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Speaker 1: Oh what time, Steve Tasker, good to be done, baksti

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Speaker 1: bostis not at all over time and all week long,

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Speaker 1: I've been wondering, when's this game gonna get here? You

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Speaker 1: know what, It's almost here now, it's almost right there.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on MSG, you see the field, that

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Speaker 1: tarp covered field, that new era field with the Bills

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Speaker 1: in the Baltimore Ravens will play on Sunday or almost

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Speaker 1: just a couple of days away. Now what forty nine

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Speaker 1: A big game here in Orchard Park that afternoon. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. My name is John Murphy, co host,

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Speaker 1: and Chris Brown joins us as co host Today Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker vacationing again, filling your own punchline and Brownies here.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you're here, Brownie, thanks coming in

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Speaker 1: as good to be here fast Friday. Yeah, players are

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Speaker 1: inside because it's a good day for a duck here

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. A lot of rain, man, it is.

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Speaker 1: If this was snow, it would be piling up. I

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Speaker 1: mean it would be it would be significant. Here's the

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Speaker 1: weather has been so miserable this week today, three straight days.

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Speaker 1: I've checked the weather for Sunday now and it looks

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Speaker 1: actually getting better for Sunday. Drive more commers than sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Zero percent chance of precipitation high forty five. The winds

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Speaker 1: per hour. So that's what we're looking at for Sunday's game. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I actually saw a coach Harbaugh in some of his

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Speaker 1: actually addressed he was asked about, you know, the windy

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Speaker 1: and they actually got a windy practice day on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: because he said, that's really not something you can duplicate,

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Speaker 1: I guess short of putting some wind turbines at one

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Speaker 1: So he was happy to get Whether that he thinks

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Speaker 1: Will it make a difference, I guess we'll have to

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Speaker 1: Denver was pretty windy. Philadelphia was the windiest game of

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Speaker 1: in the clubhouse so far. But we'll have to see

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Speaker 1: what this weekend brings, Yeah, because it can impact things.

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Speaker 1: And they had a weather they had a bad weather

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Speaker 1: and you know, they kind of battled through that. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Lamar even was talking about how his only

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Speaker 1: this game. Ravens and Bills two of the top five

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Speaker 1: thirty seven rushing attempts per game. Bills are far off

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Speaker 1: Brownie is I think about the keys to a possible

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Speaker 1: even I discipline that the Bills defenders have talked about

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Speaker 1: after him again. I think the Bills, yes, this scheme

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Speaker 1: here in a minute. But I've been dying to talk

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Speaker 1: here's the point I I was gonna make. A scheme

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Speaker 1: they're not looking for the you know, the golden pass,

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Speaker 1: that Rams game. I mean, he was certain he was

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Speaker 1: surgically dicing up that defense. I mean, and Wade didn't

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Speaker 1: spend the dial too much defensively with the Rams. He

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Speaker 1: was playing a lot of three deep zone. To me,

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Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta come out of that. You

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Speaker 1: gotta go get him in. Um. But he looked like

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Speaker 1: a surgeon in that game. I mean, it just looked

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Speaker 1: like pitch and catch on the playground. It was crazy, um.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not giving him all the credit for that,

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Speaker 1: but the plays were there to be made, and he

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Speaker 1: made almost all of them. I mean, how many balls

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Speaker 1: hit the ground? I don't think he had any completion

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Speaker 1: in the first half, right, Yeah, I mean it was

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Speaker 1: I mean, wow, he might have won the MVP just

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Speaker 1: in the first half of that game on Monday night

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Speaker 1: football and national audience. I think he might have won

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Speaker 1: MVP just by that first half again, it was nine nine.

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Speaker 1: There were only nine passages, right, But I mean, you

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Speaker 1: can't fault him for what's being called. He's executing what's

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Speaker 1: being called, you know. So I just think I just

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Speaker 1: think that was where he might have been ahead of

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Speaker 1: Josh at the beginning of the year. I think Josh

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Speaker 1: is kind of caught up to him now, especially with

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Speaker 1: the way that the Bills have kind of found what

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Speaker 1: works best for them and now they're riding it and

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Speaker 1: to great success and to great heights. Where it goes

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Speaker 1: from here is going to be interesting. I just hope,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think this will happen. I just hope

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Speaker 1: that Josh doesn't get caught up in the you know,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Josh thing that everybody's talking about the entire week.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he will. Um. I just don't want

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Speaker 1: him to try to do more than he needs to

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Speaker 1: be pretty good about kind of I know. I think

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Speaker 1: he has hands. I think he has yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: actually I think he plays better when when the chips

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Speaker 1: are down. Yeah. I remember telling you guys, what was it?

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Speaker 1: Which game was it? Now it was I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: It was in the first five games of the season.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was the Tennessee game. Might have been the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee game. I remember coming in here on Monday talking

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Speaker 1: to you and Steve and saying, Josh Allen is a

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Speaker 1: crunch time quarterback because he is, and his fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: passer rating will prove that. Sure, But man, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I think Lamar is. I mean he's right there, Man,

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Speaker 1: he is. I think he's right there. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's quite the passer that Josh is because he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have the arm strength. He's got a strong arm. He

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Speaker 1: can throw it just about anywhere except outside the numbers apparently.

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Speaker 1: But his efficiency has been impressive. He doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: throw it twenty five thirty times a game because of

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Speaker 1: the who do you think he's gonna have a better

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Speaker 1: career long term? Oh, I don't know how you can

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Speaker 1: predict that. I'm predicting Josh because he's a better passer,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. And I think Lamar is

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Speaker 1: running the risk. I mean we were worried about can

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Speaker 1: Josh and carry it this often? Can he really handle

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Speaker 1: the ball and run that much without getting hurt? Well,

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Speaker 1: Jack be the other guy running it twice or three

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Speaker 1: times as many times. I would. I would venture to

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Speaker 1: say that I think Lamar is probably closer to what

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Speaker 1: his ceiling is, uhhuh than Josh. I would say that.

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Speaker 1: I'm comfortable saying that. So, yes, the potential is there

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Speaker 1: for Josh to be better than him. Yes, I would

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Speaker 1: agree with that. Hey, the Bill's talking about Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: all week long, including Lorenzo Alexander. He'll be joining us

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Speaker 1: later on the show, but in the locker room the

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Speaker 1: other day, he had some thoughts on facing the mobile quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore's Lamar Jackson. It's drastically different, obviously, because it's not

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Speaker 1: too many quarterbacks that you have to count for in

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Speaker 1: the run game. You know, some teams try to incorporate it,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously be doing out here with Josh, but

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Speaker 1: that's like maybe once or twice a game. It's not

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Speaker 1: a threat of him doing it, you know, at any

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Speaker 1: time and being very explosive at it. I mean even

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Speaker 1: on third downs he's converted I think twelve out of

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Speaker 1: fourteenth third downs on he's decided to take off. So

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Speaker 1: it's not just first a second down, it's throughout the

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Speaker 1: entire game. So, like I said, you gotta be conscious

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Speaker 1: of who he is and what he's able to do.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you gotta go play ball,

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Speaker 1: play smart, play sound, and then just you got you

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Speaker 1: gotta be ready to run all game and kind of

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Speaker 1: corraling and get him down collectively. As a defense, can

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Speaker 1: you keep being aggressive for the way you've been last

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Speaker 1: few games? You have to, I mean you have to.

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Speaker 1: I mean you can't sit back and allow an athlete

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Speaker 1: to have space. At some point. You have to eat

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Speaker 1: that grass up and make it a phone boothtype game

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Speaker 1: and be able to get him down. But for me,

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Speaker 1: if I'm sitting back here trying to be patient and

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Speaker 1: let him dance with me, I mean, he's gonna break

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Speaker 1: me down eventually. So you have to be aggressive and

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Speaker 1: then count on your teammates as far as once they've

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Speaker 1: established your gap, they're ripping off and running to the

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Speaker 1: ball too. Lorenzo describes a fine line that he and

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Speaker 1: his teammates are gonna have to walk right Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer of get to the spot before

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Speaker 1: he does. So that is where Buffalo's speed as a

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Speaker 1: defense could help them against Lamar specifically. You know, we

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Speaker 1: talked about how this big line that they have the

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Speaker 1: tight ends and the and the fullback that mash people

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Speaker 1: and get him out of the way for Jackson and

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Speaker 1: Ingram to run through these holes. I mean, they're massive holes.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you get that and you get that end zone

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Speaker 1: cam or the cable cam that you know, the networks

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Speaker 1: put on the field there or hang above the field,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, holy cow, you could drive a truck

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Speaker 1: through there with the holes that they create sometimes and

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Speaker 1: you're worry about that. But I think with a guy

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Speaker 1: like Lamar, if you hesitate, you're dead in the water.

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Speaker 1: You've got to be aggressive. And if you happen and

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Speaker 1: be wrong, at least be wrong fast, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like, don't sit back and be slow and wrong.

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Speaker 1: At least be fast and attack the hell out of

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Speaker 1: the thing. Maybe you knock somebody over and he falls

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Speaker 1: into Lamar j accent and knocks him down. I just

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Speaker 1: think you've got to get to those spots before he does,

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Speaker 1: because if you don't close the space down and you

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Speaker 1: give him angles of exit, he's gonna find one of

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Speaker 1: the exit doors. And it's not a five yard play,

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Speaker 1: it's a sixty five yard touchdown. That can happen against

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Speaker 1: these guys. The Bills on the practice field. Now, they

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Speaker 1: had a couple of players Chris t J. Yelden and

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Speaker 1: Quentin Spain who were not practicing yesterday. You were out

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Speaker 1: there today and saw him out there. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: both out there warming up. And we only really get

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Speaker 1: to see stretch on Fridays, so we don't really get

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Speaker 1: to see them in action or anything. But yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were both in there dressed for practice. So hopefully just

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Speaker 1: a one day thing. You know, you hear about all

559
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Speaker 1: of these illnesses going around with some of these teams.

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Speaker 1: Some people in New England might argue with eight starters

561
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Speaker 1: with the flu, it contributed to their loss against Houston

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Speaker 1: in terms of execution. We don't feel yourself. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to execute and be sharp. There was another team too

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Speaker 1: that had a bunch of guys with the flu and

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Speaker 1: they sent them home. It's four or five players and

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna slip my mind now, I can't remember

567
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Speaker 1: it was a Seattle or somebody else, but there was

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Speaker 1: a second team that was dealing with that also. It's

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Speaker 1: going around right now, so hopefully they've nipped it in

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Speaker 1: the bud here and you know, send Yelden in Spain

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Speaker 1: home yesterday. They're back today, so maybe it's not as

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Speaker 1: bad as anticipated, and hopefully it's nothing that impacts how

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Speaker 1: Spain can play on Sunday. The injury report will come

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Speaker 1: out later today after practice. Tayan Seki not practicing Wednesday Thursday,

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Speaker 1: so that doesn't look good for him. He wasn't out

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Speaker 1: there today again either, so I would anticipate he is

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Speaker 1: inactive again this week, but we'll wait to see what

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Speaker 1: the designation is when the final report comes out later.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna talk a lot about this game.

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Speaker 1: We want you to jump in with us. What do

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Speaker 1: you what headline? What is your dream headline for Monday

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Coming up next, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk with Evan Washburn from the NFL on CBS's their

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter. He's going to be here this weekend for

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Speaker 1: the sideline call of the Bills and the Ravens. We'll

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Speaker 1: get a thought from Evan Washburn on all of this

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Speaker 1: at a moment. Chris is checking on the end of

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Speaker 1: practice today and Chris is in for Steve Tasker today.

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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now. Guy will be

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines here Sunday for the Bills and the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: He's the NFL on CBS Sideline reporter, studio host for

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Speaker 1: the CBS Sports Network, contributor to Ravens dot Com. Happy

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Speaker 1: to have Evan Washburn on the line. Hello Evan, John

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Speaker 1: Murphy here, Thanks for coming on with us and get

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Speaker 1: ready for Buffalo. Are you ready for the game this week? Absolutely? Murph,

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Speaker 1: good to be with you as always. Gotta feel like

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Speaker 1: you've got a big time game here. I know you

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Speaker 1: guys do a lot of big games, you and I

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Speaker 1: and Eagle and that group. But this is late season, December.

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Speaker 1: We don't get a lot of games like this. You

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Speaker 1: guys get much more meaningful games. It's got to feel

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Speaker 1: pretty good to have an important game like this. This

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Speaker 1: is what your roof for, Murph. I mean, you want

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Speaker 1: two teams that obviously have winning records. There's stakes involved,

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Speaker 1: there's intrigue, there's question, and there's talented players, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right. We've had a few of the whether it

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Speaker 1: was and it's honestly, for whatever reason been attached to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore run. We were with them and we three in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City and somewhat of a proved game where Kansas

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Speaker 1: City wins that one, and there's some question now about Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: And then we had them a few weeks ago once

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Speaker 1: they'd become the hottest team in the league against Houston

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Speaker 1: and they only cemented that fact, but the way they

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Speaker 1: played again against the Texans at home. So this is

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Speaker 1: another step in that direction. And I do think it'll

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Speaker 1: be a great atmosphere, which you guys always bring, but

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Speaker 1: also hopefully a great game as well. Ravens had those

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Speaker 1: two straight losses in Kansas City and Cleveland, did anything

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Speaker 1: change significantly about the way they approach these games from

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Speaker 1: then until now where they're at right now with eight

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Speaker 1: straight wins. There are a number of factors as I

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Speaker 1: see it, and you can look on either side of

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Speaker 1: and with the star of the show and Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: I feel like early in the season, even though the

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Speaker 1: numbers the first couple of weeks were out of this

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Speaker 1: world and continue to be, obviously, there was this propensity

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Speaker 1: to want to prove that he is a true pocket

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Speaker 1: passer and he can dissect defenses and hit all his progressions.

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Speaker 1: While he's still doing that, it's obvious to me, and

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Speaker 1: having talked to him a number of times over this stretch,

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Speaker 1: that he's just more decisive as a runner during this

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Speaker 1: win streak, where if it's not there, whether it be

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Speaker 1: all play action or awful number of progressions, he's not

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Speaker 1: thinking about, oh do I need to stick around and

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00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: make a play with my arm. Now he's just taking

643
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Speaker 1: off and he's running, and he's making all those highlight

644
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: reel plays and piling up these numbers. That's leading to

645
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: a record breaking season in terms of rushing totals. And

646
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: then defensively, in ton of credit ton of credit to

647
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: eric A Costa was what he did to flip this

648
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: defense in season with some street free agents that were

649
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: familiar with the defense and Lja Fort Josh Bines, who

650
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: was part of this team when they won a Super

651
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: Bowl and they got stiffer against the run in the

652
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: interior and it just flipped everything. And now they've got

653
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: the DBS healthy and I think that really changed the

654
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: the course of things defensively. Yeah, we haven't talked much

655
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: about the Baltimore defense. I want to get to that,

656
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: but I first I want to talk a little bit

657
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: more about Lamar Jackson that the you know, the imputative

658
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: MVP of the league right now. I think I'm a

659
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: lot like most people haven't my going into the season.

660
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: The lasting impression I had of Lamar Jackson came from

661
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: the playoff game against the Chargers. He was awful that day.

662
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: What happened between then and this season to get him

663
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: to the point where he's now talked about as the

664
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: MVP old fashioned hard work and I think it's it's

665
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive. And You've been around the

666
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: league longer than I have, but I'd love to see

667
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: comps to a player being able to improve their game

668
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: in a very short period of time. And I think

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00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: at the core of it, it really came down to

670
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: the fundamentals of his feet in ball security. That's where

671
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: we're seeing the greatest improvement. The completion percentage is much better,

672
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: and that's the product of him being more fundamentally sound

673
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: as a thrower and ball security to me is probably

674
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: the biggest leap. I mean, think about just in terms

675
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: of fumbles. Last year he had fifteen fumbles, he lost

676
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: five of them. This year he has just six and

677
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: just lost one and that was last week in that

678
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: driving rainstorm against the forty nine ers. The interception numbers

679
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: are better. He had that rough stretch against Cleveland Pittsburgh

680
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: earlier this year. He hasn't turned it over through the

681
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: air since, So I think attention to detail the work

682
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: he put in and what this staff has done around

683
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: him with a quarterback coach and James Urban, who's renowned

684
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Speaker 1: at that position to be able to get the most

685
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: out of him. Obviously Greg Roman being elevated offensive coordinator,

686
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: whether it's away from the facility with the things he

687
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: was doing with his private coaches, and then once he

688
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: came back to the facility in the spring, it's been

689
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: a complete effort and you're seeing the rewards of it

690
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: in the way he played. I mean, people want to

691
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: talk a lot this year about how unique the Baltimore

692
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: offense is, and yes they are focused on the run.

693
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: The quarterback runs all day Is that the main thing

694
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: about the special nature of Greg Roman's offense or is

695
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: there something else that you've detected. I think, look, the

696
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: pistol and an option style football is still somewhat foreign

697
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: while it's becoming more and more common at the pro level.

698
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: I think the real factors that make unique and difficult

699
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: to prepare for is that you just can't prepare for

700
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: Lamar's speed, elusiveness and toughness. I mean, he's a really

701
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: difficult guy to bring down even if you get your

702
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: hands on him. I mean, did their preseason games have

703
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: obviously done a number of games through the regular season

704
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: here and on the sideline, you really get a great

705
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: view of dudes have him wrapped up and he's able

706
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: to run through it. He's not physically imposing, like a

707
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: walk off the bus type of big, but he's really strong,

708
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: so I think that's part of it. And then the

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00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: emersionce of the tight ends and most notably Marked Andrews,

710
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: who I think's right there behind Kelsey, Earth's Kittle probably

711
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: and then Andrews as some of the top tight ends

712
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: in the league, and his growth in year two, along

713
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: with the complimentary guys and Boil and Hurst that's just

714
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: a three headed monster that's difficult to deal with. I

715
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: think those two factors or areas of the offense are

716
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Speaker 1: what make it really unique. Really glad you brought up

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00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: the tight ends, Evan, and I've been telling people all

718
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: week from the games that I've watched or the Ravens,

719
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: the tight ends are essential critical to what they do offensively.

720
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: And yeah, they've got one hundred and three catches, andrew

721
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: says half of them. But it's the way they block

722
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: and how physical they are and how important they are

723
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,479
Speaker 1: to the run game that makes those tight ends stand

724
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: out to me when I watch him, no doubt. And

725
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: it's important to bring that up because we can't forget

726
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: about our fans can't forget about mark Ingram and the

727
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: free agent signing that Eric Costa made seeing something in

728
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: him despite his age, despite his role in New Orleans,

729
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: he's a feature back of this offense. And to your

730
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: point with the tight ends and how it helps Ingram

731
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: and Lamar's it's Nick Boyle is basically a extra offensive

732
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: lineman in on every play, and Andrews, while he's a

733
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: past catching athletic tight end, he's gotten better as a

734
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 1: blocker as as Hayden Hurst and this other kid, Patrick

735
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: Ricard is a great story. It just resign him to

736
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: a two year extension. He's a fullback now. They brought

737
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: him in as a defensive tackle, untrafted at the main

738
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: last year, and he's become that somewhat as Bill Sanz

739
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: will know James Devlin type that they had in New

740
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: England before he got hurt, where he's just this hulking

741
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: lead blocker. SE's factor. Recard boiled the offensive line, which

742
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: is great, and then really good runners and that's where

743
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: it just gets to be a bit of a nightmare

744
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: for defenses. We're on the line with Evan wash for

745
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: an NFL on CBA sadnine reporter who'll be in Buffalo

746
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: for the game on Sunday, the Bills and the Ravens.

747
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Speaker 1: One more Ravens question before you for you ever, before

748
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: we get to a little bit of this Buffalo matchup.

749
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: It's an eight game win streak and it includes wins

750
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: at Seattle, at the Rams, home wins against the Niners,

751
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 1: home wins against the New England. Could it be possible

752
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: that the Ravens may have peaked too soon? It's a

753
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: great question. It's one that's being really bantied around a

754
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: lot in Baltimore and and something that talk to players

755
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: about it if they're willing to acknowledge that it is important,

756
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: that this isn't the zenus of their season. Now that

757
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: being said, there's it's not as if they're going to

758
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: create some sort of adversity or they're going to try

759
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: and not play their best in every game just in

760
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: hope that Okay, well we've now got a place where

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00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: we can reach higher. So I think that it really

762
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: is more about trying to bottle up what they have

763
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: and protect it and not allow it to negatively affect

764
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: their sort of emotional and mental state, ie getting ahead

765
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: of themselves. And the reality of it is, too is

766
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: they just wanting, for lack of a better term, I

767
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: would imagine, get through these four games, obviously, achieve the

768
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: goals in terms of seating and locking in division titles

769
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: and all those things, get their own healthy as best

770
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: they can, so that because they feel like when they

771
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: have these compliments of players that there is no peaking,

772
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: they'll just be able to sustain. But as we know

773
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: in this league that it all it takes is one play,

774
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: one unfortunate situation and you're down a key cog of

775
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Having the forty nine Ers held Baltimore

776
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: to twenty points last Sunday. The weather obviously a factor

777
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: in that as well, But did San Francisco provide a

778
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: defensive template for the Bills? Do you think this week?

779
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: I think the weather can't be understated. It was. I

780
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: was here. I was actually in Pittsburgh doing the Brown

781
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: Steelers game, but knowing people here living here, I understood

782
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: that it was a pretty nasty day, and that is

783
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: one thing. And I think it's a factor that that

784
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: we'll get into in the broadcast for sure. And I

785
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: know it's not supposed to be miserable in Buffalo by

786
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: any means. Probably it'll be, you know, a banner day

787
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: for you guys because of this time of year. But

788
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: the winds still there. It's a constant, and I'll be

789
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: curious how Lamar manages that, because he's self admitted that

790
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: cold and rainy have not been great for him and

791
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: the numbers reflect that too. So look, the weather was big,

792
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: and you can't also underestimate just that front for San Francisco.

793
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: While they didn't act a sally do what they've done

794
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: to other teams, Lamar still ran pretty well. They just

795
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: they were a mess to deal with. I mean, those

796
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: guys are so big and fast and athletic upfront, and

797
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: they did do some things that the coaches in Baltimore

798
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: have admitted. Look, we're just there's only so much you

799
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: could do against how much talent upfront. So in terms

800
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: of a blueprint that's still waiting to be worked on

801
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: and figured out for how to stop this offense. So

802
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: maybe it's father nature and having four first round picks

803
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: for handy line one more for you, Evan, And that's

804
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: the quarterback matchup Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, both of

805
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: them from the five quarterbacks drafted in twenty eighteen. Clearly

806
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: those two are at the head of the class now.

807
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: But long term, who's got the brightest future? Would you

808
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: think Allen, Lamar Jackson or maybe somebody else from that class?

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00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: This is, I know, a speculative question. No, it's fun,

810
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: it's it's it's always worth kind of trying to project

811
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: these things, and it's a good discussion to have. Look

812
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: the way I view it right now, it's about to

813
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: be the MVP. That's the one you ride with. I mean,

814
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: those those are awards that are rare in this league.

815
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not just handed out to being a

816
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: first round pick. And he looked back at who's won

817
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: MVPs and it's obviously an illustrious list. So Lamar has

818
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: that Monika right now and he's earned it, so that

819
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: that's who you want to bet on moving forward. I

820
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: haven't lost faith at all in Baker Mayfield. I still

821
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: think he's got every tool you would want to be

822
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: a great quarterback in this league. They they just need

823
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to bottle up something that's

824
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: just more efficient and an identity there in Cleveland. That

825
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: that's for another day in terms of a discussion. And

826
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: now I think I've just been so impressed. And I

827
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: always think it's tough to talk to you about this

828
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: because you live and breathe it every day there. But

829
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: something's happened with Josh since that that Patriot game that

830
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: Arc correctually did. We talked to him about a little

831
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: yesterday and he acknowledge some things, But it just feels

832
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: like he's finally gotten to the point where he realizes

833
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: can care of the ball, it can be the greatest

834
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: value he has. Whether that means he ends up being

835
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: an MVP candidate down the road. Who knows, but if

836
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: if he can be this this is something that Buffalo

837
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: fans should be happy about. So that's kind of how

838
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: I view it. And then Darnold and rosen Um, you know,

839
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: jury is still out yep, Evan, forty five degrees, the

840
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: forecast high, more clouds than sun, zero percent chance of

841
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: a precipitation. You're gonna be all right here in the

842
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: sideline Sunday. You're gonna have fun with this game, Oh no,

843
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean, look, man, I've been there when

844
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: it's been nasty. I always have fun in Buffalo. That

845
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: place is it's like going to a different world in

846
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: a good way. I gotta we'll get into that maybe

847
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: when you're here Sunday. Thank you, Evan. Have a safe

848
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: trip and we'll see you here Sunday. Thank you. All Right,

849
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: you got Evan washburn An NFL on CBS sideline reporter

850
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: coming to a different world Orchard Park for Sunday's game

851
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Baltimore Ravens. We thank him for

852
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: joining us. We're coming back with more of a moment.

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00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: I want to hear view. What is your dream headline?

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Speaker 1: For Monday, the day after the Bills Ravens game. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call to discuss eight O three five fifty,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy co hosting with Chris Brown, One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Colada Health from the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, It's One Bill's Lives.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown is in four seat tasker today. Stee will

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Speaker 1: be back on Monday. That's the plan. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: We got a pretty good Twitter question out there for

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Speaker 1: you right now, asking you what's your dream headline for Monday,

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Speaker 1: the day after the Bills played the Ravens. Let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think. We can read him from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. We'll do that in a second. We can

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Speaker 1: take him off the phone lines eight three five fifty

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Speaker 1: and toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. Joe on the line. Where are you calling from? Joe? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. Yeah. Where are you? Joe? What are you

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Speaker 1: calling from? I'm in Gary, New York. Oh, down in

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Speaker 1: Chautaqua County. Right, got Youah? What what's your dream headline? Joe.

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Speaker 1: My dream headline is Bills make ravens zeke crow. Oh

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Speaker 1: like it? I like it throwing a raven in the

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Speaker 1: same thing. Are they sup? We'll have to check with

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Speaker 1: the Audubon Society for that. I'm not sure. A raven

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Speaker 1: is a lot bigger than a crow. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: seen a raven like a real one? They are gigantic? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I never knew they were that big. They're big. Yea.

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Speaker 1: Crows are like half the size of ravens. It's called

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Speaker 1: from Tom and Buffalo. Do you got a dream headline

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00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: in mind? Tom, Yeah, it'd be Buffalo teams Ravens. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be at Oliver, that does it? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Why do you say at Oliver? I'm looking back to

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Speaker 1: the college days when at Oliver ruled and he owned

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Yeah, he played against Lamar when they were

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Speaker 1: in college. What did you have a couple of sacks?

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Speaker 1: Two or three sacks in that game? And Houston rolled

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Speaker 1: in that game? Yeah? All right, thank you. Um, we

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Speaker 1: got more from the tweet sheet, right, Chris. You got

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Speaker 1: some tweets that you write them down, but you get

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Speaker 1: just one. I have this one from the we didn't

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Speaker 1: get our updated sheet yet, did we Maybe it's online.

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Speaker 1: I'll check online. But this is from Bill's fan guy.

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Speaker 1: He goes with the headline of We're not joshing you.

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Speaker 1: Bill's closer to being atop the AFC East. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm always I'm always a fan of play on words

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Speaker 1: when it's used used right. I you know, I'm all

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Speaker 1: for the creativity today. I like what we've got going

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Speaker 1: so far here, this is this is good from the

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Speaker 1: f I have faith. I have faith that our listening

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Speaker 1: audience can come up with some clever headlines for for Monday.

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Speaker 1: I think we all are obviously pining for a Bill's victory.

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Speaker 1: But let's get let's have some fun with it. Man,

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Speaker 1: let's loosen up and get creative. See I'm saying the audience,

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Speaker 1: let's loosen him and get you know, the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought track one open. If you need to get creative,

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows the tweet sheet brought you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving system. Sharon Show tweets this and Bill's win

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Speaker 1: Bye bye blackbirds. That's good. I like that. I like

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Speaker 1: the illiterate what do we call that? Alliteration? Right? Yeah? Blackbirds? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for another good one here. Oh this is good.

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Speaker 1: Jim Fish tweets this in dream headline nevermore Bill's pluck Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're playing off of Edgar Allan Poe there. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's a good one. Yeah, this is what I came

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Speaker 1: up with. Okay, I kind of I was inspired, so

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Speaker 1: I tried to, uh to come up with my own one. Here.

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Speaker 1: Motor rolls Lamar defeathered as Bills clip Ravens twenty three twenty.

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Speaker 1: That's my score. How about do motors roll? Well? When

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Speaker 1: he runs, he looks like a rolling ball to me,

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of where I got that because he's

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Speaker 1: so loaded the ground he looks you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to motor rolls. And what's the second? Motor rolls

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Speaker 1: Lamar defeathered. Okay, get spend some more time on the

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Speaker 1: Oh god, a break here. When we come back, Greg

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Speaker 1: Cosal from NFL Matchup on ESPN, he's going to join this,

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Speaker 1: so come on back for that. One goes live presented

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Speaker 1: by Goalida Health Live from the Seneca Studio. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello Bills Radio Network Sports Date. Bills

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Speaker 1: have wrapped up their practice here in Archer Park inside

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Speaker 1: the ad Pro Sports Trainee Center. A couple of players

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Speaker 1: who missed yesterday with the illness that we're back today.

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Speaker 1: Offensive lineman Quentin Spain and running back t J. Yeldon

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Speaker 1: both at practice today after being ill yesterday, ready to go.

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Speaker 1: According to head coach Sean McDermott, offensive lineman tie and

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Speaker 1: Seki has been ruled out another game still with his ankle.

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Speaker 1: Ravens Thursday, where without wide receiver Hollywood Brown limited to

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Speaker 1: practice with an ankle injury. Buffalo defense ranked third in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, which is good now. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: and the Mark Jackson have already played the top two

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Speaker 1: defensive teams in the league, the Patriots and the Niners,

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Speaker 1: and beating them both. The weather Sunday more clouds than suns,

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Speaker 1: zero percent chance of precipitation. The high forty five Bills

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Speaker 1: Ravens broadcast one o'clock kick off here in New Airfield.

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Speaker 1: Got it under flagship radio station WGR Sports Radio five fifty.

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Speaker 1: I'll have the call of the game upstairs with Eric Wood.

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Speaker 1: Salcapachu will be on the sidelines. Last night, Thursday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: the Bears kept their playoff hopes alive in a thirty

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Speaker 1: one twenty four win over the NFC East leading Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: The Bears still need plenty of help to get back

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. The Cowboys still in first with their

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Speaker 1: six and seven records, still in first in the NFC East,

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Speaker 1: Bears looking at the possibility of being without linebacker Roquan

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Speaker 1: Smith for the rest of the season. He suffered what

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Speaker 1: is believed to be a significant pectoral muscle injury in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter of that game last night. He was

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Speaker 1: Chicago's first draft pick in twenty eighteen. Patriots quarterback Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady limited in practice yesterday with tow and right elbow injuries.

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Speaker 1: Brady laughed it off yesterday after practice. Patriots home to

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Speaker 1: play the Kansas City Chiefs for twenty five pm on

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Speaker 1: Sunday in Foxborough. Odell Beckham has been vague about his

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Speaker 1: future with the Cleveland Browns. It's his worst season ever

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Speaker 1: and the Browns are five and seven. Beckham said yesterday

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Speaker 1: after practice, no one knows what the future year holds.

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Speaker 1: Says he wants to be in Cleveland next year, but

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Speaker 1: he cannot say what will happen. And Eli Manning gets

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Speaker 1: a farewell appearance for the Giants apparently on Monday. Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones going to sit out practice today means Manning will

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Speaker 1: play this next Monday for the Giants. Sabers play tomorrow afternoon,

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Speaker 1: four pm at Vancouver. That's the update from One Wheel Drive.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Chris Brown in for the vacationing Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now, ready for

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Speaker 1: us on a Friday at one pm. He is a

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Speaker 1: senior producer and analyst for NFL Matchup on ESPN and

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Speaker 1: senior producer at NFL Films. Happy to have great co

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Speaker 1: sell with us. Hello, great, thanks for coming on with

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Speaker 1: us today. You were looking for Taskers, so are we.

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Speaker 1: He's never around here anymore. Just kidding, Murph, How are

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Speaker 1: you good? Good to be with you as always. It's

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Speaker 1: good to be with you, Gregg. And we've got a

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Speaker 1: big game up here. How much time are you guys

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Speaker 1: on the Matchup show spending on Buffalo and Baltimore this

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Speaker 1: this weekend? An entire segment really, that's good. Part two O.

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Speaker 1: Our monitor segment at the board is the Buffalo Ravens game.

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Speaker 1: Pretty excited about it? Yeah, I'm excited to watch it.

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Speaker 1: I will watch it. What is the what does a

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Speaker 1: path to a potential Buffalo victory. Look like from your

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Speaker 1: eyes great, Oh, there's always as you know, or if

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Speaker 1: you've been doing this a long time, there's many things. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's start, I think with what people are probably talking

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Speaker 1: about the most, and that's that Ravens offense. And obviously

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Speaker 1: it's a very difficult offense to defend for many different reasons.

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Speaker 1: It's it's difficult because of the personnel packages. It's difficult

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Speaker 1: because of the motion. They use a ton of motion

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Speaker 1: which causes problems. It's difficult because of the formations in

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Speaker 1: the backfield, uh, you know, and obviously Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 1: a special dynamic talent as a runner who must be

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Speaker 1: accounted for. So when you play a team like that,

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Speaker 1: you hear always the term assignment football, and it's so

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Speaker 1: true in a game like this. We can talk a

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Speaker 1: little more about that. But but I think that is

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Speaker 1: the part of the game that my guess is most

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Speaker 1: people are talking about. Yeah, and we're it's funny just

1004
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Speaker 1: talking to the Bills and all the practice squad players

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Speaker 1: they've had to put into action. They've got Ray Ray

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Speaker 1: McLeod impersonating Lamar Jackson, They've got all their practice, squad

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Speaker 1: tight ends, lining up in the backfield, and doing all

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Speaker 1: these different things to try to give them the looks.

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Speaker 1: But you look at what Baltimore is able to do

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Speaker 1: with the start of games, Greg, I mean, nine out

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Speaker 1: of twelve games they've scored on their opening possession. Is

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Speaker 1: that just because no matter how much you prepare for this,

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Speaker 1: it's still a shock to the system when you step

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Speaker 1: on the field defensively and see it live. I would think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can try to work on

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Speaker 1: it and you understand the concepts. It's not as if

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Speaker 1: defensive coaches don't understand the concepts. But my guess is

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Speaker 1: that the speed of Jackson, even though you know he's fast,

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Speaker 1: probably still takes you by surprise. And I think just

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Speaker 1: the emotion I think Chris causes a lot of problems

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Speaker 1: because you can work on that and work on that,

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Speaker 1: but if you're just one step off or one beat late,

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Speaker 1: I think that causes a lot of problems. They're very

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Speaker 1: good with what we call jet motion, where they take

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Speaker 1: one guy and run them across the formation in front

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Speaker 1: of Jackson, who's in the pistol on I would guess

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Speaker 1: ninety five percent of a snaps that maybe that's a

1028
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Speaker 1: high number. But they're a pistol based offense with the

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Speaker 1: back behind Jackson, but often Jackson is flanked by tight

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Speaker 1: ends or another back, the fullback. So it's they're very

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Speaker 1: multiple from a formation standpoint, they're very multiple from a

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Speaker 1: personnel standpoint, and they're multidimensional and all the different actions

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Speaker 1: that happen in the backfield. And they use motion almost

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Speaker 1: more than anybody in the league. Right, it's like, I

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Speaker 1: think it's over thirty percent they use motion, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't I'm sure there's a number for that. I

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Speaker 1: just know from watching tape that motion is a major

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Speaker 1: part of what they do. How unique is that offense? Greg?

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Speaker 1: How revolutionary is that offense? Basically, they're just running the

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Speaker 1: ball with a quarterback who can run it. Right, Oh,

1041
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Speaker 1: it's not revolutionary. It's just not a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: run it obviously. I don't know if there's another team

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Speaker 1: that does. And quite frankly, it's the offense you have

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Speaker 1: to run with Lamar Jackson because he's not a drop

1045
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Speaker 1: back passer, so you're not going to run what would

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Speaker 1: be viewed as a more traditional or conventional NFL offense,

1047
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Speaker 1: So you play to what he is, and he's a dynamic,

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Speaker 1: electric runner who can throw the ball well enough within

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Speaker 1: the context of that offense. Keep in mind that because

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Speaker 1: of all the things you need to do defensively to

1051
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Speaker 1: try to defend that offense in the run game, and

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Speaker 1: that's where it starts. What that does, Murf, is it

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Speaker 1: creates relatively defined reads and throws for Jackson in the

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Speaker 1: pass game. And he's throwing too receivers who very often

1055
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Speaker 1: are open, but even if they're not wide open, the

1056
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Speaker 1: reads are still well defined. Murf and I both kind

1057
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Speaker 1: of notice this in the games of the Ravens that

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Speaker 1: we were watching leading up to this game. A lot

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Speaker 1: of his passing targets are between the numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are very few downfield throws outside the numbers. Are

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Speaker 1: they just hiding a weakness of Lamar's game or do

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00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: they just feel like, well, we don't have to do

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00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: that because our run games so explosive. We can just

1064
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: throw it to the middle of the field and we're fine.

1065
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of both. Chris, I

1066
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: think that, you know, he's not a great natural thrower.

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00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,439
Speaker 1: I think he can throw the ball well between the numbers.

1068
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: By the way, He did that very well at Louisville.

1069
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: That was the strength of his game. One thing that

1070
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,959
Speaker 1: stood out of Louisville was that he threw the ball

1071
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: well between zone voids in the middle of the field.

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00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: He was not very good throwing the ball outside the numbers,

1073
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: and I think they know that, and that's where he

1074
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: throws it best. And because of what you have to

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00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: do defensively to defend the run game, and because of

1076
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: the confusion it causes defensively and the tentative nature of

1077
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: the play and the hesitancy it causes for your defense,

1078
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: particularly at the second level, the linebacker level, it creates

1079
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: throws that are fairly simple. You're not going to play

1080
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: a lot of what we call split safety too high

1081
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: safety looks because you need more bodies in the box.

1082
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: You need to because you have to defend him. He

1083
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: becomes now a factor. It's not just defending gaps now

1084
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: it becomes defending another player and the players him. Great

1085
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: were by the way around the line with Great Co

1086
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: Salove NFL matchup on ESPN. You talked about the important

1087
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: role the Ravens tight ends play in their offense. I

1088
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: know they've got a hundred one catches combined to three

1089
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: of them. But man, I think they play their most

1090
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: important role in the run game. They are all three

1091
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: of them really very good blockers and important cogs in

1092
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 1: the way they run the football, aren't they? Without question?

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00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: And they do two things that I think are pretty

1094
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: easy to understand for people when they're lined up in

1095
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: the backfield. Let's say you have a tight end who's

1096
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: offset next to Jackson. What they often do with him

1097
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,439
Speaker 1: is what we call an arc release. In other words,

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00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: he'll release as if he's running around, and he takes

1099
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: a defender with him. Now, if the tight ends on

1100
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, what he'll do is what we

1101
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: call him easy release. He'll release as if he's running

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00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: around as well, and he takes a defender with him.

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00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: So you're removing run support players from the box and

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00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: making it more difficult. You have fewer players now to

1105
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: defend Jackson in turns. I know there hasn't been a

1106
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: lot of everybody talks about Lamar, so there hasn't been

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00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: a whole lot of talk about the Baltimore defense. But

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00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: a number that jumped off the page to me, Greg

1109
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: was the fact that the Ravens blitz forty eight percent

1110
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: of the time, which is most frequent in the NFL,

1111
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: and they've got eight interceptions off those blitzes, which also

1112
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: leads the league, and opposing passers are down around sixty

1113
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: for opponent passer rating. What is the reason for them

1114
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: being that aggressive? Are they trying to cover up for

1115
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: something there? Or do they just say, Hey, this works,

1116
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: let's just keep doing it. No. I think it's a philosophy.

1117
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: I think it's a philosophy, and that goes with personnel

1118
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: because Chris, when they line up in their nickel or

1119
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: dime package and sometimes they even play seven defensive backs

1120
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: which we call dollar, what they do is their slot

1121
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: corner is Humphrey, and their outside corners are Peters and Smith,

1122
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: and Peters plays on the left and Smith plays on

1123
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: their right. So they've got three real good corners who

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00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: can line up and play and can play man to

1125
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: man coverage. So they are good enough defensively to be

1126
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: able to match up and therefore they can blitz. So

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00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of a philosophy by the

1128
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: decoordinator Martindale and the fact that they have players who

1129
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: can match up and play man to man coverage. Those

1130
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: are gonna want to run the ball against this Raven teams.

1131
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,959
Speaker 1: Are they going to be able to? Would you think, Greg, Well,

1132
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, it was really interesting worth watching the tape

1133
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: last week of the Ravens forty nine Ers game, is

1134
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: that the forty nine Ers were able to get on

1135
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: the edge a decent amount in the run game. So

1136
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how that works because we know

1137
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: the Bills want to run the ball. Look, they don't

1138
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: want Josh Allen dropping back fifty times. And we know

1139
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: that they've run the ball very effectively with what I

1140
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: call a pin pull concept where they pull too offensive linemen.

1141
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: Even in their outside zone run game, they often get

1142
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: offensive linemen out on the edge depending on what the

1143
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: front is and how they choose to block it. But

1144
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have to run the ball

1145
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,800
Speaker 1: with some effectiveness. I don't think this can be a

1146
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen dropped back forty five times game because I

1147
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: think then they'll struggle. It should be a smash mouth game, right,

1148
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: It should be a couple of teams trying to run

1149
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: it down each other's throats. I would think, yeah, And

1150
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: obviously the run games, this is not like old school

1151
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: smash mouth, Murph. You know back in the day, and

1152
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: you and I both remember those days, but this is

1153
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: a little different. But yes, both teams absolutely do want

1154
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: to run the ball. Both of these quarterbacks have been

1155
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: good against the blitz this year, Greg Josh, more so

1156
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: after week four because I think has passer rating since

1157
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: Week five against the blitz is up around one oh nine.

1158
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: What is it within the two schemes in your opinion,

1159
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: that gives these young quarterbacks answers so quickly in the

1160
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: face of blitz, Well, blitz. You can be successful against

1161
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: blitz for any number of reasons. Some of it has

1162
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: to do with how many you choose to block and protection.

1163
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,919
Speaker 1: Some can do with recognition by both your offensive line

1164
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: and your quarterback. Some can deal with recognition by your

1165
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: wide receivers or your tight end when they see blitz

1166
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: and immediately help your quarterback. You may be shorten or

1167
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: cut off or route so there's many factors Chris that

1168
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: go into being successful. You can also be successful when

1169
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback that can move, because if you start

1170
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: to get pressure and you feel that that would impact

1171
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: your ability to throw on time and in rhythm, then

1172
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: you can move and you can make plays. And both

1173
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks are capable of doing that. Certainly, we saw

1174
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, We've seen him over what year plus as

1175
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: a starter make a lot of plays scrambling avoiding pressure,

1176
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: whether it's blitz or just pressure. He's certainly capable of

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00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: doing that. We know what Lamar Jackson is in that

1178
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: regard as well. So there's many factors that go into it.

1179
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: Would you say a whole segment on the Bills Baltimore

1180
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: coming up in your show this weekend, Greg, A whole

1181
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: segment I actually break down the run game because I've

1182
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: done Josh Allen in the show. I did them a

1183
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to take a

1184
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: look at their run game because I really like Singletary.

1185
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: I think they do some good things getting there with

1186
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: what we call their GC scheme pulse scheme or where

1187
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: they get a tackle outside on the perimeter in the

1188
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: pin pulse scheme, and they do a nice job overall.

1189
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: I think in the run game that's a great gun.

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Speaker 1: The show a NFL matchup on ESPN Tomorrow eight thirty

1191
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: am on ESPN two Sunday four am six thirty am

1192
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: on ESPM. But let's talk about it some of the

1193
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 1: other games going on around the league with you, Greg,

1194
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: Greg go seller guests right now, senior producer in NFL Films,

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00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: Chiefs and Patriots. The Chiefs have won twice the last

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00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: three times these teams have played this one in Foxboro

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00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: four twenty five pm on Sunday, and the Patriots gotta

1198
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: be hoping that they can put some points on the board.

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00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: That's been a problem for them. Right There's a lot

1200
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: of elements to this game, a lot of tactics. I mean,

1201
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: obviously they play in the AFC Championship Game a year ago,

1202
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: but right now as we speak going into a week fourteen,

1203
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots to me do not have a staple on offense.

1204
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: They're not running the ball particularly well, and that was

1205
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: really what they hung their hat on last year going

1206
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: down the stretch, their two back running game. They don't

1207
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: have a fullback right now. Offensively in the past game

1208
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: they really have Edelman and White mostly on third down.

1209
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: Romeo Crenell really devised a game plan last week against

1210
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots to take away Edelman in White and there

1211
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: was not much more to do. So this is an

1212
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Speaker 1: offense right now that really does not have a staple defensively.

1213
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: I thought it was fascinating last year in the AFC

1214
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: playoff game, the championship game, what Bill Belichick did. He

1215
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: basically doubled Tyree Hill on almost every snap with Devin

1216
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: mccordy over the top, and he put J. C. Jackson

1217
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: man to man on Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill had

1218
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: one catch and Kelsey was a non factor. So what

1219
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: he did last year worked really, really well. The question

1220
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 1: is what will he do this year? You normally don't

1221
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: see Bill do exactly the same thing against the same

1222
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: opponent Hill as someone. I think he will absolutely double

1223
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: depending on situation. There's a part of me, too, Greg,

1224
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: that doesn't think that the Chiefs defense is getting enough credit.

1225
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: It looks like, at least from the outside looking in,

1226
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: that they're starting to round into a little bit better form,

1227
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: playing a little bit more consistently. Would you agree with that?

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01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: I would. I think that the numbers may not reflect that,

1229
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: but I think they're getting a little better as the

1230
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: season progresses. I really like their safeties too. Tyranne Matthew

1231
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: is a really good player. He also play slot corner

1232
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: for them, and I love the rookie Juan Thornhill. I

1233
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: really liked him coming out of Virginia because I studied

1234
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: him hard coming out of Virginia, and I think he's

1235
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: been a starter from day one, and I think he's

1236
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: played really, really well. I think there's a savvy to him.

1237
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: He's athletic, and I think in today's NFL, really good

1238
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: safety play. As you guys know with Jordan Poyer and

1239
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde, really good safety play sometimes gets overlooked, especially

1240
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: if a guy's not making a ton of interceptions. But

1241
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: I think it's so critical to defense in an era

1242
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 1: where teams play a lot with three waters fivers and

1243
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: in the shotgun. Hey, Greg, there's a game in New

1244
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: Orleans Sunday at one o'clock that could be an NFC

1245
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: Championship game. Previewer, I would think the Niners at ten

1246
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: and two, the Saints at ten and two. How do

1247
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: you see that matchup? Who has an edge in that game?

1248
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: Do you think, Oh, that's another tough onemur That's a

1249
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: fun game. I'm actually really looking forward to that one.

1250
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: I think the Saints offensively are a little different than

1251
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: we're used to. I think Drew Brees is at the

1252
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: top of his game mentally, but I think he has

1253
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: some physical limitations at this point in his career. I

1254
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: think on first down is where they really have to

1255
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: try to orchestrate their big plays, because I think if

1256
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: they get to third down, particularly third and long, they're

1257
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time against a Niner defense that's

1258
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: really really good on third down, and then it's very

1259
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: good rushing the quarterback. So I think they're gonna have

1260
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: to orchestrate some big plays on first down and hopefully

1261
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: be successful on the other side of the ball, you know.

1262
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: I think somewhat similarly, I think Jimmy Garoppolo has played well,

1263
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: and I like Jimmy Garoppolo, but I think there are

1264
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: times where I don't think he gets a clear picture

1265
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. And what the Saints

1266
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: have really evolved into over the course of the season

1267
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: is a team that plays a lot of dimes six

1268
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: defensive backs, particularly on third down, and I'm very anxious

1269
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: to see how that plays out, because they're going to

1270
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: have fast bodies in the middle of the field and

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Speaker 1: just sometimes Garoppolo does not see it looking at the rams.

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Speaker 1: We know that a couple of weeks ago they got

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Speaker 1: blown off the field by the Ravens, but it looks

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Speaker 1: like Sean McVeigh has rediscovered something in his offense that

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Speaker 1: was in his back pocket all along, and maybe he

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Speaker 1: was just being overly cautious in using him. But he's

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Speaker 1: turned to Todd Gurley a lot more the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, and it looks like it has kind of

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Speaker 1: rejuvenated not only the offense as a whole, but maybe

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Speaker 1: Goff's game to a certain extent as well. How much

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Speaker 1: has Gurley helped Goff here the last couple of weeks. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a great point because I thought last week, particularly

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Speaker 1: you know, against the Cardinals. Now we could say they're

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Speaker 1: not a great defense, but they were just trying to

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Speaker 1: get some identity to their offense. They finally looked more

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Speaker 1: like the Rams offense we'd become used to seeing the

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Speaker 1: last two years. Their play action pass game, which has

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Speaker 1: not been very good at all this year, Chris was

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Speaker 1: really good last week. It was God's best game as

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Speaker 1: a play action thrower. And that's his game. Gos's a

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Speaker 1: comfortable quarterback somewhat program. He needs the offense to work

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Speaker 1: for him. And I thought last week was the first

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Speaker 1: time this season, through a course of a game where

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Speaker 1: it really worked for him, and they looked like the

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Speaker 1: rams that were kind of it kind of had become

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Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing over the last two years. We're with

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Speaker 1: Great Cosal from ESPN's NFL Matchup. I got a game

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Speaker 1: for you late Sunday, Tennessee at open. Tell me what's

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Speaker 1: gone right with Ryan Tannehill. How does he become the

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Speaker 1: guy with the Tennessee Titans right now? Great, Well, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something. They have a very defined offensive profile.

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Speaker 1: Or if they're gonna run the ball and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: play action off of it, and they're going to do

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Speaker 1: it out of multiple personnel, multiple formations. Actually this throw

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Speaker 1: we're looking at it right now. I break down in

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Speaker 1: the Matchup show this week because I do Tennessee's pass game.

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Speaker 1: So they have a distinct offensive profile, and that's the

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Speaker 1: way they play. And Tannehill is he's willing to turn

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Speaker 1: it loose. He's aggressive as a thrower, he's got a

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Speaker 1: good arm, He's been accurate within the context of what

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Speaker 1: they do. He's played exceedingly well. They haven't had to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball out. I mean, I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: had more than thirty dropbacks in any of the last

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Speaker 1: three games. And by NFL standard, that's not many. Eli

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Speaker 1: Manning returns this week, and fortunately for him, Greg it

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Speaker 1: looks like some of his weapons are going to be

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Speaker 1: in the lineup also, which was not the case for

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Speaker 1: his rookie counterpart. So Evan Ingram looks like he's back

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Speaker 1: in the lineup, and they might get a couple other

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Speaker 1: players as well. Sterling Shepard is back. So what should

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Speaker 1: we expect from Eli after what amounts to about a

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Speaker 1: ten week twelve week layoff? Here if I had an

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Speaker 1: answer for that, Chris, I have no idea. I mean,

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Speaker 1: last week of the Eagles defensive was odd because last

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Speaker 1: week basically they just threw the ball up on the

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Speaker 1: outside to Davante Parker and he beat Mills and Darby

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Speaker 1: the corners. We'll see the Eagle defense had played very

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Speaker 1: well for about a four or five game stretch until

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Speaker 1: last week. I think the key with Eli always is pressure,

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Speaker 1: because Eli later in his career started to struggle mightily

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Speaker 1: when there were bodies around him, falling away from throws,

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Speaker 1: not being as accurate as he can be. So the

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Speaker 1: key with Eli is pressure. Jim Schwartz, the Eagles decordinator,

1334
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 1: normally not a high percentage Blitzer, but can dial up some.

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Speaker 1: I think that's ultimately what we're going to see. I

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01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: think you have to pressure him and then make him

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01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:41,919
Speaker 1: throw balls too early and without clear definition. I wonder, Greg,

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01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: did you watch last night's game, and if so, Mitchell Trubisky.

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01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like they have a referendum almost

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Speaker 1: every week in Chicago on that guy's future. What do

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01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: you think did he reclaim his career with his performance

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Speaker 1: last night? Well, I actually did watch his throws from

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Speaker 1: last night on tape. But I think Murph, incrementally, he's

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Speaker 1: gotten better over the last three weeks. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to talk about a guy who's going

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Speaker 1: to be a top five quarterback. I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: got that kind of skill set. But I think he's

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Speaker 1: improved incrementally. Last night, they really incorporated the run game

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Speaker 1: with him a little bit more. Plus he also left

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Speaker 1: the pocket on his own and made some plays with

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Speaker 1: his legs. But the twenty three yard zone read touchdown,

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Speaker 1: I think you need to see more of those kinds

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Speaker 1: of things, you know, I think they define things for him. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they've done a nice job with him over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, and I think, as I said,

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Speaker 1: over the last three weeks, there's been incremental improvement. You know,

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Speaker 1: people just haven't really noticed it a lot, but now

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're they're technically in the race.

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Speaker 1: They're at Green Bay obviously not this weekend, but the

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Speaker 1: following weekend, and that's a huge game. I know you

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Speaker 1: don't do game predictions, Greg, but you do matchups, and

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Speaker 1: you see this Buffalo Baltimore matchup, which you said you've highlighted,

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Speaker 1: the Bill should be able to play with these guys, right.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't know that the Ravens present as

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Speaker 1: many personnel challenges as some of the teams of Bills

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Speaker 1: have already played and beaton this year. What do you

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01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 1: think I would agree. I think Sean McDermott and Leslie

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01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: Frasier it's not their first rodeo. They've been around the block.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was a time when Jim Johnson in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and I'm my guest, as Sean was on that staff,

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Speaker 1: did a really good job defending Michael Vick. So I

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Speaker 1: would expect that the Bills defense will more than hold

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Speaker 1: their own. Now, whether that leads to a victory, no

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Speaker 1: one can answer that, Murph. But I don't think this

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Speaker 1: is going to be one of those games whether Ravens

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Speaker 1: put up forty. Yeah, it would be low scoring, I think,

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Speaker 1: don't you. I'd like to see it that way because

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01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: then I think the Bills have a really strong chance

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Speaker 1: to win. Yeah. I don't see this game being thirty

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Speaker 1: eight thirty five. Sound like you're room for the Bills

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Speaker 1: there a minute, you know, well, you know, I kind

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01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: of like the Bills. You know. Oh, you've hit it well,

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: you've hit it very well the last couple of months. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm an impartial analyst. Murf's right, I know that,

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: but I've I've known Sean for a long time and

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Speaker 1: I've known Leslie Frasier for a long time. Good guys,

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Speaker 1: the roof work great. Thanks for this. We'll look for

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Speaker 1: your show this weekend. Thank you very much, appreciate it, guys. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Greg Borsell is a senior producer in NFL Films The Analysts,

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Speaker 1: and executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN. You can

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Speaker 1: see that show tomorrow eight thirty am on ESPN two

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Speaker 1: Sunday twice on ESPN four am six thirty am on ESPN.

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01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: Really the best breakdown show you'll find all weekend on

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I believe, and I look forward today he

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Speaker 1: said they got a whole segment on this matchup. Say,

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Speaker 1: second segment on the board is when they're going to

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Speaker 1: do Bill's Ravens. So that's cool, that is good. I

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Speaker 1: like that the thing. And you know the point you

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Speaker 1: made with him about weapons to worry about with Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: Yes there are. I agree, there are fewer. Andrews is

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Speaker 1: a hell of a tight end. Ingram's a problem and

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Speaker 1: Jackson is special with the ball in his hands, and

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Speaker 1: for them, that's been enough to win eight in a

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Speaker 1: row against some really good defenses. And so that's the

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Speaker 1: only concern that I have. I could see the Bills

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01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: playing their best game of the year and then losing

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: because Jackson just makes one special play, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, And that's gonna chat me something fierce

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01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: if that happens, because but that's the kind of player

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Speaker 1: he is. He just needs one crease and it could

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Speaker 1: be the difference in a game. Yep. We had Brian

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Speaker 1: Balding around the show Monday this week respect in the

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Speaker 1: NFL analysts former offensive lineman talking about this game and

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01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 1: he made a really good point, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: stuck with me all week about this game, Chris, and

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Speaker 1: that's look, the Ravens will make plays and you gotta

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01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: bounce back. Lamar Jackson didn't break a big run and

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Speaker 1: you know what, you got to play the next down

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Speaker 1: on defense too, kaylet a snowball. Yes, And I think

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Speaker 1: he's absolutely right. The guy that dynamic and an offense

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Speaker 1: that is as unique as they are, be ready for

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01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: a big play against you. And this Bills team, let's

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Speaker 1: face it, they've done a pretty good job of handling stress,

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Speaker 1: handling bad situations, giving up the ball deep in their

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Speaker 1: own territory a couple of times this season, and keeping

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Speaker 1: teams out of the air. They're really good. And I

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Speaker 1: think reacting to negativity and they might have to do

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Speaker 1: that a couple of times, well yeah, And I think

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Speaker 1: that's that's a demonstration of the maturation that this defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball in particular has undergone in the

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Speaker 1: last calendar year alone, because think about back to last

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Speaker 1: year when there was a jailbreak in the run game.

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Speaker 1: It stretched for three weeks before they fixed it, and

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Speaker 1: this year, you know, the jailbreak happened in the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: game and they fixed it to certain extent, and then

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Speaker 1: by the following week it was over yea. And to me,

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Speaker 1: that was a sign of the maturity of this defensive

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Speaker 1: unit as a whole, where they're not hitting that panic

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Speaker 1: button and then looking around at each other checking for

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Speaker 1: rain what's going on? You know, like there's none of

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01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: that anymore. And I think it's an example of what

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Speaker 1: you get when you have a measure of continuity with

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Speaker 1: your personnel, with your scheme, and with your coaching. And

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Speaker 1: this is year three now and those guys are supremely

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01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: comfortable in their own skin and with the scheme, and

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Speaker 1: we're seeing the results of that. We had a lot

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Speaker 1: more to talk about, and Maddy glab is standing body

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Speaker 1: to join us next segment when we come back after

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Speaker 1: the break, to take a look at the Bills upcoming

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Speaker 1: weekend and maybe well not as important but some of

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Speaker 1: the other games going on, but we'll impact Buffalo's playoff status,

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Speaker 1: all of that coming up when we return. Come on back.

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Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health from

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Speaker 1: Radio Back one b Liveshot Murphy. Chris Brown is in

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Speaker 1: for the vacation in Steve Dasker and Maddy glab joined.

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Speaker 1: US Bills reporter from PSC covers a little bit of Sabers,

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Speaker 1: but with the Bills most of the time, and she

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Speaker 1: and Chris are the co hosts of Field Pass coming

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Speaker 1: up this Sunday. I don't know folks, well, folks need

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Speaker 1: to know about this show. You guys do a live

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Speaker 1: television show from the sidelines for feminists. For kickoff, we

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Speaker 1: are right down on the sideline with the players warming

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Speaker 1: up behind us. It's the only place you're going to

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Speaker 1: see the players warm up before the game anywhere, because

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Speaker 1: nobody else is there at that time shooting live. So

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Speaker 1: we're down there on the field and we're kind of

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Speaker 1: breaking down the game. We like to make it interactive

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Speaker 1: because we always ask the fans a Twitter question at

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Speaker 1: the beginning. We want them to chime in, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: we'll even ask them where are you watching the game from?

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Speaker 1: And they can send Instagram posts into us, and if

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Speaker 1: we get somebody clever or who's in some far a

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Speaker 1: portion of the earth, we will put their post up.

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Speaker 1: We had a guy, what was it Poland Ireland with

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Speaker 1: this four guys in a Polish but in Poland and

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Speaker 1: crack out in a bar, all decked out in Bill's gear,

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Speaker 1: saying we're ready for the game. It's like nine o'clock

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Speaker 1: at night, but they were ready to go. Betty, Where

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01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: can I find this show? Okay? So it can be

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01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 1: found in a multitude of places. You can find on Facebook,

1482
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you can find on the website and the

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: Bill's app, and I think it's also on the One

1484
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Appeal. We stream everywhere live twelve fifteen pm before

1485
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: kickoff a y about twenty minutes. It's pretty quick. It's

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01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:09,799
Speaker 1: everything you need to know and bite sized pieces before

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,640
Speaker 1: kick bite size I like too. And the promo we

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01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: had the graphic we just said it said bold predictions.

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01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: You guys make bold. Well, we kind of we have

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01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: this thing that we call one Big Thing and it's

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01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: kind of one thing that we think can decide the game. Uh,

1492
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 1: what could go into deciding the game? The biggest factor,

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: if you will. And then we always have a guest,

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01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 1: and we've had some good guests this year in the

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01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 1: times that we've been on the air. We had drew

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01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: bled so earlier this season. Well, Yeah, this one will

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01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 1: be a little bit easier this week because we have

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01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 1: Doug Flutie, so we'll be a little bit closer to

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01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: our TI so they won't we won't need to stand

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Speaker 1: on a box or anything to talk to him. And

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01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:45,799
Speaker 1: this show Sunday. Yeah, this season town. I think everybody

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 1: knows by now that the Flutie Flakes are back for

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01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 1: their twentieth anniversary. It's crazy to think that it's been

1504
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 1: twenty years since that season when he came back to

1505
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:54,680
Speaker 1: the league from the CFL and kind of lit the

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01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: season on fire after a lot of people forget Murph.

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01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: It was an Owen three start that yeah, and then

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01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: things we're looking grimm and he kind of helped turn

1509
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: the season around, went to the Pro Bowl and what

1510
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: did he get? A Comeback Player of the Year also

1511
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: all in the same year. It was crazy, and it

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01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: was important in franchise history to have a good year

1513
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: that year. So, right, sweets get the stadium redone a

1514
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: little bit. That was key, all right, So Manny Glavis

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 1: with us here. We've talked about field Pass and we'll

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: talk about her postgame show Bills tonight as well, but

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01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: this is time for weekend. Look Ahead presented by Amtrak

1518
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 1: on an Amtrak get carried away. As we look at

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01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: the Bills game and some of the other games. We've

1520
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: talked about the Bills game so much. We talked about

1521
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: how much you know, how much these teams are going

1522
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,719
Speaker 1: to try to run to win in this game. And Chris,

1523
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: you made a good point with with Greg ocell a

1524
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: minute ago, the uh, the Baltimore Ravens are going to

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01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: throw pressure at Josh Ellen, aren't they. They blitz more

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01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: than anybody else in the league a lot. Yeah, highest

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01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: blitz team in the league at forty eight percent of

1528
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:51,120
Speaker 1: their passing down snaps. So that's as Greg said, it's

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01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: a philosophy. They believe that their guys on the back

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01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: end can cover man to man and so they'll send

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01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: six and sometime seven and they get home a lot

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 1: of the time. So hopefully Josh and Brian dab will

1533
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 1: have the answers because they got to know that the preturos.

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01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: We've also seen Josh Allen improve against the blitz though

1535
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 1: since what week five of us so stern a us

1536
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: interceptions from our touchdowns one on nine since week five

1537
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: pretty good. And look the key is here and the

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01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: Bills are in position where they could possibly clinch a

1539
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 1: playoff spot by the seven thirty eight o'clock on this Sunday, Maddie.

1540
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:27,599
Speaker 1: But the number one thing, Maddie, is that the Bills

1541
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: have to win. Yeah, we gotta get it. We gotta

1542
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 1: get a start off with the Bills win, and then

1543
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:35,440
Speaker 1: from there, we need Oakland to lose or tie to Tennessee.

1544
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: We need Houston to lose to Denver, and we need

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01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: Indianapolis to lose or tie to Tampa Bay. Okay, let

1546
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: me get you into some of these games a little bit,

1547
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: and let me start with the one o'clock game, because

1548
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 1: those will be going on while the Bills are playing

1549
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Texans one o'clock. That game in Houston.

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01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: That's important to the Bills, right, Yeah, So we need

1551
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: the Bills need Houston to lose, and they're playing against

1552
01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: the Broncos. And you think Houston coming off this this

1553
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: big trick play win against the Patriots, firing on all cylinders.

1554
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: They've got heat. But the Broncos also saw Drew Locke

1555
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: have a great first game as an NFL starting quarterback.

1556
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: Last week. He completed sixty four point three percent of

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01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: his passes. The Texans great offense, but their defense is

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01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 1: ranked twenty seventh. So if Drew Locke has a good day,

1559
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:25,919
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton gets involved, He's not too many pass receiving

1560
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: yards away from one thousand receiving yards season. If those

1561
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: two connect for a great day, I think we could

1562
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: see some points on the scoreboard. You know, since Houston's

1563
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:39,839
Speaker 1: defense isn't the best, the Broncos have the eleventh ranked defense,

1564
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: so Houston is going to face another good defensive team

1565
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: in the Broncos. And against the Patriots, Houston only rushed

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01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: for fifty two yards. So if we see a stat

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: maybe similar to that, if von Miller and the guy's

1568
01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:55,800
Speaker 1: upfront can can hold Houston a little bit from that

1569
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:59,759
Speaker 1: rushing attack, we could maybe see this beat in the Broncos.

1570
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: I mean that's a big Maybe we're hoping for a

1571
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: major hangover by the Houston Texans after they went over

1572
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Right, no faith in Drew lock this year? Maybe, Manager,

1573
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: I don't think the guys got a lot. We need

1574
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: to ride Philip Lindsay and hope that Locke can work

1575
01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: and play action off and I think that's the only

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01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: way you're I mean, yes, Houston does have its flaws

1577
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 1: on defense, There's no question about that. But man, that's

1578
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 1: is that that's in Houston. Yea, that is in Houston.

1579
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: And Houston is five and one at home this season,

1580
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: and you got yeah, and the Bronchos are one and

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01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: five away from home. Yep. So game I'm trying to

1582
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: convince the people. Murf, You're not helping me here. In

1583
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: the realist, here's a one o'clock game that matters to

1584
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: the Bills, the Colts at six and six at Tampa Bay. Obviously,

1585
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: the Bills would like to see the Colts lose that game, right,

1586
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: You want to see Tampa Bay win. Yeah, we need

1587
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: to see Tampa Bay win. I think the good thing

1588
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 1: about this one is, well, the Bucks are favored to

1589
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: start off. It's it's in Tampa Bay this game. And

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01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: over the last four games, Jameis Winston has been a

1591
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: pretty good quarterback. He is the second most for past

1592
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 1: yards right now one thousand, two hundred and fifty two

1593
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 1: over the past few games. That's averaging three hundred thirteen

1594
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: passing yards, and the Colts have the twelfth ranked pass

1595
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:12,600
Speaker 1: passing defense. But if Jamis Winston shows up and doesn't

1596
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 1: throw too many interceptions. I mean again, you're kindly asking

1597
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: for here. You're counting out a quarterback who is not

1598
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: good to play well. I get gay the last part weeks.

1599
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: I need to throw some holy water on it. And

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01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: the Colts. The Colts are this is we're talking about

1601
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: an injured offense. They've only put seventeen points on board

1602
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. You have Marlon Mack t

1603
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: Y Hilton who are currently still hurt. They haven't practiced

1604
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 1: this week. I haven't seen an injury report yet from today.

1605
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette has posted some really low passer ratings over

1606
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, seventy six point four, seventy six,

1607
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 1: seventy four point nine. These are things you don't want

1608
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: to see. And they have a new kicker on their

1609
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: team this week. The reason Brissett's struggled, and Manny and

1610
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: I were talking about this before we came back from

1611
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: the break, is because they lost Eric Ebron for the year.

1612
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 1: Hilton's been out the last few weeks, and Marlon Mack

1613
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: has been out like what God forbid? You know, the Bills,

1614
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: no John Brown, no Devin Singletary, you know what I mean,

1615
01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: Like it's that's crippling for a for a football team.

1616
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 1: But it looks like Max's gonna be back this week.

1617
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: He practiced full yesterday. Um, so it looks like he's

1618
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 1: going to be back in the lineup. So that's a

1619
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:19,639
Speaker 1: plus for the Colts. But uh, Tampa has been pretty

1620
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: good though against the run of late, haven't they They've

1621
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,600
Speaker 1: been improved there against the run. But maybe this is

1622
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: a heavy lift too, Is that what? Mur murf doesn't

1623
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:30,680
Speaker 1: look very convinced. I'm not winning this contest right now

1624
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: over here. Look, it's just a heavy lift, that's all. Yeah.

1625
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: And here's a game that maybe is more realistic. It's

1626
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,599
Speaker 1: a four twenty five kickoff. I believe it's on TV

1627
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,600
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo on CBS. Titans at the Raiders and

1628
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: Bills fans. Uh, well, I'm on a roof for the

1629
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans in this game, right man. The Tannehill Titans

1630
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: better known as this this guy's been on fire as

1631
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: of light. The last three games, Tennessee's racked up one

1632
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: hundred and eight points. That's averaging thirty six points per game,

1633
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,400
Speaker 1: something we really haven't seen out of the Titans earlier

1634
01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 1: this season. Since Week seven. They have the second highest

1635
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: scoring offense in the NFL with one hundred and seventy

1636
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 1: eight points. The Raiders have the twentieth ranked defense and

1637
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: allow twenty seven points per game. So I think this

1638
01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 1: favors the Titans definitely. And Derrick Henry has been amazing

1639
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. He has been averaging one

1640
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five point three rushing yards per game

1641
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 1: and has scored five touchdowns. He has lit up that

1642
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: scoreboard and he's ran all over the field over the

1643
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,519
Speaker 1: last few weeks. So, man, when he runs, he doesn't

1644
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: look like he's going fast, but then he's out running

1645
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: secondary's down the sideline. It's like defies logic. But I

1646
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: think it's because he's so long. Yeah, he's an angular

1647
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: body guy. He's just he's such a long strider. It

1648
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's moving fast, but then he's just

1649
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: he's out angling guys down the side. How did he

1650
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 1: outrun that corner? What the heck happened? He's he's a

1651
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: he's a different breed of catman. He really is one

1652
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 1: more game. And this comes under the heading of dreamers,

1653
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 1: I guess, but we can dream, right. I think we've

1654
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: been trying to dream this whole second right now, for

1655
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: the Winds were as yeah, well this is the the

1656
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,719
Speaker 1: Foxborough game and it's four twenty five kickoff the Chiefs

1657
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. Patriots have gone two and two in

1658
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: the last four games. Yeah, they're having trouble scoring points.

1659
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City's beating him two of the last three times

1660
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:18,120
Speaker 1: they played. And look, can't we dream at least here

1661
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 1: in December six seventh about a possible division two straight

1662
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: losses for the I think we can. Do You want

1663
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: to dream, Murph? Doan want dream? Okay, well, let's dream.

1664
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: It seems interested. Now. The Patriots have won the last

1665
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:34,920
Speaker 1: eighteen games in Foxborough, So, uh, that's that good. It's not.

1666
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 1: It won't be easy, but I think it can be done.

1667
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: Kansas City's defense has looked pretty solid over the last

1668
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:44,480
Speaker 1: two weeks, averaging only thirteen points per game, forcing seven turnovers.

1669
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: And hey, the Patriots offense has averaged eighteen points per

1670
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,439
Speaker 1: game over the last three weeks. That's something we usually

1671
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: don't see from the Patriots offense. But we've seen Tom

1672
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 1: Brady struggle a bit with his young wide receivers as

1673
01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:00,920
Speaker 1: of late. Uh, and Andy Reid's Chiefs teams when they're

1674
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 1: in Foxborough. They've averaged thirty two points per game. That's

1675
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 1: pretty high for playing in Foxborough. And Patrick Mahomes, yes,

1676
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: he has not won yet in Foxboro, but he's averaged

1677
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty three passing yards per game and it's

1678
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: thrown for seven touchdowns with only two interceptions. The problem,

1679
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 1: the problem with that dream is the Patriots. Uh, you know,

1680
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: the Bills get him December twenty first in Foxborough, but

1681
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:28,440
Speaker 1: then after this game the Chiefs, the Patriots play at Cincinnati,

1682
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: a bad team, and home against Miami. Yeah. So this

1683
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: is the key game, really, Kansas City, if the Bills

1684
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: have any real and it's this game and the head

1685
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Speaker 1: to head game. Oh, the head to head game. You

1686
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:40,960
Speaker 1: gotta get that too. Yep. But the Kansas City's got

1687
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: to do this favorite for us. They do, We're gonna

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01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: dream about it to The Patriots have lost to two

1689
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks already. Here comes Patrick Mahomes the third one,

1690
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, okay with you? All right, I'll buy that

1691
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: for a doll so you will not talk about those games.

1692
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Bills game with Fred Jackson on

1693
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: the show Bills Tonight with Fred Jackson. Bills Snight will

1694
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: stream it on Facebook Live or on Facebook as well

1695
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 1: as Twitter the website right after the game. So you're

1696
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: gonna get coach McDermott, you're gonna get Josh Allen, some

1697
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: other locker rooms sound. Hopefully we're gonna be celebrating a win,

1698
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: and you may get the inside locker room talk from

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01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,679
Speaker 1: coach McDermott and his team. So that's about a twenty

1700
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: five minute show. And then afterwards if you're if you're

1701
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: needing more, you should always want more from locker room

1702
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 1: sound and all that stuff. You can check out MSG

1703
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: At eleven thirty there'll be an hour long version of

1704
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: the show Bill's Tonight with Maddie and Fred Jackson, and

1705
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 1: of course Bill's Field Passed with Chris Brown. Pregame. Thanks Mattie,

1706
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: no problem, Maddie glab PSC and Bill's Reporter, Thanks for

1707
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,879
Speaker 1: joining us. That's the weekend look ad presented by Amtrak.

1708
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: On Amtrak, Get carried away, Chris and I back with

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Speaker 1: more one Bill's Live from the Seneca Studio on Archard Park.

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01:24:48,200 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris has been a busy day.

1711
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: Chris Brown in here for Steve Tansker. Right, it's been

1712
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: a very busy day. Yes, I am in here for Steve.

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01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:17,600
Speaker 1: It's been busy, Yes, confirming, confirmed, All right, confirmed. This

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01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: Ravens like the bliss what's the number, forty eighty eight

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01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: percent of the time they blitz on passing down. So yeah,

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01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: that's something the Bills are aware of. That is a

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01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: fat number though, yeah, really fat because some of the

1718
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: I think it's about seven to eight percent higher than

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01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 1: the next closest team in terms of blitz percentage, and

1720
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 1: I would venture to guess the league average is probably

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01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: down around twenty eight to thirty percent, which is right

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01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: around where the Bills are these days. So it is

1723
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 1: clearly a philosophy on their part where they believe their

1724
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 1: back end can cover man to man and they say,

1725
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: try to block all these guys up because we're coming

1726
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: to get you. And it works. Am I missing something

1727
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: on the back end? I gotta asked this question this

1728
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: morning by Howard simon a segment I do with him.

1729
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 1: How great is this Raven secondary? And you know, so

1730
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 1: I watched I think I watched almost four and a

1731
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: half five games, and they're good. They're good, But I

1732
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: don't I don't get the sense that like Earl Thomas

1733
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 1: has what he had in Seattle anymore. I know Marcus

1734
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 1: Peters is a big name corner, but I don't think

1735
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,800
Speaker 1: he is. I think he's good. As for Davious White,

1736
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think he's great. Am I missing

1737
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 1: something on the back end? I know they're solid band.

1738
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 1: They're pretty good. Okay, they're pretty good. I don't know

1739
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: if I would say they're quite as good as the

1740
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 1: bill secondary, but I think it is. I think it

1741
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: is man for man, probably the strength of their defense.

1742
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a good defensive line, don't get

1743
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:46,719
Speaker 1: me wrong, but in terms of name recognition and talent,

1744
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,919
Speaker 1: the back end is probably the strength of their defense.

1745
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,720
Speaker 1: And it enables them two blitz up front. And I

1746
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:56,719
Speaker 1: think the reason why they blitz so much not only

1747
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:58,640
Speaker 1: is it because they're guys on the back end are

1748
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,759
Speaker 1: so good man to man, but I think it's also

1749
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: because they don't have a true star in that front seven,

1750
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: and so they say, well, we'll make up for that

1751
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: by attacking with numbers up front, and we'll get results

1752
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: that way. And to this point it's worked. And you know,

1753
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 1: I know Earl Thomas is on the back side of

1754
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:20,440
Speaker 1: his career, but he is one of the best safeties

1755
01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: in the league at confusing quarterbacks, and Josh even mentioned

1756
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: it this week. He said, I know, we've got two

1757
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: guys that do a good job here of spinning the

1758
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: dial and making plays look like something else. Pre snap,

1759
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: He's like Earl Thomas, will bait you into doing things

1760
01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: you think you can do and you can't, but the

1761
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: look that he gives you makes you think that it's there,

1762
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he's running the other

1763
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 1: way with the football. So he may not be what

1764
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:48,480
Speaker 1: he was, but he's still pretty good at fooling quarterbacks.

1765
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,559
Speaker 1: And you said when I said this morning with Howard Simon,

1766
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 1: I like Buffalo's defensive backfield do the most intriguing matchup

1767
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 1: for me, and the injury report is going to have

1768
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 1: a lot to say about this. But when they play nickel,

1769
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 1: Marlin Humphrey kicks inside and plays the slot, I am

1770
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:09,800
Speaker 1: fascinated by the Cole Beasley Marlin Humphrey matchup because Marlin

1771
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: Humphrey does have the short area quickness to hang with

1772
01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:17,919
Speaker 1: most slot receivers. I'm really interested to see that matchup.

1773
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:21,720
Speaker 1: But and Humphrey is coming off a thigh injury from

1774
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: last week's game against San Francisco. He was blitzing. He

1775
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:28,519
Speaker 1: was going on a blitz and he got submarine by

1776
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 1: the back in protection and he came up lane rolling

1777
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: around and holding his legs. So my guess is it's

1778
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 1: like a deep thigh bruise or something. But he was

1779
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: limited in practice again yesterday. We'll have to wait and

1780
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: see what the designation was today. If he's not one

1781
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 1: hundred percent, that could be advantage Bills inside there with

1782
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: Cole if Humphrey can't move around like he normally does,

1783
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: and that would upset the apple cart in terms of

1784
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 1: the whole packing order of that secondary because it might

1785
01:28:54,840 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: put Brandon car on the field a lot more. And

1786
01:28:57,240 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you right now, Brandon carring what he

1787
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 1: used to be either, and if he's on the field more,

1788
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for the Bills passing game. They

1789
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: blitz a lot, as Chris said, forty eight percent of

1790
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 1: the time. And Bill's guard John Feliciano talked about it

1791
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: and talked about the Bills plans against ad blitz heavy

1792
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens defense. It's gonna be tough. Um. I played

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01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: them a few times in my career, and every year,

1794
01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: you know, going and you know that they're gonna have

1795
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:27,719
Speaker 1: a blitz pick package for you, uh, and it's gonna

1796
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: be something you haven't seen. And they do a great

1797
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 1: job over there, their coaching staff and and I mean

1798
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:37,840
Speaker 1: they got guys that fit their system and guys that

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01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 1: can really rush the passer, and it's gonna be a

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01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:45,560
Speaker 1: great challenge for us. I think, man maybe more overloading

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01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: the edge than double a gam blitzes, but I'm they

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01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: do it well. They show that too. Yeah. Um last

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01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,880
Speaker 1: week against San franc they did more predominant five five

1804
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: man guys have ninety nine sort of like their mic

1805
01:29:57,720 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 1: and put in a thirty six out on the edge.

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01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,360
Speaker 1: So that was just wonder wrinkle and like like you see,

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01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 1: that was the wrinkle for the forty nine ers. So

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01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, we know that we're gonna they're gonna have

1809
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 1: their own set of blitzes, own blitz practice just for

1810
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:14,120
Speaker 1: us and and I mean mainly for Josh. Yeah, manly

1811
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,879
Speaker 1: for Josh. Hopefully not right for Josh, but for Josh. Eventually,

1812
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:20,160
Speaker 1: all right, we got Lorenzo Alexander with a lowdown coming

1813
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: up when we return after the break. Come on back

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01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 1: with us One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health Live

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01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:38,320
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. Hello,

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01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 1: Ills Radio Network Sports Update. The update from One Bill's Drive.

1817
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,719
Speaker 1: The Bills practice is complete inside the ad Pro Sports

1818
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:49,680
Speaker 1: Training Center and their injury report is out. One name

1819
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 1: on a two offensive lineman Tie and Seki will not play.

1820
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 1: He's been ruled out. Still suffering with that ankle injury.

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01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 1: He has not practiced all week. A couple of the

1822
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 1: Bills who were ill and misspractice yesterday. We're back today,

1823
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: offensive line in Quentin Spain and running back t j Yelden.

1824
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 1: The Bills defense ranked third in the NFL. The Ravens

1825
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: are already beat numbers one and two of the Patriots.

1826
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:10,639
Speaker 1: In the Niners and Josh Allen can expect to see

1827
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the blitz when Baltimore lines up to play the defense.

1828
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:15,920
Speaker 1: They blitz opposing quarterbacks forty eight percent of the time,

1829
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: highest blitz rating in the NFL. Baltimore has eight interceptions

1830
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 1: and the lowest passer rating in the league. When the

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01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: blitz the teams that go against him, whether on Sunday

1832
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 1: is going to be good. Mostly clouds, a little bit

1833
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,719
Speaker 1: of the sun. High of forty five degrees, wins fifteen

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01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:32,640
Speaker 1: to twenty miles per hour. Got to call on the

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01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 1: game the Bills in the Ravens one o'clock kickoff. Here

1836
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 1: a new airfield. I'll have the call on the booth

1837
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 1: or Deeric Wood sal Capato on the sidelines on our

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01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: flagship station, w g R Sports Radio five fifty Thursday

1839
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: Night Football last night. The rest of Bears linebacker Roquan

1840
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:48,680
Speaker 1: Smith season is in jeopardy. Now they're leading tackler. He

1841
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:51,799
Speaker 1: suffered what's believed to be a significant pectoral muscle injury

1842
01:31:52,040 --> 01:31:54,559
Speaker 1: in the first quarter of that game against Dallas Bears

1843
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:57,479
Speaker 1: one at thirty one twenty four. Roquan Smith, Chicago's first

1844
01:31:57,560 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 1: round pick a couple of years ago, at fifteen total

1845
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:02,160
Speaker 1: tackles last week and now it looks like he is

1846
01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:04,600
Speaker 1: out for the rest of the year. Odell Beckham is

1847
01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: vague about his future with the Cleveland Browns, telling reporters yesterday,

1848
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 1: no one knows what the future holds. Beckham was asked

1849
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 1: about whether he wants to be in Cleveland next year.

1850
01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:16,920
Speaker 1: He's under contract here through twenty twenty three Giants look

1851
01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:19,719
Speaker 1: like they're going with Eli Manning Monday night. Daniel Jones,

1852
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:21,479
Speaker 1: their starter, is not going to play with a high

1853
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:24,360
Speaker 1: ankle sprain, and Pat Shermer says Jones will sit out

1854
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: practice today. Sabers come back at Temple. Last night fell short.

1855
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: They lost to the Calgary Flames on the road four

1856
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: to three. Sam Reinhard, Jake McCabe, and Jack Eichel scored

1857
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,639
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. Now the Sabers at practiced today. They'll play

1858
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: the Vancouver Canucks tomorrow afternoon at four pm. And that

1859
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:52,240
Speaker 1: is the update from one Bill's Drive for the Lowdown

1860
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: with Lorenzo Alexander. Bill venteran linebacker Lorenzo Alexander in studio

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01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: with us with me and Chris Brown for the next

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01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:00,200
Speaker 1: few minutes here, Lorenzo, great to have you here. I

1863
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:01,760
Speaker 1: love when you come in. It means the week is

1864
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:08,599
Speaker 1: almost Overno at three o'clock Lowdown brought to you by

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01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:12,840
Speaker 1: Hutches of Redefining City Dining. Thanks coming in, appreciate it. Yeah,

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01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:14,960
Speaker 1: anytime you know that. It seems like it's been forever

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01:33:15,080 --> 01:33:18,639
Speaker 1: since that the Dallas game doesn't spend. I've enjoyed every

1868
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 1: minute I'm feeling good, can walk halfway decent, you know,

1869
01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 1: so I've been enjoying it. You take it easy on

1870
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 1: the days off your head. Last I didn't. I didn't

1871
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 1: do anything. I mean I literally cheered. The weather didn't

1872
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: help either, but just just relax, slept in what I

1873
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:33,640
Speaker 1: normally don't do, and just kind of just rejuvenate a

1874
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 1: little bit. See, we know you're a true Buffalonian now

1875
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,160
Speaker 1: because we allow you to complain about the weather. You can't.

1876
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:40,080
Speaker 1: You've lived here for a couple of years, long enough

1877
01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 1: year around. Yeah, the last two years, he's not doing

1878
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: the snowbird thing after the season's over, going down south

1879
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:49,920
Speaker 1: like everybody else. I'm holding off asking you the Lamar

1880
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 1: Jackson question because you told us you're kind of sick

1881
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 1: answering questions over the head of that. Well. Yeah, I mean,

1882
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:56,760
Speaker 1: obviously he's the hottest thing out and doing well, and

1883
01:33:56,800 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: everybody wants to know. Wednesday, I'm just gonna say this,

1884
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 1: when this day after practice, Lorenzo may have gone five

1885
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 1: or six rounds with the media in the locker room.

1886
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:12,839
Speaker 1: It's start to finish and it just came in waves

1887
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 1: and I'm just watching this from the other end of

1888
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:17,040
Speaker 1: the locker room going I'm not going over there. I'm

1889
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 1: not going to answer a single question this week. I'm

1890
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:25,080
Speaker 1: gonna leave him alone. Yeah, because it was non stop,

1891
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:29,120
Speaker 1: but I mean he handled it all and answered every question,

1892
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 1: and I mean kudos to you, man. I don't know

1893
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: if I could go forty one minute. I mean it's

1894
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:34,639
Speaker 1: part of it. I mean it's a good thing. Means

1895
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 1: we're winning and people want to know what we think

1896
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 1: in our locker room. Hopefully y'all give out some type

1897
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 1: of reward though. You know, I've been on teams that

1898
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:43,479
Speaker 1: they give out like to do there, but why don't

1899
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 1: we do it here? Yeah? I don't know. They used

1900
01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 1: to do that a long time ago. Something then a

1901
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: gift or to quotable and then you know, show your appreciation,

1902
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:53,720
Speaker 1: especially doing the Christmas. You know this something nice. You know,

1903
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:56,200
Speaker 1: guys are always giving you guys quotes. Yeah, that's right,

1904
01:34:56,240 --> 01:34:57,680
Speaker 1: that will see. That's why I don't go to the

1905
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 1: well every week, because you know, when you have somebody

1906
01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,520
Speaker 1: that can give you answers like him that are insightful

1907
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 1: and that you can use, you don't want to go

1908
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 1: to the well too many times because then the guy's like,

1909
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:08,559
Speaker 1: come on Man again this week, So you just kind

1910
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: of you gotta space it out and try to find

1911
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 1: somebody else that can help you. Forty one minutes. How

1912
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: many of those minutes were about Lamar Jackson? Yeah, exactly.

1913
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,280
Speaker 1: Can I give you my take and you can go

1914
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:22,600
Speaker 1: ahead at it. He's he's really good. Yeah, call and

1915
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: you can see. You can see what they're doing the

1916
01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: running the ball, and you you would know more than

1917
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: any of us. You gotta scheme up for it and

1918
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:31,240
Speaker 1: be ready for it. But to me, it's more about

1919
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:34,800
Speaker 1: meeting the challenge they put down physically, because they're a

1920
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: pretty physical team. Maybe the most physical team you've played

1921
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:40,400
Speaker 1: this year so far. Um, probably probably up there. I

1922
01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: mean with Tennessee. Tennessee is always a physical game as well. Obviously,

1923
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:45,559
Speaker 1: um what they're running back in their line, but yeah,

1924
01:35:45,560 --> 01:35:48,320
Speaker 1: I mean because they have a fullback that's uh three

1925
01:35:48,360 --> 01:35:52,519
Speaker 1: hundred pounds and one of the sometimes to seventy. So

1926
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean they have some big, some big guys up front.

1927
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,160
Speaker 1: Um that is going to be trying to knock you off.

1928
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:00,160
Speaker 1: And that's at the core of them, um, and we'll

1929
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,200
Speaker 1: get into it more later. They want to be bullies

1930
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,760
Speaker 1: and knock you off the ball, they and the way

1931
01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: they use their tight ends obviously is a little unique

1932
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: too when they've got at least one of them in

1933
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:11,439
Speaker 1: the backfield a lot of the time with the fullback.

1934
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:15,280
Speaker 1: And is there I mean, I know because I was

1935
01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:17,240
Speaker 1: talking to Tommy Sweeney this week, who had to do

1936
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:19,759
Speaker 1: a little practice squad role being one of those guys.

1937
01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:21,000
Speaker 1: He said, oh, I think I was each one of

1938
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:24,360
Speaker 1: those guys at some point this week. But they just

1939
01:36:24,439 --> 01:36:29,599
Speaker 1: seem to get leverage on everybody in the blocking scheme, right,

1940
01:36:29,680 --> 01:36:31,560
Speaker 1: But so is there a way? And I don't I

1941
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: don't want the game plan here, but there have to

1942
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:38,680
Speaker 1: be There have to be ways that defenses can eventually

1943
01:36:38,840 --> 01:36:42,480
Speaker 1: figure out this is how we get the leverage advantage

1944
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 1: on their blocking scheme, because that's what you have to

1945
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: do if you're gonna stop this group, right, right? What

1946
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: else the I mean, that is the challenge, right and

1947
01:36:50,040 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: then hopefully this week we've come up with the solution.

1948
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:55,759
Speaker 1: And so you can look at every team that they've played,

1949
01:36:56,320 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Cleveland, the forty nine Ers, the Hatriots,

1950
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:04,160
Speaker 1: everybody has their own twist or tweak to how they

1951
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:06,639
Speaker 1: think they can stop him. And obviously nobody's worked. Obviously,

1952
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 1: they lost two games, but in those two games they're

1953
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:12,519
Speaker 1: more drop back passing, which isn't them. But when they're

1954
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:16,200
Speaker 1: at their crux as far as running the ball, play action, zone, read, power, read,

1955
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 1: all those type of things that really mess with your eyes,

1956
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:21,599
Speaker 1: they just create mixed matches. And no defense ever accounts

1957
01:37:21,600 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 1: for a quarterback that can run the ball the way

1958
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 1: Lamar has been able to demonstrate week in and week out.

1959
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: And so he's just been very dynamic all years. Maybe

1960
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: but stay healthy. And it's hard to stop a guy.

1961
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 1: But as a defense you have to be okay because

1962
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna make a play. I mean, at some point

1963
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna make somebody look silly, make a play. You

1964
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: just got to get him down, be able to line

1965
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:43,720
Speaker 1: up and go again. Um. I started out this week

1966
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,600
Speaker 1: thinking about Lamar Jackson and the Ravens offense, looking for

1967
01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: like the key, you know, the golden ticket, this is

1968
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:51,679
Speaker 1: how you stop him. And then by last night, after

1969
01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 1: watching four Frame games over there is no there is

1970
01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: no one thing right schematically, it's mostly about tackling being

1971
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: physical and well yeah, so, I mean obviously our coaches,

1972
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:04,479
Speaker 1: one of our coaches those defensive coordinator over the forty

1973
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 1: nine ers, and he say, hey, we played a great game,

1974
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 1: but there were a couple of plays. And most games

1975
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 1: always come down to those handful of plays where our

1976
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:14,120
Speaker 1: guys either miss the tackle, we're in position to miss

1977
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:17,719
Speaker 1: the tackle because they didn't make the play, or allowed

1978
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:19,760
Speaker 1: their eyes to get them out of position to make

1979
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:22,719
Speaker 1: the play. So it's the same result different ways that happened.

1980
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:25,040
Speaker 1: But those times you really have to lock in. And

1981
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:26,840
Speaker 1: that's what it's like playing Army and Navy. You have

1982
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,759
Speaker 1: to just stay where you need to be at all times,

1983
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:32,880
Speaker 1: run your feet, wrap up, and get guys populated to

1984
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:36,040
Speaker 1: the ball. You can't kind of go and do your

1985
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:38,280
Speaker 1: own thing and allow your eyes to make you go

1986
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:39,840
Speaker 1: a straight And you said something that I want to

1987
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:41,800
Speaker 1: get you to maybe explain a little bit when you say,

1988
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:44,799
Speaker 1: you know, use your eyes and people talking about eye discipline,

1989
01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: what exactly you have in mind when you say that

1990
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:49,639
Speaker 1: this week, Well, I mean it's the same thing every week,

1991
01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:51,519
Speaker 1: but even more so this week because you have to

1992
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 1: incorporate the quarterback now because the NFL has obviously morphed

1993
01:38:57,040 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: into this league where officers are using this jet motion

1994
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 1: and then getting people's eyes all over the place. Where

1995
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:03,800
Speaker 1: you line a wide receiver and in this case, they

1996
01:39:03,880 --> 01:39:06,559
Speaker 1: line the big fullback out there three hundred pounds out

1997
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 1: like split him out, and they motion him across, and

1998
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,120
Speaker 1: this is how they create leverage. So they make you

1999
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:13,560
Speaker 1: walk out against him. They motion him across, and that

2000
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: he's running full speed across, kicking out the end and

2001
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 1: running pretty much power and so right, and so as

2002
01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:23,639
Speaker 1: a as a linebacker, you're actually bumping and running with

2003
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: this and trying to call out a play. And when

2004
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:27,479
Speaker 1: it is power is great because now you're flowing to

2005
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:30,200
Speaker 1: the ball, but will get you as when it's not

2006
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:33,680
Speaker 1: power and Lamar's coming out the back end, and now

2007
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 1: you're out leverage to the other side because you don't

2008
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: typically account for a guy like that. So you have

2009
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: to almost slow down, maybe even cheat a little bit

2010
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:43,759
Speaker 1: at time so that you don't have to be flying

2011
01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: one way, so that you can play all the calls

2012
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:47,760
Speaker 1: and see like his profile and a whole bunch of

2013
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 1: other things that we got to go into. But it

2014
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: gets complicated, counterintuitive, intuitive to slow down. You don't want

2015
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:55,240
Speaker 1: to slow down really, right, Yeah, but you have to

2016
01:39:55,280 --> 01:39:57,120
Speaker 1: train yourself to do it. I mean, because if you

2017
01:39:57,360 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 1: over pursue, then you're got to be out of doing

2018
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 1: or one eleventh, as we say, doing your job. And

2019
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:04,439
Speaker 1: any time that you're playing teams like this. I remember

2020
01:40:04,680 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 1: playing the Air Force in college. My job as a

2021
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 1: d tackle was to tackle the dive every single play,

2022
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: whether he had the ball or not. So if I

2023
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:14,280
Speaker 1: wanted to take my chance to say, oh, nope, I

2024
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,479
Speaker 1: see the quarterback has it and the fullback is now

2025
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:19,280
Speaker 1: running hitting his hand on the goal post, scorn, I'm

2026
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:22,720
Speaker 1: in trouble. So in this case, everybody has to be

2027
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 1: selfless in the fact where you may not have ten

2028
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 1: tackles this game, but the two or three tackles that

2029
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:31,719
Speaker 1: you have are very meaningful and impactful because they're preventing

2030
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:34,639
Speaker 1: Lamar from creating this big explosion play because you've done

2031
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:38,519
Speaker 1: your job on the backside. What about the whole tendency game.

2032
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 1: You know, you're prepared for tendencies and all of that.

2033
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 1: These guys again counterintuitive with respect to tendency. I'm watching

2034
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:48,479
Speaker 1: them against the Rams. It's third and twelve and they're

2035
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 1: running the ball. Right, there's about one team in the league.

2036
01:40:52,439 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: Yeah that's gonna run it on third and twelve and

2037
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:58,519
Speaker 1: get fourteen yards. Yeah, and then it depends on where

2038
01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:00,799
Speaker 1: they are on the field. So like once they crossed

2039
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: the fifty because of Tucker, they're kicker who they who

2040
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: can kick it a mile. If they are across the

2041
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 1: fifty and it's third and twelve, they're gonna say, okay,

2042
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:10,439
Speaker 1: well we have points, let's run the ball. Maybe something specials,

2043
01:41:10,479 --> 01:41:12,760
Speaker 1: maybe Lamar keeps it and something special happens. But if

2044
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: we get five yards, that's just five yards closer for

2045
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 1: Tucker and it's a chip shot for him, and we

2046
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:19,200
Speaker 1: got three points. So how does that change you're thinking

2047
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:22,680
Speaker 1: as a defense because you're preparing. You obviously know that,

2048
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:26,639
Speaker 1: you recognize that, but still it's almost like it's almost

2049
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:30,960
Speaker 1: a conceptual philosophy change in your head, like because normally

2050
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 1: you're thinking third and twelve, all right, here comes to pass.

2051
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: That's week to week, not here. But everybody has their

2052
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:37,640
Speaker 1: own tendencies week to week, and so obviously they're not

2053
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:40,599
Speaker 1: a traditional team, and so we took their tendencies based

2054
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:43,360
Speaker 1: on what they do third and twelve, based on field position,

2055
01:41:43,400 --> 01:41:47,639
Speaker 1: whether they're backed up or close, and then we utilize

2056
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:50,240
Speaker 1: that and how Fraser's going to call our defenses and

2057
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 1: what my mindset is as a defender. Okay, we also

2058
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:54,720
Speaker 1: got to go once they crossed the fifty, in the

2059
01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:57,040
Speaker 1: mindset of it could be four down territory because this

2060
01:41:57,040 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: team gets really aggressive once they crossed the fifty and

2061
01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:02,200
Speaker 1: they're trying to get you know, points on the board.

2062
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: Fifteen fifteen of twenty fourth changes the way I would think, yeah, exactly.

2063
01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:10,599
Speaker 1: So if it's third and seven, they may say, oh, well,

2064
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:12,679
Speaker 1: we got two downs, We're gonna run the ball twice.

2065
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:14,880
Speaker 1: We get four yards on the first one, then the

2066
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:16,800
Speaker 1: second time, may we get four years the first down,

2067
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 1: and then we have Lamar this X factor, so he

2068
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: he may decide just to keep it and out run

2069
01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 1: a defender and make a big play, and so you

2070
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:25,800
Speaker 1: really have to start crunching down. That's why it's so

2071
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:27,640
Speaker 1: important as week to win on first, second down and

2072
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:29,840
Speaker 1: try to put them in them third and long situations

2073
01:42:30,400 --> 01:42:33,880
Speaker 1: because obviously their stats are converting those goal a lot lower.

2074
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:36,320
Speaker 1: But you understand that now it's still four down territory,

2075
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 1: especially once they crossed the firty. Even get the third

2076
01:42:38,160 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 1: down that much. I know what I was talking to

2077
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:42,639
Speaker 1: you about that on the show yesterday, that the third

2078
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:45,599
Speaker 1: fewest third down attempts this season, they get one hundred

2079
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 1: and forty one third down attempts in twelve games. Because

2080
01:42:49,520 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: they're averaging five yards the first second yards run. It's

2081
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 1: it's crazy to see it on favorite, it really is.

2082
01:42:56,160 --> 01:42:58,639
Speaker 1: And so that's why we we focus so much on Lamar.

2083
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:00,680
Speaker 1: And this is actually kind of into one of my

2084
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 1: um breakdowns or keys to the game this week, is

2085
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: that we can't forget about mark Ingram and Edwards as

2086
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 1: far as what they do as far as running the ball,

2087
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, averaging four and a half five yards a pop,

2088
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 1: because you start worrying so much about Lamar, and these

2089
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: dudes are just downhill running power leading league kick regular plays.

2090
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: They get to a funny way, but that's all they're running,

2091
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: just that power bully run game, and that's why they're

2092
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:26,680
Speaker 1: really in third down situations at all. And if it is,

2093
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: it's like third and two, third and three, and like,

2094
01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 1: how do you do how do you defend something like

2095
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: that with their run game and what Lamar can do

2096
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:35,759
Speaker 1: that's slowing down. Number one, don't forget about Ingram and Edwards.

2097
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:38,479
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, who gets a lot of carriages. He's pay

2098
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:40,960
Speaker 1: for them right, and both of them real run, both

2099
01:43:41,040 --> 01:43:45,160
Speaker 1: run really physical, downhill type backs, and so that's why

2100
01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:46,760
Speaker 1: we have to make sure obviously are d line of

2101
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:48,679
Speaker 1: doing their job, but then we're also doing our job

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01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: as far as leveraging the play based on some tendencies

2103
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 1: that they show throughout the out throughout the season. For

2104
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:57,960
Speaker 1: us to shed what you're a little too earlier is

2105
01:43:57,960 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: how how they've really been able to get over own

2106
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 1: team is by leveraging the defense. Yeah, Lorenzo Alexander, our guests,

2107
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:06,639
Speaker 1: we're going through the lowdown his keys for Sunday's match

2108
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:09,680
Speaker 1: up with the Baltimore Ravens. Don't forget about Ingram and

2109
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 1: Edwards number two and this goes into it. I'm surprised

2110
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 1: you didn't get to it already quite correctly. But you know,

2111
01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:17,599
Speaker 1: you always talk about the synergy between defense and offense.

2112
01:44:17,640 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: You need your offense because ideally, what they would love

2113
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:23,960
Speaker 1: to do, if you ever look at you know what

2114
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,800
Speaker 1: Hardball has does since he's been with Baltimore is they

2115
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:29,240
Speaker 1: love to control the flow of the game. And if

2116
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: if they would love to win every week, if they

2117
01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: could seven to three, you know whatever, ten to three.

2118
01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:36,479
Speaker 1: They like to control of the game, and so they've

2119
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: really been able to do that with this run game.

2120
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 1: And so once they go up on it really becomes

2121
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 1: like a four minute like we'll just run the ball

2122
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 1: on you all day. I'm cool. We're cool with that

2123
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:47,320
Speaker 1: beating and keep your offense off the field. But if

2124
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:49,519
Speaker 1: once Josh and them get their opportunities, maybe we can

2125
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:51,680
Speaker 1: create some turnovers, give them a couple of more opportunities

2126
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 1: if they can score touchdowns, and we're up like how

2127
01:44:54,920 --> 01:44:56,960
Speaker 1: we did Dallas and done a couple other teams, and

2128
01:44:57,479 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: when it's fourteen to three and this US, now they

2129
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 1: can't run the ball and be methodical and just take

2130
01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:06,040
Speaker 1: it five yards of pop. Five yards of pop. Now

2131
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 1: you force them to maybe have to throw the ball

2132
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:10,640
Speaker 1: where they haven't really lived in those worlds, and when

2133
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:12,400
Speaker 1: they did, they didn't win those two games. We think

2134
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:14,840
Speaker 1: about Cleveland and Kansas City. When they're trying to throw

2135
01:45:14,840 --> 01:45:18,400
Speaker 1: the ball more, um, then that becomes in our favor

2136
01:45:18,479 --> 01:45:20,360
Speaker 1: as far as win because they're just not comfortable. Lamar

2137
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:22,800
Speaker 1: hasn't developed that part of his game quite yet. And

2138
01:45:22,800 --> 01:45:24,679
Speaker 1: then you know, with our back seven, which is probably

2139
01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:26,360
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league, that puts us

2140
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:28,759
Speaker 1: in a in a great spot to maybe create some turnovers.

2141
01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:33,800
Speaker 1: Those losses they had September. You go back, Yeah, well

2142
01:45:33,840 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: you go back. How do they fare? Oh, well, they

2143
01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 1: got away from who they were. You know, they were

2144
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:40,120
Speaker 1: trying to play the ball. But that's but you can

2145
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,800
Speaker 1: get a team back into that world if you score

2146
01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:44,640
Speaker 1: points offensively, and then we're able to stop from the

2147
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: first couple of drives and get up on them a

2148
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: couple of scores, and then it becomes more of a

2149
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 1: panic mobile. We want to win this game. We got

2150
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:53,320
Speaker 1: we gotta throw the ball, Yeah, Lorenzo Alexanders with us.

2151
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 1: Obviously you're on the defensive side of the ball. But

2152
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 1: on the topic of scoring touchdowns, and yes, you guys

2153
01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:01,599
Speaker 1: would benefit from any takeaways you get, but you must

2154
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:03,880
Speaker 1: you have to see it and acknowledge it. Your offense

2155
01:46:03,960 --> 01:46:06,479
Speaker 1: has come quite a distant since early in the season.

2156
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:09,439
Speaker 1: There's some pretty good improvement. It's been a great masturation process.

2157
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:11,679
Speaker 1: I mean just watching Josh and his command of the offense,

2158
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 1: really getting chemistry with John Brown, Dawson Knox, Cole Beasley,

2159
01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: just the way they've really been balling and really clicking.

2160
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 1: The offensive line doing a great job Devin single Tarry

2161
01:46:21,360 --> 01:46:23,680
Speaker 1: running the ball for a young player the way he

2162
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: has obviously Frank Gore, it's just been cool to watch

2163
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 1: from the sideline, especially these last three or four games,

2164
01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:30,840
Speaker 1: the way they've been putting up points, and it just

2165
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:33,040
Speaker 1: helps us out, keeps us fresh. You know, I'm on punt.

2166
01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't have to go cover a punt. Now. You're

2167
01:46:35,040 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 1: not gonna sit back and just watch the game and

2168
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: enjoy it and get ready to go out there and

2169
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:40,360
Speaker 1: play defense when it's our turn after a touchdown. Speaking

2170
01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:43,479
Speaker 1: of Matturation, Murph and I last hour, we were talking about,

2171
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, this is such a good run team and

2172
01:46:46,479 --> 01:46:50,760
Speaker 1: this and that, and you know, just last year it

2173
01:46:50,760 --> 01:46:54,519
Speaker 1: took you guys three weeks to fix a run defense

2174
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: problem when you guys had that streak, and you look

2175
01:46:57,120 --> 01:47:00,200
Speaker 1: at this year and you probably have one sub our

2176
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: performance against Philly, right, and you guys, for the most part,

2177
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:08,080
Speaker 1: get it fixed in much shorter order. Do you see

2178
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: the maturation of this defense too, just in terms of

2179
01:47:13,040 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 1: third year, a lot of the same guys, same coach. Yeah,

2180
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,559
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it just seems like

2181
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:21,680
Speaker 1: you guys, even maybe if you're not at the Apex

2182
01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:23,880
Speaker 1: of your game. In a given game, you can get

2183
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: stuff fixed like next series as opposed to three weeks later, right,

2184
01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:30,840
Speaker 1: because guys understand what's going on schematically on the back end.

2185
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:33,120
Speaker 1: And a lot of times, especially last year, you have

2186
01:47:33,120 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 1: a young guy, a young Mike playing for the first

2187
01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:37,559
Speaker 1: time in Tremaine admands and sometimes you can't really talk

2188
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: the same way as you can talk to somebody who's

2189
01:47:39,120 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: been in the defense three or four years. And it's,

2190
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:44,160
Speaker 1: like you said, the mastration process of really him coming

2191
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:46,120
Speaker 1: up as far as understanding what he needs to do

2192
01:47:46,240 --> 01:47:49,000
Speaker 1: his defense and then really be able to lead as well.

2193
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,599
Speaker 1: And so I think just watching him grow has really

2194
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,679
Speaker 1: helped us kind of shorten that learning curve window down

2195
01:47:54,720 --> 01:47:56,799
Speaker 1: to be able to fix things and twist things around quickly.

2196
01:47:57,040 --> 01:48:01,240
Speaker 1: Low Down number three is control, field position, all three

2197
01:48:01,280 --> 01:48:03,160
Speaker 1: aspects of the game player right right, Yeah, I mean

2198
01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:05,639
Speaker 1: it's really beaten trying to beat Baltimore at their own game,

2199
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:08,640
Speaker 1: and field position is another huge thing. Harbor has a

2200
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:11,040
Speaker 1: special team's background, and so the way Bojo has been

2201
01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: doing a great job these last couple of weeks, Andre

2202
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:17,760
Speaker 1: as well can really create long fields for him offensively

2203
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:20,200
Speaker 1: trying to drive the field when we punt the ball

2204
01:48:20,240 --> 01:48:22,120
Speaker 1: back to him to be able to control the thing.

2205
01:48:22,160 --> 01:48:24,360
Speaker 1: Then obviously having Andre back there, he's been doing a

2206
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: great job. I think he's probably one of the top

2207
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 1: returns in the league right now of return yards and

2208
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:31,439
Speaker 1: so really getting going in the punt game to create

2209
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:33,160
Speaker 1: some short fields as well as a kickoff when we

2210
01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:35,479
Speaker 1: have our opportunities there because this is a good defense,

2211
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:38,200
Speaker 1: there's traditionally good physical defense, and the shorter field that

2212
01:48:38,240 --> 01:48:40,559
Speaker 1: we had for Josh, the more opportunities we can put

2213
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:42,920
Speaker 1: points on the board, whether it's touchdowns or field goals.

2214
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:45,680
Speaker 1: What are we thinking? You know, they picked up to

2215
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 1: Anthony Thomas not too long ago off waivers and he's

2216
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:50,600
Speaker 1: kind of been a little bit of a shot in

2217
01:48:50,640 --> 01:48:52,800
Speaker 1: the arm for them us in some of their return game. Yeah,

2218
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:54,360
Speaker 1: he's a great returner. I mean, he's a guy that

2219
01:48:54,479 --> 01:48:56,880
Speaker 1: is smaller, but it runs very strong. I played against

2220
01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: it when I was in Oakland, he was in Kansas City.

2221
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 1: Obviously had a little struggles this year. I think he

2222
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:02,800
Speaker 1: had like three fumbles early on and that's why they

2223
01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:05,880
Speaker 1: released him in Kansas City. And so obviously we want to,

2224
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:08,120
Speaker 1: you know, get to him be able to cryl him,

2225
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:09,880
Speaker 1: hit him and maybe he costs one up so we're hit,

2226
01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 1: have another turnover and somewhere as well. But he's definitely

2227
01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 1: a formidable returner that we have to understand where he's

2228
01:49:14,920 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 1: gonna be at and what he likes to do. And

2229
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:17,559
Speaker 1: he's a guy that likes to get to the edge

2230
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 1: and use a speed read the paper. You anticipate a

2231
01:49:20,200 --> 01:49:22,000
Speaker 1: lot of base defense for the Bills, which means a

2232
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:23,800
Speaker 1: lot of snaps for you. Yeah, a whole lot of snaps,

2233
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,479
Speaker 1: which I love. This is my type of game, you know,

2234
01:49:25,560 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: physical downhill. I'm bigger and tougher than you are. And

2235
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:30,519
Speaker 1: then obviously when you get on the edge with Lamar

2236
01:49:30,720 --> 01:49:33,000
Speaker 1: going to make a play and he become a star,

2237
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:38,479
Speaker 1: does that mean if you're special teams snap for you

2238
01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 1: ain't not really at this point the season, just trying

2239
01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:43,479
Speaker 1: to help everybody as much as I can, especially when

2240
01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:46,360
Speaker 1: um coming off of a semi bie week. You know,

2241
01:49:47,320 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: always I always thot give it all I got because

2242
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:53,160
Speaker 1: you know you can't take up for granted the opportunities

2243
01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 1: you have, so um, I'm being used as much as possible.

2244
01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: This team played a huge, high profile game, your Lance

2245
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:02,080
Speaker 1: game thirty A half million people. This is a big game, right,

2246
01:50:02,120 --> 01:50:03,960
Speaker 1: you got a Sunday night game coming up? You got

2247
01:50:03,960 --> 01:50:08,360
Speaker 1: a game Saturday up? What short week? Yeah, I don't

2248
01:50:08,360 --> 01:50:11,559
Speaker 1: even want to talk about that right now. I'm people

2249
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: love it. Oh, I'm thinking we got one less day

2250
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:19,559
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah. Yeah, But your teammates, even your young teammates,

2251
01:50:19,560 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 1: they seem to handle the spotlight pretty well. Right. You

2252
01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 1: can talk to him about that or does that need

2253
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,479
Speaker 1: to be talking? Man, that's just natural. I mean you

2254
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:27,960
Speaker 1: to watch Josh or Matt Milano or Tremaine. I mean

2255
01:50:27,960 --> 01:50:31,280
Speaker 1: they just thrive in it because one for one they prepared,

2256
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 1: they played with great confidence and just fly around. I

2257
01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:36,080
Speaker 1: mean it's willing nothing to talk about when guys are

2258
01:50:36,200 --> 01:50:39,519
Speaker 1: naturally gifted at playing in the spotlight. What's what's it

2259
01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:42,160
Speaker 1: been this week of practice? I mean not much, doesn't

2260
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:44,040
Speaker 1: appear to be. People are over the moon about the

2261
01:50:44,240 --> 01:50:47,880
Speaker 1: win over the Cowboys. Yeah, I mean we're just we're

2262
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 1: confident bunch, but we also are humble and um, I

2263
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:54,559
Speaker 1: think that's a great um just credit to what Shot

2264
01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 1: has been able to do. He talks about a lot

2265
01:50:56,200 --> 01:50:57,640
Speaker 1: of things that are in our team needs, just to

2266
01:50:57,720 --> 01:51:00,599
Speaker 1: making sure guys stay grounded and I think guys within

2267
01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:04,839
Speaker 1: our own position groups as far as the leadership understands

2268
01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:07,599
Speaker 1: how quick things can change and go the other way.

2269
01:51:07,680 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 1: And we've done a good job of keeping our rooms

2270
01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:12,880
Speaker 1: and checking humbles as well. They're locked in. Yeah, I

2271
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:15,000
Speaker 1: mean that's that's that's the vibe that you kind of

2272
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:17,599
Speaker 1: get just standing on the sideline watching practice. You can

2273
01:51:17,640 --> 01:51:20,080
Speaker 1: just see people are locked in. I mean, they have

2274
01:51:20,120 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: their fun and they but there there's a focus there, right,

2275
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:27,599
Speaker 1: And I got one more for you and just kind

2276
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: of a big picture thing. And you were here before

2277
01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:32,960
Speaker 1: McDermott right one year. Um, people ask me the question,

2278
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 1: well that things really turned around the last three weeks

2279
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:37,320
Speaker 1: or this year is a lot different than the last year.

2280
01:51:37,520 --> 01:51:40,759
Speaker 1: But you can tell us more than anybody could the framework,

2281
01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:44,519
Speaker 1: the groundwork for what's going on now. Yeah, yeah, there's

2282
01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:46,320
Speaker 1: really no difference. I mean, as far as the vision

2283
01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:48,400
Speaker 1: and the culture that we talked about, the shine is late.

2284
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:51,080
Speaker 1: He's been preaching this the last three years now. Obviously

2285
01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:54,080
Speaker 1: he's had the opportunity to bring in some guys free

2286
01:51:54,080 --> 01:51:56,800
Speaker 1: agent draft, had a couple of drafts brings the free

2287
01:51:56,800 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 1: agents that he really likes that really embody what he's

2288
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 1: already preached, and so he's not preaching to a bunch

2289
01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:03,680
Speaker 1: of guys that is like, I don't know what you're

2290
01:52:03,720 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 1: talking about, dude, because he's hand picked a lot of people,

2291
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:10,000
Speaker 1: and so through that process you're starting to see some

2292
01:52:10,040 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: fruits of that culture. So hopefully now you know, it

2293
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:16,160
Speaker 1: just doesn't end after this season, you know, whatever happens,

2294
01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:18,800
Speaker 1: but it continues and it becomes a hallmark of what

2295
01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:22,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills look like. Coached by Sean McDermott. What

2296
01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 1: do you got going on off the field? Anything with

2297
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:27,360
Speaker 1: your charitable work foundation? Um, well, we're responsoring a bunch

2298
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 1: of kids South Park, doing five families, doing families over

2299
01:52:31,080 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: at the bill Send another five families, partner with Michael

2300
01:52:33,320 --> 01:52:39,439
Speaker 1: Hyde giving away some some Christmas bags and shoes. I

2301
01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:42,439
Speaker 1: think we're doing a hundred kids wo and then supporting

2302
01:52:42,560 --> 01:52:44,599
Speaker 1: you know, Tye and Sek. He's doing a Christmas giveaway

2303
01:52:44,640 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: with fifty kids Walmart. And then the Bills will be

2304
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:50,719
Speaker 1: doing some things with some Christmas over at the Hamburg

2305
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:52,439
Speaker 1: Playgrounds next week. So we got a lot of things.

2306
01:52:52,479 --> 01:52:55,360
Speaker 1: A lot of different guys are doing things the Punt Foundation.

2307
01:52:55,720 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 1: I know Dawson Knox and Lee Smith are hosting something.

2308
01:52:59,320 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: So it's not just mean we got all our Our

2309
01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:03,800
Speaker 1: team does a great job of being in the community. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's far supporting. He's got his plea, he's got his

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01:53:06,120 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: cleats that he's wearing this week too. Yeah, everybody, it's

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01:53:08,240 --> 01:53:10,240
Speaker 1: my cause, my clease this week. So you'll see various

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01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:13,680
Speaker 1: guys with various designs on their Please that's representing something

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01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 1: that's near and dear in their heart. What do you

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01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:19,080
Speaker 1: got your foundation? Yeah? Your kids ready for Christmas Final days,

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01:53:19,120 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 1: They're always ready. Now that's on, but they're they're you know,

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01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,880
Speaker 1: Cloud seven right now because the Williams are here in

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01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 1: town and Kyle is all his kids, so they are

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01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:30,160
Speaker 1: actually out in the field house right now. They wrestling

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01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:32,519
Speaker 1: the boys all yet wrestling and jumping around. That was

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01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:36,760
Speaker 1: always the best postgame shoe. Yeah. Yeah, Chile's daughter might

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01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:39,759
Speaker 1: be the toughest one of the bucks. Nut to crack

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01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: Man clear yep, I appreciate it. Leander with the Lowdown

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Speaker 1: and is brought to you by Hutches Redefining city dining,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown and I coming back with more. One bill

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Speaker 1: Slide presented by Klaida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back,

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01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: one Bill five, Chris Brown in four, Seve Tasker. We're

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01:54:09,520 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 1: here for another half hour or so, more time to

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01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:14,280
Speaker 1: talk with you about Sunday's game, the Bills in the

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01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. We want to know. This is our twitter

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01:54:16,479 --> 01:54:20,240
Speaker 1: or question today. What's your dream headline on Monday after

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01:54:20,320 --> 01:54:22,280
Speaker 1: the Bills Ravens game. We'll read some of the tweets,

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01:54:22,320 --> 01:54:23,880
Speaker 1: but we've got phone lines over if you'd like to

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01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:26,680
Speaker 1: discuss it over the air eight three five fifty and

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01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:30,080
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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01:54:30,080 --> 01:54:31,599
Speaker 1: The phone line is wide open. If you call, we'll

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01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:33,880
Speaker 1: get you on the air your dream headline. You see,

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01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:35,280
Speaker 1: this is sort of a way to have fun with it,

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01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:38,600
Speaker 1: right We've had a couple of fun ones. Pope re Ravens.

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01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:40,640
Speaker 1: Jersey is the leader in the clubhouse right now. I

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01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:42,480
Speaker 1: like that one. That was good, like that a lot.

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01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 1: Somebody had something else. What the heck was it? Now? Oh?

2343
01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:48,920
Speaker 1: The one that guy with the guy was layering in

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01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:54,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots losing and like three different outcomes from the

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01:54:54,640 --> 01:54:57,440
Speaker 1: weekend of games. It wasn't enough to have the Bills

2346
01:54:57,480 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens. They want the Patriots to lose to

2347
01:54:59,400 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 1: the Chiefs well, and I think I think seeing the

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01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:09,000
Speaker 1: Patriots within striking distance this late in the season, I

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01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,440
Speaker 1: think I saw this, and I believe it was ESPN

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01:55:12,520 --> 01:55:14,760
Speaker 1: dot COM's Mike Reece, who covers the Patriots and does

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01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:18,440
Speaker 1: a great job up there, and he said he tweeted

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01:55:19,040 --> 01:55:25,680
Speaker 1: that week fourteen is the latest week since twenty ten

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01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:31,120
Speaker 1: that a division member has been within a game of

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01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots in terms of record, one game away. And

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01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:37,800
Speaker 1: I think it's really kind of piqued the interest of

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01:55:37,920 --> 01:55:41,360
Speaker 1: Bills fans, like, oh, can we catch them? Maybe we

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01:55:41,360 --> 01:55:45,200
Speaker 1: can catch them, And it's got people intrigued, like it's

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01:55:45,480 --> 01:55:49,120
Speaker 1: they're excited about nine and three. But that's just I mean,

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01:55:49,200 --> 01:55:51,120
Speaker 1: it's clear just by the responses we're getting for this

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01:55:51,200 --> 01:55:54,520
Speaker 1: headline thing that it's it's really piqued the interest in

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01:55:54,600 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: a whole different way, Like there are more than just

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01:55:57,520 --> 01:56:01,400
Speaker 1: wildcard possibilities that people are thinking about now, Yeah, which

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01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:04,720
Speaker 1: is really a different conversation. Kansas City, Oh it's four

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01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:07,000
Speaker 1: twenty five, that's right, twenty So, I mean, you want

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01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:08,800
Speaker 1: to talk about a banner weekend. You hope you get

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01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:10,080
Speaker 1: a win here and then go home. And watch the

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01:56:10,160 --> 01:56:12,840
Speaker 1: other perfect day. Injury reports are out for both teams.

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01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:14,960
Speaker 1: Will start with the Bills and just one name on

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01:56:15,080 --> 01:56:18,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's injury report for this coming Sunday's game

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01:56:18,400 --> 01:56:21,080
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens, and that's the names that's been

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01:56:21,160 --> 01:56:23,600
Speaker 1: up there for a while. Tay and Secky, Bill's offensive

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01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:27,160
Speaker 1: lineman has been ruled out for Sunday's game and Secky's

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01:56:27,200 --> 01:56:29,280
Speaker 1: still with the ankle, has not practiced all week. Everybody

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01:56:29,320 --> 01:56:31,240
Speaker 1: else is good to go. Sean mcdernan had said it

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01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:34,040
Speaker 1: after practice to day, and the Ravens injury report is

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01:56:34,080 --> 01:56:38,200
Speaker 1: interesting with four players questionable, including some starters. Wide receiver

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01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:41,920
Speaker 1: Marquise Hollywood Brown is a questionable with his ankle injury.

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01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:43,880
Speaker 1: Came up with an ankle yesterday in practice. Yeah, he

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01:56:43,920 --> 01:56:47,760
Speaker 1: popped up on the injury report yesterday and was limited.

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01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:51,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, it had to have happened during practice and

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01:56:51,480 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 1: now he's he was. I believe he was limited again

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01:56:53,720 --> 01:56:57,480
Speaker 1: today and so he's questionable. And that's a key component

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01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:59,760
Speaker 1: for their passing game. If they have to turn to

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01:56:59,840 --> 01:57:02,440
Speaker 1: the passing game maybe more than they want to, as

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01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:04,920
Speaker 1: we heard Lorenzo say, that would be ideal. If we

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01:57:05,040 --> 01:57:07,480
Speaker 1: put them out of their comfort zone where they have

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01:57:07,560 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 1: to throw a little bit more. He is a key

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01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 1: target for Lamar Jackson because it's interesting because they line

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01:57:13,600 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: him up outside even though he's a very diminutive receiver

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01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:21,440
Speaker 1: in terms of stature. But they'll rotate different guys through

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01:57:21,680 --> 01:57:23,800
Speaker 1: in the slot. They'll have Snead in there, and then

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01:57:23,840 --> 01:57:26,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, bang, all of a sudden, Hollywood

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01:57:26,680 --> 01:57:28,720
Speaker 1: Browns in the slot too, especially when they get in

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01:57:28,760 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: the red zone, they move him inside for again those

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01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:35,120
Speaker 1: quick throws between the numbers for Lamar Jackson. So if

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01:57:35,160 --> 01:57:37,080
Speaker 1: he's not out on the field that is, that's a

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01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:39,320
Speaker 1: loss for them as far as their passing game. Here's

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01:57:39,320 --> 01:57:42,120
Speaker 1: an interesting name on the injury list to Marlon Humphrey,

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01:57:42,520 --> 01:57:45,160
Speaker 1: cornerback number forty four with a thigh that Chris talked

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01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:47,000
Speaker 1: about an hour or so ago, a thigh injury that

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01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:49,000
Speaker 1: came up in the Niners game for them. He is

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01:57:49,080 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 1: questionable with that thigh. That's that could be well that

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01:57:51,800 --> 01:57:54,839
Speaker 1: that could have a bigger domino effect than the Hollywood

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01:57:54,840 --> 01:57:57,920
Speaker 1: Brown injury. And the reason why is, as we mentioned earlier,

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01:57:58,320 --> 01:58:01,440
Speaker 1: when they go into nickel hump, he goes from the

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01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: boundary inside and plays the slot corner role for them

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01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 1: in their nickel package. So if he's not available, man,

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01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't even I got to look at their depth chart.

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01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:13,960
Speaker 1: I don't even know who would be the backup nickel

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01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:17,440
Speaker 1: because it's got to be a smaller, quicker guy. And

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01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 1: that's not Jimmy Smith, that's not Brandon Carr. It might

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01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:27,600
Speaker 1: be Levine Um. That's that's a huge drop off in

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01:58:27,680 --> 01:58:30,160
Speaker 1: my estimation in terms of what you have and what

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01:58:30,240 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: you're putting on the field. So if he can't go,

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01:58:32,840 --> 01:58:36,880
Speaker 1: that is that's a significant downgrade for them in terms

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01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:39,160
Speaker 1: of talent on the field, and it could mean the

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01:58:39,240 --> 01:58:42,480
Speaker 1: difference in how much they blitz. If they don't have

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01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 1: a guy of the coverability of Marlon Humphrey out there

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01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:48,680
Speaker 1: instead they have his backup, they may not blitz as much. Also,

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01:58:48,880 --> 01:58:53,160
Speaker 1: another starter linebacker, Patrick go also is questionable with an ankle.

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01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: Now he got hurt in the Niners game. It came

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01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,920
Speaker 1: back and we came back and finished the game. And

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01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:01,920
Speaker 1: I did read horrible Wednesday press conference when he was

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01:59:01,960 --> 01:59:04,520
Speaker 1: asked about Aso and that's a numb that's a name.

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01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 1: You got to look up. The pronuncia I do too,

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01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: But like you look at that, like I almost I

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01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:12,560
Speaker 1: would almost never look at how it's spelled for real.

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01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:15,000
Speaker 1: I would only look at how it's spelled per you know,

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01:59:15,080 --> 01:59:17,320
Speaker 1: in terms of phonetics, because man, that is just you

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01:59:17,440 --> 01:59:18,680
Speaker 1: trying to tell me how to do my job. No

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01:59:18,800 --> 01:59:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm saying what I'm telling you what I

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01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:22,320
Speaker 1: have to do to say it right. I got I

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01:59:22,440 --> 01:59:24,240
Speaker 1: can't look at it that way. I've got to spell

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01:59:24,280 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 1: it out and look at the way it's supposed to.

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01:59:26,080 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: So AWASO. What Harbaugh said on Wednesday was it's not

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01:59:30,080 --> 01:59:32,600
Speaker 1: a significant injury. He doesn't think it's going to keep

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01:59:32,680 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 1: him out of Sunday's game, So we're anticipating that he

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01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: is going to play. And I think Harba said similar

2439
01:59:38,280 --> 01:59:41,120
Speaker 1: thing about wide receiver Seth Roberts with a knee injury.

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01:59:41,480 --> 01:59:44,720
Speaker 1: Limited in practice this week, questionable going into the game.

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01:59:44,960 --> 01:59:47,400
Speaker 1: He's like their third right third wide receiver pretty much.

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01:59:48,040 --> 01:59:52,760
Speaker 1: They go with brown Snead and uh Myles Boykin's interesting. Chris.

2443
01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:54,360
Speaker 1: We talked about him a lot, use him in the

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01:59:54,400 --> 01:59:58,040
Speaker 1: slot too. Yeah, good size, good size, but he's kind

2445
01:59:58,080 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: of like he's kind of like a Robert Foster in

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02:00:00,280 --> 02:00:01,800
Speaker 1: how they use him. They don't use him a whole

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02:00:01,880 --> 02:00:04,320
Speaker 1: lotch right, And remember we talked, I've looked at him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can't remember he was at

2449
02:00:06,360 --> 02:00:08,800
Speaker 1: Notre Dame kid Yeah, yeah, And you know, we were

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02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:11,280
Speaker 1: all about the receivers before the draft, and I remember

2451
02:00:11,320 --> 02:00:12,960
Speaker 1: getting a lot of calls and talking a lot about

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02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:16,040
Speaker 1: Miles Boykin. And he hasn't done much for him. He plays,

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02:00:16,280 --> 02:00:18,160
Speaker 1: he doesn't play a ton. That's kind of how they

2454
02:00:18,280 --> 02:00:22,000
Speaker 1: groom their players, though, you know, that's how they do

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02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:24,080
Speaker 1: it though. With these later round draft picks, they don't,

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02:00:24,280 --> 02:00:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, they hang on to them, They try to

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02:00:26,120 --> 02:00:29,040
Speaker 1: develop them. They kind of ease them into game situations,

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02:00:29,080 --> 02:00:31,440
Speaker 1: get them a little experience under their belt, and then

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02:00:31,480 --> 02:00:33,400
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, and Pittsburgh does this well too,

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02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:35,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, second or third year, they have

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02:00:35,400 --> 02:00:37,000
Speaker 1: one of these guys come out of nowhere. You're like,

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02:00:37,000 --> 02:00:39,120
Speaker 1: where did this kid come from? And it's because they've

2463
02:00:39,120 --> 02:00:42,080
Speaker 1: been grooming him for one or two years, just sprinkling

2464
02:00:42,160 --> 02:00:44,120
Speaker 1: him in for a handful of plays here or there,

2465
02:00:44,200 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 1: get used to the system, get used to game speed,

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02:00:46,920 --> 02:00:49,120
Speaker 1: and then when they feel they're ready, they blossom. And

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02:00:49,480 --> 02:00:51,600
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore and Pittsburgh are two of the better

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02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:54,000
Speaker 1: organizations at doing that. And I will say this, I

2469
02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:56,840
Speaker 1: think the Bills have gotten much better in that area

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02:00:56,920 --> 02:01:00,600
Speaker 1: in terms of that young player development. So I know

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02:01:00,720 --> 02:01:03,640
Speaker 1: people are some people are disappointed in the fact that

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02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:06,200
Speaker 1: Robert Foster hasn't been used as much this year as

2473
02:01:06,200 --> 02:01:09,720
Speaker 1: he was last year. But give it time. I think

2474
02:01:09,760 --> 02:01:12,600
Speaker 1: it's going to happen going forward, if not for the

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02:01:12,680 --> 02:01:14,520
Speaker 1: rest of this year, certainly next year. You know, I

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02:01:14,600 --> 02:01:16,680
Speaker 1: find myself I know that was your issue, Chris, and

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02:01:16,720 --> 02:01:19,800
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right about player development, and I found myself

2478
02:01:19,840 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks quoting you on that.

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02:01:21,880 --> 02:01:23,800
Speaker 1: You know, look, we get so focused, we all do,

2480
02:01:23,920 --> 02:01:26,280
Speaker 1: on the draft and who are they going to draft him,

2481
02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:27,720
Speaker 1: where they going to draft him, and it was a

2482
02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:30,000
Speaker 1: good value in the draft, and that the guy doesn't

2483
02:01:30,440 --> 02:01:32,600
Speaker 1: light it up right away, we kind of forget about him.

2484
02:01:32,720 --> 02:01:36,200
Speaker 1: The good teams Ravens, Steelers, maybe Buffalo is getting there,

2485
02:01:36,480 --> 02:01:39,680
Speaker 1: developed those young players, first rounders right down to seventh rounders.

2486
02:01:39,760 --> 02:01:41,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs are pretty good at it. Chiefs to do it

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02:01:41,200 --> 02:01:43,840
Speaker 1: pretty well. You develop, you coach them up. Yeah, I

2488
02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 1: can see that happening here and I think it's good

2489
02:01:45,600 --> 02:01:48,040
Speaker 1: to do what Bobby Johnson's done with that offensive line.

2490
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the way they're playing now from

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02:01:50,440 --> 02:01:52,560
Speaker 1: where they were in weeks two and three, and I

2492
02:01:52,640 --> 02:01:55,240
Speaker 1: mean they're wrecking people at the line of scrimmage now,

2493
02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:57,840
Speaker 1: and they look like a five man unit, do you

2494
02:01:57,880 --> 02:01:59,440
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like they're not just in these

2495
02:01:59,480 --> 02:02:02,200
Speaker 1: one on one on battles. This guy's working over here,

2496
02:02:02,280 --> 02:02:05,000
Speaker 1: this guy's working over there. You got combo blocks and

2497
02:02:05,080 --> 02:02:08,120
Speaker 1: guys peeling off of those combos looking for extra work

2498
02:02:08,240 --> 02:02:11,240
Speaker 1: and just wrecking people. I love it. Nothing makes me

2499
02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:14,840
Speaker 1: happier than seeing Quentin Spain or John Feliciano broadsiding a

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02:02:14,880 --> 02:02:16,760
Speaker 1: guy and getting up under his shoulder pads and taking

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02:02:16,840 --> 02:02:19,680
Speaker 1: him completely off his feet. I almost come out of

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02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:21,720
Speaker 1: my seat when I see that happen. I'm I don't know,

2503
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:24,080
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just one of those one of those, uh,

2504
02:02:24,440 --> 02:02:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, unconventional guys that gets excited about watching a

2505
02:02:28,400 --> 02:02:30,560
Speaker 1: lineman take a defensive lineman off his feet. I get

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02:02:30,560 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 1: a kick out of that. Here's a guy to watch

2507
02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:34,280
Speaker 1: for the Ravens. I watch him move the left guard,

2508
02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:37,920
Speaker 1: Bradley Bozeman. He pulls and pulls extremely well for them.

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02:02:38,040 --> 02:02:41,400
Speaker 1: He's coming. He's coming downhill fast. Yes, he's fun to watch. Yeah,

2510
02:02:41,440 --> 02:02:45,040
Speaker 1: he crunches people. Yeah, I'm watching games this week thinking, yeah,

2511
02:02:45,080 --> 02:02:47,200
Speaker 1: seventy seven. Oh my goodness, look at that guy move. Yeah,

2512
02:02:47,240 --> 02:02:49,360
Speaker 1: he's a pancake man too. He's got a couple of

2513
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:51,320
Speaker 1: pancakes this year. A couple of calls on the line,

2514
02:02:51,320 --> 02:02:53,880
Speaker 1: what's your dream headline? From Monday after the Bill's Ravens game.

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02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:57,400
Speaker 1: Here's Eric in h What are you calling from? Erica Roniquoi,

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Speaker 1: Sharon aac Lake the wow way up there. Wow, good

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02:03:02,360 --> 02:03:05,160
Speaker 1: to have you with us up here. Yeah. So the

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Speaker 1: headline I would like to see is I would just

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02:03:07,280 --> 02:03:10,000
Speaker 1: like to see the Bills clinch a playoffs spot. I

2520
02:03:10,160 --> 02:03:11,920
Speaker 1: know they have to win, and I think they need

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02:03:12,040 --> 02:03:15,080
Speaker 1: watch three teams to lose. Yeah for them to clinch,

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02:03:15,840 --> 02:03:18,880
Speaker 1: But technically we have four really tough games ahead of us,

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02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:21,480
Speaker 1: and technically if we lost all four of those games,

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02:03:21,520 --> 02:03:23,840
Speaker 1: we couldn't miss the playoffs. So I just want to

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02:03:23,840 --> 02:03:26,560
Speaker 1: see the Bills win, those other three teams lose and

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02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:30,400
Speaker 1: just read Bill's clinch playoff spot. Okay, I'd take that.

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02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:32,320
Speaker 1: That's a simple goal, and I don't mind it at all,

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02:03:32,360 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. Bird in the hand, where's it worth?

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02:03:35,720 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: Two in the bush? Right? We got all these people

2530
02:03:37,360 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: that want to win and have the Patriots lose. Let's

2531
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:42,760
Speaker 1: just get the spot checked off the list. Right, Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Tom and Lancaster. Hello time, welcome, you're on

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Speaker 1: the air with us. Good afternoon, gentlemen. My inline would read, uh,

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02:03:51,160 --> 02:03:57,360
Speaker 1: smokes revenge, burns ravens for two tds, ten catches blanks revenge.

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02:03:57,600 --> 02:04:02,160
Speaker 1: I like that. That's strong. That's like a movie. Smokes revenge.

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02:04:02,360 --> 02:04:04,760
Speaker 1: Oh nice job, thanks, Tom. Hey, do you get the

2537
02:04:04,840 --> 02:04:09,000
Speaker 1: sense that smoke John Brown has any sort of revenge

2538
02:04:09,080 --> 02:04:10,960
Speaker 1: motive in this game? I don't feel that. I don't

2539
02:04:10,960 --> 02:04:12,960
Speaker 1: feel like the guy's got a mean bone in his body,

2540
02:04:13,160 --> 02:04:14,920
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think like, I think

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02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:17,720
Speaker 1: he's got I think he's a dedicated player, and I

2542
02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:22,320
Speaker 1: think he plays to win every single week. But my gosh,

2543
02:04:22,440 --> 02:04:25,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the first guy that's gonna help somebody

2544
02:04:25,240 --> 02:04:27,440
Speaker 1: up if he decks him, right, yep, that's just who

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02:04:27,480 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: he is. So No, I don't I don't think there's

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02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:31,440
Speaker 1: a I don't think the word revenge is even in

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02:04:31,520 --> 02:04:34,040
Speaker 1: his vocabulary. No, I agree, it's got to the tweet

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02:04:34,080 --> 02:04:36,520
Speaker 1: sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

2549
02:04:36,600 --> 02:04:39,560
Speaker 1: movers of the Buffalo Bills. Your dream headline from Monday

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02:04:39,600 --> 02:04:42,680
Speaker 1: after the Bill's Ravens game from Sean tweets this and

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02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 1: Bills Serve Ravens, Crow, Chiefs, Tomahawk, Pats AFC now wide open.

2552
02:04:49,600 --> 02:04:54,160
Speaker 1: That's a dream scenario. Hey, if you're gonna dream, dream big, right,

2553
02:04:55,200 --> 02:04:58,920
Speaker 1: I see that. I like that. From Joshua a Stampede

2554
02:04:59,000 --> 02:05:02,600
Speaker 1: heading for Super Bowl fifty four, Buffalo might be the

2555
02:05:02,640 --> 02:05:06,800
Speaker 1: team to beat heading into January. Wow, we're jumping the

2556
02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:09,400
Speaker 1: shark here. I think we jump the shark on that one. Yeah,

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02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:12,520
Speaker 1: you want to read the next one? Yeah? From Eric, Well,

2558
02:05:12,600 --> 02:05:15,560
Speaker 1: this guy did something in one of our other tweeters

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02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 1: did quote the Ravens Alan Moore. That's clever. Yeah, that's clever.

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02:05:22,120 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: I like it. Okay. I see I told you I

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02:05:24,920 --> 02:05:27,760
Speaker 1: had faith in our listening audience. Then you know there's

2562
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,800
Speaker 1: some creativity going on here. I like it. I wanted

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02:05:29,840 --> 02:05:31,120
Speaker 1: to kind of go off the cuff a little bit.

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02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: There's some good stuff here. I headline from Uncle Orton

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02:05:34,320 --> 02:05:37,760
Speaker 1: that might be better than the headline josh Allen enters

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02:05:37,880 --> 02:05:42,160
Speaker 1: MVP race after six touchdown perform, okay, expecting a light

2567
02:05:42,240 --> 02:05:44,480
Speaker 1: them up game. Wow are the Bills capable of that

2568
02:05:44,560 --> 02:05:47,240
Speaker 1: kind of game? If Marlon Humphrey's not playing, I might

2569
02:05:47,440 --> 02:05:50,920
Speaker 1: I could be convinced touchdowns that's a lot. Well, he

2570
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:53,240
Speaker 1: didn't say he's throwing all of those, You're right, so

2571
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:56,280
Speaker 1: he maybe runs for four and froze two and one.

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02:05:56,360 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 1: More headline from Mary Jackson trampled by Buffalo defense rifleman

2573
02:06:00,560 --> 02:06:04,840
Speaker 1: Alan dominates and shootout over Ravens. Bills thirty Ravens seventeen. Wow,

2574
02:06:04,960 --> 02:06:07,120
Speaker 1: it's a lot of points. It's a pretty good defense.

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02:06:07,400 --> 02:06:10,080
Speaker 1: Yeah at this point, low twenties, don't you think? Yes,

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02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:12,880
Speaker 1: low twenties, I got seventeen thirteen Bills win. Oh wow,

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02:06:12,920 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 1: you got a really low And look, we haven't talked

2578
02:06:15,560 --> 02:06:18,280
Speaker 1: much about the Ravens defense, and they're not perfect, but

2579
02:06:18,320 --> 02:06:23,080
Speaker 1: they're pretty good at top ten defense and physical That's

2580
02:06:23,240 --> 02:06:26,080
Speaker 1: I will say this though, if just watching them on tape,

2581
02:06:26,280 --> 02:06:29,920
Speaker 1: if there is a weakness in the Ravens defense, to me,

2582
02:06:30,800 --> 02:06:33,520
Speaker 1: it's at the second level. And I think that's why

2583
02:06:33,600 --> 02:06:35,600
Speaker 1: San Francisco was able to get out on the edge

2584
02:06:35,600 --> 02:06:38,880
Speaker 1: against them and beat them to the flanks, they don't

2585
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:43,520
Speaker 1: have a lot of high end speed players at the

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02:06:43,600 --> 02:06:46,600
Speaker 1: linebacker level. They got guys that are gonna meet you

2587
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:49,360
Speaker 1: in the hole and stuff you guys, right, But they

2588
02:06:49,480 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 1: don't have Amolano, do you know what I mean? Like,

2589
02:06:52,760 --> 02:06:57,160
Speaker 1: they don't have and Matthew. Judas are big guys, but stiff.

2590
02:06:57,520 --> 02:07:00,400
Speaker 1: They don't drop into space. Well, uh, they don't get

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02:07:00,440 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: sidelines to sideline. So I think that's where you got

2592
02:07:03,920 --> 02:07:05,800
Speaker 1: to kind of get him if you can, If you

2593
02:07:05,880 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 1: can use some of those pin pull concepts that Greg

2594
02:07:08,280 --> 02:07:11,800
Speaker 1: Cosell was talking about, out leverage those linebackers. There's going

2595
02:07:11,840 --> 02:07:14,400
Speaker 1: to be space outside the numbers and on the flanks,

2596
02:07:14,440 --> 02:07:17,080
Speaker 1: and if singles Harry and Gore can turn the corner,

2597
02:07:17,480 --> 02:07:19,920
Speaker 1: you could be in business and staying on schedule on

2598
02:07:20,080 --> 02:07:22,360
Speaker 1: offense and making life a little bit easier on Josh

2599
02:07:22,400 --> 02:07:24,320
Speaker 1: Allen in the passing game. It's working a call or two.

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02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:26,640
Speaker 1: Here Glenn calling from New Fame. Hello Glenn, go ahead,

2601
02:07:26,640 --> 02:07:29,440
Speaker 1: you're on the air of this. Hello there, good afternoon,

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02:07:29,560 --> 02:07:33,400
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, guys, Happy Friday. I just had two quick

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02:07:33,520 --> 02:07:36,440
Speaker 1: questions and then I'll hang up if I can and listen.

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Speaker 1: First of all, does anybody think that in the back

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02:07:40,560 --> 02:07:43,800
Speaker 1: of Lamar's mind that he might be a little ticked

2606
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:46,400
Speaker 1: off that the Bills did not pick him in the

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02:07:46,480 --> 02:07:51,360
Speaker 1: first round last year. Also did Steve Tasker used to

2608
02:07:51,480 --> 02:07:55,760
Speaker 1: do backflips in the end zone after touchdowns for some reason.

2609
02:07:56,120 --> 02:07:57,840
Speaker 1: I know he didn't have a ton of them, but

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02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:03,200
Speaker 1: I seem to remember him doing flips. Remember that. I

2611
02:08:03,360 --> 02:08:05,840
Speaker 1: know that. I know that he can, or he could

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02:08:05,920 --> 02:08:09,480
Speaker 1: when he was a player. Could. Yes, I know he

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02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:12,920
Speaker 1: could do that. Um, I don't remember seeing that, but

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02:08:12,960 --> 02:08:16,080
Speaker 1: I don't remember seeing after remember I remember him doing that.

2615
02:08:16,520 --> 02:08:19,200
Speaker 1: I was wondering if I was just imagining things. Well,

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02:08:19,320 --> 02:08:22,160
Speaker 1: Steve is back Monday, much you calling Monday, We'll ask him. Yeah,

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02:08:22,320 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, all right, thanks very much, Glenn Um.

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02:08:25,680 --> 02:08:28,560
Speaker 1: By all accounts, Lamar Jackson is a really good kid

2619
02:08:28,680 --> 02:08:32,160
Speaker 1: and a really good teammate and works very hard revenge

2620
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,400
Speaker 1: because the Bills didn't draft him. Yeah, I haven't heard that.

2621
02:08:35,560 --> 02:08:38,960
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised seeing that far fetched, right, seems far fetched.

2622
02:08:39,200 --> 02:08:42,560
Speaker 1: I mean they lost to the Browns and the Browns

2623
02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:45,520
Speaker 1: passed on him too. Yeah, everybody passed on him. Yeah,

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02:08:45,840 --> 02:08:49,160
Speaker 1: the whole league did, except for Baltimore. Yeah, unless there

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02:08:49,200 --> 02:08:50,640
Speaker 1: was a team there that didn't have a pick in

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02:08:50,680 --> 02:08:53,120
Speaker 1: the first round that year, which may have may have

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02:08:53,160 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 1: been the Patriots. Actually they may not have had a

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02:08:54,800 --> 02:08:56,520
Speaker 1: pick that year. I thought they lost a pick somewhere

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02:08:56,560 --> 02:09:00,920
Speaker 1: in there. Anyway, No, I don't see that he did.

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02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:04,160
Speaker 1: And again, not unlike John Brown, he doesn't come across

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02:09:04,200 --> 02:09:07,120
Speaker 1: as a guy that would harbor any ill will towards

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02:09:07,160 --> 02:09:09,400
Speaker 1: another team. I think he's just quite frankly happy for

2633
02:09:09,440 --> 02:09:12,360
Speaker 1: the opportunity that he has now, and he is flourishing

2634
02:09:12,400 --> 02:09:14,480
Speaker 1: in it. I mean, there's no question about it. Here's

2635
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:16,960
Speaker 1: call from Ray in Buffalo. Go ahead, Ray around the

2636
02:09:17,000 --> 02:09:20,160
Speaker 1: air of this. Hey, hi, this is milk. But uh okay,

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02:09:21,600 --> 02:09:24,360
Speaker 1: this is all I gotta say. Everybody, Somebody Lamar Jackson

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02:09:24,480 --> 02:09:27,480
Speaker 1: cool the running game, but please tell my favorite team,

2639
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, to watch that tight end. He's always thrown

2640
02:09:31,360 --> 02:09:34,080
Speaker 1: to the Titan. What is Baltimore's tight end's name? Anderson

2641
02:09:34,200 --> 02:09:37,680
Speaker 1: is the one who has the fifty three catches? Andrews. Andrews. Yeah, man,

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02:09:37,920 --> 02:09:40,680
Speaker 1: the whole team, that guy man is always either run

2643
02:09:40,960 --> 02:09:42,760
Speaker 1: or he's thrown to the Titans. So I figured if

2644
02:09:42,760 --> 02:09:45,640
Speaker 1: we could, uh, you know, eliminate that, we got him.

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02:09:45,760 --> 02:09:49,160
Speaker 1: Here's the thought that I had about that matchup, because

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02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:52,520
Speaker 1: the Bills have turned to this page before. You remember

2647
02:09:52,560 --> 02:09:55,360
Speaker 1: when against the Patriots there were times where we saw

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02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 1: Tredavious White on Rob Grenkowski. Do you remember that a

2649
02:09:58,320 --> 02:10:01,080
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I would not put it past

2650
02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:05,400
Speaker 1: the Bills to put Tredevious White on Mark Andrews at times.

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02:10:05,640 --> 02:10:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy leads the team in receptions, receiving

2652
02:10:08,120 --> 02:10:10,600
Speaker 1: yards and receiving touchdowns with seven and when he's in

2653
02:10:10,680 --> 02:10:13,400
Speaker 1: the red zone and they're throwing, that's who they're looking

2654
02:10:13,440 --> 02:10:16,720
Speaker 1: to first and foremost, and then Hollywood Brown is one A.

2655
02:10:17,200 --> 02:10:21,000
Speaker 1: But that is the guy and the security blanket for

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02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:24,040
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the passing game. So I wouldn't put

2657
02:10:24,040 --> 02:10:27,080
Speaker 1: it past the Bills to see not the whole game,

2658
02:10:27,200 --> 02:10:29,880
Speaker 1: but to see Tredevious White matched up at times on

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02:10:30,040 --> 02:10:33,760
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews based on down in distance, tendencies. Whatever it takes, right,

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02:10:34,280 --> 02:10:37,040
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, it works it. Yep, all right, we're

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Speaker 1: breaking here, We're coming back. One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalada Health from the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park. This

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02:10:42,240 --> 02:10:58,400
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Okay, what do we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show. Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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02:11:01,200 --> 02:11:04,040
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bill's Good Show Today.

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Speaker 1: Evan Washburn joined us today. He's a sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: the NFL on CBS, will be on the sideline here

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02:11:09,280 --> 02:11:11,760
Speaker 1: at New Airfield on Sunday, and he talked to us

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02:11:11,800 --> 02:11:14,520
Speaker 1: about the Ravens. We asked him the Baltimore Ravens eight

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Speaker 1: s trade wins. Are they peaking too early? Here's what

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02:11:16,720 --> 02:11:21,440
Speaker 1: he said. I think that it really is more about

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02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:24,680
Speaker 1: trying to bottle up what they have and protect it

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02:11:24,920 --> 02:11:29,240
Speaker 1: and not allow it to negatively affect their sort of

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02:11:29,320 --> 02:11:33,040
Speaker 1: emotional and mental state, ie getting ahead of themselves. And

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02:11:33,480 --> 02:11:35,680
Speaker 1: the reality of it is too is they just wanting,

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02:11:36,400 --> 02:11:38,600
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, I would imagine, get

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02:11:38,680 --> 02:11:42,760
Speaker 1: through these four games, obviously, achieve the goals in terms

2678
02:11:42,800 --> 02:11:45,720
Speaker 1: of feeding and locking in division titles and all those things,

2679
02:11:46,040 --> 02:11:49,240
Speaker 1: but get their own healthy as best they can so

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02:11:49,520 --> 02:11:52,840
Speaker 1: that because they feel like when they have these compliments

2681
02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:56,120
Speaker 1: of players that there is no peaking, they'll just be

2682
02:11:56,240 --> 02:11:58,400
Speaker 1: able to sustain. But as we know in this league

2683
02:11:58,920 --> 02:12:02,400
Speaker 1: that it's all as is, one play, one unfortunate situation

2684
02:12:02,520 --> 02:12:04,960
Speaker 1: and you're down a key cog of the whole thing.

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02:12:05,480 --> 02:12:08,000
Speaker 1: Evan Washburn or the NFL on CBS. Also on the

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02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:12,480
Speaker 1: show today, Great Cosell analyst, executive producer for NFL Matchup

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Speaker 1: on ESPN. So, all this buzz about the Ravens offense, right,

2688
02:12:16,600 --> 02:12:20,920
Speaker 1: forty nine touchdowns, eight straight wins, is how unique is

2689
02:12:20,960 --> 02:12:24,000
Speaker 1: this Ravens offense? And is it revolutionary? That's a question

2690
02:12:24,080 --> 02:12:28,960
Speaker 1: we ask Great co Sell. Oh, it's not revolutionary. It's

2691
02:12:29,000 --> 02:12:31,600
Speaker 1: just not a lot of teams run it, obviously, and

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02:12:31,760 --> 02:12:34,240
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it's the offense you have to run with

2693
02:12:34,480 --> 02:12:37,440
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson because he's not a drop back passer, so

2694
02:12:37,600 --> 02:12:39,800
Speaker 1: you're not going to run what would be viewed as

2695
02:12:39,800 --> 02:12:43,440
Speaker 1: a more traditional or conventional NFL offense. So you play

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02:12:43,560 --> 02:12:47,040
Speaker 1: to what he is, and he's a dynamic, electric runner

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02:12:47,280 --> 02:12:50,320
Speaker 1: who can throw the ball well enough within the context

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02:12:50,360 --> 02:12:53,400
Speaker 1: of that offense. Keep in mind that because of all

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02:12:53,520 --> 02:12:56,160
Speaker 1: the things you need to do defensively to try to

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02:12:56,240 --> 02:12:59,960
Speaker 1: defend that offense in the run game, and that's where

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02:13:00,040 --> 02:13:02,839
Speaker 1: or it starts. What that does, Murph is it creates

2702
02:13:03,280 --> 02:13:06,800
Speaker 1: relatively defined reads and throws for Jackson in the pass

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02:13:06,880 --> 02:13:09,920
Speaker 1: game and He's throwing two receivers who very often are open.

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02:13:10,240 --> 02:13:12,680
Speaker 1: But even if they're not wide open, the reads are

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02:13:12,800 --> 02:13:16,760
Speaker 1: still well defined. Chris Brown has been our co host today.

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02:13:16,840 --> 02:13:19,120
Speaker 1: Chris has been a It feels like a long week

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Speaker 1: and a lot of chat about the chatter about this game.

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Speaker 1: But that's good. We have meaningful December football. You and

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Speaker 1: I are not accustomed to that. That's great, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it anytime in December, any day of the week.

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Speaker 1: I'm just distracted by Evan Washburn's head shot. There it

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02:13:33,760 --> 02:13:36,400
Speaker 1: looked like an oil painting. Were my eyes deceiving me?

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02:13:36,840 --> 02:13:38,720
Speaker 1: Was it just a monitor? He looked like it looked

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Speaker 1: like an oil painting. He's a handsome man. He looked

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02:13:40,800 --> 02:13:44,240
Speaker 1: like a young mister Rogers or something. Sideline Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know he's got the quaff and everything. I don't

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Speaker 1: have this. Chris Brown filled in great for a Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker today. Thank you, Chris. Our production assistant George Blasteff, Colt,

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Speaker 1: Nick Thomas, Hollander, Kelly Rude, JJ Turito, Kevin Cartis, James Roebel,

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Speaker 1: a producer, Jay Harris. See him Monday at noon, one

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Speaker 1: Bill five on Buffalo Bill's radio