the past what you've been getting to

1473
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 6: the I don't have the answer yet.

1474
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 11: And you talked about the team changing day.

1475
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 26: Who's definitely if we here insers Josh Challen, what type

1476
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 26: of season.

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01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 6: Did he have and what's left entertained for him?

1478
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 25: Josh, Shoot, Josh had the best season it man, Listen,

1479
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 25: if I could tell you Josh had a MVP season, right,

1480
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 25: Josh had an MVP season based off of numbers, based

1481
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 25: off of skill, based off of you know, presence on

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01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 25: the the football field, based on all of that.

1483
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 9: Like I.

1484
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 25: Like people were talking about interceptions, like, oh, he's not

1485
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 25: a VP guy because it in like of the interceptions.

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01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 6: But when it comes down to it, the offense has

1487
01:17:57,640 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 6: been on the field.

1488
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 25: Deificantly more than these other teams, Like our team has

1489
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 25: been on Our offense has been on.

1490
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 6: The football field.

1491
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 25: He's had significantly a larger amount of passes than the

1492
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 25: regular person.

1493
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 6: So when.

1494
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 25: You're on the field throwing the ball more, the percentage

1495
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 25: of error is going to go up. And hey, man,

1496
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 25: like he's throwing like interceptions and we've won games.

1497
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 6: So I don't care.

1498
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:34,719
Speaker 25: I think that Josh is the MVP of our team,

1499
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 25: of our league, of our everything, you know, and he

1500
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 25: shows it, you know, and and it sucks that we lost, but.

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01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 6: That performance that the kid put on yesterday was crazy.

1502
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 25: It's insane, Like, hey, man, I love ball and I

1503
01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 25: give credit where credit is supposed to be. And Josh Allen,

1504
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 25: he's the quarterback that I would love to block for

1505
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 25: for the rest of my life, for ever, Like, he's

1506
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 25: that guy, man, and he makes it easy for all

1507
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:08,639
Speaker 25: of us to play football. Selfishly, he makes it easy

1508
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,639
Speaker 25: for us to play ball. And I'm seventeen man, seventeen

1509
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 25: tat it.

1510
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:17,920
Speaker 11: So, yeah, you worry about the window of opportunity. I mean,

1511
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 11: you know, salary cap things, just a lot of factors, right.

1512
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 11: Steph has kind of acknowledged this, he did earlier on

1513
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,639
Speaker 11: training camp and Josh said, no, but you were there's

1514
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 11: a window for a team as far as getting to

1515
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 11: the Super Bowl and winning him. Are you concerned about

1516
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 11: the time associated with that getting short?

1517
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 6: I think that's a great question. I think that that

1518
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 6: window of opportunity definitely shows itself on paper, right, and.

1519
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:48,680
Speaker 25: Then you go through a season and that window of

1520
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 25: opportunity can show itself through heart and effort. And I

1521
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 25: think with the people that are here that are driving

1522
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 25: the spirits of our team, our window of opportunity will

1523
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 25: always be there. You know, as long as we like,

1524
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 25: as long as we have at McDermott as our coach,

1525
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 25: I'm confident in everything that we have to do to win.

1526
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 6: You know, like, as long as the old line has

1527
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 6: chromer and and and Austin, I'm.

1528
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,040
Speaker 25: Telling you, we are gonna are gonna be like, Okay,

1529
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 25: as long as we have our receiving coach and our

1530
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,560
Speaker 25: running back coach and and our D line coach, and

1531
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 25: our guys that are here, even our DV coach, Like,

1532
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,880
Speaker 25: as long as as our guys are here, that's controlling

1533
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 25: the pieces and controlling how we are coached.

1534
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:42,640
Speaker 6: I think that that window is it's never shut. You know.

1535
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 11: You brought up the offensive line and we've had these

1536
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 11: endsies and news conferences where line of scrimmage has been

1537
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 11: an area of concern or an issue. But the progress

1538
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 11: and talk about I guess the old line is a

1539
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 11: group this year and maybe the progress in the consiste.

1540
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 6: You really want me to talk about the old line, well, look,

1541
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 6: I'll talk about it. The old line is.

1542
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,560
Speaker 25: I'm biased, the old line is the best group of

1543
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 25: our team, the D line and the Old line. I

1544
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 25: think that our trench battle capability is insane. Like the

1545
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 25: fact that we drafted a rookie, and the rookie played

1546
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 25: every single snap. All right, don't turn your head to

1547
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 25: that because that's crazy, like like like I'm sorry, like

1548
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 25: like that's crazy. He played every single snap at the

1549
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 25: highest like like like he's a legend, Like come on,

1550
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 25: like people don't like do that as a rookie. And

1551
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 25: then you have Spencer that went through what he had

1552
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 25: went through and you know, I don't know, Spencer balled out.

1553
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 25: We got Connor from a whole different team people like

1554
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 25: an organization that I guess like like didn't want him,

1555
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:56,799
Speaker 25: and now he's my left guard and he played balls

1556
01:21:56,880 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 25: to the wall, Mitch, Dad, that is great. You know,

1557
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 25: Dad just stays Dad truly, like he just stays Dad.

1558
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 25: He stays consistent. And then you got me right, And

1559
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 25: every year, I'm I'm taking steps. I'm gonna take a step.

1560
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 6: Every year.

1561
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 25: I'm taking a step every year that I'm here, and

1562
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 25: I would continue to step. And for the people that

1563
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 25: are following and I'm and letting me lead in my way,

1564
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 25: they're learning and it's trickling over to the old line,

1565
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:28,759
Speaker 25: whether it's me and Mitch, if it's me, if it's whoever,

1566
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:31,719
Speaker 25: Like as a unit. We are doing what we're supposed

1567
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 25: to do. And I'm thankful. I am truly thankful. And

1568
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 25: I started this off and I said, you know, Josh

1569
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,439
Speaker 25: makes it easy to play football. Josh makes it easy

1570
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:46,639
Speaker 25: to play ball. And he's he's got us out of trouble.

1571
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 25: He's made mistakes disappear, he's made days that we might

1572
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 25: have not looked the greatest make us look the greatest.

1573
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 25: So I think, truly this is an offensive room from

1574
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 25: top to bottom, from our practice squad guys to the

1575
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 25: top of the room. I think that that this is

1576
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 25: the best room that I've ever been been a part of.

1577
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 25: And uh not that, and I think, like I know

1578
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 25: that this is the best room that I've ever been

1579
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 25: a part of. And uh, this old line is the reason.

1580
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 25: Like we are the reason why we had an opportunity

1581
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:25,679
Speaker 25: to step closer to our goal. Uh we're not fully

1582
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 25: the reason why, but we are in good grace of

1583
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 25: why we've had the opportunity because we've been available. And

1584
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 25: I tipped my hat to those other four guys, and

1585
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 25: even our guys that are in pads waiting, like on

1586
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 25: the sideline, like Bet and Vandy, like those guys, and

1587
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 25: and and even Dave, Dave, our swing guy, those like

1588
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,720
Speaker 25: those guys have have done a great job all year,

1589
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 25: and uh, you.

1590
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 6: Know it's sad that we couldn't get it done.

1591
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,639
Speaker 25: But you know, like those guys done, done, done, shown

1592
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 25: it man, and I'll ride with them and they'll ride

1593
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:04,600
Speaker 25: with me.

1594
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 6: But the old line is definitely a staple of this

1595
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 6: football team.

1596
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,760
Speaker 18: You're very in tune with this community. Yeah, you know

1597
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 18: how their emotions are with this team, how they are tied.

1598
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 18: There's a lot of hurt people today. They're feeling bad

1599
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,600
Speaker 18: about everything that happened. You are too, I'm sure. But

1600
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 18: what you've always been good at giving the message in

1601
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 18: whatever way? What would be the message to Bill's fans today.

1602
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 6: And Bills monfie from you?

1603
01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 9: So?

1604
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 6: Uh message, the message that I would give is if

1605
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 6: you never.

1606
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 25: If you've always believed, Hopefully we've given you a reason

1607
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 25: to believe just a little bit more from where we

1608
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:54,439
Speaker 25: were at, from where we started, from where we hit

1609
01:24:54,479 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 25: a low, and from how we finished. Hopefully you're still

1610
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 25: believing because we believe in you guys as much as

1611
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:05,639
Speaker 25: y'all believe in us. And the way that y'all came

1612
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,799
Speaker 25: like like to that stadium yesterday, it was it was amazing.

1613
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:15,520
Speaker 6: So just keep fighting, you know, just keep fighting, please, because.

1614
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:21,679
Speaker 25: It takes it takes your strongest punch, and it takes

1615
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 25: the strongest positive energy to create the powerful punch. So

1616
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 25: if you're with us, stay with us. If you're not,

1617
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 25: you know, good luck to wherever you're going, simple as that.

1618
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 25: But you know it's Bill's it. Bill's my fit here,

1619
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 25: So love you guys, all right.

1620
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 2: As Dion addressing the media this afternoon on locker clean

1621
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 2: out day, and you heard him resoundingly in favor of

1622
01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 2: not only Sean McDermott, but his offensive line coach Aaron Kromer,

1623
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 2: among others. He feels that as long as those guys

1624
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 2: are coaching the pieces, that their window remains wide open.

1625
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 2: Let's try to squeeze in a phone call. Here we

1626
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 2: go to Brad in New York. What do you got

1627
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 2: for us?

1628
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 3: Brad?

1629
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 27: Hey, guys, thanks for having me on. Thanks for everything

1630
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 27: you're doing today. I know it's a rough day for

1631
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 27: all of us. I do want to thank the team

1632
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 27: as well, the players. No one expected them to make

1633
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 27: it this far, especially midway through the season. I don't

1634
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 27: think any of us question their effort. We really just

1635
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 27: have a couple of thoughts, curious what you think. One

1636
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 27: for the offensive side, one for the defensive side. Offensively,

1637
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 27: I think we're in a great spot for next year.

1638
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 27: I really think we need a spark. A guy like

1639
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:40,360
Speaker 27: Tyrie Hill would put us over. No doubt everyone knows

1640
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 27: that is there any way to get a player like

1641
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,679
Speaker 27: and Tyreek Hill added to this team with Sepon Dicks.

1642
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 27: I'll listen. Also on the defensive side, von Miller a liability,

1643
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 27: a fraud. I know we're in deep with that contract,

1644
01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:59,320
Speaker 27: but I'm curious of what your thoughts are there as well.

1645
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 27: I'll I'll hang up and listen.

1646
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Brad. I mean, look, we've said it before.

1647
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 2: You can't really get out from under the von Miller

1648
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 2: contract until next year at this time. Now those two

1649
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 2: sides can come to the table and maybe renegotiate something.

1650
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 2: And you could probably do the same thing with Diggs,

1651
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 2: whose contract you really can't get out from under until

1652
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 2: next year as well. Maybe their roles are such now

1653
01:27:20,880 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 2: going forward where they won't be as prominent, and maybe

1654
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:28,719
Speaker 2: you can renegotiate and reduce their cap figures and invest elsewhere.

1655
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 2: As far as a Tyreek Hill type player. You can't

1656
01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 2: afford one on free agent market. You just can't. I mean,

1657
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I don't even think they

1658
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:38,879
Speaker 2: can afford to keep date Gabe Davis on a resign,

1659
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 2: you know, on a resign in a second contract. So

1660
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 2: in my estimation, it's a strong draft at receiver, and

1661
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 2: I think you go find an alpha male in the

1662
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 2: draft and then you draft another one before Day two

1663
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:53,479
Speaker 2: is over and really reload and give your quarterback who

1664
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 2: can hit any point on the field with his arm,

1665
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 2: receiving targets that can catch the football and separate on

1666
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 2: a consisit basis you have to reinvest with youth here,

1667
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 2: talented youth that's ready to step into a major role

1668
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 2: right away. Those guys are at the top of the draft.

1669
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 2: There is a bounty of them this spring. That's where

1670
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 2: you have to go.

1671
01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 3: As I see it, Yeah, the only way you're going

1672
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 3: to get a guy like Tyreek Hill is a draft one.

1673
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 9: That's it.

1674
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 3: That's the only way you can afford one. And and

1675
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 3: if there is are there are guys like that in

1676
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 3: this draft, get them and uh, that's the best way.

1677
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 3: So and yes, Brownie addressed the Vaughan thing as well.

1678
01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 3: But you're right, Brownie, and I've been talking about it,

1679
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you've been listening, Brad or not,

1680
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:43,559
Speaker 3: but this, yeah, you need weapons. I think you're still

1681
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 3: in an arms race in the AFC. You got to

1682
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 3: find a way to score and score a lot and

1683
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 3: move the football a lot.

1684
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:49,240
Speaker 11: Uh.

1685
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:51,600
Speaker 3: Their offensive line is pretty much intact, not only in

1686
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 3: the front but also right behind him, with guys under

1687
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 3: contract like Ryan Bates is still in her contract. So

1688
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 3: you've you've got those guys front of your offense is

1689
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 3: pretty solidified, but you can dress it up. You're gonna

1690
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 3: lose Gabe Davis probably in free agency. He's gonna become

1691
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 3: a free agent. He'll get some offers, and I you know,

1692
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 3: I think you got to go through the draft and

1693
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 3: keep keep on keeping on and do what you can

1694
01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 3: do with the defensive side of the football.

1695
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, more of your phone calls

1696
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 2: when we return on a Buffalo Football Monday here on

1697
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 2: One Pills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1698
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 2: I want to get right back to the phone calls

1699
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 2: with a lot of people holding, so let's go to

1700
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 2: Peter in Buffalo next and pull him up here.

1701
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 15: I could if I would have, if I would have

1702
01:29:50,040 --> 01:29:52,560
Speaker 15: dove into it ahead of time, I probably could have.

1703
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:56,920
Speaker 2: But I mean, okay, I guess Peter was having a

1704
01:29:56,960 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 2: different conversation. So we'll go from Peter over to Marty

1705
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 2: in Buffalo. What do you got for is Marty?

1706
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 26: First of all, I want to thank the w GR

1707
01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 26: guy for taking my call.

1708
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 25: Uh.

1709
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 26: First of all, I think maybe he mentions before I

1710
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,280
Speaker 26: missed the beginning to show the Bills definitely missed the

1711
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:16,519
Speaker 26: receiver Davis.

1712
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 16: Yeah.

1713
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 26: Yeah, it wasn't surprising. Two great quarterback performances from both teams,

1714
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 26: and I thought maybe Josh just kept putting the pressure

1715
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,719
Speaker 26: on the homes and he uh, he seemed to answer

1716
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 26: it all the time. And thirdly, uh, the missfield though

1717
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 26: actually the Bills I think were fortunes would be only

1718
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 26: to be behind by three points, especially with the fake

1719
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 26: punt and the and the defense Buffalo defenseman knocking the

1720
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:53,519
Speaker 26: ball into the end zone on the one yard line

1721
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:57,599
Speaker 26: ye from the research reserve running back from the Chiefs,

1722
01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 26: and also the tight end, the buff full tight end

1723
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 26: knocking Josh's fumble to those out of bounds and and

1724
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 26: when Josh Allen scores, he got to get his lady

1725
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 26: friend in a press box because I got tired of

1726
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 26: looking at Taylor Swift. And fifth, finally, bless you guys

1727
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 26: and your families going forward, Thank you God, bless you too.

1728
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 2: Look, the ball was bouncing around and fortunately none of

1729
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 2: them resulted in turnover. There was a third one that

1730
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 2: Spencer Brown jumped on at the end of the game too,

1731
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:35,599
Speaker 2: So yeah, the ball was out there a few times

1732
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 2: and fortunately the Bills didn't turn it over. Uh and

1733
01:31:38,560 --> 01:31:40,680
Speaker 2: got to turnover for all intents and purposes with the

1734
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 2: touch back through the fumble in the end zone the

1735
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 2: Jordan Poyer forced. But yeah, back and forth game. As

1736
01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 2: Steve mentioned, six lead changes, So it was that kind

1737
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 2: of game. The Bills just came out on the short

1738
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 2: end of it because they didn't connect on three or

1739
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 2: four plays and didn't hit a field goal to try

1740
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 2: to extend the game and tie to Towe. And as

1741
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 2: we've said, the thin margins in the regular season get

1742
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:07,200
Speaker 2: even thinner in the postseason. You're playing the best teams

1743
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 2: in football. If you don't convert and you don't execute,

1744
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:13,200
Speaker 2: you end up on the short end of the scoreboard

1745
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 2: at the end of the game.

1746
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 9: It's just the way it is.

1747
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:18,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that happened. That has happened to the Bills

1748
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 3: in each of the last four seasons. After playing so

1749
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:23,960
Speaker 3: well in the wildcard round in all four of those seasons,

1750
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 3: they they can't get past the divisional round. And it's

1751
01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 3: not just the Chiefs either. The Cincinnati Bengals came in

1752
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:31,599
Speaker 3: last year, although last year was a little bit different

1753
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 3: because of the Deamorrow Hamlin situation. But yeah, it's you know,

1754
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 3: you gotta play well on that day.

1755
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 2: Let's go to Carl in Depew next. What do you

1756
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:42,160
Speaker 2: got for us?

1757
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 15: Carl Hi, Guys, could talking to you a couple of things.

1758
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:54,599
Speaker 15: This stuff with McDermott. Let me tell you something. He's

1759
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 15: a plaus he's gonna be here. He's our coach, and

1760
01:32:58,479 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 15: all these Monday morning quarterbacks forget about it, okay, because

1761
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 15: he did the job for us.

1762
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:06,560
Speaker 16: It's not his fault.

1763
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 15: That we got decimated the way we did.

1764
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:10,799
Speaker 17: With players.

1765
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 15: We're a couple players short on offense, and we're a

1766
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:17,720
Speaker 15: couple of players short on defense. And you know the

1767
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 15: old game, Steve offense wins games, defense wins championships, and

1768
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 15: we don't have nobody like a brute smith on that

1769
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 15: defensive line that can put the pressure on. Because the

1770
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:35,799
Speaker 15: only thing that I seen yesterday was I don't believe

1771
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 15: that they showed up. The defensive line showed up. They

1772
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:43,600
Speaker 15: didn't put enough pressure on Mahones. That makes your linebackers

1773
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 15: look not so good. In your cornerbacks and the rest

1774
01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:49,600
Speaker 15: of the whole defense, you got to get pressure, and

1775
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,759
Speaker 15: we haven't put the pressure on the way we should.

1776
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:57,879
Speaker 15: And that's and as far as offensive receivers, the draft

1777
01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:01,639
Speaker 15: is loaded with a lot of really really good ones.

1778
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 15: I just hope we can find the right one. And

1779
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 15: that being said, will be we shall return, We will

1780
01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:11,280
Speaker 15: be back.

1781
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 3: Thanks Carl. Yeah, you're right, and I think you're right.

1782
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 3: There is you know, there's we've talked about it today.

1783
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 3: When you kind of put last season away for two

1784
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:25,960
Speaker 3: seconds and yesterday away for two seconds, and you think

1785
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 3: about what's going to look like, you start coming up

1786
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,560
Speaker 3: with blank spots and the roster and you're gonna have

1787
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:33,519
Speaker 3: to fill those and how you fill those and what

1788
01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 3: we really you know, and using yesterday's game as a template,

1789
01:34:39,080 --> 01:34:42,719
Speaker 3: you need some playmakers. Everybody says that, right, the Bills

1790
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:44,679
Speaker 3: don't need a ton of them. They need like one

1791
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 3: on offense at the one number one wide out spot,

1792
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 3: and they need maybe they need an elite pass rusher

1793
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:59,680
Speaker 3: on the other side. Yeah, and maybe a corner as well. Right, So,

1794
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:04,400
Speaker 3: the defense was decimated by injuries, and they did the

1795
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 3: best they could for a long time with just the

1796
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 3: guys they had, and the offense kind of carried the

1797
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 3: day for them down the stretch here, and they did

1798
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 3: an admirable job closing out this season. But you get

1799
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 3: into the playoffs in the divisional round, you need all

1800
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:23,800
Speaker 3: the ammunition you've got, and the Bills were, you know,

1801
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 3: their bullets were spent because of the injuries.

1802
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 2: We have to take a break here. When we come back,

1803
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 2: our number three will begin with our weekly visit after

1804
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 2: every Bills game with my broadcast partner Eric Wood on

1805
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 2: the Bills Radio Network. Eric joins us next here on

1806
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 2: One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1807
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:24,559
Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

1808
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:28,240
Speaker 2: All right, nour number three here on a Buffalo Football Monday,

1809
01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 2: a blue Monday, of course, and here to join us

1810
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 2: one last time as we put a bow on the

1811
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 2: season is Bill's radio color analyst Form and Bill Center

1812
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:40,839
Speaker 2: Eric Wood, who also hosts The Center on Buffalo podcast

1813
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 2: All Right, Eric, The season has been put to bed

1814
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 2: in unceremonious fashion. There's been a lot of opinions, shall

1815
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:54,920
Speaker 2: we say today, as you might expect, But really, I mean,

1816
01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:56,880
Speaker 2: as Steve and I see it, and I don't want

1817
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 2: to put words in Steve's mouth, but I think I'm

1818
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:02,920
Speaker 2: on the mark with this. There are just a few

1819
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 2: plays of lack of execution that really hurt this team.

1820
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 2: And what was a type all game and we know

1821
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:13,000
Speaker 2: in the playoffs the margins are even thinner than they

1822
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 2: are in the regular season. How did you see it?

1823
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, they truly are.

1824
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 19: And when you look at this game, this Bill's offense

1825
01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 19: march up and down the feet, up and down the

1826
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 19: field throughout the game and then at the end three

1827
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:27,519
Speaker 19: possessions in a row and unable to come up with points. Obviously,

1828
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:29,880
Speaker 19: the missfield goal at the end is something you'll point to,

1829
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 19: but they had other opportunities throughout it. And look, we

1830
01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 19: knew coming into this game that although this Chiefs offense

1831
01:37:36,520 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 19: hasn't produced like it does in the past, this is

1832
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 19: a banged up Bill's defense of the offense was going

1833
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:43,120
Speaker 19: to have to produce. I thought the game plan was

1834
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 19: great to control the clock, keep that defense off the field,

1835
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 19: and they executed it perfectly throughout that game. And then

1836
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:52,400
Speaker 19: at the end of the game, whether it was maybe

1837
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:55,759
Speaker 19: not the right adjustments at the end and maybe getting predictable,

1838
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,360
Speaker 19: maybe with some of the first out runs like we

1839
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:00,680
Speaker 19: were talking about on the broadcast, Chris. But you know,

1840
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 19: it's another one of those memorable games that everyone's texting

1841
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 19: and calling about. But unfortunately the Bills are on the

1842
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 19: wrong end of this one and Mahomes and the Chiefs

1843
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 19: are advancing again. You get them in your place. And look,

1844
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 19: when they won that Week fourteen matchup, we were hoping

1845
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 19: that it would send Kansas City to Buffalo in the playoffs,

1846
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 19: and it did, and unfortunately they come up short. So

1847
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:26,720
Speaker 19: obviously at disappointing end of the season. And you know,

1848
01:38:26,840 --> 01:38:30,720
Speaker 19: it's those small margin plays. The Bills play turnover free

1849
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:32,799
Speaker 19: football in the game. Now you have the turnover downs

1850
01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:35,639
Speaker 19: in your territory after the fake punt, but then you're

1851
01:38:35,640 --> 01:38:38,120
Speaker 19: able to force the loan turnover of the game and

1852
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:40,800
Speaker 19: get the ball back. And look, these playoff games are

1853
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:43,639
Speaker 19: generally gonna come right down to the wire, and unfortunately

1854
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 19: the Bills just could not make that play. At the

1855
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:48,560
Speaker 19: end of the game, Josh Allen gets bumped on his

1856
01:38:48,720 --> 01:38:52,040
Speaker 19: throat to Shakir, which was opening the end zone. They

1857
01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 19: miss on the long one to Digs just barely. And

1858
01:38:55,520 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 19: you know, you're sitting here on Monday, and you just

1859
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 19: you're sitting here playing the what if game. What if

1860
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:03,640
Speaker 19: Josh connects there is the defense able to come up

1861
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 19: with the stop and give the Homes out the field

1862
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:08,120
Speaker 19: and the Bills come away with the victory. But unfortunately

1863
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:10,759
Speaker 19: we're sitting here looking for answers.

1864
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 9: Now.

1865
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:13,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as you as you kind of pulled the

1866
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,679
Speaker 3: game apart. Certainly the Bills walked in and got hobbled

1867
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 3: on defense. They were already hobbled on defense. You had

1868
01:39:19,840 --> 01:39:23,679
Speaker 3: aj kleimb starting at linebacker. Who was you know the story.

1869
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:29,240
Speaker 3: He was on his couch two weeks ago. Uh, Terrell

1870
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:32,040
Speaker 3: Dotson came into the game, left for a minute, kind

1871
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:33,960
Speaker 3: of came back onto the game, started making plays. He

1872
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 3: had Dorian Williams taking some time. You had your You

1873
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:39,960
Speaker 3: were way down the depth chart at linebacker. You were

1874
01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 3: way down the depth chart at cornerback, the healthiest group

1875
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:46,080
Speaker 3: on the defense, and really the help aside from the

1876
01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:48,839
Speaker 3: offensive line was the defensive line of this the Bills.

1877
01:39:49,280 --> 01:39:52,639
Speaker 3: And really, you're playing Mahomes and he's hard to sack,

1878
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:56,479
Speaker 3: so's Josh. Neither guy took a sack of the entire game.

1879
01:39:57,479 --> 01:39:59,800
Speaker 3: Early on, you saw Greg Russo get a shot at

1880
01:39:59,840 --> 01:40:02,640
Speaker 3: my Holmes, misses the sack and it turns into it

1881
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:06,640
Speaker 3: as enormous first down conversion. So it's just kind of

1882
01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:10,559
Speaker 3: one of those games where the defensive line, even when

1883
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 3: they played well, couldn't get to Mahomes and put him

1884
01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:15,560
Speaker 3: off his market. Really that was the difference in this

1885
01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:17,599
Speaker 3: game defensively for the Bills.

1886
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 11: Right.

1887
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 19: You know, this Chiefs offensive line, especially the interior, is good.

1888
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,160
Speaker 19: I mean, that's as good of an interior offensive line

1889
01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:26,360
Speaker 19: as there is in the NFL. And they hold the

1890
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:29,200
Speaker 19: Bills defensive tackles to zero pressures in the game. And

1891
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,640
Speaker 19: Daikwan Jones and Ed Oliver that's as good of a

1892
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:34,639
Speaker 19: defensive tackle tandem as there is out there. I mean,

1893
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,120
Speaker 19: you know, top five at least in the NFL. When

1894
01:40:37,120 --> 01:40:38,960
Speaker 19: you look at those two and they're held without a

1895
01:40:39,040 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 19: pressure in the game and then off the edges. Ken

1896
01:40:42,160 --> 01:40:44,000
Speaker 19: Cidy was able to handle the crowd noise for the

1897
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 19: most part, and they were able to protect Patrick Mahomes

1898
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:49,120
Speaker 19: in the pocket. A big reason for that is they

1899
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 19: didn't force him into many third and longs, and so

1900
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 19: there wasn't a ton of obvious pass situations in this

1901
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:57,799
Speaker 19: game either, where Sean mcderbry could maybe get more creative

1902
01:40:58,120 --> 01:40:59,800
Speaker 19: with the looks that he would give at the line

1903
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:01,840
Speaker 19: of trimage, maybe get a free rusher.

1904
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:02,839
Speaker 9: At times on Mahomes.

1905
01:41:02,880 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 6: And then the one time they had.

1906
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:08,000
Speaker 19: Two free rushers with Ajklon and Dobson coming, Patrick Mahomes

1907
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:11,120
Speaker 19: takes off a sprint up into the pocket and hits

1908
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:13,960
Speaker 19: scaling down the middle of the field for the big game.

1909
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:16,160
Speaker 19: And so you know, give credit where it's due to

1910
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:19,719
Speaker 19: Kansas City. They took advantage of some mismatches. Look Travis Kelce,

1911
01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:23,080
Speaker 19: you know, on a normal down and distance, before the

1912
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 19: Bills would get in their dime package, they would attack

1913
01:41:25,560 --> 01:41:28,840
Speaker 19: Ajklon and that linebacker level. And that's what you do

1914
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:31,959
Speaker 19: when when teams get banged up, you attack those backups

1915
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,599
Speaker 19: out there. And they needed this defensive line to produce

1916
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 19: and look we talked about the last couple of years

1917
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:40,400
Speaker 19: after the season. You know's what's an issue what caused

1918
01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 19: the Bills to go home? And part of it's just

1919
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 19: a lack of pressureing the quarterback with a four man rush,

1920
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 19: And you mentioned it like both neither team had a

1921
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 19: sack in this game. But if they were going to

1922
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:55,200
Speaker 19: affect Mahomes enough to be able to protect that back

1923
01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 19: into the defense, they were going to have to generate

1924
01:41:57,680 --> 01:41:59,680
Speaker 19: some pressure on it. And I understand that everything is

1925
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 19: common colementary and football. So you know, at times some

1926
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:05,000
Speaker 19: Mahomes is making quick reads and he's attacking matchups. So

1927
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,080
Speaker 19: you know, even if there is a win by the

1928
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:09,519
Speaker 19: defensive lineup front, they're just not getting home in time.

1929
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:13,559
Speaker 19: And so this this defense was reeling yesterday. Russell Douglass

1930
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 19: a valiant effort out there, but just didn't seem to

1931
01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:20,200
Speaker 19: be himself out there either. Not Jordan Poyer on the

1932
01:42:20,240 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 19: back end, you know, obviously makes the play to force

1933
01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:25,360
Speaker 19: the fumble, made some great plays out there throughout the game.

1934
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 19: There was some nice individual efforts at time. But you know,

1935
01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:31,240
Speaker 19: we talked about before the game, Chris, this is a

1936
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 19: Chiefs team. They run the second most screens in the league.

1937
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,960
Speaker 19: They've really dedicated themselves to the run game. You got

1938
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 19: to be able to tackle when you're playing the Chiefs,

1939
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:41,840
Speaker 19: and they had so many misstackles that led to just

1940
01:42:42,280 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 19: chunk play after chunk play that didn't allow the Bills

1941
01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 19: to you know, have a chance to get off the field.

1942
01:42:49,439 --> 01:42:51,560
Speaker 19: It was midway through the third quarter and I was

1943
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:56,040
Speaker 19: given the you know, the ratio of third down conversions

1944
01:42:56,080 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 19: for the Chiefs, and they only had three third downs

1945
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:00,840
Speaker 19: in the game midway through the third third quarter, and

1946
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 19: besides the kneel down before the half, the Bills had

1947
01:43:03,479 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 19: not stopped them. And so, you know, defensively new coming

1948
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:09,080
Speaker 19: in the game, they were gonna be banged up. The

1949
01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 19: offense was gonna have to step up, you know, late

1950
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,920
Speaker 19: in the season, the healthier groups have to step up

1951
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 19: in the absence of where the injuries are. And so

1952
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:19,400
Speaker 19: the offense, while they played well throughout the game against

1953
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:22,320
Speaker 19: the Kansas City Chiefs defense that's ranked second in the

1954
01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 19: NFL and points per game, second in the NFL. In

1955
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 19: yards per game, they moved the ball up and down

1956
01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 19: the field, but at the end in crunch time, just

1957
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:30,080
Speaker 19: couldn't get it done.

1958
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:32,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you think about the fact that the

1959
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:37,720
Speaker 2: Bills essentially played one good phase of football out of three.

1960
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:40,000
Speaker 2: It's amazing they were even this close in the game

1961
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 2: to begin with. And special teams was another side of

1962
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 2: the ball that was uneven and not up to par. Again,

1963
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 2: I mean, this is not the first time we've seen

1964
01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:54,439
Speaker 2: hiccups with special teams, whether it's poor execution on a kick,

1965
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 2: blocked kicks, blocked field goals, long returns allowed. We've seen

1966
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 2: a lot of these problems through the course of this season.

1967
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 2: How long a look do the Bills have to take

1968
01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,560
Speaker 2: at their special teams unit in light of what transpired

1969
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:10,559
Speaker 2: through the course of this season, not just yesterday.

1970
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was an issue from the first game when

1971
01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:15,400
Speaker 19: you give up the punt return to lose the game

1972
01:44:15,439 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 19: against the Jets, and so you give that one up

1973
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 19: in overtime and it ends the game right there, and

1974
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 19: then throughout this season there was issues with special teams.

1975
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 19: Sam Martin rebounded and became the Special Teams AFC Player

1976
01:44:28,479 --> 01:44:30,639
Speaker 19: of the Month of the month of December, but prior

1977
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 19: to that he was wildly inconsistent. And then he gets

1978
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:36,400
Speaker 19: the hamstring injury against the Steelers off of the blocked

1979
01:44:36,439 --> 01:44:40,120
Speaker 19: field goal, and he ends up pulling his hamstring or

1980
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 19: injures his hamstring and then was inconsistent yesterday, and then

1981
01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:47,800
Speaker 19: Tyler bask goes two for five in the playoffs on

1982
01:44:47,920 --> 01:44:50,000
Speaker 19: field goals, and you just can't have that. And like

1983
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:52,760
Speaker 19: we said earlier, when the margins of victory are so

1984
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:55,560
Speaker 19: small in the playoffs, your special teams can't be a

1985
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:59,120
Speaker 19: reason that you're not staying in the game, that you're

1986
01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:01,160
Speaker 19: not tying that game at the end. And you know,

1987
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 19: people miss field goals, and you know, everyone says, you know,

1988
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 19: it doesn't just come down to that, and I agree,

1989
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 19: they could have put seven points up, they could have

1990
01:45:08,520 --> 01:45:10,679
Speaker 19: made they could have connected on some of those big

1991
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 19: plays down the field to not not force them into

1992
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,479
Speaker 19: themselves into a forty four yard field goal attempt. But

1993
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,120
Speaker 19: you know, it's just they're gonna Yes, they do have

1994
01:45:20,200 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 19: to take a look at their special teams because they

1995
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,760
Speaker 19: dedicate as much resources to the special teams to use

1996
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:26,200
Speaker 19: it as about any.

1997
01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 6: Team in the league.

1998
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 19: And so when your coverage hasn't been great this year,

1999
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:33,200
Speaker 19: your protection has been great, you fail on the the

2000
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 19: fake punt and give the Chiefs the ball in your territory.

2001
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 19: It's something that you definitely have to look at going

2002
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 19: into next year.

2003
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 3: One of the things, too, is that the time of

2004
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:45,559
Speaker 3: possession in this game was enormous for Buffalo, and how

2005
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 3: much was it evident in the early going that that

2006
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 3: kind of had to be part of their plan. Their

2007
01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:54,240
Speaker 3: defense was going to be hobbled by injury. They knew

2008
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:57,320
Speaker 3: they couldn't match up, particularly in Manda man coverage with

2009
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 3: Kansas City given you know, give the fact that they

2010
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 3: were down to their fourth and fifth corner and all

2011
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 3: of that. So they knew if they went manned, Kansas

2012
01:46:06,120 --> 01:46:08,599
Speaker 3: City was gonna heave it up on them. So they

2013
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:11,760
Speaker 3: had to keep those guys off the field. How, you know,

2014
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:14,960
Speaker 3: how how what do you think about the Bill's offense

2015
01:46:15,040 --> 01:46:18,479
Speaker 3: ability to execute a game plan to that extent of

2016
01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:20,960
Speaker 3: the thirty eight minutes. Certainly you'd like to score more points,

2017
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 3: but having Josh on the field and six lead changes

2018
01:46:26,240 --> 01:46:29,680
Speaker 3: in this game and as close as it was, being

2019
01:46:29,720 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 3: able to execute a game plan to that extent.

2020
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,880
Speaker 19: Yeah, they executed well for a majority of the game

2021
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 19: on offense, really in the run game with Josh and

2022
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:42,720
Speaker 19: Cook Todd Johnson. At times they executed in the run game,

2023
01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 19: which allowed them to then control the clock. Josh did

2024
01:46:45,520 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 19: a great job of taking what the defense gave him,

2025
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 19: and then they took a few shots down the field

2026
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 19: and didn't really connect on any of those. And you know,

2027
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:55,439
Speaker 19: those are all close plays and Bill's just unable to

2028
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:57,080
Speaker 19: make them. And you know, you have the Kansas City

2029
01:46:57,160 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 19: Chiefs on the other side of the ball where they

2030
01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 19: lead the league and on the season, and then come

2031
01:47:02,320 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 19: in where it's a winshiel right around zero and don't

2032
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:07,000
Speaker 19: have any drops and they make the plays down the

2033
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:10,439
Speaker 19: field and that ultimately becomes the difference in the football game.

2034
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 19: But yeah, I thought that Joe Brady and the game

2035
01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 19: plan was was great. I appreciated the game plan.

2036
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:17,519
Speaker 6: I liked it.

2037
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:20,120
Speaker 19: And they moved the ball up and down the field

2038
01:47:20,240 --> 01:47:23,360
Speaker 19: throughout this game, and you ultimately come up short. But

2039
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 19: when you're pointing fingers, you're not pointing the fingers at

2040
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:29,320
Speaker 19: Josh Allen and the offense after this one, other than

2041
01:47:29,360 --> 01:47:33,680
Speaker 19: the fact that maybe late game execution, maybe instead of

2042
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:36,599
Speaker 19: taking some of those shots down the field, you dump

2043
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:40,240
Speaker 19: it down. But look, Josh Allen's an aggressive quarterback and

2044
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,679
Speaker 19: he makes those plays and if he doesn't get bumped

2045
01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:45,479
Speaker 19: on the past the Shakir. That's the same pass that

2046
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 19: he made to Dalton Kinkaid a week ago and it

2047
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:52,479
Speaker 19: goes for six and so yeah, I was impressed with

2048
01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 19: the offense. I thought they came up with great answers

2049
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:57,479
Speaker 19: throughout that game as well with the RPOs, the screens

2050
01:47:57,479 --> 01:48:01,800
Speaker 19: of the outside getting Kincaid involved those screens to consistently

2051
01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:03,000
Speaker 19: move the sticks throughout the game.

2052
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,320
Speaker 2: So spinning it forward now, Eric as we enter the

2053
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,519
Speaker 2: offseason locker clean out day here today gave Davis among

2054
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 2: the people addressing the media, and he said he expects

2055
01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:14,720
Speaker 2: to hit free agency. Said at no point in time

2056
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,679
Speaker 2: leading up to his last year of his rookie seasons

2057
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,920
Speaker 2: he approached about a contract extension, so he's expecting to

2058
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,640
Speaker 2: hit the open market. And then on top of that,

2059
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 2: you look at the way the season ended. Over the

2060
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 2: last ten games, Khalil Shakir out gains Stefan Diggs in

2061
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 2: receiving yardage by forty yards, despite the fact that he

2062
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:36,760
Speaker 2: had fewer than half the targets that Stefan Diggs had

2063
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 2: over that stretch thirty seven targets to eighty, and he

2064
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:42,040
Speaker 2: had forty more receiving yards.

2065
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 3: There is.

2066
01:48:45,280 --> 01:48:49,000
Speaker 2: A widely growing contention that the Bills have to invest

2067
01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:52,200
Speaker 2: heavily in the draft in receiver talent to give Josh

2068
01:48:52,280 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 2: Allen the weapons necessary to compete in what is a

2069
01:48:55,840 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 2: full blown arms race in the AFC, and probably address

2070
01:48:59,120 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 2: it early. It's a good receiver draft, but how how

2071
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 2: badly does this offense need weapons that Josh Allen can

2072
01:49:07,400 --> 01:49:09,400
Speaker 2: count on from start to finish in a season.

2073
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:13,200
Speaker 19: Yeah, and not even just looking at yesterday, looking at

2074
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 19: the course of the season, having someone besides Digs Shakir,

2075
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:20,120
Speaker 19: having someone that can consistently separate and make the plays

2076
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:22,320
Speaker 19: down the field, take the top off the defense. You know,

2077
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 19: scaling on the other side for Kansas City. He's six

2078
01:49:25,439 --> 01:49:27,679
Speaker 19: foot four and he can run, and he can stretch

2079
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:29,599
Speaker 19: the field, and he can open up some other things

2080
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,720
Speaker 19: for the other guys that are playmakers. And when you

2081
01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:35,240
Speaker 19: look at the Bill's skill position, especially the young guys,

2082
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 19: you get guys like Shakirah you mentioned, Kin, Kaid and

2083
01:49:38,240 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 19: Cook all step up this year, all young players. Nice

2084
01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:44,600
Speaker 19: draft picks that the Bill's made. And I'm in the

2085
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 19: camp that, look, when you have Josh Allen, you want

2086
01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:50,559
Speaker 19: to put as many resources as you can around him

2087
01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:53,280
Speaker 19: and give him the weapons and the firepower to be

2088
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 19: able to go light teams up. And when you look

2089
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:59,600
Speaker 19: at you know, moving forward into next year, you you know,

2090
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:02,479
Speaker 19: if if a Digs gets hurt, you know, who else

2091
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:05,360
Speaker 19: do you have that's you know, putting fear in an

2092
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:09,200
Speaker 19: opponent maybe secure next year, maybe Kinkaid. But to have

2093
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:11,920
Speaker 19: another guy and investing in a young guy in the

2094
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,040
Speaker 19: draft that you can you know, kind of build around

2095
01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:16,439
Speaker 19: for the future at the wide receiver position makes a

2096
01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:17,200
Speaker 19: lot of sense to me.

2097
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's and it comes down to, you know,

2098
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:22,759
Speaker 3: what you've got to work with when you need cheap labor.

2099
01:50:23,560 --> 01:50:25,639
Speaker 3: And one thing that when we were talking, there's there's

2100
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 3: evidence of both ends of the spectrum. When you talk

2101
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 3: about young players playing for Sean McDermott, there's you know,

2102
01:50:32,200 --> 01:50:35,639
Speaker 3: there's Ed Oliver, there's aj A Panessa, there's Spencer Brown

2103
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,960
Speaker 3: and Osiris Torrance this year. But then there's also Khalil

2104
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:42,160
Speaker 3: Shakir and James Cook who didn't. Dalton Kin Kid did

2105
01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:46,160
Speaker 3: play early on, but Shakir and James Cook did not.

2106
01:50:47,479 --> 01:50:50,640
Speaker 3: Kyrie Elam still waiting to get on the field. You know,

2107
01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,720
Speaker 3: there's there's examples of both of these. If you do

2108
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:54,640
Speaker 3: go to the draft, don't you kind of have to

2109
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:57,560
Speaker 3: be committed to like taking your lumps early on with

2110
01:50:57,640 --> 01:50:59,560
Speaker 3: these young players and kind of develop them through a

2111
01:50:59,600 --> 01:50:59,920
Speaker 3: long sea.

2112
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 19: Yeah, and when you draft the guy as early as

2113
01:51:03,479 --> 01:51:06,240
Speaker 19: they draft to Kinkaid, they come in likely a little

2114
01:51:06,240 --> 01:51:08,720
Speaker 19: bit more ready to go. And I understand Elm was

2115
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:11,040
Speaker 19: a first round draft pick last year. But you know,

2116
01:51:11,120 --> 01:51:14,160
Speaker 19: it's a situation where Christian Benford, you get a steal

2117
01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:16,639
Speaker 19: light in the draft and he kind of takes his reps.

2118
01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 19: And that's not necessarily a terrible thing because you hit

2119
01:51:19,160 --> 01:51:22,280
Speaker 19: on one. You know, the jury still out on Elm,

2120
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:25,280
Speaker 19: but you hit on Christian Benford. He's a bright spot

2121
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 19: as far as a young guy on a rookie contract

2122
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 19: on defense. So if you're going to invest a first

2123
01:51:32,040 --> 01:51:34,240
Speaker 19: round draft pick or even a second round draft pick,

2124
01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:36,800
Speaker 19: you expect that production in year one, especially at the

2125
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:39,360
Speaker 19: wide receiver position. You look at Rashid Rice for Kansas City,

2126
01:51:39,880 --> 01:51:42,160
Speaker 19: didn't have enormous production early in the season, and then

2127
01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:43,760
Speaker 19: as season went on, he became.

2128
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:44,599
Speaker 2: More and more of a threat.

2129
01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:46,680
Speaker 19: Goes for over one hundred and fifty yards against the

2130
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:48,920
Speaker 19: Dolphins in the first round of the playoffs. But yeah,

2131
01:51:48,920 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 19: it's you know, it's a balancing act. It's a balancing

2132
01:51:51,520 --> 01:51:53,519
Speaker 19: act of what are you willing to put up with

2133
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 19: early in the season because you're going to get some

2134
01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 19: of those rookie mistakes. But then by the end of

2135
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 19: the season, and coaches will always say, you know, halfway

2136
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:02,280
Speaker 19: through the season, your rookie year, you're not a rookie anymore.

2137
01:52:02,320 --> 01:52:05,720
Speaker 19: You have experience, you've played enough games, You've you know,

2138
01:52:06,200 --> 01:52:10,160
Speaker 19: do you have the instincts of a grizzled veteran. No,

2139
01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:14,360
Speaker 19: but you're kind of eliminating those mistakes. You're starting faster

2140
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 19: in games, and so yeah, there's a lot of appealing

2141
01:52:17,160 --> 01:52:20,640
Speaker 19: about saying, hey, look Sean McDermott, the way he was

2142
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 19: able to piece together a injured defense for majority of

2143
01:52:23,040 --> 01:52:26,800
Speaker 19: the season the highest levels they played. Okay, not that

2144
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:29,800
Speaker 19: you can't, not that you can invest all of your

2145
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 19: assets on the offense side of the ball, but Sean

2146
01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:35,879
Speaker 19: proved this year that he could piece together a defense.

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01:52:35,960 --> 01:52:38,640
Speaker 19: And you know, you get a Milano back, and you know,

2148
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Speaker 19: you get Bernard back at linebacker who missed the last game,

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01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:44,679
Speaker 19: and you have some great young pieces on that defensive

2150
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Speaker 19: side of the ball. Okay, give me the firepower on offense,

2151
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Speaker 19: and let's say try and keep up with this Bill's offense.

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Speaker 2: Eric, thanks as always for the inside all season long

2153
01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 2: pleasure doing the games with you on the radio network

2154
01:52:57,000 --> 01:52:58,600
Speaker 2: as well. We'll catch you up with you later on

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01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:01,000
Speaker 2: down the line here in the offseason and enjoy some downtime,

2156
01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:02,479
Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 19: I appreciate it, guys.

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01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:06,240
Speaker 2: All right, that's Eric Wood joining us as he does

2159
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 2: after every Bills game. That'll be his last appearance of

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Speaker 2: the season, since it was the last Bills game of

2161
01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:15,240
Speaker 2: the season as they exited in the AFC Divisional round.

2162
01:53:15,320 --> 01:53:17,040
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones where some people have

2163
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:19,960
Speaker 2: been waiting patiently. We go to Don in Rochester. Next,

2164
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:20,800
Speaker 2: what do you got for us? Don?

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Speaker 8: Don?

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Speaker 2: Are you there? I'm gonna put Don on hold and

2167
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:31,080
Speaker 2: maybe he'll check back to his phone here. Shortly we

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Speaker 2: go to Patrick out in Las Vegas. Next, what do

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01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:33,799
Speaker 2: you got Patrick?

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Speaker 23: Hey?

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01:53:35,640 --> 01:53:38,040
Speaker 28: Thanks for taking my call, guys, Steve, this is more

2172
01:53:38,120 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 28: for you. Nobody is a bigger fan of the Super

2173
01:53:43,360 --> 01:53:46,519
Speaker 28: Bowl teams that you played on than I am. And

2174
01:53:46,680 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 28: I've consumed every bit of media retrospective history on those teams.

2175
01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:58,080
Speaker 28: I have had my truth and reconciliation about why we

2176
01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:01,519
Speaker 28: didn't win any of those games. But I want to

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01:54:01,560 --> 01:54:03,240
Speaker 28: go back to something that you said in the Four

2178
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:06,639
Speaker 28: Falls of Buffalo piece that ESPN did when you're talking

2179
01:54:06,680 --> 01:54:11,360
Speaker 28: about Super Bowl twenty five and not knowing any better

2180
01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:15,240
Speaker 28: than to go no huddle and not taking what the

2181
01:54:15,400 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 28: Giants were giving us in the run game and spinning

2182
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:23,400
Speaker 28: your wheels. I think this year's these Buffalo Bills teams

2183
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:26,599
Speaker 28: have gotten to the point where they're spinning their wheels,

2184
01:54:26,840 --> 01:54:31,880
Speaker 28: and we need to come up with something different, not revolutionary,

2185
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:35,879
Speaker 28: not blow the whole thing up and start from scratch,

2186
01:54:37,080 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 28: but we've got to do something different. And there are

2187
01:54:41,320 --> 01:54:43,240
Speaker 28: people who make a lot more money and who know

2188
01:54:43,480 --> 01:54:45,840
Speaker 28: a lot more about the game than I do, who

2189
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:47,920
Speaker 28: can find those things out. But let me go back

2190
01:54:47,960 --> 01:54:51,440
Speaker 28: again to Super Bowl twenty five about something revolutionary that

2191
01:54:51,520 --> 01:54:54,560
Speaker 28: we see today that we didn't back then, and that

2192
01:54:54,840 --> 01:55:00,320
Speaker 28: is three times on fourth and two or shorter game

2193
01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 28: from midfield or on the Giants side of the field,

2194
01:55:02,640 --> 01:55:06,840
Speaker 28: we punt it. Can you imagine anybody punting that many

2195
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:09,760
Speaker 28: times on fourth and short yardage in today's game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, It's everything's different these days.

2197
01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 22: You're right, we've got.

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01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,760
Speaker 28: We've got to be ahead of the curve on something.

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01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:22,840
Speaker 28: It doesn't have to be earth shattering, it doesn't have to.

2200
01:55:23,760 --> 01:55:26,920
Speaker 28: It doesn't have to put us in the history books,

2201
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 28: you know, like Bill Walsh's West Coast offense or somebody.

2202
01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:34,080
Speaker 28: But there has to be something different because the idea

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01:55:34,480 --> 01:55:37,600
Speaker 28: that if we just execute a little bit better, if

2204
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:40,800
Speaker 28: we just get a little bit better at a certain position,

2205
01:55:41,560 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 28: I think that's failing that that that's not loser thinking,

2206
01:55:45,240 --> 01:55:47,800
Speaker 28: but it's not thinking that it's going to get you

2207
01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:51,280
Speaker 28: over the hump because everybody else is doing the same thing.

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01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:54,680
Speaker 28: Every year we eat Zig and other teams know when

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Speaker 28: we're gonna Zig. And one thing that I really hope

2210
01:55:58,280 --> 01:56:03,280
Speaker 28: next year we do not see is Sean McDermott taking

2211
01:56:03,640 --> 01:56:04,720
Speaker 28: total control.

2212
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Speaker 15: Of the defense.

2213
01:56:05,360 --> 01:56:08,080
Speaker 28: Not because he's a bad defensive coach, far from it,

2214
01:56:08,520 --> 01:56:11,640
Speaker 28: but he spread himself within this year and I think

2215
01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:16,480
Speaker 28: the special teams, which you had a major role in

2216
01:56:16,640 --> 01:56:19,440
Speaker 28: three losses this year, and for the life of me,

2217
01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:22,400
Speaker 28: can't believe how we run a fake punt with R

2218
01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 28: eleven versus their ten and can't get the first down.

2219
01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:28,400
Speaker 28: That's the that's the play that's going to stick in

2220
01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 28: my craw all season long, and and and and Sewan

2221
01:56:33,600 --> 01:56:37,480
Speaker 28: needs to trust a little bit more those around him.

2222
01:56:38,200 --> 01:56:40,320
Speaker 28: But he also needs I think he needs a guy

2223
01:56:40,920 --> 01:56:43,480
Speaker 28: that just comes up to him and kind of shakes

2224
01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:46,720
Speaker 28: him by the shoulders. Sean, is this really what you

2225
01:56:46,800 --> 01:56:51,040
Speaker 28: want to do? How about this? I don't know if

2226
01:56:51,080 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 28: that person exists in the Bills locker room.

2227
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:54,320
Speaker 17: I hope it does.

2228
01:56:55,680 --> 01:56:58,600
Speaker 28: I've gone on enough to listen to what you guys say.

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01:56:59,080 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 3: Uh go Bills, Thanks Patrick. And I'll say this. You're saying,

2230
01:57:02,840 --> 01:57:05,560
Speaker 3: you know they need to do something different going forward.

2231
01:57:05,600 --> 01:57:07,600
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. They do a lot of things very well.

2232
01:57:08,880 --> 01:57:09,440
Speaker 9: So I'm with you.

2233
01:57:09,440 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 3: You don't have to, you know, reinvent You don't have

2234
01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:18,360
Speaker 3: to reinvent football or break the unknowable code of analytics

2235
01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:21,000
Speaker 3: to you know, to do something different. And I will

2236
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 3: say this, what Brownie and I think, What I think

2237
01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:27,240
Speaker 3: Brownie and I are thinking a step would be would

2238
01:57:27,240 --> 01:57:30,120
Speaker 3: be the way. There's different philosophies about how to build

2239
01:57:30,120 --> 01:57:34,760
Speaker 3: a roster in the NFL. What you look for, what

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Speaker 3: position groups you think are more important, Where do you

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01:57:37,480 --> 01:57:41,480
Speaker 3: invest your money in, what position groups? How do you

2242
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:43,920
Speaker 3: evaluate for the draft, how do you draft on that

2243
01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:46,240
Speaker 3: day when guys are going ahead of you, and how

2244
01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:50,800
Speaker 3: do you morph your picks down the board in light

2245
01:57:50,920 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 3: of what has been picked ahead of you and who's

2246
01:57:52,800 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 3: around you, that kind of thing. I think that's probably

2247
01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:58,320
Speaker 3: where I would say the Bills maybe need to shift

2248
01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:02,960
Speaker 3: their priority a little bit in going forward. I know

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01:58:03,160 --> 01:58:08,240
Speaker 3: that we have seen them draft players with specific traits

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01:58:08,280 --> 01:58:13,440
Speaker 3: in the high rounds, mostly physical traits, and it has

2251
01:58:13,520 --> 01:58:17,240
Speaker 3: served them well. But I would venture to say that

2252
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:21,320
Speaker 3: maybe at this point in the history of their roster build,

2253
01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:24,480
Speaker 3: it's time to maybe do something. Because you've got this

2254
01:58:24,760 --> 01:58:30,960
Speaker 3: unicorn at quarterback, maybe you just maybe he's the point

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Speaker 3: of the pyramid. Everything goes down from him. Maybe you

2256
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:35,800
Speaker 3: start with the offense and you don't let up on it.

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01:58:36,160 --> 01:58:38,240
Speaker 3: Maybe you get more even more guys to play and

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01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 3: help him, that kind of thing. I think that may

2259
01:58:41,920 --> 01:58:47,000
Speaker 3: be the one place where I could see this offseason

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01:58:47,200 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 3: having an effect on what happens on the field next season,

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01:58:49,880 --> 01:58:51,960
Speaker 3: and would be a very big difference from where they're

2262
01:58:51,960 --> 01:58:55,200
Speaker 3: at now, is they would morph their philosophy of how

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01:58:55,240 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 3: they're going to build a roster, like build an offense,

2264
01:58:57,480 --> 01:58:59,920
Speaker 3: build a defense, you build it from the inside out,

2265
01:59:00,120 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 3: from the ball out, and so maybe we'll see them

2266
01:59:05,200 --> 01:59:08,320
Speaker 3: adjust the way they pick their players and the priorities

2267
01:59:08,360 --> 01:59:11,400
Speaker 3: they put on offense and the priorities they put on defense,

2268
01:59:11,840 --> 01:59:16,280
Speaker 3: the position groups. I think that's a place where, at

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01:59:16,320 --> 01:59:20,080
Speaker 3: the current point in the Bills franchise, there's some space

2270
01:59:20,280 --> 01:59:23,600
Speaker 3: now to make a decision that's going to look very,

2271
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:27,520
Speaker 3: very different than what we thought it would look like.

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01:59:27,600 --> 01:59:29,120
Speaker 3: For instance, we got a ton of guys on the

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01:59:29,160 --> 01:59:30,880
Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball. They're gonna be gone because

2274
01:59:30,880 --> 01:59:33,320
Speaker 3: of their free agents, their contracts are out there out

2275
01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:35,320
Speaker 3: of you know, there's just not even enough twenty two

2276
01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:38,480
Speaker 3: guys to play defense, right You don't even have enough

2277
01:59:38,480 --> 01:59:41,800
Speaker 3: guys to line up over there in some spots. Maybe

2278
01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:46,880
Speaker 3: they just fill it with guys and put first round,

2279
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:49,480
Speaker 3: second round, third round picks on the offensive side to

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01:59:49,520 --> 01:59:52,560
Speaker 3: start scoring points, like, you know, wherever they want. I'm

2281
01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:55,160
Speaker 3: using that as an example. I'm not saying that's exactly

2282
01:59:55,200 --> 01:59:57,480
Speaker 3: what I think they should do, but I'm being a

2283
01:59:57,520 --> 02:00:00,640
Speaker 3: little bit of hyperbolic to give you an idea, exaggerating

2284
02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:03,480
Speaker 3: to make this point that maybe that's the philosophy you're

2285
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:06,840
Speaker 3: looking at. Maybe it's not about analytics. Maybe it's about

2286
02:00:06,840 --> 02:00:08,880
Speaker 3: how you build your roster. And now you got this

2287
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:11,560
Speaker 3: point in history where you got this guy that could

2288
02:00:11,600 --> 02:00:12,240
Speaker 3: maximize it.

2289
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Speaker 2: Right, and you haven't really addressed it high in the

2290
02:00:16,280 --> 02:00:21,400
Speaker 2: draft since Brandon Bean became general manager. Your highest draft

2291
02:00:21,520 --> 02:00:24,440
Speaker 2: choice is Gabe Davis in round four at the wide

2292
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:27,640
Speaker 2: receiver position. Say Jones was a second round pick, but

2293
02:00:27,840 --> 02:00:30,160
Speaker 2: that was before Brandon Bean was on board as general.

2294
02:00:30,120 --> 02:00:31,920
Speaker 3: I kN kate it, tight end, I get it. And

2295
02:00:32,040 --> 02:00:33,480
Speaker 3: that's the way the board fell, you know.

2296
02:00:33,560 --> 02:00:37,280
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's no reflection on Brandon Bean. It's

2297
02:00:37,320 --> 02:00:39,440
Speaker 2: just it's a fact you just haven't drafted a wide

2298
02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 2: receiver up high, and this year in a very good

2299
02:00:42,720 --> 02:00:47,080
Speaker 2: wide receiver class, I think it's come time to do

2300
02:00:47,280 --> 02:00:49,840
Speaker 2: that and take care of that, especially knowing that Diggs

2301
02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:52,560
Speaker 2: is entering his age thirty one season. Break time for

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Speaker 2: us here, more of your phone calls when we come back,

2303
02:00:54,760 --> 02:00:57,960
Speaker 2: and more comments from the locker room on Locker Cleanout

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Speaker 2: Day here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalaide Health.

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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live

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Speaker 2: on a Buffalo Football Monday. Got to jump back into

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02:01:21,200 --> 02:01:23,680
Speaker 2: locker clean Out Day and go to a man who

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02:01:23,800 --> 02:01:28,160
Speaker 2: finished the season strong arguably is the team's number one

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02:01:28,200 --> 02:01:31,680
Speaker 2: wide receiver. It's the second year man, Khalil Shakir.

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Speaker 14: I know, it's it's day after and then you know

2311
02:01:35,160 --> 02:01:37,240
Speaker 14: you're just kind of feeling a little bit, But you know,

2312
02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:40,080
Speaker 14: where's the frustration level for you know, I know you

2313
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:41,680
Speaker 14: haven't been here for all of it, but you know,

2314
02:01:41,920 --> 02:01:44,640
Speaker 14: having three division round exits in a row, Chiefs again,

2315
02:01:45,080 --> 02:01:46,920
Speaker 14: all that stuff word, you can't seem to get past

2316
02:01:46,960 --> 02:01:47,320
Speaker 14: that row.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's I mean, at the end

2318
02:01:50,800 --> 02:01:54,240
Speaker 20: of the day, we know that as far as playing

2319
02:01:54,280 --> 02:01:56,360
Speaker 20: to our full potential just just wasn't there. And we

2320
02:01:56,440 --> 02:01:57,720
Speaker 20: know that we left a little bit out there. But

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Speaker 20: at the end of the day, it's pats off to

2322
02:01:59,400 --> 02:02:01,520
Speaker 20: Casey and and what they're able to do. And you

2323
02:02:01,600 --> 02:02:03,160
Speaker 20: know they came out the dove, so that's off to him.

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Speaker 14: What was your thought on Joe Brady his his half

2325
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Speaker 14: seasons coordinator.

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Speaker 6: I love him.

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02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:07,840
Speaker 9: I love Joe Brady.

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Speaker 20: He's a thing I've talked to him for just his

2329
02:02:10,280 --> 02:02:12,960
Speaker 20: energies is so contagious and just the type of guy

2330
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 20: that he is and and bringing that that energy every

2331
02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:18,360
Speaker 20: single day and and getting us going on some days,

2332
02:02:18,400 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 20: you know, like just it's just a guy you want

2333
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:20,920
Speaker 20: to be around.

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Speaker 11: Aside from that, in terms of actions and o's Khalil,

2335
02:02:23,160 --> 02:02:25,800
Speaker 11: what was it that he did that kind of allowed

2336
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Speaker 11: this offense to reach a higher game?

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Speaker 20: Yeah, honestly, I think it's it's the when you when

2338
02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 20: you have a guy that you could just you just

2339
02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:35,480
Speaker 20: vibe with. You know, obviously he's a coach, but at

2340
02:02:35,480 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 20: the end of the day, you know you can it's

2341
02:02:37,200 --> 02:02:38,080
Speaker 20: like it's like a bro.

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Speaker 6: It's like it's like a big bro.

2343
02:02:39,440 --> 02:02:41,240
Speaker 20: And I think when you have that type of relationship,

2344
02:02:41,280 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 20: but obviously making sure that you keep your separate as

2345
02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 20: far as as coach, having that level of a respect

2346
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,880
Speaker 20: as far as coach, but also on a personal level too,

2347
02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:51,840
Speaker 20: when you can vibe with somebody in that way, it

2348
02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:53,360
Speaker 20: just it just means a lot, and I think that

2349
02:02:53,480 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 20: everybody wants to do better and play for him.

2350
02:02:55,440 --> 02:02:57,000
Speaker 11: How much did that factor in and what were some

2351
02:02:57,080 --> 02:02:58,600
Speaker 11: of the other factors that allowed you? I mean, you

2352
02:02:58,720 --> 02:03:02,560
Speaker 11: became a really consistent, reliable option in this offense for Josh.

2353
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:05,120
Speaker 11: What allowed you to kind of hit that level with you?

2354
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:08,400
Speaker 20: I think it was more just just as you know, repetition,

2355
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:10,320
Speaker 20: just getting more repests. The year went on and and

2356
02:03:10,520 --> 02:03:12,480
Speaker 20: and getting used to the flow of the game and

2357
02:03:13,520 --> 02:03:16,720
Speaker 20: things and things like that. It's just kind of I've

2358
02:03:16,760 --> 02:03:18,600
Speaker 20: said this a thousand times, but the word comfortable, it

2359
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:20,560
Speaker 20: doesn't doesn't rub me the right way, and I'm not

2360
02:03:20,600 --> 02:03:22,640
Speaker 20: a fan of it, but it just allowed me to to,

2361
02:03:23,360 --> 02:03:25,320
Speaker 20: I guess, get more a little bit more, just a

2362
02:03:25,400 --> 02:03:26,120
Speaker 20: feel for the game.

2363
02:03:26,200 --> 02:03:26,960
Speaker 9: As as weeks the.

2364
02:03:26,960 --> 02:03:28,680
Speaker 6: Weeks went on, you got you gotta get here.

2365
02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:30,280
Speaker 29: When you get here, this team this is kind of

2366
02:03:30,320 --> 02:03:33,360
Speaker 29: a Mitch and Dion and Stefan and Dawson offense. And

2367
02:03:33,440 --> 02:03:37,680
Speaker 29: now you know you and James and Dalton and Cyble.

2368
02:03:38,120 --> 02:03:40,080
Speaker 29: You know there's a new generation for lack of a

2369
02:03:40,120 --> 02:03:42,640
Speaker 29: better term, how encourage are you about this young cors

2370
02:03:42,640 --> 02:03:43,560
Speaker 29: On offense in the other seed?

2371
02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:45,160
Speaker 9: It feels it feels good.

2372
02:03:45,320 --> 02:03:48,360
Speaker 20: I think that obviously, Like you said, with James Pro

2373
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:51,280
Speaker 20: Bowl year, I mean, he's he's that guy. And then

2374
02:03:51,360 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 20: you got Dalling and in Cyble like just I know

2375
02:03:54,320 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 20: that coming coming back next year. I know, you know,

2376
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,080
Speaker 20: stuff just things just ended. But at the end of

2377
02:03:58,080 --> 02:04:00,400
Speaker 20: the day, where I know that the word is gonna

2378
02:04:00,400 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 20: be put in this off season, will be ready to go.

2379
02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:04,120
Speaker 20: That's your confidence kind of at an all time I

2380
02:04:04,280 --> 02:04:07,960
Speaker 20: right now, Yeah, I guess you could say that. I mean, I'm,

2381
02:04:08,040 --> 02:04:11,480
Speaker 20: I'm it's it's one of those things where it's, yeah

2382
02:04:11,520 --> 02:04:13,720
Speaker 20: that you feel good about how things been going, but

2383
02:04:13,800 --> 02:04:16,560
Speaker 20: also got to remind yourself to to stay level headed

2384
02:04:16,600 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 20: and make sure that the work continues to be put in.

2385
02:04:21,680 --> 02:04:24,360
Speaker 6: Someone someone says you're gonna take the next step, go.

2386
02:04:24,360 --> 02:04:26,960
Speaker 9: To the next level. What what would that like?

2387
02:04:27,040 --> 02:04:29,720
Speaker 3: What what does that entail for you as far as

2388
02:04:29,760 --> 02:04:30,200
Speaker 3: the next level?

2389
02:04:30,240 --> 02:04:30,560
Speaker 9: I mean.

2390
02:04:32,080 --> 02:04:34,120
Speaker 20: Work even had this offseason, that's for me, that's where

2391
02:04:34,120 --> 02:04:36,720
Speaker 20: it starts. Obviously, take a little break, but I know

2392
02:04:36,840 --> 02:04:38,960
Speaker 20: the work that was that I put in last offseason

2393
02:04:39,080 --> 02:04:41,320
Speaker 20: and what got me to this point. And you know,

2394
02:04:41,520 --> 02:04:43,920
Speaker 20: after doing some stelf evaluation over the next couple of days,

2395
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:46,360
Speaker 20: I'll figure out and I'll know what it's gonna take

2396
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 20: to to take that next step.

2397
02:04:48,800 --> 02:04:51,680
Speaker 13: You feel like playing in the slot versus outside that

2398
02:04:51,800 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 13: there's there may be some versatility in your game that

2399
02:04:54,400 --> 02:04:55,760
Speaker 13: you could maybe do a little bit of both.

2400
02:04:55,800 --> 02:04:57,000
Speaker 9: If the if asked.

2401
02:04:56,800 --> 02:04:59,480
Speaker 20: Them, wherever they put me out on the field, I'm

2402
02:04:59,520 --> 02:05:01,000
Speaker 20: I'm gonna go and and give him on and do

2403
02:05:01,080 --> 02:05:03,720
Speaker 20: everything I can to make sure that I put myself

2404
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:05,520
Speaker 20: in the best position to make a play. What's to

2405
02:05:05,600 --> 02:05:08,320
Speaker 20: say when a guy like Jazz trust you the way

2406
02:05:08,400 --> 02:05:12,400
Speaker 20: that he did, and you know, domonstretch look I said

2407
02:05:12,400 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 20: to see him.

2408
02:05:13,160 --> 02:05:13,800
Speaker 6: I love Josh.

2409
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:15,800
Speaker 20: I mean, he's just a guy you want to be around,

2410
02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:18,920
Speaker 20: you know, and obviously the freaking nature on the on

2411
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:21,080
Speaker 20: the football field, but an even even better guy off

2412
02:05:21,120 --> 02:05:23,600
Speaker 20: the field, like just his just how how personal he

2413
02:05:23,760 --> 02:05:26,520
Speaker 20: is with us and getting to know him and being

2414
02:05:26,600 --> 02:05:29,360
Speaker 20: around him, and you know, he has people over at

2415
02:05:29,400 --> 02:05:31,200
Speaker 20: his house all the time, and and that's just the

2416
02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:31,840
Speaker 20: type of leave.

2417
02:05:31,760 --> 02:05:32,440
Speaker 9: That you want around.

2418
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:34,720
Speaker 20: The guy that's going to bring everybody together, and that's

2419
02:05:34,720 --> 02:05:35,920
Speaker 20: the guy you want to play for and fight for.

2420
02:05:36,120 --> 02:05:37,880
Speaker 13: There's a big decision for this team to make with

2421
02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 13: Gabe in a free agency. I know, you know, his

2422
02:05:40,720 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 13: work ethic is admired amongst all the you know, the

2423
02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:45,800
Speaker 13: locker room, the receivers especially.

2424
02:05:45,800 --> 02:05:48,040
Speaker 9: What do you you know, what do you hoping happens

2425
02:05:48,080 --> 02:05:49,960
Speaker 9: there with with Gabe? I love Gabe.

2426
02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:52,720
Speaker 20: I mean I'm not said that's that's a little out

2427
02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:55,520
Speaker 20: of my my pay grade right there to talk a

2428
02:05:55,560 --> 02:05:57,800
Speaker 20: little bit more about that, But love Gabe. He's a

2429
02:05:57,840 --> 02:05:59,520
Speaker 20: guy that that kind of took me under his wing,

2430
02:05:59,720 --> 02:06:03,080
Speaker 20: and it just made me feel comfortable within being here

2431
02:06:03,240 --> 02:06:05,120
Speaker 20: and and getting it more of a feel for the

2432
02:06:05,200 --> 02:06:06,760
Speaker 20: game and just kind of leading me and being a

2433
02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 20: really good mental.

2434
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:08,879
Speaker 6: For me mentally.

2435
02:06:09,120 --> 02:06:12,480
Speaker 20: And I've said this also like just watching his work ethic,

2436
02:06:12,960 --> 02:06:16,200
Speaker 20: like just just the way he works, it's it's it's inspiring.

2437
02:06:16,280 --> 02:06:19,920
Speaker 2: So all right, that's Khalil Shakir addressing the media on

2438
02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:23,480
Speaker 2: locker clean out day. A very strong finish to his

2439
02:06:23,640 --> 02:06:27,120
Speaker 2: second NFL season in a Bill's uniform in the future

2440
02:06:27,160 --> 02:06:29,720
Speaker 2: certainly right for him, as he for all intents and purposes,

2441
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 2: nailed down the slot receiver role in this offense. Want

2442
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:36,880
Speaker 2: to get back to the phones, got some people hanging

2443
02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:39,880
Speaker 2: on for a while. Here we go to Don in Rochester. Next,

2444
02:06:39,920 --> 02:06:40,480
Speaker 2: what do you got for us?

2445
02:06:40,520 --> 02:06:40,680
Speaker 9: Don?

2446
02:06:43,720 --> 02:06:45,560
Speaker 2: All right, I think we've given it up on Donnie

2447
02:06:45,600 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 2: had two cracks at the Apple there. Let's go to

2448
02:06:49,720 --> 02:06:51,800
Speaker 2: Mark in Rochester next. We got for his Mark.

2449
02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:56,000
Speaker 30: Hey, guys, wish I was talking to you about the

2450
02:06:56,080 --> 02:06:59,960
Speaker 30: Ravens game, but I digress. I just want to talk

2451
02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 30: about Sean McDermott. You know I'm not I'm not here

2452
02:07:03,280 --> 02:07:05,040
Speaker 30: to fash the guy. I love what he did for

2453
02:07:05,120 --> 02:07:09,000
Speaker 30: this organization. I mean, he's got us to the playoffs

2454
02:07:09,520 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 30: five years. I think the one year we can thank

2455
02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:16,080
Speaker 30: Cincinnati for, you know, getting us off that seventeen year snide.

2456
02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:22,320
Speaker 30: But I think with that being said, this is it, man,

2457
02:07:22,560 --> 02:07:24,680
Speaker 30: this is where he's gonna take us. You know, I

2458
02:07:24,920 --> 02:07:27,760
Speaker 30: don't think personally, and I've been I've been a fan

2459
02:07:27,880 --> 02:07:29,800
Speaker 30: for a long long time. I'm fifty three years old.

2460
02:07:30,360 --> 02:07:32,480
Speaker 30: I've been a fan since I was a kid. I

2461
02:07:32,640 --> 02:07:37,720
Speaker 30: was around for the nineties, Steve's teams, everything. I think

2462
02:07:37,760 --> 02:07:39,640
Speaker 30: that's it with this guy. You know, I love the guy.

2463
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:41,240
Speaker 30: I love what he did for the organization.

2464
02:07:42,040 --> 02:07:44,280
Speaker 9: But I just think this is it.

2465
02:07:44,680 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 30: I think we need to reach out. You know, He's

2466
02:07:46,880 --> 02:07:49,240
Speaker 30: like that guy that you bring into a business to

2467
02:07:49,320 --> 02:07:51,760
Speaker 30: get that business back up and running. Now we need

2468
02:07:51,840 --> 02:07:54,640
Speaker 30: a better CEO or a CFO to take us over

2469
02:07:54,720 --> 02:07:56,720
Speaker 30: that hump. I just you know, I love the guy.

2470
02:07:56,760 --> 02:07:59,320
Speaker 30: I wish him nothing but the best, him and his family.

2471
02:07:59,480 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 30: But I think I think it's time.

2472
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:03,640
Speaker 2: You know, what do you think is Let me ask you, Mark,

2473
02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:04,680
Speaker 2: what do you think is missing?

2474
02:08:07,360 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 30: I think the one thing that that that jumps out

2475
02:08:10,880 --> 02:08:14,400
Speaker 30: to me, is his game day decisions, you know, in

2476
02:08:14,560 --> 02:08:19,720
Speaker 30: game decisions. You know, it's that that that call, that

2477
02:08:19,920 --> 02:08:21,840
Speaker 30: that that fake punt. I mean, I get it. They

2478
02:08:21,880 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 30: only had ten guys, they had eight.

2479
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:25,840
Speaker 17: You know, we had eight guys on their six.

2480
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:27,960
Speaker 30: We should have been able to out block them, but

2481
02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:30,280
Speaker 30: we didn't. And at that time of the game, you

2482
02:08:30,360 --> 02:08:32,160
Speaker 30: had a lot of time left in that game. It

2483
02:08:32,320 --> 02:08:35,440
Speaker 30: was just I mean, not for nothing. They got the

2484
02:08:35,520 --> 02:08:38,320
Speaker 30: ball back, it didn't cost them. But it's decisions like that.

2485
02:08:38,520 --> 02:08:42,440
Speaker 30: It's those those game day decisions that just it. You know,

2486
02:08:42,680 --> 02:08:44,760
Speaker 30: they just kind of drive you nuts sometimes.

2487
02:08:44,960 --> 02:08:46,920
Speaker 2: But that's an ex But you just admitted that's an

2488
02:08:46,960 --> 02:08:47,880
Speaker 2: execution issue.

2489
02:08:47,960 --> 02:08:48,320
Speaker 3: Correct.

2490
02:08:49,120 --> 02:08:51,320
Speaker 2: They got the look they wanted. They made the call

2491
02:08:51,440 --> 02:08:54,640
Speaker 2: on the fly from the sideline. It's eight on six.

2492
02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:57,960
Speaker 2: As you said, that's an execution problem, is it not?

2493
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 30: Well, he me personally, I don't think I would have

2494
02:09:04,280 --> 02:09:07,600
Speaker 30: the uh, for the lack of a better term, Cojones

2495
02:09:07,880 --> 02:09:08,600
Speaker 30: to make that call.

2496
02:09:08,960 --> 02:09:15,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so three years you know, Okay, so three years ago,

2497
02:09:16,120 --> 02:09:18,600
Speaker 2: when he's conservative against the Chiefs and he's kicking a

2498
02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:22,040
Speaker 2: field goal before halftime from the two yard line, he's

2499
02:09:22,080 --> 02:09:27,320
Speaker 2: too conservative and now he's too aggressive with six minutes

2500
02:09:27,360 --> 02:09:30,640
Speaker 2: left on the clock. I just it's like Steve says

2501
02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:33,280
Speaker 2: all the time, you make the call, and if it

2502
02:09:33,360 --> 02:09:36,360
Speaker 2: doesn't work, you should have done the other thing. And

2503
02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:39,640
Speaker 2: that's what we're getting is feedback. And look, not all

2504
02:09:39,680 --> 02:09:41,800
Speaker 2: the calls are going to work for anybody. I mean,

2505
02:09:42,160 --> 02:09:44,840
Speaker 2: I still remember the Belichick call against Indianapolis at his

2506
02:09:44,920 --> 02:09:46,960
Speaker 2: own thirty five yard line. He chooses to go for

2507
02:09:47,080 --> 02:09:49,640
Speaker 2: it in the playoffs, they don't get it, and the

2508
02:09:49,760 --> 02:09:52,560
Speaker 2: Colts run out the clock and win the football game.

2509
02:09:54,520 --> 02:09:56,480
Speaker 2: There are other coaches that make the same kind of call.

2510
02:09:56,600 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 2: Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. You're putting your

2511
02:09:58,760 --> 02:10:02,000
Speaker 2: faith in your players to ext cute they didn't execute yeah.

2512
02:10:01,960 --> 02:10:04,200
Speaker 3: And yeah, and on a number of occasions they didn't.

2513
02:10:04,600 --> 02:10:10,440
Speaker 3: I get it, particularly now that you've lost to the

2514
02:10:10,600 --> 02:10:14,040
Speaker 3: Chiefs three times, you've lost the Bengals once, and it's

2515
02:10:14,080 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 3: the exact same depth of the playoffs. You win a

2516
02:10:16,320 --> 02:10:20,560
Speaker 3: playoff game and then you lose the next one, and

2517
02:10:20,680 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 3: you think that's as far as we're ever gonna get

2518
02:10:22,760 --> 02:10:27,960
Speaker 3: with this guy. I just I from my experience, it

2519
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:30,960
Speaker 3: just doesn't work like that. I think that's that's the

2520
02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:33,360
Speaker 3: wrong way to look at it. It's a it's it's

2521
02:10:33,400 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 3: a superficial and it's a superficial antidote to what ails

2522
02:10:39,280 --> 02:10:41,920
Speaker 3: this team, and that's it's not gonna And I think

2523
02:10:41,960 --> 02:10:47,240
Speaker 3: you're you know, I can't think of an analogy, but

2524
02:10:47,480 --> 02:10:50,440
Speaker 3: you're tearing down the house because you know, the front

2525
02:10:50,480 --> 02:10:54,720
Speaker 3: door's got to chip in it kind of thing. I

2526
02:10:55,160 --> 02:10:57,760
Speaker 3: just don't think that's the right way to go about

2527
02:10:58,040 --> 02:11:01,200
Speaker 3: getting this team to the Chanceampionship Game into the super

2528
02:11:01,240 --> 02:11:02,960
Speaker 3: Bowl by firing this guy.

2529
02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 2: Let's squeeze Jack in South Buffalo in here before the break?

2530
02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:09,080
Speaker 28: What you got Jack, guys.

2531
02:11:10,280 --> 02:11:15,320
Speaker 12: Said Monday. Obviously, I really just clous to Steve. I

2532
02:11:15,480 --> 02:11:18,280
Speaker 12: was thinking about, like to know, Huddle back in the nineties,

2533
02:11:18,400 --> 02:11:23,800
Speaker 12: how you guys are in such shape and he could

2534
02:11:24,200 --> 02:11:24,920
Speaker 12: really turn.

2535
02:11:24,840 --> 02:11:25,480
Speaker 28: It on and.

2536
02:11:26,960 --> 02:11:31,040
Speaker 12: No one really plays that anymore except for like the

2537
02:11:31,200 --> 02:11:34,120
Speaker 12: last two minutes of a half or a game, and

2538
02:11:34,320 --> 02:11:36,200
Speaker 12: you could see him move the ball out real quick.

2539
02:11:36,680 --> 02:11:39,240
Speaker 12: I'm just wondering if I'd like to see the Bills

2540
02:11:39,440 --> 02:11:43,320
Speaker 12: maybe go to that next year if they could, And

2541
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:46,839
Speaker 12: how did Steve, how did you guys stay in such shape?

2542
02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:50,160
Speaker 12: Because I've seen Holli long a few years later he

2543
02:11:50,240 --> 02:11:53,760
Speaker 12: hated to admit it, but he said by the second

2544
02:11:53,880 --> 02:11:57,040
Speaker 12: half he was so tired he couldn't even get down

2545
02:11:57,120 --> 02:12:01,280
Speaker 12: in his stance. And he look over and our line

2546
02:12:01,600 --> 02:12:04,480
Speaker 12: was just they weren't even breaking a sweat, right.

2547
02:12:04,600 --> 02:12:06,320
Speaker 2: Thanks Jack, We got to go. We're up against the

2548
02:12:06,360 --> 02:12:07,960
Speaker 2: break quickly.

2549
02:12:08,920 --> 02:12:11,400
Speaker 3: You get in that kind of shape by running it,

2550
02:12:11,400 --> 02:12:13,680
Speaker 3: and it's much easier to run it than to defend it.

2551
02:12:15,360 --> 02:12:18,600
Speaker 3: Defenders always have this emotional content of like, what are

2552
02:12:18,600 --> 02:12:20,120
Speaker 3: they gonna do next? We got to be ready for anything.

2553
02:12:20,120 --> 02:12:23,080
Speaker 3: They're all on edge mentally, and that exhausts you. When

2554
02:12:23,120 --> 02:12:24,800
Speaker 3: you're on offense, you know where you're gonna head, you

2555
02:12:24,840 --> 02:12:27,000
Speaker 3: know what your assignment is. It's a different it's a

2556
02:12:27,080 --> 02:12:31,000
Speaker 3: different attitude and anxiety level before the snap and as

2557
02:12:31,040 --> 02:12:34,280
Speaker 3: you if you go faster and faster, that anxiety level

2558
02:12:34,320 --> 02:12:36,560
Speaker 3: wears you out as much as the physical exertion, although

2559
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:40,280
Speaker 3: the physical exertion is big too. So yeah, it worked

2560
02:12:40,320 --> 02:12:43,040
Speaker 3: on a number of different levels. It wouldn't work the

2561
02:12:43,080 --> 02:12:46,640
Speaker 3: same in today's NFL as it did back then, but

2562
02:12:46,760 --> 02:12:48,919
Speaker 3: it is a weapon or a tool in a toolbox

2563
02:12:49,000 --> 02:12:50,040
Speaker 3: that every team has.

2564
02:12:50,240 --> 02:12:52,560
Speaker 2: Right, which is why you see teams jump into tempo

2565
02:12:52,600 --> 02:12:54,160
Speaker 2: and out of tempo, but they don't stay with it

2566
02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:56,720
Speaker 2: the whole game. It's just a different animal in a

2567
02:12:56,760 --> 02:12:59,120
Speaker 2: different league than it was back then. Got to take

2568
02:12:59,120 --> 02:13:01,000
Speaker 2: a break and final thought on the tweetsheet when we

2569
02:13:01,040 --> 02:13:21,080
Speaker 2: return here on one. Bill's life short on time. So

2570
02:13:21,200 --> 02:13:24,040
Speaker 2: some final takeaways from the Bill's AFC divisional loss to

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs on the tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 2: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills, and Duke says, bad luck, too many injuries

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Speaker 2: to starters, great progress overcoming it all from what appeared

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Speaker 2: to be a dismal season seven weeks ago. A lot

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Speaker 2: of growth and it's apparent now where the camp money

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Speaker 2: can be shed. Mh eighty five receivers failed to deliver

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Speaker 2: in the biggest moments. Four drop catches is too much

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Speaker 2: against the top opponent. We've done so well from six

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Speaker 2: to six to get to where we finished. Ultimately, drop

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Speaker 2: passes and injuries caught up with us and we paid

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Speaker 2: the price. We should have been playing next week. That's

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Speaker 2: kind of the gist of it. From Bill's fans today, Steve.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the defensive injuries really showed up in the

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Speaker 3: in the Chief's ability to get big plays. They had

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Speaker 3: eight plays of twenty yards or more and that's really

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Speaker 3: where it shows up and discipline and communication, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: kudos are the Chiefs for being able to do that

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Speaker 3: and knowing that's where they were gonna do it. And

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Speaker 3: the kudos are the Bills for hanging in there and

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Speaker 3: keeping their keeping the Bills offense on the field as

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Speaker 3: much as possible, hanging in there.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue with the post mortem tomorrow on the show

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Speaker 2: along with Dan Orlovsky will join us to break down

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Speaker 2: some of the ins and outs of that playoff game.

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Speaker 2: We'll see it on