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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, One Bill's Live broadcasting from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: this yesterday. We wanted to talk to vision race and

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Speaker 1: we will be in every way, shape and form today

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Speaker 1: as it's suddenly is a race in the AFC East

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Speaker 1: We will get into all of that in due course here.

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Speaker 1: But Steve, there is one thing right off the top

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Speaker 1: it's a phenomenal catch. Yeah, what what level are receivers

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Speaker 1: It's all about the gloves, brownie. Okay, it's all about

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get myself framed up here, right, It's

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Speaker 1: This is how we will perform best so this should

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Speaker 1: be our identity, and he felt their identity going forward

427
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: should be we're a turnover forcing team that stops the run.

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Speaker 1: He said. Now, obviously we got a lot of work

429
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Speaker 1: to do when it comes stopping the run. He said,

430
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Speaker 1: it has not been consistent enough. And you know, last

431
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: week's a perfect example. Over two hundred yards on the ground.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they let Arizona exceed their own average per

433
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Speaker 1: game by a good amount. But he said, you know

434
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Speaker 1: that akeaways are starting to come, and I think it's

435
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: due in part to the fact that, um, you know,

436
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: they they're getting that pass pressure. I think that's leading

437
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: to some of these turnovers that we've seen. Um, but

438
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 1: also the run defense still needs some fixing. So run

439
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: and stop the run. They got to be at the

440
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Speaker 1: top of the priority list here during the buy because

441
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Speaker 1: you can't stop the run. Man. I think one you

442
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: know what would be really a lot easier to fix

443
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Speaker 1: than the run game penalties. You would they fix penalties.

444
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Speaker 1: If they fixed penalty, they're the second most penalized team

445
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Speaker 1: in the league. I know that if they'd fix an

446
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: Arizona was number one, you wouldn't have to Yet they

447
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't have fixed anything else I'd almost rather see. I'd

448
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Speaker 1: almost have more optimism that they can stop getting penalties

449
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: than I do about them fixing their run defense, because

450
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Speaker 1: I think I think they need some bigger bodies up front,

451
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: and they're they're not going to get any more help,

452
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Speaker 1: you know. So I think I think they can fix penalties.

453
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Speaker 1: I don't know. And that's that, to me, is the

454
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Speaker 1: most frustrating part of it. That because you would think

455
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Speaker 1: after a bad week, you'd say, Okay, let's bear down,

456
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: let's do it right, and then they would get better.

457
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: They don't. They haven't gotten better. Yeah, we've got a

458
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Speaker 1: caller waiting for us at eight oh three oh five fifties,

459
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Speaker 1: so we want to get to him before we get

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Speaker 1: to break. Let's go to Bernie in Connecticut. Bernie, what

461
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Speaker 1: do you have? You're on one bills Live. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Hey, good morning, guys. How are you doing Brownie?

463
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Speaker 1: How you're doing good? Oh right? Hey? Uh? After watching

464
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: that game, it was crazy. I wanted to throw up.

465
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, man, you just got to

466
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: tip your cap to these people, you know what I mean.

467
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Speaker 1: It's what a wonderful game. It didn't go our way,

468
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: but it was a great game. So two my two

469
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: takes is this, guys, Josh Allen talked about it a

470
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Speaker 1: little bit. One of the reporters. I asked them, you know,

471
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Speaker 1: what's killing us in that third cailler quarter? And he

472
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: took like always ownership and he said, hey, you know,

473
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Speaker 1: I've got to see it faster. I agree. I just

474
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Speaker 1: wanted to get your take on that. But also my

475
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Speaker 1: last thing, attacking team's weaknesses. I'm not understanding when people

476
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Speaker 1: go down, you know, I don't hate injuries, but when

477
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: they go down attack we got third fourth stringers, you know,

478
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: coming in, plugging in on their defense for all offense

479
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: or whatever vice versa. I just want to know why

480
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Speaker 1: aren't we attacking that more? You know, So I'll hang up,

481
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Speaker 1: guys and get your thoughts on that. You know. Thanks

482
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Speaker 1: for the call, Bernie Steve. I'm I would That was

483
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Speaker 1: something that I came out of this game a little

484
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Speaker 1: troubled by. You had the Arizona Cardinals down to three

485
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: healthy defensive linemen. They were largely using linebackers in the

486
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: second half of the game, just so they could rotate

487
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: those big men in and out so they wouldn't be exhausted.

488
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Speaker 1: And they still couldn't effectively run the ball. It was

489
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Speaker 1: that was troubling to me. Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 1: And I think one of the things was, and we

491
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Speaker 1: talked about this, I think it's a there's never one

492
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Speaker 1: simple fix for this. I don't think if it was

493
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Speaker 1: a simple fix, they would have fixed it. I think

494
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Speaker 1: one of the things that the problem is this, as

495
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Speaker 1: you and I talked about yesterday, the last five weeks,

496
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: they've had no continuity between the two guards in the center.

497
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: It's been a different center, different guard on one side

498
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: or the other every single week. In this last week,

499
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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, who was healthy, was a healthy scratch because

500
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Speaker 1: they thought they got a little better up front in

501
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,239
Speaker 1: the game against Seattle, and they wanted to see if

502
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Speaker 1: it was true, if they could bolster it a little

503
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Speaker 1: bit get better up front. And so now you've got

504
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: three different guys in a different combination starting a game

505
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Speaker 1: than you've had in the last four games before that.

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Speaker 1: That's part of it. Secondly, when the Arizona Cardinals are

507
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Speaker 1: down guys up front, who knows that better than the

508
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. So what they do is they sent help up.

509
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Speaker 1: They would bring guys late. I think I saw them

510
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: bring in a lot of pressure. You said it yourself, Brown,

511
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: either Bills or victims of the highest percentage of blitzes

512
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Speaker 1: in the league or very very high. Yeah, very high.

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Speaker 1: If not, they're in top three. They started doing that

514
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Speaker 1: a little more. I saw that in the first half

515
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: and also in the second half too, and I think that,

516
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Speaker 1: like I said earlier in the program, I think the

517
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks, certainly when I saw

518
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Speaker 1: them in person play the Bills. The philosophy of these

519
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: guys have is stop the run on the way to

520
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And it's hard for offensive linemen to have

521
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: an effective blocking scheme when they're first of all, a

522
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: there's more defenders than they have guys to block, and

523
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: they don't know which guys are coming and which guys

524
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: are dropping out, or or which gaps the guys from

525
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: the secondary or the linebackers are coming into to pick up.

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Speaker 1: I think they get there's some confusion upfront. I don't

527
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: think they can get it right fast enough when the

528
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Speaker 1: defenses are running at the way they are and bringing

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Speaker 1: the pressure they are, and I think that it makes

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Speaker 1: them look bad as a result. So I think it's

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00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: the lack of continuity and the Bills offensive line. It

532
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: was in the Seattle game, it was they brought extra

533
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Speaker 1: people as a rule, and the Arizona Cardinals were relegated

534
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Speaker 1: to that. Plus, the Bills hadn't seen the Arizona Cardinals

535
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Speaker 1: play with zero defensive linemen in a game. How do

536
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: you prepare for that? Right? What are they gonna do?

537
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: So what's your plan? You don't have a plan because

538
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: you've never seen it before. What are you gonna do?

539
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: And that's and I think that led to some of

540
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: the problems as well. All right, fair enough, I get it.

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Speaker 1: So that's just the last two games, right, And it'll

542
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how many teams leap frog the

543
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Speaker 1: Bills this week in the penalty count, knowing they're on

544
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Speaker 1: by and they've played ten games, and a good number

545
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: of teams have only played nine, as we know, because

546
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: I think there's only four teams that are on the

547
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: by this week, counting the Bills, so you would assume

548
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: some of those teams leap frog them. But they are

549
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Speaker 1: number two in penalties assessed against them, and then their

550
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: number two in total penalty yardage. They're behind New Orleans

551
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: by one yard six hundred forty two yards to six

552
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Speaker 1: hundred forty one I think six hundred and forty one

553
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: penalty yards and all that this offense has still been

554
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,719
Speaker 1: able to do. It's it's pretty remarkable think about it.

555
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: But we have to take a break. When we come back,

556
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Speaker 1: we will hear from head coach Sean McDermott, offensive coordinator

557
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, and defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier as they gave

558
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: the media their thoughts yesterday on what needs to be

559
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: accomplished in the bye week and maybe some players that

560
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: they are encouraged by going forward. We'll hear from all

561
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Speaker 1: three of them when we return here on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris

563
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: Brown's Team Chester Tuesday and One Bill Live. And we

564
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Speaker 1: did want to get you some of the comments from

565
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Speaker 1: coach McDermott, offensive coordinator Brian Dable, and defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier,

566
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Speaker 1: who addressed the media late in the day yesterday as

567
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: they do every late Monday afternoon, and coach McDermott was

568
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: asked right off the bat about the run game and

569
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: some of its shortcomings thus far this season. Here was

570
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: his take on how they planned to address that during

571
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Speaker 1: the bye week. You can configure that part of our

572
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: game out. It certainly hasn't been good enough. And and uh,

573
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, for us to move forward as a football team,

574
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: continue to evolve and grow and try and win the

575
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: games that we have to win going forward here, we've

576
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: got to we've got to make sure that we get

577
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: that better. It's a legitimate concern, and you know, you've

578
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: got to You've got to do it. We've got to

579
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: get it figured out. And and uh. And so those

580
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: are the conversations that that we've had up to this

581
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: to this month moment, since I've got an all this

582
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: call with you guys, and we'll continue to have as

583
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Speaker 1: we move forward this week here, just just hearing him

584
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: talk about it, that wasn't the only time he was

585
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: asked about it, but hearing him talk about it yesterday,

586
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: I get the sense that if it's not priority number

587
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Speaker 1: one during the bye week here, it's one A. I

588
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: think it's number one. I think is number one. I

589
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: think that's what they're working on. Listen, you got your

590
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks leading the league in passing. You got a guy

591
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: that's leading in targets and yards as a receiver. You

592
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: got Cole Beasley playing like a monster on a game

593
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: winning drive. You got two rookie or well, a second

594
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: year running back and a rookie running back who are

595
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: as fresh legged as they can be, who cannot get

596
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: it going. Your offensive line has been shuffled every single

597
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: solitary week, maybe except for the week's one and two.

598
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: And you know that's it's got to start up front.

599
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: It's something's going on up front that they can't get

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00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: people moved out of the way. And now listen, none

601
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: of the big none of the offensive lineman opted out,

602
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: and they released Quentin Spain for his ineffectiveness. So they

603
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: are attacking as they tried benching a ten million dollar

604
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: player up front and Mitch Morris. They're trying it just

605
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: as an experiment, not because the guy wasn't playing well,

606
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: but because they thought, well maybe we got a little

607
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: boost with Feliciano at center. Let's try it. They're trying

608
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: every thing. So yeah, it's job one for the bye week,

609
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: without question. Yeah, the Mitch Morrise thing was kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not of the belief that it was game

611
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: playing related, performance related. I still think it's tied to

612
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: that concussion in the fact that it was his fifth

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00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: documented concussion. I think they wanted to give him an

614
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Speaker 1: extra week to heal because call it what you want,

615
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: but a concussion is a brain injury, and this is

616
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Speaker 1: his fifth documented concussion. I think they were a little

617
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Speaker 1: I think they wanted to air on the side of

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Speaker 1: caution there and say, hey, you know what, if we

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Speaker 1: don't play him this week, the next time he takes

620
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: the field in a game, it'll be almost a month

621
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Speaker 1: removed from his most recent concussion. That's got to be

622
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: a better situation than putting him back out on the

623
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Speaker 1: field here just a little more than a week after

624
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Speaker 1: suffering that. So I think it's tied to that. I

625
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: just I just the coach just don't like talking about

626
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: that part of the game very much. And I understand

627
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: why there are actually rules against them talking about it,

628
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: because once a guy's in the protocol, that's really all

629
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Speaker 1: you can say, whether he's in or out, and the

630
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: league hands that down. And there's reasons why that is.

631
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Speaker 1: But I can't imagine that. As you said, they're eleven

632
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. Center is not on the field

633
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: for performance reasons. I think it's it's something else, and

634
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 1: it's it's I think they were trying to just be

635
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: smart with him going forward. Might that might be true,

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Speaker 1: and they might have done it at Mitch's request, although

637
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: he was up and he was active for the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he would have played if he was needed.

639
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Speaker 1: So I don't know I would. And but I will

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Speaker 1: say this, more so than any coaching staff I've ever

641
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: seen or been around, with the exception of maybe well

642
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: not even the New England Patriots, this group and staff

643
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: and culture and general manager, once the season starts and

644
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: your rosters set, they don't care what you make. If

645
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: you're not playing, you're not If you're not playing, well,

646
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: you're not playing. And that goes for a ten million

647
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: dollar player as well. So it could, but it could

648
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 1: be that. Mitch said, listen, I'll tell you what. I'm

649
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: not feeling this too good. Give me another, get me

650
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: to the buy and let me get through that and

651
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: then I'll be ready to go because I just want

652
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: more time. And Sean McDermot was said, how about this,

653
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Speaker 1: would you be an emergency guy on this game and

654
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: if we need you you can come in and he

655
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: Mitch Brice said, okay, I'll do that. I could see

656
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: that happening as well, because McDermott has always put the

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Speaker 1: player and his wishes and needs first, and so I

658
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as surprised if that happened. But I also

659
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they said, listen, if he's not playing, well,

660
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: he's not playing, So I don't know something's there. I

661
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: don't think Mitch Moore has been playing badly and he

662
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: has pro football focus or any of that stuff. So

663
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: we'll see. Ye'll see. If he's back in against the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: that may tell us a little something. If he's not

665
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: may tell us more. And naturally, the hope is that

666
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: maybe for the first time this season, coming off the bye,

667
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: that they'll be guard to guard with their top three guys,

668
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: which I think everybody believes to be Cody Ford, Mitch Morris,

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Speaker 1: and John Feliciano on the interior. So hopefully all three

670
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: of those guys are, you know, good to go coming

671
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: out of the bye. I mean, Feliciano should be having

672
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: played the last few weeks, but Ford's coming off that

673
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: ankle injury, also had a knee injury prior to that,

674
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Speaker 1: and we know Morris is out of the concussion protocol,

675
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Speaker 1: but you know, we'll see where that goes coming out

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Speaker 1: of the bye. Speaking of the BUYE, here is coach

677
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: McDermott on the team's plans during the bye week. My assystem,

678
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: Matt Werzik and I mapped out a plan for the

679
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: schedule and what we want to kind of as I

680
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, what we want to do early part of

681
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: the week here to to move our team forward, and

682
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: the coaches right now there's are hard at work at

683
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: beginning the execution of the early phases of that of

684
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: that plan, and much like we've done in previous years

685
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: with the buy so and also trying to get rest.

686
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: And we've gone ten weeks now, one of the later

687
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: buys in the year without you know, we were going

688
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: to have that short at least a mini buy what

689
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: we thought was after what was going to be the

690
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: Thursday night Kansas City game. We didn't get that opportunity there.

691
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Speaker 1: So we've really gone ten straight weeks in addition to

692
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: training camp without a break here. So uh, you know,

693
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Speaker 1: I thought, I think the guys need some rest to

694
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: It is unique and from what uh you know, some

695
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: of the research we've done, there's quite a few teams

696
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: who have picked up COVID on the bye week because naturally,

697
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, less structured time, less time in the building,

698
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: and more time outside the building. So I think just

699
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: awareness to that. Now we're basically going out into society again,

700
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: and we've got to be very mindful of that and

701
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: accountable to the people in our building and to our

702
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: seat at this point. Yeah, there's the extra layer, Steve.

703
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: It's not just hey, what needs fixing on the field.

704
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: It's hey, guys, can we just be smart this week

705
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: and not be venturing out all that much with the

706
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: way COVID spiking all across the country, including here locally.

707
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a double edged sword this bye week.

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00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: Fix what you need fix in on the field in

709
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: terms of your performance, and you know, don't be foolish

710
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, you can take a step backwards with

711
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: your roster with nobody getting hurt because of COVID. UH,

712
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: close proximity, all of that stuff. They don't wear the bracelets,

713
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: I don't think when they're not building and you and

714
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: you heard what he said. His team has already done

715
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,919
Speaker 1: research on how many teams across the league have picked

716
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: up more cases during bye weeks because they are left

717
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: to their own devices. There is no schedule. It's got

718
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: you tied up for ten twelve hours a day. And

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00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: it's it's not just the players either. All of a sudden,

720
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: the players are going they got a little time off.

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Speaker 1: So now what mom and dad, or their brothers or

722
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: their college buddies, or their wife's sister or whatever. People

723
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: come into visit because you know, and Bills are having

724
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: a good year. They want to say hi, Thanksgivings coming up,

725
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: you know, everything's different. They want to come up and

726
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: say hi or spend some time together. And then one

727
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: of them comes down with symptoms and now you know,

728
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: that's the knife in your back. Nobody meant to do it.

729
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: As somebody comes to get down and get sick. They

730
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: don't know how they got it, but they've been with

731
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: you for the last three days. You know, they've been

732
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: living in your house or visiting for the last three days.

733
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Speaker 1: You can't do it, you know, that's the kind of

734
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: thing that happens with these players. They you know, they

735
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: want to see you know, they want to see their

736
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Speaker 1: families just like everybody else does. And they haven't for

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00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: what Sean McDermot said, ten, probably fourteen weeks. They haven't

738
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Speaker 1: been had a normal life. It's been a long stretch

739
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: for sure, when you consider the beginning of training camp

740
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Speaker 1: and then going all the way and as he even said,

741
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: you know, we were hoping for that mini buy after

742
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: the Thursday and night Chiefs game, but that got blown

743
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: up by the Titans, and so they end up playing

744
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: Tuesday Monday, and there's really no rest anywhere in there,

745
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, coming off a Thursday night game, you know,

746
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: you usually give your players the weekend to kind of

747
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 1: rest up, heel up, and then you hit it again

748
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: on Monday after a Thursday night game, and that was

749
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Speaker 1: completely out the window when the Titans kind of corrupted

750
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Speaker 1: the schedule with their own misbehavior. All Right, we have

751
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back, we'll

752
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: hear from Brian Dable and Leslie Frazier for their thoughts

753
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: on their respective side to the ball heading into the

754
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: bye week, and some of their plans to fix what

755
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,959
Speaker 1: needs fixing. That's coming up next here on One Pills

756
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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalaida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

757
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: back one BILS Live, First ground. So yeah, through a

758
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: new motor and multe hour number one of the program,

759
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: and we wanted to get to some sound from Brian

760
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: Dable and Leslie as you're here in this short segment.

761
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: So we'll begin with Dabs, who commented on fixing those

762
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: issues in the run game during the bye week. Here

763
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: starts with me, and we got to do a good

764
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: job of of designing things for those guys that they

765
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: can go out there and execute at a high level.

766
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: And then we need to make sure we're getting half

767
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: for hats at the line of scrimmage and making the

768
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: proper reads and blocking the guys on the perimeter. It

769
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: takes all takes all of us to get that job done.

770
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: Where we're not where we need to be in regards

771
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: to the running game. We acknowledge that and we look

772
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: forward to working on it, particularly in this bye week

773
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: and getting ready for getting ready for the Chargers in

774
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So, as usual, he puts out himself,

775
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: but there's some execution stuff too. I know that Josh

776
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: has put it on himself as well. Steve. You know

777
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: with some of the RPOs, you know, either stayed in

778
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: a run call or changed to a run call, and

779
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: there have been a couple of instances where you can

780
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: see they've run right into a run blitz or you know,

781
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: something that probably wasn't the best play call for that

782
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: specific play. But it's more than that. I think we

783
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 1: can all agree on that. Yeah, there's too many times

784
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: when it just seems like they get beat to the

785
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: punch or they're not winning the line of scrimmage. It's

786
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: not as bad as it was in twenty eighteen by

787
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. And I think one of

788
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: the things that has not helped the Bills, or that

789
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: the Bills have gotten away from, we haven't talked about

790
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: in a long time. Teams don't seem to be afraid

791
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: of a run of a called quarterback run out of

792
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: the field. They're not asking Josh to run the ball

793
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: at all. This these days, we've seen him running in

794
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: the red zone, down on the goal line a short

795
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: yardage wants to while with a quarterback sneak. But you remember,

796
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 1: you know how there was one what was a quarterback

797
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: draw on Sunday that was really effective and wide open.

798
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, teams aren't aren't game planning for that. So

799
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: I think that's one meant and why should they. I mean,

800
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: the the Bills were leading the league in passing, so

801
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: why you want your quarterback pulling down or running running

802
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: on a cold run? So I get that, but that's

803
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: also something would have that has helped them in the past,

804
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: helped them last year. And I'm not all that upset

805
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: about the running game. I really am not. It's a

806
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: throwing league, and the Bills, certainly you'd like to run.

807
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: See them run it more successfully, more consistently. It seems

808
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: to be one yard here, two yards there, a two

809
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: yard loss here, and then a seven or eight yard run,

810
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: and then a one yard run, and then a two

811
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: yard run and then a seven or eight yard run.

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00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: You know, I mean they they're just not running it

813
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: at a steady five yards a clip pace right anywhere anywhere?

814
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: What about? What about that's the thing? Yeah? What about

815
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: the rhythm argument, though, Steve, Because you say this is

816
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: a passing offense, you want the run game to at

817
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: least be a complimentary piece to it. But can it

818
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 1: be if you don't If you run it's so little

819
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: that there's maybe no rhythm to it for the lineman

820
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: or the backs for that matter. Yeah, I know this.

821
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: The running game gets better when that's what you do

822
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 1: the most often because guys get reps. It's that simple. Yeah,

823
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh, you know, if spending all your

824
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: time backing up in pass protection is the best run practice,

825
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I don't know. I I've

826
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: heard guys say that. You know, if you if you

827
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: throw it all the time, your running game is gonna

828
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: stink because the offensive lineman have to switch from you know,

829
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: backing up and protecting to going out and attacking. And

830
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: it's a big switch. And maybe the Bills are a

831
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: little bit of a victim of that. But I don't know.

832
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: A rhythm, Yeah, I don't know. You get into a

833
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: rhythm when you have some success, and they just haven't

834
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: had enough success. I don't know that you're I don't

835
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: know that you're a good running team because you have

836
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: a rhythm, or whether you have the rhythm because you're

837
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: a good running team. So take your pick. Yeah, a

838
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: little chicken and asks a reason or cause, Yeah, I

839
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: get it. One player who has improved pretty noticeably in

840
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: the time that he's spent on the field is rookie

841
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: seventh round cornerback Dane Jackson, who got another great opportunity

842
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: last week and came through until he suffered a knee

843
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: injury unfortunately and had to leave the football game. But

844
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, Bill's defensive coordinator, commented on the confidence that

845
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: he has in this exciting young rookie. He had very

846
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: few reps doing practice because we were getting Josh back,

847
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: and you know that we're all working Leviy in and

848
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: getting our rotation going, and so he got very little

849
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: practice with the starting defense, and all of a sudden

850
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 1: sarities we're heading to the outport, you know, we find

851
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: out that Leby is not going to be able to play,

852
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: Josh is not going to be able to play, and

853
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,439
Speaker 1: day Marlow and some of our other players as well,

854
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: and so we have to go to Dean. We talked

855
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: to Worly as well, and too Dane's credit, even though

856
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting the reps, he was paying attention to

857
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: the meetings, he was getting the mental reps in practice,

858
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: and for him to go out and play the way

859
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: he played yesterday, you know, just very very impressive. And

860
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: I know our secondary coach, John but spent a lot

861
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: of time with both he and Darryl on Saturday night

862
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: and just making sure they were up to speed on

863
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: the game plan. But neither one of those guys had

864
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: really in any reps. So for Dane to go out

865
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: and perform at the level anybody if it did against

866
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: some very very good wide receivers, very impressive, very impressive. So,

867
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Speaker 1: I mean, you got your coach talking about you like that,

868
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: you're doing something right, I think so. And he's been

869
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: he's been noticeable, Steve, He's flashed when he's been on

870
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: the field. You notice him. Yeah, he's around the football

871
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: and he and I think one thing people like about

872
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: him and he and Terren Johnson was like this, Terry

873
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: Johnson's the guy who forced the fumble on Kenyon Drake

874
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: and Dane Jackson's the guy who recovered it. In the secondary,

875
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: both those young guys come in, they have a little

876
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: level of aggression that you don't see that much. Pawyers

877
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: made a lot of tackles in the secondary, but you know,

878
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: I don't. And certainly Josh Norman when he was healthy,

879
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: seemed to be aggressive like that as well. Maybe Dan

880
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: Jackson picked it up from him. Maybe that's kind of

881
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: something they're getting taught in the meeting rooms when guys

882
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: talk about it. But yeah, Dane Jackson has played above expectations,

883
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: and certainly you got to tip your hat to and

884
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: find an out less than twenty four hours from the

885
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: game that he's playing, had a rep all week, he

886
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: hasn't a rep all week. And he played well. He

887
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: played well, and he played well in the game where

888
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: you know, you can make every argument that Bills had

889
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: every reason to believe they're gonna win that thing. Yeah,

890
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: and at the end of it, and Coach Fraser did say,

891
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, one of the appealing things about him in

892
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: the pre draft process was he played all forms of

893
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: defense at Pitt. I mean, he played some press man,

894
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: he played off man, and so I think the amount

895
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: of different defensive calls that he had been exposed to

896
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: at Pitt was what was so appealing to them. And

897
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: they also liked his aggressiveness in general. All Right, we

898
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but before we do that,

899
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: we remind you that the New York Lottery has released

900
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: their seasonal scratch off games. Once again. Head to your

901
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Speaker 1: nearest retailer for the chance to win up to five

902
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. Please gift responsibly. Josh Allen is the

903
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: only QB in NFL history to have twenty eight hundred

904
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: or more passing yards, twenty one or more passing touchdowns,

905
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: and five or more rushing touchdowns in a season's first

906
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: ten games. Congrats to him on being the first to

907
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: do that. We got to take a break, but when

908
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: we return it is our weekly visit from Good Morning

909
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: Football's Kyle Brandt, who will probably have some interesting things

910
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: to say about Sunday's game. Back with him when we return.

911
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, it's

912
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Falo Bills Radio Network Sports Date a

913
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: quiet day one Bills Drive as the team enters it's

914
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: bye week. The coaches, however, will be hard at work,

915
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: at least for the first half of the week. Head

916
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott offensive coordinator Brian day Will pointed to

917
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Speaker 1: the run game as an area of focus this week.

918
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Leslie Fraser indicated they'll be working on finding

919
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: ways to make their run defense more consistent. Bills will

920
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: also be looking to reduce their penalty count, as they

921
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: ranked second in the league in total yellow flags. The

922
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: Bills host the Chargers in Week twelve. Week ten wrapped

923
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: up last night in Chicago as the Bears dropped their

924
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: fourth straight game and lost quarterback Nick Foles, who was

925
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: carted off the field with a hip injury, and the

926
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Speaker 1: loss to the Vikings. Although reports today our initial tests

927
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: on full show he has only a relatively minor injury.

928
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: Bears on there by this week and there's optimism in

929
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: Chicago that Fulls will be good to go when they

930
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: return in two weeks at Green Bay. Good news with

931
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota win is Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins finally broke

932
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: his streak of winless Monday Night football games, getting his

933
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: first win on Monday Night after losing the first nine

934
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: of his career. The Giants announced Tuesday that Graham Gano

935
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: has tested positive for COVID nineteen and two staff members

936
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: were identified as high risk close contacts. The kicker is

937
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: expected to miss some practice time, but should be okay

938
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: to play in New York's next game on November twenty ninth.

939
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: He signed a three year extension with the club just

940
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Speaker 1: this past weekend. For the second time this week, Falcons

941
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 1: have plays a player on their COVID reserve list. Falcons

942
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: announced this morning wide receiver Laquon Treadwell has been placed

943
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Speaker 1: on the list. On Sunday. The Falcons plays defensive end

944
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler on that list as well. And finally college football,

945
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: the two and O ub Bulls head to Ohio to

946
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: take on O and two Bowling Green. You be coming

947
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: off a statement win forty two to ten over Miami

948
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: University last week. Kickoff set tonight four seven pm. That

949
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 1: is your sports update, our number two of the program.

950
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on one Bill's

951
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: Live and joining us now. The guy that has boundless energy,

952
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: and maybe it's because he lives with young kids who

953
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: are constantly tearing at his shirt and threatening to wrestle

954
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: him to the ground each and every day of the

955
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: week in this COVID world that we all live in.

956
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: One Kyle Brand joining us for his weekly visit. Kyle,

957
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: good to have you. How are you. I'm good, I

958
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: have boundless energy. They can call me the DeAndre Hopkins

959
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: of my household. Come on now, we had to jump

960
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: right into it too soon, Kleon. Listen, guys, you've been

961
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 1: through a lot of bills football, some of it very good,

962
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: but some of it also very bad. That one, I

963
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: don't care how thick your callouses. Maybe against the Buffalo

964
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: Bill's losses or drama. That was a traumatizing five seconds.

965
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: That was tough. Yeah, But and I was saying this too,

966
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: because it drops the Bills to seven and three instead

967
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: of eight and two. They go eight and two. They're

968
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: on everybody's radar. Now they're still below the radar. Everybody's

969
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: talking about Hey Tuah and the Dolphins. They're coming, They're

970
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: gonna be great. And they're talking about Ben Roethlisberger and

971
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers keeping their undefeated season going. They're talking about

972
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: the great the Tennessee Titans, and now that the Patriots

973
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: showing some life and all that. The Bills are chugging

974
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: along and they are still playing really, really good football.

975
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I mean, I wish they'd have

976
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: won the game, yeah, but it's not all. I'm not

977
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: in a doom and gloom place at all with this team.

978
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: I'm impressed, Steve. That is thirty years of institutionalized familiarity.

979
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: That is the great glasses have full stuff there. However,

980
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: do you think you're out of something? And I want

981
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: to agree with you, and I'll try to add a

982
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: different angle before we do, though, I remember Monday more. Now,

983
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: how you guys handle it. I just had a bit

984
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: of a how did this happen? In factor, Like, I

985
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: know I saw the play, and I know DeAndre Hopkins

986
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: is good, but how did this happen? I went after

987
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: it from almost like a true detective perspective, because here's

988
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: always a little frustrating for me. The three guys that

989
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: were surrounding DeAndre. A lot of times in these situations,

990
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: you emptied the band. She put in every nickel back

991
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: and dining back and everybody who's ever played defensive back.

992
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 1: The three guys were Poyer, white, and high. They were

993
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: the three dogs. Those are the three guys you want.

994
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: These were not the backups. These were not the ancillary

995
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: d back. These were your guys. And so I said,

996
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: how did this happen? I looked into the details. DeAndre

997
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: Hopkins is taller than all three of those guys. He

998
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: has a higher vertical I looked it up than all

999
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: three of those guys, and I even went so far

1000
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: as deep as he has a larger hand size of

1001
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: the combine than all three of them. So we're really

1002
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: getting to the physics of it. Taller jumps higher, has

1003
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: bigger hands, and that's all she wrote. I mean, that

1004
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: was it. It was a matter of physics. And then

1005
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw this. Peter Strager

1006
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: on our show got to talk to Cliff Kingsbury red

1007
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: after it happened. He talked to him Sunday night and

1008
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: he said, Cliff, what the hell was that? And Cliff

1009
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: had this whole breakdown that it was a play that

1010
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: the Cardinals took from the twenty sixteen green Bay Packers.

1011
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: The green Bay Packers, if you remember that year, it

1012
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: was the dak and Zekiel Elliott rookie year where they

1013
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: were so great with the Cowboys. Rogers goes to Dallas

1014
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: in the playoffs beats them at a visional round on

1015
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: the strength of this incredible sideline completion to Jared Cook,

1016
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: a miraculous play. That play is the play that the

1017
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: Cardinals installed, and it was called Cowboy and honor of

1018
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: that moment. Kyler's job there was not to throw to DeAndre.

1019
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: It was to take the intermediate throw and go out

1020
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: of bounds and stead up the next play with the

1021
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: caveat of Listen, if you see DeAndre and you want

1022
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: to chuck it to him, give him a shot, but

1023
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: he's secondary on that Kyler threw it to him, he said,

1024
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: screw and I'm gonna go up to DeAndre. That was

1025
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 1: the play, an old homage the twenty sixteen Packers of

1026
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: all teams, and once again it worked. Well. Yeah, but no,

1027
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: I've seen no offense to Andy Isabell. But i mean,

1028
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: who are you throwing to Andy Isabella or DeAndre Hopkins.

1029
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the guy running the intermediate route and

1030
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: what is he five nine and one hundred. I mean

1031
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 1: he's like Colb Easley, you're gonna put the game on

1032
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: the line and throw it to that kid. If for

1033
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: a twenty yard game, you're gonna throw it to the

1034
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers on the planet. Yeah, and

1035
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: I've heard and that's what you do. You dissect the

1036
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: last play of the game. Now, there's a ton of

1037
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: plays that come up before that, and a lot of

1038
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: things in a game that close could have turned the

1039
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: tide either way. But even down to I've heard people

1040
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. They're they're asking did this time out

1041
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott called right before the play? Did that

1042
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: help them or did it really help Arizona. I'm like,

1043
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: wait a minute, If you're thinking that helped Arizona. Why

1044
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: did they come up with this play where ye where

1045
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: Tyler's running for his life in the backfield to begin with,

1046
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: and throws the ball backpedaling towards his own sideline. I'm

1047
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: pretty sure that time out didn't have anything to do

1048
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: with that play going sideways like that. Now, granted, just

1049
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: like you said, you got a great player, give him

1050
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 1: a chance. You don't need a time out or to

1051
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: remind Kyler Murray that DeAndre Hopkins is a really good

1052
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: ball player, of course, and you know who else is

1053
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: a really good ball player? Stefand Diggs, with about five

1054
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: seconds earlier, cut the game winning touchdown. That's why this

1055
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: one was frustrated. It wasn't that just that, oh man,

1056
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: the Cardinals made a play at the end. You know,

1057
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: the Bills were supposed to have that moment and Cole

1058
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: Beasley was incredible, and that touchdown pass from Allen to

1059
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: Diggs was the seminal moment of the Josh Allen era

1060
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: in this play that he had played all sloppy and

1061
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: he cames back and completed it. But this is where

1062
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: I come to the glass and half ball, where I

1063
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: agree with you, especially Steve. I just It's not like

1064
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: they lost because man, they didn't have it or the

1065
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: Cardinals were a better team. They made an unbelievable series

1066
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: of plays here that we're seeing with Diggs, and they

1067
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: lost on a play that was a lottery ticket. They

1068
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: lost on a freakish, freakish all play. I'm reminded of

1069
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 1: the mid two thousands, during the Shack and and Kobe

1070
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: Laker years. They would have these great series against the Spurs,

1071
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: and there was that amazing moment where Tim Duncan had

1072
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: a backward shot to take the lead and then Derek

1073
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: Fisher had a catch in chuck for with point eight

1074
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: seconds left in the playoffs and went in. And afterwards

1075
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: Shack said one look, you shot deserves another. It was

1076
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: it was fluke. The Lakers weren't better than the Spurs.

1077
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 1: They had this crazy miracle play, and it's this is

1078
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: not knocking the build out the playoffs, is not knocking

1079
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: out of the FC East. They made amazing plays in

1080
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: this game and they lost to a powerball winner. I

1081
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: think that's what you hang your hat on. They're still excellent. Yeah,

1082
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: what do you think though now of an AFC East

1083
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: race that has suddenly become more interesting? Bills can't do

1084
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: anything about it this week, sitting on the bye, and

1085
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:40,479
Speaker 1: the Dolphins schedule looks relatively easy. The next three weeks.

1086
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: They're probably going to play the Broncos without their starting quarterback,

1087
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: and you know they've got the Bengals on there coming

1088
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: up and another easy game in between, which memories escapes me.

1089
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask our graphics guys to help us put

1090
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: up the upcoming schedules here. But yeah, you see Miami Bronchos, Jets, Bengals.

1091
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: They may Darnald to start instead of Flacco in a

1092
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, which still hasn't happened yet, so they

1093
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: can make up some ground here. But I I find

1094
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: the Dolphins schedule, Kyle, pretty interesting down the stretch there, Chiefs, Patriots, Raiders. Yo,

1095
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's interesting in the fact that it's terrible.

1096
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: I've tried, We've been talking about this, the three of

1097
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: us for a month. I've seen this Dolphins ben come

1098
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: in when everyone was pulling their hair out and crying

1099
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: a river because Ryan Flores benched Ryan Fitzpatrick a national

1100
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: treasure I tried to say, listen, he knows what he's

1101
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: doing this to a thing is not a joke and

1102
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: it's a very serious threat to Buffalo. I'm not gonna

1103
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: pull punches for the sake of the Bill's audience and say, ah,

1104
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: they're fine, They're not fine. He's really good, and I

1105
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: think what's concerning is that he hasn't been fantastic, he

1106
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: hasn't been sensation. He's just been good. He's been really good,

1107
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: which means the best is yet to come. The Dolphins

1108
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: defense and special teams is miraculous. And if you know

1109
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: anything about Flores his background, he cuts his teeth on

1110
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: that stuff. He prides him stuff on that stuff. So

1111
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: I looking at weeks seventeen Miami at Buffalo, because I

1112
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: really think that's gonna be for the division. I think

1113
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: Miami is not just having a hot month. I think

1114
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: they're onto something here, and considering how bad Houston is

1115
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: and Miami has their draft micks, it's gonna be a

1116
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: problem for the future. But right now, like I'm telling you,

1117
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: Week seventeen is the regular season super Bowl in the AFC.

1118
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: What do you think about getting to the playoffs and

1119
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: and and coming in and with the Dolphins, whether they

1120
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: whether one's the division champion or one's not the Bills

1121
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: come into this thing, um, and we talked about this earlier.

1122
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: The Bills schedule has been against a lot. They've got

1123
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: seven teams on their schedule that have winning records. Uh,

1124
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: they are on They've run the gauntlet already with the Rams,

1125
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Titans, the Chiefs, the Seahawks, and the Cardinals.

1126
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: While let these other teams haven't. The strength of schedule

1127
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: wins for for the Bills has been really, really tough.

1128
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: So when you get to the when they get to

1129
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs, it's not a step up for them. They're

1130
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: already gonna have played the Raiders, They're already gonna played

1131
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Titans. Uh, they're already gonna played

1132
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: some of the you know, some of these teams that

1133
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: are gonna be in there, the Dolphins twice maybe, Yeah.

1134
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: Do you what do you think about them being hardened

1135
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: and ready for these games more so than the team

1136
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: that has you know, beaten up on the Jets twice

1137
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: like the Bills have, but also played the Bengals, Uh

1138
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: and uh as who who else have they played? You know?

1139
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Yeah, those kind I mean back back in

1140
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: your day, you guys would have these battles against the

1141
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins and some of these tougher teams and Jets and

1142
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: in the East, and then you show up playoff ready.

1143
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: We talked about all the time. It's college basketball stuff, RPI,

1144
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: strength of schedule. If you're gonna see the tournaments, do

1145
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: you go with the team that's that's twenty six and

1146
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: two and hasn't played anybody, or that's maybe you know,

1147
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: nineteen and eight and has all sorts kind of brutal

1148
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: road trips and Thanksgiving tournaments and whatnot. I think that

1149
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: there's teams out there who I think are soft, who

1150
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: have not played a lot of time. I don't love

1151
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: Baltimore at all. I know that they're flashy and they've

1152
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 1: got the MVP, and I don't think they're playing good football,

1153
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: and I don't think that they are really good as

1154
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: a league competition. It guess it just brings me back

1155
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: to Okay, So the Bill's lost, and it was heartbreaking

1156
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: and it was really stressful, and I know that no

1157
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: one wants to hear quality loss. But they played a

1158
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: good team on the road and it took the miracle

1159
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: play to beat him. That type of stuff is the

1160
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: kind of thing that's gonna pay off in the playoffs.

1161
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: I don't care what your record is as much as

1162
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: who you've played, and the Bills have played a lot

1163
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: of teams. I saw Kyle that Cole Beasley got some

1164
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: toe drag swag love from one of your colleagues on

1165
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football. Do you think that he showed people

1166
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: anything that they didn't already know about him or do

1167
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: you still believe he's kind of an underappreciated receiver. It's

1168
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: a great question. Well, he showed this. I wasn't aware

1169
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: of the subplot where Cole Beasley at halftime literally took

1170
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: his hair down. I guess Ian Eagle was on this

1171
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, and then Strager talked about it today

1172
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: that Beasley, it seems to Ashton something of a man

1173
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: bun and then at halftime said screw it in a

1174
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: Samson esque show of strength, removed the chopsticks or the

1175
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: rubber band or whatever the hell he had in his hair,

1176
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: and had the bowl of salad completely hanging out the back.

1177
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: You know what, never mind Buffalo for a second. Never

1178
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: mind Alan or Stefan Diggs. I was frustrated and win

1179
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: this game because of Cole Beasley. Some of those catches.

1180
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: He made the one headed catch, especially on third and four.

1181
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: I put it this way, people like DK Metcalfe or

1182
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, who are these genetic lottery winners, these unbelievable players.

1183
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: I know why those guys making those catches because there's

1184
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: six to four and they run four threes. The ce

1185
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: Beasley do it is such an incredible experience, and he

1186
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: was so passionate. He was like a basketball player who

1187
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: just had the hot hand and it was putting thirty points,

1188
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: forty points. Just get him all there. It is such

1189
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: an amazing catch. It was like the greatest game of

1190
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: his life. And so I'm frustrated for him, But you

1191
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: know what, again, who cares on a third and five

1192
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: in the playoff game? You can go to Beasley and

1193
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 1: you know he'll make the play. Yeah. Do you think

1194
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: with the with the Bills, you know, sitting at the

1195
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: top of the division, the Miami Dolphins closing the gap? Uh?

1196
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: Did you see the Patriots play the Baltimore Ravens on

1197
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: Sunday Night? Now they they're they've been defibrillated by their

1198
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: run game, and you know, I mean, we're always going

1199
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: to look up for a long time it's gonna take

1200
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: a long time not to look over your when you're

1201
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 1: leading the Patriots. How how long is it going to be?

1202
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: It's like you have to check under the bed or

1203
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: ask my mom, like there's a monster the twitch. They're

1204
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: the boogeyman, the boogeyman. Listen, we know this that in

1205
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: what we do in sports media, Like the most dangerous

1206
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: words you could utter are the Patriots are done because

1207
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 1: people's reputations get ruined by that, and you get you

1208
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: get memed and you get remembered and freezing cold take

1209
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: and all that. But I I gotta tell you, I

1210
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,919
Speaker 1: don't think the Patriots are going to the playoffs. I don't.

1211
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: They have a different quarterback, they have a bad record,

1212
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: and even just never mind the coach and the quarterback,

1213
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: it's the math is really bad. I think they got

1214
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: to win six out of seven games right now. I

1215
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: mean maybe five out of seven, but I think they're

1216
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to get to ten and six. If you

1217
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: look at the standings, there's a million teams that are

1218
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: six and three. Some of them I think are very good,

1219
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: the Raiders, even the Browns, even if Cam gets hot,

1220
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: and Belichick and McDaniels just coached their backside off and

1221
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: it's their greatest effort they've made. They're gonna win six

1222
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: out of seven games. I just don't think so. I

1223
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: don't think they're that good if they had Brady a

1224
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 1: different story. But it was a nice night in the

1225
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: rain where Cam Newton had his moxie back and he

1226
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: ran a little bit. But I know it's a dangerous

1227
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: thing to say, and this could be played back and

1228
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: we can have laughs about a week seventeen. I don't

1229
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: think the Patriot's gonna playoffs? What about the Steelers? Kyle

1230
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: running the table is going to be part of the

1231
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: conversation with each passing week here. Their schedule is not

1232
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: that daunting. I mean, I know they have Baltimore once more,

1233
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: and that's always a war between those two teams, you know,

1234
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: and they got a colts team late in the season.

1235
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: And there are the Browns, you know, their division rivals,

1236
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: who have well I always call that the Who's your

1237
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: Daddy game? But they may not even need that game

1238
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. You wonder, one, can they run the table? Two?

1239
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: Does Tomlin call off the Dogs for the sake arresting people?

1240
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: Come Week seventeen and compromise an undefeated season, much the

1241
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: way Tony Dungee did years ago. Yes, I have an

1242
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 1: unofficial guideline for this, but I never talk about sixteen

1243
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: and Ohn sixteen until you get to the ten game mark.

1244
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: If they get to ten and no, you're officially on watch.

1245
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: Because here's what's fascinating about the run the table thing.

1246
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: We have the Steelers this year, we also have the Jets,

1247
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,439
Speaker 1: and we have never had that before. While we've seen

1248
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: the Lions and Browns go ohen sixteen and the Pats

1249
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: go sixteen and oh, we've never bookended this sucker with

1250
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: thirty two games. However, I guess the question it would

1251
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: beg the question which is more unlikely the sixteen and

1252
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: oh Steelers are then sixteen Jets. I think more likely

1253
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 1: it's Owen sixteen Jets despite Flacco, because it does get

1254
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: to the end of the line there. And while it

1255
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: is different this year where there's only one team that

1256
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: gets a buy and so you really want to finish strong,

1257
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: I can see Tomlin as a guy who doesn't care,

1258
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: who says we're gonna do the stars the smartest thing.

1259
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna wrest our players if we have to lose,

1260
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: so be it. We're not about we're the Steelers. We're

1261
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: not about going sixteen and oh, we're about Lombardi trophies.

1262
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they're in goes sixteen and oh, but

1263
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: I do think the Jets will have a look at

1264
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: the opposite one. I agree with that. And one of

1265
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: the other things I wanted to ask you about for

1266
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: a minute, I've got to confess I always do this

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Speaker 1: because I I played the game, and I got hurt,

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01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: and I played uncomfortable, and I did all this. What

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Speaker 1: did you really think? How bad did you really think

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01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: it was? When Drew Brees pulled himself out of the

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Speaker 1: game in New Orleans. I thought it was like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it must be pretty because Drew Brees has kind of

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01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: gotten the benefit of the doubt. For me, you play

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01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: that long, you've played uncomfortably before, and for him to

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01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: go up to Sean Payton and say I can't go,

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01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to think. And then when he's

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01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: got three on three broken ribs on one side, two

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01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 1: on the other and it collapsed long, wow. Yeah. And

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01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: if you look back on it, I think the timeline

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01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: says that he threw a couple of touchdown passes with

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01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: broken ribs that he had carried over when he took

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01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: this hit. I mean, there's a lot of ways to

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01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: go this. First of all, I hated the call. I

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01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: absolutely hated it. I thought Contavia Street did his best

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01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 1: landed on the side. I think the call came about

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01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: five minutes after the play, and frankly, I think if

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01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: it was on Nick Mullins on the other side and

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01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 1: not Drew Brees, they wouldn't have called it. But that's

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Speaker 1: a different conversation. I can be personalize this. Drew Brees

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01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: and I are the exact same age, almost to the day.

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01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: I think he's about seven days older than me. Two

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01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: years ago, while skiing, I cracked two ribs and for

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01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: about the next month, I'm not exaggerating, I had a

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01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 1: hard time time in my shoes. I mean, if someone

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01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: whoever is listening to watching and thinks ribbs, you got

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01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: twenty four of them, a few cracks in them. No,

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: there's a whole thing where never mind playing football, you

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01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: can't even sneeze or laugh like if you sneeze, like

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01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: you may cry in pain to be down on the ground.

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01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 1: And that was just me. I'm looking at breeze here

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01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: and he kept playing. But I would just say, Steve,

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01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: for you for him to go up to coach on

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01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 1: Payton and be like, I'm out, no Moss, like I

1304
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: can't do it. Wasn't the doctor stopped them. He stoped himself,

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01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: which tells me it was either staggering pain or he

1306
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 1: knew in the long run they didn't want to make

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01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: it worse. But it was probably the smart play. And

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01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: by the way, now we get one of the most

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01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: entertaining players in all of sports, Jamis Winston, for maybe

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01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 1: a month and I can't wait for this ride. Tell

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01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: me about that ride. Well, how do you think? All right,

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01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: that's gonna go. So I think there's a very dangerous

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01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: thing people are doing. And they're saying, well, you know,

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01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater came in for the Saints and he went

1315
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: undefeated and he was great, and you know, let me,

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01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 1: Jamis is a totally different deal than Teddy Bridgewater. He's

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01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: a totally different deal than someone like Ryan Tannehill, who

1318
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 1: went from middle into really good when he went to Tennessee.

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01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: Jamis is like dollar Store Brett Farve, like he will

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01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 1: chuck it at anything, and people say, well, he's been

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01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: watching and he's been learning from Breeze. I just don't

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01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 1: know if a Tiger changed the stripes that completely. Jamis

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01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 1: is a chucker, and chuckers are born, not made. I

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01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: think if you get in a tight game and the

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01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: adrenaline gets off and I think he starts chucking, I

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01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: will say this, and I looked into this. You know,

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01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of jokes about Jamis, and he's the

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: butt of a lot of stuff from his faults. I'm not.

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01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,560
Speaker 1: One of the recurring themes online about Jamis is his

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01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,560
Speaker 1: vision and the squinting going all the way back to Tallahassee.

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01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: Jamie has had lasix surgery in the offseason, and he

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01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: said when he came out, he said, I can see

1333
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: license plates now, I can read the street signs. Well.

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01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: I think if you can read the street signs for

1335
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: there's time in your life, maybe you can read the

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01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: safety And I'm not even stretching here. I think it's

1337
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: a connection. I got Lasik surgery, gentleman, in two thousand

1338
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: and one. I got it nineteen years ago when it

1339
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: was considered crazy and primitive. And how do you do

1340
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 1: that to your eyes? I still have twenty fifteen visions

1341
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: the best thing I've ever done to my body. And

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01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: if you know Jamis back to Florida's state, would he

1343
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,719
Speaker 1: be squinting look at I think it could make a difference.

1344
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,879
Speaker 1: I'm not kidd I think the laser and his eyeballs

1345
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 1: could make a difference. Now we'll go from thirty picks

1346
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 1: the twenty five. Maybe, but I still think this is

1347
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a ride, and I think James is gonna

1348
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,679
Speaker 1: be better. Yeah. I was gonna say that if you didn't,

1349
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: because I know he got that vision correction and I

1350
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: forgot about that. Yeah, the guy can actually see now.

1351
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know it matters, it does. Maybe

1352
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 1: remember wild thing Ricky Vaughan was playing for the Indians

1353
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: and Lou Brown couldn't get him to throw the strike zone,

1354
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: but he could throw at ninety nine miles an hour.

1355
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: They go and get him the glasses. Yeah, all of

1356
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's not just a bit outside and Bob

1357
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:32,600
Speaker 1: Bukers and they're going for the pennant. It's almost like

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01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: Jamis is the Charlie Sheen, a wild thing of the

1359
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: NFL route. If it works, which I think it will

1360
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: have to see if he doubles it the haircut as well. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The last one that I have for you, Kyle, concerns

1362
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: your your hometown team. What is the general consensus out

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01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,919
Speaker 1: of Chicago of the prospect of potentially seeing Mitchell Trubisky

1364
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: on the field again after the bye I don't know. Well,

1365
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to know if you're hex your phone was

1366
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 1: blowing up or something from you know, old buddies, like,

1367
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: oh god, we gotta go with Mitchie Biscuits again. What

1368
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,639
Speaker 1: the hell is when you see that bumper sticker? Sometimes

1369
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: when it's a presidential election and someone doesn't like either

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01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 1: candidates and it just says, give me the asteroid. I'll

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01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 1: vote for the asteroid. I hope a massive asteroid hits

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01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 1: the planet so I don't have to vote three these people. Listen,

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01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,679
Speaker 1: We've been down the road many times with Mitch. We've

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01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: done it with Nick. Do you know last night that

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01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: game everybody's watched this Monday night football. The offense is

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01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: just abysmal. They come out to start the second half

1377
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:33,639
Speaker 1: and they get a kick return touchdowp from Corneill Patters

1378
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: just a lightning strike, light up Soldier field, energize everybody.

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01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. After that kick returned touchdown

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01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: the next the rest of the second half of the

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01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: Bears offense, this is the actual sequence, three and out, punt,

1382
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: three and out, punt three and out, punt, three and out, punt,

1383
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: turnover and down, turnover and down. That was what they

1384
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: did in the second half against the Vikings. Past defense.

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01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:57,679
Speaker 1: There's twenty ninth in football. It's really a shame because

1386
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: it's good. I love Matt Naggie, I really like Ryan Pace.

1387
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: I love everything about this team. It's my childhood team,

1388
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: and right now they literally have the worst offense in

1389
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 1: all of football. I mean, they make the Joe Flacco

1390
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 1: and the Jets look like the greatest show on turf.

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01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: It's it's really sad. How did that happen? Though? I mean,

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01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: Naggie was a guru coming in there. I have not

1393
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 1: I had not seen much of the Bears or the

1394
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: Vikings because you know, they're in the NFC and all

1395
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: that we're talking about the Bills and all they that

1396
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 1: teams they play. I could not believe the hot garbage

1397
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: that Chicago's offense was. Wow, hot garbage. It's week nine,

1398
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 1: Like you're supposed to be hit in your groove right now.

1399
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about the Bears. Their kicker is really good,

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01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: their better is really good. Their defense is really like

1401
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:41,680
Speaker 1: all those things you would wan if their offense was

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: like sort of average. They're going to the playoffs. Just

1403
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: give me, give me mediocre, give me, give me hummus.

1404
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 1: If you're the hummus of offense, we're going to the playoffs.

1405
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: They don't even have hummus. Hummus. How did we get

1406
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: to a hummus reference? I just tried to think of

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01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 1: the most. It's better than hot garbage. Kyle's great talking

1408
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: to you, man, It was awesome. You guys are the best.

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01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: Dave Chris, enjoy the bye week. We will talk soon

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,640
Speaker 1: and goat Bills. Yes, we will catch up either. That's

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01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Brand, host of NFL Networks, Good Morning Football, the

1412
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: Ten Things podcast on the Ringer. You can also follow

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01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: Kyle on Twitter at Kyle Brand. That's br A n

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Speaker 1: d T. We will take a break, but when we

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01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get a look at the tweet sheet

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01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: as we find out what you feel about how the

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: AFC East Division race is shaping up. Back in a

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: moment Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to

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01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio time to check in with

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01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: our Reads, Milestones, Reads Gens, the Official Jeweler, or the

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01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Tyler Bass went three for three on field

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01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:01,719
Speaker 1: goal attempts, connecting from fifty or fifty five and fifty

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01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: eight yards, becoming just the second kicker in league history

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01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: with three field goals of fifty four yards or more

1425
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: in a game, joining Chris Brown with the Houston Texans,

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01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: who did it in two thousand and seven from fifty four,

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01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: fifty four, and fifty seven. It's also the twelfth time

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01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: in league history that a kicker has three fifty yard

1429
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: plus field goals in a game. It's a third time

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01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 1: it's happened this Steve this season. Stephen Gaskowski did it

1431
01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 1: for Tennessee and Graham Gono did it for the Giants,

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01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: And just a good week for that guy. And I

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01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: think he's tied Steve for third in scoring in the league.

1434
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:38,680
Speaker 1: So as much as the Bills have been able to

1435
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: stick it in the end zone for touchdowns, he's hit

1436
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: enough field goals to be up there near the point leaders. Yeah,

1437
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: the guys in the control room we're asking, why does

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01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: he not have I black on in that picture that

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01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: one eye black underway. Yeah, that was before. That was

1440
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: when he was That picture was taken when he was

1441
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: a young and inexperienced rookie. He's he's got some swag now,

1442
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 1: so doesn't he two months into his career? Yeah, Steve,

1443
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: answer me this. Do you think there's a slight resemblance

1444
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: there to Scott Norwood? He looks a little bit like him,

1445
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: don't you think a man? Maybe not all right? I

1446
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: thought the eyes and the nose look the same to me. Yeah,

1447
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: maybe not all right? It looks more like looks more

1448
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: like Nico Leary or oh you think so? Who is

1449
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: the tight end? Jay Riemersma former tight end? Look at that? Yeah? Maybe,

1450
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: well I don't know. Maybe I'm just trying. Maybe I'm

1451
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: just channeling the kicker vibe there. Um, all right, fair enough,

1452
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 1: We do want to get to the tweet sheet and

1453
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:43,599
Speaker 1: our subject of the day, which is the sudden race

1454
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: that now exists in the AFC East, And so our

1455
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: Twitter poll is how do you think the AFC East

1456
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 1: race will play out? The Bills are obviously on a buy.

1457
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 1: They can't do anything to enhance their positioning this week,

1458
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins can as they take on the Broncos,

1459
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: and we'll probably be taking on the Broncos with their

1460
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: backup quarterback Jeff Driscoll. And so the choices are with

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01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: respect to how you think the AFA East race will

1462
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 1: play out. A, the Bills will run away with it,

1463
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: be the Dolphins will keep it close, but the Bills

1464
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: will hang on. See, it'll all come down to the

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01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: Week seventeen matchup between Miami and Buffalo or D. Boy, God,

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01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,679
Speaker 1: that's Patriots music. I keep trying to do the Boston

1467
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: accent and need some work, but I appreciate the effort

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01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: even if it's yeah, we need that. We need that

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:37,560
Speaker 1: lady from Saturday Night Live, Rachel Dratch, the actress. She

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01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: does a great Boston accent. She'd be great to throw

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01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,560
Speaker 1: in there for choice D. But right now, as you,

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01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: as our MSG viewers can see, almost two thirds of

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01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: the vote going to the Dolphins will make it close,

1474
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: but the Bills will hang on. Steve doesn't even think

1475
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: Week seventeen's going to matter by the time we get there.

1476
01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: As it pertains to the division race, I'm a little

1477
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: bit more concerned. Shall we say that it will be

1478
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 1: tight right to the end, and the Bills may very

1479
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,600
Speaker 1: well need that game for the division title. And I

1480
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: have to tell you it makes me feel good knowing

1481
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: that game is gonna be here in Buffalo. I'd love

1482
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: to see uh tuah, you know who was of Samoan

1483
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: descent playing in the middle of a snowstorm and in

1484
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 1: week seventeen, that would that would be interesting to see

1485
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 1: if he can weather that quite literally. Yeah, it'll be

1486
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: all right. I'm sure. Okay, I played at Alabama. Yeah, exactly,

1487
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: played at Alabama. It's like, what is it seventy five

1488
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:45,599
Speaker 1: down there today? We got snowflakes flying here in Orchard Park. Yeah,

1489
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's played some games late in the year

1490
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: where they don't play anywhere. What's the furthest north you

1491
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:54,680
Speaker 1: play in the SEC, Kentucky. Come on, you act like

1492
01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:57,640
Speaker 1: the guy's gonna melt like sugar. I don't want him

1493
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: to melt I want him to freeze whatever. He's not

1494
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: gonna turn out, he'll be all right. Let's go to

1495
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which, as you know, is brought to

1496
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1497
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills from Matt He says, Miami's gotten

1498
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 1: fairly lucky the past three games. I do not think

1499
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: two I can keep winning games like this. They had

1500
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: seventeen easy points off turnovers against the Chargers, and almost

1501
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: all their points against the Rams came from turnovers special

1502
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 1: teams in defense. However, their schedule coming up does seem easy.

1503
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing Matt voted Dolphins will keep it closed

1504
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: in light of what he's suggesting. He doesn't believe in

1505
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, but he's clearly got concerns about them. Well,

1506
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: they beat the team that just beat the Bills, right,

1507
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: there's that in Arizona. They beat the Chargers, which you

1508
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 1: know everybody has been there's Charger or two and seven.

1509
01:18:54,720 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 1: They beat the Rams, and they beat the Niners, who

1510
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,559
Speaker 1: were hobbled. They got beat by the Seahawks. So there's

1511
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: the logic that where it falls apart. The Bills beat

1512
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and beat them good. And you know, the

1513
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: Bills have lost and won to the opposite two teams

1514
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,680
Speaker 1: at the Patriots. One lost and we'll we'll find out

1515
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: another one in week twelve when the Bills host the

1516
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,720
Speaker 1: Charger is a team that Miami just beat last week.

1517
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: So there's that and one thing that's doing Miami's doing

1518
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,640
Speaker 1: it with defense. They shut out the Jets. Okay, they

1519
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 1: held the forty nine Ers to seventeen. They held the

1520
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:38,720
Speaker 1: Rams to seventeen. The Cardinals got thirty one on them

1521
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: when they got thirty two on the Bills, and the

1522
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 1: Chargers got twenty one. So they're holding some teams down

1523
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 1: under the thirty thirty point per game kind of level

1524
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: that everybody's added to Jacksonville, you know, scored thirteen. Of course,

1525
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: the Patriots are struggling to score and they played them,

1526
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 1: they allowed them twenty one points in a loss. So yeah,

1527
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: like I said, I think that Miami Dolphins are playing

1528
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: football exactly as well and as well as and exactly

1529
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: the same style as the Buffalo Bills did in twenty

1530
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: nineteen when they went to the playoffs as a wild card.

1531
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: That's exactly who the Miami Dolphins remind me of this year.

1532
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: So playing really solid defense, and their quarterback and their

1533
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 1: offense is doing just enough to win. And there you know,

1534
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:27,560
Speaker 1: if you get if you get a pitch in with

1535
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:30,760
Speaker 1: a turnover and a kick return or whatever from your

1536
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: from your special teams in defense. All the more so

1537
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:36,719
Speaker 1: from Tiffany on the tweet sheet, I believe the Bills

1538
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: will hold on to the division. January third versus the

1539
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: Dolphins could be the game that decides the title. The

1540
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: Dolphins are well coached, with two of showing thus far

1541
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: he can make some plays. I feel confident Josh can

1542
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 1: out duel him to take the division come January. So

1543
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 1: Tiffany thinks it is going to come down to week seventeen.

1544
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:55,879
Speaker 1: So Steve, let me ask you this. So you clearly

1545
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 1: feel that it's not going to be the week seventeen

1546
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: is not gonna hold division title implications. You think the

1547
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:06,479
Speaker 1: Bills will be free and clear of being tied by

1548
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. So do you believe that the Dolphins are

1549
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: good enough to be a playoff team though, because I

1550
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: think you just mentioned that. Well, in a normal year,

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01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 1: you'd say, yeah, sure, they're sitting there at six and three.

1552
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: But you've got nine teams sitting there at six and right,

1553
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: you do have an extra playoff spot. Baltimore, Cleveland, Tennessee,

1554
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh. You know all those

1555
01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:40,560
Speaker 1: teams are and Buffalo. I mean, you know that's a

1556
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: ton of teams that are six and three. I mean,

1557
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, look at New England's list is in the hunt.

1558
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 1: They're four and five. Denver's in the hunt at three

1559
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: and six with six games to go. If one of

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01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: those teams that's six and three runs the table, they're

1561
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: in obviously, but you know six with six games, all

1562
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 1: these teams have seven games left because they're six and three,

1563
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo seven and three. They've played ten, so all these

1564
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 1: teams have seven games left. They go four and three.

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01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's your ten and six. Normally that's enough.

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01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 1: But three of those teams or four of those teams

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01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: go four and three or four yeah, four and three.

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01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:27,879
Speaker 1: Then what are you gonna do? It comes down to tiebreakers,

1569
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: I had. Tiebreakers are going to be crucial, right, Oh yeah,

1570
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: The Bills have the tiebreaker with Miami. Even if Miami

1571
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: wins this next week in Buffalo loses, Buffalo is still

1572
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: in the lead in the division because of the tiebreaker.

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01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones at eight oh three, five

1574
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,640
Speaker 1: fifty one, eight eight five fifty two, five fifty we

1575
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,680
Speaker 1: go to Austin and Buffalo. Austin, what do you have

1576
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: for us? Welcome to one Bills Live. Hey, Chris, so

1577
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: real quick on the whole, By God, that's the Patriots

1578
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: music thing that's supposed to be Jim Ross from WWE,

1579
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: not necessarily Boston accent. All right, well, I still want

1580
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: to do it anyway. I think, yeah, we're looking at

1581
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,679
Speaker 1: the end of the schedules. I mean, yeah, the Dolphin's

1582
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: got an easy one coming up. But then who is it? Chiefs, Raiders,

1583
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: Patriot Bills. Right, that's that's four potential losses in my opinion, Right,

1584
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: I think that's a realistic shot at them being nine

1585
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: and seven or ten and six. And I think depending

1586
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: on how the Patriots game goes, and I think the

1587
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:25,839
Speaker 1: Bills have a very realistic chance of you know, probably

1588
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:27,760
Speaker 1: losing to the Steelers, but being either twelve and four

1589
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 1: or eleven and five, depending on a potential trap game

1590
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,639
Speaker 1: with the Niners and the Chargers. What do you think? Yeah,

1591
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's yeah, I think it's realistic, certainly.

1592
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I worry about the forty nine Ers

1593
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,599
Speaker 1: game more because of travel and cross country and all

1594
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,160
Speaker 1: of that more than the actual team. That might be

1595
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: misguided on my part, but that will be their third

1596
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: West coast trip, Yes, third West coast trip, because they

1597
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:55,680
Speaker 1: had the Raiders in Arizona, so that'll be number three.

1598
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: So I do worry about that game a little bit

1599
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: because of the circumstances involved around it, and who knows

1600
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: how much healthier that Niners team will be in a

1601
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: month's time. Really, all the Niners need is two of

1602
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,719
Speaker 1: their running backs to be healthy, and they're a threat

1603
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: because of how well they do run the football no

1604
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: matter who their quarterback is, because the Bills have not

1605
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,560
Speaker 1: shown an ability to stop the run yet, So I

1606
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: still think that game is a threatening one. And then

1607
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: the Steelers, those those to me are the two toughest games,

1608
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:28,839
Speaker 1: and the Patriots right after that. They should beat the Chargers,

1609
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,560
Speaker 1: who can't stop anybody. Their defense is worse than the

1610
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: in consensus inconsistencies we've seen Buffalo have on the defensive

1611
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 1: side of the ball, chiefly with stopping the run. The Broncos,

1612
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think of that team. Their

1613
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: defense can be stingy at times, but their offense just

1614
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: seems to be a series of fits and starts. And

1615
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:50,880
Speaker 1: then the Dolphins, you know, who are going to be

1616
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: probably loaded for bear come week seventeen. So I don't

1617
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: know what you think, Steve, but that's kind of where

1618
01:24:56,200 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: I'm at well. The Bills aren't going to go six

1619
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: and zero to finish the season. I would not think.

1620
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 1: But there's not a single team, including the Steelers, that

1621
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to see them play against. I mean,

1622
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: I think they got a shot against every single team

1623
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: on that schedule. The Steelers are the one that stands

1624
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: out because of their record, but the Bills are the

1625
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 1: team that stands out to the Steelers too. Right The

1626
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 1: Bills are a handful right now. They're playing really good offense.

1627
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: They're scoring points, Their wide receiver corps is a handful,

1628
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: and their defense is hot with the pass rush. Over

1629
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: the last five weeks, they're you know, they're they've kind

1630
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: of gotten it together and the Bills are getting healthy.

1631
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: The Bills are going to close this season with a

1632
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:46,760
Speaker 1: flurry if they need to. I don't know that they'll

1633
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: need to in Week seventeen. But you know, they're better

1634
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 1: than the Chargers. They're better than the forty nine ers

1635
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,639
Speaker 1: at this point. They're better than the Broncos at this point.

1636
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: They're certainly better than the Patriots at this point, and

1637
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,600
Speaker 1: they're better than the Dolphins at this point. And you

1638
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 1: can making you you can make the argument that the

1639
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 1: Steelers are looking at the rest of their schedule and

1640
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:07,640
Speaker 1: let me and I'll pull that up and just to

1641
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: have it for reference. The Pittsburgh Steelers, Well, they have

1642
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore left, and they've got Jacksonville, Washington, the Bengals, the Colts,

1643
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 1: the Browns, and Buffalo and Baltimore. You know they've got it.

1644
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: Starts out with Jacksonville. Then they go Baltimore. You know

1645
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: they're getting They're gonna get up for that game because

1646
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:29,200
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens Steelers, there's a huge rivalry game. Then

1647
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: they got Washington before they played Buffalo. Then they got

1648
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:34,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals, the Colts, and the they go Baltimore. You

1649
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:36,800
Speaker 1: know they're getting they're gonna get up for that game

1650
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: because the Baltimore Ravens there's a huge rival game. Then

1651
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: they got Washington. I don't know what happened. We slipped

1652
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: into a time a time machine vortex there, Steve, because

1653
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: you were speaking in time. I don't think that was me.

1654
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 1: Oh it wasn't. I thought it was um. I don't

1655
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,600
Speaker 1: think that was that was me talking, But it was

1656
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,679
Speaker 1: me talked. That's what I mean. That's why I said.

1657
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:00,680
Speaker 1: We went went jumped into a time machine Vortex with

1658
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,719
Speaker 1: about a six second delay. But you get my point.

1659
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: This is one of the games for Pittsburgh. This is

1660
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 1: one of the games they're looking at saying, huh, we

1661
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 1: better bring it, you know, right. I also wonder how

1662
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: beat up Ben will be going into that game for

1663
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:21,479
Speaker 1: this reason. He's going against three teams that are pretty

1664
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 1: good in terms of generating pass rush. You got, well,

1665
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:30,400
Speaker 1: maybe two teams. Not Jacksonville. I mean, they have Josh Allen,

1666
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: who's a nice pass rusher, but they don't have much else.

1667
01:27:32,560 --> 01:27:34,679
Speaker 1: But Baltimore can get after you. You know, that's gonna

1668
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 1: be a physical game for the Steelers. And then in

1669
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: week thirteen they have Washington, who can bring guys from

1670
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: all over the place. Between Chase Young and Ryan Carrigan

1671
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: in the group down there, Ben's gonna be a little

1672
01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: a little beat up coming into that game after playing

1673
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: those two teams. I told you things are gonna be

1674
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 1: different in a month. We'll see things are gonna be

1675
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 1: different in a month. I still got a lot of

1676
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: faith in this coaching staff and this culture here in

1677
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo and the way it has been trending in on

1678
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 1: all fronts save maybe the running game. But this is

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01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: a team that's improving. It's going to really get better

1680
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: when they get to take a deep breath, get off

1681
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: their feet for a week, get some guys back in

1682
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: the lineup perhaps, and at least some guys who are

1683
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: in the lineup feeling like they're one hundred percent in

1684
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: the lineup. I think this is a Bills team that's

1685
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: going to close the season with a flourish all. I

1686
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: like where they're sitting. I feel really good about how

1687
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: they've been playing and the timing, and this buy works

1688
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 1: out for them. I'm not, like I told Kyle Brandon

1689
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: the last segment, Brownie, that loss keeps the Bills off

1690
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: the national radar. And I think the Bills played pretty

1691
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: good under the lights. So these last four games, these

1692
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: last six games where they got four primetime games, maybe

1693
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:57,679
Speaker 1: a fifth, it's not all that bad. All right, great

1694
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 1: time for us, But when we come back, more of

1695
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,639
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet as we are asking

1696
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 1: you how you think the AFC East race will play

1697
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:08,760
Speaker 1: out with Miami just a half game back and a

1698
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:11,800
Speaker 1: chance to pull even with the Bills this weekend. Knowing

1699
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo is on the buy, hit us up at eight

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01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two

1701
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: five fifty or tweet us at one Bills Live back

1702
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 1: in a moment here in a second, stay where you

1703
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 1: are Chris Brown to yat you One Bills Live now

1704
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: another two is coming to a close here and uh,

1705
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:39,479
Speaker 1: we do have a phone call. We want to get

1706
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 1: too real quick as we've got Tommy and Buffalo, I believe,

1707
01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:46,240
Speaker 1: with a question for Steve. Tommy, welcome to the show.

1708
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? I'm not sure if

1709
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 1: you're calling talk to me. My name is Tony. Oh sorry, yes, okay.

1710
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 1: My question is at the end of the game the

1711
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 1: other day, with two seconds left, the bought the kicker

1712
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:02,679
Speaker 1: kicked the ball on the ground. If the Bills team

1713
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: they had run off, they caught the ball and called

1714
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: for a fair catch, would they have been able to

1715
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:09,360
Speaker 1: line up and kick a field goal if they caught

1716
01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 1: the ball inside Arizona's territory, kick, yeah, if they If

1717
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 1: they catch it in the air, yes, if it bounces no,

1718
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: So once it bounces the air, fair catches off. Yeah,

1719
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 1: that's right. It's only on a ball in the air,

1720
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:29,600
Speaker 1: so all yeah, that's just wondering if they could have

1721
01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:32,680
Speaker 1: done that. Yeah, yeah, and you think, and you ask two.

1722
01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:36,080
Speaker 1: Some people ask why the Arizona Cardinals knelt down on

1723
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 1: the extra point after going up by two points. It's

1724
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: because the only bad thing that really could happen to

1725
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:44,600
Speaker 1: them is if the extra point got blocked and the

1726
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 1: Bills take it back, they got problems. Yeah, they can

1727
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 1: take it back for two and tie the game. They

1728
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 1: tie the game if they take it back for two points.

1729
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: So some people ask that question as well, it's a

1730
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 1: fair point, And you're right, if you kick, if they

1731
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 1: would have kicked us a high like short bloop and

1732
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 1: you got Tyler bass and turns into a sixty three

1733
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 1: yard or and here's one thing that's not known. If

1734
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 1: you fair catch that kick and it turns into like

1735
01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: if he does catch it on the on the fifty

1736
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:17,719
Speaker 1: on the their own forty seven, on the Bills forty seven,

1737
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: it's a sixty three yard kick, but it's not a

1738
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He kicks it from that spot as

1739
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 1: a free kick, so they wouldn't have to They wouldn't

1740
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: be able to block it or anything. He could just

1741
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 1: come up and kick it and take a shot at it.

1742
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,240
Speaker 1: So that you know there is you know, I didn't

1743
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:35,280
Speaker 1: think about that. Huh. I didn't think about that. Yeah,

1744
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 1: so that that could have happened, but it didn't. And

1745
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 1: that's why you bounced that kick in there, because that

1746
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 1: takes all that off the table. Wow, So you could

1747
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:47,679
Speaker 1: free kick it from the spot of the fair catch.

1748
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: I didn't think of that. Wow. Fascinating. That's a real

1749
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:56,439
Speaker 1: that could have really been a scenario if you think

1750
01:31:56,479 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: about it, especially with the game that Bass was having. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1751
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean for real. Wow. That is Wow. I'm intrigued.

1752
01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: I am intrigued by that now. Now I'm gonna be

1753
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:13,640
Speaker 1: looking for that, Like every game that comes down to

1754
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:15,519
Speaker 1: something like that, I'm gonna be looking for that now,

1755
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 1: especially and for Bass especially, like for the Bills. Like,

1756
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 1: that's a real thing. So when you say free kick,

1757
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 1: that means he's just out there and there's nobody lined up. Well,

1758
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:30,760
Speaker 1: they line up the usual formation as you line up

1759
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:33,680
Speaker 1: like a kickoff. Yeah, he kicks it if it goes

1760
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:35,680
Speaker 1: through the because you gotta cover it because if it

1761
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: doesn't go through, it's a live ball. And if it

1762
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, if it goes through and stays in the

1763
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: field of play, it's a live ball. Yeah. Is that

1764
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 1: on a tea, it's on a t then no, it's

1765
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 1: off the ground, like okay, it is off the ground,

1766
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:49,720
Speaker 1: all right, yeah yeah, and they'll have it. He'll have

1767
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:53,599
Speaker 1: a holder and every day. Yeah yeah, okay, that would

1768
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 1: be Oh man, could you imagine they pulled that off

1769
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: in one thirty three, thirty two? Oh my, oh, I

1770
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:07,360
Speaker 1: hadn't even thought of that. About it. I am totally

1771
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:10,600
Speaker 1: about it, and I've I've been a part of in

1772
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 1: my career. I was part of a free kick once.

1773
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 1: It was in a preseason game. I was playing for

1774
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers and against the Dallas Cowboys in Texas

1775
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 1: Stadium and Dallas got a free kick at the end

1776
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 1: of the game to try and win it. And he

1777
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: I think it was Rafael Septien or somebody like that,

1778
01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 1: kicked it wide left. How about it? How about me

1779
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:39,599
Speaker 1: pulling out Rafael sep Rafael Septien number number three, right,

1780
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 1: I absolutely pulled that out of the sky. I don't

1781
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:44,679
Speaker 1: know if he actually ever even kicked for the Cowboys,

1782
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: but he did. He did for a long time. He right,

1783
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:50,759
Speaker 1: is there kicker? Was he barefoot? Though? I can't remember

1784
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: if he was. I want to say he was I

1785
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 1: don't think he was. He was one of those. He

1786
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:58,400
Speaker 1: was one of those uh Latino soccer style guys. Yeah yeah,

1787
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. There's a hole, like a wave of you know,

1788
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:08,960
Speaker 1: South American soccer style kickers that came through, and it

1789
01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 1: was I held for one on what was Oh gosh, now,

1790
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: I can't remember. My first ever special teams play as

1791
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:16,840
Speaker 1: a professional athlete in a game that counted. Was for

1792
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:20,280
Speaker 1: the Oilers. Wasn't Al del Greco? No, no, no, no,

1793
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:25,799
Speaker 1: it was Hernandez Tony here, No, it was Louis Hernandez.

1794
01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 1: I can't I don't know anyway, So we go in

1795
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: there for the extra point. We're playing they're playing the Dolphins,

1796
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: the Oilers in the Astrodome. We go in for the

1797
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 1: extra point. Hey, we're gonna win, all right, We're you know,

1798
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:37,720
Speaker 1: it's the first kick, first score of the game. You know,

1799
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:39,880
Speaker 1: it's my first chance. I didn't have, you know, eased

1800
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: into it. And he kicks it and it's a double thump.

1801
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 1: It goes right back at us. The guy blocked it

1802
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:50,679
Speaker 1: right back in our face. As my first ever special

1803
01:34:50,760 --> 01:34:53,120
Speaker 1: teams play. I don't know. I'm probably was in on kickoff,

1804
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:55,760
Speaker 1: I guess too, but man, old man, there's a way

1805
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: to let's start it. Welcome to the NFL exactly all right,

1806
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: break time for us. But when we return, we'll get

1807
01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 1: the senior writer from Sports Illustrated, Greg Bishop on the horn,

1808
01:35:06,400 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 1: as he'll be talking about the recent write up he

1809
01:35:08,760 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 1: did on Josh Allen comparing the Louis and tay Haas.

1810
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 1: There you go, Steve's recall. I tell you it has

1811
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: to the synapse has to connect, but it eventually kicks in.

1812
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:23,920
Speaker 1: But we'll be back with great team and we'll be

1813
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:26,760
Speaker 1: back with Greg Bishop from SI dot Com when we

1814
01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health,

1815
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, Bills Radio Network Sports Update, Your sports

1816
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. Quiet day here as the

1817
01:35:43,439 --> 01:35:45,960
Speaker 1: team enters it's bye week coaches, however, we'll be hard

1818
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 1: at work for the first half of the week. Head

1819
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott. Offensive coordinator Brian Dabile pointed to the

1820
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:54,120
Speaker 1: run game as an area of focus. Defensive coordinator Leslie

1821
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:56,640
Speaker 1: Frazier indicated they'll be working on finding ways to make

1822
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:59,639
Speaker 1: the run defense more consistent. Bills will also be looking

1823
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: to reduce their penalties as they rank second in the

1824
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,719
Speaker 1: league in total yellow flags. The Bills host the Chargers

1825
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,759
Speaker 1: in Week twelve. Week ten wrapped up last night in Chicago,

1826
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 1: as the Bears dropped their fourth straight game. Also lost

1827
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:13,800
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Nick Foles, who was carted off the field

1828
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: with a hip injury in the nineteen thirteen loss to

1829
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Although reports today are initial tests showing Foals

1830
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:23,799
Speaker 1: has only relatively minor damage to his hip. The Bears

1831
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:26,040
Speaker 1: are on their by this week, so there's optimism in

1832
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 1: Chicago that Foles will be good when they return in

1833
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: two weeks to play at Green Bay. Good news with

1834
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: the Minnesota win his Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins finally broke

1835
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,760
Speaker 1: his streak of winless Monday Night football games, getting his

1836
01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:40,880
Speaker 1: first win on Monday Night after losing the first nine

1837
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 1: games of his Monday Night career. Giants announced Tuesday morning

1838
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: kicker Graham Ganot tested positive for COVID nineteen and two

1839
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: staff members were identified as high risk close contacts. Kicker

1840
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:55,799
Speaker 1: expected to miss some practice time, but should be cleared

1841
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,479
Speaker 1: in time for their next game on November twenty ninth.

1842
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 1: He signed a three year ext e with the club

1843
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: on Sunday for the second time this week, Falcons have

1844
01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:05,720
Speaker 1: placed a player on the league's COVID nineteen reserve list.

1845
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 1: Falcons announced this morning it was wide receiver Laquon Treadmill.

1846
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:12,599
Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Falcons had placed defensive end Dante Fowler

1847
01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 1: on that same COVID list. One NBA note, After a

1848
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 1: few weeks of wavering, James Harden has made up his mind.

1849
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 1: He wants to play for the Brooklyn Nets and is

1850
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 1: focused on forcing the Rockets to trade him there so

1851
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:26,120
Speaker 1: we can form a superteam alongside Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

1852
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 1: Harden's desire to play for the Nets is so strong

1853
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:31,560
Speaker 1: he turned down a historic contract extension offer from the

1854
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: Rockets that would have paid him fifty million each of

1855
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 1: the next two years. That is your sports update here

1856
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:41,160
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. Chris Brown. Steve Tasker our number

1857
01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:44,679
Speaker 1: three of the program and joining us now senior writer

1858
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:47,479
Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated, used to cover the Jets and Seahawks

1859
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: as a beat reporter. It is one Greg Bishop who

1860
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: also put together an interesting read, shall we say, on

1861
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:57,920
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen experience? And I know Steve was a

1862
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 1: huge fan Greg of I guess we call it a metaphor.

1863
01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:04,879
Speaker 1: Pardon my lack of journalism knowledge, for sure, but comparing

1864
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,000
Speaker 1: it to a roller coaster ride that has skipped the

1865
01:38:08,080 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: safety check just about every week. So good on you

1866
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 1: for that, Greg, Good to have you. Welcome and how

1867
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:16,360
Speaker 1: you doing. I'm doing well, Thank you for having me.

1868
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:18,519
Speaker 1: I don't think I've had that much fun with the

1869
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 1: story during COVID, So it was good to take a

1870
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 1: little break from writing about the world right now and

1871
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:26,840
Speaker 1: write about the experience. There's truly nothing like it in

1872
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, and it certainly seems those it certainly

1873
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 1: seems like Josh Allen Experiences is on the way up

1874
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 1: right now. I mean I was just talking to him. Certainly,

1875
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 1: the Bills are one of the few the four or

1876
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: five teams that have ten win ten games under their

1877
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 1: belt instead of nine like the rest of the league,

1878
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:45,839
Speaker 1: most of the league. But he's leading the league in passing,

1879
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: He's in the top top five or six in completion percentage.

1880
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:55,120
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's he'd second in the league in

1881
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:59,360
Speaker 1: completions overall. I mean, this is beyond a lot of

1882
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:02,639
Speaker 1: people's wildest imaginations that he would get to this point

1883
01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:04,800
Speaker 1: and take such a big step from last year to

1884
01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:08,320
Speaker 1: this year to get there. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, one

1885
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 1: thing I tried to highlight in the story because you know,

1886
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: we did have a lot of fun with it. We

1887
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:14,519
Speaker 1: did have a lot of analogies and metaphor is kind

1888
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: of strunk throughout. But I don't think anything that's happening

1889
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:19,560
Speaker 1: with Josh right now as an accident. You know, you

1890
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:21,680
Speaker 1: look at how they built the team around him, you

1891
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: look at the pieces that were added. You know, we

1892
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:26,160
Speaker 1: go into great detail of the story about his work

1893
01:39:26,200 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: with Jordan Palmer each offseason and the different things they've

1894
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: been sort of checking off the list. And I think

1895
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 1: what you're seeing is a guy who came into that

1896
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 1: draft with a ton of potential, with the skill set

1897
01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 1: that needed refinement, with some things that were pretty easy

1898
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,120
Speaker 1: to fix, and it's just taken three years to get

1899
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: the right team around him, the right skill set involved,

1900
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:46,639
Speaker 1: to the point where now I think what we're seeing

1901
01:39:46,720 --> 01:39:48,640
Speaker 1: is a guy coming into his own you know, I

1902
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:51,679
Speaker 1: think it's legitimate to say he should be an MVP candidate.

1903
01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:54,840
Speaker 1: And I think what we're watching right now is like

1904
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:57,679
Speaker 1: when it comes together, it's really fun to watch. Yeah,

1905
01:39:57,760 --> 01:40:00,200
Speaker 1: I think what he's done the best of though, is

1906
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 1: to curtail and at least pull in the reins on

1907
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:08,640
Speaker 1: some of that swashbuckling play that sometimes you're pulling your

1908
01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:10,280
Speaker 1: hair out of your head saying, oh my god, what

1909
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 1: is he doing? And then something great happens and you're like,

1910
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 1: holy cow, how did he do that? That is the

1911
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:17,960
Speaker 1: roller coaster that Bill's fans are on. But I think

1912
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,920
Speaker 1: to a great degree this season they've just fallen madly

1913
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:23,120
Speaker 1: in love with him for what he's done for this

1914
01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 1: football team, and he is the identity of this offense

1915
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: now officially, which you haven't been able to say about

1916
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: a Bill's quarterback for a very, very, very long time.

1917
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 1: And yet there's still those plays like the one you

1918
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: referenced at the start of your article where you know

1919
01:40:37,760 --> 01:40:39,599
Speaker 1: you're talking about I think it was the play against

1920
01:40:39,640 --> 01:40:42,839
Speaker 1: the Jets when he's a he's got a Jets defensive

1921
01:40:42,920 --> 01:40:45,599
Speaker 1: lineman by a face mask and he's ripping him by

1922
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:47,760
Speaker 1: him to get away from one guy and you know,

1923
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 1: scrambling and buying time as we've seen him do all

1924
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 1: too often. Those plays still exist in his arsenal. My

1925
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: question to you, though, Greg, is he gets compared to

1926
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,640
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger because of his size and his ability to

1927
01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 1: shake off people in the pocket. He's been compared to

1928
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:03,640
Speaker 1: Cam Newton because of the way he runs with the

1929
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:07,120
Speaker 1: ball same size. I kind of liken his play more

1930
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 1: to Brett Farve, who, even when he was a veteran quarterback,

1931
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:13,880
Speaker 1: would have these plays. And we can all remember the

1932
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:17,960
Speaker 1: NFL films, you know clips where you got Mike Holmgren screaming,

1933
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:19,880
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? I mean, I don't

1934
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:21,519
Speaker 1: know if he does it quite as much as Brett

1935
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 1: did it, but it seems like the same genre of

1936
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, polland plays out of your you know what?

1937
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:30,400
Speaker 1: Absolutely you know. I used to cover him home grin.

1938
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:32,400
Speaker 1: He lives pretty close to me out here in Seattle,

1939
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: and he used to call those no no, no yes

1940
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: plays where to be on the sideline screaming not to

1941
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 1: do it, and then he'd be happy with the result.

1942
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: And I think one thing that's really interesting when you

1943
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: look at Josh and how his career projects is that

1944
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: he is like far He does remind you of the

1945
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 1: way far played. There's a swashbuckling nature, there's the big arm,

1946
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 1: and yet you have to kind of be careful because

1947
01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, You're not saying he's going to be a

1948
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 1: better quarterback than Far, but he is faster than Far,

1949
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:03,680
Speaker 1: He's more than Far, He's more improvisational than Far. In

1950
01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 1: some ways, his ceiling in theory could be higher than Far,

1951
01:42:06,600 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 1: which sounds like a crazy thing to say, right, But

1952
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:11,960
Speaker 1: when you look just purely at skill set, I mean,

1953
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of guys in NFL history that

1954
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 1: are that big, that move like that, They can throw

1955
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:18,880
Speaker 1: like that, and then when you get the accuracy down,

1956
01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:20,439
Speaker 1: which is what it's taking him a few years to

1957
01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: get together, you know, I think it's a really unique

1958
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 1: skill set. He's comparable to all those guys because it's

1959
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: so varied, and it's pretty unique in terms I think

1960
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks in NFL history. His skill set is something

1961
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 1: It starts really when you walk in when these guys

1962
01:42:36,360 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: start to get evaluated. The guy walks in the room

1963
01:42:39,200 --> 01:42:41,759
Speaker 1: and he's, you know, ninety nine times out of a hundred,

1964
01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: the biggest guy in it. I mean, he's he's big.

1965
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:46,680
Speaker 1: Then you go out and watch him throw. He's got

1966
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: the biggest arms. Some say he's got the biggest arm

1967
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:51,680
Speaker 1: they have ever seen. Then you watch him playing and

1968
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:54,400
Speaker 1: he can run he outruns linebackers, he's turning guys in,

1969
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:59,160
Speaker 1: spinning guys around trying to catch him, He's jumping over linebackers.

1970
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 1: So all these physical traits give him this theoretical top

1971
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:09,200
Speaker 1: end of potential that you know, so many quarters you've

1972
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:11,679
Speaker 1: never seen. They're not even half as gifted as Josh

1973
01:43:11,760 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 1: Allen and they don't ever reach their potential. And yet

1974
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:17,160
Speaker 1: now Josh tends to up the andy with his potential

1975
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 1: being so high and really working hard to get there,

1976
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:23,040
Speaker 1: how close do you think he's going to get? Well?

1977
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's that's the question moving forward,

1978
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:27,920
Speaker 1: right is like how much can he refine this? We've

1979
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: seen the accuracy gets so much better, you know, year

1980
01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 1: in and year out, from jumping from year one to

1981
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:36,120
Speaker 1: year two and then into this season. And yet they

1982
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:38,800
Speaker 1: had a flukey loss on Sunday and you could pin

1983
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: a lot of it on a couple of really bad

1984
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 1: throws he had. I think he could had four picks

1985
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:45,640
Speaker 1: when he ended up having two, and so, you know,

1986
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 1: I think there is some refinement that's still to be

1987
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,839
Speaker 1: done here, and that, to me is what's really interesting

1988
01:43:50,880 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 1: about him in general, because you'd have a skill set

1989
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 1: that is unlike any that we can really come up

1990
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: with an NFL history that melds a bunch of great

1991
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:02,880
Speaker 1: passers together. The is can you take away enough of

1992
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 1: the worst parts of the experience to make it into

1993
01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:10,360
Speaker 1: something that's consistently a top elite level All first team,

1994
01:44:10,400 --> 01:44:14,600
Speaker 1: All Pro you know, potentially MVP conversation candidate. And I

1995
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:16,800
Speaker 1: think for most of this season Josh has existed in

1996
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 1: that realm. You know, people haven't necessarily given him full

1997
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,439
Speaker 1: credit for that, But I think we have to look

1998
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: at this as like a very good year. The question

1999
01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: is are they going to be the kind of nights

2000
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 1: like we saw on Sunday where there's a few bad

2001
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 1: throws that sort of really put them in a bad

2002
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 1: position in terms of winning, and then they still almost

2003
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:35,560
Speaker 1: won anyway, And I think some of that still is

2004
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: left to be determined. Talking to SI dot Com senior

2005
01:44:38,479 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: writer Greg Bishop put together the right up on Josh

2006
01:44:41,080 --> 01:44:43,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's one of a kind style and unique path

2007
01:44:44,040 --> 01:44:46,960
Speaker 1: to stardom. I thought you did a good job, Greg

2008
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 1: of kind of breaking down how Josh works with Jordan

2009
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:54,120
Speaker 1: Palmer in the offseason. We've talked to Jordan, We've had

2010
01:44:54,200 --> 01:44:55,880
Speaker 1: him on this show a number of times, and he's

2011
01:44:55,880 --> 01:44:57,640
Speaker 1: talked about some of the things that he's worked on.

2012
01:44:57,800 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: But you kind of got into the nuts and bolts

2013
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,960
Speaker 1: as to how Palmer approaches it, knowing his time with

2014
01:45:03,280 --> 01:45:07,560
Speaker 1: his pupils is limited in the off season nowadays, with

2015
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 1: offseason so short for NFL players. Can you just kind

2016
01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 1: of walk us through that in terms of how Jordan

2017
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 1: presented it to you and why he feels it's most

2018
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: beneficial for Josh to maybe focus on one specific thing

2019
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: each off season rather than a slew of things. Yeah,

2020
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 1: Like when he said that, it made perfect sense to me.

2021
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: But when he first said it, I hadn't thought of

2022
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,640
Speaker 1: it that way. Like these guys get small windows, right.

2023
01:45:31,760 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: Jordan's working with Josh in between charity golf tournaments or

2024
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: his own events or going back home to visit family,

2025
01:45:38,600 --> 01:45:41,719
Speaker 1: and so Jordan's personal philosophy is one thing each off season.

2026
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:44,840
Speaker 1: Really honed in on it. You know, what they worked

2027
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:48,760
Speaker 1: on before his rookie season, before Josh's rookie season was

2028
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,640
Speaker 1: essentially his balance. You know that Jordan felt that he

2029
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:54,840
Speaker 1: was his feet were too close together, he was always

2030
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:57,680
Speaker 1: bouncing on his toes because of those two things. When

2031
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:00,760
Speaker 1: he Strode. It wasn't consistent, and it intended to be

2032
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:04,120
Speaker 1: a longer stride than necessary, which meant his release point

2033
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:06,160
Speaker 1: was all over the place because his lower body was

2034
01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:08,640
Speaker 1: yanking the upper half around. So they did a lot

2035
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:11,559
Speaker 1: of drills like sliding around on hardwood floors and socks

2036
01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:14,720
Speaker 1: to better his balance. You know. The second offseason they

2037
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:17,800
Speaker 1: added a bunch of drills. In terms of anticipation. I

2038
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:20,720
Speaker 1: love that they went to the beach in California and

2039
01:46:20,800 --> 01:46:23,040
Speaker 1: he would have Josh throw a certain number of palm

2040
01:46:23,120 --> 01:46:26,800
Speaker 1: trees ahead of a receiver, whether three or two or one,

2041
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:29,439
Speaker 1: the idea being to get the ball out at different

2042
01:46:29,479 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 1: points and put it farther or shorter based on where

2043
01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 1: the receivers were. And I think we've seen that a

2044
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:37,519
Speaker 1: lot this season in terms of anticipating and throwing guys

2045
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:40,960
Speaker 1: open and finding windows. They used this last off season

2046
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 1: where they spent the most time together. In fact, of

2047
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:45,840
Speaker 1: all the COVID nineteen stories I've done, I'm not sure

2048
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 1: anybody has utilized it as well as Josh Allen did.

2049
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:50,840
Speaker 1: He didn't just work with palm where he bought a

2050
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,559
Speaker 1: house down the block and he decided every day they

2051
01:46:53,600 --> 01:46:55,280
Speaker 1: were going to work as much as they could, often

2052
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:58,160
Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold and Kyle Allen, and they just spent

2053
01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:00,640
Speaker 1: a lot of time trying to be in control of

2054
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:03,320
Speaker 1: the game, to learn to manage sort of the way

2055
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 1: the game would go, and to put everything they've been

2056
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: working on together. And I think when you look at

2057
01:47:07,880 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 1: that as a step by step progression, you can see

2058
01:47:11,120 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 1: how Josh improved in each year. And when you add

2059
01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:15,880
Speaker 1: to that, you know, two years ago getting John Brown,

2060
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:19,120
Speaker 1: getting Cole Beasley, or this offseason when they went out

2061
01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 1: and traded Stefan Diggs, like you just start to see

2062
01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 1: brick by brick how this came together. I don't think

2063
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:27,599
Speaker 1: it's accidental or like Josh had an epiphany. I think

2064
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: it was the work with Palmer. It is what they've

2065
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:32,759
Speaker 1: done with him with Brian dave Ball and Ken Dorsey

2066
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:35,760
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and then it's like having a team around

2067
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:38,200
Speaker 1: him that can maximize the skill set. And I think

2068
01:47:38,240 --> 01:47:41,639
Speaker 1: they've consistently been building in the right direction there. How

2069
01:47:42,400 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 1: we have, like we said, we're talking along about how

2070
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: smart he is, how intelligent he has been, and his

2071
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:55,640
Speaker 1: deliberate attempts and project on himself to get better and

2072
01:47:55,800 --> 01:47:58,719
Speaker 1: to have that inner drive. And we've seen him envelope

2073
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:01,639
Speaker 1: his teammates bring out to Florida to start working out

2074
01:48:01,720 --> 01:48:06,160
Speaker 1: and the trades, getting to know his players better, being

2075
01:48:06,200 --> 01:48:08,760
Speaker 1: in this offense for three years. But what did you

2076
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 1: think about how much the organization has been on board

2077
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:16,600
Speaker 1: with every step of his development? And how much and

2078
01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:19,679
Speaker 1: because they I've seen it happen where an organization throws

2079
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 1: it all at him and dumps money into the roster

2080
01:48:23,560 --> 01:48:25,800
Speaker 1: around him, and you know it's all about him and

2081
01:48:25,840 --> 01:48:28,639
Speaker 1: the offense and then they you know, it just doesn't work.

2082
01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:32,960
Speaker 1: So where did the Bills do it right? And more importantly,

2083
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:35,880
Speaker 1: what did the Bills not do? So it's not to

2084
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:38,680
Speaker 1: get out ahead of the process and you know, sabotage

2085
01:48:38,720 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 1: their own efforts through doing too much or leaving something,

2086
01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:45,360
Speaker 1: doing something that was not necessary. Yeah, that's a great question.

2087
01:48:46,240 --> 01:48:48,360
Speaker 1: You know, first, I would just say that I loved

2088
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:51,080
Speaker 1: talking to Grant and being you guys would know better

2089
01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 1: than me, I think, But he was professionally honest and

2090
01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:56,920
Speaker 1: very candid about everything he wanted to do with Josh.

2091
01:48:57,439 --> 01:48:59,840
Speaker 1: I think one thing he did right was immediately hid

2092
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:02,719
Speaker 1: entified that Josh, in his skill set, would be best

2093
01:49:02,840 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: in a place like Buffalo, that he had the kind

2094
01:49:05,160 --> 01:49:08,240
Speaker 1: of arm that he had played in cold Weather, that

2095
01:49:08,360 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 1: he wouldn't bother him if they were four games in

2096
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:13,639
Speaker 1: a season at home with fifteen mile an hour wins.

2097
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:16,439
Speaker 1: I think he identified that right away and then looked

2098
01:49:16,479 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 1: at sort of the talent level beyond that they could

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Speaker 1: be molded. The other thing I think he realized right

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01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:23,360
Speaker 1: away is that maybe some of the other guys that

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01:49:23,479 --> 01:49:26,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo fans wanted didn't fit, and it didn't seem like

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01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: they took a big run at Josh Rosen, you know

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01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:30,599
Speaker 1: who I think was a guy a lot of people

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01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: they wanted. It seems like they understood that Josh was

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01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:36,880
Speaker 1: a better fit in terms of, you know, how he

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01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:40,879
Speaker 1: would fit in Buffalo specifically. I think it was interesting

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01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 1: to me that Brandon looked at a bunch of different

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01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 1: trades because he wanted Josh that badly. You know, they

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01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:48,320
Speaker 1: were gonna go to five and give Denver two first

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01:49:48,439 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: if Bradley Chubb wasn't on the board. They did ultimately

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01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:53,560
Speaker 1: give up a lot to go to seven for a

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01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:56,840
Speaker 1: guy that, like Bean said, he went downstairs and looked

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01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 1: at the media and couldn't believe how many people were

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01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 1: looking like he was the biggest idiot on Earth. I

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01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:04,160
Speaker 1: think the other thing that they did was sort of,

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01:50:04,720 --> 01:50:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, meild the roster to Josh's skillsets. You don't

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01:50:07,920 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 1: just add a number one receiver and Diggs. You got

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01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: a guy who was the best in the NFL last

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01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:15,599
Speaker 1: year at balls, throwing twenty yards downfield. He can get

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01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:18,600
Speaker 1: open when Josh is scrambling around. They're just like so

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01:50:18,720 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: many tailored things, you know, that having a good speedy

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01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 1: slot receiver, having a lot of speed outside, you know,

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01:50:24,680 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: having the ability to run the ball to like sort

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01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:29,840
Speaker 1: of minimize the mistakes. I think they'd just done a

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01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:33,560
Speaker 1: really good job of tailoring their team, the system and

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01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: how they wanted to develop Josh Allen to maximize what's

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01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:39,519
Speaker 1: possible with him, which I think is what every team

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01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:43,040
Speaker 1: wants to do, but it very rarely works out like this. Yeah,

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01:50:43,080 --> 01:50:47,560
Speaker 1: and Greg, you mentioned, you know Diggs. Obviously, that's a

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01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:50,160
Speaker 1: trade that I know Brandon explain to you they wanted

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01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:53,679
Speaker 1: done sooner than it actually happened. They tried mid season

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01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:56,640
Speaker 1: last year to get a deal done with Minnesota. They

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01:50:56,720 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 1: said no. Did Brandon ever kind of reveal to you

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01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:03,240
Speaker 1: what changed from Minnesota and made them say yes last March.

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01:51:04,680 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: You know, I think the big thing was that they

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01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:08,599
Speaker 1: were sort of retooling. You know that not only did

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01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:12,000
Speaker 1: it seem like Stefan wasn't happy there, but that he

2138
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:14,160
Speaker 1: wanted out and the teams that had tried to get

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01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 1: him before came to realize the Vikings didn't really want

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01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 1: to part with him. And you've seen him in the

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01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:21,519
Speaker 1: impact of his departure of their offense. I think this

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01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:24,760
Speaker 1: season even as good as Justin Jefferson has been. And

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01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:27,400
Speaker 1: so I think when he saw that they were like,

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01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, all those veterans on defense went out from

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01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:33,000
Speaker 1: Minnesota this spring and then they started to look at

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01:51:33,080 --> 01:51:35,240
Speaker 1: receivers in the draft, and this was as good a

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01:51:35,320 --> 01:51:38,400
Speaker 1: receiver draft as we've had in recent memory. I think

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01:51:38,479 --> 01:51:40,400
Speaker 1: that's when Brandon reached back out and said, I know

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01:51:40,479 --> 01:51:43,320
Speaker 1: you said no before, but you know, you have a

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01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:45,400
Speaker 1: bunch of picks in this draft. I believe the Vikings

2151
01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:48,960
Speaker 1: had fifteen draft picks in the last draft, and you know,

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01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:51,840
Speaker 1: would you be open to doing this again? And I

2153
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:53,720
Speaker 1: think when you add all that together, it just sort

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01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:55,920
Speaker 1: of opened the window. And to me, Dix is not

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01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:58,560
Speaker 1: just a number one he's a versatile number one. He

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01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:03,240
Speaker 1: can run inside out, he's a deep thread, a shifty

2157
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 1: can catch the ball. Like to me, everything he's doing

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01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:08,720
Speaker 1: in this offense is with branded envisioned, and I think

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01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:10,640
Speaker 1: we're only really reaching sort of the beginning of it.

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01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:12,280
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of ceiling to be met

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01:52:12,360 --> 01:52:15,560
Speaker 1: there too. We've had this conversation this week because of

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01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 1: how the Bills Arizona game ended. Two offensive plays and

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01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 1: two players who were traded for by respective teams Steph

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01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:26,439
Speaker 1: Diggs traded for by the Buffalo Bills in Minnesota Vikings

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01:52:26,479 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 1: and then the Arizona Cardinals trading for DeAndre Hopkins with

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01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Both those guys make the unbelievable plays

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01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:38,479
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, both of which looked

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01:52:38,479 --> 01:52:40,800
Speaker 1: like they were gonna win it one of them did.

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01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:48,080
Speaker 1: Is there a place in the NFL where these wide

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01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: receivers are going to become, if not as important, probably

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01:52:51,640 --> 01:52:56,360
Speaker 1: more important than other positions that like left tackles, like

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01:52:57,400 --> 01:52:59,840
Speaker 1: running backs of course tight end. I mean these wide

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01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:02,960
Speaker 1: receivers are starting to come into their own as being

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01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:07,960
Speaker 1: very close to you know, quarterback money. Yeah. I would

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01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:09,720
Speaker 1: say a couple of things there one thing I think

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01:53:09,760 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 1: we've seen in recent years as general managers seem far

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01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:14,560
Speaker 1: more open to trading players than they used to be,

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01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:18,479
Speaker 1: Guys like this and plays like you mentioned, or exactly

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01:53:18,600 --> 01:53:21,839
Speaker 1: why I did a cover on DeAndre Hopkins back in April,

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01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 1: and I kept asking myself, why the world is this

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01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:27,080
Speaker 1: story being written? Like why would you give up a

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01:53:27,160 --> 01:53:29,760
Speaker 1: top three talent at his position for what they gave

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01:53:29,840 --> 01:53:32,120
Speaker 1: him up for? You know, it just didn't make sense.

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01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 1: And I think specific to the receiver position, you hit

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01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:38,040
Speaker 1: on a perfect point right there, because you know, the

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01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:40,720
Speaker 1: NFL has evolved into more of a passing league. We've

2187
01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:43,400
Speaker 1: been talking about that forever, but it seems like a

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01:53:43,479 --> 01:53:45,400
Speaker 1: lot of the teams that are deep into contention to

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01:53:45,479 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 1: have some sort of game changer at either the quarterback

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01:53:48,760 --> 01:53:51,599
Speaker 1: or the wide receiver position. And a guy who's as

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01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:54,639
Speaker 1: talented as DeAndre Hopkins is is just going to speed

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01:53:54,720 --> 01:53:57,759
Speaker 1: the development of Kyler Murray. And a guy as talented

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01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:00,720
Speaker 1: as Stefan Diggs is has made Josh Chatting into a

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01:54:00,800 --> 01:54:02,960
Speaker 1: force that we didn't know that we'd see. And so

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01:54:03,640 --> 01:54:06,240
Speaker 1: all these things I think tie together the willingness of

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01:54:06,320 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 1: gms to make trades, the value of the guys in question,

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01:54:09,800 --> 01:54:12,080
Speaker 1: and then a guy like Hopkins, you know, who was

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01:54:12,280 --> 01:54:14,720
Speaker 1: builed I think is having some baggage when he went

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01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:17,360
Speaker 1: to Arizona to have this kind of season. I think

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01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 1: it's just going to further, you know, push that door

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01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,519
Speaker 1: open like that. I think every team that needs a

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01:54:22,560 --> 01:54:24,960
Speaker 1: receiver or is close to the playoff push wishes they

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01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:27,240
Speaker 1: had made the trade that Arizona made, you know, least

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01:54:27,280 --> 01:54:31,920
Speaker 1: bring Greg. We appreciate the time today. Thanks for breaking

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01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,920
Speaker 1: it all down, not only on Josh but his relationship

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01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 1: with Jordan and how being kind of pulled Stephan Diggs

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01:54:38,680 --> 01:54:40,960
Speaker 1: out of Minnesota with that trade. Thanks very much for

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01:54:41,040 --> 01:54:43,800
Speaker 1: the time and the insight. We appreciate it. Thanks Greg,

2209
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:46,000
Speaker 1: than thanks for having me. The Bills fans were the

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01:54:46,040 --> 01:54:47,880
Speaker 1: best I heard from so many of them and they

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01:54:48,520 --> 01:54:51,839
Speaker 1: are a unique group. So thanks for Yeah, no problem.

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01:54:52,640 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: That's Greg Bishop, senior writer from si dot Com joining us.

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Speaker 1: We will take a break, but when we return, we'll

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Speaker 1: get back to your thoughts on the sweet cheat and

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01:55:00,640 --> 01:55:03,600
Speaker 1: this AFC's Division race that could get a little bit

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01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: tighter by the end of this coming weekend. Back in

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Speaker 1: a moment here on one Bills Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio Brown Chapter one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Finally half hour of the program and we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet in just a second, but we

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Speaker 1: do want to go to the phones. Waiting patiently. There

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Speaker 1: is Mike in New Jersey at eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Mike, what do you have for us? Welcome

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01:55:34,720 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 1: to the show. Hi, great by Steel Hawaire today. Good

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01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:42,760
Speaker 1: doing well. Hey, I was I was very upset about

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01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:45,080
Speaker 1: the last Sunday. But you know what, I think this

2227
01:55:45,320 --> 01:55:48,600
Speaker 1: is just a glitch on our right future this year.

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01:55:49,080 --> 01:55:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm just I just I just think that this team

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01:55:51,520 --> 01:55:55,080
Speaker 1: is so strong mentally, and the way we played on

2230
01:55:55,120 --> 01:55:57,400
Speaker 1: the defense too, the way weaving improvings. I think we

2231
01:55:57,480 --> 01:56:00,960
Speaker 1: have a good things going and will be better if

2232
01:56:01,040 --> 01:56:04,080
Speaker 1: this will be better experience for us in the future. However,

2233
01:56:04,200 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: I have one small concern about the offensive play calling,

2234
01:56:07,280 --> 01:56:12,400
Speaker 1: the creativity and imagination. I think it's still lacking. I'll

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01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:15,800
Speaker 1: give you an example. The screens have that we ran

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01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:19,480
Speaker 1: against Seattle with John Brown, so it went for like

2237
01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:23,000
Speaker 1: almost forty yards. I think it produced the same results

2238
01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:25,600
Speaker 1: for us UM the first time that we ran it

2239
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: against Arizona about thirty yards. But the second time we

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01:56:29,600 --> 01:56:32,520
Speaker 1: did not gain anything. We think we lost the Attica

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01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:35,120
Speaker 1: and it was on third down play. Whatever. My thing

2242
01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:37,840
Speaker 1: is when you keep running the same play in the

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01:56:37,920 --> 01:56:40,760
Speaker 1: same expert format, like why why why are we not

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01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:43,920
Speaker 1: smart enough to even change the site? We ran the

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01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:46,720
Speaker 1: same play three times back to back weeks on the

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01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:51,000
Speaker 1: same side. Um. Also in the running game, it's like

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01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:53,040
Speaker 1: it's like handing off the ball, heding the ball off

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01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:55,960
Speaker 1: the run of the middle. There is no creativity there

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01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:58,920
Speaker 1: to try to improve the running games. So my question

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01:56:59,120 --> 01:57:02,080
Speaker 1: is is that beauty lack of you know, not having

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01:57:02,200 --> 01:57:05,960
Speaker 1: a athletic offensive line or what's going on there. That's

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01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:08,240
Speaker 1: the only cons that I have for the future. Thank

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01:57:08,320 --> 01:57:10,280
Speaker 1: you all right, thanks for the call, Mike, appreciate it.

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01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:13,080
Speaker 1: Why don't you take that one, Steve Well, I think

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01:57:13,960 --> 01:57:15,440
Speaker 1: he's got a good point. I know they've run that

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01:57:15,480 --> 01:57:17,880
Speaker 1: play a couple of times. It scored a touchdown against

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01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, almost scored one day one. Yeah,

2258
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:23,720
Speaker 1: I almost scored one against Seattle, scored one against Seattle.

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01:57:24,200 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 1: It went for good yardage against Arizona the first time.

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01:57:28,720 --> 01:57:30,440
Speaker 1: All of that stuff is in there and then they

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01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:33,000
Speaker 1: had one where it didn't work. Listen, if you're having

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01:57:33,040 --> 01:57:36,360
Speaker 1: a play work three times before they actually figured out,

2263
01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:38,400
Speaker 1: or if it gives you three plays the size of

2264
01:57:38,440 --> 01:57:41,600
Speaker 1: which John Brown has gotten them, they're gonna keep going

2265
01:57:41,640 --> 01:57:44,120
Speaker 1: to it. That is not out of the playbook at all,

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01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:46,720
Speaker 1: because what it does is if a defense gets into

2267
01:57:46,760 --> 01:57:49,320
Speaker 1: look and here's the thing, and I don't know this,

2268
01:57:49,480 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this is how the reasoning works. The

2269
01:57:53,760 --> 01:57:56,800
Speaker 1: Bills run that play when they get a certain defensive look,

2270
01:57:57,320 --> 01:57:59,960
Speaker 1: and they get a certain defensive look because of other

2271
01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:03,360
Speaker 1: there plays that they run to entice the defense to

2272
01:58:03,480 --> 01:58:06,440
Speaker 1: give them that look to stop a different play. So

2273
01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:11,320
Speaker 1: all of this stuff piggybacks on itself and the play caller.

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01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 1: It's an art form. It's not a science. It's an

2275
01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:17,920
Speaker 1: art form. And Brian Dabole is not going to take

2276
01:58:17,960 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 1: a play out of his playbook that if they've run

2277
01:58:21,720 --> 01:58:24,480
Speaker 1: it four times, it's gotten one hundred and fifty yards

2278
01:58:24,880 --> 01:58:28,800
Speaker 1: you know total. It's kind of if one play one

2279
01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:31,680
Speaker 1: time it got stuffed or didn't work, the other three

2280
01:58:31,720 --> 01:58:34,280
Speaker 1: times it got thirty five plus yards per play, They're

2281
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:36,280
Speaker 1: gonna keep running it. Yeah, it's like proved to us

2282
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,560
Speaker 1: you can stop it first. That's the only thing that's

2283
01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:41,040
Speaker 1: going to deter me from calling it until you prove

2284
01:58:41,120 --> 01:58:43,840
Speaker 1: to me you can stop it. And I get what

2285
01:58:44,080 --> 01:58:46,520
Speaker 1: Mike's saying about, you know, running it maybe on the

2286
01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:48,720
Speaker 1: other side of the formation or maybe with somebody else.

2287
01:58:50,440 --> 01:58:52,520
Speaker 1: They ran a screen to Digs late in the game

2288
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: on the left side of the field that got good yardage.

2289
01:58:56,080 --> 01:58:57,640
Speaker 1: It certainly didn't get the first down because it was

2290
01:58:57,680 --> 01:58:59,360
Speaker 1: third and thirty at the time or whatever the heck

2291
01:58:59,440 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 1: it was, but still in all they did show a

2292
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:06,800
Speaker 1: willingness to use a similarly designed play call to a

2293
01:59:06,880 --> 01:59:08,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver and it was on the other side of

2294
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:12,440
Speaker 1: the field. So I'm not worried about day Ball's creativity.

2295
01:59:12,480 --> 01:59:14,880
Speaker 1: I just think that falls into the category of we're

2296
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:16,920
Speaker 1: gonna keep running it until you prove you can stop it.

2297
01:59:18,520 --> 01:59:23,320
Speaker 1: That's right here. Here's the thing too, it works differently

2298
01:59:23,520 --> 01:59:28,760
Speaker 1: for offense and defense. Defensively, if you find something that's working,

2299
01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:32,880
Speaker 1: you go back to it time and time again until

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01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:35,240
Speaker 1: they prove they can do it. Offensively, It's not always

2301
01:59:35,280 --> 01:59:37,240
Speaker 1: the same thing. Sometimes you get away from a play

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01:59:37,280 --> 01:59:39,520
Speaker 1: that works once because you know the teams they're not

2303
01:59:39,720 --> 01:59:42,080
Speaker 1: not going to give it to you. Again, it's different

2304
01:59:42,160 --> 01:59:44,800
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. But in this case,

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01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:52,120
Speaker 1: I would suspect that the Bills will have that play out.

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01:59:52,200 --> 01:59:54,240
Speaker 1: They'll run it in the game early in the game,

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01:59:54,320 --> 01:59:56,760
Speaker 1: first quarter. They'll come back to it late in the

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01:59:56,840 --> 01:59:59,000
Speaker 1: second quarter if they get to look again, and the

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01:59:59,080 --> 02:00:02,120
Speaker 1: next time they run it it looks like the exact

2310
02:00:02,160 --> 02:00:05,560
Speaker 1: same play again, and it is not. They'll have a

2311
02:00:05,640 --> 02:00:07,800
Speaker 1: wrinkle and it will be a big play going the

2312
02:00:07,880 --> 02:00:10,720
Speaker 1: other direction, that kind of thing. So they want teams

2313
02:00:10,760 --> 02:00:13,960
Speaker 1: to anticipate a certain play and get them to entice

2314
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 1: them to jump it when you've got the wrinkle cold. Yeah,

2315
02:00:16,520 --> 02:00:21,960
Speaker 1: and the trap's been set. The traps set now, that's right. Yeah,

2316
02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:24,480
Speaker 1: that's right. And there's no reason to even set run

2317
02:00:24,560 --> 02:00:28,320
Speaker 1: the trap yet because it keeps working. The bait keeps Yeah,

2318
02:00:30,520 --> 02:00:33,040
Speaker 1: taking the bait. Yeah, that's right. Let's get back to

2319
02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:35,120
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet where we've been asking you today. How

2320
02:00:35,160 --> 02:00:37,200
Speaker 1: do you think the AFC East race will play out?

2321
02:00:37,760 --> 02:00:40,560
Speaker 1: Do you think the Bills run away with it? Does

2322
02:00:40,600 --> 02:00:42,600
Speaker 1: it come down to the wire but the Bills hang

2323
02:00:42,720 --> 02:00:46,480
Speaker 1: on and hold off Miami? Does Week seventeen mean it

2324
02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:50,040
Speaker 1: will be for all the marbles or do the Patriots

2325
02:00:50,080 --> 02:00:53,000
Speaker 1: somehow factor in So you can weigh in at one

2326
02:00:53,040 --> 02:00:54,920
Speaker 1: bills live or you can call a city to three

2327
02:00:55,080 --> 02:00:57,560
Speaker 1: h five fifty. I believe we are up to Steve

2328
02:00:58,280 --> 02:01:00,560
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, and he said, my answer would

2329
02:01:00,560 --> 02:01:03,920
Speaker 1: be a if we could run the ball. Our inability

2330
02:01:04,040 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: to run the ball is the reason for our third

2331
02:01:06,800 --> 02:01:10,040
Speaker 1: quarter woes. Teams adjust to us at the half and

2332
02:01:10,160 --> 02:01:12,400
Speaker 1: it takes us until the fourth quarter to adjust to

2333
02:01:12,480 --> 02:01:15,800
Speaker 1: their adjustments. If we could run the ball, we wouldn't

2334
02:01:15,840 --> 02:01:17,600
Speaker 1: have the three and ounce in the third quarter. What

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02:01:17,640 --> 02:01:18,920
Speaker 1: do you think of that, Steve? I think that has

2336
02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:25,600
Speaker 1: some merit. Yeah, it's pretty logical. If you're throwing it

2337
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:30,720
Speaker 1: in the first half and they are thinking you're going

2338
02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:33,480
Speaker 1: to be balanced and you're not, then they're gonna make

2339
02:01:33,480 --> 02:01:36,000
Speaker 1: adjustments of the halftime and they're gonna say, okay, let's

2340
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:37,920
Speaker 1: see if they can run. And if you cannot run

2341
02:01:38,000 --> 02:01:41,720
Speaker 1: it to get them out of their past defense, then

2342
02:01:41,760 --> 02:01:43,280
Speaker 1: it's going to take you a while. But even if

2343
02:01:43,320 --> 02:01:46,080
Speaker 1: they do drop in, if they're gonna rush more guys,

2344
02:01:46,080 --> 02:01:49,720
Speaker 1: if they're gonna rush four guys and play man behind it,

2345
02:01:49,840 --> 02:01:53,280
Speaker 1: or fresh four guys and play zone behind it. There's

2346
02:01:53,320 --> 02:01:55,400
Speaker 1: always a place where you can throw the football, particularly

2347
02:01:55,440 --> 02:01:57,200
Speaker 1: as deep as the Bills go in their wide receiver.

2348
02:01:57,280 --> 02:02:00,240
Speaker 1: They go ten personnel or even eleven personnel. They're deep

2349
02:02:00,480 --> 02:02:03,320
Speaker 1: and they'll find some gaps if you can block it up.

2350
02:02:04,200 --> 02:02:05,920
Speaker 1: So I think I think there is something to that.

2351
02:02:06,080 --> 02:02:10,480
Speaker 1: If the Bills could run the football effectively, well, there

2352
02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:13,240
Speaker 1: would actually be no way to defend them, I mean right,

2353
02:02:13,360 --> 02:02:16,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right. If they could run the football,

2354
02:02:16,960 --> 02:02:18,880
Speaker 1: you know, all bets are off as to anybody holding

2355
02:02:18,880 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 1: them under forty And I don't know if you're looking

2356
02:02:20,720 --> 02:02:22,960
Speaker 1: at the poll right now that our MSG viewers are seeing,

2357
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:26,040
Speaker 1: but current voting has you, Steve in the minority. Only

2358
02:02:26,120 --> 02:02:27,960
Speaker 1: eleven percent of the fans think the Bills are going

2359
02:02:28,000 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: to run away with the division, two third almost two

2360
02:02:30,880 --> 02:02:32,840
Speaker 1: thirds of the voters think the Dolphins will keep it

2361
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:35,800
Speaker 1: close but the Bills will hang on, and twenty two

2362
02:02:35,840 --> 02:02:38,760
Speaker 1: and a half percent Steve think it's going to come

2363
02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:41,920
Speaker 1: down to the final week of the regular season. Bills

2364
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:46,320
Speaker 1: Dolphins at Bills Stadium. Wow, I didn't think that number

2365
02:02:46,360 --> 02:02:48,640
Speaker 1: one quite as high. That's something else to use if

2366
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:51,240
Speaker 1: that game does mean something and it's it's for the

2367
02:02:51,320 --> 02:02:55,640
Speaker 1: wildcard versus the division champ. Think about what that means.

2368
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:59,200
Speaker 1: That means a home playoff game or a road playoff game. Yeah,

2369
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: that's big. And in this season, I get there's no

2370
02:03:02,560 --> 02:03:04,480
Speaker 1: fans and all of that in a normal so a

2371
02:03:04,520 --> 02:03:06,640
Speaker 1: little bit of that shine is off of that, But

2372
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:10,160
Speaker 1: in a normal season, it just doesn't get any bigger

2373
02:03:10,200 --> 02:03:14,000
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, from a Robert on the tweet sheet,

2374
02:03:14,520 --> 02:03:17,280
Speaker 1: this is a hard choice to make. But with what's

2375
02:03:17,400 --> 02:03:19,760
Speaker 1: left on the schedule and the way we've been playing,

2376
02:03:20,360 --> 02:03:22,680
Speaker 1: I think we'll still end up winning the East by

2377
02:03:22,760 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: two or three games ahead of the Dolphins. Wow, two

2378
02:03:25,360 --> 02:03:28,480
Speaker 1: or three games clear. So he's got to be anticipating,

2379
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:32,360
Speaker 1: Steve that the Dolphins at best are like a nine

2380
02:03:32,400 --> 02:03:38,040
Speaker 1: and seventeam, right, He's thinking they're three and three for

2381
02:03:38,120 --> 02:03:41,360
Speaker 1: their next six games. Yeah, well or seven games, three

2382
02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:44,000
Speaker 1: and four, three and four for their next seven games,

2383
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:48,280
Speaker 1: so they go, you know, nine and seven, and that's

2384
02:03:48,440 --> 02:03:52,560
Speaker 1: making sure. That's puts the Bills going what four and two, Yeah,

2385
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:55,560
Speaker 1: four and two to go eleven and five or heck

2386
02:03:55,760 --> 02:03:58,000
Speaker 1: five and one, But I don't know if that's too likely.

2387
02:03:58,280 --> 02:03:59,960
Speaker 1: I think they're most likely to go four and two.

2388
02:04:00,240 --> 02:04:02,920
Speaker 1: Or three and three. Somewhere there is probably how the

2389
02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:06,760
Speaker 1: last six games shake out. Um, but I do think

2390
02:04:06,800 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: four and two is certainly attainable to get to eleven

2391
02:04:10,120 --> 02:04:11,560
Speaker 1: and five, And I think if they get to eleven

2392
02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:14,280
Speaker 1: and eleven wins, they're gonna they'll have the division. At

2393
02:04:14,360 --> 02:04:17,400
Speaker 1: that point. You think the Arizona game, the Hail Mary's

2394
02:04:17,440 --> 02:04:21,080
Speaker 1: going to come back to haunt them. Oh, Steve, too soon,

2395
02:04:22,120 --> 02:04:24,480
Speaker 1: too soon. Don't be throwing that out there. That is

2396
02:04:24,560 --> 02:04:26,320
Speaker 1: not a good vibe to be putting out there on

2397
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:29,360
Speaker 1: a Tuesday after two days after the game. What are

2398
02:04:29,400 --> 02:04:32,760
Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, it was. I mean, they're gonna you're

2399
02:04:32,760 --> 02:04:34,560
Speaker 1: gonna wish yet you're gonna wish it a point where

2400
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:37,800
Speaker 1: it is. I'm marking it down. I'm marking it down.

2401
02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:44,440
Speaker 1: November seventeenth, Steve Tasker called it, what you know, you're

2402
02:04:44,440 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: not thinking it? You didn't think it. I actually believe me.

2403
02:04:47,120 --> 02:04:49,560
Speaker 1: Believe me. I didn't. I didn't even cross my mind,

2404
02:04:49,840 --> 02:04:52,280
Speaker 1: which is crazy, because you're the one that's more optimistic

2405
02:04:52,280 --> 02:04:54,560
Speaker 1: about where this team's gonna finish than I am in

2406
02:04:54,760 --> 02:04:57,040
Speaker 1: terms of being free and clear and winning the division.

2407
02:04:57,120 --> 02:04:59,080
Speaker 1: I didn't even cross my mind until you said it.

2408
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:03,480
Speaker 1: I didn't ask myself. I asked you. Yeah, I am optimistic.

2409
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to come back to haunt them. Well,

2410
02:05:05,480 --> 02:05:07,760
Speaker 1: I'm just saying across your mind before a cross mine.

2411
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:10,640
Speaker 1: That's the thing that shocking. And you got your panties

2412
02:05:10,680 --> 02:05:12,240
Speaker 1: in a bunch over the question. Well, I don't know

2413
02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:13,920
Speaker 1: if I've got them in a bunch per se. But

2414
02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:18,760
Speaker 1: that is interesting, you know what. You want to know

2415
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:20,520
Speaker 1: why I didn't think it would come back to haunt them.

2416
02:05:20,560 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: This is probably why it didn't cross my mind. It's

2417
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:27,560
Speaker 1: probably I'm guessing just in my crazy subconscious that it

2418
02:05:27,600 --> 02:05:30,720
Speaker 1: didn't cross my mind because it was an NFC opponent.

2419
02:05:31,200 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: And I think if it's gonna come down to a

2420
02:05:33,800 --> 02:05:36,520
Speaker 1: game that you had to have and you that slipped

2421
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:39,880
Speaker 1: through your fingers, it's more likely to be a game

2422
02:05:39,960 --> 02:05:42,520
Speaker 1: against some AFC opponent. Here the rest of the way,

2423
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:46,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills have six games left and five

2424
02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 1: of them are against AFC conference teams. Your only NFC

2425
02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:53,360
Speaker 1: team left is San Francisco. Everything else is against the AFC.

2426
02:05:53,560 --> 02:05:56,280
Speaker 1: These games are where the rubber meets the road when

2427
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:59,040
Speaker 1: it comes to games coming back to haunt you, because

2428
02:05:59,080 --> 02:06:03,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna factor into tiebreakers more prominently than a loss

2429
02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:06,880
Speaker 1: to Arizona in the NFC. That's how I see you've

2430
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:12,360
Speaker 1: got you've got five of the six against a Yeah.

2431
02:06:13,000 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: I mean this, You've only played a little bit more

2432
02:06:15,880 --> 02:06:18,760
Speaker 1: than half your slate against the NFC. At this point,

2433
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:21,400
Speaker 1: you've played seven games and you've got five left. So

2434
02:06:22,280 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 1: these got to count. Yeah, yeah, they yeah, they all count.

2435
02:06:28,120 --> 02:06:30,360
Speaker 1: So that's why coming back to haunt me, it didn't

2436
02:06:30,360 --> 02:06:37,680
Speaker 1: really haunt me. Um here's what they are playing great,

2437
02:06:39,680 --> 02:06:44,560
Speaker 1: great because they're playing against really tough opponents. You go

2438
02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:51,280
Speaker 1: to um NFL the standings on NFL gesis, which is

2439
02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:54,800
Speaker 1: a g SIS, it's their statistical site. You look at

2440
02:06:54,840 --> 02:06:58,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo the strength of victory wins, a strength of

2441
02:06:58,680 --> 02:07:05,360
Speaker 1: schedule wins Brownie, they're five, they're point five thirty three

2442
02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:09,080
Speaker 1: winning percentage. Yeah, that's that's big. Do you see that?

2443
02:07:09,160 --> 02:07:22,240
Speaker 1: Everybody else? Let's see there's Jacksonville, Vegas, Denver and that's it,

2444
02:07:22,480 --> 02:07:27,680
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati, Cincinnati. None of those teams. Now, Vegas has

2445
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:33,920
Speaker 1: got six wins, Buffalo's got seven. But of everybody else,

2446
02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:36,760
Speaker 1: Bills have the better record, and they've got that. They've

2447
02:07:36,840 --> 02:07:41,280
Speaker 1: got you know, a stronger schedule. Yeah, a stronger schedule

2448
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 1: anybody below him. They're playing really good. It counts or something.

2449
02:07:44,640 --> 02:07:47,640
Speaker 1: I'm not dismissing that. You can say whatever you want

2450
02:07:47,640 --> 02:07:50,120
Speaker 1: about Hey, Bills can't run the ball. There's having trouble

2451
02:07:50,160 --> 02:07:54,040
Speaker 1: stopping the run. That what listen, you can't beat this

2452
02:07:54,200 --> 02:07:57,080
Speaker 1: This hard seems hard to beat. They're playing good. They

2453
02:07:57,160 --> 02:07:59,640
Speaker 1: score points when when the chips are down, they got

2454
02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:03,320
Speaker 1: at that guns it. They got guys that can go

2455
02:08:03,560 --> 02:08:06,480
Speaker 1: on the outside. Yeah. And when you get into this game,

2456
02:08:07,160 --> 02:08:09,320
Speaker 1: more often than not, you're looking at a double digit

2457
02:08:09,440 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 1: deficit in the first half. You're digging yourself out of

2458
02:08:12,240 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: a hole. Now, a couple of teams have been able

2459
02:08:13,800 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 1: to do it, dig it out, but man, oh man,

2460
02:08:17,000 --> 02:08:19,600
Speaker 1: let's see it. Yeah, you know, because this Bill's team's

2461
02:08:19,640 --> 02:08:21,640
Speaker 1: gonna put you in a hole. Yeah. I mean, I

2462
02:08:21,720 --> 02:08:24,680
Speaker 1: still remember saying back in August, this team could have

2463
02:08:24,800 --> 02:08:28,160
Speaker 1: the same record that they had last year, but be

2464
02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:31,800
Speaker 1: a significantly better team than they were in twenty nineteen

2465
02:08:31,840 --> 02:08:33,640
Speaker 1: and im and I'll stick to that. I mean, I

2466
02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:36,440
Speaker 1: think they could be ten and six and be miles

2467
02:08:36,560 --> 02:08:39,000
Speaker 1: better as a football team than they were last year.

2468
02:08:39,440 --> 02:08:43,240
Speaker 1: I think that's certainly a possibility here coming down the stretch.

2469
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:45,680
Speaker 1: I think they can get to eleven wins. But if

2470
02:08:45,720 --> 02:08:49,480
Speaker 1: they're ten and six, nobody should start panicking, unless you

2471
02:08:49,520 --> 02:08:52,480
Speaker 1: know the division suddenly is in play via tiebreaker or whatever.

2472
02:08:52,800 --> 02:08:55,560
Speaker 1: But I would maintain this could be a ten win

2473
02:08:55,680 --> 02:08:57,760
Speaker 1: team this year at the end of the regular season,

2474
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:03,200
Speaker 1: and they could be dramatically more competitive in the playoffs

2475
02:09:03,280 --> 02:09:06,360
Speaker 1: than they even hope to be last season because of

2476
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:11,120
Speaker 1: that schedule that you're talking about. The Dolphins, the Rams,

2477
02:09:11,280 --> 02:09:17,120
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Titans, the Chiefs, the Seahawks, and the Cardinals.

2478
02:09:18,200 --> 02:09:20,520
Speaker 1: All those teams are in the conversation for the playoffs

2479
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:25,040
Speaker 1: in their respective conferences, all of them. And they're all

2480
02:09:25,240 --> 02:09:29,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills are went seven and three against then

2481
02:09:29,160 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 1: plus you know, plus whatever whoever else is there. They're

2482
02:09:31,360 --> 02:09:35,360
Speaker 1: seven and three. They're they're playing pretty good. Yeah I am,

2483
02:09:35,880 --> 02:09:38,520
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't think that that Hail Mary

2484
02:09:38,720 --> 02:09:41,280
Speaker 1: is not gonna bother us at the end of the season,

2485
02:09:41,320 --> 02:09:43,040
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you this, Brown even if we don't

2486
02:09:43,040 --> 02:09:44,720
Speaker 1: get and who and now, I mean, if they're not

2487
02:09:44,720 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 1: gonna let fans in the stadium, who cares if it's

2488
02:09:46,640 --> 02:09:48,840
Speaker 1: at home, If they don't get a home stadium. I

2489
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:51,560
Speaker 1: don't care where they go to play, because the Bills

2490
02:09:51,560 --> 02:09:53,720
Speaker 1: will take on all comers. They've had a rough schedule

2491
02:09:53,760 --> 02:09:56,040
Speaker 1: and it's gonna get even rougher in the next six games.

2492
02:09:56,080 --> 02:09:58,760
Speaker 1: They're gonna continue it and they're gonna win their share

2493
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:00,680
Speaker 1: of these games. Even if they go three and three,

2494
02:10:02,480 --> 02:10:05,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna they're gonna be tough. They're gonna

2495
02:10:05,600 --> 02:10:08,720
Speaker 1: be tough at ten and six, even as a wild card. Well,

2496
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:11,720
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're going to have

2497
02:10:11,920 --> 02:10:15,880
Speaker 1: come through the gauntlet of a schedule through the regular say,

2498
02:10:15,960 --> 02:10:17,600
Speaker 1: will have been put through the ringer for sure, and

2499
02:10:17,640 --> 02:10:19,720
Speaker 1: it will be a battle of attrition as we've already

2500
02:10:19,760 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 1: seen with all these guys going down and you know

2501
02:10:22,600 --> 02:10:24,800
Speaker 1: the COVID Reserve people. Now, a lot of teams are

2502
02:10:24,840 --> 02:10:27,240
Speaker 1: dealing with that too, but not against the caliber of

2503
02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:29,120
Speaker 1: opponents that the Bills have had to face weekend and

2504
02:10:29,160 --> 02:10:31,360
Speaker 1: week out. All right, break time for us. When we return,

2505
02:10:31,400 --> 02:10:34,760
Speaker 1: it'll be what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

2506
02:10:35,120 --> 02:10:37,760
Speaker 1: and we'll take one final look at the voting on

2507
02:10:37,920 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet in terms of how you feel the

2508
02:10:40,400 --> 02:10:43,520
Speaker 1: AFC East Race is going to play out. Stay with

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2510
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. See if we've probably learned that people

2513
02:11:09,720 --> 02:11:13,040
Speaker 1: do expect this AFC East Race to Titan and to

2514
02:11:13,520 --> 02:11:17,400
Speaker 1: stay largely that way down the stretch, but that the

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Speaker 1: Bills will eventually emerge at the top for the first

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Speaker 1: time in twenty five seasons. I don't know how you think.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question that Dolphins are playing better

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Speaker 1: under two of but they're playing way differently than they

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Speaker 1: did with Ryan Fitzpatrick. They're playing defense, special teams football.

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Speaker 1: Just if the offense don't turn it over, just do

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Speaker 1: enough get on the board. We'll pitch in a score

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Speaker 1: on defense and special teams. If you're looking at these

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Speaker 1: two teams overall, the Bills are a better football team,

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Speaker 1: but they do have a more difficult schedule than the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins coming down the stretch. That's what most people see,

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Speaker 1: That's why they think. I think that's why most people

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Speaker 1: think the Dolphins can keep it close. But I do

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Speaker 1: not think they will. They're also expecting the Dolphins to

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Speaker 1: have special teams and defensive touchdowns every single week because

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Speaker 1: they've done it in each of the last three games.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect that to continue either. No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's hard to do, and I tip your hat

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Speaker 1: to the Dolphins for making it happen. They've done extremely well,

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Speaker 1: played really well around Toa and you hear the rhetoric

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Speaker 1: coming out of Miami about how what kind of guy

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Speaker 1: he is and how he's a positive and you know,

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Speaker 1: can do kind of guy. Nothing's too big for him.

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Speaker 1: He's not an overexcitable guy. But we'll see. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get harder for them. Teams are gonna start

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Speaker 1: to get a handle on who Toa is and force

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Speaker 1: him to do some things he may not be very

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Speaker 1: good at. Well, that's the thing. I think There's gonna

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Speaker 1: come a point in time where the Dolphins are going

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Speaker 1: to really have to lean onto maybe even more than

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Speaker 1: they want to, in some game where maybe they're behind

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Speaker 1: on the scoreboard for once. I'd love to see how

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Speaker 1: many minutes they've actually played behind on the scoreboard since

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Speaker 1: two has been in the lineup. Because I don't know

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Speaker 1: that it's been very long. I would venture to guess

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Speaker 1: it's less than ten minutes of regulation time. And so

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Speaker 1: because of that, they've been able to play conservatively on offense.

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Speaker 1: And that's an offense by the way, Steve. They can't

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Speaker 1: run the football either, so they're gonna have some of

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Speaker 1: the same problems too if and when they have to

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Speaker 1: lean on to it. All right, Well, their defense is

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Speaker 1: keeping it close anyway too. So they're never downed by

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Speaker 1: double digits in second half a game, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. They're never in this game where okay, we

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Speaker 1: got to open it up and start throwing it around.

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Speaker 1: They have not been in that situation, at least not

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Speaker 1: very much at this time. All Right, we gotta go.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow here on one Bill's Live