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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. It's Friday. It's the end

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Speaker 1: of the week for the one Bills Live crew. It's

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the week for the rest of us.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Welcome to Archer Park. Beautiful sunshine today. It

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Speaker 1: is forty one degrees, blue skies, U nice day in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. It looks nice right for December. Bills are

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Speaker 1: practicing outdoors, not out of that field though they're on

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Speaker 1: the other side. They are outdoors, outdoors on the grass

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Speaker 1: practice field outside the ad Pro Sports Training We heard

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Speaker 1: they were going to practice outdoors, and then I was like,

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Speaker 1: bad atty degrees. I looked it up earlier, I know,

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Speaker 1: That's almost it would almost be worthy to be young

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Speaker 1: not that worth it, you know. It's interesting. So we

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Speaker 1: right inside our studio, inside the Seneca studio inside and

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Speaker 1: we can't hear practice going on. They're playing music which

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Speaker 1: they always do, but it's the playlist that just got

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Speaker 1: our attention a minute ago, right, Yeah, so you know

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Speaker 1: the deal, Hinzfield. The Steelers have done it for decades.

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Speaker 1: It's a pain in the neck. It's kind of obnoxious.

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Speaker 1: It's an obnoxious song. Renegade, Who's about Sticks? Yeah? Six

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Speaker 1: They play that at the end of the third quarter

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Speaker 1: same thing about the shout song. It sounds like from

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Speaker 1: where we sit, it sounds like the Bills are playing

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Speaker 1: Renegade at practice right now. Steve might as well get

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Speaker 1: used to it, right, may as well? Yeah? Right, well Sticks?

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Speaker 1: I mean it was eighties nine at the odd last

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Speaker 1: I'm not in that mood. But I don't want to

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Speaker 1: the next help it, Yeah, I hope. I hope that

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Speaker 1: they're playing it out there practice apparently right now. We

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Speaker 1: Good idea to work outdoors. The Bills fairly healthy. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what the final injury report, the Friday injury report,

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Speaker 1: and prognostication for Sunday looks like. As of yesterday, the

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Speaker 1: Bills had a couple of players who did not practice,

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander with two days of rest, Frank Gore last

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Speaker 1: rest for him and no practice for Tian Sky still

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Speaker 1: limited word for Corey Legiate and Jordan Phillips yesterday. Steven

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Speaker 1: out the last three games. Look, that's a break for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. There's no other way to come. Yeah. Smith

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Speaker 1: Schuster is a good receiver, not a great receiver. Who

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Speaker 1: were talking to Brownie about it yesterday. Whether or not

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Speaker 1: the Bills would follow him around with Tardavious White might

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Speaker 1: Washington their top receiver. Now they have Deonte Johnson and

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Speaker 1: they get some snaps for Deon Gane. Look, it's not

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Speaker 1: It's not an offense that scares you. It's the defense. Right.

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Speaker 1: The story of this game Sunday is Pittsburgh's defense and

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense through the top five defenses in the league.

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Speaker 1: And it's a big play defense. Yeah, they get sacks,

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Speaker 1: they and they get the ball out. That's really helped

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback in Devlin Hodges. And they've been winning

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Speaker 1: struggle this year. Tom Mike Tomlin has shown through as

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that has really closed ranks,

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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive. It's gonna be a tough game for Bills.

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Speaker 1: This needs to be said because the Bills walk around

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Bills walk around with their nine win,

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Speaker 1: four loss record and take shots about it. Well, you

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Speaker 1: haven't play anybody. I'm beating anybody. I'm play anybody, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'll say, beating anybody quite frankly, at least

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Speaker 1: not recently. Seven to eight wins. Seven they've won seven,

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Speaker 1: know who they've beaten. They want at the Chargers, Okay,

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Speaker 1: They lost to Cleveland. They wanted Cincinnati. They beat Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: don't have numbers in front of me. Their their record,

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Speaker 1: their record of who they've beaten, who they played, not

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Speaker 1: that much different than Buffalo. And they've got to win

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Speaker 1: jump out to that big right, They're they're beaten teams

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Speaker 1: right a game apart in terms of the standings, number

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Speaker 1: I think different expectations for the season going in. Right,

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Speaker 1: Is it Bill's offensive line versus the Steelers defensive front?

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Speaker 1: say it's johsh Allen against the Steelers blitz. Are we

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Speaker 1: faith in those guys. Well, yeah, Bud Duprete, t J Watt.

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Speaker 1: until three. You were looking at Sabers hockey last night

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Speaker 1: Was it really was? Obviously the Bills Bills. The Sabers

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Speaker 1: for the home trout that the odd night the odd

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Speaker 1: We're here to talk about the Bills with you till

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Speaker 1: Sunday's bill Steelers game? Bills offensive line versus Pittsburgh's defense

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for taking my call. Sure your first thing,

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Speaker 1: my mom went to church yesterday. She sent an ovina

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Speaker 1: for you to get into the top fifteenth finalists in

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Tell your send your mom my love, Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you. And second John, I'm right with you with

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Speaker 1: the defense. I honestly thank if the offense doesn't turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over in four positions. For the defense, I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Duck has seen any defense in his

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Speaker 1: four weeks like ours. And I really really think that

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Speaker 1: they could catch a shot out on Sunday nights. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it might take a shot out. What we

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Speaker 1: were talking about that right? They beat in Arizona, Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati in those last three wins. None of those

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Speaker 1: defenses compared. You're right with what Hodges in the Steelers

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Speaker 1: offense will see this week. None of them. They don't

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Speaker 1: have come close. Right. And one other thing you guys yesterday,

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Speaker 1: not to go back to answer anybody, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: coaches leaving, and I was thinking more on the line

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Speaker 1: where why wouldn't mister Bagua try to do and emulate

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Speaker 1: what basically mister Craft has done in New England by

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Speaker 1: keeping his coordinators with it. I know, Leslie Fraser, I

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Speaker 1: would agree with you one hundred percent yesterday and Brian

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Speaker 1: day Ball as well. They definitely deserve a look at

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Speaker 1: the head coaching, especially Leslie. But if I was if

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Speaker 1: I was on a team and they're playing this good,

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Speaker 1: I would do my best to keep my coaching staff

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Speaker 1: as much together as I could. Looking at the success

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Speaker 1: that New England has had by keeping predominantly their top

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Speaker 1: echelon coaching staff together, Well that's the part I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you. I mean, look, the Patriots have lots

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Speaker 1: of defensive coordinators. McDaniel has stayed there for a couple

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Speaker 1: of years, but they haven't kept their guys right there

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Speaker 1: last year. The defensive coordinator is down in Miami now,

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Speaker 1: and the guy before that was Matt Patricia. He's open

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Speaker 1: in Detroit now. So I don't think the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: written some sort of, you know, template for everybody else

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Speaker 1: to follow. McDaniel has stayed most selecting. Many people believe

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Speaker 1: with a promise that he is next in line there

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Speaker 1: that guys want to be head coaches and unless you

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Speaker 1: can promise him Leslie Frazier, Brian Dable that you're the next,

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Speaker 1: you're next guy up. I don't know that that means much.

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to say that when John McDermott's what

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Speaker 1: forty four years old. Yeah, I'm missing a couple of them,

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Speaker 1: but they lost Bill O'Brien. He's the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. They lost Romeo Cornell, who's defensive coordinator,

464
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Speaker 1: been around the league, was with New England for a

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Speaker 1: couple of their Super Bowls. Matt Patricia's Murph mentioned Josh

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Speaker 1: McDaniels did leave New England and went to Denver and

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Speaker 1: was highly unsuccessful in Denver and ended up back in

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Speaker 1: New England. They lost the left again. Brian day Ball

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Speaker 1: was there for ten years. He's now gone. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Team guys will get a chance to be

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Speaker 1: a head coach. That's a life changer. That's going from making,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it sents a lot of money for

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Speaker 1: a half million bucks or maybe maybe even seven million

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Speaker 1: bucks a year as a coordinator, to making five million

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Speaker 1: guaranteed over five years, you know, for five years in

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Speaker 1: a row. That's a life changer. And also it's something

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Speaker 1: that these guys have the ambition to do. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, you're not gonna say, for instance, Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick eight years ago when he was what fifty two

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Speaker 1: or fifty seven or he's my age or whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: he's fifty seven, he's gonna coach for another thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna keep a guy from going out and

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Speaker 1: becoming a head coach because in thirteen years he may

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Speaker 1: get Bill Belichick's job, you know, I mean, And that's

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Speaker 1: the same thing here in Buffalo. You're asking Terry Pagoula

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Speaker 1: to keep these coordinators from being head coaches by paying

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Speaker 1: him obstensively, you'd have to pay him a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: but you're asking him to keep him here and not

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Speaker 1: let him be head coaches, or not giving them the

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Speaker 1: freedom to go be a head coach somewhere else when

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Speaker 1: it's what they've always wanted to do, because what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna let him try and be head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in ten years, hopefully when Sean mcdermot's done,

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Speaker 1: or fifteen years when Sean mcdermot's done, or when twenty

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Speaker 1: years come, Sean mcdermot's been here like Don Shula was

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Speaker 1: in Miami, or Bill Belichick's been in New England, or

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Speaker 1: Tom Landry was in Dallas. All you know, you go

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Speaker 1: down the list. So it's it's I get what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: You want to keep your assistance and your coordinators if

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Speaker 1: you can, but don't forget these guys have real ambitions

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Speaker 1: of their own and that comes into play. Certainly, the

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Speaker 1: owner can make a play and tell them they want them,

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Speaker 1: and those guys know. But when push comes to shove,

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Speaker 1: it's up to the coordinator to stay. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Anthony and doaga. Hello Anthony, you're on the air. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: this game isn't gonna be close. It's gonna be twenty

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Speaker 1: eight ten bills. The reason is is that they're gonna employ, finally,

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Speaker 1: a short passing game, a rhythm passing game which Alan

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Speaker 1: thrives in, which is what they should have done last week,

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Speaker 1: but they learned their lesson. I think the defense is

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Speaker 1: going to have at least two takeaways, probably two intercessions.

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Speaker 1: I think Duck's gonna get frustrated. He's gonna end up

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball up when they get behind. And I

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Speaker 1: think Allen's gonna throw for two touchdowns run for one.

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Speaker 1: And I just think this team's gonna come out pissed off, motivated,

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Speaker 1: because that's basically what McDermot felt like after the Ravens loss.

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Speaker 1: And I'm honestly I don't think this is This game

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Speaker 1: is gonna be closed. Anthony um I like to where

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Speaker 1: you're thinking. I like your optimism. They've only scored twenty

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Speaker 1: eight or more points three times this year, right, and

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Speaker 1: I think you're being optimistic. I don't know against the

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Speaker 1: against this Steelers defense, that's a lot to ask. I think. No.

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Speaker 1: I think the reason it's gonna happen is because they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be given multiple short fields because of the turnovers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think this kid, Duck Hodges is not Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: He's not you know, Lamar Jackson. I mean, this team,

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Speaker 1: after what they did to the Ravens last week, I

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Speaker 1: think shutting this kid down is gonna be a piece

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Speaker 1: of cake. He's gonna get frustrated, he's gonna throw the

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Speaker 1: ball up. And that's why I think they're gonna score

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Speaker 1: at least twenty eight points on a shore field. Okay, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's great. I don't just don't ways to tell

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Speaker 1: you it's you know, it's uh, it's an optimistic view.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really close game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can all conjure up things and see

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Speaker 1: how this game could get out on a hand on

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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Because of the way these

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Speaker 1: teams are like we've been talking about. They're they're the

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Speaker 1: same team. You know, they're structure the same, their schedule,

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Speaker 1: They've plowed through a softer part of the schedule against

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Speaker 1: loot teams with losing records. They've played close but maybe

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Speaker 1: not win games against teams with winning records. All of

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Speaker 1: that's in this mix and that both these clubs seem

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Speaker 1: to be mirroring each other. Obviously, the Bills have the

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Speaker 1: people they want and they're healthy lining up offensively, whereas

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are going without Juju Smith Schuster, without Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: James Connor's now back in the lineup, so they've got,

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Speaker 1: you know, some issues on that side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: and they're going down. They're playing with with Devlin Hodges. Now.

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Speaker 1: The reason Hodges is even in the game is because

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Speaker 1: he has not turned it over. Mike Tomlins said that

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Speaker 1: right at the beginning to interception, right, the reason Duck

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Speaker 1: is in the game, and Mike Tomlin's words is because

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Speaker 1: he hasn't killed us, right, which is a low bar,

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Speaker 1: I get it, but he hasn't turned it over. And

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Speaker 1: Bumble's lost two interceptions and with a defense like they've got, man,

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Speaker 1: that's a big step. That's a big step, as the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans know about Josh Allen. Yea, all right,

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Speaker 1: we got a break. We're gonna talk when we come

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Speaker 1: back with the hosts of the on site NBC Sports

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Speaker 1: Football Night in America. Leam mq standing boy to join us,

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Speaker 1: Come on back for that one. Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Klatta Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. It's the biggest show on TV.

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Speaker 1: Not the biggest football game on TV, the biggest show

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Speaker 1: on TV in terms of Lottie and Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 1: This week Bills in the Pit spurg Steelers and their

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Speaker 1: coverage starts at seven o'clock with Football Night in America.

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Speaker 1: The on site host for Football Night in America joins

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Speaker 1: us right now. He is a NBC Sports College football

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Speaker 1: studio host as well. He's a graduate of the State

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Speaker 1: University of New York. Had Buffalo. Happy to have leam

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Speaker 1: mqugh on the line with us. Hello, Liam, John Murphy

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Speaker 1: and Seem Tasker are here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, good to be on. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Hey,

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Speaker 1: um nineteen ninety nine, you b did you ever get

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Speaker 1: over to here to Orchard Park to sceney Bill's football.

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Speaker 1: When you were going to ub I was definitely a

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Speaker 1: poor college student, so I was at home watching on TV.

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Speaker 1: But I remember, I remember that. Obviously it was my

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Speaker 1: senior year in ninety nine, welcome. That was the year before,

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Speaker 1: so I was there when Flutie Flakes was a very

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Speaker 1: big thing. Flutie Flakes was big, the team was very good,

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Speaker 1: and you know I was there. My last year was

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Speaker 1: also the Sabers going to the Stanley Cup Finals. Good

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Speaker 1: time for Buffalo sports, good time for both those teams.

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Speaker 1: And then of course left and there's kind of a

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Speaker 1: linkedy drout as you guys now for playoff football and

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Speaker 1: how the Savers are in a drought. But it looks

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Speaker 1: like both teams are on the rise. What a seed

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Speaker 1: for the Bill so far, and obviously the Sabers playing

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Speaker 1: well too. Well. It's a good thing we had you

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Speaker 1: back on. Obviously your absence has been the difference maker

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Speaker 1: for us obviously, Right, what do you think? Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: do you what do you think about this year's edition

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. From from your perch, I know

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Speaker 1: that you don't see him too much on NBC and

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. They haven't been there for a long time.

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Speaker 1: What do you see in this year's edition. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: been a while. I think two thousand and seven was

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Speaker 1: the last time, and I believe they flexed into it

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Speaker 1: because the Patriots were so good and then the game.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to relive the game because it didn't

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Speaker 1: go well to the Bills. But I think the Bills

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Speaker 1: team right now is what I like about is not

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Speaker 1: only are they are tough mentally and a tough team

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Speaker 1: mentally and physically, they seem to be a team with

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Speaker 1: this great identity, great culture. So I think it's a

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Speaker 1: winning team for this year and beyond, which is nice.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a team that's just going to pop a year,

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Speaker 1: head to the playoffs and then start to fade and

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Speaker 1: have to retinker. I think he gets a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: natural talent, and I think he's the right quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the modern game right now. A guy that can use

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Speaker 1: his feats, a guy who can throw the football, and

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Speaker 1: he has a versatility, but he's really learning the game.

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Speaker 1: I love the coaching. I like your quarterback and I again,

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Speaker 1: I think this is a team that from a toughness standpoint,

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Speaker 1: people do not want to face and that's only going

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Speaker 1: to continue as the year's progress. Liam Josh Allen has

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Speaker 1: his doubters, as you know, he has people wondering can

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Speaker 1: they ever stand in the pocket and deliver the ball

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Speaker 1: with consistent accuracy? What's your take on that, especially when

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Speaker 1: many people thought the future of the league at the

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Speaker 1: quarterback spot was going to be, you know, filling the

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Speaker 1: air with football. So Bills don't fit that mold. They

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Speaker 1: don't throw it as much as they run it. No,

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Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing in the league right now

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Speaker 1: that you don't need to do that to be successful,

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Speaker 1: and you don't need to do that to be highly

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Speaker 1: because he's got, you know, the type of speed that

634
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Speaker 1: only exists really on Olympic tracks for the most part.

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Speaker 1: But I think Josh Allen will be able to throw

636
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: it well enough for them to be successful. Yeah, you'd

637
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,959
Speaker 1: like to see him be able to be comfortable just

638
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: in the pocket with protection and deliver the football accurately.

639
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: And I think if you can gradually improve that just

640
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: improve it enough that it's always a clear threat, then

641
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a lot of success in this league.

642
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he's a second year quarterback. There

643
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: are a lot, let's face it, you know, Lamar Jackson

644
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: is having this MVP season, but there are a lot

645
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: of young quarterbacks and a lot of second year quarterbacks

646
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: that people are really wondering about. I think Josh Allen, though,

647
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: has a real chance to develop into you know, a

648
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: long term, viable and at some point very successful quarterback

649
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: in this league. Yeah. Liam, you spend your life on

650
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: primetime football, the Bills that haven't been there for a decade,

651
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: over a decade, what do you and the Steelers spend

652
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: a lot of time on prime time as well. You've

653
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: probably seen them over the course of your years. They're

654
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: over the course at the last sixty one games, they're

655
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: forty one and twenty on primetime. Do some teams show

656
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: up on primetime in a different way than they appear

657
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: when they're not on prime time? You know? It seems

658
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: that way, And I would say that, you know, we've

659
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: had that with teams before, and I think the Vikings

660
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: really come to mind, and Kirk Cousins comes to mind,

661
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: because I think the idea was the Vikings didn't really

662
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: show up on prime time. Kirk Cousins are really struggled,

663
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Speaker 1: not only on primetime, but you heard all of the talk,

664
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: right Kirk Cousins can't beat the winning team, can't go

665
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: on the road in a big game and win. And

666
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: then I watched him in Dallas in a big spot,

667
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: come up, you know, huge. So I think you have

668
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: a script. It doesn't mean it has to be your identity,

669
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: but I do think the idea that you play in

670
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: it all the time and you're used to the routine

671
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: that helps. And the Steelers are very us They're a

672
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: primetime team. They're on a lot, you know, be it Monday's,

673
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: Sundays or Thursday night. So I think it helps to

674
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: be at home although it's a quick trip for Buffalo,

675
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: and it helps to just be used to the hours,

676
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: the routine. That being said, I think you know, if

677
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: you haven't been on it for a while, there is

678
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: an adrenaline rush that goes with this, and I think

679
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: we see this throughout the sports. If you can channel

680
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: your adrenaline and you can make it last and don't

681
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: just come out right away guns blazing and make plays

682
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: and try to make plays that aren't there. If you

683
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: can channel it, if you can harness it, you can

684
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: really help. And I'm curious to see how Buffalo reacts here.

685
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: They know the playoffs are right there. They just need

686
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: one win and it would be great to get it

687
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: done this weekend. Right on the Line with Leam mckuee

688
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: is the on site host for NBC Sports Football Night

689
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: in America seven o'clock broadcast. Before the Bills and the

690
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Steelers get it going on the field, talk about the

691
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 1: other quarterback for a second, Liam douc Hodges, the guy

692
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: who's never really played in a game this big, or

693
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: of the stakes. Hi, how do you think you'll handle

694
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: the spotlight in the high stakes nature of this game?

695
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: I think you know, from a personality standpoint, he seems

696
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: to be a guy who has no problem handling any

697
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: of this, which is kind of amazing considering his background,

698
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: consering the fact that he was undrafted. But I think

699
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: he's a guy who is loving this as it goes

700
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,760
Speaker 1: rather than overthinking it. And his teammates love him too,

701
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: And you talk to them and they that you know,

702
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: when he first came on and had to start and

703
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: Ben was out, there was this idea that they were

704
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: really rooting for him, they wanted him to succeed, they

705
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: genuinely like him. And now I think it's a little

706
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: bit different. Now it's not just we're rooting for this guy,

707
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: but we actually believe in him. And you've seen that

708
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: with how Mike Tomlin has talked about him, because remember

709
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: you go back to the beginning and this offense was

710
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: fragile and we're just hoping he doesn't go out there

711
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: and kill us. And now it's sort of like, well,

712
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: I like it. He's able to adapt, he's able to

713
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: think on his speed, he's making some throws, he's being

714
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: aggressive but intelligent. You're hearing a a lot of different

715
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: descriptions about Duck Hodges from Mike Thomam. Then you did

716
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: you know when he first came on. So I think

717
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to handle it from a

718
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: poise standpoint. Really, the question is from a skill position standpoint,

719
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: do they have enough to put points on the board.

720
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: And they've been banged up, they've been injured, And I

721
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: think at this point, when you talk about pois, you

722
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: talk about about the quarterbacks, you really just want to

723
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: limit turnovers. Because both defenses are so talented. So if

724
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: you can avoid the big blunder, the big mistake here,

725
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be Katie. Yeah. I mean

726
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: it looks from the outside and when you're trying to

727
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: handicap how this is going to come down, it looks

728
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: like it might be a very low scoring game in

729
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: a very close game. Obviously a one possession game throughout

730
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: the game. But these teams, Murph and I have been

731
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: talking about how much these two teams mirror one another.

732
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: They both lean on a dynamic defense and they just

733
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: need to make enough plays offensively just to give them

734
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: a lead once in a while and then try and

735
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: hang on for it. They both played well against teams

736
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: with losing record and have struggled or played close games

737
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: against teams with winning record. This, I mean, this seems

738
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: like and for you guys too on Sunday Night football,

739
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: these games get bigger and more important as the season closes. Here,

740
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: with three weeks to go, you've got a big one

741
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: here and both these this really shaping up like a

742
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: fun game and a really competitive one. Yeah, I love this.

743
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: I mean there the stakes feel very real here and

744
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: they are and uh, you know you you're battling for

745
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: a wildcard positions. You know, if Pittsburgh Winfield jump ahead

746
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: of the Bills, and it's a big one too, right

747
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: because you're in the AFC, and if you play it out,

748
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: you think the top two seeds you know, could be

749
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: Baltimore and New England if you want that to be

750
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 1: that top wildcard because you would prefer probably not to

751
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 1: go to Kansas City and play not the way they're

752
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: playing now. You don't want to play against Patrick Hohome.

753
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: So to me, the stakes are very real, and I

754
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: think it's gonna come down to poise. It's going to

755
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: come down to you know, you don't want to say

756
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: that if you want the offense to be conservative because

757
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: you want them to feel like they can make plays.

758
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: So if they're there, take advantage of them. But that

759
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: means I really don't like either teams getting down and

760
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: having to come back. I think you're right. I think

761
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: you need to grab a lead and then trust your

762
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: defense because neither one of these offenses the way they're

763
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: built currently, I don't think it's a good situation, especially

764
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: for the Bills. If you're on the road, you're trying

765
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: to come back. This Pittsburgh defense is very, very good,

766
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: and you just faced a good one in Baltimore, especially

767
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: in that secondary. Pittsburgh's a little bit stronger upfront. I

768
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: don't know. I wouldn't want to play from behind in

769
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: this game. Bibs to either side on the line with

770
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: Leam mcuhey is the on site host for Football Night

771
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: in America, the most watched studio show in sports, leading

772
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 1: right into Sunday Night Football Primetime TVs number one show

773
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: What do you have a plan for the show from

774
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: Hinesfield on Sunday? Liam, What will you be talking to?

775
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: What do you be doing? We got a bunch of

776
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: things going on. I know we're gonna probably have a

777
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: group of duck callers out there rooting for devilin Hodges.

778
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear from those folks. We are planning

779
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: on talking to some you know we try to do

780
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: with the home teams, get some legends while we're celebrating

781
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: the one hundreds year of the NFL, and I believe

782
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Frank o'hrrison, which should be tremendous. We

783
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: will have a couple of local high school teams, one

784
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: of the state champions from Pittsburgh is going to be

785
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: right there on set with us, because we start the show,

786
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: we're on a set outside the stadium, right in the

787
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: middle of the tailgate. Try to get that boy. And

788
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: what I love about this is it's December, it is

789
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh against Buffalo, and they are predicting snow. Yeah, and

790
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: it feels right. You know what, I don't care. I

791
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: went to school in Buffalo. This is the time of year.

792
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: I know some people don't want to be out in

793
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: Nicole and don't want to be on the snow. This

794
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: feels right. We've spent a lot of time in California

795
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: this year. I'm from New York. Those long tricks. I

796
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: want to go to Pittsburgh. It could be called we

797
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: can freeze a little bit. Let it snow. Yeah. There's

798
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: a lot of layers and a lot of storylines on this.

799
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 1: It really does have the feel of a playoff game

800
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: because you look at the two coaches. They were teammates

801
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: in college for a minute at William and Mary. You've

802
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: got three brothers, one here in Buffalo, Tremaine Edmonds, and

803
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: two brothers in Pittsburgh that are gonna play against each other.

804
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: Big family gathering, a bunch of people from William and

805
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: Mary are coming down to watch these two head coaches play.

806
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers of this Onion two, you know,

807
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: two cities that are very closely proximated, and they the

808
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: teams are built the same. It's a lot of fun

809
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: to think about how this game is gonna play out.

810
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: Of course, an iconic city and a good and a

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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: great stadium in hines Field. This is really gonna feel

812
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: like a playoff game, right. I feel like you're putting

813
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: to sing Football nine America Bros. Which is great. That's

814
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: what I love about this, you know, like we go

815
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: in there, we're like, you know, there are some games

816
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: and I do hockey as well, and we do, you know,

817
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: so many hockey games throughout the season. And you're Garayle,

818
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: what are the storylines for this this there's no shortish

819
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: and they're great. They're fabulous storylines. Obviously, the three brothers

820
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: the first time we're gonna see that since nineteen twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the two William Mary head coaches, and so

822
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: many people are going to come, including the man who

823
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: was their head coach while they were at William and Mary,

824
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: who has not been to a Pittsburgh Steelers game since

825
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: Find Commins took over as head coach, and I think

826
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Speaker 1: I thought of it. You know, you mentioned the quarterbacks.

827
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: You have a guy from Stanford and a guy from

828
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: Wyoming in a big game. I mean, you know you're

829
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: never gonna see that again in a big moment on

830
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: National TV on Sunday Night, which I think is great

831
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: because you know, it says that you can go out,

832
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: you can find these hidden gems. They can make it

833
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: to the league one way. The other. One could be

834
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: a very high draft pick, or one could be a

835
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: guy who was undrafted who was then cut and had

836
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: to come back, and now he's back in the mix

837
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: playing in the biggest spotlights in professional football and they're

838
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: going head to head. I love this. You know, it

839
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: gets me going all week thinking about it, and now

840
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm just ready to get on playing, go to Pittsburgh

841
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: and do this thing. I feel the same way. Leah,

842
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We'll see you there Sunday. Thanks Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: Leam mckugh. He is the host of NBC Sports Football

844
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Speaker 1: Night in America. The on site host leaning right into

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. Will be there at Heinz Field on

846
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: Sunday getting set for others in the Steelers. What's up?

847
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: The Winner's in? Yeah? Right, yeah winning? You're in? Yeah, well,

848
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Steelers are. They're not mathematically eliminated,

849
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: but they take over the fifth wild card, right, but

850
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: they can still lose that the Bills winning, they're in

851
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,959
Speaker 1: a lot of steak and all those great storylines. Thanks

852
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: to Lamy Hugh for joining us. We're coming back. One

853
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kilt of Health from the Seneca

854
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: Studio on Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Willbell

855
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: means One Bills Live. That's me, John Murphy and Steve

856
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here until three o'clock today. You gotta be

857
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: weekend playing, Steve, I know the answer to this, absolutely not.

858
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm jealous about everywhere because when you have stuff to do,

859
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: I'm jealous about your weekends. Now you have nothing to do,

860
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, man, I wish I had nothing. Well,

861
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: you think about it this that we talked about this

862
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: along in the off season, because this is the first

863
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not with CBS and I'm not traveling

864
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: every weekend, right, so I have got all this free time. Well,

865
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: I've been Yeah, we're gonna at Arondas, We're at Savannah, Georgia.

866
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: We're you know, we're doing stuff right. Yeah, we did

867
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 1: a great cup. So I had all this weekend, three

868
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: weekends that I've filled up. Now this weekend anything, I'm jealous.

869
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: I am so just to sit down, put my feet

870
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: up with the remote. Just I'm not gonna do that.

871
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: I got you know, we're gonna piddle around at home

872
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: and do some stuff. We had one of the grand

873
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: kids the whole weekend, so we're having fun. Yeah. So

874
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: and all all Sunday, I'm gonna be here at the

875
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Speaker 1: stadium Sunday. I got one thing to do as a

876
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Speaker 1: question Q and a speakers series with Daryl Talley's coming in.

877
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: So me and me and Daryl are gonna I'm gonna

878
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: m see that with Darrel. I'm gonna be asking questions

879
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: in the audience. It's a little hour long thing. And

880
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: that's about it. My only that's my only obligation for

881
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: the entire weekend. So yeah, I need some weekends. Good.

882
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: I can wait. I can wait at him coming. Hey,

883
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: what do you think the most important matchup in Sunday's

884
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: bill Steelers game what do you got. Let's go to

885
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: the phones again. Let's go to Mike and Blaisdell. Hello, Mike,

886
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hey, thank you, good afternoon. I'd

887
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: just like to start out by thanking Steve. He was

888
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: a corner piece on some amazing puzzles there back in

889
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: the years and uh, just very dedicated, focused, hyper focused,

890
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: and just emotional. And the kid Alan. I think that

891
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: last game he was really like almost over. Should that

892
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: be curtailed or let it go now? I think you can. Yeah,

893
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: I mean he can obviously be overhyped and stuff. And

894
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: I think I see what you see. Once in a while,

895
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: Josh gets a little excited. I think he gets a

896
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: little excited on throw to throw. Once in a while

897
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: he'll He'll make a throw. This is just a little

898
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: too quick, a little too hard, a little too much velocity.

899
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: I think we were talking, Murph and I were yesterday.

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00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: One of the problems in some of his deep throws

901
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: once in a while as he doesn't put enough air

902
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: under him to let the guy get And I think

903
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of adrenaline popping through. Once in

904
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: a while. I can see that. But also once in

905
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: a while I can see some discipline show through, and

906
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: so I see both. But yeah, I get what you mean, Mike.

907
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: You can be a little too excited. Sometimes it helps

908
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: you and sometimes it hurts you, but you got to

909
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: be able to manage it. What else you got? He's gone,

910
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: He's gone. Let's go to Mark in Tonawanda. Hello, Mark, Yeah,

911
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: how's it going good? Um, I'm calling. Basically, a team

912
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: is what wins ball games. I mean, you know, I've

913
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: been in trouble sports and Steve can attest to it.

914
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: There's very few times you're on the field and you

915
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: form as a team, I mean, and you can you know,

916
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Speaker 1: you win like um, like Steve when Um he was kickoffs,

917
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: you know, they could have two or three guys against Steve,

918
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: and on stat wise, Steve probably shouldn't have made a

919
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: past forty hardline. But Steve broke through every time. And

920
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: why because he had a heart of a liant and

921
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: he had a team behind him. And so when you

922
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: form as a team, and I see Buffalo, you know

923
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: in the Miami Dame they started to form and they're

924
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: pulling together as a team, and the team wins, non

925
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: individual players or people with stats, the team and I

926
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: see Buffalo is pulling together as a team. Yeah, and

927
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: I'll say that's right, it's true, Mark. But also they're

928
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: in a league full of really talented teams, and Pittsburgh

929
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: seems to be one of the teams that has mirrored

930
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: the Bills. They seem to be pulling together, rallying around

931
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: a young, inexperienced quarterback who's playing really well for him.

932
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: You can have all that stuff going for you and

933
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: run into somebody or a group of guys that is

934
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: the exact same. That's why this is a big difficult

935
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: game to win. The Steelers play the exact same way

936
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: the Bills do. They got great leadership at their head

937
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: coaching position. They got great players sprinkled throughout their roster

938
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Speaker 1: that they use to their benefit against whoever they're playing

939
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And it's going to

940
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: come down to how those players execute the game plan

941
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: and who can step up in their role with those

942
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: teams to win this game. That's the problem. Yeah, it's

943
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: hard to win in the NFL. It is. I was

944
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: thinking about this just this morning. I was uprighting my

945
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: piece that I'll go up on the website, looking ahead

946
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: to this weekend, thinking about this tough stress of schedule,

947
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: which we saw coming. We talked about it, we saw

948
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: coming and thinking about how great it is. And maybe

949
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: the best selling point of the National Football League is

950
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: how competitive it is. And look, the Bills had that

951
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: easier schedule early on for really a long time, and

952
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: it was still competitive and they still had to play

953
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: well to win. But now it's really tough. And here

954
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: it comes to Steelers. You've referred to them a couple

955
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: of times just like the Bills. They are They played

956
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: great defense, but in a totally different way with a

957
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: totally different set of challenges in the Bills face last

958
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: week against Baltimore, and they're totally motivated and extremely confident

959
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: after they won their last three. That's what makes the

960
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: lead great. I think that's sort of matchup this Sunday

961
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: night against two teams that have had pretty good seasons,

962
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: want more and know how to play to their best

963
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: and and go at it. I mean, maybe that's obvious

964
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: to most people, but everyone's a while. I stop and think, Man,

965
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: the NFL is great. Maybe I watched too much NBA

966
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: because December games the NBA, yeah, I can see that,

967
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: But in the NFL, it's like, oh, look at this game. Whoa,

968
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: my goodness, look at this game. Look at this matchup.

969
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: And now we're late in the season, murph, and these

970
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: games they affect what you do next week, and they

971
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: affect what's going to happen to you when the playoffs

972
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: start or if you're in it or out of it,

973
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,919
Speaker 1: and these it is tough to win in this league.

974
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: It's really tough. And now too because of the way

975
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: the league is elevated, and because it's you've got six

976
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: thousand websites and six thousand blogs and six thousand podcasts.

977
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: You know in ours is one of them, you know,

978
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: and that's a plug for our podcast. You can catch

979
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: on them, so, you know, but you you can catch

980
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: all this analysis and break down of players and talent,

981
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: and it comes down to this, and people, even the

982
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: casual fan in the NFL is starting to get the

983
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: eye idea that, Okay, Buffalo's got this defense. They've got

984
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: a great secondary, two really good safeties, some athletic linebackers,

985
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: and a rotation in the upfront where they've got some

986
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: guys who can do a lot of good things. Pittsburgh's

987
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: got a three four defense where they got these outside

988
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: linebackers they rush the passer, get a lot of sacks,

989
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: and they cause turnovers. It's the same effect with different

990
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: ways of doing it, right, And so the strengths of

991
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: the Buffalo's defense now goes up against an offense in

992
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that's different than one they faced, right, I mean,

993
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: so it's you gotta get your mind around all these

994
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: nuances of these individual teams and throw them together. And

995
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: then the big question is what is Buffalo gonna do

996
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh's defense? How is Pittsburgh's defense gonna look at

997
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: Buffalo's offense say, are we gonna blitz them like Baltimore did?

998
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: Is that our blueprint? Or do we trust our guys

999
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: because we are good, we don't have to send extra

1000
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: people and we can drop back into coverage and get

1001
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: in the throwing lanes and get more turnovers. Or do

1002
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: we cause more turnovers by blitzing and forcing josh Adden

1003
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: to throw those funky over the middle deep path You

1004
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean, that's the question. You gotta ask

1005
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: yourself that if you're the Bills coaching staff, and you

1006
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: gotta ask yourself that if you're the Pittsburgh coaching staff,

1007
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: And that's you know, and we got to sit and

1008
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: wait until Sunday night to find out what's gonna happen.

1009
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fascinating. I think it will fascinating.

1010
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a heck of I can't wait. Yeah,

1011
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: we both said that. All right, we come back Greg

1012
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: cos we'll set up this matchup for us. You know,

1013
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: Greg comes on every Friday at one o'clock. He is

1014
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: analyst executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN. He's already

1015
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 1: looked at the Bill Steelers matchup that's coming up next

1016
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: after the top of the hour. Coming back one Bill

1017
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Speaker 1: Slide presented by Kalada Health. We're coming to him from

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1019
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Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. Little Studio Network Sporty Stay update comes

1020
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Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park in the ad

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Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center. The Bills took their Friday workout

1022
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: outside today here in Orchard Park. Wards forty degrees and

1023
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Speaker 1: mostly Sunday sky. Sunday night in Pittsburgh, the forecast is

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Speaker 1: for cloudy skuys and a chance of some snow showers.

1025
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Speaker 1: A low twenty eight. Bill's quarterback Josh Allen getting scepter

1026
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Speaker 1: his twenty fifth career start in the NFL. He's got

1027
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: twenty seven passing touchdowns, sixteen rushing and twenty fourth starts,

1028
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: already the most by the Bills quarterback in his first

1029
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: twenty five starts. The Steelers defense lead the league in

1030
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: saxon forty eight and in takeaways in thirty three, the

1031
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: only team ever to do that before the nineteen seventy

1032
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Speaker 1: four Pittsburgh Steelers. Keeping an eye in the injury list today,

1033
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: the Bills with a couple to be concerned with, but

1034
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Speaker 1: the Steelers have lost Juju smith Schuster. He aggravated a

1035
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: knee injury yesterday in practice, not expected to play Sunday night.

1036
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Speaker 1: According to ESPN. Smith Schuster returned to practice Wednesday as

1037
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: a full participant, but left early yesterday and was listed

1038
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: as limited. Running Back James Conner injured three games ago

1039
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: as well with an injury to an ac joint in

1040
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: the shoulder, but he has been a full participant on

1041
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: the last two days Wednesday and Thursday in practice. The

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00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: broadcast live from Heinz Field on Sunday night, I'll be

1043
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: in a booth with Eric wood salth Kapacha on the

1044
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Speaker 1: sidelines the bills of the Steelers on our flagship radio station,

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Speaker 1: WGR Sports Radio five fifty. Giants Hooky quarterback Daniel Jones

1046
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: is expected to play Sunday against the Dolphins. Is not

1047
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: expected to play. I should say Eli Manning will take

1048
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: his place manning bench for Jones after week two. Now

1049
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make his second consecutive start. And Ravens quarterback

1050
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson established a new rushing record for NFL quarterbacks.

1051
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: He passed Michael Vick as he broke a VIC single

1052
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: scoring rushing record mark by a quarterback on the opening

1053
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: drive last night of the Ravens forty two to twenty

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Speaker 1: one route over the New York Jet. Savers Hockey last

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Speaker 1: night they beat the Nashville Predators four to three. Jack

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Speaker 1: Igle with two goals in that game, icl extending his

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Speaker 1: point street to fifteen games. Savers practice today hit the road.

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Speaker 1: They played the Islanders on Saturday tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy,

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00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and are one Buffalo Studio ready to go

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00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: with our number two? Yeah? Man, good because we got

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Speaker 1: our great guests of the week. Great co Sell executive

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Speaker 1: producer analyst of NFL matchup on ESPN, which you can

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Speaker 1: see tomorrow on ESPN two at seven thirty in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Sunday on ESPN at four am five thirty Am. Greg Is,

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Speaker 1: senior producer at NFL Films, joins us every Friday at

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Speaker 1: this time. Good afternoon, Greg, Good to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show with us yere today. We're excited to talk

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00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: to you about this Bill's matchup on Sunday. Oh, Murph,

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00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: it's a big one. Now they got to bounce back

1071
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: Sunday night football. Marek is watching you say that kind

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00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: of warning us. We know that, and we're in the

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00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: big audience and Bills they're used to a big audience

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00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,720
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. Greg, that's true. That's true, and they played

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00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: very well on Thanksgivings. So let's hope they can replicate that. Yeah,

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00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: in your show, your audience, we'll see a breakdown of

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00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: what the Pittsburgh defense in the show coming up this weekend,

1078
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: tell us about the Matt Bowen actually did a breakdown

1079
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: of the Steelers third down defense in the red zone

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00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: with a focus on Minca Fitzpatrick. One of the things

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00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: we try to do in the show is we don't

1082
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: like to do the same things every week. And I

1083
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: had spent I think, oh, either two of the last

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00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: three or two of the last four weeks looking at

1085
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: the Bill's offense, the pass game, and the run game.

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00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: So we decided to go with the Steelers defense, which

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00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: has actually been playing extremely well and we really hadn't

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00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: tackled them in the show. Yeah, this is and this

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00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: is a game with two teams that really are built

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00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: mirror images of each other. Both have strong defense, defenses

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00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 1: are different personalities, but the team leans on their defense

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00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: and hopes enough for enough from their offense to pull

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00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: out a win. I expect this to be a really

1094
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: close competitive game. What about you? You would think so?

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00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's hard to know for sure,

1096
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: but I would think that this has an old school

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00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: feel to it for sure. The Steelers, I know, they

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00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: get James connorback. They've not run the ball that consistently

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00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: throughout the season, but they clearly played to their defense.

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00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: Their quarterback Devlin Hodges, they don't really ask him to

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00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: do a lot, although he's made some good plays in

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00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: critical situations, but they certainly don't ask him to be

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00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: the driving force of what they do offensively. Hey, Greg,

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00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: tell me about what the Bills can do and what

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00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: teams have done in the matchup with the outside linebackers.

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Speaker 1: For the Steelers, t J. Watt and Bud Dupris, those

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00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: two are game wreckers potentially. Huh. Well, what teams have

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00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: done is not blocked them as well as they'd really

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00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: like to. But no, they obviously there are three four

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00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: base so if the Bills line up with multiple tight ends,

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00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: which they have not done very much over the last

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00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 1: number of weeks, the Bills, as you know, have really

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00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: morphed this season into an eleven personnel offense with three

1114
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: wide receivers, a tempo offense. They've got no huddle quite

1115
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: a bit over the last number of weeks. So what

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00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: you'll probably get from the Steelers is more nickel, and

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00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: then on third down you'll get dying with six defensive backs.

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00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: And then what and Dupris are the edge rushers, and

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00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: Dupris has really come into his own this year. I

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Speaker 1: thought he was a great talent out of college at

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Speaker 1: the University of Kentucky, and he never really became a

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00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: consistently strong pass rusher, and this year I think he's improved,

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Speaker 1: and Watt's just been a good pass rusher from the

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Speaker 1: moment he came into the league. So those are two

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Speaker 1: tough guys to have to block on the edge. What

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Speaker 1: do you expect the Steelers to have been able to

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00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 1: glean from the Baltimore Ravens plan against Buffalo? You know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Steve, I actually thought there were

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Speaker 1: a lot of plays to be made against that defense. Now, granted,

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00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: they were very aggressive, they were very challenging. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much Josh Allen's ankle prevented him from moving

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Speaker 1: in the second half. You guys may know that better

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00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: than I, but they were incredibly aggressive and they blitched

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Speaker 1: a lot. They're known to blitz a lot, even more

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00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: than the Steelers. They play a lot of man coverage.

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00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: But they were throws. To be me, Josh obviously did

1137
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: not have a good game. It started literally on the

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00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: first series. He had John Brown for a touchdown on

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00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: third down and he just made a really inaccurate throw

1140
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: and he missed a number of those throws in the game. So,

1141
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, I like what the Bills do offensively from

1142
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: a tactical perspective, you don't think You've got a pretty

1143
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: multiple run game. Singletary clearly has shown a lot since

1144
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: he's become the primary back, and they create opportunities at

1145
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: the intermediate and vertical levels. You know, when you get

1146
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: into these games against good teams, and that's the goal here.

1147
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: They want to be a playoff team, so you're going

1148
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: to play better teams. Is when those opportunities in the

1149
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: intermediate and downfield passing game present themselves, you have to

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00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: make those throws to execute. Hey, great gum. Schematically though,

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00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: are the Bills okay against Well they weren't last week

1152
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 1: against the Ravens blitz heavy defense. But are they okay

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00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: E eleven personnel, which, as you pointed out, has been

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00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: their preferred to personnel package, or should they look to

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00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: do something else maybe when when they're having trouble blocking

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00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:51,479
Speaker 1: and protecting the passer. Well, that'll be a decision they'll

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00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: have to make versus Wadden dupre I mean, if they

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00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 1: feel they can handle them with their tackles and maybe

1159
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: with a chip here and there, then they'll feel okay.

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00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: If not, then they may have to change up a

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00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: little bit. Because look, Dawson Knox I think is a

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00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: very good receiver I know he had a tough drop

1163
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: this week on third down in a critical part of

1164
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: the game, but he also made a great catch when

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00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: he was detached from the formation, split outside and made

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00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: a great catch. I think he's an athletic kid, and

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00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: you'd like him to be in your pass game, not

1168
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: as a pass protector, but pass protection is number one,

1169
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: as Steve knows, in the pass game. If you can't

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00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: protect your quarterback, you don't have a pass game. At

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00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: the end of the day. If you're struggling to pass protect,

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Speaker 1: they might have to make some personnel decisions and or

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00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: some tactical decisions as to how they go about it. Well,

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Speaker 1: in the last two games, Josh Allen has been sacked

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00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: ten times. Do you sense a trend there or do

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00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: you sense a trend it? Is it a physical matchup

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00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 1: problem or our team's just saying, listen, if you're gonna

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00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: block five, we're gonna rush six that kind of thing. No, No,

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00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they just played a Ravens team that

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00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: was incredibly aggressive. But that's the way the Ravens play,

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00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 1: so that's just specific to them. But Josh is also

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00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: a quarterback, Steve, as you know, that will get sacked

1183
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: more because he moves around, and quarterbacks who move around,

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00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: contrary to popular belief, tend to get sacked more than

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00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that play from the pocket and play with a

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00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: refined sense of timing and rhythm. Josh is not quite

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00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: there yet. You know, he's had moments this year and

1188
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: he's working toward that. But you know, he's a movement guy,

1189
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: and there are times he moves when he doesn't have to,

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00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: and sometimes he creates his own pressure and creates his

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00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: own sacks. Were on the line with Greg Cosell, executive

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Speaker 1: producer analysts of NFL Matchup this weekend on ESPN, long

1193
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: time senior producer at NFL Films, on the topic of

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00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo offense. Greg, from your advantage point, good game

1195
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: for Devin's singletary last week against the Ravens. But what

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00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: more can the Bills do with Devin Singletary? What more

1197
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: is there out there for him to get better at

1198
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: and help this offense? Well? I think they do quite

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Speaker 1: a bit, Murph, because they do split him out. They

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00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: play out of empty sets quite a bit, you know,

1201
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: and he's often split out, is the number one either

1202
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: to the field or the boundary, and they try to

1203
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: get him the ball, whether it's quick. You know, maybe

1204
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: they can ask him to run some more vertical type routes,

1205
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: but clearly he's become their number one back, you know,

1206
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: depending on the nature of the game. Look, if this

1207
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: game was closer, he would have had twenty plus carries.

1208
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Speaker 1: So I think the way they structure their offense, Murph,

1209
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna have twenty plus carries in a normal game.

1210
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: He could easily have that in the Pittsburgh game because

1211
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Speaker 1: unless there's turnovers, I don't think any. But he's going

1212
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 1: to run and hide in this game. From a score perspective.

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00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: One of the things that about this game that may

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00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: be different than the Baltimore game a week ago is

1215
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: the fact that Josh Allen was not allowed to run

1216
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: and they didn't have very many, if any, called runs

1217
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: for him. Could that be a bigger part or should

1218
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: it be, in your opinion, a bigger part of the

1219
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: Bill's attack. You if you got this quarterback who's an athlete,

1220
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: make the defense think about that a little bit and

1221
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: call some runs for Allen. I think, because Allen is

1222
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: a very good runner and a big, strong kid, that

1223
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: that should be a part of their offense. I mean,

1224
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: obviously you're not going to overdo it. You don't want

1225
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: him to get hurt. But I think that absolutely should

1226
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: be a part of your office because they put such

1227
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Speaker 1: stress Steve on the defense. Did you see did the

1228
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Speaker 1: Ravens do something to prevent him from running it last Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Do you think, Greg? No? I mean, these are play

1230
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: calls in my view. Now, I don't know, you know,

1231
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if Brian day Ball's thought process was

1232
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: going into the game, how he game planned what he

1233
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: thought he could do against that defense. But I think,

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Speaker 1: just as a general statement, I think that Josh Allen's

1235
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: legs need to be a part of what they do

1236
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: on offense. Let's talk for a minute, Greg about the

1237
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers and three and oh Devlin Hodges at quarterback.

1238
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: You mentioned they don't ask him to do a lot.

1239
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: He'll have to do something here, right. What strengths does

1240
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: he bring to this game? Well, one thing to me

1241
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: on the tape that stands out is he's an aggressive guy.

1242
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: Excuse me. I mean he's not a guy that just

1243
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: looks too you know, dump it off or play conservatively.

1244
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: I mean he had two scoring drives in each of

1245
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: the last two games at the end of the first half,

1246
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: and he made plays, He made throws. He drove the

1247
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: ball down the field. He ran this past week at

1248
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: the end of the first half for twenty plus yards.

1249
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: He's made some very very good throws, even though they

1250
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: don't ask him to do a lot MRF. I think

1251
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: he's shone well within the context of what they do. Ultimately,

1252
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: they want to run the ball better if Connor can

1253
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: come back and give them that because in the game

1254
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: in which he got hurt a number of weeks ago,

1255
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: that had been the best he'd looked all season. Benny

1256
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: Snell from Kentucky has given them a little bit. And

1257
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: I actually like Benny Snell as a runner, but not

1258
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: quite the consistency with the run game that they're looking for.

1259
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: But Hodges, you you have to be careful with him

1260
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: because he will drive the ball down the field if

1261
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Speaker 1: he feels there's a throw there. Yeah, And I was

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Speaker 1: going to ask you about their run game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you would think with a young quarterback and they're trying

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Speaker 1: to ease this, you know, not lean on him to

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Speaker 1: win games. That means James Connor comes right back to

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Speaker 1: the forefront. He's gonna probably be back in the lineup.

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Speaker 1: How does that change things for them? Obviously he's just

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Speaker 1: a different guy, But does it change their running philosophy

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Speaker 1: at all? Does it change their feelings about their own

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Speaker 1: running game if they get their number one guy back?

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Speaker 1: I don't think it would change their philosophy. Steve, I

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Speaker 1: think he's got more juice than Benny Snell, and I

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Speaker 1: think that if he's healthy, he gives you more in

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Speaker 1: the run game than Snell does. Snell is kind of

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Speaker 1: a workhorse grinder. That's what he was in college. That's

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Speaker 1: the style of back he is. And you can play

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Speaker 1: with a back like that because ultimately, what you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do is you're trying to sustain offense, stay ahead

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Speaker 1: of the sticks. You know, Snell at his best, if

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Speaker 1: their run games working, we'll give you four or five

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Speaker 1: six yards. Connor has a little more juice, and I

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Speaker 1: think Connor's more effective in the pass game. Great last

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Speaker 1: question I am for you about the Bills matchup two

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Speaker 1: of the top five defenses in the NFL. Which one

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Speaker 1: is better? Are they close? They're different? Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: a hard question to answer. Stylistically different one is a

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Speaker 1: three four base one is a pure four three base

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Speaker 1: gap defense. So obviously when teams go to sub they

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Speaker 1: pretty much have four down lineman who rushed the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But conceptually they're different defenses. So that's a hard question

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Speaker 1: to answer. I think that what Pittsburgh brings to the

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Speaker 1: table more so than the Bills at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: are two age rushers that you really have to be

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Speaker 1: concerned about. And I think Pittsburgh blitz is a little more.

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Speaker 1: I think Mike Hilton, who is their slot corner, they

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Speaker 1: use him quite a bit as a blitzer. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you a little bit about the game. Last night,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson eclipsed Michael Vick's single season rushing record by

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. He also threw for five touchdowns, And I

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Speaker 1: was thinking this, Greg, It's we see transcendent athletes once

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Speaker 1: in a while, but it's hard for maybe a college

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Speaker 1: athlete who was transcendent at that level to come into

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Speaker 1: a league full of transcendent athletes and be transcendent. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That and he has, and that's it's pretty amazing to watch. No.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny you say that because one of the

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Speaker 1: things you see almost every week watching his tape is

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Speaker 1: where the defense is in the right position and you

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Speaker 1: have a defender who's playing assignment football and he's in

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Speaker 1: position and he doesn't get a hand on him. And

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Speaker 1: you see that literally every week. So that's what makes

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Speaker 1: it so difficult because that kind of football, the option football.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody uses the term defensively assignment football, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of plays where defenses are in the

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Speaker 1: right position and they still can't tackle him. They sometimes

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Speaker 1: they don't even get a hand on him. Greg gun

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Speaker 1: Bills just saw Lamar Jackson here last week. But this

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Speaker 1: question goes to what you've seen from Jackson all season long. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens now clinched the division title and they're added

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Speaker 1: to the postseason. Does Lamar Jackson throw it? And is

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Speaker 1: they're passing well enough? And is there passing game good

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Speaker 1: enough to take them deep into the playoffs? Are they

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Speaker 1: limited there? I wouldn't use the term limited, And I

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Speaker 1: think he throws it probably a little better than people

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Speaker 1: might think, or some people might think. Certainly we're not

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Speaker 1: talking about a high level throw over the football compared

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Speaker 1: to some of the quarterbacks we've seen over the years.

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Speaker 1: But the offense is so difficult to defend Murph and

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Speaker 1: creates a lot of throws that you know, he can

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Speaker 1: make those throws, and certainly because there's there's an athletic

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Speaker 1: looseness to him, we've seen him make a lot of

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Speaker 1: different platform throws. You know. My guess is he's been

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Speaker 1: doing that since he's ten years old, because that's the

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Speaker 1: way he plays. But no, he's he's not a great

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Speaker 1: throw of the football, but he can't make throws. You

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Speaker 1: can't fall asleep on his ability to make throws there,

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Speaker 1: you know. So you know, to me, they run the

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Speaker 1: offense that fits him. You know, people are talking about

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Speaker 1: Greg Roman being, you know, brilliant for what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: And I go back and forth on this in my

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Speaker 1: head because to me, yes, you could say he's brilliant

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Speaker 1: what he's doing. But on the other hand, you could

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Speaker 1: also say, this is kind of what you have to

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Speaker 1: do with Lamar Jackson. You're not going to ask him

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Speaker 1: to be a straight drop back quarterback, right And that's

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Speaker 1: been the and I think that's one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh deserves a lot of credit. They've transformed and

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Speaker 1: really it's a paradigm shift. I mean last year I

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Speaker 1: remember thinking, Wow, nobody's gonna start throwing. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a throwing league of throwing league of throwing league, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the pendulum swings back the other way,

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Speaker 1: and you've got one team, it seems like one team

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Speaker 1: who's decided to do it differently, and nobody knows that, right,

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Speaker 1: and then nobody knows what to do. And that's and

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Speaker 1: that may carry them through the entire season, all the

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Speaker 1: way deep into the playoffs, maybe to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And Steve, you know how it is in preparation. You've

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Speaker 1: played in this league a long time. You get three

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Speaker 1: days to prepare for this, right, you know, because no

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Speaker 1: one else does this, and that's that's really difficult, as

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Speaker 1: you know, right, Great Coel, you got a few of

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Speaker 1: the suff great COSL analysts, Executive producer, NFL matchup on

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Speaker 1: espn UM the AFC South Texans and Tennessee play um

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee one o'clock on Sunday. The Titans have been streaky,

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Speaker 1: but there they are still challenging for a playoff spot

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Speaker 1: and maybe the division title. There. How do you see

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Speaker 1: this matchup? Great? Well, this matchup has a lot of

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Speaker 1: elements to it. I think the Titans have become a

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Speaker 1: pretty defined offense. There's no mystery to what they do.

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Speaker 1: They line up with Eric Henry as the eye back,

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Speaker 1: they play in multiple tight end sets, and they worked

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Speaker 1: the Tannehill play action pass game off of that. That's

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Speaker 1: essentially what they do offensively. Tannehill has been highly, highly efficient.

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Speaker 1: The Texans offensively are a little different. Watson is capable

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Speaker 1: of being spectacular. He's capable of making those outside of structure,

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Speaker 1: off schedule plays, but he hasn't been as consistent from

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Speaker 1: the pocket this year as many would would have expected. So,

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Speaker 1: and what we've seen in the past with Danp's the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for Tennessee, as Hill double de Andre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: at times on third downs. So I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of tactical elements to this game. Hey, Greg, we

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Speaker 1: got a heavy dose of Ryan Tannehill during his tenure

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Speaker 1: in Miami here Buffalo Bills fans did. Is he that

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Speaker 1: much better now or is he just being used better?

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Speaker 1: What do you see there? You know, I never thought

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Speaker 1: he was bad in Miami, m if I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: I mean against Buffalo. He was awful against the Bills.

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Speaker 1: He might have been awful in those games, but he

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Speaker 1: was not bad overall in Miami, and I think this

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Speaker 1: offense fits him really really well. In some ways, you

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Speaker 1: could argue it fits most quarterbacks well because when you

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Speaker 1: can work off the run game the way they do,

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Speaker 1: it defines a lot of reads, defines a lot of throws,

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Speaker 1: and he's able to get the ball out. He's been

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Speaker 1: extremely accurate. He delivers the ball, he turns it loose.

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Speaker 1: So I think this system has worked really really effectively

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Speaker 1: for him, and they've been able to sort of get

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Speaker 1: predictable fronts, predictable coverages because of the Henry factor. You know.

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Speaker 1: The point is, and Steve knowses they don't have to

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Speaker 1: establish the run. The run's already been established. Teams spend

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Speaker 1: every week talking about how to stop the run game

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Speaker 1: when they play Tennessee. So Tennessee doesn't have to establish

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Speaker 1: the run. It's already been established. Yeah. And it's interesting

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Speaker 1: too because they really seem to have gotten a jolt

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Speaker 1: in the arm from the quarterback. But as you say,

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Speaker 1: it's Derek Henry. This has really become their engine as

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Speaker 1: they head trying to head the playoffs them. One last

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Speaker 1: thing I got to ask you about. We knew the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs were going to be a contender at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season and that hasn't changed. Matt

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes even given his slight derailment a little bit

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Speaker 1: that hobbled in with an injury. But the thing that's

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Speaker 1: different about this Chiefs team maybe their defense that's playing

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Speaker 1: just a little bit better. With Steve Spagnola as the coordinator,

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Speaker 1: they seem to be getting a little bit better here

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Speaker 1: late in the season, and that could be the one

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Speaker 1: thing that puts them over the top. Yeah, they've gotten

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Speaker 1: a little more aggressive. You know, obviously they just played

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Speaker 1: New England and teams have now found a way that

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Speaker 1: they want to play New England to take away at

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Speaker 1: them and in white. And they're also very very aggressive

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Speaker 1: of playing New England with manned concepts and pressure, and

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Speaker 1: that's what Spagnola did against New England. But I think

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Speaker 1: their defense has started to play better, And you're right,

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Speaker 1: that would be big because obviously, as good as Mahomes

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Speaker 1: can be, and with all the weapons they do have,

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Speaker 1: it's difficult to play shootouts in the playoffs, you know,

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Speaker 1: to win three or four shootouts in a row, it's

1428
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Speaker 1: tough to play that way, so I think their defense

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Speaker 1: has definitely improved incremental over the course of this season.

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Speaker 1: I got a question for you, my last question about

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Speaker 1: the other quarterback in that game. Drew Lock just kind

1432
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Speaker 1: of getting his feet wet, won his first career road

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Speaker 1: start last week. How good is this guy? What's the

1434
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Speaker 1: ceiling for Drew Luck? What do you see there? Greg

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Speaker 1: great thrower, can snap it off from any arm angle.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think one thing that he needs to

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Speaker 1: work on, and this was definitely prevalent at Missouri, and

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Speaker 1: it was prevalent even last week when he made some

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Speaker 1: terrific throws is he tends to drift a bit in

1440
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Speaker 1: the pocket and he has a tendency then to throw

1441
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 1: a lot of balls off balance. And as a big,

1442
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Speaker 1: strong armed kid, he probably has gotten away with that

1443
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: most of his career because he can his arm is

1444
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Speaker 1: really strong, and I think that's something they're going to

1445
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: have to clean up. You know, It's funny because in

1446
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: our world of social media, murph, as you know, guys

1447
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:48,839
Speaker 1: played two games and all of a sudden, the Broncos

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Speaker 1: have found their quarterback. And I like Drew Lock. I

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Speaker 1: liked his talent coming out, but I think there are

1450
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 1: some things that absolutely need to be cleaned up, and

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Speaker 1: it's way too early to make a judgment about his career.

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Speaker 1: A right. One last question for you, a great Cosell.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get that tie? That's a great looking Paisley tie. You. Oh,

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01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: I'm sure my wife or daughter pick it out. I

1455
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Speaker 1: don't when I have to wear nice clothes or if

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Speaker 1: I don't dress myself. That's you know, as Clint Eastwood

1457
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Speaker 1: one set in a movie, a man's got to know

1458
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: his limitations, and you know that's way beyond my abilities. Thanks, thanks,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, Dirty Harry, You're exactly right. Thanks, Thanks, Great.

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Speaker 1: Great Cosell is the executive producer analysts of NFL Matchup

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Speaker 1: on ESPN, senior producer in NFL Films, His show with

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Speaker 1: Matt Bowen and of course South Penaltonio ESPN's NFL Matchup

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on ESPN two at seven thirty am. They call

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Speaker 1: a little break. They're usually they're in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the night Sunday and ESPN at four am and five

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Speaker 1: thirty AM. Roll the tape and watch it. As he said,

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Speaker 1: they're breaking down Matt Bones, breaking down the Steelers defense,

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Speaker 1: or get up at seven thirty on Saturday. I probably

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Speaker 1: will be up at that time dr that thing. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there you go, thanks to great Cosell. All right, when

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Speaker 1: we come, I'm not gonna be able to not this weekend,

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Speaker 1: Daddy Glad. I'm gonna join us with her look at

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 1: some of the other games going on in the NFL

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Speaker 1: when we returned. Come on back, One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health from the Seneca Studio on Orchard Park.

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

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01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: our Friday show, and every day every Friday at this

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01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: time the last couple of weeks. Anyway, we've been doing

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Speaker 1: this the weekend. Look at it. We've got Maddy Glab

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Speaker 1: on PSC reporter. Were you at the Sabers last night?

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01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 1: On Twitter? Yeah, I was at the Sabers last I

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01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: was watching from the press box, so okay, no work

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01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: to do on it, just no, not really any work

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01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: to do. I was just enjoying it, taking it in. Yeah,

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01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:52,480
Speaker 1: it was really cool atmosphere. No no, no odd teachers

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Speaker 1: t shirts up in the press box. I got one.

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Speaker 1: What well he bought a ticket? Yeah, yeah you were there? Yeah,

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01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: what do you think? That's awesome? Game, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: motor was there. Yeah, yeah, definitely. We had a twenty

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Speaker 1: six dollan jersey on nice Yeah, point continues, think about. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. Get that jersey game worn by Devin

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01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: Singletary at a Sabers game fifty. What's that jersey gonna

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01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 1: go for? I don't know. Is it for sale? I

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01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: don't know? But right do you put that for? You know,

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Speaker 1: do something good with that. Maddi glab is with us

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Speaker 1: to look ahead the weekend look Ahead presented by Amrek

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Speaker 1: Done Amtrak, get carried away? Yeah, I do, get done

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Speaker 1: kind of quickly. Maddie, have you here. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: the injury. You're out there and John McDermot moment ago

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01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 1: gave the injury update from the Bills. Yeah, let's let's

1501
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: talk about injuries. So John Feliciano was not there today.

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01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: Coach McDermot said that he is under the weather right now,

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01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 1: but he hopefully should be okay for Sunday. Coach McDermott

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01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: said that there's been a bug kind of going around,

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01:13:56,680 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: but that's not really any shock because you know the

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: winter months. So let me just the official injury report

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01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 1: is out this last minute, so Feliciano illness did not

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01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: practice listen as questionable okay. And then also Corey llegiit

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01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:14,680
Speaker 1: he did not practice, so we'll see about him on

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01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: Sunday as well. Um, Corey llegiit questionable as well. Ty

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01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: and Secki is out, but full practice for everybody else.

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01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: Everybody else is good to go. Yeah, Jordan Phillips was

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01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 1: limited yesterday, but he was practicing today full go. So

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01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 1: those are okay with pretty healthy in week fifteen. I

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01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 1: mean not something you see all the time, right, all right,

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01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: We're here not to look at injuries with you or

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01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: to talk about Sabers Manny. We are here because we

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01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: want to look at really and we talked to We

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,640
Speaker 1: just got done talking to Greg co sal about some

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:46,719
Speaker 1: of the other interesting games out there, and you've written

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01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: about him. And look, the Bills are the ultimate fate

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01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: in your own hands team, right, so it's hard to

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01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: look at another game and say, well, that could help us,

1524
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: that could help us. No, when your game you're in,

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: that's where it starts for the Buffalo. Can I just

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01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,839
Speaker 1: say that last week when we were doing this segment

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01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 1: and I was trying to convince you Murph about all

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01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: these things that could happen. What happened. They all happened,

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01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: except for the Bills. I just catch a call out.

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01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: Did she just call you out? I am calling you

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01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: out on the airways, I acknowledge it. Yeah. They gotta

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01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 1: win though, that's this just in. They gotta win. You're in.

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01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: They're going to do it this weekend. They're winning. So

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01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:29,560
Speaker 1: they got the Bills have their own business. But a

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01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: game to watch one for a number of reasons. Really,

1536
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: the Patriots at the Bengals, all cameras will be locked

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01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: up and stored away, I guess for the sidelines for

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01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:39,680
Speaker 1: that one. Talk about that game, but only hope What

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01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: could that could mean for the Bills down the road?

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01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 1: Playoff wise? Is there anything? Yeah? I mean a lot

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01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: of these games. Hopefully when the Bills win on Sunday,

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01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: it won't These three games that we're going to talk

1543
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: about won't necessarily mean too much. But when we talk

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01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: about playoffs seating, this is when these things can come

1545
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: into picture here. So we got the Patriots taken on

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Of course, the Patriots and the Bengals have

1547
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 1: been in the news a lot this week for reasons

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01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: that we're not going to talk about because we're talking

1549
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 1: about the game here. So the Patriots come into this

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01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: game as a ten point favorite, but their offense has

1551
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: wolf has been not so great. They've lost three of

1552
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: five and ranked thirtieth in the league averaging seventeen six

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01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: seventeen point six points per game over the last five games.

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01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: Before that, in weeks one through eight, they led the

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01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,600
Speaker 1: league averaging thirty one point three points per game. So

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01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: that's quite a drop off. And obviously we've seen Tom

1557
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:38,600
Speaker 1: Brady struggling with his options to go to wide receivers

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01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 1: tight ends. It's just really has not been there for

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01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots as of late. But they are playing Cincinnati

1560
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati's defense is the second worst defense in the league,

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01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: so I don't think the Patriots will struggle too much

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01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: to put points on the board. Hey, their defense is

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01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: still very strong. They're allowing twelve point nine points per game.

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01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:02,680
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's offense hasn't been too good. The Patriots did give

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01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: up a combined fifty one points over the last two games,

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Speaker 1: but I don't see them struggling against this Bengals offense,

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01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 1: who averages fifteen point two points per game only So right, right,

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01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:16,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots are you know, they're almost ten point favorites,

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01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 1: which is Yeah, the Bengals. They got their first one

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01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: in Week thirteen against the Jets. Yeah, in a loss

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01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: against the Browns last week. They did put up four

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01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one yards of offense, had twenty seven

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01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,519
Speaker 1: first downs. I think so, I think we're seeing the

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01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: Bengals putting something together on offense as of late. But

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01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: it's it's too late. You think you're talking about first pick,

1576
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 1: but they are right looking at quarterbacks, looking at the

1577
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: fans are for sure. Yeah, the fans are, no question,

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01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,719
Speaker 1: they have been forever. And and I say the pressure

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01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 1: is off. You don't want to be in O and

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01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: sixteen team because there's a yeah that has a stench

1581
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,560
Speaker 1: to it that one in fifteen doesn't even come close to.

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01:17:58,400 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 1: And if they do get the pick of the draft,

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,879
Speaker 1: that sets them up pretty They benched Andy Dalton already,

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01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 1: a guy who you know a handful of years ago

1585
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: they gave one hundred million dollars to. I mean, he

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01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 1: was the guy that got him a four straight playoff

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01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 1: appearances and four straight one and duns, which is the

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01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: most Cincinnati of Cincinnati things to happen. But I still think, yeah, yeah,

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01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:20,960
Speaker 1: of course here in Buffalo, we're cheering hard for the

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01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: Bengals this week, right, like we did last week last

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: two years ago, in week seventeen, right, but that it

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01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen this time. Story quick quick side story

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01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: here the year I think it was a year after

1594
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: the Lions went Owen sixteen. I had some friends who

1595
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: worked at the lines. We were talking, I think we're

1596
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: here at dinner when they were here for preseason, and

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01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: I asked him, at any point last year, did you

1598
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: guys think you were gonna go Ohen sixteen? I mean,

1599
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: you get down there, oh in twelve o and thirteen,

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01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: the thoughts gotta be in your head. Oh no, he said, nope,

1601
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 1: he said, right down final game. We was close enough,

1602
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 1: he said, he said was. I looked up at the

1603
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,519
Speaker 1: clock with about four or five minutes ago in our

1604
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,559
Speaker 1: final game, we're Owen fifteen and thought, oh my goodness,

1605
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna go Owen sixteen. I mean, that's late. That's

1606
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,639
Speaker 1: how long you hold out? Hope, right, you will, right

1607
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: down to the last couple of minutes of the very

1608
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: last game. That's got to be the one I think

1609
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: that sticks with you too. Yeah, I think that's that's

1610
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 1: that's like Buffalo and wide right, you know what I mean.

1611
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:15,080
Speaker 1: That's that's like no goal. You know, that's like, oh,

1612
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: you just never get around it. Yeah. Wow. Maddy glab

1613
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: is here for the weekend look ahead in a game

1614
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. And let's face it, Bills fans,

1615
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 1: you got all day to watch football, right because the

1616
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: Bills game is eight twenty Texans and Titans, a battle

1617
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: for the AFC South. I'm excited for this matchup. Battling

1618
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:35,640
Speaker 1: for the AFC South. Both eight and five, so the

1619
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: winner has a one game lead in the AFC South.

1620
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: These two teams are going to play each other again

1621
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 1: in weeks seventeen, so you have the rematch to look

1622
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 1: forward to. And I think this one, I mean, I'm

1623
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: chalk it up to a really good game because you

1624
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: have two teams who have high powered offenses. As of late,

1625
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: we all know the Texans offense can go off at

1626
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: any point. They've won the last four of six. They

1627
01:19:57,320 --> 01:19:59,640
Speaker 1: come into this game though as a three point underdog.

1628
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 1: They have the ninth best offense when it comes to

1629
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: extending drives. They average twenty two point two first downs

1630
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,560
Speaker 1: a game. They are really good when it comes to

1631
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 1: converting third downs, converting an average with forty nine percent,

1632
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: which is quite a bit. That's the fourth best in

1633
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. But I mean, the Titans have been so

1634
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: hot as of late. They're on a four game win streak.

1635
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: The last five weeks. They've averaged thirty seven point five

1636
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: points per game, which is crazy to think that they're

1637
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: doing this with a new quarterback, just to think of

1638
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: how they started the season not putting a lot of

1639
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: points on the board at all. And Tannehill leaves the

1640
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,639
Speaker 1: league over the last four games with the completion percentage

1641
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: of seventy five point six percent. But it's not easy

1642
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: to do. And better yet, he's averaging eleven point eight

1643
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 1: yards per attempt. That's crazy. That's a first down every

1644
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: time you're throwing the ball. And on top of that,

1645
01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has been such a great running back really

1646
01:20:56,479 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: in the last five or six weeks, he's averaging one

1647
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two point four rushing yards per game.

1648
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: The next best rusher is Lamar Jackson, and he's averaging

1649
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 1: sixty yards less than Derrick Henry over those last six weeks.

1650
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 1: Steve Ben help me out here, Steve and I know

1651
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,879
Speaker 1: they're gonna play twice final three weeks. But the Texans

1652
01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: line up with Shaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins. The Titans

1653
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: line up with Ryan Tannehill and I guess Derrick Henry

1654
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,839
Speaker 1: the next most prominent offensive player. Sure, that's no matchup

1655
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:28,759
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be that shouldn't be a game. I wouldn't

1656
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: be surprised if Houston swept both of these games. What

1657
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: do you think? Maybe? I mean, I like Houston. I

1658
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 1: think a game like this comes down to the defense,

1659
01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: because you have you have two offenses playing well. Houston's

1660
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,719
Speaker 1: defense is not good. They are twenty seventh in the league,

1661
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: and the Titans defense has been playing decent lately. They're

1662
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,799
Speaker 1: only giving up one hundred and one point six rushing

1663
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:53,720
Speaker 1: yards a game. I know Houston doesn't necessarily have like

1664
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: a star rusher their guys DeAndre Hopkins, but I think

1665
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 1: it may come down to who play better defense. I

1666
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: think as Bills fans, you're wondering which one's the better

1667
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 1: matchup for Buffalo if you can get in the playoffs Tennessee,

1668
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 1: and right you already beat Tennessee. Their kicker miss four

1669
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 1: field goals and they're a different team than they were then.

1670
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would rather us face Houston

1671
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 1: with a team that's got the twenty seventh ranked defense

1672
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: and the least defense, and I trust and I would

1673
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: trust our defense to hold Deshaun Watson in check. I

1674
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,680
Speaker 1: would like that matchup better than Tennessee because I know

1675
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Speaker 1: what it's like when you get a team like Tennessee

1676
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: has got where they've caught lightning in a bottle and

1677
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can't beat them. They're just

1678
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: they're just clicking on all celers. They're just taking stuff

1679
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 1: for granted. Their running games powerful, their quarterback has found something.

1680
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,639
Speaker 1: They just they get this magical level of awareness where

1681
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: they just nothing's gonna stop them, and it, you know,

1682
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: and they'll never recreate it. They'll never be able to

1683
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,760
Speaker 1: sustain it from this year into next year. It's gonna

1684
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: be here for a month and a half or two months,

1685
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: however long it lasts. Like Jacksonville was two years ago,

1686
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:57,639
Speaker 1: They're gonna have this little magical run. You don't want

1687
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 1: to meet a team like that. You'd much rather meet

1688
01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: a team like Houston who's got a lot of warts.

1689
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,640
Speaker 1: You know, who's got some guys got a you know,

1690
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: a three time defensive MVP on the sidelines. We've got

1691
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:14,679
Speaker 1: a defense that struggles in the passing game. UM, you'd

1692
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 1: much rather see a team like that than a team

1693
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: that's all all of a sudden, Like I say, like

1694
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: I use the phrase all the time. They've caught lightning

1695
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:23,640
Speaker 1: in a bottle, And I mean, that's the kind of

1696
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 1: team you don't want to think. What about you, Murph?

1697
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 1: Would you you'd rather see the Titans? Yeah, i'match. They're

1698
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 1: not the same They're not the same team. I don't

1699
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: know how we'll see. I don't think that could last one.

1700
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 1: Don't just look at you know what? I agree with.

1701
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: I kind of hope they split, you know what I

1702
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: mean what I want to see that tiebreakers and all

1703
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: that and have them struggle again. You know, I want

1704
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 1: to see both of them with with another loss. I

1705
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: want to see plenty of angst on both sides. One

1706
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 1: more one o'clock game, and this is a potential Bills

1707
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: playoff opponent at the Kansas City Chiefs and in four

1708
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: at home against Denver one o'clock kickoff. UM interesting game.

1709
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: Chief Star a nine and a half point favorite in

1710
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: this one. Uh. They The Chiefs defense has also been

1711
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: playing pretty good as of late. They haven't had a

1712
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,080
Speaker 1: top defense all season by any means, but they've been

1713
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 1: playing like it. Over last four games. They were in

1714
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:16,440
Speaker 1: tenth defensively in total yards allowed. They've had seven interceptions

1715
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: over the last four games. Uh. Denver's defense has been

1716
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: good all season though they've been a top ten defense

1717
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: all year. Um but Patrick Mahomes did put twenty three

1718
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: points up on the Patriots, so I don't think the

1719
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: Chiefs are going to struggle too much when it comes

1720
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: to scoring touchdowns. I think this is going to be

1721
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: a bigger test for Drew Locke. The Chiefs have already

1722
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: clinched the division they have, so they have to take

1723
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 1: their foot off the gas a little bit. That's one

1724
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:44,519
Speaker 1: thing that I was thinking about too. But I just

1725
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: think they have They're just they'm too much for them

1726
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: to hand. Yeah, but you know Drew Locke, he scored

1727
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,160
Speaker 1: thirty thirty plus points every time he's in the last

1728
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 1: couple of games he started. They both he's averaging thirty

1729
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 1: and a half points and game are those are always

1730
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: a little bit closer than you think they might be.

1731
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: I'm not going to count that I'm not gonna like

1732
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 1: hand Denver this game as a win, but I think

1733
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little closer than people might give

1734
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: it credit for. Amy Eddie with the late night games Sunday,

1735
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:12,519
Speaker 1: you do not do Bills tonight after the game happens. No,

1736
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: no Bills tonight after the game, but we will be

1737
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: doing a Bill's field pass before the game. You're going

1738
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 1: to do it, so yes, I'll be I'll be here

1739
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: in Buffalo co hosting with Brownie, who will be obviously

1740
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh with you guys. So that's forty. I want

1741
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: to say, we don't really have a time nailed down yet,

1742
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:34,960
Speaker 1: but I would say in the seven forty window, make

1743
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: sure you are on the Bills website, You're on Twitter, Facebook,

1744
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 1: the Bills App, one Buffalo app. Because we will be

1745
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:44,759
Speaker 1: previewing the matchup, We're gonna be talking to a special

1746
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: guest getting your social media input. I put a tweet

1747
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: out asking for our Twitter question, and that is how

1748
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: confident are you in the Bill's clinching on Sunday? And

1749
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 1: if so, why so? Make sure the field. Brownie's gonna

1750
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 1: be live on the field, so make sure you tweet

1751
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:04,360
Speaker 1: at me at Maglab with your answer, because you could

1752
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:08,439
Speaker 1: be on the show with your educated answer. Got a

1753
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: question for you, Maddie. It just came to me. How

1754
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: confident are you in the Bill's clinching on Sudding. I'm confident,

1755
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, obviously, these are two great defenses

1756
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: going up against each other, but I think this one

1757
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:23,640
Speaker 1: comes down to Josh Allen and Duck Hodges. And I

1758
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 1: think Duck Hodges is the less experienced quarterback here. And

1759
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,160
Speaker 1: I think the pressure that the Bills are going to

1760
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 1: be able to bring and the defense that wes Leie

1761
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: Fraser is going to dial up for this game, I

1762
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: don't think a rookie like like Hodges can can do it. Okay,

1763
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 1: and ju Juju is not playing stuff right? All right?

1764
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: Thanks Mattie, Thanks Maddie. Hanging with guys. Good with you.

1765
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:49,639
Speaker 1: The Weekend look Ahead with Maddie Glad presented by Amtrak

1766
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: on Amtrak, Get carried Away, Steve and I still got

1767
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: more to come. One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health

1768
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:57,799
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo

1769
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Joe kind of runs itself. The Daylight to

1770
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: Day doesn't Steve, don't you feel like that. I feel

1771
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: like I'm just a shift titter here. Just hang on

1772
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: and let it hang on, but just don't get thrown

1773
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:22,560
Speaker 1: off the Lorndo Alexander minutes away from joining us. We

1774
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: had a good show so far. The Bill's out with

1775
01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: their injury report. One player out for Sunday's game, tie

1776
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: In Secki builds Off had some I'm gonna miss another

1777
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: one with his ankle, did not practice all week, questionable

1778
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: a couple of players. John Feliciana, what did Mandy say?

1779
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 1: They sent him home with the illness, right, something like that. Yeah,

1780
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 1: he was a little sick. They sent him home, and

1781
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:47,640
Speaker 1: Sucky's out with his ankle still, and Corey Legitt is

1782
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 1: questionable with his knee. That was yeah, Feliciano was sick. Yeah, yeah,

1783
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm one two three. This would be the fourth consecutive

1784
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:57,120
Speaker 1: start missed by Tie and Sucky. That was a pretty

1785
01:27:57,120 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: serious ankle. Haven't seen a Steeler's injury report yet. We

1786
01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 1: anticipate that when we do, the name that will be

1787
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 1: listed as out on that one would be the wide receiver, right,

1788
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 1: we anticipate Jujuic Smith Welf. We haven't seen that yet.

1789
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 1: Air Twitter poll today, Steve likes it better than I do.

1790
01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 1: But that's okay. That happens every every day almost It's

1791
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: your view, your pregame view of the Bills and the

1792
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Who want to know what's the most important

1793
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:25,599
Speaker 1: matchup in Sunday's Bills Steelers game? What do you think

1794
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: it is? We've got one thousand votes in so far

1795
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 1: most important matchup for the Bills on Twitter. Fifty six

1796
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: percent of you say it is Josh Allen against an

1797
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: expected Steelers blitz. Thirty six percent of you say it's

1798
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:41,040
Speaker 1: the Bills online versus the Steelers defensive line. Six vercent

1799
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 1: say it's the Bills defense against Devlin Hodges. Okay, and

1800
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 1: this is as low as it gets. One percent say other.

1801
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: I mean there's nothing else. I guess those three got it.

1802
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:51,479
Speaker 1: It would be the sign of a good Twitter poll.

1803
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:53,680
Speaker 1: I guess if there's no other votes anyway, we'll hear

1804
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: from you. Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

1805
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty to the phones, we go,

1806
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Phill in New Jersey. You're still there, Phil, Yeah, all right,

1807
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're hair Hey guys, Hey, thanks for thanks

1808
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,400
Speaker 1: for let me call the first time caller. Um. So,

1809
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 1: one thing I just wanted to bring up, Murphy. You

1810
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:15,639
Speaker 1: actually said it last week, um, when you said it's

1811
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: kind of like a new generation of Bills fans. Yeah,

1812
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: and I'll say I'm twenty three years old, I'm Divehart

1813
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:23,519
Speaker 1: Bills fan. The most exciting Bills play that I've ever

1814
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: had was when Andy Dalton threw that fourth and twelve.

1815
01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: Jumped up with my dad and it was it was insane. Um.

1816
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,559
Speaker 1: So it feels really good to see December football. Yeah,

1817
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,720
Speaker 1: it's great. Isn't that amazing too? You just the most

1818
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: exciting Bills player you ever had was Ravens versus Bengals, Right, yeah,

1819
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: exactly making it to the playoff. Yeah, no, that yeah,

1820
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: that was great. But Um, in regards to the game

1821
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, UM, I just want to I think, honestly,

1822
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:53,759
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is going to be between the Bills

1823
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,639
Speaker 1: off inntive line and the Steelers D line. We saw

1824
01:29:56,720 --> 01:30:00,080
Speaker 1: him Thanksgiving when Josh had time in the pocket. I

1825
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:02,080
Speaker 1: mean he really you know, because fired in there and

1826
01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: it was kind of funny when he was sitting in

1827
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:05,719
Speaker 1: the pocket, he kind of just paused for a second

1828
01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: and then through it one hundred miles an hour right

1829
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: to Cole. I thought that was great. So I really

1830
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,679
Speaker 1: think you know that's going to be most important. Obviously

1831
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:15,680
Speaker 1: easier said being done with great pass rushers, but I

1832
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 1: just want to see your guys thoughts on that. Yeah,

1833
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:21,719
Speaker 1: I think it is going to be an enormous test

1834
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 1: for him. The question is not whether the Steelers can

1835
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: really rush the passer well, I think the Bills know that.

1836
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:32,000
Speaker 1: The question is do the Steelers feel like they need

1837
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 1: to send extra people because of what it does to

1838
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I think the Steelers will trust that they

1839
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:40,880
Speaker 1: can get pressure on the quarterback without sending nineteen guys.

1840
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 1: The question is do they think that sending pressure or

1841
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 1: an extra rusher does something to Josh Allen's mental stability

1842
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: that he can't play well enough under that kind of

1843
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 1: pressure and make QUI decisions quick enough to beat him.

1844
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: That's what you got to find out. And I'm sure

1845
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 1: they won't do all of one thing or none of another.

1846
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,000
Speaker 1: They'll probably mix it up, but you can bet that

1847
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 1: they're going to trust their front guys, particularly Dupre and Watt,

1848
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:07,560
Speaker 1: to get enough pressure on Josh Allen to force the

1849
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 1: ball to come out on time. But if they want

1850
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: to put him under mental pressure, they're gonna send extra

1851
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:16,040
Speaker 1: people and sit down on routes and try and pick

1852
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: them off. I mean, you know, it'll be interesting to

1853
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 1: see when they mix that up and how it goes.

1854
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 1: That's what this game does come down to, is protecting

1855
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Josh offensively for the Bills. And I've said it in

1856
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: the beginning, and I don't turn the football over. You

1857
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: gotta it's okay, Punt it away, take the sack, punt

1858
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:39,040
Speaker 1: it away, and force the Steeler offense to work against

1859
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:40,800
Speaker 1: your defense and see if you can make some plays

1860
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 1: against them. I think this is a game that's going

1861
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,759
Speaker 1: to be all about ball possession and having the football

1862
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: more than your opponent and not giving them any short

1863
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: fields or any easy offensive series. Obviously, keep everything in

1864
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 1: front of you and don't give them up a big play.

1865
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: Both at defenses we'll think that. But I think this

1866
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: game is going to be so closest to be coming

1867
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 1: down to one, maybe two plays during the entire game.

1868
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 1: Sake one more call this hour, Mike and Salamca. Hello, Mike, welcome,

1869
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:11,320
Speaker 1: you're in the air of this Hey there, Mike, Thanks

1870
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:13,840
Speaker 1: good Yes, I'm here. Good afternoon, guys. Thanks for having

1871
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 1: me on. Sure, Hey, Steve, I've got a short story

1872
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:23,639
Speaker 1: for you, if you'll indulge me. Sure. Um, when everybody's

1873
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: calling and you know, offering their congratulations to you on

1874
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: your consideration again for the Hall of Fame and offering

1875
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: the support on your eventual election, you know, all of

1876
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: which I go. It's one to let you know the

1877
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 1: type of impact you had on my kids growing up

1878
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:39,759
Speaker 1: in Western New York in the eighties and nineties. Like myself,

1879
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:44,599
Speaker 1: my best friend it worshiped you as a football player,

1880
01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: as a person, to the point where he named his

1881
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:53,560
Speaker 1: firstborn son after you, but not Steve. Steve would be

1882
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 1: too easy. He named him Benjamin. Actually, but his middle

1883
01:32:57,080 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: name is Tasker. Wow, that's pretty awesome. The guy named

1884
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:07,760
Speaker 1: his son Benjamin Tasker let him do it, which is yeah,

1885
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:11,920
Speaker 1: that's even more amazing. That's the reason I'm calling today

1886
01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 1: that phil Lets you know that is Um, we're currently

1887
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:18,640
Speaker 1: driving down Philadelphia for the Army Navy game. Yeah, Benjamin

1888
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 1: Tasker is a cadet at West Point Oh wow, for

1889
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:26,599
Speaker 1: the Army Black Night. He what he plays? What? Middle linebacker?

1890
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:34,639
Speaker 1: No way? Yeah? What's his last name Roth Roth Roth. Yep, cool.

1891
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:37,800
Speaker 1: Where's he from? He's injury so he's not playing right now,

1892
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 1: unfortunately bummer earlier this year. Where's he from? Mike Salamanca. Oh,

1893
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:49,400
Speaker 1: that's awesome. We're all from Salamancaus. They moved down to

1894
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 1: Florida years ago, so we played high school football in Florida,

1895
01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:58,040
Speaker 1: Dominole and Stanford. Well, Mike, Mike, thanks for sharing that.

1896
01:33:58,120 --> 01:33:59,840
Speaker 1: That's awesome. If you get a chance to say hello

1897
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 1: to him, wish him my best, given their give my

1898
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 1: family to give their family my best, and and uh,

1899
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: that's awesome. That's is he played and I lost it?

1900
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: Is he playing for Army or Navy? Okay, great, awesome,

1901
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:16,840
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Um, I'll tell my talk to you and

1902
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:19,640
Speaker 1: they will both just loose the mind. Well, give him

1903
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:23,240
Speaker 1: my best and uh go Army. Thanks Rye, thanks for calling.

1904
01:34:23,360 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 1: What a great story. I told you the story last week.

1905
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: We were talking about Bonnomenter basketball and how I was

1906
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:31,600
Speaker 1: as a young man was a huge Niagara fan. And

1907
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:35,120
Speaker 1: when my second son, Jack was born in nineteen ninety one,

1908
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 1: I really wanted to call him Calvin Calvin Murphy after

1909
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 1: the Great Niagara All American. My wife shot it down, shout,

1910
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:46,080
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, how about Jack middle name Calvin Murphy.

1911
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:50,080
Speaker 1: That one still shot it down even a middle name. No,

1912
01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:53,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen. I don't know. I feel compelled to tell that.

1913
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 1: I still regret he still regret it. I don't regret it. No, No,

1914
01:34:57,200 --> 01:34:58,760
Speaker 1: I don't regret it. But it would have been cool.

1915
01:35:00,439 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 1: It is cool for me. I mean, think about it.

1916
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: You know we met and remember we had the kid

1917
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:08,760
Speaker 1: in Carolina. Yeah down there? Um yeah, that's that's that's

1918
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:13,519
Speaker 1: that's very sport. That's very it's hard to even answer. Cool.

1919
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 1: Have that happened? I gotta tell you, it's really neat.

1920
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and I and I cherished that. That's awesome.

1921
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad Mike shared that with us. You've got Lorenzo

1922
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:23,280
Speaker 1: Alexander standing by. He'll be joining us next year. On

1923
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 1: set One Bill's Live for Center by Klata Health from

1924
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:29,040
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio on Archer Park. This is Buffalo Bill's

1925
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 1: Radio Bills Radio Network Sports Date after They comes from

1926
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive where the Bills had their workout outdoors. Today.

1927
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: They're getting set to play Sunday night in Pittsburgh where

1928
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:52,160
Speaker 1: the forecast calls for cloudy skies and a chance of

1929
01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 1: snow showers. ALWA twenty eight. The injury list for Buffalo

1930
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 1: today two players listed as questionable. Offensive line with John

1931
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: Feliciano illness did not actice today. He is now questionable,

1932
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:06,400
Speaker 1: and also Corey Legit defensive lineman, limited work today. He

1933
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 1: is questionable. Tiansecky is out for yet another game. The Bills,

1934
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:11,639
Speaker 1: with a win on the road, moved to a six

1935
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 1: and one road record this year, the first time Buffalo

1936
01:36:14,040 --> 01:36:17,320
Speaker 1: has won six of their first seven road games since

1937
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four. Believe it or not, Steelers injury report

1938
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:24,320
Speaker 1: not out yet, but it's expected that wide receiver Juju

1939
01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster will not be playing. He aggravated his knee

1940
01:36:27,560 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: in practice Yesterday's missed the last three games with that

1941
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 1: knee injury. Returned to practice on a full time basis Wednesday,

1942
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:36,360
Speaker 1: but left early yesterday and again not expected to play

1943
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:39,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday. According to ESPN, it is the Bills in

1944
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:42,559
Speaker 1: the Steelers Live from hines Field eight twenty pm Sunday.

1945
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: I'll be in the booth with Eric Woods. Alcapacho will

1946
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:47,160
Speaker 1: be on the sidelines. You can hear it on our

1947
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,840
Speaker 1: flagship station here in Buffalo, w g R Sports Radio

1948
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: five fifty Welthough Raiders are finally saying farewell to Oakland

1949
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: after a few false alarms and even a thirteen years

1950
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: stay in Los Angeles. Oakland plays against Jacksonville four oh

1951
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,920
Speaker 1: five pm on Sunday, the end of an era. Raiders

1952
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:04,080
Speaker 1: playing their final home game. They finished with two road

1953
01:37:04,120 --> 01:37:06,320
Speaker 1: games after this, then they moved to Las Vegas for

1954
01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:09,760
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Heisman Trophy favorite Joe Burrow is

1955
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 1: in New York for tomorrow's Heisman Trophy celebration. The Las

1956
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: two quarterback honored yesterday with the Maxwell Trophy and the

1957
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,719
Speaker 1: O'Brien Awards, given to the best overall player. The Maxwell

1958
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 1: Trophy and the O'Brien Award given to the best quarterback

1959
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:25,040
Speaker 1: in college football. And the Savers picked up a couple

1960
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,639
Speaker 1: of points last night, four three win over the Nashville Predators.

1961
01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:30,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo now with points and eight of their last nine.

1962
01:37:30,320 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 1: They've won five of those games. Jack Ico, with two

1963
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 1: goals last night, extended his point streaked to fifteen games.

1964
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: Savers four three winners last night. They're on the road

1965
01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 1: at the end of the Islanders tomorrow a one pm faceoff,

1966
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: and that is the update from One Bill's Drive and

1967
01:37:45,160 --> 01:38:00,640
Speaker 1: Never Leave Fall. It's our Friday two m routine. We

1968
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: got Lorenzo having Sander in studio with us for the lowdown.

1969
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:06,840
Speaker 1: It is brought to you by Hutches Redefining City ninety.

1970
01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: Hello Lorenzo, thank you coming by here. I'm doing good.

1971
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:11,680
Speaker 1: How you guys doing doing great? To see your name

1972
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 1: on the injury list as uh but you Yeah, I

1973
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,599
Speaker 1: guess that's old age is the injury and the rest

1974
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:22,760
Speaker 1: is the remedy. I think of it more as disease,

1975
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 1: yeah something. Yeah, So yeah, one good full practice in today,

1976
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:30,840
Speaker 1: every thing I got the end of the day. We've

1977
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:32,920
Speaker 1: kind of transitioned into that, especially when we're playing more

1978
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:35,640
Speaker 1: of a traditional style team because we're actually puposed to

1979
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: start this kind of regiment last week versus Baltimore, but

1980
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 1: since they were obviously so unorthodoxed and their run formations

1981
01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 1: and what they did with Lamar, I actually practiced two

1982
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: days last week, and he also had ten days ten

1983
01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:49,320
Speaker 1: days to get ready for that team. Yeah, and I

1984
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 1: had so that had that et day rest as well,

1985
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:53,920
Speaker 1: So it made sense for me to start it this week.

1986
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: On the Baltimore game. As you look back, you must

1987
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:58,640
Speaker 1: feel like, um, not that you're happy with the win,

1988
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,920
Speaker 1: but you guys to help them Jackson in check as

1989
01:39:01,960 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: well as anybody has all year. Yeah, I mean, statistically,

1990
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:07,120
Speaker 1: I think we had a great day. I mean as

1991
01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 1: far as everything they normally, I think they normally average

1992
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: around two hundred plus yards rushing. We held them to

1993
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 1: I think like one hundred and ten. Half of that

1994
01:39:15,760 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 1: they normally average five point one. I think we held

1995
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:20,560
Speaker 1: them to like three point six per run. So we

1996
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 1: definitely had the formula to beat them. The biggest difference

1997
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: I believe in last week's game was the turnover margin.

1998
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: Obviously we broke even, and anytime you play an elite

1999
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: team like this, you have to win the turnover and

2000
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 1: give your offense more time. Because their defense is really

2001
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:36,680
Speaker 1: good as well. Their offense gets a lot of the

2002
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: credit and as far as what they do, but their

2003
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:39,960
Speaker 1: defense plays at a high level as well. The same

2004
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 1: thing with this week. Their defense thrives on sacks and

2005
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:47,160
Speaker 1: turnover exactly, and that's special. I mean, that makes it

2006
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:49,839
Speaker 1: that changes games. Yeah, and so that's really what we're

2007
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:51,680
Speaker 1: up against as far as when we compete you know.

2008
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:54,240
Speaker 1: Defense first, Defenses who can really take the ball more

2009
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: put our offense in great advantage of spots, and so

2010
01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 1: that gives our offense a short field of score what schematically,

2011
01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:03,880
Speaker 1: and I know that doesn't cover everything, but in limiting

2012
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson last week, what was it you tried to

2013
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 1: do and what worked effectively? You don't want to answer, No,

2014
01:40:10,160 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 1: I really don't because I plan on seeing them again,

2015
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:14,840
Speaker 1: and so I don't want to say anything. I want

2016
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,960
Speaker 1: to let them figure it out what we're doing. Yeah,

2017
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 1: see it's funny, And a lot of people said that. Yeah, yeah,

2018
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:23,439
Speaker 1: I played on doing that, you know, because obviously I

2019
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:26,240
Speaker 1: thought it was two great teams matching up. Obviously they

2020
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 1: made more plays and came up winning against us. But

2021
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 1: I feel still have great confidence in this team, and

2022
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:32,840
Speaker 1: I feel that we are going to put ourselves in

2023
01:40:32,880 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 1: a position to get in the playoffs and most likely

2024
01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 1: find no way to play them again. I told Steve

2025
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 1: this monthday, I'm sorry. Even upstairs in the radio booth,

2026
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: games over, I walk out and the Ravens played by

2027
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: played gay and we both looked at each other and said,

2028
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: let's do this again. That's much fun that game, it

2029
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 1: was a great game, and I think we earned their respect.

2030
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:51,360
Speaker 1: I think we earned a lot of people's respecting as

2031
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 1: far as how physical we played them. Um, you know,

2032
01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: even talking in there some of their coaches, you know,

2033
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,320
Speaker 1: Coach Cutor was like, hey man, we played you know,

2034
01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:01,120
Speaker 1: we played the forty nine ers, We we played the Patriots,

2035
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:03,320
Speaker 1: and we felt like, you guys are right up there

2036
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:05,240
Speaker 1: with them, and as far as physically and what you

2037
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:07,200
Speaker 1: guys bring to the table from a defensive standpoint, And

2038
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 1: that's the that's a big downer for that. It was

2039
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:11,920
Speaker 1: a missed opportunity right at the time when you had

2040
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,360
Speaker 1: a game that you could have won against a really

2041
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:16,640
Speaker 1: good opponent just and it didn't happen. And that's the

2042
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:20,960
Speaker 1: one that Yeah, but six you young team, you learn

2043
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:23,160
Speaker 1: from it, right, We're gonna bounce back this week, and

2044
01:41:23,240 --> 01:41:25,839
Speaker 1: then you carry that, you know, obviously as we hopefully

2045
01:41:25,840 --> 01:41:28,680
Speaker 1: achieve a playoff berth into the playoffs with us and

2046
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: and let you know, when you start playing these elite teams,

2047
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:34,799
Speaker 1: your your margin of victory. I mean that window shortens

2048
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:37,200
Speaker 1: because I was even comparing this game to think, at

2049
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: one point we're down sixteen nothing, and in the first

2050
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 1: week we played a team that wasn't as good as

2051
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:45,599
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and we're able to overcome that. It's hard

2052
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 1: to overcome that when you start playing the Patriots and

2053
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the same those caliber of teams. So

2054
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:52,680
Speaker 1: you have to be able to go out there and

2055
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:54,560
Speaker 1: execute and not put yourself in a hole where you

2056
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:56,040
Speaker 1: have to kind of battle your way out of it.

2057
01:41:56,880 --> 01:42:00,360
Speaker 1: We're with Lorngo Alexander, Bill's lamebacker, Lorngjoe Alexander with the lowdown.

2058
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: He joined us every Friday. One of the hallmarks of

2059
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: this twenty nineteen Bills team has been the fact that

2060
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 1: you don't lose. You haven't lost two in a row. Yeah,

2061
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: what's been the seacret there? How you bounce back? Um,

2062
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 1: just stay confident and getting back to UM, to our

2063
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:15,360
Speaker 1: game plan and having great weeks of practices and not

2064
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:18,679
Speaker 1: really dwelling on the loss and just kind of moving

2065
01:42:18,720 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 1: on the same way we would do when we won

2066
01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:22,599
Speaker 1: a game. And I really just think that's that shows

2067
01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: a lot of growth in our football team from year

2068
01:42:24,479 --> 01:42:28,599
Speaker 1: one to year two. UM with Josh at the Helm

2069
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:31,040
Speaker 1: and really in our third year with Sean is just

2070
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:33,759
Speaker 1: that mentality of being able to grow and handle success,

2071
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:36,519
Speaker 1: but then also overcome adversity because when you look at

2072
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:38,680
Speaker 1: good football teams, teams that are end up you know,

2073
01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:41,479
Speaker 1: obviously thirteen to three, twelve and four even playoff teams,

2074
01:42:41,920 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: they rarely ever have back to back losses. They normally

2075
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,120
Speaker 1: stacking wins because that allows him to put them in

2076
01:42:47,160 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 1: a self position to make the playoffs. There's also a

2077
01:42:49,320 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 1: reason after this last week to congratulate you. You've been

2078
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:54,160
Speaker 1: nominated as a Walter Payton Man of the Year for

2079
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:57,000
Speaker 1: the club. Congratulations. I appreciate that. Again, I mean, I

2080
01:42:57,080 --> 01:42:59,559
Speaker 1: know how it's a huge honor. Yeah, it is, especially

2081
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:02,360
Speaker 1: because our votes for it. The men in that room

2082
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 1: vote for the guy. And we have a lot of

2083
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,599
Speaker 1: men in our locker room, and I mean every week

2084
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:09,360
Speaker 1: somebody somebody's doing it something, whether it's Harrison Phillips and

2085
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 1: Micah Hide, Tie and SACKI I mean, I can go

2086
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: down the list of guys that are very generous with

2087
01:43:17,200 --> 01:43:21,080
Speaker 1: their time, their money, and their resources and they give back,

2088
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:22,840
Speaker 1: and so to be able to represent those that group

2089
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:25,559
Speaker 1: of men, I think it's a huge honor. Yeah, that's

2090
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: your third time in the four years you've been with

2091
01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:30,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo as the Bill's nominee right for the wallpaper. Yeah, yeah,

2092
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 1: which is really cool. Just so just trying to be

2093
01:43:31,560 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 1: consistent and just live my life and really just use

2094
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:37,800
Speaker 1: the gifts and resources and the relationships that God has

2095
01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:41,040
Speaker 1: really presented with me for being a fifteen year NFL

2096
01:43:41,120 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 1: vent and give back to the community. And so that's

2097
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:44,880
Speaker 1: something that's really at our core with this team. Anyway,

2098
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:48,160
Speaker 1: what's your You might not want to answer this one either,

2099
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:51,240
Speaker 1: but you got aces foundation, you got your relationship with

2100
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:53,360
Speaker 1: South Park High School, you got a lot of other things.

2101
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:55,720
Speaker 1: Is there one thing that you consider the foundation of

2102
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: your off field the charitable kind of endeavors or is

2103
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 1: it just all these Yeah, it's all you're talking about.

2104
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: As far as one thing that I really love doing, Yeah,

2105
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:07,840
Speaker 1: I would say probably South Park, And I think it's

2106
01:44:07,880 --> 01:44:10,360
Speaker 1: more just the essence of what that is. I really

2107
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 1: enjoy mentoring young men and helping them understand their capabilities

2108
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,080
Speaker 1: of what they have, the gifts that they've been given,

2109
01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:22,840
Speaker 1: and not allowing them themselves sometimes to define themselves by

2110
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: their environment that they're growing up with, some circumstances that

2111
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: they've put themselves into, and really watching that maturing process

2112
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:31,040
Speaker 1: when they start figuring out really how to be accountable,

2113
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 1: productive and really utilize the stuff that they have inside.

2114
01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:38,639
Speaker 1: And so that's probably what I really love the most.

2115
01:44:38,640 --> 01:44:41,560
Speaker 1: For example, about South Parking, I remember last spring you

2116
01:44:41,680 --> 01:44:43,600
Speaker 1: took a group of kids down south to look at

2117
01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:45,840
Speaker 1: a couple of colleges. Right, yeah, yeah, is that born

2118
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 1: any fruit? Have you seen anything as a result? Yeah,

2119
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:49,760
Speaker 1: most definitely. I mean there's a couple of young men

2120
01:44:49,800 --> 01:44:52,200
Speaker 1: I think that understand. Okay, it's more to life than

2121
01:44:52,240 --> 01:44:54,960
Speaker 1: just Buffalo. I might have a chance that I could

2122
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:57,879
Speaker 1: possibly play at this school. And then you start understanding

2123
01:44:57,920 --> 01:44:59,720
Speaker 1: what it takes, because I think a lot of times

2124
01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:01,120
Speaker 1: you just don't know what it takes, you know, because

2125
01:45:01,160 --> 01:45:03,640
Speaker 1: you only know what you see every single day. You

2126
01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 1: see guys, you know, going about how they work. And

2127
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:08,560
Speaker 1: then you go to you know a Maryland or Georgetown

2128
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 1: or um I think we're Howard as well, and then

2129
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:14,599
Speaker 1: you see the football players and how serious and how

2130
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:16,959
Speaker 1: they approach the game, and then you see the requirements

2131
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: is going to take and then you look at well,

2132
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not there yet, and so grade wise, you know,

2133
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:25,280
Speaker 1: workout wise, lifted wise, and it makes you okay, well,

2134
01:45:25,280 --> 01:45:27,360
Speaker 1: if I want to get there. It's it's something has

2135
01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:29,599
Speaker 1: to change and it's and it's a situation where it's

2136
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:32,640
Speaker 1: knowledge is power. They didn't know. It's not like that,

2137
01:45:32,960 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, they just didn't have a chance to learn.

2138
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:37,120
Speaker 1: And also for this Walter Payton Man of the Year,

2139
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: fans vote for this and you can do it on

2140
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:42,680
Speaker 1: Twitter by using the hashtag w P M O Y

2141
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:47,000
Speaker 1: chap and that'll be at with your favorite players hashtag

2142
01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:51,479
Speaker 1: which is yours and between December twelfth and January twelfth,

2143
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 1: and you got a chance to receive a chunk of

2144
01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:56,040
Speaker 1: money like twenty five grand for your chair and it's

2145
01:45:56,080 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: back here to Western New York. Yeah, so nation Wise

2146
01:45:57,960 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 1: is obviously doing a challenge as you mentioned with the hashtag,

2147
01:46:01,080 --> 01:46:03,719
Speaker 1: and so the player is first, second, third place, twenty

2148
01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 1: five K, fifteen and ten k. So it's just additional

2149
01:46:06,520 --> 01:46:08,720
Speaker 1: resources to your foundation and the cause that you do

2150
01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:11,519
Speaker 1: in the cities that you serve. The actual award is

2151
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: voted on by a panel right there. Yeah, there's a

2152
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 1: committee that's on the panel. I don't know everybody els

2153
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: on it, but I do know that Walter Payton's kids

2154
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: are on that panel and with some very other other people.

2155
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,679
Speaker 1: Goodell may even sent on that as well, and they've

2156
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: done a great job over the years of just picking

2157
01:46:26,280 --> 01:46:29,519
Speaker 1: somebody that really represents I think the heart of NFL

2158
01:46:29,640 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 1: mena and the one thing I really liked this aspect

2159
01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:34,160
Speaker 1: of it too, so Walter Payton Man of the Year.

2160
01:46:35,120 --> 01:46:37,719
Speaker 1: They don't give it to the players who don't produce,

2161
01:46:37,840 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 1: so it's off the field obviously, chair the will work,

2162
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:42,720
Speaker 1: but you gotta be a good accomplished player out on

2163
01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, it's definitely both and being able to

2164
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 1: utilize your platform that you've been given by being a

2165
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:51,080
Speaker 1: great player, but really really emphasizing because Walter Payton, you know,

2166
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:52,840
Speaker 1: I probably didn't get enough credit while he was doing

2167
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 1: it what he meant to his community in Chicago off

2168
01:46:55,640 --> 01:46:57,680
Speaker 1: the field, so they really highlight that. And what I

2169
01:46:57,760 --> 01:47:00,759
Speaker 1: really love, the NFL has really made it their flagship

2170
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: award and have really put a lot of resources in

2171
01:47:02,960 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 1: behind it. Because the first year I was a nominee

2172
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:08,839
Speaker 1: in Washington, I believe we got maybe a five thousand

2173
01:47:08,920 --> 01:47:12,639
Speaker 1: dollars m grant, which is which is great, but now

2174
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:15,880
Speaker 1: you get fifty thousand dollars to your charity and then

2175
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:19,120
Speaker 1: fifty thousand to the local United Way and then if

2176
01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: you win it, you get a million dollars essentially five

2177
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 1: hundred to the local United Weigh and five hundred to

2178
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 1: your charity's chance. So they've really put a lot of

2179
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:31,599
Speaker 1: resources behind men serving the community and being not only

2180
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 1: an example athletically to young athletes, but how to be

2181
01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: a great person and what that means and how much

2182
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: of an impact you can do by just serving people

2183
01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:42,400
Speaker 1: and really care for people. And since in the world

2184
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:46,959
Speaker 1: we live in social media and the snark that surrounds

2185
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:49,960
Speaker 1: all of us, um there's a lot of guys to

2186
01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:51,880
Speaker 1: choose from, and that the league is full of guy

2187
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 1: Nothing you don't stand out, you do. But even on

2188
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:58,320
Speaker 1: the Bills Russ this stuff. They've got their own foundation

2189
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:01,840
Speaker 1: in scy Andry Phillips. Every league team in the league

2190
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:04,320
Speaker 1: has guys exactly they got to pick between guys on

2191
01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 1: their own roster, right. The league is full of outstanding

2192
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:10,400
Speaker 1: guys who really have given back to their community, not

2193
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:13,760
Speaker 1: only in the communities in which they play, but also

2194
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:16,680
Speaker 1: their hometown communities. They go back and give away, and

2195
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:22,280
Speaker 1: it's it gets far too little attention how positive these

2196
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:24,519
Speaker 1: NFL players are in their community where they play and

2197
01:48:24,560 --> 01:48:26,120
Speaker 1: where they and where they live in the off season

2198
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:28,719
Speaker 1: or their hometowns. And it's really nice that the league

2199
01:48:28,800 --> 01:48:31,920
Speaker 1: is finally starts say, you know what, yeah enough for

2200
01:48:31,960 --> 01:48:34,599
Speaker 1: this snark on Twitter. Let's show these guys what they're

2201
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:36,519
Speaker 1: really made show people what these guys are really made of.

2202
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:38,599
Speaker 1: And it's been a really nice push by the NFL

2203
01:48:38,680 --> 01:48:41,280
Speaker 1: to highlight guys like you and Harrison and guys all

2204
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 1: over the league, right, and it's awesome, it's awesome to

2205
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:44,720
Speaker 1: be a part of. And they have this whole cool

2206
01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:47,880
Speaker 1: thing down at super Bowl Week now, you know, obviously

2207
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:49,720
Speaker 1: have the NFL Honors where they announced the guy, but

2208
01:48:49,920 --> 01:48:51,679
Speaker 1: even before then, you like getting to meet the guys

2209
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,000
Speaker 1: serving the community and get to hang out with the

2210
01:48:54,040 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 1: Peyton family and kind of get to know his kids,

2211
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:57,840
Speaker 1: so you obviously get to know him in a sense.

2212
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,320
Speaker 1: And so it's a special moment in a great time.

2213
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:02,680
Speaker 1: Your fifth time as a team's nominee. Yes, my my

2214
01:49:02,840 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 1: fifth time twice with the Reskins, third time here, so

2215
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:07,479
Speaker 1: it's been a blessing. And again, as Steave mentioned, fans

2216
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 1: can help. If you go on Twitter use hashtag w

2217
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,640
Speaker 1: P m O Y Challenge Walter Payton Man Into Year

2218
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:15,000
Speaker 1: Challenge followed by Lorenzo's name. Yeah, you can just put

2219
01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:16,479
Speaker 1: that at the end of a regular tweet. You don't.

2220
01:49:16,479 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: You have to be tweeting about me this add that

2221
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 1: in any count Yes, And before we get to gender

2222
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:25,040
Speaker 1: and studio with us, before we get to the lowdown

2223
01:49:25,080 --> 01:49:27,000
Speaker 1: and your jack keys to the game, just tell me

2224
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:30,200
Speaker 1: in general, playing Sunday night football, what does that mean?

2225
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:32,599
Speaker 1: Maybe you played in some of the other NFL stops

2226
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:34,680
Speaker 1: you were used to that, but it's it's not it's

2227
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,000
Speaker 1: not usual here. They haven't played here in twelve years ago. Yeah,

2228
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's a it's a it's a huge honor,

2229
01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: especially when your your game gets flexed to that. That

2230
01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 1: means you're doing well as a football team. So it's

2231
01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:46,720
Speaker 1: a team accomplishment. But just to me, it's like a

2232
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: Monday nine or a Thursday and you're the only game

2233
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 1: that's on and so all eyes are on you, and

2234
01:49:50,280 --> 01:49:52,720
Speaker 1: it's another opportunity to showcase which you which you're trying

2235
01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:55,600
Speaker 1: to build, especially here in Buffalo and U for us,

2236
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:57,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great game because Pittsburgh is an

2237
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,240
Speaker 1: historic franchise um that it's really starting to play some

2238
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:02,400
Speaker 1: really good football here of late, and I think they

2239
01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:04,960
Speaker 1: started with one in three or something for one to four,

2240
01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:07,760
Speaker 1: and it battled back to be in a position to

2241
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:10,080
Speaker 1: be be talked about in the playoffs as well. And

2242
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:11,680
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a great game in front of

2243
01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:13,400
Speaker 1: a great fan base. I know we'll have some Bills

2244
01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 1: Mafia members in the house too, and can't wait for

2245
01:50:16,240 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: the physical, throw down type game you've You've also got

2246
01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,880
Speaker 1: your middle linebacker and kind of the voice of your defense.

2247
01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:24,640
Speaker 1: He's got a couple of brothers on what kind of

2248
01:50:24,680 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: conversations if you guys had a lot. It's been funny.

2249
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:29,160
Speaker 1: You know, we give him a hard time. You know,

2250
01:50:29,200 --> 01:50:31,400
Speaker 1: obviously he's playing his brothers, and so who's gonna have

2251
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:33,360
Speaker 1: a better game? Hey, did you show your your your

2252
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:37,599
Speaker 1: brother our iPad on Tuesday? Just give him a hard time.

2253
01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:39,760
Speaker 1: You know, his brother makes a good play man. We

2254
01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: should have got that that that brother. You know you

2255
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:45,760
Speaker 1: got the wrong one. You know he's messing with him,

2256
01:50:45,760 --> 01:50:48,400
Speaker 1: but obviously he's up for it. I think that's the

2257
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:52,040
Speaker 1: time that you probably raise your game the highest is

2258
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:54,120
Speaker 1: when you're playing against people you either really know really

2259
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: well or family, because you got to go home and

2260
01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:58,479
Speaker 1: hang out with him. They trained again. You got to

2261
01:50:58,479 --> 01:51:01,599
Speaker 1: see him, so I know Mains. You know, energy level

2262
01:51:01,680 --> 01:51:03,599
Speaker 1: is gonna be on a whole other level when he's

2263
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:05,599
Speaker 1: facing his brother, because obviously wants to go out there

2264
01:51:06,080 --> 01:51:08,679
Speaker 1: smack him and especially win the game. All right, let's

2265
01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:11,200
Speaker 1: get to the lowdown. Lorenzo takes us through his keys

2266
01:51:11,240 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 1: for a Buffalo victory. As the Bills get set they

2267
01:51:13,720 --> 01:51:17,320
Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh. Your first lowdown makes sense because this

2268
01:51:17,479 --> 01:51:19,320
Speaker 1: is the number one takeaway team the Steelers are in

2269
01:51:19,360 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 1: the NFL. On yeah, I mean it's gonna be huge

2270
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:24,519
Speaker 1: for us. Obviously protecting the football. I think that hurt

2271
01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:27,840
Speaker 1: is obviously last week in any time that we can

2272
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:29,800
Speaker 1: control the field position which plays a huge part in

2273
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:31,679
Speaker 1: this game. And as far as not giving the ball away,

2274
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:33,439
Speaker 1: that's going to give us an up and you don't

2275
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:35,840
Speaker 1: want to give an offense that. I don't think it's

2276
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:38,080
Speaker 1: able to really drive the ball consistently down the field.

2277
01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:40,640
Speaker 1: I think they've relied on their defense with getting turnovers

2278
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: and some big plays. That's how they've been able to

2279
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:46,200
Speaker 1: score and win some of these games of Laton. So

2280
01:51:46,240 --> 01:51:47,439
Speaker 1: that's something that we want to be able to do.

2281
01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: And also when I say protect the ball. We need

2282
01:51:49,479 --> 01:51:51,599
Speaker 1: to take the ball away, take the ball away from

2283
01:51:51,680 --> 01:51:54,080
Speaker 1: him and put our offense in some short fields so

2284
01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:56,120
Speaker 1: get some confidence going, so they can put some posts

2285
01:51:56,120 --> 01:51:57,519
Speaker 1: on the boards. One of the things about it is

2286
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 1: too as unpredictable as turnovers are, it's still something that

2287
01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:05,320
Speaker 1: if a team gets used to having, right, um, you

2288
01:52:05,400 --> 01:52:07,720
Speaker 1: take something away from them. Yeah, And that it's as

2289
01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:10,160
Speaker 1: simple as hate punting on fourth down rather than giving

2290
01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:12,360
Speaker 1: them a short field on third. Yeah. And it makes

2291
01:52:12,360 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 1: a huge difference, especially when you have for us, when

2292
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:17,760
Speaker 1: we have a good defense, you know, instead of having

2293
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:19,439
Speaker 1: that turnover, Now we got to defend at the thirty

2294
01:52:19,479 --> 01:52:22,760
Speaker 1: five where they already have points. Pretty much depend on

2295
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:24,680
Speaker 1: what the weather's like, you know. Putting to other end,

2296
01:52:25,280 --> 01:52:26,880
Speaker 1: we help, we hold them. Maybe they got to do

2297
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 1: something they don't want to do. We create a turnover,

2298
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:30,960
Speaker 1: a short field for the offense. It's always that field

2299
01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: position battle that comes. I think that becomes lost in

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01:52:35,080 --> 01:52:37,560
Speaker 1: the shuffle, especially with the turnovers. Your second lowdown is

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01:52:37,640 --> 01:52:41,080
Speaker 1: when you're talking about offensive in defense. Yeah, I'm talking

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01:52:41,120 --> 01:52:43,680
Speaker 1: about really defensively for us. As far as what they

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01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: have done offensively with Hodges, he has not been afraid

2304
01:52:47,400 --> 01:52:49,439
Speaker 1: to throw the ball up to their plays aggressive. Yeah,

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01:52:49,479 --> 01:52:52,360
Speaker 1: it's really aggressive, and and some of these balls they're

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01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 1: coming up with it's like, wow, that's a great catch.

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01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:55,920
Speaker 1: And so they've made a lot of plays and so

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01:52:56,360 --> 01:52:58,880
Speaker 1: they're relying on that um a lot of times or

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01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 1: to get a dp i ums, which has really allowed

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01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 1: them to get big chunks of yards and put them

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01:53:03,920 --> 01:53:07,200
Speaker 1: in position to score points or continue drives. And so

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01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:12,040
Speaker 1: that's something that obviously your Davis, Kevin Johnson and Levi

2313
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:14,280
Speaker 1: Wallace is really focused on this week as far as

2314
01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 1: just being able to track the ball and going up

2315
01:53:16,360 --> 01:53:18,720
Speaker 1: and winning those balls and hopefully coming down not with

2316
01:53:18,960 --> 01:53:22,639
Speaker 1: just a breakup, but sometimes coming up with an interception.

2317
01:53:22,760 --> 01:53:25,240
Speaker 1: We had Greg Couldsel from NFL Matchup on they did

2318
01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:26,840
Speaker 1: a film study. He said one of the things that

2319
01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: they jumped off the film at them about Duck Hodges

2320
01:53:30,439 --> 01:53:33,599
Speaker 1: is he's throwing it in there. He's taking some chances.

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01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: He's not shy about letting it loose. He's a pretty

2322
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:38,679
Speaker 1: good accurate thrower. He's throwing it into some covered guys

2323
01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 1: and they're coming up with plays. And he said, that's

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01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:42,920
Speaker 1: you don't see that with young quarterbacks. Yeah, you don't

2325
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:44,479
Speaker 1: because they're scared to turn the ball over and so

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01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:46,920
Speaker 1: they've you know, you know when as plus, when you're

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01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:49,240
Speaker 1: playing with a defense and you trust them to you

2328
01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:51,360
Speaker 1: more ample. Okay, let me throw this thing up. Our

2329
01:53:51,400 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 1: defense is going to stop him holding the maybe a

2330
01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 1: field goal or a pump. But then also with a

2331
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:57,280
Speaker 1: lot of these big throws, they're doing a lot of

2332
01:53:57,360 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 1: running catch. You know, they had their pump return of

2333
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:01,759
Speaker 1: that's um you know, like the third or fourth receiver

2334
01:54:02,000 --> 01:54:04,559
Speaker 1: throwing a lot of these checkdowns and they're exploding until

2335
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:08,559
Speaker 1: these big twenty touchdown style runs. Last sing of your lowdown.

2336
01:54:08,920 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: And this should not surprise anyone since you are so

2337
01:54:11,200 --> 01:54:14,600
Speaker 1: tuned into special teams. But um, field position was a

2338
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:16,640
Speaker 1: problem against Baltimore last week. Is that what got you

2339
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:20,000
Speaker 1: thinking about special teams? Um? No, not really, It's more

2340
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,479
Speaker 1: so about what Pittsburgh is known for. I mean, last

2341
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 1: week they had a big return for a touchdown. They're

2342
01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: good for running some fakes against you. I actually had

2343
01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:29,479
Speaker 1: some history with this special team's coach, Danny Smith. I

2344
01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: was with him. He obviously was up here for a while.

2345
01:54:31,920 --> 01:54:35,720
Speaker 1: I spent seven years with Danniel Washington. So I just

2346
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 1: know that he has a huge emphasis and Tomlin has

2347
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 1: a huge emphasis on special team. They have big linebackers,

2348
01:54:41,720 --> 01:54:44,480
Speaker 1: they take pride in winning that battle, and that's definitely

2349
01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 1: gonna help our team on both sides if we can

2350
01:54:47,280 --> 01:54:50,120
Speaker 1: obviously limit their return game and get Dre going in

2351
01:54:50,200 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 1: the punt and kick off return game. Last thing we

2352
01:54:52,440 --> 01:54:55,760
Speaker 1: got for you, Lorenzo Um your hometown, Oakland, Home of

2353
01:54:55,800 --> 01:54:58,480
Speaker 1: the Raiders. You played there one year there apparently, and

2354
01:54:58,600 --> 01:55:00,520
Speaker 1: no one's quite sure, but they think it's gonna be

2355
01:55:00,560 --> 01:55:03,400
Speaker 1: the last ever home game for the Raiders in Oakland.

2356
01:55:03,640 --> 01:55:08,240
Speaker 1: Steve has no fine member, you never played. It's the

2357
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:12,480
Speaker 1: third time they've said goodbye. Yeah, right right right when

2358
01:55:12,480 --> 01:55:14,320
Speaker 1: they went to LA. They said goodbye last year because

2359
01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:16,480
Speaker 1: they didn't know where they were gonna play. Say goodbye again.

2360
01:55:17,600 --> 01:55:20,240
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean I'm not as sad because

2361
01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:23,720
Speaker 1: I grew up a Nineers fan because they were in

2362
01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:27,760
Speaker 1: LA doing the first goodbye. Okay, so, but I guess

2363
01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:29,440
Speaker 1: I'm more sad for I have a lot of friends

2364
01:55:29,480 --> 01:55:32,760
Speaker 1: and family that obviously love the Raiders. Um. Obviously the

2365
01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:35,080
Speaker 1: city supports him and loves him as well from a

2366
01:55:35,160 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: fan perspective. UM, So it's gonna be sad to see

2367
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:40,600
Speaker 1: them go because I know there's a lot of fans,

2368
01:55:40,800 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: but they raider nation travels. Well. I know, we used

2369
01:55:42,720 --> 01:55:44,400
Speaker 1: to always get a ton of people coming down from

2370
01:55:44,520 --> 01:55:47,360
Speaker 1: LA every single week in Vegas. It's really if you

2371
01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:49,360
Speaker 1: get the flight early enough, it's a hundred dollars ticket

2372
01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:52,800
Speaker 1: or maybe a fourteen hour drive, and I know people

2373
01:55:52,800 --> 01:55:54,520
Speaker 1: to make that to go see them. Yeah, not to

2374
01:55:54,640 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 1: speak ill of the imminent Dyane Stadium here, but the

2375
01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,600
Speaker 1: place is a dump, right you played there for a year? Yeah,

2376
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:01,880
Speaker 1: I get yeah, yeah, yeah, But that's why I say

2377
01:56:01,880 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 1: a fan perspective, the city didn't want to back them

2378
01:56:03,760 --> 01:56:05,400
Speaker 1: to you know what, obviously works something out to get

2379
01:56:05,400 --> 01:56:07,920
Speaker 1: another deal, going to get a new stadium. That's that's

2380
01:56:07,960 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 1: the worst part, saying that stadiums a dump as an insult. Yea,

2381
01:56:11,520 --> 01:56:14,280
Speaker 1: it's bad. I told you about the sewage and stuff,

2382
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: and I said then, I think I even texted you

2383
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 1: one time when I found the clip of the sewage

2384
01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:21,840
Speaker 1: coming backing up? Did you ever get that from me? No? No? Yeah,

2385
01:56:22,240 --> 01:56:25,440
Speaker 1: I save it. Yeah. How about I'm doing the radio

2386
01:56:25,560 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: game there and doing the game in the radio booth,

2387
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:29,040
Speaker 1: and there's a steady drip that I tell you this, yeah, right,

2388
01:56:29,080 --> 01:56:31,000
Speaker 1: And I said to the guy, right right, And when

2389
01:56:31,400 --> 01:56:33,280
Speaker 1: TV booth we got a steady and I said the guy,

2390
01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:34,680
Speaker 1: what's going on? And he goes, oh, I don't worry

2391
01:56:34,680 --> 01:56:37,360
Speaker 1: about I think the men's rooms up there, right, don't

2392
01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:42,800
Speaker 1: worry about it now I'm worried. True. Congratulations Walter in

2393
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 1: your career, man's great season, Stay healthy and we'll see

2394
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 1: you here next week. Thanks Undo. Alexander Bills, a linebacker,

2395
01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: joining us for the Lowdown Fridays at two. It is

2396
01:56:50,200 --> 01:56:53,400
Speaker 1: brought to you by Hutches Redefining city Dining. We're back

2397
01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: with more Steve and I One Bill's Live presented by

2398
01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:58,240
Speaker 1: Klata Health from the Seneca Studio on ARCHERD Park on

2399
01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:15,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, One Goes Live, John Murphy,

2400
01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:18,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, we got time to talk with you in

2401
01:57:18,440 --> 01:57:20,160
Speaker 1: the remaining moments here and give us a call. We're

2402
01:57:20,200 --> 01:57:23,440
Speaker 1: talking about Sunday's matchup the Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2403
01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:25,400
Speaker 1: What is the key matchup? What do you think? That's

2404
01:57:25,440 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: our Twitter pole? We better checked that because it was

2405
01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:29,840
Speaker 1: kind of a one sided Twitter pole. We haven't read

2406
01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:32,240
Speaker 1: any of the tweet sheets either yet this We've been

2407
01:57:32,320 --> 01:57:36,200
Speaker 1: so busy. We've been so busy, so busy, Mattie Glad,

2408
01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:40,000
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell, Lorenzo, Liam McK We've had a lot of

2409
01:57:40,240 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 1: ton of people on today. It's been great. What's the

2410
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:45,000
Speaker 1: most important matchup in Sunday's Bill Steelers game? What do

2411
01:57:45,080 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 1: you think? Eleven hundred votes in on the Twitter poll

2412
01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:50,640
Speaker 1: and predominantly fifty seven percent of you say the most

2413
01:57:50,640 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 1: important important matchup is Josh Allen against the Steelers blitz.

2414
01:57:54,560 --> 01:57:56,760
Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent of you say it's the Bills online

2415
01:57:56,840 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: versus the Steelers defensive front. Six percent say to Bill's

2416
01:58:00,480 --> 01:58:04,880
Speaker 1: defense against Hodges, one percent one lonely percent say it's other.

2417
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:06,800
Speaker 1: What do you think? Give us a call? Eight three

2418
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:11,160
Speaker 1: fifty to three eighty fifty two five fifty You look

2419
01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:13,280
Speaker 1: and sound like you're ready to read some tweets? Steve,

2420
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:16,040
Speaker 1: are you yeah? From veto he says, seventeen means Josh

2421
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:18,240
Speaker 1: Allen needs to get the ball quicker to whoever's hot

2422
01:58:18,320 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 1: whenever the Steelers send the blitz. He wants to hit

2423
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:23,160
Speaker 1: the deep ball, but he has to learn to settle

2424
01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:26,240
Speaker 1: when called for. So the answer is b that's from

2425
01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:30,960
Speaker 1: veto from Kendall, he says both A and B hoping

2426
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 1: Ford can continue his consistent streak of late at right

2427
01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:38,040
Speaker 1: tackle time to see if Josh can address his mistakes

2428
01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:40,120
Speaker 1: from last game and prove that he does have the

2429
01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:43,200
Speaker 1: clutch factor. And I'm excited to see the Bill's correct

2430
01:58:43,240 --> 01:58:45,760
Speaker 1: issues from last week and win the and win an

2431
01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:49,920
Speaker 1: AFC North style game. Physical from Ken It's pretty good.

2432
01:58:49,920 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: It's gonna be physical. It's gonna be a good game.

2433
01:58:52,400 --> 01:58:56,720
Speaker 1: It's a spectacular, big play defense against a stone wall defense.

2434
01:58:56,840 --> 01:58:58,440
Speaker 1: Kind of a you know what I mean, kind of

2435
01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 1: one of those you know, nothing, flashy, no pro Bowl players. No, well,

2436
01:59:02,600 --> 01:59:04,920
Speaker 1: Turdabus White's a Pro bowler and some of the guys

2437
01:59:04,960 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 1: are that kind of quality. But you know what I mean, No, no,

2438
01:59:08,240 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, big tape flashy guys coming through. Um. That's

2439
01:59:12,040 --> 01:59:13,480
Speaker 1: kind of the game it is. And if the Bills

2440
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:16,600
Speaker 1: can protect the football and not give the Steeler offense

2441
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:18,440
Speaker 1: any short fields, you're going to force them to do

2442
01:59:18,520 --> 01:59:20,360
Speaker 1: some things that are pretty special to beat this defense,

2443
01:59:20,400 --> 01:59:23,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of and some things quite honestly, that

2444
01:59:23,200 --> 01:59:24,680
Speaker 1: not a lot of teams can do or have been

2445
01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:26,960
Speaker 1: able to do. A couple of calls here, let's take

2446
01:59:27,040 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: them to hear Saul from Dallas, Texas. Hello, Saul, you're

2447
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:32,880
Speaker 1: on the air. Are you're still there? Yeah, I'm still there.

2448
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:34,920
Speaker 1: It's done a while, but I'm still in a while.

2449
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging in there. So listen. I'm calling on behalf.

2450
01:59:39,400 --> 01:59:42,920
Speaker 1: Excuse the hole of the thing. I'm calling on behalf

2451
01:59:42,960 --> 01:59:46,800
Speaker 1: of my wife and son. Both of them would take

2452
01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:50,320
Speaker 1: a bullet for the Bills to win the Super Bowl.

2453
01:59:51,160 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 1: I hope that's not that's not necessary. But go aheads,

2454
01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:56,880
Speaker 1: what do they What does your wife and son have

2455
01:59:57,000 --> 02:00:00,440
Speaker 1: to say? Yeah, well, on the Bills gonna win. I

2456
02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:04,160
Speaker 1: can't sleep, that's not sure. What I want to say

2457
02:00:04,280 --> 02:00:07,000
Speaker 1: is I want to laugh at that? Yeah? Or ain't

2458
02:00:07,040 --> 02:00:09,760
Speaker 1: that the truth? You got to either laugh or cry

2459
02:00:09,800 --> 02:00:14,320
Speaker 1: in one of the two anyway. Alan. The problem with

2460
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:17,640
Speaker 1: Alan not being able to throw along is you got

2461
02:00:17,760 --> 02:00:21,000
Speaker 1: to be under center and you can't take a five

2462
02:00:21,120 --> 02:00:23,520
Speaker 1: step back. You got to take a seven step back

2463
02:00:24,080 --> 02:00:27,200
Speaker 1: to give a wide receiver a chance to get under

2464
02:00:27,240 --> 02:00:30,200
Speaker 1: the ball. You can look at Owens, he was always

2465
02:00:30,240 --> 02:00:33,880
Speaker 1: in the clear and the ball is always five yards

2466
02:00:33,960 --> 02:00:36,280
Speaker 1: six yards over his head. The same thing with Alan.

2467
02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:41,760
Speaker 1: Look at that he has in the blitz. If the

2468
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:47,520
Speaker 1: Bills don't get the wide receivers or the screen passes,

2469
02:00:48,040 --> 02:00:51,520
Speaker 1: they're about to have fifteen screen pass plays or it's

2470
02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:54,960
Speaker 1: going to be too tough. And another thing is when

2471
02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:57,320
Speaker 1: they do blitz, you got to have a full back

2472
02:00:57,400 --> 02:00:59,640
Speaker 1: in there, and he's got to take the blitzer to

2473
02:00:59,760 --> 02:01:03,280
Speaker 1: the outside, and the tight ends got to hit the

2474
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,960
Speaker 1: inside guy, and the sun has got to pull and

2475
02:01:07,080 --> 02:01:09,760
Speaker 1: get the line back. All right. Thanks as a laundry

2476
02:01:09,800 --> 02:01:12,040
Speaker 1: list of sales, list of things to do. Soul sounds

2477
02:01:12,080 --> 02:01:14,600
Speaker 1: like an old coach. Yeah, I'm just gonna go out

2478
02:01:14,640 --> 02:01:17,920
Speaker 1: on a limb. He's right on about all those counts.

2479
02:01:18,440 --> 02:01:22,800
Speaker 1: I think the deep ball, the deep ball is the

2480
02:01:22,880 --> 02:01:26,760
Speaker 1: seven step drops. You know it works if you can

2481
02:01:26,840 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 1: take a seven step drop. I don't know if you

2482
02:01:28,520 --> 02:01:30,760
Speaker 1: take a seven step drop too. Sometimes you don't your

2483
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:34,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on his back a lot of passes these days.

2484
02:01:34,240 --> 02:01:36,920
Speaker 1: It's a it's a timing and rhythm thing. And I

2485
02:01:37,040 --> 02:01:42,120
Speaker 1: think most teams, instead of using a straight seven step

2486
02:01:42,280 --> 02:01:43,880
Speaker 1: drop like they used to in the old days, I

2487
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:46,400
Speaker 1: think a lot of teams use the play action as

2488
02:01:46,440 --> 02:01:49,160
Speaker 1: a chance to get that extra time for the receivers

2489
02:01:49,240 --> 02:01:51,280
Speaker 1: to let their frouts develop and get down the field,

2490
02:01:51,320 --> 02:01:54,000
Speaker 1: so instead of having the quarterback just drop deeper, they

2491
02:01:54,120 --> 02:01:56,920
Speaker 1: use the play fake to delay the quarterbacks ability to

2492
02:01:56,960 --> 02:01:58,960
Speaker 1: get back there and also take a little starch out

2493
02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:01,880
Speaker 1: of the pass rush as well. So that's the play

2494
02:02:01,920 --> 02:02:04,800
Speaker 1: action has really taken the place of a seven step

2495
02:02:04,920 --> 02:02:08,280
Speaker 1: drop in the NFL to me and so, but he's

2496
02:02:08,360 --> 02:02:10,400
Speaker 1: right the deep. If you can find a way to

2497
02:02:10,480 --> 02:02:12,840
Speaker 1: resurrect the deep ball that they had in the second

2498
02:02:12,880 --> 02:02:14,600
Speaker 1: half of last year and put it into this year,

2499
02:02:15,600 --> 02:02:18,560
Speaker 1: things would be different for this offense. But they haven't yet.

2500
02:02:19,360 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they'll stop trying. The word from Pittsburgh,

2501
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:25,400
Speaker 1: we haven't seen their complete injury list, but Juju smith

2502
02:02:25,440 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: Shuster rules himself out and he didn't talk to the

2503
02:02:28,160 --> 02:02:30,400
Speaker 1: media today. He did not practice today. He went out

2504
02:02:30,480 --> 02:02:34,440
Speaker 1: early yesterday from practice after aggravating his knee injury. Today.

2505
02:02:34,600 --> 02:02:37,240
Speaker 1: Smith Shusher did not want to characterize his re injury

2506
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:39,880
Speaker 1: as a setback. He did say he needed to change

2507
02:02:39,920 --> 02:02:42,960
Speaker 1: the pace of his attempted comeback, so he pushed himself

2508
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:45,680
Speaker 1: too hard. He says he is a non contact knee injury.

2509
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:48,400
Speaker 1: The rehab ahead of him is about strengthening the muscles

2510
02:02:48,440 --> 02:02:50,840
Speaker 1: around the joint. So he's out against the Bills. Juju

2511
02:02:50,920 --> 02:02:54,640
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster. That means that Pittsburgh realizes on rookie Deonte Johnson,

2512
02:02:54,800 --> 02:02:58,640
Speaker 1: veteran James Washington, Dion Kane, Johnny Holton, Kevin Jones as

2513
02:02:58,680 --> 02:03:01,640
Speaker 1: their receiving corps. All it really means. It means they run. Yeah,

2514
02:03:01,840 --> 02:03:04,320
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald, the tight end is out as well. Where

2515
02:03:04,320 --> 02:03:07,040
Speaker 1: do you see that? It's right here, just came out.

2516
02:03:07,240 --> 02:03:10,120
Speaker 1: It just came out, and it's oh yeah, so I

2517
02:03:10,240 --> 02:03:12,480
Speaker 1: was looking for that fifteen seconds ago. It popped out

2518
02:03:12,560 --> 02:03:15,960
Speaker 1: up on our timeline here and yeah, there you go.

2519
02:03:16,120 --> 02:03:18,240
Speaker 1: Everybody else is going to be a good good to go.

2520
02:03:18,400 --> 02:03:21,680
Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster and Vance McDonald both out of this game,

2521
02:03:21,800 --> 02:03:24,240
Speaker 1: and of course James Connors still questionable, but he did

2522
02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:28,320
Speaker 1: have full practice all week. Okay, the Dealer's injuries out,

2523
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:31,600
Speaker 1: the Bill's injury list pretty simple with Tie and Seki

2524
02:03:31,680 --> 02:03:34,040
Speaker 1: out and a couple of guys questionable. Let's get back

2525
02:03:34,040 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: to some phone calls, your thoughts on this matchup. Let's

2526
02:03:37,320 --> 02:03:41,280
Speaker 1: go to Christopher in Rochester. Hello, Christopher, Hey, thanks for

2527
02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:44,240
Speaker 1: taking my call. Yes, I think one of the key

2528
02:03:44,320 --> 02:03:47,520
Speaker 1: matchups in the game is gonna be Dawson Knox. Um

2529
02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:50,840
Speaker 1: they I think Davis should get him established in the

2530
02:03:50,920 --> 02:03:55,720
Speaker 1: beginning of the game to limit h Fitzpatrick from wandering

2531
02:03:55,760 --> 02:04:00,520
Speaker 1: around to the back end. So that way, if Knox

2532
02:04:00,600 --> 02:04:02,840
Speaker 1: gets the middle of the field and gets a bunch

2533
02:04:02,920 --> 02:04:07,400
Speaker 1: of receptions, that'll force Fitzpatrick to key in on Knox

2534
02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:11,000
Speaker 1: and sort of leave everybody a man to man. Yeah,

2535
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: that was just the thought they tried to last week, right,

2536
02:04:14,080 --> 02:04:15,720
Speaker 1: and Dawson didn't hang on to it. They tried to

2537
02:04:15,720 --> 02:04:17,680
Speaker 1: get him involved early, and I'm sure they'd like to

2538
02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:20,560
Speaker 1: if you make some catches there, Dawson Knox. You know,

2539
02:04:20,600 --> 02:04:22,440
Speaker 1: he made a great one right, the one handed catch

2540
02:04:22,920 --> 02:04:25,080
Speaker 1: on the sideline. But look, I've said it here on

2541
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:27,880
Speaker 1: this show almost every week. Keep waiting for Dawson knock

2542
02:04:27,920 --> 02:04:30,160
Speaker 1: to become a force, not just a factor and not

2543
02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:33,000
Speaker 1: just a contributor, but a force in the Buffalo offense.

2544
02:04:33,040 --> 02:04:34,880
Speaker 1: I would love to see that happen. Steve, Yeah, I

2545
02:04:34,920 --> 02:04:37,840
Speaker 1: would too. And consistency would be great as well. You

2546
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:40,040
Speaker 1: see him flash once or twice. He'll catch maybe one

2547
02:04:40,120 --> 02:04:41,680
Speaker 1: or two bowls a game, but you'd love to see

2548
02:04:41,760 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: him get targeted five times with three or four catches

2549
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:49,720
Speaker 1: like the wide receivers are. It would certainly free up

2550
02:04:49,840 --> 02:04:51,920
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, It would free up John Brown as well.

2551
02:04:51,960 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 1: If you got to have more guys to contribute, it

2552
02:04:54,520 --> 02:04:56,840
Speaker 1: spreads the defense that much thinner, gives them more to

2553
02:04:56,920 --> 02:04:59,880
Speaker 1: think about in the back end, and and you know,

2554
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:02,160
Speaker 1: obviously it comes down to Josh finding him as well.

2555
02:05:02,240 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, the more guys, the merrier. And I also

2556
02:05:05,600 --> 02:05:08,760
Speaker 1: think when they go empty and going a shotgun out

2557
02:05:08,800 --> 02:05:10,920
Speaker 1: of empty, which is something they went to late last

2558
02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:13,200
Speaker 1: week against Baltimore when they were sending all his bitsas

2559
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:17,000
Speaker 1: Devin single Tear is really good at shaking guys off

2560
02:05:17,080 --> 02:05:19,680
Speaker 1: because of his ability to change direction. I think he

2561
02:05:19,760 --> 02:05:23,120
Speaker 1: could become a dynamic factor in a short, quick passing

2562
02:05:23,160 --> 02:05:25,800
Speaker 1: game as well, particularly not just out of the backfield,

2563
02:05:25,800 --> 02:05:28,120
Speaker 1: but as a as a second slot receiver to one

2564
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:30,160
Speaker 1: side or the other. So they've got a lot of

2565
02:05:30,200 --> 02:05:32,160
Speaker 1: guys and a lot of ways to to you know

2566
02:05:32,520 --> 02:05:34,320
Speaker 1: that we think they could get it too. But I

2567
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 1: think at all I've said it a thousand times, I'll

2568
02:05:37,000 --> 02:05:39,480
Speaker 1: say once more. The quarterbacks gonna make the guys. It's

2569
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,560
Speaker 1: not gonna the other way around. These guys are getting open.

2570
02:05:41,600 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 1: They've got a chance for Josh to hit him, He's

2571
02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:46,200
Speaker 1: got to put it on him more consistently. Another phone

2572
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:48,440
Speaker 1: call here as we get your thoughts on how this

2573
02:05:48,560 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: game might play out, Let's go to Justin in Las Vegas. Hi, Justin, Hello,

2574
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:54,120
Speaker 1: you're on the air of this all right, thank you

2575
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: for taking my call. So I couldn't really pick a

2576
02:05:56,840 --> 02:05:59,200
Speaker 1: matchup that is going to be most important. But what

2577
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:03,200
Speaker 1: I came down to is if the offense can score early,

2578
02:06:03,320 --> 02:06:06,160
Speaker 1: get the first touchdown in the first quarter, and put

2579
02:06:06,200 --> 02:06:08,600
Speaker 1: the defense in a position where they are defending the

2580
02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:12,480
Speaker 1: lead from Dutch Duck Hodges, I think you're setting yourself

2581
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:14,520
Speaker 1: up for a great game the rest of the way.

2582
02:06:14,600 --> 02:06:18,560
Speaker 1: It first, that's all I had to say. Yeah, yeah, that.

2583
02:06:18,560 --> 02:06:20,400
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It's certainly a stress reliever for

2584
02:06:20,480 --> 02:06:22,440
Speaker 1: all of us watching. There are Bills fans. Right when

2585
02:06:22,440 --> 02:06:24,960
Speaker 1: you got to lead, you think, okay, because with our defense,

2586
02:06:25,040 --> 02:06:26,800
Speaker 1: you feel like that gives you a bigger a huge

2587
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,040
Speaker 1: margin of error because it's going to take a lot

2588
02:06:29,080 --> 02:06:33,160
Speaker 1: of work to score on our defense. You know, it's

2589
02:06:33,240 --> 02:06:36,400
Speaker 1: interesting last week that game was decided by the one

2590
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:38,360
Speaker 1: play the defense led up on. It was that long

2591
02:06:38,840 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: that tight end you know, and you think back, it's

2592
02:06:41,600 --> 02:06:44,360
Speaker 1: hard to even remember another game with a big play

2593
02:06:44,480 --> 02:06:47,880
Speaker 1: like that in it. And that's how hard it is

2594
02:06:47,920 --> 02:06:50,080
Speaker 1: to score on this defense. You know, you gotta get it,

2595
02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:52,400
Speaker 1: you gotta hit them, and it's it's hard to do

2596
02:06:52,520 --> 02:06:55,880
Speaker 1: that because they're so disciplined. So I agree with you.

2597
02:06:56,040 --> 02:06:58,360
Speaker 1: It feels better for fans when you're watching the Bills

2598
02:06:58,400 --> 02:07:00,280
Speaker 1: game and you're cheering for the Bills or whatever team

2599
02:07:00,280 --> 02:07:03,320
Speaker 1: you're chairing for, and they score early and get that

2600
02:07:03,440 --> 02:07:06,120
Speaker 1: quick touchdown, It's like, oh wow, that's awesome, you know. Yep.

2601
02:07:06,240 --> 02:07:08,240
Speaker 1: A couple more from the tweet sheet. It is brought

2602
02:07:08,280 --> 02:07:10,760
Speaker 1: to you by Cargan Moving Systems, the official movers of

2603
02:07:10,800 --> 02:07:14,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills from Tiffany, who says the old line

2604
02:07:14,240 --> 02:07:16,560
Speaker 1: needs to establish control of the line of scrimmage early

2605
02:07:16,680 --> 02:07:18,360
Speaker 1: and oft on Sunday night. They need to play a

2606
02:07:18,760 --> 02:07:21,760
Speaker 1: bit nasty against the Steelers front seven, imposing their will.

2607
02:07:22,160 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 1: Getting the run game going early with motors should take

2608
02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:27,000
Speaker 1: the pressure. Help take the pressure off Josh, Go Bills.

2609
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:29,600
Speaker 1: This is one of those games you know it's gonna

2610
02:07:29,600 --> 02:07:31,680
Speaker 1: be decided up front on line, d line, both sides

2611
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:35,800
Speaker 1: of the ball, both teams you know, Bills, it's just

2612
02:07:35,880 --> 02:07:38,560
Speaker 1: like last week. It's an AFC North game. It's big

2613
02:07:38,640 --> 02:07:42,560
Speaker 1: and physical upfront, and you're gonna you're gonna see some uh,

2614
02:07:42,840 --> 02:07:45,120
Speaker 1: some grinded out football at times. It's gonna be a

2615
02:07:45,160 --> 02:07:47,280
Speaker 1: little bit boring at times, and you're gonna it's gonna

2616
02:07:47,320 --> 02:07:51,240
Speaker 1: be hard to complete passes. You're gonna see some you know,

2617
02:07:51,280 --> 02:07:54,480
Speaker 1: a lot of really good tackling. You know, first guy

2618
02:07:54,560 --> 02:07:57,280
Speaker 1: to the ball, makes the tackle. Both these clubs do

2619
02:07:57,360 --> 02:07:59,160
Speaker 1: a really good job of that for the most part.

2620
02:07:59,240 --> 02:08:02,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's gonna be a little bit like that.

2621
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:04,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, you know, it's gonna be like

2622
02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:08,960
Speaker 1: watching two fighters exchange jabs for fifteen rounds, and it's

2623
02:08:09,120 --> 02:08:11,000
Speaker 1: you know, you're not gonna see too many Haymakers. One

2624
02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:13,680
Speaker 1: more from the tweet sheet from Max. If the Steelers

2625
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 1: blitz more than usual and Alan can connect on a

2626
02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:19,000
Speaker 1: few deep passes, not only will it blow the doors

2627
02:08:19,040 --> 02:08:21,000
Speaker 1: off this game, but also makes you feel better about

2628
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:23,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But he says, I don't believe the Steelers

2629
02:08:23,640 --> 02:08:25,920
Speaker 1: will blitz more than expected. Bills Online just needs to

2630
02:08:25,960 --> 02:08:29,440
Speaker 1: be solid. He raises a good point Steelers saw the

2631
02:08:29,560 --> 02:08:32,760
Speaker 1: heavy blitz pressure that the Ravens put on Josh Allen

2632
02:08:32,800 --> 02:08:35,480
Speaker 1: and the Bills yesterday. What's the number sixty seven percent

2633
02:08:35,520 --> 02:08:37,800
Speaker 1: of drop backs they blitz. I don't think Pittsburgh will

2634
02:08:37,840 --> 02:08:40,200
Speaker 1: do that, but they I saw numbers today They blitz

2635
02:08:40,520 --> 02:08:42,800
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty eight percent of the time. So they

2636
02:08:42,840 --> 02:08:45,520
Speaker 1: can send pressure and they might not need to all

2637
02:08:45,640 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: the time with the pass rush they can get from

2638
02:08:47,520 --> 02:08:50,040
Speaker 1: those outside linebackers. Right, they have an excellent pass rush

2639
02:08:50,240 --> 02:08:55,920
Speaker 1: and without blitzing. So yeah, and I don't know, that's

2640
02:08:55,920 --> 02:08:57,560
Speaker 1: the big question of the week. You know how these

2641
02:08:57,640 --> 02:08:59,760
Speaker 1: teams are gonna mention what they what these coaching stats

2642
02:08:59,760 --> 02:09:03,280
Speaker 1: are to decide to attack on each other's offenses. With

2643
02:09:03,400 --> 02:09:05,160
Speaker 1: these great defenses, it's gonna be fun to watch. You

2644
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:06,560
Speaker 1: gotta score for us. You want to do an hour

2645
02:09:06,680 --> 02:09:08,560
Speaker 1: after the break, Let's do it after the break. And

2646
02:09:08,600 --> 02:09:10,000
Speaker 1: we can't to think about it, all right, I'll thank

2647
02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:12,760
Speaker 1: you for the first time. Yeah, I'll think about this matchup.

2648
02:09:14,080 --> 02:09:16,240
Speaker 1: We're coming back with more. One Bill Slide presented by

2649
02:09:16,280 --> 02:09:19,000
Speaker 1: Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

2650
02:09:19,200 --> 02:09:35,280
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. So then, what do we learn

2651
02:09:35,320 --> 02:09:38,040
Speaker 1: from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

2652
02:09:38,480 --> 02:09:41,720
Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Good Show today,

2653
02:09:41,720 --> 02:09:44,040
Speaker 1: another busy Friday for us here today with a lot

2654
02:09:44,080 --> 02:09:47,560
Speaker 1: of good guests, including Leah mceugh from the NFL on NBC.

2655
02:09:47,840 --> 02:09:50,640
Speaker 1: He is the on site host of Football Night in

2656
02:09:50,680 --> 02:09:54,120
Speaker 1: America for NBC on Sunday at Hinesfield, and he talked

2657
02:09:54,120 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 1: about the Bills playing in primetime and Sunday Night football.

2658
02:09:57,000 --> 02:10:01,080
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. And the Steeler are very used

2659
02:10:01,080 --> 02:10:03,360
Speaker 1: to it. They're a primetime team. They're on a lot,

2660
02:10:03,800 --> 02:10:06,720
Speaker 1: you know, be it Monday, Sundays or Thursday night. So

2661
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:09,240
Speaker 1: I think it helps to be at home, although it's

2662
02:10:09,280 --> 02:10:11,400
Speaker 1: a quick trip for Buffalo, and it helps to just

2663
02:10:11,520 --> 02:10:15,280
Speaker 1: be used to be hours, the routine that being set up.

2664
02:10:15,480 --> 02:10:17,440
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you haven't been on it

2665
02:10:17,480 --> 02:10:20,880
Speaker 1: for a while, there's an adrenaline rush that goes with this,

2666
02:10:21,040 --> 02:10:23,760
Speaker 1: and I think we see this throughout the sports. If

2667
02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:27,040
Speaker 1: you can channel your adrenaline and you can make it

2668
02:10:27,200 --> 02:10:29,880
Speaker 1: last and don't just come out right away guns plays

2669
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:32,280
Speaker 1: and then make plays and try to make plays that

2670
02:10:32,360 --> 02:10:34,800
Speaker 1: aren't there. If you can channel it, if you can

2671
02:10:34,880 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: harness it, you can really help, and I'm curious to

2672
02:10:37,600 --> 02:10:40,480
Speaker 1: see how Buffalo reacts here. They know the playoffs are

2673
02:10:40,640 --> 02:10:43,440
Speaker 1: right there. They just need one win and it would

2674
02:10:43,440 --> 02:10:45,760
Speaker 1: be great to get it done this weekend. Lee mcw

2675
02:10:45,880 --> 02:10:49,480
Speaker 1: of NBC also on the show. Today, Greg Cosell, executive

2676
02:10:49,520 --> 02:10:52,920
Speaker 1: producer analysts of NFL Matchup on ESPN. He had these

2677
02:10:53,000 --> 02:10:57,839
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Buffalo offense against the Pittsburgh defense. Obviously,

2678
02:10:57,960 --> 02:11:02,000
Speaker 1: there are three four base so if the Bills line

2679
02:11:02,080 --> 02:11:05,240
Speaker 1: up with multiple tight ends, which they have not done

2680
02:11:05,400 --> 02:11:08,160
Speaker 1: very much over the last number of weeks. The Bills,

2681
02:11:08,160 --> 02:11:10,800
Speaker 1: as you know, have really morphed this season into an

2682
02:11:10,840 --> 02:11:14,680
Speaker 1: eleven personnel offense with three wide receivers, a tempo offense.

2683
02:11:14,760 --> 02:11:16,680
Speaker 1: They've gone no huddle quite a bit over the last

2684
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:20,800
Speaker 1: number of weeks. So what you'll probably get from the

2685
02:11:21,720 --> 02:11:24,560
Speaker 1: Steelers is more nickel, and then on third down you'll

2686
02:11:24,640 --> 02:11:27,840
Speaker 1: get dying with six defensive backs. And then what and

2687
02:11:28,160 --> 02:11:31,680
Speaker 1: Dupris are the edge rushers, and Dupris has really come

2688
02:11:31,720 --> 02:11:33,360
Speaker 1: into his own this year. I thought he was a

2689
02:11:33,440 --> 02:11:36,520
Speaker 1: great talent coming out of college at the University of Kentucky,

2690
02:11:36,760 --> 02:11:40,800
Speaker 1: and he never really became a consistently strong pass rusher

2691
02:11:41,080 --> 02:11:43,480
Speaker 1: and this year. I think he's improved, and Watt's just

2692
02:11:43,600 --> 02:11:45,320
Speaker 1: been a good pass rusher from the moment he came

2693
02:11:45,360 --> 02:11:47,880
Speaker 1: into the league. Yeah, they're pretty good. The injury list

2694
02:11:47,960 --> 02:11:50,480
Speaker 1: for the Bills, They've got Tay and Ski out again.

2695
02:11:50,840 --> 02:11:53,960
Speaker 1: Corey Legit is questionable with a knee issue, and John

2696
02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:58,480
Speaker 1: Feliciano Bills starting guard, questionable with illness. Today. Steelers they

2697
02:11:58,680 --> 02:12:02,160
Speaker 1: rule out wide seaver Juju Smith Schuster with his knee

2698
02:12:02,200 --> 02:12:05,800
Speaker 1: the injury aggravated yesterday. Also out tight end Vance McDonald

2699
02:12:05,880 --> 02:12:08,720
Speaker 1: with a concussion. He got limited practice working yesterday, and

2700
02:12:08,920 --> 02:12:12,280
Speaker 1: running back James Connor questionable as he got full practice

2701
02:12:12,280 --> 02:12:15,560
Speaker 1: all week long. Prediction, Sir, mister tasker, what do you think? Um?

2702
02:12:16,440 --> 02:12:18,280
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo can win this game. I'm gonna say

2703
02:12:18,320 --> 02:12:20,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna win at twenty four thirteen. Wow, I think

2704
02:12:20,760 --> 02:12:24,919
Speaker 1: at twenty four points against three touchdowns in a field goal, Okay,

2705
02:12:26,280 --> 02:12:28,120
Speaker 1: three touchdowns would be good. They'd be good. I'll put

2706
02:12:28,160 --> 02:12:30,640
Speaker 1: it for this Buffalo offense against that defense. Yeah, I

2707
02:12:30,720 --> 02:12:34,120
Speaker 1: think they can do it. I like that they're they're healthy,

2708
02:12:34,880 --> 02:12:36,680
Speaker 1: they're going in. They found out a lot about some

2709
02:12:37,000 --> 02:12:40,720
Speaker 1: their personnel stuff. I think Josh is going to bounce

2710
02:12:40,760 --> 02:12:42,280
Speaker 1: back a little bit and make a couple of different

2711
02:12:42,280 --> 02:12:44,760
Speaker 1: decisions that he might not have or didn't make last week.

2712
02:12:45,600 --> 02:12:47,080
Speaker 1: We've seen that with him, and I think that's going

2713
02:12:47,120 --> 02:12:48,640
Speaker 1: to be a difference maker. I hope you're right. I

2714
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:50,840
Speaker 1: got the Bills winning, but I think it'll be really close.

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Speaker 1: I got him winning seventeen thirteen, a couple of touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in a field goal. I think I just don't know

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers have much of an offense to mount,

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Speaker 1: you know, a big scoring assault against the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: But I think it'll be close. I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: It's a kind of game you're gonna have to learn

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Speaker 1: to like if you're gonna like this Bills team. And

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Speaker 1: we know this week fifteen. We know how the Bills play.

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Speaker 1: This is how they win games, play great defense and

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Speaker 1: get whatever points they can. Right. It's easier to get

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Speaker 1: your mind around it when they're nine and four than

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Speaker 1: four and nine, right, And it's it's easier to give

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Speaker 1: them a hug, you know, and like this team. It's

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Speaker 1: it's been a great year so far, and it's all

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Speaker 1: right in front of them. This would be an enormously

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Speaker 1: big and positive win for him because it gives them

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, but it's not the end of the world.

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Speaker 1: They lose it, but you can see you can see it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, you'll start to panic a little bit, a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but I like their chances this week. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough game, but it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: fun game. It's gonna be can't wait. Production assistance today

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