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Speaker 1: This One Bills Live presented by Calida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Happy New Year, everybody. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

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Speaker 2: with you on a Thursday edition of One Bills Live.

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Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed your New year Day holiday. We

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Speaker 2: had the day off as well yesterday, so good to

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Speaker 2: be back with you here from one to three on

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us. You do anything

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Speaker 2: special for New Year's I have a theory about the

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Speaker 2: New Year's Day holiday?

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Speaker 3: No, I did not do anything special. Watch some football?

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Speaker 3: Did you know what? He took the tree down?

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Speaker 2: Oh it's down?

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Speaker 4: Ready?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, took the tree doesn't make it to New Year's Day?

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Speaker 3: Well, was you New Year's Day? We took it down?

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Speaker 2: Okay? And then uh but nothing New Year's Eve's event now.

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Speaker 3: Oh dude, I'm way past that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I have a theory about my brothers and I used

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Speaker 3: to it's amateur night.

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Speaker 2: I haven't. I have a theory about New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 2: I think it is very much an all or nothing holiday.

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Speaker 2: You either go all out and blow it out, or

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Speaker 2: you really just kind of lay low and do nothing.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel like there's an in between New Year's

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Speaker 2: Eve kind of deal, you know.

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Speaker 3: What I mean, well, the last time, even when I

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Speaker 3: would stay up to midnight, which I don't do really anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but when even when I did, you stay up and

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Speaker 3: I'm in bed by twelve thirty and I'm done.

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Speaker 2: It's just I got too much to do the next day.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: We have a little tradition with our kids, who, fortunately

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Speaker 2: enough for us, we're both home through New Year's which

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Speaker 2: isn't always the case. They were this year, and my

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Speaker 2: wife has a better memory than me, so I don't

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Speaker 2: remember the origins of this, but I think we made

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Speaker 2: the mistake of introducing seafood to our kids at a

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Speaker 2: young age. So now they love seafood, okay, and as

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Speaker 2: you know, seafood can get very expensive.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't sound catastrophic, no like that.

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Speaker 2: But we started this thing where on New Year's Eve,

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Speaker 2: when the kids were younger, and you know, we're in

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Speaker 2: teenagers and going out and doing all that other stuff,

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Speaker 2: we would do a surf and turf New Year's Eve dinner.

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Speaker 2: So I'm grilling steaks, high end steaks, high seafood, and

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Speaker 2: I'm steaming king crab legs in the oven or broiling him.

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Speaker 2: And we did that because you know, it's New Year's

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Speaker 2: say splurge. Let's you know, going into the New year, right.

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Speaker 2: So we had a bang up surf and turf night.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, we were laying low, you know,

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Speaker 2: we were stayed in. We actually watch My daughter is

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Speaker 2: a huge fan of Have you ever watched the CNN

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve telecast? It's with Anderson Cooper, who's you know,

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Speaker 2: an anchor on CNN with Andy Cohen, who's the Bravo

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Speaker 2: TV guy. Have you seen him? No, he's the guy

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Speaker 2: that's got all the Real Housewives shows and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I gotta give it. The best part is they let

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Speaker 2: both these guys drink during the course of the night

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Speaker 2: on the telecast. Let me just tell you, by ten thirty,

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Speaker 2: it gets pretty entertaining.

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Speaker 3: That's great, it's pretty good show.

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Speaker 2: I will encourage you. I'll try to remind you next

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Speaker 2: year to watch those guys because they get some interesting

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Speaker 2: guests coming on and they're standing there right in Time

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Speaker 2: Square on giant platform. You know, Time Square is behind them.

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Speaker 3: And they're knocking it back just they're.

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Speaker 2: Doing shots with every new guest that comes in. Like

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Speaker 2: they're probably by about eleven o'clock, they're about five shots

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Speaker 4: Wow, it's there, you go.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say, it's pretty entertaining. So we just kind

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Speaker 2: of watch those guys and laughed at them all.

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Speaker 3: See, there's nothing nothing intrigues me about that anymore. I don't.

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Speaker 2: My son had a similar opinion. He's like, I don't

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Speaker 2: even know why New Year's Day is a holiday, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I get it, it's a mare turning in the calendar.

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Speaker 3: It's a universal marking of the time new beginnings, like

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Speaker 3: everybody else you know, marks another year off the calendar

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Speaker 3: at their birthday and stuff. But I think, Chris, I

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Speaker 4: A new year.

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Speaker 2: So when you're watching these telecasts waiting for the ball

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Speaker 2: to drop in Times Square, they're showing you places in

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Speaker 2: Europe where you know it's already New Year's Here, here's

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Speaker 2: what it looked like, you know, you know in London

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Speaker 2: out of the water because there is stuff going off

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Speaker 2: in every corner of this downtown area. Like it's not

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Speaker 2: like pooh boom, pooh boom, it's like pooh, like the finale,

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, half like the final finale of a

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Speaker 2: Fourth of July celebration.

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: I'm watched I'm going and it's going on for like

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because we we've kind of gotten ditionated by it.

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Speaker 3: The new the new fire works for the modern era

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Speaker 3: is the drone show. Yeah, that's the new kind of

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Speaker 3: doing fireworks, they do drone shows. There's some unbelievable drones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's all computer coordinator, of course. It's

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Speaker 2: it's nothing short of amazing. Like I saw one where

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Speaker 3: I saw another one of course in China that got

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Speaker 3: this huge, big dragon that's swimming in the sky and

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Speaker 3: it's one thing. It's it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: You've got to have several hundred of those things.

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Speaker 3: We've had scheduled for halftime of a Bills game a

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Speaker 3: couple of times, a drone show and kills.

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Speaker 2: It canceled at the last it was supposed to happen.

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Speaker 2: Can they do drone shows and domes? I would think

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Speaker 3: They do that? I mean, is that like? Is I

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Speaker 3: mean because I know there's all kinds of guess it would.

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Speaker 2: Depend on how many you're using, and you know.

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Speaker 3: What, the size of it. Would the size of them

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Speaker 2: I think if the dome has a scoreboard hanging in

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Speaker 2: Like Lucas Oil Stadium doesn't have a scoreboard in the middle.

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Speaker 3: probably might have to be smaller in scope, so far

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Speaker 3: you could do it.

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Speaker 2: I think it would have to be smaller in scope though,

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Speaker 2: because of your your hype constraints, so I may not

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Speaker 2: be able to use as many drones first, that's my point, though.

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Speaker 3: You could do it with tinier drones.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but are they as visible then that's.

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Speaker 3: All you got to turn the lights out?

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, but I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's I was surprised.

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Speaker 2: Did you want to see that?

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I'm surprised I didn't see more of that

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Speaker 2: I would imagine it's harder to pull off because your

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Speaker 2: you could have. I would think right size and scale,

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 3: You know, New Year's is always in January, so the

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Speaker 3: weather's iffy in the northern hemisphere.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is true.

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Speaker 3: Well anyway, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy New Year to everybody. I hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 2: yours safely. And uh, we got to jump right into

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Speaker 2: bills notes here because the bills were working yesterday even

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Speaker 2: though many of us were not. And I would say

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Speaker 2: the biggest news to come out of yesterday's injury update

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Speaker 2: is that Terrell Bernard is dealing with a quad injury,

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Speaker 2: your Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, and he is

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Speaker 2: not going to play on Sunday. Coach McDermott kind of

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Speaker 2: to play on Sunday and save him for the wildcard round.

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Speaker 2: Coach said he was kind of somewhere between day to

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Speaker 2: be good for the wildcard playoff game. We know how

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Speaker 2: next week. There were limited players coming out of yesterday's

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Speaker 2: walk through Practicejamar Hamlin, Cam Lewis, Taylor Rapp Curtis Samuel,

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Speaker 2: him up for the postseason. He's missed the last three games,

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Speaker 2: last few games with his rib injury, So hopefully those

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Speaker 2: guys are on the end and doing better. The other

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Speaker 2: Bills news, Steve Pro Bowl rosters are out and Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen and Dion Dawkins have been named to the Pro

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Speaker 2: Bowl as representatives of the Bills. Third Pro Bowl for Allen,

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Speaker 2: fourth for Dawkins, so congrats to them. Personally, I thought

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Speaker 2: there should have been a couple of more, but first

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Speaker 2: alternates for the Pro Bowl Connor McGovern, James Cook third

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Speaker 2: Reggie gilliam, Ed, Oliver Spencer Brown, and Dalton Kin Kate.

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Speaker 2: Now we all know about Pro Bowl snubs. Steve, I

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Speaker 2: think the easy one, the easy ones for the Bills. Like,

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Speaker 2: to me, you can make an argument for James Cook,

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Speaker 2: you know, as a starter for the Pro Bowl, he

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Speaker 2: was a first alternate. Okay, The problem I have with

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Speaker 2: that is Joe Mixon of the Houston Texans is a

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Speaker 2: starter on the Pro Bowl squad for the AFC. James

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Speaker 2: Cook is not right. First of all, Mixon missed about

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Speaker 2: a month of the season with an injury. Second, Cook's

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Speaker 2: yards per carry average is almost a full yard better

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Speaker 2: mixing total on the season seventeen to twelve. So somebody's

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Speaker 2: got to help me understand that one. And then Christian

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Speaker 2: Benfort's one of the better corners in the league. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go around the NFL presented by Kalida Healthy,

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Speaker 2: All right, David, we got to week eighteen here, and uh,

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Speaker 3: And that's the people don't understand too. They talk about,

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Speaker 3: lot You're fifty to fifty run pass a lot of time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: give us an idea of is there something about that?

436
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 3: I mean, what causes that to be a trend rather

437
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 3: than just an aberration.

438
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

439
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 6: I think it goes to learning how to play with

440
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 6: each other. I think once you understand how guys want

441
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 6: to hit blocks and communication within that, and then also

442
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 6: we've got some great coaches with coach Cromer, Coach Gunn

443
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 6: and Mellie to to be able to put us in

444
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 6: great positions and the run in the pass and then

445
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 6: guys understanding like how to play I think is huge.

446
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 6: So I credit a lot of the you know, knock

447
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 6: on wood right, us staying healthy to those things.

448
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've all been stumping for Josh for league MVP here,

449
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 2: and you know for good reason. I mean he's breaking records,

450
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 2: historic records, not just single season records every single week.

451
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: I have a part two to this question, but the

452
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: part one is it's evident in your room the level

453
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 2: of admiration you have for his play and his leadership.

454
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 2: But what do you think is not known about Josh

455
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: the player that isn't readily evident by watching him play

456
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: that would make him you know worthy. Besides his ridiculous skill.

457
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 6: Set, I think what you see on the field, the

458
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 6: guys you know, specifically us up front and even the

459
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 6: whole offense, he has a relationship with each guy.

460
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 4: He's got a handshake with each guy.

461
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 6: That's real, that's genuine, that makes people want to play

462
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 6: for you and play hard for you, and so you know,

463
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 6: he's he's like, he's the first guy, you know, when

464
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,959
Speaker 6: other guys have success to to give you, you know,

465
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 6: your credit and.

466
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 4: Talk about life outside of football. He just does such

467
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 4: a great job of form.

468
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 6: And genuine, real relationships with each person on the offense,

469
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 6: on the defense. And I think that's, you know, such

470
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 6: a such an admirable trait for him as the quarterback,

471
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 6: the leader of our football team.

472
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 2: And you guys are obviously a big part of this,

473
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 2: because this thing doesn't go without you guys up front.

474
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: But when you see his scoring prowess, I mean, I

475
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: saw our PR department put this stat out last week

476
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 2: or earlier this week, I can't remember. What the holiday

477
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 2: where it said Josh has already set the record for

478
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: most total touchdowns for quarterbacks in their first eight seasons

479
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 2: and he's still in his seventh season. I mean, he's

480
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: like the Michael Jordan of the NFL when it comes

481
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: to scoring.

482
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 3: I mean, do you.

483
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 2: Marvel at like just the scoring proficiency and you guys

484
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 2: have been a super productive offense all year, but I

485
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 2: mean he's obviously at the front line of that.

486
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that anytime like with Josh, his ability

487
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 6: to beat you with all three parts of a quarterback,

488
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 6: his feet, his arm, in his mind, you know, always

489
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 6: have the chance to score and score a lot of points.

490
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 4: And he just he just.

491
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 6: Does such a great job, whether it's in protection or

492
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 6: passing or running, getting us in and out of right plays,

493
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 6: making plays downfield, seeing stuff past you know, maybe the

494
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 6: first few seconds of the snap. He's just such an

495
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 6: incredible player. And you know, to your point, like the

496
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 6: Michael Jordan are scoring, he just does everything for us.

497
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 3: That's really what it's been about for Josh. I mean

498
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 3: you can say even last year when he had all

499
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 3: those numbers and he had the he had eighteen interceptions

500
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 3: and all it. Bill's fan nobody ever complained about his

501
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 3: inter because he scored so much.

502
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 2: And that's been he's the guys that he came out

503
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 2: of head.

504
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 3: He's just thinking he's a touchdown factory, and he really

505
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 3: has been since the beginning. And that's really the thing

506
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: that has been the whole mark of this team. You

507
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 3: guys are set a franchise record for scoring, and you

508
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 3: got forty points in three of the last four games.

509
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it has really been crescendoed here at

510
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 3: the end of the season. Can you feel that when

511
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 3: you're preparing, when you're getting to the end of the season,

512
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 3: when you're coming into these games, can you feel that

513
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 3: momentum and that kind of output on the horizon or

514
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 3: is it just kind of let's take it one play

515
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 3: at a time.

516
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 4: I think it's a little bit of both.

517
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 6: I think that there's confidence in the past the games

518
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 6: that you've played, you've scored those points. But there's also

519
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 6: the mentality of the past really doesn't affect the future.

520
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 6: So you know, we try to take a mentality of

521
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 6: having a one play, you know, one game at a

522
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 6: time type mentality. But the thing that I think has

523
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 6: been cool is we've been able to run the ball

524
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,719
Speaker 6: well in some games, throw the ball well in some games.

525
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 6: And when we've had those great scoring output type games,

526
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 6: we've been able to run and throw it really well.

527
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 6: So but again it starts with with us having that

528
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 6: you know, that one play, one game mentality week to week.

529
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

530
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 2: Okay, So we've had James Cook in here, we've had

531
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 2: Ray Davis in here, and they have both confirmed this

532
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 2: for me because a little birdie told me that. In

533
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 2: the huddle during games, David Edwards provides a little bit

534
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: of a chief code to running backs on run plays

535
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: in the huddle such as, Hey, guys, it's going to

536
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: open up here in the big gap, so make sure

537
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: you're looking for that, because that's where it's going to

538
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: open up.

539
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 3: Now.

540
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 2: The question I need to ask you is are you

541
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: calling these things like from the jump or are using

542
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 2: are you using in game intel as the game wears

543
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: on to say this is where it's going to open up,

544
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: guys because they can't they can't block it up or

545
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 2: fill up the gap or whatever the case might be.

546
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 2: How do you what is your process to being a

547
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: suit sayer as to where the run plays opening.

548
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 6: I definitely don't think of that but we we do

549
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 6: such a great job on the on the sideline of

550
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 6: communicating with the backs, the receivers, the quarterbacks, tight ends

551
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 6: of how we're seeing stuff, how they're seeing stuff, and

552
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 6: by the end of the game or within you know,

553
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 6: a drive or we're able to have conversations like that, Yeah, hey,

554
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 6: this is what they're showing right now that maybe is

555
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 6: different than what we saw on tape and what we

556
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 6: prepared for. So you know, the credit's got to go

557
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 6: to those backs and and you know, receivers and tight

558
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 6: ends to be able to you know, put us and

559
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 6: make us look good, you know, when we block it

560
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 6: a certain way. But it's it's more a conversation, you know,

561
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 6: play to player.

562
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 3: Drive to drive gives an idea about the vibe in

563
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: the locker room about a game that's coming up this

564
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 3: weekend that doesn't mean anything in the standings. Still got

565
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: to play it, still want to win it, but you're

566
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 3: really posturing for the playoffs.

567
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, And it starts with coach McDermott.

568
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 6: And our coach is doing such a great job of

569
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 6: putting an emphasis on our process and how we win.

570
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 6: You know, I feel like we're still going to go

571
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 6: in there with a great mentality no matter who's playing

572
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 6: and the competitors that we have on our team.

573
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 4: I don't I don't feel like.

574
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 6: There's the thought of this isn't this isn't a game

575
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 6: that we're trying to win or meaningless, like we're going

576
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 6: in there trying to win this game and compete and

577
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 6: and play to the to the level and standard standard

578
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 6: that we know.

579
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: Last one for me, so we know the jumbo package

580
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: has been part of this off and since you were

581
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: the sixth man so to speak, last year, and now

582
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: Alec Anderson has inherited that as you've moved into the

583
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 2: starting lineup. I don't know if I could pick two

584
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 2: more different personalities. Not to say that you don't play

585
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: with an edge, David, you do, But Alex a little

586
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: off kilter when he steps in between the lines. What

587
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: can you tell me about what happens to him between

588
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: being the jovial guy we see off the field and

589
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 2: turning into an absolute maniac on the field. What the

590
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: heck goes on?

591
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 4: That's a good I don't know.

592
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 6: He we we joke, Like you know, Alec has has

593
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 6: such a great ability to turn it on and off

594
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 6: when he's on the field, between the lines, he's almost

595
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 6: a different guy.

596
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 4: Yeah in some ways.

597
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 6: But off the field, such an incredible, incredible teammate and

598
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 6: guy that you just love being around. But I don't

599
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 6: know what gets into him on game day, but it's

600
00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 6: always fun to see.

601
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

602
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 2: I borrowed one of Steve's lines during the broadcast last

603
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 2: week because I said, if Alec Anderson is not in

604
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: the fight, he's on the way.

605
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 4: That's right.

606
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 3: And I was gonna ask you about that. You that

607
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: it's a thing you got your team has, and I

608
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 3: was we were talking to McDermott this morning about you know,

609
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: you've got to have guys who, yeah, they don't let's

610
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 3: mix it up a little, I don't care. And because

611
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 3: there's some guys in your team that can't afford to

612
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 3: do all that. You like, Josh can't go in and

613
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 3: start swinging Haymakers, and you know that you don't want

614
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 3: James Cook doing that or Maury Cooper, but you do

615
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 3: have gotta have somebody who's in there going, yeah, give

616
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: me some And that's because you got to be able

617
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 3: to say that to the other team that you're not

618
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 3: gonna you're not gonna let him do that, and like,

619
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 3: my question is how many guys you really need like that?

620
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 3: And you got to have him on both sides of

621
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: the ball, right, and so like, give us, give me

622
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 3: a short list of guys who are like, first guys in,

623
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 3: last guys out offensively.

624
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, starts with Alec. Close second is going to be

625
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 6: Dion Okay, yeah, yeah, that's true. And then a close

626
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 6: third is gonna be Spencer.

627
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

628
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: Dat Collins doesn't seem too shy about chirping people.

629
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 4: Mac would be in there too. Max would be in

630
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 4: the mix for sure. Yeah.

631
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 3: What about on offensive? You know, you'd have to you know,

632
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 3: what about on the defensive side? Are there guys that

633
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: you know are like oh yeah, yeah.

634
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think TV would be in there to Bernard

635
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 6: uh Taylor Rap, I feel like would.

636
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 3: Kind of it would like to get kind of fits

637
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: as well.

638
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 4: Yep.

639
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 3: And I'll say this to you. The list doesn't need

640
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 3: to be really long, no, and it's but it's got

641
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 3: to be a list that you have.

642
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

643
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: Absolutely, It's it's fun to watch, you know, it's it's

644
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 3: fun to go out and compete. And like you say,

645
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 3: in a game like this coming up this weekend, that

646
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 3: doesn't you know it doesn't have anything to do with

647
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 3: the standings.

648
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: The guys in the lockerroom don't have that off switch.

649
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: Let's go. Yeah, we're gonna line up, We're gonna keep scoring. Okay,

650
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: we're gonna win.

651
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

652
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 6: I don't think there's any you know, difference in when

653
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 6: you put your helmet on and your between the white lions.

654
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 4: I think you're rolling. So you know, the mentality isn't

655
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 4: gonna change.

656
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 3: I don't think That's the one thing that a lot

657
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: of fans don't understand, certainly a lot of guys in

658
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 3: the media don't understand, is the competitive nature the guys

659
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 3: who have to play. You have to have to play

660
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 3: the game, yep, and let somebody else worry about the standings. Sure,

661
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna win, no half stuff. Yeah, there's no half,

662
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 3: no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: It is time now for this week's tim Bits Time Out,

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Speaker 2: presented by of course Tim Horton's, where we have the

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00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: fans submit questions unique or otherwise for the people that

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Speaker 2: visit us here in studios. So this week's question comes

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00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 2: from Josh, who asks how much does it hurt to

668
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: have Josh fall on you every time they do a

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00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 2: sneak player. He's always following the you do you can't

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00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: puff your chest out a little bit? He runs over

671
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: me every time. I mean, there's the reason for that.

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00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: Does it hurt? Is the question?

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00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 4: Sometimes?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Uh, you gotta have a like a mental clock

675
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 6: in your head on when you have to kind of

676
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 6: flatten your your feeds and your you know, arms and

677
00:34:59,120 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 6: stuff too.

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00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 2: Just turned into a seal exactly right, right, Yeah, that's key.

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00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 2: So it's just like surge and then maybe one Mississippi

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00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 2: to Mississippi drop.

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00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: Exactly torpedo it, you know, yeah, that's and give it it.

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00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 3: It is what it looks like for fans out there

683
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 3: who don't know, and it likes, wow, they're just pushing.

684
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 3: It is rough down inside there because you got guys

685
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 3: are falling and they try to brace themselves, like put

686
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: their knee down to brace themselves, or their elbow their

687
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 3: army and sticking into somebody as they fall because they're

688
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 3: you know, it's rough.

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00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:30,479
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: My thought is just to uncoil basically all my power

691
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 6: through my hips and my feet while my feet I

692
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 6: really don't try to move my feet that much and

693
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 6: then try to get as much surge on whoever's inside

694
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Speaker 6: or outside as you can.

695
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, super successful play. You can't knock it.

696
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 2: You can't knock it.

697
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 3: When it takes that long. Is when it takes that

698
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 3: long to unstack those piles, you know, it's rough.

699
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 2: Well, that's the amazing thing that Josh is able being

700
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 2: such a big person. He's got to make himself those

701
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 2: kinds of situations while still being powerful. And I can't

702
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 2: imagine that's too easy when you're six foot five and

703
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: almost two hundred and fifty pounds. So kudos to you

704
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 2: guys up front, and tudos to him for making that

705
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: such a successful Go lazy guys, when you're in short yard, it's.

706
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 3: Just like trying to fit a pig through a not hole. Yeah,

707
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 3: it's just there's a little space in there.

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00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 2: Kansas farming turns over here.

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00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there you go.

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Speaker 2: David, thanks for stopping in. We appreciate the conversation as always.

711
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: Please stay healthy the rest of the way here and

712
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: good luck this week and into the postseason.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's David Edwards, Bill's left guard here joining

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Speaker 2: us in studio on when Bill's Live. We'll take a

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, mister Tasker.

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Speaker 2: This week's winner is Stephanie, who asks Tuesday was the

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Speaker 2: seven year anniversary or the seventeen year playoff drought and

734
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 2: the video at that emotional moment in the locker room

735
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 2: was all over social media. What is your favorite locker

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00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: room celebration memory?

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00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: My favorite locker room celebration. Memory was a regular season

738
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 3: game in nineteen ninety. I've told this story before, so

739
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 3: forgive me if you've heard it. I Our team had

740
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 3: not been to a super Bowl yet, and it was

741
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 3: the season we were going to head to our first one.

742
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 3: But we didn't know. So nobody really and our team

743
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 3: knew what it took to get to a super Bowl, right.

744
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 3: You don't know how good you have to be, or

745
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 3: what it's got to happen, or what it's going to

746
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 3: be like going through the playoffs. We've been a playoff

747
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 3: team before, of course, but so we're going into New

748
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 3: York City to play the Giants. The Giants were eleven

749
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 3: and to the Bills. The Buffalo Bills were eleven and

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00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 3: two and week fifteen of the regular season. Both teams

751
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 3: had had a bye week, so we were both eleven

752
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 3: and two thirteen games. This was week fifty and we

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00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: beat them seventeen fourteen. And after that game, because we

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00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 3: had we had obviously had a ton of respect for

755
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 3: that Giants team. They were coached by Bill Parcells. You know,

756
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: they had gosh, they had Bill Belichick on that staff.

757
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 3: Tom Coughlin was on that staff. They were really well coached.

758
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 3: We lost Jim Kelly early in that game to a

759
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: foot to a knee injury, and Phil Simms, the Giant quarterback,

760
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 3: got put out and Jeff Hosteler finished the game and

761
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 3: we beat him on their own field late in the season,

762
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 3: and of course since six weeks later or whatever it

763
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 3: was later, we played him in the Super Bowl and

764
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Speaker 3: they won twenty to nineteen. That because I remember this too.

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Speaker 3: The thing I remember most is our coaching staff knew it,

766
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,959
Speaker 3: knew how good we were just as much as we did,

767
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 3: and I think it meant something to them. I remember

768
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 3: Teddy Marshabroda how happy he was after that game, and

769
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: Eli Pitt's nick nickolole we we It was just a

770
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 3: really really jovial and happy locker room because I think

771
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: that was the first time our team, who was about

772
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: to go to four straight Super Bowls, it was the

773
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Speaker 3: first time they thought, yeah, we really are we do

774
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 3: have a chance at this. And I think that was

775
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 3: a real moment for that franchise and that that group

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00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 3: of guys. That's a good one. Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 2: So that locker room, like people. It was tiny old

778
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 2: metal lands, right, yeah.

779
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 3: The old meadowlands, and uh, there's just no room in

780
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 3: some of those old locker rooms. And you know, we

781
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 3: you know, players are always like yeah yeah, and it's

782
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 3: like it it's kind of a lot like it is

783
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 3: now where you know, Mark Seann McDermott comes out and

784
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 3: you can see it on the on the website where

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00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 3: you know, he comes out and gives a little speech

786
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Speaker 3: to the guys and stuff like that. I don't remember

787
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Speaker 3: what Marv said. I don't even know if he said

788
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 3: anything because there was no place to say it.

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Speaker 2: Right, right, but usually speak after right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure they I'm sure there was. But I'll

791
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: say this man that our coaching staff was absolutely thrilled

792
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 3: with us that we won that game, and that really

793
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: meant something to us because we had we had we

794
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 3: had a lot of dudes in that Teddy Marsha Broda

795
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 3: could should as a Hall of Fame kind of coach.

796
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 3: Eli pitts Uh, you know, Tom Bresnahan, Marv Walt Corey,

797
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 3: you know my buddy Chubbs who chuck Lester, Chuck Lester,

798
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 3: Dick Roach, you know, I just those guys. It was

799
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Speaker 3: a it was a moment where those guys were they

800
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 3: knew they had really got us, and we were we

801
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: were they they had a heck of a football team

802
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: and they were in large measure a reason why it

803
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: was pretty cool. So that was that was just a

804
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 3: regular season game. It was better. That was a I

805
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 3: remember that. I'm more joyous than even the AFC Championships

806
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 3: we won. Yeah, I mean they were all happy, but

807
00:41:59,120 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 3: you know, it's different.

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00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 2: Do you remember it all If they were billing that

809
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 2: as a Super Bowl preview the way we kind of

810
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 2: heard it with Bill's Lions this year, yeah, because it

811
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: would make sense with both teams eleven and two.

812
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was late in the season. Yeah, both we

813
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 3: were both of them were headed to the one seed

814
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 3: or the two seat anyway, and and uh there was

815
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 3: a little bit of that. Plus we were in New

816
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 3: York as well, so it was big. So the New

817
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: York heype machine was all over it as well. And

818
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 3: it was kind of a rainy, cold, wet weather day,

819
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 3: and and both teams were rolling in there. It was Yeah,

820
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 3: it was a big, big game, and I think that's

821
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 3: why it was more joyous. And the joy was so

822
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 3: ran so deep in that locker rooms because it wasn't

823
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 3: AFC Championship where there was nine thousand people in the

824
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 3: locker room. There was you know, cameras and media and

825
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 3: all that stuff. There was none of that. It was

826
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Speaker 3: just an old regular, old season, regular season game and

827
00:42:53,560 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 3: it was just us. Yeah, and it was pretty cool. Yeah,

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00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: All right. Well that is excuse me, mister Tasker. And

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Speaker 2: that was a good one. Good question there by, Stephanie,

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Speaker 2: so well done in congratulations. Keep an eye out for

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00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: your mystery box showing up for winning. Excuse me, mister Tasker. Uh,

833
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: we did have a topic of discussion today and we

834
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 2: haven't even thrown it out there yet. It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 2: Which seventh seed do you want to see in the

836
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: playoffs square off against your bills next week? There are

837
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Speaker 2: three possibilities, in case you don't know, Denver, Miami, or Cincinnati.

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00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 2: Those are the three possibilities for the seventh seed, depending

839
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 2: on how the games play out this weekend. Simple question.

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00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: You give us your answer at eight oh three zho

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00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: five point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two

842
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: five fifty the number to get on board. I know

843
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: a lot has been made in the media about Cincinnati. Oh,

844
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: you don't want to face that team. Ah, you don't

845
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 2: want to and I get it. I mean, they're a

846
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 2: number one passing offense in the league.

847
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 3: Tell them how I I've been reacting to all that

848
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 3: you said.

849
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: You don't care because they're not gonna make it anyway,

850
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 2: and they need the most help. We know that because

851
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 2: they need Denver and Miami to lose. I don't care

852
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 2: if they have to win. I don't care if they

853
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 2: do make it. They're not good.

854
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 3: They lost eight times this year. They're not that, they're

855
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 3: not good enough. They scored. I was watching highlights today

856
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 3: as Cincinnati. Man, they've got two aliens playing wide out

857
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 3: and Joe Burrow knows how to get it to him.

858
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 3: I'll say this, and Joe's very good. We watched this

859
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 3: highlight thing for two minutes. It's like, I don't know,

860
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 3: you don't have to be that good playing with those

861
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: two jokers on the outside. They got weapons, he's got weapons.

862
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 3: They don't run the ball not well. So in a

863
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 3: lot of ways, they're a better match up for us

864
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 3: than other teams.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe, uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm.

866
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 3: I don't care about the Cincinnati Bengals. They can get

867
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 3: in if they want. We'll take them, all right, take

868
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 3: that matchup.

869
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if people preferred facing the rookie

870
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: quarterback Bo Nicks. You know, first NFL playoffs start, all

871
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: that stuff. I mean, he's got a Super Bowl winning

872
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 2: coach on the sideline helping him in Sean Payton. Yeah,

873
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 2: that's not nothing. And their defense is very good. They

874
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 2: lead the league in sacks with fifty eight. That's a

875
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 2: fat number with a game to still play. Fifty eight sacks.

876
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 3: That's a big number. That is a big, big number.

877
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 2: And I think it speaks to the coverage they get

878
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 2: on the back end with that crew led by Patrick Sartan.

879
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Speaker 3: Yep.

880
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 2: Because they've had some bad injuries. They lost one of

881
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 2: their middle linebackers to a season ending knee injury, and

882
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: they just keep on keeping on. So Sean Payton has

883
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 2: kind of turned that thing around in his second season

884
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 2: and he's got his quarterback at the future now in Knicks.

885
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean I wouldn't mind facing that guy

886
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 2: in his first playoff start, because we know coach McDermott's

887
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 2: history against rookie quarterbacks.

888
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 4: It's good.

889
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: It's almost the point now though, Bo Nixon in the

890
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 3: rookie anymore. I mean he's the end of his first year.

891
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 3: He's seen a lot already. After this game, he won't

892
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 3: be a rookie anymore. Well, yeah, I get it, so

893
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 3: but I but yes, in this environment. But the thing

894
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 3: that gets me is they they've got a defense that's

895
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 3: really good. And the one thing the Bills need to

896
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 3: do and they need to score points and outstretch these guys.

897
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 3: That's their recipe. I think he got The Bills have

898
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: got to get on the board, be efficient offensively, and

899
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 3: just ask their defense to make enough plays to give

900
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 3: him the ball back once or twice and then get

901
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 3: that many and scores ahead. That's the recipe for the

902
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 3: Bills this year, and Denver seems like the hardest team

903
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 3: to do that against right now.

904
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, their defense isn't quite as dominant as

905
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 2: it was early and middle part of the season, but

906
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: they're still darn good. And as we've said before, in

907
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: the playoffs, defense travels. Yes, if you have a good defense,

908
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 2: that usually holds up whether you're home or on the road.

909
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: Defense in the NFL playoffs history has kind of proven

910
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: that good defense all season long, that defense will travel

911
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: even if you're on the road. In the postseason, we

912
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Speaker 2: have to step aside here because when we come back,

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Speaker 2: we are going to get the final ultimate fantasy lineup

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Speaker 2: of the season, provided of course by ESPN NFL insider

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Speaker 2: and Fantasy football analyst Field Yates. He joins us next

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Speaker 2: here on One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health. It's

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live presented by Calllida Health.

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Speaker 2: All right, our number two here on a Thursday, and

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Speaker 2: for the last time this season, it is time to

921
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Speaker 2: give you your Week eighteen ultimate Fantasy lineup. And here

922
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Speaker 2: to do the honors for you is the guy that's

923
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Speaker 2: been doing it all season long, ESPN NFL Insider, fantasy

924
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Speaker 2: football analyst and host of ESPN's Fantasy Focus Live. It

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Speaker 2: is none other than Field Yates. Happy New Year, Field,

926
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Speaker 2: how are you, gentlemen?

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Speaker 7: Happy New Year.

928
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 8: I'm doing great, you know, very disappointed this is the

929
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Speaker 8: last time, but grateful for whatever number of years we

930
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Speaker 8: had the opportunity to do this together in an evolving

931
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Speaker 8: media space.

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Speaker 7: It's always an honor to speak with the two.

933
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Speaker 8: You stand for all the right things and do things

934
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Speaker 8: the right way. Wow, give one of the best teams

935
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Speaker 8: you guys. You know this is not hot take time

936
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 8: machine when I come on here. This isn't the let's

937
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 8: yell and let's let's call out you know the coach.

938
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 8: Let's let's talk about football and have some fun. We're

939
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 8: very fortunate to do.

940
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 4: What we do.

941
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,959
Speaker 8: And you know, the Bills are amongst the best teams

942
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Speaker 8: in the NFL, and uh, you know they deserve a

943
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Speaker 8: plus coverage and you guys bring it daily. So I'm

944
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Speaker 8: sure Bill's fans feel similarly to that. I do as

945
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 8: to how I do about you guys. So I was

946
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Speaker 8: always someone.

947
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Speaker 2: Did Joy Harris put you up to that? Someone's New

948
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Speaker 2: Year's resolution was to throw bouquets willingly at anyone and

949
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 2: everyone who comes in contact with That's.

950
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Speaker 3: That's nice to appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: For that, I should tell everybody j for my PayPal

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955
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Speaker 2: So with that in mind, the thinking has to change

956
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Speaker 2: a little bit here this week, Field, because you've got

957
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: some teams that are still you know, all guns and

958
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 2: play and others that are sitting people down. So you

959
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: begin with a team that is very much in the

960
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 2: thick of a race here at the very end of

961
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 2: the season.

962
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Speaker 4: With your quarterback.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's kind of the crux of this week in

964
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 8: general and Week eighteen, as you're trying to identify players

965
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 8: that probably have a solid role in the mount lot.

966
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 8: Michael Pennick Junior from the Falcons is going to play because,

967
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 8: as you alluded to, ran at any to win and

968
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Speaker 8: have the Buccaneers lose in order to get into the playoffs.

969
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 8: They're amongst the most disappointing teams of the season. I

970
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 8: believe that Atlanta they had a cupcake schedule and they

971
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 8: basically fell flat on their face when they meant anybody

972
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 8: who was any good. But they saw the chance that

973
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 8: Michael Pennix Junior has not had a great start to

974
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 8: his career fantasy wise. But you know, we saw some

975
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 8: stuff late in that game last week against the Commanders.

976
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 8: I think everybody will rightly point to that fourth down

977
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 8: throw and it got to have a situation late in

978
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 8: the fourth quarter and that was a big time throw.

979
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 8: But it's a big time matchup as well as the

980
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 8: Panthers are a not as bad as you'll see defensively

981
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 8: in the entire NFL. Moreover, this team last week quarterback

982
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,760
Speaker 8: who did not need to run at all, in Baker

983
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 8: Mayfield have a monster day. Pass isn't going to run,

984
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 8: but they Mayfield showed that you can get the job

985
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 8: done just by throwing for about three hundred yards and

986
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,760
Speaker 8: five touchdowns like Baker did last Sunday.

987
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 3: And then you got a Buffalo bill on this which is,

988
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 3: you know, kind of nice, but also it's an interesting

989
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 3: name because then when you say, when you tell people

990
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:25,919
Speaker 3: who you've got it running by one of your first

991
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 3: running backs here, people go, oh, yeah, I get it.

992
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, Ray Davis, who I anticipate is going to have

993
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 8: some sort of role on Sunday. You mean, you can

994
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 8: only make seven players inactive, and one of them's got

995
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 8: to be an emergency quarterback. So I don't think we'll

996
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 8: see a Tom James Cook no reason to Seventeen touchdowns

997
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 8: for James, by the way, most amongst all NFL players

998
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 8: this season. That should count for something that might be

999
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 8: like Pro Bowl good, right, I would think, But maybe

1000
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 8: not apparently according to the rosters that were released earlier

1001
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 8: on today. But Ray Davis should see a decent amount

1002
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 8: of work on Sunday. You know, I think we'll probably

1003
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 8: see some with Kay Johnson. You know, they're going to

1004
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 8: be back to squad elevations all over the NFL that

1005
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 8: will impact roles. I don't think the Bills are going

1006
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 8: to be going full throttle this Sunday in terms of

1007
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 8: emptying out the playbook with their best and most innovative

1008
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 8: designs and things of that nature. And it'll be a

1009
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 8: conservative game plan, I would imagine. But someone's got a

1010
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 8: little rock and I think that'll be Ray, who obviously

1011
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 8: has become a big part of this offense. But James

1012
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 8: being the clear cut starter probably leads me to believe that,

1013
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 8: like Josh, he'll be on a game management plan on

1014
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 8: Sunday in New England.

1015
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 2: And then your other running back is another guy who's

1016
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 2: typically played a backup role to Kien Williams.

1017
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's Blake Corum, who you know, I'm not a

1018
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 8: hard time to figure out exactly what the role is

1019
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 8: going to be or for Blake on the surface and

1020
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 8: say to yourself, it's going to play a lot, because

1021
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 8: Kien Williams is hardly going to play at all, and

1022
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 8: he is the number two running back. However, There's also

1023
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 8: the possibility that he's become too important to them because

1024
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 8: their back build is so thin beyond him that the

1025
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 8: Rams almost feel like he is their twenty third starter,

1026
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 8: so to speak. Despite that, I could he hardly plays

1027
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 8: so kind of similar category and that somebody has to

1028
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 8: lead the backfield and touches. I do think that'll be

1029
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 8: Blake Korhum. Maybe he won't get twenty five touches on Sunday,

1030
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 8: but enough to pay off at a very modest price

1031
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 8: point of just fifty five hundred dollars. Basically if he

1032
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 8: finds the end zone and has a decent day rush

1033
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 8: and you're gonna pay off that price tag there. So

1034
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 8: Blake Krum I think we all like as a player,

1035
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 8: third round pick this past year from Michigan, had led

1036
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 8: the fps and touchdowns a season ago, could find the

1037
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 8: end zone against Seattle on Sunday.

1038
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 3: And then a little bit more traditional with your wide

1039
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 3: receiving corps you've got, you're gonna pound the matchup with

1040
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 3: the Vikings and the Lions and go ahead and spend

1041
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 3: money there too.

1042
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 8: Yeah. Again, this game means well everything, right, I mean,

1043
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 8: this is a huge, huge matchup. It's for everything in

1044
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 8: the NFC. So let's start with Jordan Addison, who has

1045
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 8: been really big the Vikings of late. This game means

1046
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 8: everything in the sense that the winner gets the number

1047
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,760
Speaker 8: one seed in the first round by but Jordan Adison

1048
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 8: for the Vikings has been really, really good. And you know,

1049
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 8: you guys have seen this Lion's defense recently, you know

1050
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 8: that it's very, very estimated by injuries. They have just

1051
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 8: been completely ravaged and everybody's playing hurt right now. I'm

1052
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 8: not trying to say that other teams aren't dealing with injuries,

1053
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 8: but Detroit has been especially hard, been hit especially hard

1054
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,439
Speaker 8: on defense. And Ian Hutchinson a long time ago.

1055
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 7: But Ali McNeil, their.

1056
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 8: Pro Bowl level player amongst the defensive front also out.

1057
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 8: They've had all kinds of injuries and all three levels

1058
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 8: Ennish Rakestraw, junior second round pick cornerback has been injured.

1059
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 8: So Jordan have a big day. We've seen a lot

1060
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 8: of passing against this Lions team of late Mike Evans,

1061
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 8: who kind of needs no explanation. For the Buccaneers, he's

1062
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 8: priced at eighty nine hundred bucks. Keep in mind, and

1063
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 8: I know that the Bucks need to win on Sunday,

1064
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 8: but their quarterback, Baker Mayfield said yesterday that in order

1065
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 8: for Mike Evans to get to one thousand receiving yards,

1066
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 8: which would require eighty some odd yards and Sunday, the

1067
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 8: Bucks are probably gonna win. If they get to that number,

1068
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 8: They're going to win. And the reality for Mike and

1069
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 8: that team is that they understand the importance of that

1070
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 8: one thousand yard streak. Literally nobody has ever had a

1071
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 8: longer streak of one thousand yard seasons to begin their

1072
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 8: career than Mike Evans. Well, I'm sure the team is

1073
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 8: more focused on winning the division championship. Getting that number

1074
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 8: one thousand for Mike Evans probably means a lot as well.

1075
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 8: And finally, right back to this Minnesota and Detroit game,

1076
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 8: Justin Jefferson again, really no explanation needed. Pretty Much everything

1077
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 8: I said about Justin Jordan Madison applies to Justin Jefferson,

1078
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 8: just at a higher level. Right, A better player usually

1079
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 8: even more targets than Jordan Madison, you know, special special force.

1080
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 8: I would not be surprised if the final concluding regular

1081
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 8: season game of this upcoming of this NFL regular season

1082
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 8: is the most fascinating and fighting because the Lions defense

1083
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 8: really ampered. This Vikings offense played really really well. Meanwhile,

1084
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 8: as you guys know, the Lions offense can move with

1085
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 8: all effectively against pretty much anybody. So Jefferson, yes, it's

1086
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,959
Speaker 8: a big price tag at ninety five hundred dollars. Because

1087
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 8: you're getting some good value at running back, you have

1088
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 8: an opportunity to pay up at wide receiver.

1089
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 2: And that's probably why you turn right back around and

1090
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 2: pick a Lions tight end and go right back to

1091
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 2: go right back to your New Orleans Tampa Bay matchup

1092
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 2: as well with your flex spot.

1093
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 8: Yep, that's right, So let's go back to Sama Porta

1094
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 8: and tight end for the Lions. And he's been good

1095
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 8: of lake guys, obviously a very outd player, guy who

1096
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 8: was a breakout players a rookie last year at ten

1097
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 8: receiving touchdowns amongst all NFL tight ends, like he was

1098
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 8: going to be a focal point of this Lions offense

1099
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 8: coming into this year. Hasn't been the case, in part

1100
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 8: because they were running the football so effectively early on

1101
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 8: this season. But Jared goff is on this basically half

1102
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 8: season or one third of a season heater right now,

1103
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 8: and Laport had really benefited from the absence of David

1104
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 8: Montgomery in my mind, nothing. They don't want to have

1105
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 8: Montgomery out there. But when you don't have arguably the

1106
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 8: best finisher maybe not named Derrick Henry or Josh Allen

1107
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 8: in short yardedge situations and the entire NFL Jalen hurts

1108
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 8: as well, you've got a chance to throw the football,

1109
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 8: which Detroit has done. Orida has been red hot over

1110
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 8: the past handful of games here, so get him in there,

1111
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 8: and then Jalen McMillan, the other player you're referring to, Brownie,

1112
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 8: who has been excellent for the Bucks of late. He's

1113
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 8: got six touchdowns in his last four games. He's the

1114
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 8: number two wide receiver. With Mike Evans back and fully healthy,

1115
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 8: and the Saints team another one that's been hit really

1116
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 8: hard by injuries, they should be able to move the

1117
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 8: football effectively. And Baker Mayfield, believe it or not, now

1118
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 8: leads all NFL quarterbacks and touchdown passes over the past

1119
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 8: two seasons. There's another guy, he's number seventeen for the

1120
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 8: team up in Buffalo, that leads the NFL in total

1121
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 8: touchdowns over the past two seasons, that of course being

1122
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 8: Josh Allen. However, Baker Mayfield has been excellent through the

1123
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 8: air during that same stretch, So Jalen McMillan has really

1124
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 8: benefited from that heater of a two stretch that Baker

1125
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 8: Mayfield's been on of late.

1126
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 3: And this the defense of Tennessee Titans taking on the

1127
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 3: Houston Texas, a Houston Texas playoff team. But they're four

1128
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 3: to six over their last ten and are headed in

1129
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 3: the wrong direction on a two game losing streak. Do

1130
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 3: you think that and they're not. I don't think they

1131
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 3: can affect their seating with this. They're locked into the four.

1132
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 3: So this is a bad team who are also sitting team,

1133
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 3: sitting people.

1134
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 8: That's sort of what I'm expecting is that even if

1135
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 8: you do get that Texans offense right now, do they

1136
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 8: really scary that much?

1137
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 4: Guys?

1138
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 8: You know, Tennessee has been amongst the stingiest pass defenses

1139
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 8: in the entire NFL. You guys saw this team early

1140
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 8: on the season. They actually are okay, you know, okay

1141
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 8: is an appropriate term, I believe, but they've been good

1142
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 8: in terms of limiting opposing passing games, and well, Damiko

1143
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 8: Ryans has been saying throughout the week they expect their

1144
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 8: guys to play, just not totally positive that's going to

1145
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 8: be the case. I wouldn't be surprised if Texans either

1146
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 8: begin the game with their starters and the yank them

1147
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 8: after a quarter, or maybe not play them at all,

1148
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 8: maybe play them at half. I don't know. I just

1149
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 8: have a hard time buying into the notion that you're

1150
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 8: going to play them a full game when there is

1151
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 8: nothing to play for. Obviously, they want to build some

1152
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 8: momentum after a really, really bad stretch. You guys were

1153
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 8: alluding to that being said, I also see a team

1154
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 8: that's lost Nico Collins, excuse me, has lost Tank Dell

1155
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 8: and Stefan Dig's injury. They had Nico Collins on IR

1156
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 8: for about a five game or five week stretch earlier.

1157
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 8: They've had some offensive line issues. I might be more

1158
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 8: motivated to try to get out of this game healthy

1159
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 8: or as healthy as you can be, and hope that

1160
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 8: you catch lightning in a bottle. Ravens came in slow

1161
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 8: and won the Super Bowl the year that Joe Flacco

1162
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 8: was the NFL or the Super Bowl MVP the Lion.

1163
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 8: The Giants did so an Eli Manning guy. There's not

1164
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 8: a lot of evidence that tells us that how you

1165
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 8: perform going into the postseason is a guarantee to predict

1166
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 8: how form once you get into the playoffs. You got

1167
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 8: to take care of business once it becomes an any

1168
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 8: given Sunday showdown.

1169
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 2: All right, So wanted to bounce this off of you

1170
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 2: because we're bouncing it off of our listeners today. As

1171
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: you know, there are three possible teams in the AFC

1172
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 2: who could nail down that seven seed here in Week seven,

1173
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 2: Week E team Denver, Miami or Cincinnati. Denver needing the

1174
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 2: least amount of help, Cincinnati needing the most strictly match

1175
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 2: up wise, who do you think is the best match

1176
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: of those three teams for Buffalo?

1177
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 8: I think it's Miami. It's not just the familiarity, but

1178
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 8: it's the fact that I don't think they can go

1179
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 8: blow for blow with the Bills offensively. And there's no

1180
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 8: match that's scared. There's no way that scares to me.

1181
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 8: I'm not sitting here and telling you, like who you're

1182
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 8: taking in your boots if you have play the Broncos

1183
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 8: or the Bengals. But I think Miami is a team

1184
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 8: that they've seen enough. They've done a really good job

1185
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 8: of neutralizing Miami. This at times high flying offense, but

1186
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 8: this offense has been low flying of late, and Tua

1187
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 8: is now banged up. It sounds like Snoopuntley will start

1188
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 8: on Sunday, And if he's starting on Sunday, I might

1189
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 8: mean that in the event Miami gets in, he's starting

1190
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 8: again the following week, So it would be Miami. You know,

1191
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 8: I don't want to sound cliche or redundant or something

1192
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 8: like most people are right now, but I think the

1193
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 8: order is Miami one, Denver two, Cincinnati three. It's probably

1194
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 8: because Cincinnati has the most players on their roster that

1195
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 8: have played in high stiful playoff and while their defense

1196
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 8: has zero answers for anybody, they especially have zero answers

1197
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 8: for Buffalo. The offense is good enough if they can

1198
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 8: get hot. They've seen Buffalo in the playoffs in recent years.

1199
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 8: So I think my order of preference, if I were

1200
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 8: the Bills, would be Miami, Denver, Cincinnati.

1201
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 2: All right, field, thanks much as always for all your

1202
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 2: fantasy football advice all season long. We appreciate it. We'll

1203
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 2: catch up with you in the offseason. Man, be good.

1204
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 8: Right back to you, guys, we'll do it again sometime soon.

1205
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 8: About something besides fantasy football.

1206
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 2: Good all right, that's Field Yates joining us ESPN NFL

1207
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 2: Insider fantasy football analyst, helping us out all season long

1208
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,479
Speaker 2: with a daily fantasy lineup each end, every week, even

1209
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 2: in week eighteen, when a lot of leagues have kind

1210
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 2: of packed up. So for this very reason, because you

1211
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 2: know there's gonna be players that are gonna be sitting,

1212
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 2: and you don't want your championship in week eighteen. You

1213
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 2: want it earlier than that. But daily fantasy is different,

1214
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 2: as we know. So thanks to Field for helping us

1215
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: out all season long. I wanted to take a look

1216
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 2: at the tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems,

1217
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 2: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills.

1218
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 3: And uh.

1219
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 2: Look, we were asking you at eight oh three oh

1220
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 2: five point fifty, who is your ideal seven seed playoff

1221
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 2: team for Buffalo in the wild card round. We just

1222
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 2: asked Field Yates whod he picked? He said, the Dolphins.

1223
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 2: Sheila says, I don't care take any opponent you yet,

1224
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 2: because you can beat anyone in the league. That's the mentality,

1225
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 2: and that's what we need to do to win out.

1226
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 2: But if I had to pick Broncos.

1227
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 3: What if I had to pick, Yeah, that's that's excellent spot.

1228
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 3: I don't know. Sorry, Yeah, you can take your pick.

1229
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 3: And she's right too, and she's on kind of more

1230
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 3: in my camp. I'm lund that's bringing on. Let's go.

1231
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 2: H gotta beat the best anyway.

1232
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,479
Speaker 3: And I'll say this too, What team out there wants

1233
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 3: a part of this team in this building? Nobody, nobody

1234
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 3: wants any part of this team. If you're the Cincinnati Bengals,

1235
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 3: we're gonna go to see Buffalo and they go, yeah,

1236
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 3: we beat Some people are gonna say, yeah, we beat

1237
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 3: them in that building two years ago after DeMar had

1238
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 3: his incident. Yeah, well there's no problem. We know what

1239
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 3: that's like. Then you have the more rational people going,

1240
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 3: this ain't that team, and they're gonna be ticked at us. Yeah,

1241
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 3: that's there's nobody out there that wants any part of

1242
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 3: this Buffalo bill team. And that goes that goes to

1243
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 3: Baltimore and to Kansas City as well. You know, there's

1244
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,479
Speaker 3: a lot of teams they'd rather see than this one

1245
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 3: and this quarterback and these guys. So whoever it is, Miami,

1246
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 3: Denver or Cincinnati, they got to roll into Orchard Park

1247
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 3: and we'll see.

1248
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,959
Speaker 2: Ryan says. My mind said, bring them all on. It's

1249
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 2: our time. We can beat anybody on our best day,

1250
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 2: which is an important thing to remember, as Steve says

1251
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 2: all the time, you have to play well on that day.

1252
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 2: You can have the most unbelievable regular season. You could

1253
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 2: be a fourteen win football team, but you get to

1254
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 2: the postseason and you don't have your best day.

1255
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 3: A bad day turns into a bad season.

1256
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, quickly. So just be wary of that from Kashmir

1257
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 2: Mouse the Broncos because they have a rookie QB. I

1258
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 2: kind of subscribe to this thing, and we know coach

1259
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 2: McDermott's history against rookie quarterbacks. He usually puts them in

1260
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,439
Speaker 2: a blender in those kinds of matchups. He makes life

1261
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 2: supremely difficult for them, as we've seen several times over

1262
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 2: over the course of his tenure here with the Bills.

1263
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would count me in that camp, even

1264
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 2: though I have a lot of respect for the Denver defense.

1265
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 2: BJ says, I want the fish. Anytime you can beat

1266
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 2: Miami's dairy air three times in one season, it's a

1267
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 2: great season.

1268
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1269
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 2: I love that. There's still.

1270
01:04:58,640 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 3: My age or little.

1271
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's it's never even though it's

1272
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 2: too late for some bitter vitriol for the Dolphins.

1273
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 3: Even though he's on X, he's got to be he's

1274
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 3: got to be in my age range, right, one of

1275
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 3: those oh for the seventies guys.

1276
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 2: Well who remembers it anyway, Yeah.

1277
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I saw it firsthand. The absolute disdain, Oh

1278
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 3: the vitriol that Bill's fans had towards Don Shula, and

1279
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 3: I'll never forget it. It was real and uh it

1280
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 3: was in a lot of ways, way worse than anything

1281
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 3: we dished out to the Patriots in that day. It

1282
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 3: was just horrible. They hated that team.

1283
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 2: BJ says, oh, no, that's sorry. We just did BJ's tweet.

1284
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 2: Mike says, any team but Cincinnati, that would be a

1285
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 2: scary three hours. With the Bengals, people have a lot

1286
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 2: of respect for the firepower of the Bengals offense, and

1287
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 2: they would believe, based on some of the games that

1288
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 2: the Bengals have played this year, that they're never out

1289
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 2: of the game because Burrow and that crew can score

1290
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 2: a point.

1291
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 3: They've got some great players. I'll say this, though, they

1292
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,479
Speaker 3: don't run the ball well enough, and Joe Burrow gets

1293
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 3: sacked a lot. He does, and the Bills defense is

1294
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 3: really good at making a play here and there. The

1295
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 3: changes the tide. And I'll say this, they better score well,

1296
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 3: they better score a ton because the Bills are gonna

1297
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Speaker 3: hang thirty on them and then some more. They make.

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01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 3: This team's scoring forty a clip against good defenses that

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Speaker 3: are injured. What are they gonna do against the Cincinnati

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01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 3: defense that was bad to begin with? Yeah, so it'll

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Speaker 3: be a high scoring game. Cincinnati game might be the

1302
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 3: funnest of all if you can pull the victory out

1303
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 3: because they're gonna be the over under will probably be

1304
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 3: seventy five.

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01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. If the Bills draw Cincinnati, that'll go right to

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01:06:58,880 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 2: prime time.

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01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 4: Right.

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01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 3: We still don't know, Yeah, we don't know when the

1309
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 3: AFC NFC games are gonna be. We know the time

1310
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 3: slots is four thirty and eight on Saturday, the the

1311
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 3: what is it the for this eleventh and then Sunday

1312
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 3: it's a one, a four thirty and an eight and

1313
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:19,439
Speaker 3: then a Monday night and then the Monday night game.

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01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 3: So h there's no there's a they want to see

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01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 3: the matchups. There are no Saturday long there are no

1316
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 3: Sturday Saturday at one games is only four thirty and

1317
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 3: eight on Saturday. Usually they put the small market AFC

1318
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 3: teams in the in the Saturday window, but Josh changes

1319
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 3: that equation and the fact that they're the two seed.

1320
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 2: Brayon on the tweets sheet says, possibility of going through Burrow,

1321
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 2: Jackson and Mahomes to reach his first Super Bowl is

1322
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 2: what I want. I'm gonna say, careful what you wish for. Yeah,

1323
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 2: but that would be a heck of a run. If

1324
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 2: you topple all those teams and win the big one,

1325
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 2: who that would be an all timer.

1326
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 3: It would be that would be the trump card for

1327
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 3: every debate, the trump card for every debate.

1328
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 2: I'm picturing Eddie Murphy in coming to America as the

1329
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 2: barber in the barbershop when he goes, points to three people.

1330
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 3: And says, who's next, Who's next? That's right, that's choice words,

1331
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 3: that's right, and that's you're right. I mean, if you're

1332
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 3: gonna do it, and you can do it like that,

1333
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 3: that is an all timer. But I want to say,

1334
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 3: you don't need to wish Cincinnati. You're gonna get the

1335
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 3: other two anyway. Prox like probably probably, And let's think

1336
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 3: about it, Lamar and Pat are gonna have to do

1337
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 3: the same thing. They're gonna have to go through Job

1338
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 3: or Josh and Pat or or Josh and Lamar. Right,

1339
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to go through those guys. One

1340
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 3: of those guys got to beat the other two.

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01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 2: No, not necessarily, because Mahomes is the one seat. He

1342
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:04,759
Speaker 2: doesn't even play the first week.

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01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but he's gonna play. He's gotta play either.

1344
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 2: He's gotta play one of the two, not both of them,

1345
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 2: because Lamar and Josh will play each other before Mahomes. Either.

1346
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 3: Mahomes the third super Bowl is not gonna mean anything.

1347
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 2: That's kind of how he's done it each of the

1348
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 2: last few times anyway, although he did get by Lamar

1349
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 2: and Josh last year head to head. I believe Rick

1350
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 2: says Dolphins Josh Allen is their daddy.

1351
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, sooner or later, I mean we've seen it.

1352
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 2: Sooner or later that two has got that bad hip.

1353
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 2: He's probably, like you heard Field, he's probably not gonna

1354
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 2: play this week either.

1355
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's worse for us. I think it's it's

1356
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 3: I think it's better for them.

1357
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 2: That Snoopuntley's playing. At least he can throw, well two

1358
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 2: it can throw. I mean Nap only can run it too,

1359
01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 2: that's true, and that's not they've had troubles scoring points.

1360
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 2: They really have. They don't score nearly as many points

1361
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 2: with Snoop.

1362
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 3: I would rather go with the with the known than

1363
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 3: the unknown in this case. You know what, you know,

1364
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 3: everything you've got into You've got to hamm on what

1365
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 3: he can and cannot do, and you can exploit that

1366
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 3: Snoop Untley, who knows when he's gonna drop and make

1367
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 3: and make the perfect throw. You know, I don't know.

1368
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 8: I just.

1369
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dull and plus you already beat him twice.

1370
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I just don't like that.

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01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 2: And their defense is playing much better down the stretch

1372
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 2: here this season. They've kind of been the lynchpin and

1373
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 2: helping them win some close games when they haven't been

1374
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 2: scoring as many points. Their defense is and they're like

1375
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 2: top ten across the board.

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01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not Denver's defense. No, I'm so you're

1377
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 3: looking at a Denver team that is. And also look

1378
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 3: at it. Denver's the team that's in there right now.

1379
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 3: They're the best. They got a better defense, they got

1380
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 3: a quarterback that's playing efficiently enough, and they're scoring The

1381
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 3: Dolphins their defense fell off a cliff through the middle

1382
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:10,600
Speaker 3: of the part of the season, their quarterbacks in and

1383
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 3: out of the lineup. They can't score points at this

1384
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 3: current point. And Cincinnati, yeah, they can light it up now,

1385
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 3: but good grief, they're still digging out of the hole

1386
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 3: they dug for two months in the first half of

1387
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 3: the season. They're just not that good. So if you

1388
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 3: want the worst team, it's the Bengals. They've proved that

1389
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 3: you are what your record says you are. You can

1390
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 3: make a case for the Bengals and the Dolphins. The

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01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,879
Speaker 3: Bengals are in a more difficult division because of the

1392
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 3: Steelers and the Ravens, and the Dolphins just have the Bills.

1393
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,720
Speaker 3: It's the Jets and the Patriots are gimmes. Can you

1394
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 3: imagine getting to this point of the season from where

1395
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 3: we were at the beginning of this Think about this, everybody.

1396
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 3: So we're starting this season, the Bills are picked to

1397
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 3: go third in the division. This Dolphin Jet game was

1398
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:02,440
Speaker 3: gonna be big, baby. This was gonna be for the division.

1399
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 3: Rogers bouncing back from the Achilles tu and those guys

1400
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 3: getting it together. This is on be for all the marvels.

1401
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,719
Speaker 3: Now it's like nobody even cares that they're playing. That's

1402
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 3: how far we've come in three months.

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01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 2: Amazing. It's so good time to hear from the coach's office,

1404
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 2: presented by CfBT, the official Office Technology Company of the

1405
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills. And what is being discussed in the coach's

1406
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 2: office this week? Playing time for starters? Who's up, who's down,

1407
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 2: who's on a pitch count, who is absolutely barely going

1408
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 2: to see the field to heal up for and rest

1409
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 2: up for wild Card weekend coming up next week rather

1410
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 2: than this week. And you know, these are conversations that

1411
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 2: you really have to mull over. We heard the media

1412
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 2: asking coach mcdermoty yesterday, hey, is Mike White gonna get

1413
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 2: called up from the practice squad to serve as the

1414
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 2: backup quarterback to Mitch Trubisky, And Coach McDermott said, well,

1415
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: we got to figure that out. We only have two

1416
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 2: elevations at our disposal from the practice squall. We can't

1417
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 2: just call up sixteen guys. We only have two, right,

1418
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 2: and we got to look at all our positions. Those

1419
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 2: are the kinds of conversations going on.

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. This at the highest level, this has

1421
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the players getting ready for it

1422
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 3: or going through their process or anything like that. But

1423
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 3: the coach has got to think about this and Brandon

1424
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 3: Bean in particular, and maximize their ability to save the

1425
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 3: guys they really need to be healthy for the playoffs,

1426
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 3: and and the other on the other end of that spectrum,

1427
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 3: reward the guys who've been busting a gut all season

1428
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 3: and you think, you know, well, let's give the guy

1429
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 3: game check and give him a jersey, let's go, you know,

1430
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 3: get him on the field, let him play a game.

1431
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 3: Let's see and not for nothing. This is I've heard

1432
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 3: that they'll say, listen, you're you're in the last I

1433
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 3: don't even know who fits into this one of the

1434
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 3: you know, guy, listen, you're going in the last year

1435
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 3: year contractor we signed you to a one year deal.

1436
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 3: You came in here, you're helping us. You want to

1437
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 3: go out and play and get some stuff on film,

1438
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 3: go ahead and it'll give you something to barter with

1439
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 3: and free agency, get yourself a better contract from somebody.

1440
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 3: There's all of that is in this mix. It's a

1441
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 3: convoluted recipe for roster management at this point.

1442
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as coach mc dermott said earlier in the week,

1443
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 2: what's best for the team comes first, and then we'll

1444
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 2: consider individual player goals and marks that could you know,

1445
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 2: make or break a player's personal goals listed for the season.

1446
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 2: So we'll see which ones are afforded and which ones

1447
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 2: are denied. I mean they're doing in Philly. Barkley is

1448
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 2: going to be sitting down this week instead of getting

1449
01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 2: the all time rushing record in a single season. So

1450
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 2: that's from the Coach's office, presented by c FBT, the

1451
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 2: official office technology company of the Buffalo Bills. Break time

1452
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 2: for us here, but when we return, we're going to

1453
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 2: be joined by Boston Globe senior NFL writer Ben Vullin

1454
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 2: when we return to get an update on the Patriots

1455
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 2: and who's playing a quarterback there. We'll find out more

1456
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 2: next here on One Bill's Live. Stay with us all

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01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 2: right back here on a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live,

1458
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and talk a little

1459
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 2: Patriots now, with senior NFL writer for the Boston Globe

1460
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 2: Ben Vullin joining us on the show. Happy New year, Ben,

1461
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 2: thanks for giving us some time, And I guess I'll

1462
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 2: begin with you know the fact that we saw Alex

1463
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 2: Van Pelt address the media up there today and kind

1464
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 2: of gave indication that Drake May will probably start, even

1465
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 2: with a finger injury suffered last week. But do we

1466
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:52,599
Speaker 2: expect that Joe Milton might at least at least see

1467
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 2: sometime on Sunday.

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01:15:56,280 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 5: It certainly seems to be in the distinct realm of possibility.

1469
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 5: I would wonder if they would even skip over Jacoby

1470
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 5: Brissette the backup, and go right to Joe Milton, who

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01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,759
Speaker 5: they could use this game as a showcase for. Joe Milton,

1472
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 5: their sixth round pick this year, who has tremendous physical talent,

1473
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 5: and I think they would love to be able to

1474
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,360
Speaker 5: develop him and trade him in a year or two

1475
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:19,760
Speaker 5: and cash him in. So this can be a good

1476
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 5: opportunity to showcase Joe Milton. And I mean, look, I

1477
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 5: gotta be honest with you, guys. I'm I'm a little

1478
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 5: surprised to hear that the Patriots are are kind of

1479
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 5: committed to starting Drake May. At this point, I see

1480
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 5: no upside, I see all downside to playing Drake May.

1481
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 7: On Sunday.

1482
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 5: But I you know, this is a Patriots team that's

1483
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 5: really starving for wins right now three and thirteen with

1484
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 5: Gerd Mayo and this new coaching staff, and I think

1485
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 5: it just shows how badly they need any sort of

1486
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 5: positive momentum heading into the offseason, even if it's just

1487
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 5: a way and over a Bills team in Week eighteen,

1488
01:16:55,040 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 5: that's almost like a preseason game. But man, I'm I

1489
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,160
Speaker 5: guess I would be surprised if Drake May finish the game.

1490
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:04,799
Speaker 5: They're gonna start with Drake, but I wouldn't be surprised

1491
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 5: if maybe he mirrored Josh Allen's playing time or came

1492
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 5: out at halftime.

1493
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 7: But they better be careful.

1494
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 5: I mean, Drake May is a very competitive guy. He

1495
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 5: throws his body around out there. He's very Josh Allen esque.

1496
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 5: The last thing the Patriots need is they've gotten this

1497
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 5: far through the season with Drake May healthy and playing well.

1498
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 5: Like the last thing they need is him getting hurt

1499
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 5: in a meaningless Week eighteen game.

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01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and it seems here it could be just

1501
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 3: the fact that, you know, let Drake May start this game,

1502
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 3: keep his own little streak alive, like Josh Allen and

1503
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 3: then because listen from a thousand miles away, like we are, Ben,

1504
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,759
Speaker 3: it seems like Drake May May be the most valuable

1505
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 3: asset in the building. Let him have a series and

1506
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 3: sit him down. How much pushback as anybody or like

1507
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 3: the fans giving the organization over this, if any well.

1508
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 5: You know it's funny. On Sunday, I kind of stumbled

1509
01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 5: into this on Twitter. I'd sent out a tweet being like,

1510
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 5: I don't know why you play him, and it.

1511
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 7: Caught fire with fans.

1512
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 5: I mean, it was a very It ended up being

1513
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 5: a very passionate topic, and I think overwhelmingly fans are

1514
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 5: in the camp of this, don't play him, sit Drake May.

1515
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 5: There is nothing to gain the Hayes in the barn

1516
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 5: for this season. It's a waste of a season. But

1517
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 5: Drake May played well, like God forbid. He suffers a

1518
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 5: serious injury out there on Sunday in a meaningless game,

1519
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 5: So I think the fans overwhelmingly don't want to see

1520
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 5: him play. And Steve, You're absolutely right. I mean, Drake

1521
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 5: May is one of one right now for the Patriots.

1522
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 5: He is the only thing they've really got going as

1523
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,200
Speaker 5: a franchise. You're not sure where you know if the

1524
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 5: coaching is the right fit or the front office, and

1525
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 5: the roster is a mess, but they look like they've

1526
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 5: got the quarterback. And you've gotten Drake May this far.

1527
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 5: You've gotten twenty steps to the finish line. He's healthy.

1528
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:51,440
Speaker 5: He's had a couple scares this year. He had one concussion.

1529
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 5: He had another hit to the head last week where

1530
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 5: he had to go take a concussion test, but he

1531
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 5: passed that and came back to the game. But you've

1532
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 5: made it this far, Like, why risk it? There's nothing

1533
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 5: left to prove. I guess Yeah, if you want to

1534
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 5: keep his consecutive game streak going, that's fine. Josh Allen

1535
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 5: will be playing for the same reason. I'm sure, But yeah,

1536
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:12,759
Speaker 5: get Drake out of there. There's really nothing to prove.

1537
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 5: And if he does get hurt, to me, that's a

1538
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 5: fireball offense to her drod Man on the staff, that

1539
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 5: would be the worst thing that could happen for the Patriots, right.

1540
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 3: All right?

1541
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:25,600
Speaker 2: And then how do you anticipate the first pick in

1542
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 2: the draft? Motive playing out here? Have the Crafts been

1543
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,479
Speaker 2: like heavy handed in talking to the coaching staff. I

1544
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 2: mean we heard girod meyosay last week when he was

1545
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 2: asked about it. We're trying to win a football game.

1546
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 2: Winnings our priority. That's what I'm here to do. But

1547
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 2: at the same time, that's a valuable chess piece for

1548
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 2: a team that needs tons of talent. I mean, that

1549
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:52,839
Speaker 2: can be parlayed into multiple first round picks for multiple years.

1550
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 2: So any inkling as to where they're coming down on that,

1551
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 2: because if they lose this week, they got the pick.

1552
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 5: It's right, and it's really crucial, I would say for

1553
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 5: them for the reasons you said, Chris. This is a

1554
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 5: team that is several players away for being a real

1555
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 5: competitive organization. And even if you know they were to

1556
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 5: use a number three overall pick on and get a

1557
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 5: really great, you.

1558
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 7: Know, left tackle, they're still so far away.

1559
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 5: They need multiple starters and that's really what the number

1560
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 5: one pick this year can bring. Right now, it looks

1561
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 5: like there's going to be two quarterbacks at the top

1562
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 5: of the draft, should or Sanders cam Ward. Maybe the

1563
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 5: conversation changes it usually does between now in draft time,

1564
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,680
Speaker 5: but you know that number three pick, number four pick

1565
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 5: could be kind of no man's land for the Patriots

1566
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 5: where they would love to trade it, but not sure

1567
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 5: how many suitors they are going to be. Best best

1568
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 5: scenario for them to be able to trade that pick

1569
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 5: and divest it and get the multiple picks and set

1570
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,600
Speaker 5: them up set themselves up for multiple drafts, is to

1571
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 5: get that number one pick. So you know they like

1572
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 5: the number one rule of Tank Club is you don't

1573
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 5: talk about Tank Club and the Patriots.

1574
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 7: They have all been talking about playing to win.

1575
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 5: And you know, the Bills may acquiesced with Josh Allen

1576
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,719
Speaker 5: probably sitting most of the game and the Bill's probably

1577
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 5: taking it easy. The Bills might it might be in

1578
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 5: the Bills' best interest to let the Patriots have this one.

1579
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:13,400
Speaker 5: But there's no question the best thing for the organization,

1580
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 5: for the Patriots is to lose this game and get

1581
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 5: the number one pick, because otherwise they could really be

1582
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 5: in top five no man's land where they're not able

1583
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 5: to trade down and get more picks for that.

1584
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's truly a no win situation for the Patriots.

1585
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 3: They win, they lose, and if they lose, they win.

1586
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 3: If they lose, they end up with a seven game

1587
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 3: losing streaked in the season. Girod Mayo's got to be

1588
01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:40,760
Speaker 3: looking around going how safe am I? And even ownership's

1589
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,679
Speaker 3: got to be doing that as well, So it really

1590
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 3: I mean, a win or a loss has mega implications

1591
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 3: here obviously for the draft. If they win or lose

1592
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 3: and then coaching staff a seven game losing streak in

1593
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 3: a bad division with only one really viable team, they

1594
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 3: got to be looking gonna draw Mayo a little like

1595
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 3: may he's not the answer, and they may make a

1596
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:06,800
Speaker 3: move a little faster than anybody thought after just giving

1597
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 3: him one year.

1598
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, this game on Sunday, it's like the Patriots just

1599
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 5: have to get through this sixty minutes of football and

1600
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 5: then the real intrigue begins for them, and it starts

1601
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 5: with the coaching staff. You know, the general belief around

1602
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,759
Speaker 5: here is that Drowd Mayo is probably safe just because

1603
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 5: the Crafts made such a big show last year of

1604
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 5: saying that he was their hand pick guy, and he

1605
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 5: was he was the guy that they really tabbed to

1606
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 5: be the next coach after Bill Belichick, and they believed

1607
01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 5: in him. So I don't I don't think Drod Mayo

1608
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 5: has shown anything this year to show that he is

1609
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,759
Speaker 5: the guy going forward. But I just think the Crafts

1610
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 5: that it would be an awful lot for them to

1611
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 5: kind of, you know, bite their lip and admit they

1612
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 5: were wrong on that one.

1613
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 7: It wouldn't be It would be kind of an embarrassing

1614
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 7: look for them.

1615
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 5: So I think a lot of people expect Mayo to

1616
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 5: be safe, but obviously they're gonna be scapegoats.

1617
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 7: And everyone's looking at the coordinators.

1618
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:00,600
Speaker 5: I think pretty clearly they're's gonna be a lot of

1619
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 5: changes on the offensive coaching staff, starting with Alex van Pelt.

1620
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 7: I don't think it's his fault.

1621
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,439
Speaker 5: I think he got Delta a lousy hand this year,

1622
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 5: a tough roster, you know, a rookie quarterback, a lot

1623
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 5: of new changes on, you know, throughout the organization. But

1624
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 5: you can't run this thing back this year when you're

1625
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 5: thirtieth in points and you're three and thirteen.

1626
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,240
Speaker 7: And they have a six game losing streak.

1627
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 5: Now, they had a six game losing streak earlier this

1628
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:26,680
Speaker 5: season as well. The high point of the season was

1629
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 5: probably Week one beating Cincinnati. It's been all downhill since then.

1630
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 5: So there are gonna be some some big changes coming

1631
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 5: for the organization. But the fans are chanting fire Mayo.

1632
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,680
Speaker 5: They want a clean sweep. They want Mike Rabel, they

1633
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 5: want maybe Brian Flores like they want big time changes.

1634
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:46,600
Speaker 7: You know, we'll see if the Crafts have the appetite

1635
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:47,719
Speaker 7: for it. I have my doubts.

1636
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,760
Speaker 2: Building block on the offense we mentioned is Drake May.

1637
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 2: It was thought that, you know, Christian Gonzalez is a

1638
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: piece you can build around on the defensive side of

1639
01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 2: the ball. But he's had his share of injuries here

1640
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 2: through the first two seasons. Obviously the shoulder that kept

1641
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 2: him out of much of his rookie season last year,

1642
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 2: you know, and now he's been in out of the lineup.

1643
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 2: He's dealing with a concussion this week. I'm guessing they

1644
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 2: haven't soured on him at all because he is I mean,

1645
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've seen a young player make

1646
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 2: playing cornerback look easier than Christian Gonzales. He's just such

1647
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 2: a fluid athlete. But what has been the general consensus

1648
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 2: on him now that he's wrapping up year two.

1649
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's really had a fantastic season and

1650
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 5: really proven a lot. As you said, he had that

1651
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 5: shoulder injury last year as a rookie that limited him

1652
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 5: to just four games. He's played sixteen games this season,

1653
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 5: and he's in the hip pocket of every team's number

1654
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 5: one cornerback. And when they played Buffalo a couple weeks ago,

1655
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 5: I mean, the Patriots played a lot of man's man

1656
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 5: coverage and you know, shut down the lockdown the Bills

1657
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 5: receivers and really frustrated Josh Allen. So Christian Gonzales, you know,

1658
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 5: every game this year, it's funny the Patriots lose, but

1659
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 5: you come away and the guys in the other locker

1660
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 5: room are talking about, man, Drake may look pretty good,

1661
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 5: and man that Christian Zales is a really good player.

1662
01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 2: So you know the.

1663
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 5: Patriots, they really those are the two building blocks, like

1664
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:10,679
Speaker 5: that's it.

1665
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 7: Good positions to.

1666
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 5: Have them though your quarterback and an outside shut down corner.

1667
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 5: I think Christian Zalez has been fantastic. It's really good

1668
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 5: sign that he played sixteen games before suffering that concussion

1669
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 5: last week. And he is I think a terrific player

1670
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 5: who would be getting a lot more attention if the

1671
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 5: Patriots had won some.

1672
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 7: More games this year.

1673
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 5: So how much good starting point there with him on

1674
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:34,680
Speaker 5: the defense. Now they just like with Drake Man and

1675
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 5: the offense, the Patriots just have to put a lot

1676
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:38,480
Speaker 5: more pieces around Christian.

1677
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 3: Who deserves most of the credit for Drake May coming

1678
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 3: out and playing as well as he has. Certainly, you know,

1679
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 3: we from this mile away and me's a former teammate

1680
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 3: of mind Alex van Pelt. You think, wow, Alex is

1681
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 3: doing a great job with him. But you're telling and

1682
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 3: but you're saying not so much. Over there. They don't

1683
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 3: really believe Alex is the real solution to that. They

1684
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 3: think Drake May is that guy, and he would be

1685
01:25:58,200 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 3: that guy with anybody.

1686
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:03,720
Speaker 5: So that's kind of the belief that seems to be

1687
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,599
Speaker 5: coming out of the Patriots is that I think Drake

1688
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 5: May is most responsible for Drake May's performance.

1689
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 7: He's been fantastic.

1690
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:11,960
Speaker 5: Now now the coaching, I think they've definitely done a

1691
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 5: good job of getting him to clean up his footwork

1692
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 5: and getting him to go through his reads and hang

1693
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,600
Speaker 5: in the pocket. One of the things that really impresses

1694
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 5: me about Drake May is that he doesn't just bolt

1695
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 5: the pocket at the first time of trouble. He hangs

1696
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 5: in and goes through his reads a lot of times

1697
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 5: and is able to hit his second or third guy.

1698
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 5: So it is kind of ironic that Alex van Pelt

1699
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 5: and the coaching staff are going to be blown out

1700
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 5: when you could argue that of all the leadership positions,

1701
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,799
Speaker 5: Drod Mayo, the head coach, the Marcus Covington, the defensive

1702
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 5: coordinator Alex van Pelt, and the offensive coaches may have

1703
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 5: done the best performance of anyone there.

1704
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 7: But it's the NFL. There's got to be better production.

1705
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 5: Everyone thinks that, you know, you can always find a

1706
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 5: better offensive coordinator.

1707
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 7: And see, it does seem like Van Pelt and the

1708
01:26:57,880 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 7: staff there are probably going.

1709
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 3: To be this goods.

1710
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:02,799
Speaker 7: But but Drake may has been He's been a gamer.

1711
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 5: He's been really fun to watch this year with really

1712
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 5: no very little help around him. You know, the offensive

1713
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 5: line is the worst in the NFL. The receiving corps

1714
01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 5: is the worst in the NFL. Guys, the spacing on

1715
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 5: the routes is all off and breakdowns everywhere, and he

1716
01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 5: makes plays. You know, they haven't taught him, they haven't

1717
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 5: played winning football yet they're still.

1718
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 7: Not winning games.

1719
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 5: I think Drake may is one to nine in games

1720
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 5: that he starts and finishes. But he makes plays, and

1721
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:32,639
Speaker 5: he does a lot around him with very little help

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01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:34,479
Speaker 5: and makes something out of nothing more than a lot

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01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 5: of quarterbacks so I think the Patriots can definitely be

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01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 5: excited about him moving forward and now just you know,

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01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 5: they really need to surround him with better receivers and

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01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 5: probably upgrade the coaching as well.

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01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 2: Ben, thanks for the time. As always, we appreciate it.

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01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 2: We'll see you up there this weekend.

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01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 7: All right, guys, thanks so much.

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01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 3: Thanks Ben.

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01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 2: That's been Voluncini or NFL writer for the Boston Globe.

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01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 2: We take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 2: our final segment, game day Mentality, what will it be

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01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:03,639
Speaker 2: for Week eighteen in New England. We'll tell you next

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01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 2: year on one Bill's Live Stay with Us. Game Day

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01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 2: Mentality is presented by Best Self, Best Self Behavioral Health,

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01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:31,160
Speaker 2: the official mental health partner of the Buffalo Bills, and Steve.

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01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 2: It's a different kind of game day mentality this week

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01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:38,680
Speaker 2: because there are some frontline players who may or may

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01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 2: not be may or may not know just how long

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01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 2: they're going to play. The coaching staffs deal with this

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01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,040
Speaker 2: a little differently in terms of what they want in

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01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 2: their players heads.

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01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 3: The players know the big picture. They know that they

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01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 3: got to get healthy and stay healthy for the playoffs.

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01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 3: I think the big ticket is the big thing is

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01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 3: like guys like Josh and Dion Dawkins, whoever's going to

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01:28:57,280 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 3: be sitting down, James Cook, They're going to be putting

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01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 3: their arms around the guys who are gonna play, and

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01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:05,000
Speaker 3: they I say, let's win, let's go. I'm let's go.

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01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:07,599
Speaker 3: The guys who are gonna play are gonna go out

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01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:09,719
Speaker 3: there and they're gonna try and win this game, play hard,

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01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:12,120
Speaker 3: win the game, and take a lot of joy in

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01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 3: the fact that the guys who have been busting a

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01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 3: gut all year are gonna get a lot of reps.

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01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 3: Not just a role here or a series there. They're

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01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,400
Speaker 3: gonna be in the game, And I think it's it's

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01:29:22,439 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 3: a spot for the team to have a lot of

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01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:27,880
Speaker 3: fun cheering for each other in reverse. You know. So

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01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 3: you're gonna have Josh cheering for you know, Mitch right,

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01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 3: You're gonna have him playing that role. You're gonna have

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01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 3: Ray Davis out there, and Ty Johnson out there, Karen cheering.

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01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 3: He may have Terrell Shavers out there, and you know,

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01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,120
Speaker 3: all these guys. So it's a it's a chance to

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01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 3: cheer for those guys the way they've cheered for you

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01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 3: and support them the way they've supported you. And it's

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01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 3: it's a team building exercise.

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01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 2: So that's game day mentality presented by best self. We're

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01:29:54,680 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 2: back tomorrow on Friday. We'll see it one and we'll

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01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 2: have Greg Cosel