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Speaker 1: These one Bill's Live presented by Calllida Health.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Bill's Mafia. Happy to have you with us

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Speaker 2: for a week sixteen and Merry Christmas. As we get

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Speaker 2: a few said from the eleven and three Bills. They're

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Speaker 2: facing the three and eleven New England Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Here's the handoff to Stevenson.

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Speaker 4: Threw a hole like a shot, still on his feet

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Speaker 4: as he breaks the tackle and he's into the end

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Speaker 4: zone for a fourteen yard touchdown run. Here's the snap

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Speaker 4: hand off the Cook coming to the left side, darts

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Speaker 4: through a.

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Speaker 3: Hole forty thirty five thirty.

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Speaker 5: And there he goes. They're not gonna get him.

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Speaker 4: James Cook is going forty six yards for the touchdown.

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Speaker 5: The drug is in the kitchen again.

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Speaker 6: Comes back to the right side, staff to Allan looking

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Speaker 6: at Cook, who catches.

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Speaker 4: It and is into the end zone for a five

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Speaker 4: yard touchdown reception. Another handoff though over the right side,

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Speaker 4: and the ball's fumble and jumping on at his buffalo

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Speaker 4: so Greg.

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Speaker 5: Russo credited with the force fumble.

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Speaker 2: Dorian Williams on the ball to recover it and the

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Speaker 2: Bills have possession.

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Speaker 3: In New England territory.

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Speaker 2: Fifty yard attempt per pass.

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Speaker 3: From dead center.

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Speaker 2: Here's the snap, holds down, kick his long enough and

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Speaker 2: it is good, plenty of distance.

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Speaker 5: The temperature doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: Tyler bass is true from fifty yards away.

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Speaker 3: Here's the snap, looks to his right, pressure coming.

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Speaker 5: Throws and it's intercepted in the end zone. Picked off

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Speaker 5: by Cam.

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Speaker 2: Lewis made from the shotgun, throws it out in the

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Speaker 2: flat and it's incomplete.

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Speaker 5: Is it a lateral pass in a free ball? It's

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Speaker 5: in the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Is it a lateral Yes, it's a touchdown. The Bills

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Speaker 4: recover the ball in the end zone. Tarren Johnson jumped

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Speaker 4: on the football for the touchdown.

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Speaker 3: May in the shotgun back to pass pressure coming.

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Speaker 4: Throws and it's complete into the end zone for the touchdown.

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Speaker 5: Hunter Henry kicks it to.

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Speaker 3: The right side.

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Speaker 6: It bounces, bobbled and it's loose, but the Bills have

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Speaker 6: it when Morris had it, initially lost it, but then

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Speaker 6: it was recovered by Khalil Shakir.

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Speaker 3: Play clock down to three.

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Speaker 2: Here's the snap and they run him over the left

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Speaker 2: side and he appears to have the first down based

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Speaker 2: on where the line'sman have them and that will do it.

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Speaker 2: As that first down will run out the clock and

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Speaker 2: the Bills will escape with a twenty four to twenty

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Speaker 2: one victory over the Patriots to improve to twelve and

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Speaker 2: three on the season. And with that victory, the worst

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Speaker 2: the Bills can do in the AFC playoff seatings is

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Speaker 2: the three seat.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: That is your game rewind presented by connect Life, an

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Speaker 2: at connectlife dot org. So the Bills did what they

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Speaker 2: had to do to get a victory over a three

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Speaker 2: and eleven football team yesterday. They improved to twelve and three.

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Speaker 2: Patriots have now lost five straight. They fall to three

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Speaker 2: and twelve on the season. And I know there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of opinions about this one. Driving home last

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Speaker 2: night from the stadium, heard them on the postgame, and look,

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Speaker 3: I understand because.

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Speaker 2: We've taken calls the last couple of weeks about the

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Speaker 2: off the field on third down and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: To me, this game had a different complexion to it,

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Speaker 2: and I think Josh Allen gave indication as to why

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Speaker 2: it's different because they're trying to thread the needle right now.

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Speaker 2: The coaching staff primarily is trying to thread the needle

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Speaker 2: right now in terms of staying competitive, trying to win

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Speaker 2: football games without putting their full menu of what they

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's I think that's true. I like

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Speaker 7: it or not, that was a game where the Bills,

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Speaker 7: and I think the I don't think there's any question

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Speaker 7: the Bills kind of could feel that probably in their

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Speaker 7: four yards for Josh Allen. They run the ball extremely well, though,

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Speaker 7: But you get the idea that their game plan was

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Speaker 7: a little bit like grade school recess, you know, I

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Speaker 7: nobody else had more than three targets in this game.

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Speaker 7: We threw the ball and yeah, so I really think

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Speaker 7: they were kind of trying to win with one hand

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Speaker 7: like emotionally they showed up asleep. They played, They literally

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Speaker 7: played a half a football game and beat the Patriots yesterday.

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Speaker 7: They were absolutely their sideline was vacant in the first

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Speaker 7: half and they still pulled out a victory. The defense

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Speaker 7: certainly showed up in the second half of the three turnovers,

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Speaker 7: Josh did enough, James Cook showed up big time for

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Speaker 7: played well. But you know, I still think they're feeling

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Speaker 7: their defensive injuries. I think their inactive list showed some vulnerabilities.

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Speaker 7: If you know, if you're gonna go into this postseason

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Speaker 7: you don't have those guys, it's gonna.

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Speaker 3: Be missing four starters in your back.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be another year like it was last year

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Speaker 7: when they were hobbled with everybody trying to win games.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be tough. So I think, yeah, it was

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Speaker 7: a hard game. I mean, that was a hard game

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Speaker 7: to watch in that first half for Bills fans, they

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Speaker 2: And Sean McDermott was right when he said the first

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Speaker 2: half was sloppy.

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Speaker 3: It was sloppy.

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Speaker 2: They were not locked in like they were last week

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Speaker 2: it's hard to get up for three and eleven and

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Speaker 2: paper and on paper does not look like they measure

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Speaker 7: They look bad on paper and they look bad on film.

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Speaker 3: Right, So you know understood.

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Speaker 2: I think what you have now is a more clear

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Speaker 2: end of game rewind. With that win, the worst the

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Speaker 2: Bills can do is the three seed in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to getting their twelfth victory of the season. They

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Speaker 2: seed is off the table because the Chiefs glay on

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Speaker 2: Christmas Day in Pittsburgh, and if the Chiefs win, the

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Speaker 3: And they will also know what will.

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Speaker 2: Be needed to clinch the two seed because the Ravens

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Speaker 2: Bills get the two seed because they can't catch the

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Speaker 2: Bills at that point in time in terms of overall record,

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Speaker 2: thereby winning the head to head tiebreaker because if they lose,

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Speaker 2: they're ten and six. The best they can do is

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Speaker 2: eleven and six and the Bills already have twelve wins.

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Speaker 2: So Chiefs win, Ravens lose, Bills are the two seed.

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Speaker 3: No matter what, no matter what.

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Speaker 2: And then at that point in time, Sean McDermott has

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Speaker 2: a decision to make. Are we just gonna play guys

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Speaker 2: or in light of the mash unit that is the

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Speaker 2: none of those guys are playing until we get to

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Speaker 2: the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Just go get healthy, get fresh, and what have you.

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Speaker 3: I think it.

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Speaker 2: Could potentially be different in terms of your plan for

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Speaker 2: the offense versus the defense, because there is a there

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Speaker 2: is a con activity and a sharpness that you want

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Speaker 2: saying they got to play sixty snaps, but they have

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Speaker 2: McDermott is with routine and all of that stuff. I

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Speaker 7: Oh sure they and it is. It's different sides of

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Speaker 7: in their mindset. Obviously. On defense, certainly, if you have

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Speaker 7: it doesn't matter what anybody else does, the play's over.

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Speaker 7: On offense, ifs one guy doesn't do it you have,

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Speaker 7: There's a lot going on during the play and in

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Speaker 7: it's not that way, but you need guys who are

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Speaker 3: It well there's no passion and know how to play

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Speaker 3: off one another as well. It was a problem. Last night.

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Speaker 7: The Patriots saw some vulnerabilities in the Bills personnel and

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Speaker 7: they went after him. Yesterday, they knew they were playing

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Speaker 7: done pretty particularly early in that game. Now, the Bill's

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Speaker 7: coaching staff did some things to help them in the

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Speaker 7: second half, and all applaud Bobby Babbage for the pressure

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Speaker 7: even better. But yesterday you saw, even against a hobbled

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Speaker 7: early on the Bill's defense was, you know, playing sleepwalking.

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Speaker 7: And they finally put another touchdown on late. But I

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Speaker 7: applaud Bobby Babbage for bringing his guys and getting some

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Speaker 7: like they were sleepwalking through it. But that's what it's

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Speaker 7: got to balance getting ready for the games that really

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Speaker 7: matter with these games that don't. I know they all count,

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Speaker 7: but you can tell. I mean these I was saying

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Speaker 7: it today, the Bills, the Chiefs, the Lions, the Eagles

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Speaker 7: These teams that are in the playoffs are there, they

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Speaker 7: are have been. They're good, and they've been good for

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Speaker 7: a minute. The Detroit Chiefs, of course, the Bills. These

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Speaker 7: Get me in because these games, it's they they are

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Speaker 7: tired of doing this. It's a long season. And you

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Speaker 7: can tell in the emotional content that they come out

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Speaker 7: Man, they just didn't have it yesterday early in this game, right,

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Speaker 7: I was talking to Iron Eagle yesterday. The Bills Patriots

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Speaker 3: I would probably go to most of the country.

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Speaker 2: You're thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking, And look, I think the

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Speaker 7: we'll see what the Jets show up. But yes, the

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Speaker 2: They're They're a talented group. They were feisty against who

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Speaker 3: In that game. I don't know. I just I don't

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Speaker 2: The point I'm trying to make is I wouldn't put

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Speaker 2: Bills are twelve and three or better for the third

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Speaker 2: Now it's six still the only two teams obviously to do.

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Speaker 2: the official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills, and on Saturday,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this playoff seeding. The playoff teams are set,

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Speaker 7: They are two games back with two to play. All

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Speaker 7: They're going to play a Kansas City team with Carson

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Speaker 7: And in week eighteen, you know, okay, so I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Yes, it did. Turnovers crushed him. I was listening to

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Speaker 7: it's that's why people comment on it when it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 7: So kudos to the defensive secondary of the Cowboys for

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Speaker 7: doing their job. And they really did a nice job

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Speaker 7: on Mike Evans of the Bucks. That guys is a

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Speaker 7: Hall of Fame or still playing at a high level,

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Speaker 7: and they shut him down. They shut him down. And

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Speaker 7: you know, the Bucks didn't get it done. No, they

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Speaker 7: didn't get it done. That's the that's the Cowboys team

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Speaker 7: that should have been playing the entire year we're now

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Speaker 7: they show up in week fifteen when it's too late,

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Speaker 7: or sixteen, week sixteen when it's too late. Yeah, So

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Speaker 7: there you go.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Probably the most exciting game yesterday was between Washington and Philadelphia,

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Speaker 2: as the Commanders overcame a fourteen point first quarter deficit

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Speaker 2: thirteen point fourth quarter deficit to beat Philadelphia thirty six

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Speaker 2: thirty three. Rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels three hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: nine total yards, two fifty eight through the air, eighty

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Speaker 2: one rushing, and five touchdown passes, including the game winning

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Speaker 2: touchdown pass with six seconds remaining. With the win, the

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Speaker 2: Commanders improved to ten and five, which is tied for

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Speaker 2: the franchise. His most wins in a season since nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety two, ten wins in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Two thousand and five, and twenty twelve.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, they've looked good.

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Speaker 3: Jaydeon Daniels in that offense is for real.

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Speaker 7: Yeah they got ten wins. I'm sorry, Yeah, the uh

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Speaker 7: is that right? Yeah? Ten wins and that was a

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Speaker 7: team that was Man, I'll say this. You want to

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Speaker 7: talk about how important culture is and people poo poo

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Speaker 7: and stuff. The change in ownership from the top down,

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Speaker 7: head coach, everything, get a new The attitude in that

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Speaker 7: building has got to be palpably different over the last

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Speaker 7: fourteen months, palpably different, and it shows. It shows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so good for the commanders. My brother in law

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Speaker 2: is a big Washington fan. He was very happy yesterday

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Speaker 2: because they haven't had a lot to get excited about

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Speaker 2: in a long time.

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Speaker 3: It's been a minute.

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Speaker 2: So that's around the NFL, presented by Colid of Health.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear from you today though obviously here

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Speaker 2: on a Buffalo victory Monday eighth, three zero five point

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Speaker 2: fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. What

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Speaker 2: are your biggest takeaways from the bills twenty four to

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Speaker 2: twenty one win over the Patriots, and we do have

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Speaker 2: open lines for you there. If you don't have time

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Speaker 2: to give us a call, you can always hit us

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Speaker 2: up on the tweets sheet at one Bill's Live. So

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Speaker 2: feel free to weigh in. I think Steve and I

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Speaker 2: have kind of given you our general synopsis of this game.

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Speaker 2: And look, I mean as far as the standard is concerned.

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Speaker 2: Even Sean McDermott said after the game, sloppy in the

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Speaker 2: first half, not up to our standard. Came out in

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Speaker 2: the second half, good adjustments, better defense, and the offense

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Speaker 2: was effective enough. But this was the first time since

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Speaker 2: Week ten that Josh Allen did not have multiple touchdowns

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Speaker 2: in a game. He only had the one passing touchdown

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Speaker 2: to Cook.

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Speaker 7: That was it, and I he alluded to it. I

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Speaker 7: mentioned it earlier. He alluded to it that you know,

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Speaker 7: they're they didn't have they didn't feel like they had

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Speaker 7: their whole full menu, and they were trying to just

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Speaker 7: get by with a win. It's in to put it

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Speaker 7: that way. I don't know, that's hard to do. I

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Speaker 7: plot him for getting it done, but if they got to,

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Speaker 7: if you know, if you gotta win these games, uh,

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Speaker 7: it's hard to go in and not just like put

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Speaker 7: everything into it board and I and I think if

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Speaker 7: that if that's a little bit on probably the coaching

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Speaker 7: staff of giving Josh a heads up say hey, we're

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Speaker 7: gonna try this, and we're gonna do a little We're

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Speaker 7: not gonna do any of this. We're not We're gonna

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Speaker 7: take these pages out of our playbook this week. We're

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Speaker 7: gonna win with this.

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Speaker 3: Those design runs for you, for example, of other things.

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Speaker 7: The only design running had was the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say the coaching staff is

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Speaker 2: taking a new approach to the end of the regular

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Speaker 2: season with a playoff berth wrapped up. It's definitely different

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Speaker 2: than what we witnessed last year. Now, last year there

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Speaker 2: were different circumstances. They had to win their last five games,

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Speaker 2: had to they were six and six. The situation and

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Speaker 2: the circumstances are different now. But in previous seasons twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, for example, when I think they got

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Speaker 2: to week eighteen in one of those years where their

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Speaker 2: playoff seating was not impacted. Essentially, what they did in

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Speaker 2: the last week was they played Josh for like a

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Speaker 2: series or two along with some other starters on offense,

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Speaker 2: and defense, and then they yanked them all out of

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Speaker 2: the game. I maybe they go down that path again,

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Speaker 2: especially if clarity is provided on Christmas Day with the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs and the Ravens and their outcomes with their games,

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Speaker 2: which could lock the Bills into the two seed very quickly,

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Speaker 2: and then the last two games kind of become a

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Speaker 2: moot point, and then the decision is far easier. If

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Speaker 2: you still need the win on Sunday to lock up

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Speaker 2: the two seed, then you have another week of.

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Speaker 3: Being in limbo again.

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Speaker 2: And that's the balance that I think the coaching staff

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Speaker 2: is trying to strike here, and it's not easy.

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Speaker 7: You'll have a little clarity because of the Wednesday games

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Speaker 7: this week with Kansas City and Pittsburgh playing and Baltimore playing,

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Speaker 7: that's going to help. But still there's a lot in

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Speaker 7: this and there have been years under McDermot when they

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Speaker 7: hit the playoffs healthy and sharp. That was twenty one,

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Speaker 7: and that's it's where you feel like you really got

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Speaker 7: a chance at it, and they played like that, They

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Speaker 7: played extremely well in those points. So that's where you're

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Speaker 7: trying to get back to that again and take another

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Speaker 7: swing at it. We'll see, and I'm not as I'm

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Speaker 7: not caught up in any of the matchups like the two.

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Speaker 7: If you're the two seed now today you play Denver

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Speaker 7: at home, I don't care who the seventh seed is

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Speaker 7: and if you get if we get the three seed,

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Speaker 7: I'm not caring. I don't care who the six seed is.

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Speaker 7: I really don't. The Bills are gonna be the better team.

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Speaker 7: They're gonna be playing at home, that's gonna I'm not

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Speaker 7: really interested in that. And you don't know who it's

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Speaker 7: gonna be yet either. So even if you try it,

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Speaker 7: and the only thing you get out of the two

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Speaker 7: seed is if something happens to Kansas City, which it

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Speaker 7: has looked like it's gonna happen to them all year

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Speaker 7: and it never has, you're sitting there going well, if

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Speaker 7: they do stumble, you get the AFC Championship game in

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Speaker 7: your place. Then if you're the two seed and you

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Speaker 7: get that far, if you get that far, so that's

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Speaker 7: a plus. But you know that's folks, that's a month

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Speaker 7: and a half away. I'm I'm not interested in you

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Speaker 7: that get to the playoffs as healthy as you can,

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Speaker 7: then take what comes. You'll be ready for it. If

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Speaker 7: you're healthy, if you're fully healthy. You'll be ready for it.

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Speaker 7: Any of these teams.

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Speaker 2: We have to step aside here for a break, but

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Speaker 2: we're getting right to your phone calls when we come

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Speaker 2: back here on a Buffalo victory Monday. So if you're

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Speaker 2: holding at eight h three oh five fifty, we'll get

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Speaker 2: to you when we return here. On one Bill's Live

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Speaker 2: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 3: Here's the snap hand off. The Cook coming on to

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Speaker 3: the left side, dart through a hole.

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Speaker 5: Forty thirty five thirty and there he goes. They're not

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Speaker 5: gonna get him.

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Speaker 4: James Cook is going forty six yards for their touchdown.

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Speaker 5: The Cook is in the kitchen again.

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Speaker 2: This week's Player of the Game is running back James Cook.

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Speaker 2: Eleven carries one hundred yards nine yards per carry and

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Speaker 2: a rushing touchdown on three receptions. No, he had one

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Speaker 2: reception for twenty six yards and a receiving touchdown. No,

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Speaker 2: he's had ddid to have three receptions for twenty six

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Speaker 2: yards and a receiving touchdown. Player of the Game presented

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Speaker 2: the game this week, Week seventeen coming up. I was

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Speaker 2: thinking he only had one catch, but then I remembered

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the halftime stats. He only had

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Speaker 2: one reception at halftime.

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Speaker 3: Two in the second half.

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Speaker 7: My bad.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get to the phones here at eight h

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Speaker 2: three zero five fifty won eight of eight five fifty

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Speaker 2: two five fifty. Your takeaways from yesterday's win over the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: and we lead off today with Ryan in Toronto.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for us?

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Speaker 10: Ryan, Chris Steve leve Us show, Happy Monday, guys. Honestly

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Speaker 10: yesterdays when is ugly with if you asked me, I

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Speaker 10: know you guys talk about Casey, how they went all

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Speaker 10: these close games. That's going to come back and hot

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Speaker 10: them one day. Guess what the way the Bills play

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Speaker 10: yesterday and they'll be playing quite often coming into this

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Speaker 10: game half to sleep for the first half. This cannot

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Speaker 10: happen at especially.

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Speaker 11: A week succeed.

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Speaker 9: They got to fix this up.

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Speaker 12: If they don't, guess what they'll be out first round

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Speaker 12: they'll be out. They're lucky to pay the Patriots. This

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Speaker 12: will not happen to get the playoff team period. Mcgoverman

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Speaker 12: has to do something about this half a sleep team

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Speaker 12: to the first half. They cannot play from behind. Thank

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Speaker 12: you for kicking my clog.

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Speaker 7: Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was an ugly win, no question about it.

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Speaker 7: We've been talking about it. But I'll say this, it's

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Speaker 7: a different set of parameters than had it been a

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Speaker 7: more meaningful game. It's that simple. They're chasing the Chiefs,

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Speaker 7: they're trying to hold off, and they're also they're focus, unfortunately,

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Speaker 7: I think was on the big picture rather than the

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Speaker 7: Patriots yesterday, and I think it showed. Yes, you're right.

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Speaker 7: If they play like this against a different team, they

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Speaker 7: will lose. My thought, my knowledge is about how that works.

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Speaker 7: They will not play like that against another team. They

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Speaker 7: may play like that against the Jets, and they may

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Speaker 7: play like that against the Patriots again. And in fact,

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Speaker 7: if it goes as prescript and Kansas City wins on

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Speaker 7: Christmas Day, Josh may only play two series. He may

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Speaker 7: not even I mean, Mitch Trubisky may break a sweat

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Speaker 7: in this game.

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Speaker 2: If the two seed is still out there to be secured,

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Speaker 2: and they need the win to get that. Because if

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Speaker 2: Baltimore wins on Christmas Day and beats Houston in Houston,

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Speaker 2: they still need a win to lock up the two seed,

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Speaker 2: So right, that would still be out there. And then

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Speaker 2: in that case, I would expect Josh to play the

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Speaker 2: whole game. But if Baltimore loses.

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Speaker 7: As soon as you get into this territory of needing

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Speaker 7: the win, not needing the win playoff seeding, you start

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Speaker 7: to go sideways mentally. And it showed yesterday. That's why

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Speaker 7: it was ugly that I'll say this, You're going to

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Speaker 7: see a team more like you saw in Detroit when

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Speaker 7: the playoffs kick off rather than the one that you

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Speaker 7: saw yesterday. That's just you have to have. I have

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Speaker 7: confidence in that, you can have faith. I have a

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Speaker 7: lot of confidence in the fact plus the fact that

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Speaker 7: they're gonna have their guys back on the field. You're

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Speaker 7: gonna have Russell Douglas, Taylor Rapp, and Damar Hamlin in

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Speaker 7: the secondary, and you're gonna have You're gonna have Milano

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Speaker 7: at linebacker along with Dorian Williams and Bernard. You're gonna

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Speaker 7: have your full compliment of players because you're going sideways

660
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Speaker 7: mentally in these games and and you're holding them out.

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Speaker 7: So I'm fully confident that this team has about three

662
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Speaker 7: more gears than they showed yesterday. And when you get

663
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Speaker 7: into this part of the season, when it's when you're playing,

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Speaker 7: it's seemingly just to play, you're gonna get a performance

665
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Speaker 7: like you did yesterday. So have faith Ryan in Toronto

666
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Speaker 7: that that is part of a game like yesterday, is

667
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Speaker 7: part of the consequences playing so well during the first

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Speaker 7: two thirds of the season, three quarters of the season.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Trevell in Buffalo next, what's up?

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Speaker 9: Trevell?

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Speaker 3: Turned down your radio, buddy, you're up. You're going to

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Speaker 3: put him on hold. He's listening to his radio. There.

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Speaker 3: We'll go to Greg in Lockport next, what's up?

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Speaker 7: Greg.

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Speaker 13: I'm getting increasingly concerned with the what I think is

676
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Speaker 13: lack of discipline on the defensive line. I see they

677
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Speaker 13: don't maintain integrity in their rush lanes, especially on the

678
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 13: left bend keeps getting inside. They're chasing zone plays away

679
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Speaker 13: and letting the quarterback roll out on bootlegs outside of them.

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Speaker 13: I'm wondering if you're noticing that and whether that's a

681
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Speaker 13: lack of discipline by the individual players or whether it's

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Speaker 13: something to do with the scheme, but either way, it's

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Speaker 13: been hurting them on a regular basis, and I'm just

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Speaker 13: kind of curious what your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Greg, thanks for the call.

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Speaker 2: With respect to the bootleg game, you have to defend

687
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Speaker 2: the run first, that is the priority. So you have

688
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: to align yourself in such a way to defend the

689
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: run first, and then it just becomes a race to

690
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 2: the edge, and very often it's difficult to head off

691
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: a quarterback that has good scrambling ability getting out on

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Speaker 2: the edge.

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Speaker 3: That's why offenses run that.

694
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Speaker 2: Play because it's very hard to outflank the offense in

695
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Speaker 2: a situation like that when your run game is working,

696
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Speaker 2: and as we know, May can run. And yes, there

697
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: were some times in the first half where May was

698
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 2: given a rush lane to escape the pocket and he

699
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Speaker 2: took advantage of it to his credit, and the Bills

700
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Speaker 2: absolutely should have been more disciplined in those situations. In

701
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Speaker 2: the second half, I felt they did significantly better. I'll

702
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 2: just leave you with this, the run defense in the

703
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: game as a whole, if you take Drake May out

704
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: of the equation, because as I just said they were

705
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Speaker 2: undisciplined in a couple of areas in leaving escape lanes

706
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Speaker 2: for Drake May to exploit when he had to leave

707
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Speaker 2: the pocket. If you take that out of the equation

708
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Speaker 2: and just look at the run defense against backs, twenty

709
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: four carries ninety six yards four yards of carry. To me,

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Speaker 2: that's not bad on a day where they didn't have

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Speaker 2: their best.

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Speaker 3: So there's that.

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Speaker 2: I do think if you want to be concerned about

714
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Speaker 2: the consistency of the pass rush with just the front four,

715
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Speaker 2: you have a right to be concerned. Bobby Babbage had

716
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Speaker 2: to dial up cover zero blitzes to get enough pressure

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Speaker 2: on May to get him to throw the football away quickly.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to resort to that. If your front

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Speaker 2: four and the philosophy of your defense is to get

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Speaker 2: pressure with your front four, it has not been there

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Speaker 2: often enough. And this was against one of the worst

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Speaker 2: offensive lines in football.

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Speaker 3: That's a problem.

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Speaker 7: I'll say this as well. It's the first time they've

725
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Speaker 7: ever seen Drake May in person. There's something in that

726
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 7: they just got through playing Jared Golf who is absolutely

727
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 7: no threat to run it, and then before him, it

728
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Speaker 7: was Matthew Stafford, who is absolutely no threat to run it,

729
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Speaker 7: and then Brock Perdy, who is no threat to run it.

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Speaker 7: You might make a case for maybe Mahomes having one

731
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Speaker 7: or two of those in his playbag. But the last

732
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Speaker 7: time they saw a guy like this was Indianapolis Colts.

733
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Speaker 7: And when they played the Colts, I don't know if

734
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Speaker 7: it was so they you know, and then it was

735
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Speaker 7: too uh you know, then Gino. So they don't really

736
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Speaker 7: play or haven't played this year. Quarterback like Drake May,

737
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Speaker 7: who is a young guy, who who's gonna do that?

738
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Speaker 7: I think you will see a little bit different perform

739
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Speaker 7: I would like to think you or see a different

740
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Speaker 7: performance from this defensive front. I guess Drake May second

741
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Speaker 7: time around in two weeks. But you're right, Uh, they're

742
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Speaker 7: not doing that a lot of times because they don't

743
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Speaker 7: think that quarterback on the other side has it in

744
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Speaker 7: him to hurt him that way. May does, as he

745
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Speaker 7: showed yesterday. But Goff's not going to Stafford's only going

746
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Speaker 7: to do it to get away. He's not going to

747
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Speaker 7: try and you know, take off running, although he'll do

748
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Speaker 7: it in a pinch. Same thing with Brock Purty, same thing. Well,

749
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Speaker 7: Mahomes is Mahomes, so they don't play guy. There's not

750
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 7: too many guys like that on the Bills schedule that

751
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 7: that they're worried like that, so they don't really mind.

752
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 7: That's why teams don't do that to Josh. They'll run

753
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 7: some X stunts, uh, some end tackle stunts, all of

754
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff against teams like that because they

755
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 7: don't care. They don't think that quarterback can run. And

756
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 7: they might have done that a couple of times yesterday.

757
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 7: Although you're right, Vaughan got caught leaning on a on

758
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 7: a on a read option and may got him for

759
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 7: a nice game. That kind of stuff is a squasher,

760
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 7: but that's something you got a game plan for, and

761
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 7: the Bills hadn't seen that guy before. It'll be different

762
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Speaker 7: in two weeks, hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Let's try Trevell in Buffalo again. What's up Treville?

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Speaker 8: They fellas?

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Speaker 14: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

767
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know what these people are talking about,

768
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Speaker 8: but we're on a row.

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Speaker 15: Let's go.

770
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Speaker 8: I mean, it's time to teach us winning street going

771
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Speaker 8: all the way through. We're playing against the AOC the East,

772
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 8: and right now these guys are just you know, I mean,

773
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Speaker 8: they're they're playing just to go.

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Speaker 15: Through schematics, like you know what I mean. I think

775
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 15: we're just gonna run through uh our.

776
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Speaker 8: Plays and the same with them, they're just uh well,

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna say, I guess this is the best chance

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Speaker 8: for a scrimmage. These next two games are gonna be

779
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 8: like scrimmage games. I think at any of the games,

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Speaker 8: they're gonna wish us well and wish us good luck

781
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 8: and you know, and bring the game home, bring home

782
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Speaker 8: to the.

783
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 15: AOC uh check East. So I think we're on our goal.

784
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Speaker 10: Let's go.

785
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 8: I think we're looking good. I think everybody's is.

786
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Speaker 15: Doing what they're supposed to do.

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Speaker 8: I don't think we're in Jepardy nothing. I think they're

788
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 8: just running through the script.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. I get that too, and I we alluded to

790
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 7: that that it's a dangerous game to play. Travell it is,

791
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 7: and I get it, though. I believe. I believe in

792
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 7: this team and this roster, and I think they've got

793
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 7: that under the hood. And I think their quarterback and

794
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 7: these offensive players and this offensive staff, they did what

795
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 7: it took to beat win yesterday. And that's what that

796
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 7: was the game plan when they went into Detroit. It's like,

797
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 7: let's go We're going full blast. We're trying everything we're

798
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 7: gonna throw at them. We're gonna attack them. Yesterday, I

799
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 7: thought they were just trying to manage the game, get

800
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 7: some points and get out of there and leave some

801
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 7: of their best stuff in there and leave some of

802
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 7: their stuff in the bag. I think you're right, But

803
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 7: I have that much faith in this roster that I'm

804
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 7: okay with the way they're handling it. It's ugly, it hurt.

805
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 7: I mean, it was uncomfortable for Bill's fans to watch yesterday.

806
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 7: Fourteen Nothing to that team. Yeah, but like I said,

807
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 7: they turned it on. Their defense, turned it on both

808
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 7: sides of the ball. They turned it on, and they

809
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 7: got it done.

810
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Speaker 3: Break time for us.

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Speaker 2: Here more of your phone calls when we return on

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Speaker 2: three oh five, fifty wants your takeaways from yesterday's win

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Speaker 2: over the Patriots to improve to twelve and three on

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Speaker 2: the season.

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Speaker 3: And to Jeff in Buffalo, we go, what do you

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Speaker 3: offer us?

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Speaker 9: Jeff?

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Speaker 3: You're on one Bills live.

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Speaker 9: Hey, have the holidays guys to you too, Hey, real quick,

835
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Speaker 9: if I can make just a couple of comments as

836
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 9: far as the seating goes, I actually like to see

837
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 9: Pittsburgh win like the Sea Ravens win, and you know

838
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 9: them have to battle it down to the end. Jews

839
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Speaker 9: as well. That also would put us in a position,

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Speaker 9: you know that we would have to play, you know,

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Speaker 9: our best game coming to Jots and so on and

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Speaker 9: so forth and going forward. Why well, I'm just saying, well,

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Speaker 9: to catch Kansas City. If Kansas City loses to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 7: Well, if Kansas City loses, yeah, they're going to give

845
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Speaker 7: their best doors. So sure, yeah, what about Pittsburgh Baltimore.

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Speaker 9: That's what I'm hoping for, you know, and we play

847
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 9: the Jets and the Bringaria game. But I was the

848
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 9: question I was going to ask on top of that is,

849
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 9: as a team, would you rather maybe concede the number

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Speaker 9: one and have that last week or maybe even two

851
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 9: weeks where you could rest your starters. And then if

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Speaker 9: I could make one more comment on Milano, great player,

853
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 9: I respect his game, good guy, but he's hurt a lot.

854
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 9: And usually see the bills when players come off, I

855
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 9: r you know, sort of like inject them slowly, and

856
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 9: you've heard McDermot say s where they're like, you know,

857
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Speaker 9: you don't want to send send the balance off or

858
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 9: send things off kilter o. When Milonald came back, it's

859
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 9: sort of coincided with this defense, sort of like getting

860
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 9: a little bit uh lucy goosey if you will. And

861
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 9: I just think maybe sometimes at Dorian Williams, I know,

862
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 9: I know he's not the you know, most disciplined linebacker

863
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 9: in league, but he does bring fire and he does

864
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 9: fly around that field. And I don't know if you

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Speaker 9: just look back at it. As soon as they sort

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00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 9: of like att Milonald and you got of the snaps,

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Speaker 9: things sort of went a little bit of ride, maybe

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Speaker 9: off kilter. And I just wonder if maybe what you're

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00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 9: comment on that, or if you got a thought on.

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Speaker 7: That, I'll say this, They're not gonna they wouldn't plug

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00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 7: Milonain if they didn't think he was their best option.

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00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 7: It's that simple. They they like him better than the

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00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 7: other options they've gotten. Like that, Dorian Williams was not

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00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 7: playing like you said, he was playing well and he's

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00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 7: got his game.

876
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 13: Uh.

877
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 7: I think Milano's health is a concern going forward. But

878
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 7: if he's healthy, now you got to use you got

879
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 7: to play him. I mean, he's he's a guy.

880
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 3: I think so.

881
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: I think what coach McDermott says all the time his

882
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 2: players earned the right, and I think what man Milano

883
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 2: has done for this franchise has earned him the right

884
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: to get his legs back under him for a couple

885
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 2: of games.

886
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 3: It's just unfortunate he got hurt again with a groin injury.

887
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 2: But basically that's been coach McDermott's response when he's been

888
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 2: asked about Milano similar to the way you just asked

889
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: about him, Jeff, and he said, look, the guy hasn't

890
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: played in fourteen months, and now you know, now he's

891
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: getting thrust back into regular season football. It's an adjustment,

892
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 2: even for an eight year veteran like Milano. And it

893
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: was his opinion that he still had to get his

894
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 2: legs back underneath him. Only played two games, then unfortunately

895
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 2: gets hurt again. And I think it has less to

896
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 2: do with Milano and more to do with the caliber

897
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 2: of offenses you're playing. The Rams very quietly, have won

898
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: eight of their last ten games, okay, and they're gonna

899
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 2: win the NFC West, as Steve predicted a couple of

900
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: weeks ago. And then on top of that, you're playing

901
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: the number one offense in football last week in the Lions,

902
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 2: and that's the game where he unfortunately gets hurt. So

903
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 2: I don't think Milano's reinsertion into the lineup is the

904
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 2: reason for some of the deficiencies you've witnessed on offense.

905
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 3: I think you're playing against some pretty damn good offenses.

906
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 2: Now yesterday is not one of them, But you're missing

907
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 2: four of your starting back seven, and just to paint

908
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: a picture a little bit better, that defense plays a

909
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 2: lot of zone coverage over seventy five percent of the

910
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 2: snaps this year. It got to a point yesterday where

911
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 2: because of all the new players you had to thrust

912
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: into the lineup, that Bobby Babbage had to go to

913
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 2: man defense. He had to play more man defense calls

914
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: to get better play on the back end. Because man

915
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 2: defense requires less communication. You got a bunch of players

916
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 2: that aren't used to playing off of one another because

917
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: you have so many subs in and the front four

918
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 2: isn't getting the pressure you needed, so he had to

919
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: resort to different tactics.

920
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 3: Yesterday, Yeah, he sent pressure, which meant man on the

921
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 3: back end.

922
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: But it's predicated largely on the players you do not

923
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 2: have in the lineup, and to a lesser extent, on

924
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: the front four not getting pressure on their own.

925
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 7: It also, if it also, i think is a nod

926
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 7: to what he felt like the players on the field

927
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 7: could do better the best chance they had, and that's

928
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 7: and he asked them to do that and get what

929
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 7: gave them the best chance. So for about the big

930
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 7: picture and all of that, I think the guy the

931
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 7: guys he had on the field, and what their their

932
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 7: skill sets were in the back end, I think he

933
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 7: felt safer going man sending some pressure.

934
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 3: Let's squeeze in.

935
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 2: Uh sorry, Steve, Let's squeeze in Jonathan here in San Diego.

936
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 2: What's up, Jonathan?

937
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 16: Hey, guys, First, I want to thank you both for

938
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 16: what you do when you talk about Bill's mafia culture.

939
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 16: I just really appreciate the way you guys call the game.

940
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 16: The energy and the passion makes a big difference.

941
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: Thanks.

942
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 16: Yeah, you're quite welcome. I'm from San Diego. You guys

943
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 16: from Rochester, but out here in San Diego, you guys

944
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 16: make me feel like I'm at home. Anyway, not the

945
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 16: reason I'm calling yesterday. This is not really a game

946
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 16: specific question, rather a bigger picture if they were to

947
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 16: attains to Josh, at least in my world. I haven't

948
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 16: heard a lot of talk regarding Josh's performances insane performance

949
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 16: this year, as we all know that is about his

950
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 16: lack of interceptions, and I was ornary if anybody has

951
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 16: the stats I know you guys do, to sort of

952
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 16: get a sense of where he's out relative to last year.

953
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 16: And also relative to the rest of the league.

954
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 2: Well, I know the Bills have the fewest giveaways in

955
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 2: the NFL this season with eight total, and I believe

956
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 2: Josh has two lost fumbles, which happened early in the season,

957
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: and he now has six interceptions, so I believe he's

958
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: on the hook for all eight.

959
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 3: Is that right?

960
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 2: Because that's eight by Josh and the Bills have eight giveaways,

961
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 2: so he might have all of them. I want to

962
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: say somebody else. But they've had other fumbles. I don't

963
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: know if they've lost them. They had a couple yesterday

964
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: and didn't lose them, so you know, James got a

965
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 2: ball punched out last night, but Osiris Torrance recovered that one,

966
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 2: so they were okay there.

967
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 7: They've got fumbles lost. They've had ten fumbles, lost two

968
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 7: of them.

969
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 9: I think.

970
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 7: Hold on, Yeah, that's right, ten fumbles, lost two of them.

971
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 3: And those are the two lost by Josh.

972
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 7: Very early in the seasons, has thrown six ironts and

973
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 7: in comparison last year he had eight. He had finished

974
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 7: the regular season with eighteen Yeah, eighteen turnovers. Yeah, I'm

975
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 7: yeh were eighteen interceptions? Eighteen interceptions? Is this where I

976
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 7: should interject my stat of last year where he had

977
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 7: the exact same number of interceptions and more touchdowns than

978
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 7: the MVP and the Comeback Player of the Year, both

979
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 7: quarterbacks combined, combined, so he had a better year than

980
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 7: the MVP and the Comeback Player of the Year combine. Now,

981
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 7: the MVP is of regular season awards, so the playoffs

982
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 7: is where both those guys detonated and completely puked on

983
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 7: their shoes. Josh didn't.

984
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 3: So yeah, gotta take a break here.

985
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 2: When we come back, Our number two begins with my

986
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: broadcast partner, Eric Wood. We'll get his thoughts on yesterday's

987
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: game between the Bills and Patriots. When we return here

988
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 2: All One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo

989
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 2: Bills Radio.

990
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: H This One Bills Live presented by Calllida Health.

991
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 2: All right, hour number two Here on a Buffalo victory Monday.

992
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: Chris Ground, Steve Taster, and join now my broadcast partner

993
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: on the Bills Radio network, color commentator Eric Wood joining us,

994
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 2: also host of The Center on Buffalo podcast. Get his

995
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 2: thoughts on yesterday's three point win over the Patriots. And Eric,

996
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 2: we heard coach McDermott after the game called the first

997
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 2: half sloppy, and it was you know, the Bills players

998
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 2: come into that game, and there was concern there'd be

999
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 2: a letdown after after a big emotional win on the

1000
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 2: road at Detroit against the best team in the NFC,

1001
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 2: and we kind of saw signs of that yesterday and

1002
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 2: they had to climb out of a hole to pull

1003
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 2: this one out.

1004
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 17: They did, and you know, give the Patriots some credit.

1005
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 17: They played well early in the game. They made some plays.

1006
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 17: Their first drive was extended by penalties on the defensive backfield,

1007
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 17: and you know how I was impressed with what I

1008
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 17: saw from the Patriots early on, especially offensively. Their game

1009
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 17: script worked. It was to run the football, take a

1010
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 17: couple of shots down the field versus off coverage on

1011
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 17: third down, get the ball of drag May's hands fast,

1012
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,280
Speaker 17: utilize some screens and it was working. They were clicking

1013
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 17: the Bills of justed in the second half, able to

1014
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 17: force some turnovers. But you know, it's hard to get

1015
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 17: up each and every week. And you know, much different

1016
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 17: for these guys nowadays from when I was playing. You know,

1017
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 17: this time of year, we were hopefully still on the hunt.

1018
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 17: Except for my last year when we broke that playoff drought.

1019
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 18: These guys.

1020
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 17: They clinched the vision with five games ago in the season,

1021
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 17: and then you have a game out in LA. You

1022
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 17: have this super emotional game against the Lions. And I'm

1023
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 17: not saying that they weren't up for this game, but

1024
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 17: it's easy to maybe just fall into ruts at times

1025
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 17: where you don't look like yourselves. But they found a

1026
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 17: way to win, which there's I heard it said today,

1027
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 17: there's no pretty losses, but there are some ugly You know,

1028
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 17: you're not excited about a pretty loss, but you can

1029
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 17: get excited about an ugly win. And they found a

1030
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 17: way to get it done. And there were some bright

1031
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 17: spots in the game, and I'm sure we'll get to those.

1032
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 17: But on a day where the passing games not quite there,

1033
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 17: there wasn't separation down the field. Josh had his hand

1034
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 17: deal late in the game, and it just seemed like

1035
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 17: it was it was a tough day to get the

1036
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 17: passing game going. The run game really stepped up, and

1037
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 17: that's a great sign when you have the ability on

1038
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 17: a day where you're passing game is not clicking, to

1039
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 17: be able to run the football effectively.

1040
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 7: It is a weird atmosphere, though you clinched the division,

1041
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 7: like was it two or three weeks ago, and now

1042
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 7: you're kind of tapping your toe waiting for the playoffs

1043
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 7: that you're already in. Certainly the seed is one we've

1044
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 7: been talking about, the two seed, the one seed still

1045
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 7: theoretically on the table. Probably not. You are as a team,

1046
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 7: you're kind of a wash in this area where mentally

1047
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 7: it's not for you to control a win or not.

1048
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 7: And so it's a really weird situation. It kind of

1049
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 7: showed itself yesterday and the way they came out of

1050
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 7: the tunnel.

1051
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think you're right.

1052
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 17: And you know, Kansas City wins another tight one against

1053
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 17: the Texans, and then it becomes pretty unrealistic for the

1054
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 17: Bills to get the one seed. Now, if the Steelers

1055
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 17: can beat the Chiefs on Christmas Day, then who knows,

1056
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 17: maybe the Bills have a shot at it. Broncos could

1057
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 17: play the Chiefs tough in Week eight. Team where you know,

1058
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 17: a divisional game, you never know what's gonna happen. So Broncos, heck,

1059
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 17: they might be fighting for a playoff spot. That might

1060
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 17: be a bigger game for them than it is necessarily

1061
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 17: for Kansas City. And so you know, who knows how

1062
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 17: this shakes out, but you're right, it is a unique

1063
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 17: situation they're in right now where they kind of admit

1064
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 17: after the game that maybe they held some things back offensively,

1065
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 17: where you don't want to show maybe all your man

1066
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 17: beaters in the game for when you're likely going to

1067
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 17: get man and man defense in the playoffs, and you

1068
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 17: don't want to show those things. Now, they did have

1069
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 17: some new wrinkles, but I think those are things they

1070
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 17: want to get on film. A package where we saw

1071
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,439
Speaker 17: multiple plays yesterday where Dalton Kincaid goes into an orbit

1072
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 17: motion and I understand he's about as much of a

1073
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 17: slot receiver as he is a tight end, but you

1074
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 17: rarely see the orbit motion where you're motioning behind the

1075
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 17: quarterback utilized by anybody but a wide receiver, maybe a

1076
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 17: running back in those instances. So few new wrinkles, but

1077
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 17: mainly just stuff that we've seen throughout the rest of

1078
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 17: the year. Now, their heavy package with Alec Anderson was impressive.

1079
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 18: Again, that's the.

1080
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 17: Package they had on the field to run the clock

1081
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 17: out at the end. They needed a first down to

1082
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,919
Speaker 17: seal it. They got that first down running the same

1083
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 17: play three times in a row. And I wonder if

1084
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 17: Josh's hand had an effect on why they decided to

1085
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 17: pitch that ball three times. But right before they called

1086
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 17: time out on the last play to or the Patriots

1087
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 17: use their final timeout, and they had that third down play,

1088
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 17: David Edwards was looking at the sideline kind of going

1089
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 17: like this with his hands, like you know, almost like

1090
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 17: a travel motion in basketball, saying, run that sucker again.

1091
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 18: And they ran the exact.

1092
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 17: Same play, and it looked like the Patriots knew what

1093
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 17: was coming, they just couldn't stop it. And they had

1094
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 17: a number of effective plays out of that heavy package.

1095
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 17: That's it's been an asset for him this year.

1096
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of those wrinkles, because it seemed

1097
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 2: like there were more. In the run game, he had

1098
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 2: the most extensive work of seeing Reggie Gilliam lined up

1099
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 2: in the backfield kind of flared out of a pistol

1100
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 2: look offset to the left or right of Josh Allen,

1101
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 2: and he was used as a lead back up in

1102
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 2: the hole probably a half a dozen times yesterday. Eric,

1103
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: Is that one of the examples you're referring to in

1104
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: terms of putting that on film on purpose?

1105
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1106
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 17: Absolutely, And they also used Alec Anderson putting him in

1107
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 17: motion before the snap and kind of using him as

1108
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 17: a battering ram on the play. You get three hundred

1109
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 17: and someeven pounds already in motion and then he's going

1110
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 17: to trap out the defensive end and then you have

1111
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 17: Reggie Gilliam leading in behind him. And so I really

1112
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 17: liked that package and some of those different wrinkles that

1113
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 17: they showed in the run game, and we really didn't

1114
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 17: see the designed Josh Allen runs yesterday, and I have

1115
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 17: to think, and I don't blame them. We were saying

1116
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 17: this on the pregame that they likely told Josh not

1117
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 17: to run the ball much yesterday because early on in

1118
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 17: the game there seemed to be multiple times where he

1119
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 17: had space in front of him where these last four

1120
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 17: or five weeks we would have seen him take off.

1121
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 17: In those instances, he chose to try to make a

1122
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 17: play down the field, maybe throw the ball away, you know,

1123
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 17: get towards the sideline, and so, you know, I think

1124
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 17: they took those out of the game plan the design

1125
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 17: runs for Josh, and then also told him, you know,

1126
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 17: don't take any unnecessary shots this week.

1127
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 7: And that's probably where he we got the SoundBite after

1128
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 7: the game where they you know, didn't have all that

1129
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 7: stuff in and they probably had told him, hey, don't

1130
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 7: do that and that for him, it's probably a pretty

1131
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 7: big deal because it made him make some different decisions

1132
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 7: on the field. And of course you're coming in, You've

1133
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 7: got the Jets coming in this week, you got the

1134
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 7: Patriots on the horizon, two teams you should know very well.

1135
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 7: Although we made the point this is not a Patriots

1136
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 7: team the Bills are familiar with. With Drake may is

1137
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 7: the first time they saw him. Yesterday they got caught

1138
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 7: a couple of times on run options. But coming up

1139
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 7: with these next two games, it's gonna be more of

1140
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 7: the same. And I think, right, I mean, they're not.

1141
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 7: We're not gonna come out and see him give the

1142
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 7: kind of game plan and the performance like they did

1143
00:59:59,080 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 7: in Detroit.

1144
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think you're exactly right. And you know, Josh

1145
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 17: has taken some shots this year. He has a miss

1146
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 17: time per se. But you know, he got knocked out

1147
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 17: of the Houston game. He had the hand injury early on,

1148
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 17: and you know he got an extra after the game

1149
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 17: against the Lions, and then yesterday he had the funny

1150
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 17: bone which didn't look so funny from the booth as

1151
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 17: we see him shaking out his hand and we weren't

1152
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 17: sure if it's a hand injury, elbow, whatever it may be.

1153
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 17: But he's taken enough shots this year that if you

1154
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 17: can really limit those quick game, no design quarterback runs,

1155
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 17: you know, you can utilize the sneaks. There's generally not

1156
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 17: a ton of contact on the quarterback on those plays.

1157
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 17: Unless I can't remember who exactly it was that took

1158
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 17: a shot. I think it was Houston early in the

1159
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 17: season when they were trying to punch out the ball

1160
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 17: and then punched him in the head on the play.

1161
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 17: But all that being said, I think we're going to

1162
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 17: see a lot of this same game plan. And as

1163
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 17: much as Bill's fans want to rub it in everyone's

1164
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,959
Speaker 17: faces on X and say, look at the stats, Josh

1165
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 17: is still putting up. He's the MVP, and hopefully he's

1166
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 17: already locked it in. You know, we said yesterday on

1167
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 17: the pregame, you know we might not get a ton

1168
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 17: of stats these next few weeks from Josh. It might

1169
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 17: be lean into the run game. It could be the

1170
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 17: weather forecast looks pretty good at Orchard Park this weekend.

1171
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 17: But you got forty something degrees with a sixty percent

1172
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 17: chance of rain. The following week, you're going up to

1173
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 17: Foxborough and it could be bad weather again where you

1174
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 17: want to lean into that run game and you don't

1175
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 17: want to utilize Josh as much in the run game.

1176
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 7: And so uh to me, I think we.

1177
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 18: Could see similar things.

1178
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 17: And you hope the Bills go to and zher and

1179
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 17: depending on what happens this week with the Chiefs and

1180
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 17: if the Ravens win, I guess, or whatever the seeding is,

1181
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 17: whatever the situation is, I know the Bills can be

1182
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 17: locked into the two seed after this week. It might

1183
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,919
Speaker 17: be a week to give seventeen to a number guys

1184
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 17: the week off, come week eighteen if you're locked into

1185
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 17: that two seed.

1186
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 2: Right, And I think it could be as early as

1187
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 2: this week because to your point, if the Chiefs win,

1188
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 2: the one seed is no longer attainable. If the Ravens

1189
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 2: lose on Christmas Day, the Bills are locked into the

1190
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 2: two and then it might become an exercise of how

1191
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: do you triage the last two games knowing you can

1192
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 2: improve or worsen your playoff seat. So I personally, I

1193
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 2: don't think the Ravens are going to lose to Houston

1194
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 2: on the road, but we'll have to wait and see

1195
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 2: on a short week what's sitting around there at that

1196
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 2: point in time. I want to talk to you a

1197
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 2: little bit about the defensive performance. Obviously did not look

1198
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: good at the beginning. To Steve's point, yes, new team

1199
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 2: haven't seen the offense with Trake May on the field

1200
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 2: up close and personal. But in the second half, they

1201
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 2: get three straight takeaways in the second half, and I

1202
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 2: realize this is a team that has relied on takeaways,

1203
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 2: but they keep getting them. There's only one game they

1204
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 2: haven't gotten a takeaway. That was the Rams game, and

1205
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 2: even that game they only lost by two. But on

1206
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 2: top of that, basically the defense held the Patriots to

1207
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 2: sixty nine total net yards in the second half until

1208
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: that final drive again in which they were more than

1209
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 2: happy to let the Patriots run as much clock as

1210
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 2: they wanted with four to twenty nine left, and they

1211
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 2: used three minutes in sixteen seconds before they scored the touchdown.

1212
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 2: So give me your thoughts on the adjustments made by

1213
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 2: Bobby Bavett. You even referenced on the broadcast on how

1214
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: he went to more man calls because there was a

1215
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 2: lot of miscommunication in those zone defense calls. With four

1216
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 2: new guys playing in the back seven.

1217
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 18: Yeah, we saw some more Manda Man defense.

1218
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 17: We saw a lot more Dorian Williams in the second half,

1219
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 17: filling in for Baylen Spector who might have been hobbled.

1220
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 18: From the CAF injury.

1221
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 17: I understand they were trying to split those reps in

1222
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 17: the first half to try not overwork either of them

1223
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 17: because they were coming into the game ding. But Dorian Williams,

1224
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 17: who's played great football for the Bills this year, when

1225
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 17: he went full time in that second half, he was

1226
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 17: a difference maker. Whether it was I'll say especially in

1227
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 17: the run game, but he flashed as well, especially rushing

1228
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 17: the passer, blitzing like a madman at times. And you know,

1229
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 17: there is some concern about this Bill's defense right now.

1230
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 17: I mean, no one's gonna shy away from that. But

1231
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 17: you just hope that this time that Russell Douglass, Tomorrow,

1232
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 17: Hamlin Taylor Rap, Matt Milano, these guys that are getting

1233
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 17: healthier right now, you just hope that when they all

1234
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 17: come back, it makes a big difference. And this is

1235
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,959
Speaker 17: valuable reps for a cam lewis a Cole Bishop, a Kyrielum,

1236
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 17: you know, Dorian Williams continuing to get run Baal inspectors

1237
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 17: filled in, so you're getting a lot of guys experience

1238
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 17: and reps if you do need them again. You just

1239
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 17: hope when you get all your starters back your defense

1240
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 17: looks like it did, you know prior to the Rams game,

1241
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 17: when you get back to back games against Kansas City

1242
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 17: and San Francisco where you feel really good about the defense,

1243
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 17: and you just got to get back to there. And

1244
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 17: you know, for Bobby Babbage, you know you're game planning

1245
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 17: these games to where maybe you don't want to show

1246
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 17: some of your blitz packages, dime certain looks, whatever it

1247
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 17: may be, because you know these games are aren't what

1248
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 17: matters his most, especially if you're not gonna be able

1249
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 17: to get the one seed. But you're trying to put

1250
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 17: these guys in positions for them to be successful. Run

1251
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 17: your schemes, but then also try and tailor the defense

1252
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 17: to what they do best. I saw Kyrie Illiman a

1253
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 17: lot more press man as the game went on, just

1254
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 17: trying to let him do what he does best. And

1255
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 17: you know Cole Bishop playing in the box more than

1256
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 17: you might see Taylor Rapper, Damar Hamlin, and those are

1257
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 17: just my observations. Bobby Babbage, you can give you a

1258
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 17: better explanation, but to me a number of times this season,

1259
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 17: and we could go back to each of them individually.

1260
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 17: There were times where the Bills defense did give up

1261
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 17: early yards, got gashed early on in the game in

1262
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 17: Indianapolis on the ground, the opener against Arizona, this New

1263
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 17: England game, and many others where they make those adjustments,

1264
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 17: settle into the game and then they play an outstanding

1265
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 17: second half.

1266
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 7: Absolutely, that was their calling card for the first six

1267
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 7: or eight weeks of the season. They were a second

1268
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 7: half football team defensively for sure. A little bit that

1269
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 7: went on the other night the other night, as you

1270
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 7: would imagine, I mean, they gave up fourteen points really

1271
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 7: quick and then shut them down until late in the game,

1272
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 7: and that and then started turning out turnovers as well.

1273
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 7: That does see. That has always been for this twenty

1274
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 7: twenty four version of the Bills, what their defense has

1275
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 7: looked like, and with the offense playing the way it has.

1276
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 7: You know, even this even yesterday, when the offense found itself,

1277
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 7: they're snapping off big plays, they're staying on the field,

1278
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 7: Josh is admitting that they are not playing with the

1279
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 7: throttle at full blast. I still have a lot of

1280
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 7: confidence that this team's got to gear nobody else does.

1281
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 7: And you saw it, and you saw it against the

1282
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 7: Rams offensively, you saw it against Detroit on their offense.

1283
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 7: You saw it against the Chiefs. You've seen it against

1284
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 7: some really good teams. When this team is tuned in.

1285
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 7: The question is are these next two games gonna get

1286
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 7: in the way mentally of a team getting that point

1287
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 7: where it's like, yeah, okay, now we can turn it on.

1288
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. You want to show up

1289
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 7: sharp and healthy. I think sharp is as important as healthy.

1290
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 9: I know.

1291
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 17: I'm with you, and you know that's why we're probably

1292
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 17: not sitting upstairs at one Bill's driving.

1293
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 18: We work on the first floor. You guys do uh

1294
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 18: and I'm at my home.

1295
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 17: Office because you know, that's such a tough balance here.

1296
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 17: You know, if the Bills, you know, could lock up

1297
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 17: the two seed by even this weekend, do you rest

1298
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 17: some guys this weekend and others next weekend, and you know,

1299
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 17: pick and choose who you want to, you know, play

1300
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 17: and not play, so that they all get a week

1301
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 17: off before the playoffs, or you know, how do you

1302
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 17: load manage this? How you know, what's your practice schedule? Like,

1303
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 17: you know, when you're not trying to grind them out,

1304
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 17: but you're trying to stay sharp. Do you you know,

1305
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 17: next week, do you practice harder if you're going to

1306
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 17: rest some starters that you're getting, you know, faster reps.

1307
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 17: I mean, ultimately I would I would err on the

1308
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 17: side of being healthier than sharper.

1309
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 18: But yeah, you want them to be as sharp as

1310
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 18: possible heading into the playoffs.

1311
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 17: Hopefully the leadership and the confidence you know, comes from

1312
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 17: you know, there are two captains in seventeen and forty

1313
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 17: three that can say, look, we've seen ourselves play at

1314
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 17: high levels. You know, we have some different packages that

1315
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 17: maybe we're gonna roll out in the playoffs, and we're

1316
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,560
Speaker 17: you know, excited, confident, healthy, sharp, and here we go

1317
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 17: this this thing's ours to win. We've already proven that

1318
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 17: we could beat the top two or the top team

1319
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,759
Speaker 17: in both conferences, and so that's what you hope happens.

1320
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 17: But yeah, it's such a tough balancing act when you

1321
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 17: look at this. I thought Ryan Fitzpatrick had a funny

1322
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 17: social media post to day, assuming it's him running his

1323
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:45,679
Speaker 17: social media, this seems like a fits comment, though he said, Okay,

1324
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 17: if we're holding back and we're not necessarily you know,

1325
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 17: gonna show anything new, I want Josh throwing to Mark

1326
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 17: Cooper about fifteen times a game, kind of like what

1327
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 17: we saw against the Rams. To get completely on the

1328
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 17: same page with him heading into the playoffs, you know,

1329
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 17: work some connections with Coleman or whatever it may be.

1330
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 17: Maybe that's why they maybe dial up a few more

1331
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 17: deep shots. Yesterdawn will know exactly, but to me, I

1332
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 17: just felt like that was a fitting Fitzpatrick comment.

1333
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: Here's why I think it is such a tough needle

1334
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 2: for the coaching staff to threat. The lesson learned from

1335
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 2: last year is, in an ideal world, we'd rather be healthy.

1336
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 2: Because we had to play in the wild card round

1337
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 2: last year, and we lose Bernard and Benford going into

1338
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 2: the divisional round against Kansas City when we had already

1339
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 2: lost Rap and Douglas in week eighteen having to win

1340
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 2: the division. So now you're down for guys that start

1341
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 2: on defense. And then you look at this year, what

1342
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 2: has been the prevailing problem week in and week out,

1343
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 2: win loser, draw, it's getting off to slow starts and

1344
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 2: not being sharp. So the very two things that Steve said,

1345
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:59,520
Speaker 2: being sharp or being healthy are two problems they've experienced

1346
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 2: last year at the end of the year and right

1347
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 2: now in staying sharp and coming out hot, you know,

1348
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 2: like a firecracker at the beginning of games. I think

1349
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 2: that's why it's a hard balancing act for this coaching

1350
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 2: staff because they've experienced both in the recent past.

1351
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 17: Yep, you're exactly right, and you know, early on in

1352
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:18,680
Speaker 17: the season, especially on the defense side of the ball,

1353
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 17: when they're getting off the slow starts. I kind of

1354
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 17: related it back to earlier in my career, and Steve

1355
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:24,560
Speaker 17: would probably say the same. When you're playing earlier in

1356
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 17: your career, even if it's four games into the regular season,

1357
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 17: it just takes you a little bit longer to you know,

1358
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 17: get your feet settled into the game because you haven't

1359
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:33,800
Speaker 17: seen it as much. And then towards the end of

1360
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 17: your career, you know, you get to the first play

1361
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 17: of the game and it just feels like clockwork and

1362
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 17: the game feels like it's already slowed down. It doesn't

1363
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 17: take you a series to you know, get your feet

1364
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 17: under you to be able to read your keys fast

1365
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 17: enough and all that, and so they got to that

1366
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:49,600
Speaker 17: point and then they got dinged up, which is unfortunate.

1367
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 17: But hopefully these guys are gaining that experience, and when

1368
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:54,560
Speaker 17: you get those three guys in the secondary back and

1369
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 17: Matt Malano back, you know, hopefully that you can pick

1370
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 17: up and start games faster, especially on the defense side

1371
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 17: of the Offensively, you know, I'm sure people have done,

1372
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 17: you know, just an extensive breakdown if it was truly

1373
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 17: just individuals. You know, I felt like, you know, we

1374
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 17: made a very big deal offensively about their slow starts

1375
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 17: in game, and rightfully so, because we had so much firepower.

1376
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 17: You got Josh Allen at quarterback, and they're playing so

1377
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 17: well in the second half of games or after the

1378
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 17: first couple of drives. We rightfully so we're making a

1379
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 17: big deal about it. But it just never felt like

1380
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 17: it was a lack of anything other than an individual breakdown. Here,

1381
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 17: we dropped a pass on third and three, we had

1382
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 17: a penalty to put us back at third and nine,

1383
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 17: and we missed a third down, and so it wasn't

1384
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 17: surprising that the slow starts offensively kind of went away.

1385
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 7: Well, I'll say this too, this team. And in contrast,

1386
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 7: you know, they were picked to be third or fourth

1387
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 7: in the division. They thought the Jets and they thought

1388
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 7: the Dolphins were gonna do it. And they've got the

1389
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 7: thing wrapped up by week thirteen. So they got like

1390
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 7: five weeks of meaningless football to get in. They don't

1391
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 7: have to get into playoffs and they're in. So they

1392
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 7: got these five weeks of whatever whatever to get through. Yeah,

1393
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 7: they're chasing kansaditate if Kansas City is not in the conversation,

1394
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 7: you know this, this is a much more interesting time.

1395
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 7: But and if you want to get reps with Maury

1396
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 7: Cooper and Keon Coleman, you've had a month and a

1397
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:19,680
Speaker 7: half to do it. It's over. The division's done now.

1398
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 7: They got these two games. They got two more division

1399
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 7: games when the Jets and the and the Patriots, and

1400
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 7: that if the Chiefs went on on Christmas, nobody cares.

1401
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 7: I mean, so you can do that. You still got

1402
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 7: a half a month to get as many reps with

1403
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 7: Keon Coleman and Marii Coople.

1404
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:37,640
Speaker 3: You got all I mean to do it.

1405
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 7: Now you'll get dull again by the time of the

1406
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 7: end of the regular season. If you did it, if

1407
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 7: you started doing that. I mean, they have absolutely and it.

1408
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 7: You know, we can blame them for a lot of things.

1409
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,560
Speaker 7: We can blame the Jets and Dolphins for stinking it

1410
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 7: up and not forcing the Bills to push towards the

1411
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 7: end of the season, if you want to do that.

1412
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 7: But that's really the situation they're in. The Chiefs have

1413
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 7: won so many games with a block field goal, a

1414
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 7: bad call, whatever, playing not good playing. They've won more

1415
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 7: games this season without scoring thirty points. The last time

1416
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:15,559
Speaker 7: it happened was the nineteen twenty seven Yellow Jackets out

1417
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,640
Speaker 7: of Brooklyn. Are you kidding me? That's they didn't They

1418
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 7: don't score. I mean that's how they're winning. So you're

1419
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 7: in this situation where, yeah, you'd love to get all

1420
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 7: this shark, but there's nothing to play for. I mean,

1421
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 7: there's they still got time to get it sharp. I mean,

1422
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 7: it's over, let's get to the playoffs. That's the attitude

1423
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 7: everybody's got.

1424
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 18: You're exactly right, And yes, I don't know that there's been.

1425
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 7: A season where you seven yellow jackets.

1426
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 17: I don't know that there's been a season where there's

1427
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 17: a team that's two back from the one seed.

1428
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:54,560
Speaker 18: But ranked in every power ranking.

1429
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 17: Ahead of that one seed over and over, and I

1430
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 17: understand that they beat them had the head, so that's

1431
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 17: generally going to be the case. Before we get off

1432
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 17: of here, Merry Christmas to you guys, And what I

1433
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 17: want for Christmas, Jay Harris, from you and your team

1434
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 17: is to get a clip of Steve blaming the Jets

1435
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:11,679
Speaker 17: and the Dolphins for the Bills getting off the slow

1436
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 17: starts last week against the Patriots and potentially the next

1437
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 17: two weeks. I want a clip of that, and we

1438
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 17: got to put it out on X so that we

1439
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 17: could see Dolphins and Jets fans just go nuts that

1440
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 17: we are blaming them for slow starts and games and

1441
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 17: then some lackluster starts, and that will be an incredible

1442
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 17: Christmas present.

1443
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 7: Sorry, I got that roase in nineteen twenty five, Frankfurt Yellowjackets. Okay,

1444
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 7: for the only team to win as many games as

1445
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 7: the Chiefs did this year without scoring thirty points. Wow,

1446
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 7: nineteen twenty five, Frankfurt, look at you, yellow Jackets. Thank

1447
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 7: you very much. Dolphins and Jets.

1448
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, we'll let Steve have that. That'll be

1449
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 2: Steve's Christmas president.

1450
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 7: He gets to have that we can squeeze the Dolphins

1451
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 7: Jets in there.

1452
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 3: All right, have a good Christmas with your family area.

1453
01:14:58,320 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 3: We'll see you this weekend.

1454
01:14:59,280 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 7: Marry Christmas man.

1455
01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 18: Yep, you guys too, have a great week all right.

1456
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 3: That's Eric Wood, my broadcast partner of the Bills. It's true, though,

1457
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 3: bravo to you for working that in. I mean, that's

1458
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 3: a keeper of a stat And the Jets that now the.

1459
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 2: Frankfurt Yellowjacks are they from the Kentucky Frankfort, Kentucky have

1460
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 2: a clue?

1461
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 7: Nobody knows that it's not Germany the problem. Yeah, right,

1462
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:23,679
Speaker 7: it really is a problem. The Chiefs have this problem,

1463
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 7: and the Bills have this problem, and so do the well,

1464
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 7: the Philly, the the Eagles, and the Lions don't because

1465
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 7: they've got each other at least for the one seed.

1466
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,560
Speaker 7: It's you're in this place where you're going to be

1467
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 7: the two or the three seed. At least. You don't

1468
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 7: even know who the five to six, seven seed are

1469
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 7: gonna be yet. So there's really no use in getting

1470
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 7: your you know, your guts in a bunch over that

1471
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 7: you got two games left, we can you know? And

1472
01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 7: he's right, do you do you play everybody left handed

1473
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 7: and just teep everything under wraps and tray it. You know,

1474
01:15:57,560 --> 01:15:59,759
Speaker 7: it's it's a it's a horrible place to play football

1475
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 7: in and it's just the opposite of what you try

1476
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 7: to do for whatever it was. Thirteen weeks out of

1477
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 7: this regular season, it's amazing that you know, there's teams

1478
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 7: that are the difference is that vast in the one

1479
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 7: loss record and the line of demarcation is so clear

1480
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 7: this year in the playoff and non playoff teams.

1481
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 2: Got to take a break here. When we come back,

1482
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 2: it's back to your phone call. So if you've been

1483
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 2: holding an eight h three oh five fifty, we'll get

1484
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 2: back to you when we return. Get your takeaways from

1485
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 2: the bills twenty four to twenty one win over the

1486
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 2: Patriots in Week sixteen here on a Buffalo victory Monday

1487
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 2: edition of One Bill's Live Stay with Us. This week's

1488
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 2: Effishient drive of the game is presented by National Grid,

1489
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 2: a proud partner of the Buffalo Bills. The drive came

1490
01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 2: in quarter number three, nine plays, sixty eight yards, took

1491
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 2: five nineteen off the clock, and Josh Allen tossed a

1492
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,679
Speaker 2: pass to James Cook for a four yard touchdown reception

1493
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 2: to tie the game at fourteen and climb out of

1494
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 2: the fourteen nothing hole that the Bills started themselves with.

1495
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 2: So got on track, got back in the game, and

1496
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 2: eventually we're up by ten before a late touchdown made

1497
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 2: it a three point game. The Bills improved to twelve

1498
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 2: and three and now are in position to lock down

1499
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 2: the two seed. The one seed is still out there,

1500
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 2: but a little bit unlikely. And as we told you earlier,

1501
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 2: if the Chiefs win on Christmas Day against Pittsburgh, they

1502
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 2: locked up the one seed. It's no longer attainable for Buffalo.

1503
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:46,360
Speaker 2: If the Ravens lose on Christmas Day, Bills are locked

1504
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 2: into the two seed and then really don't have a

1505
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,799
Speaker 2: whole lot to play for in their last two games.

1506
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 2: If the Ravens win, Bills would still need a win

1507
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Jets to lock down the two seed.

1508
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where it sits with two games.

1509
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 7: If the Bills beat the Jets, they're the two seed

1510
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 7: no matter what. Yes, So there's that, right, buddy.

1511
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, let's get back to the phones.

1512
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 2: At eight oh three h five fifty one eight five

1513
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 2: fifty two five fifty had some people waiting patiently.

1514
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 7: Here.

1515
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 2: We'll get to as many of you as we possibly

1516
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 2: can as quickly as possible.

1517
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 3: To Kevin and Hamburg. Next, what's up? Kevin?

1518
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 15: Hey, guys, how you doing. Hope you have a wonderful holiday?

1519
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 7: You too, Thanks.

1520
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 15: I'll not ring up something. It's gonna sound quirky, but

1521
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, it isn't weird the last couple

1522
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 15: of years around holiday time that they after a big

1523
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 15: game like Detroit last year, Dallas the year before, Miami

1524
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 15: Neces Saturday before the Blitter.

1525
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 18: Of course, the.

1526
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,640
Speaker 15: Blilleterer was on top of it, that we didn't do

1527
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,840
Speaker 15: that wonder boy at Christmas time for some reason. You know,

1528
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 15: maybe mine's not focused totally. Sometimes it happens because I'm

1529
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:50,839
Speaker 15: sure when I was a young kid, I didn't focus

1530
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 15: on everything, whether it be school at Christmas time, the

1531
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 15: way you normally may blubber a test that you should

1532
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 15: have gotten eight plus beginn a D minus.

1533
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 3: Or something that's a big swing, Kevin, A plus to

1534
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 3: a D minus.

1535
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 15: That's a big swing, yeah, or maybe barelly pass it,

1536
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 15: you know, because you know your mind is not in

1537
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:14,120
Speaker 15: something or whatever it happened. Yeah, I'm sure you didn't,

1538
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 15: you know me a stench Christmas time you think of

1539
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 15: when you're a kid, A big red suit guy coming.

1540
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you, all right, I mean yeah, I

1541
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 3: mean there is Look a lot of the questions from.

1542
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 2: The media early in the week last week was that

1543
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 2: we're posed to coach McDermott. Are you worried about an

1544
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:35,560
Speaker 2: emotional letdown after such a big win over Detroit the

1545
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 2: week before. I mean, it's it's human nature. We've seen

1546
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 2: it happen before with NFL clubs, and to a certain extent,

1547
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: it started with the Bills yesterday. They were slow out

1548
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 2: of the blocks, There's no doubt about it.

1549
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, And in years past they've had they've been in

1550
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 7: this situation where they can kind of get things lined up.

1551
01:19:53,479 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 7: Last year was not the case because they had to

1552
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 7: sprint to the finish and win in Week eighteen to

1553
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 7: win the division. But they're in it now. I mean,

1554
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,680
Speaker 7: they're playing so well. They played so well throughout the

1555
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 7: first thirteen weeks of the season that it was over

1556
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 7: and now they got to you know, they got to

1557
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 7: attack the rest of the season in a way that

1558
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 7: they see that they see fit to give them the

1559
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 7: best chance to go to and win the Super Bowl, right,

1560
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 7: I mean, that's what they're doing.

1561
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 9: Now.

1562
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 7: That's what this whole last stretch of this regular season

1563
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 7: is all about. A lot of it is out of

1564
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 7: their control. What other teams do. What the seeding is.

1565
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 7: You know, you're gonna get a home playoff game on

1566
01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 7: wild Card weekend at least if not the buye which

1567
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,080
Speaker 7: is it's I mean, they're not gonna get the one

1568
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 7: seed from Kansas City, but they're gonna get the two

1569
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 7: seed and or the three and they're gonna have a

1570
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 7: home game. And that's where you're at. You're going to

1571
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 7: try and get with all that stuff that you don't

1572
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:00,599
Speaker 7: know about. You're trying to give yourself a beast chance

1573
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 7: to get through the tournament. And right now it may

1574
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:08,639
Speaker 7: be better to be the three seed than the two

1575
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 7: seed given the matchups. You know, you never know who knows.

1576
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm I don't think this team and I'm

1577
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:16,799
Speaker 7: I'm certainly not. Guys sitting here, I don't. There's nobody

1578
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:21,520
Speaker 7: that's gonna be in the playoffs that I that scare me. Baltimore, Pittsburgh,

1579
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 7: the Chiefs, none of them. When this team turns it on,

1580
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:28,960
Speaker 7: nobody stays with them when they show up, nobody stays

1581
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:32,560
Speaker 7: with them. I believe that. Uh, this is a this

1582
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,600
Speaker 7: is a group that's got everything going on for it,

1583
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 7: and when they show up, they can win against anybody

1584
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 7: home or the road. Uh, but home's easier. Yeah, so

1585
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 7: I got I mean, I'm at home. It's a hard

1586
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:48,600
Speaker 7: place to be with two games to play in the

1587
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,719
Speaker 7: regular season. You got two teams that are absolutely stinking

1588
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 7: it up right now to play. That's that stinks. That

1589
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 7: stinks for guys who know to get motivated. Yeah, that

1590
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:00,679
Speaker 7: stinks for guys who know in a couple of weeks

1591
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 7: it's all going to be on the line.

1592
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go to Mark and West senecon X.

1593
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:11,640
Speaker 19: What's up Mark, Good afternoon, Chris, Steve Harriet. Today a

1594
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 19: couple of interesting comments by Eric wood. I got a

1595
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 19: comment on offense and defense. Defensively, I think we're sort

1596
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 19: of forgetting a little bit. Uh, the same problems that

1597
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 19: day exhibited yesterday are the same problems we've had all

1598
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,879
Speaker 19: season long when the starters have been out there, minus Mlane.

1599
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 19: Maybe he makes a little bit of difference in some coverages,

1600
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:39,640
Speaker 19: but we've consistently had trouble getting consistent pass rush, consistently

1601
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 19: stopping the running game, especially on early downs to keep

1602
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 19: the other team behind the change, you know, covering tight ends,

1603
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:49,519
Speaker 19: covering the middle of the field. Those things are there,

1604
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 19: and primarily will I will admit, maybe more so in

1605
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 19: the beginning of games first half than they've made some

1606
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 19: really good adjustments going into the second half. But if

1607
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 19: you get when you're playing playoff teams, you can't afford

1608
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 19: to dig holes in the first half. You might dig

1609
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 19: a hole you can't get out of against a playoff team.

1610
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:13,720
Speaker 19: That's number one about the defense offensively, I think this

1611
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 19: is a little bit of I don't know, just talk

1612
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 19: as far as hyperbole, I guess is the best way

1613
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 19: to put it. They're keeping stuff in the bag at

1614
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 19: this point in the season. Steve, maybe you can correct

1615
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 19: me on this. You are who you are, and there

1616
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 19: are plays that you run really well, and you may

1617
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 19: have a wrinkle here or wrinkle there that you haven't

1618
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 19: taken out of the bag yet. But I would argue

1619
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 19: they have emptied a lot of the bag in Detroit,

1620
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 19: from throwing to running backs more than they have all

1621
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 19: year long, running a lot more bunch forms and things

1622
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 19: like that, and then to the point where they actually

1623
01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 19: changed the blocking scheme up front from zone blocking to

1624
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 19: polling guys, which they haven't done all year long. So

1625
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 19: I mean, and I look at it as at this

1626
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 19: point in the season, if you're running new things, you

1627
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 19: may not be as good at them as you haven't

1628
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 19: been doing it all year. But isn't it good to

1629
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 19: put more on film to have a team have to

1630
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 19: prepare for everything that you possibly could run, as opposed

1631
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 19: to keeping stuff in the bag. And what really frustrated

1632
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 19: me about the game yesterday between keeping guys healthy and

1633
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 19: not taking things out of the bag, Well, if you're

1634
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,640
Speaker 19: going to keep guys healthy, why are we playing our

1635
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 19: starters all the way to the end of the game

1636
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 19: both sides of the ball. And I know they wanted

1637
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 19: to win that game, but if you're trying to make

1638
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 19: that balance somewhere along the line, if you're going to

1639
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 19: put your starters out there, go in attack mode. That's

1640
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 19: the way I look at it. Attack play the way

1641
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 19: you always did, and take the other team out of

1642
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 19: the game as soon as possible so you can get

1643
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 19: the starters out. And I just felt like they didn't

1644
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 19: attack New England yesterday the way they've attacked everybody, especially

1645
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 19: the last month of the season. It's just left be

1646
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 19: wanting for more. Agree with don't have just Josh run

1647
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 19: and I know that's been a big part of it.

1648
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 19: That's the one thing I would definitely put back in

1649
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 19: the bag the rest of the year. But beyond that,

1650
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,599
Speaker 19: I just didn't feel like they were running their offense

1651
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 19: so's and then lastly, I just want to point out

1652
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 19: we've been talking about James Cook real quick. Where's this

1653
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 19: team without James Cook? And I remember when he was

1654
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 19: drafted everybody there was a lot of people complaining, what

1655
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 19: are we taking a running back for in the second round?

1656
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 19: And doesn't it seem really funny that in the end

1657
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:31,560
Speaker 19: Brandon Being plays out to be the smartest guy in

1658
01:25:31,600 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 19: the room. Again, Thanks Brandon, And that's what I got

1659
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 19: to sure. Merry Christmas, guys, Thanks for taking Mark.

1660
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 2: First point was about third down defense. I'll address that.

1661
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 2: You can hit the next couple of things here, Steve. Yes,

1662
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 2: you're right, Mark. It has been a problem all season long,

1663
01:25:49,240 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 2: from the very beginning in Week one against Arizona. Now, yes,

1664
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 2: they more often than not have gotten those things fixed

1665
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 2: come the second half of football games, but I agree

1666
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 2: with you, Mark, when you're playing the best of the

1667
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 2: best in the NFL in the playoffs, you can't play

1668
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,280
Speaker 2: a half of football with good adjustments because the first

1669
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 2: half didn't look so great and you couldn't get off

1670
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 2: the field. The Bills right now are twenty ninth in

1671
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 2: the league in third down defense. Now, look, did the

1672
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 2: numbers get skewed the last couple of weeks playing the

1673
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 2: Rams in Detroit to some extent, but it's hovered around

1674
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 2: forty percent all season, And that is the one big

1675
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:30,599
Speaker 2: difference between Bills defenses of years past and this year.

1676
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 2: That's probably the biggest difference. You know, red zone wise,

1677
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 2: their middle of the pack defense. They were a top

1678
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 2: ten red zone defense in previous years. So these are

1679
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 2: things that I think are valid concerns going forward, and

1680
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if the Bills have to adjust

1681
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:50,960
Speaker 2: their approach. We saw some of that yesterday where they

1682
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 2: were loading up to try to stop the Patriots run

1683
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 2: game in the second half, and it worked for the

1684
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:00,719
Speaker 2: most part. Do they come out well at the beginning

1685
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 2: of games with something like that against the team that

1686
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 2: can throw the football just as well as they run it,

1687
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:06,759
Speaker 2: which you're probably gonna find.

1688
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 3: In the playoffs.

1689
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 2: It's a problem that has to be at least mitigated,

1690
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:12,799
Speaker 2: if not fixed completely.

1691
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 3: And I don't know that it can be.

1692
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I quite frankly you're right. I don't think

1693
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 7: they came out with all guns blazing with their starters

1694
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 7: in the game against the Patriots. And I agreed with that.

1695
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 7: They came away with a win. Hard to disagree with

1696
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 7: it because that's because they did try and beat the

1697
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 7: Patriots left handed. And the simple fact of matter is

1698
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 7: doing what they did against the Detroit Lions is different

1699
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 7: than doing it against the Patriots. And if you're going

1700
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 7: to play these good teams in the playoffs, you don't

1701
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 7: want them to have a look at your best plays.

1702
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 7: It's that simple. Do not give them a chance to

1703
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 7: make a plan, so don't show it. Don't So I

1704
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 7: disagree with Mark for saying just go in there and

1705
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 7: show them everything, get them everything. No, don't show them

1706
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 7: anything they're not gonna give. I'm not gonna let them plan.

1707
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 7: They got to go in blind. So, you know, and

1708
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 7: just because they did some things with the Detroit Lions,

1709
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 7: and the Detroit Lions are not you know, they're not

1710
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 7: Baltimore they're not the Chargers, they're not Denver, they're not

1711
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 7: Kansas City, they're not any of the NFC the AFC

1712
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 7: playoff teams. The Detroit Lions are their own things. So

1713
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 7: the things, the running back stuff and all that stuff

1714
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 7: that went on in the Deroit Lions has no bearing

1715
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,840
Speaker 7: on what they made or may not do to other

1716
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 7: teams in the AFC playoffs. Absolutely none. It's a game

1717
01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 7: by game thing. That's why this team is so good.

1718
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 7: They can beat you with running backs in the passing game,

1719
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:51,599
Speaker 7: with Amari Cooper and Keon Coleman. In the passing game,

1720
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 7: with their tight ends. In the passing game, they can

1721
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 7: beat you with short pass, long pass. They can also

1722
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,759
Speaker 7: beat you with running backs, wide and inside zone schemes

1723
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:04,599
Speaker 7: or Penn and Poll. They can beat you multiple ways

1724
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 7: on both sides of the ball. And that's why they're

1725
01:29:08,439 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 7: twelve and three. They're gonna nail down the two seed

1726
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 7: and they're waiting on the playoffs. That's why. That's how

1727
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 7: good this team is. So they they're not gonna let

1728
01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 7: anybody craft a plan for their best plays before they

1729
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 7: see him before the playoffs.

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01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 2: Break time for us more of your phone calls when

1731
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 2: we come back on a Buffalo Victory Monday here on

1732
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 2: One Bill's Live.

1733
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:27,479
Speaker 3: Stay with Us.

1734
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 2: Back here on a Buffalo Victory Monday edition of One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and this segment brought

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1737
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1738
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1741
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 2: the league this regular season, Chunky will donate one thousand

1742
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 2: meals to Feeding America. And on set here we've got

1743
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 2: some of Chunky's chili, mac beans, macaroni and meat, the

1744
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 2: perfect solution to a hunger that just won't quit.

1745
01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 3: I had some of this. It's pretty good, man. Yeah,

1746
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 3: it's they take care of us delicioso.

1747
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 9: Yeah.

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01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 7: I don't want to eat on the air, because why not?

1749
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 7: I sound like it?

1750
01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:40,720
Speaker 3: What's stopping you? I'm you know, well, you eat while

1751
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 3: we get back to the phone call. How about that?

1752
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 7: All right?

1753
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 2: Uh, two people have been waiting patiently. Here we go

1754
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:48,760
Speaker 2: to Harold in Rochester next, what do you got for

1755
01:30:48,800 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 2: his Harold?

1756
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:55,160
Speaker 14: Hey, I'm just wondering how the Bills can correct what

1757
01:30:55,320 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 14: seems to be mistakes or miscommunications on special teams. You know,

1758
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:02,000
Speaker 14: going back to last year where we had too many

1759
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,680
Speaker 14: players on the field and a field goal, and this

1760
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 14: year we don't have enough players on the field on

1761
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 14: a punt return or on a punt block, and then

1762
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 14: yesterday with the fake punt, McDermott said afterwards they should

1763
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 14: have had defense safe on instead of punt return. I

1764
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 14: don't know if these are mistakes or miscommunication or how

1765
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 14: it needs to be fixed, but you know, going into

1766
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 14: the playoffs, I'd hate to have it be a thing

1767
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 14: that could cost the Bills to lose a game. And also,

1768
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 14: I think Eric would mention this a little bit on

1769
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 14: those last four plays where it seemed like it was

1770
01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:40,639
Speaker 14: a scene out of unnecessary roughness where they kept running

1771
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,800
Speaker 14: the exact same play over and over again with the

1772
01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:45,839
Speaker 14: pitch to the left. Was that more of Josh Allen's

1773
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 14: hand or James Cook? Was James Cook's not in there

1774
01:31:51,120 --> 01:31:54,120
Speaker 14: because he had fumbled earlier in that drive?

1775
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I don't know that it had as

1776
01:31:57,520 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 2: much to do with James Cook. I think if you

1777
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 2: want to argue that perhaps it was because Josh's hand

1778
01:32:03,920 --> 01:32:06,720
Speaker 2: was still a little numb and tingly, and maybe a

1779
01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 2: clean exchange on a direct handoff may not have been

1780
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 2: as sound as a toss to Ty Johnson, who was

1781
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 2: in at the end of the game. I'll listen to that.

1782
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 2: I will never know, but it was a play that

1783
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,679
Speaker 2: works for them, and it worked all four times.

1784
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 7: It wouldn't surprise me if if the coaching staff sat

1785
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 7: cooked down for a for a series because of the fumble,

1786
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,599
Speaker 7: not that they don't like him or they're mad at him,

1787
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 7: it sends a clear message to the whole to a

1788
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 7: whole group. Yeah, and if you're doing that, and here's

1789
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:45,760
Speaker 7: why this is group dynamics, if you're doing it to

1790
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 7: your best offensive weapon, even during the game, he was

1791
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 7: the best offensive weapon. You can make it an argument.

1792
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 7: He's you know, outside of Josh, he's the guy. If

1793
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:56,880
Speaker 7: you're gonna do that to that guy, that says something

1794
01:32:56,960 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 7: to everybody else on the roster. Well, if they're gonna

1795
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 7: do it to James, if they're going to do it

1796
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 7: to Jimbo, I got to I got to tighten it up. No,

1797
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:10,200
Speaker 7: but everybody's accountable, and that's culture. And in a game

1798
01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:12,759
Speaker 7: where they didn't need James to be the guy carrying

1799
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 7: it on the pitch play, they got guys, send the message,

1800
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 7: make the statement about accountability, and move on. I'm sure

1801
01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:25,000
Speaker 7: nobody said, hey, you know, you know, idiot, what are

1802
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:26,880
Speaker 7: you doing calling that? No, there's none of that going on.

1803
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 7: But that's the way it works, and that's how good

1804
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 7: teams operate. Even the best players are held accountable. I

1805
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 7: don't know if that's the case, but I'm certainly they

1806
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 7: weren't flinching at Ty Johnson or Ray Davis being in

1807
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:43,559
Speaker 7: there for those pitches either. And we heard that from

1808
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 7: Eric Wood early. The offensive line was going, hey, let's

1809
01:33:46,600 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 7: do that. Let's keep going it again. David Edwards was

1810
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 7: signaling the sidelines let's keep it rolling. So they felt

1811
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 7: confident in their ability to do it. So that's there's

1812
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 7: all of that in that recipe.

1813
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,360
Speaker 2: As for your concerns about special teams, I think there's

1814
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:01,720
Speaker 2: enough evidence to have concern whether it was last year

1815
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:04,600
Speaker 2: or this year. And I'm just gonna say this, and

1816
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 2: this is just my opinion. I thought Sean McDermott looked

1817
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 2: as bothered by what has happened on special teams yesterday,

1818
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:18,400
Speaker 2: as he's been all season, because you have to imagine

1819
01:34:18,479 --> 01:34:21,599
Speaker 2: with some of the previous issues that they have doubled

1820
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 2: down on trying to correct some of those things, and

1821
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 2: we're here in week sixteen and they're still coming up

1822
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 2: with similar miscommunication issues. It seems like something that is

1823
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:35,120
Speaker 2: easily correctable and it has not been corrected effectively enough.

1824
01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 7: And yeah, I would say it's hokey, but I remember,

1825
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 7: you know, I mean Bruce de Haven, who's one of

1826
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:47,480
Speaker 7: the all time great special teams coordinators. It's just happenstance

1827
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 7: that when you've got you're on second down or third

1828
01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:52,840
Speaker 7: down or whatever third down's coming up, the coach is

1829
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 7: running up and down the sidelines making sure that those

1830
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 7: guys are ranks. Hey, punt teams up. Let's go, punt

1831
01:34:57,280 --> 01:35:00,400
Speaker 7: teams up, because you've always got a handful or less

1832
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 7: of guys who are only on punt team. On special teams,

1833
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 7: they're not on kickoff, they're on kickoff return, they're not

1834
01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:09,559
Speaker 7: on punt return, but they are on punt. You gotta

1835
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 7: have those guys up there on field goal, field goal block,

1836
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:16,479
Speaker 7: and kickoff return, and that kind of stuff. You've got guys,

1837
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 7: some big dudes. Usually on field goal and field goal defense,

1838
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 7: you've got some big dudes who are maybe in and

1839
01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 7: maybe out. And those are the guys you really got

1840
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 7: to be on top of to get on top because

1841
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 7: they're not on most special teams. So you get into

1842
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:34,559
Speaker 7: that area on the field where you're midfield and are

1843
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 7: you gonna try and are they gonna go for it?

1844
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 7: Are they gonna punt it? Are they gonna try a

1845
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 7: field goal? All of that stuff's on the table, and

1846
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 7: it's all about just screaming on the sidelines and getting

1847
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 7: the right guys ready to go out there. And there

1848
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:50,560
Speaker 7: have been instances where somebody's standing over there and just

1849
01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:51,080
Speaker 7: not aware.

1850
01:35:52,320 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 3: That's not up to the standard.

1851
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 7: That's not the standard. Now it was a call on

1852
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:02,719
Speaker 7: the fake punt. They had the regular punt return guys

1853
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:06,280
Speaker 7: on said let's go, and there's a punt safe, which

1854
01:36:06,360 --> 01:36:08,800
Speaker 7: means they leave their defense on the field and they

1855
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:10,560
Speaker 7: run a defense. If you're gonna try a fake on

1856
01:36:10,880 --> 01:36:14,040
Speaker 7: a quarterback, sneak on a defense where it's got you

1857
01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 7: got defensive linemen up there against your long snapper, you

1858
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 7: had well, good luck with that. And and the defense.

1859
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:22,799
Speaker 7: The defenders are out there. They just leave the regular

1860
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 7: defense on the field, and they know they're out there

1861
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:28,200
Speaker 7: for a reason, so they're aware of watching out for

1862
01:36:28,280 --> 01:36:32,400
Speaker 7: a fake. So they did the Bills decided not to

1863
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:37,320
Speaker 7: do that. Patriots what probably had If the Bills leave

1864
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 7: their real defense on the field, the Patriots probably call

1865
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 7: off the fake. No, they just say check out, can it?

1866
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:46,559
Speaker 7: And they snap it and they kick it. But they

1867
01:36:46,640 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 7: left the team. They left the the athletes out there,

1868
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:51,920
Speaker 7: the light guys out there. They bear it up, pushed

1869
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 7: it over and got it. So by leaving their defense

1870
01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 7: out there, the Bills probably would have scared them off

1871
01:36:57,320 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 7: that fake punt. And you know, never known the been

1872
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 7: the wiser.

1873
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:04,160
Speaker 3: Gotta take a break here.

1874
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 2: Our number three will begin with Bill's team reporter Maddie

1875
01:37:08,160 --> 01:37:10,759
Speaker 2: glab who will join us for what else the Maddie

1876
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 2: Awards coming up next here on One Bill's Live presented

1877
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 2: by Colida Health.

1878
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:15,639
Speaker 3: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1879
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 1: These One Bills Live presented by Calllia Health.

1880
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:06,559
Speaker 2: All Right, our number three here on a Buffalo Victory Monday.

1881
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:09,600
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker and joining us now as she

1882
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 2: does after every Bill's victory Bills team reporter Maddy lab

1883
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:16,479
Speaker 2: for what else The Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Mark,

1884
01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 2: the official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills.

1885
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,240
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Madelinde. How are we doing?

1886
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:24,240
Speaker 20: Doing good today?

1887
01:38:24,320 --> 01:38:24,800
Speaker 8: Doing good?

1888
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 20: Excited?

1889
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:28,639
Speaker 21: The Bills have another win under their belt to regular

1890
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:31,240
Speaker 21: season games remaining, one at home, one on the road.

1891
01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 21: I am ready to finish this out and head into

1892
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:34,759
Speaker 21: the playoffs.

1893
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:35,800
Speaker 20: Guys, I'm ready.

1894
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:37,240
Speaker 7: I'm right.

1895
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:39,479
Speaker 9: We can.

1896
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:44,320
Speaker 7: We just not punked in the last two weeks. Here's

1897
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 7: the problem, and people get this one. It well, just

1898
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 7: sit your stars. You can't sit your starters. You can

1899
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:52,840
Speaker 7: sit in one or two guys. You only have forty guys,

1900
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 7: and there's you go twenty two deep, you go forty

1901
01:38:56,280 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 7: four deep. Just having a too deep depth chart. Yeah,

1902
01:39:00,600 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 7: there's just not enough guys. So guys gotta play. Do

1903
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:06,400
Speaker 7: have you gotta play? And you don't get to rest

1904
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:09,800
Speaker 7: and you risk injury and then you regret it and

1905
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 7: there you go.

1906
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 2: One guy who played and played quite well gets the

1907
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 2: Mister Dependable Award.

1908
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:19,000
Speaker 21: Mister Dependable. It's going to a running back James Cook.

1909
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 21: When things were not working in this game on offense,

1910
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:25,559
Speaker 21: you could lean on James Cook. He provided that spark

1911
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 21: that the offense needed. He had the hot hand throughout

1912
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:33,000
Speaker 21: this entire game. One rushing touchdown, one receiving touchdown, averaged

1913
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:36,160
Speaker 21: nine point one yards per carry. He did a great

1914
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:39,439
Speaker 21: job of finding those holes and patiently waiting for them

1915
01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 21: to open. Once they opened, he hit it for extra yards.

1916
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:46,240
Speaker 21: He had that rushing touchdown go forty six yards. His

1917
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:48,240
Speaker 21: ability to also catch.

1918
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,639
Speaker 20: The ball this season, I think has improved greatly.

1919
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:53,719
Speaker 21: In the past couple of years, there were some plays

1920
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 21: where James Cook wanted back as a receiver. This year,

1921
01:39:57,320 --> 01:39:58,920
Speaker 21: I think he's done a good job of getting his

1922
01:39:59,040 --> 01:39:59,960
Speaker 21: hands on the football.

1923
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:00,080
Speaker 9: Well.

1924
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:03,719
Speaker 21: You saw receiving touchdown by him over the shoulder grab

1925
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 21: and making sure that he was in bounds to get

1926
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:10,360
Speaker 21: the touchdown. He now ties for the most rushing touchdowns

1927
01:40:10,439 --> 01:40:13,479
Speaker 21: this season with Jalen Hurts, and ties for the most

1928
01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:17,519
Speaker 21: scrimmage touchdowns with Jamar Chase. That is a great place

1929
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:20,800
Speaker 21: to be in good company. He's making a case for

1930
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:24,960
Speaker 21: how really talented running backs truly help your offense.

1931
01:40:25,400 --> 01:40:27,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's balanced out this offense in a big way.

1932
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 2: It's also taken some of the load off of Josh

1933
01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:33,080
Speaker 2: Allen who, as we remember, had like fifteen rushing touchdowns

1934
01:40:33,160 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 2: himself last year. Any hits you can take off of

1935
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 2: him down near the goal line in the low red zone,

1936
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:41,400
Speaker 2: you'll take it for sure. And kudos to James for

1937
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:43,800
Speaker 2: finishing off those runs in the end zone.

1938
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:48,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was his those two touchdowns, couldn't. I mean,

1939
01:40:48,760 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 7: they needed him, And I told you last night we

1940
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 7: were doing the show last night at the postgame live.

1941
01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 7: When you're in a hole and the Bills were fourteen

1942
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 7: points in the hole, the first thing you got to

1943
01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 7: do is stop digging. And James Cooks the guy who

1944
01:41:01,080 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 7: took the hand and took.

1945
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:05,040
Speaker 2: The sway from because I think we all know that

1946
01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:07,479
Speaker 2: James has breakaway speed, home run speed.

1947
01:41:08,280 --> 01:41:09,000
Speaker 3: That is evident.

1948
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:11,840
Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't know if we were

1949
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:14,679
Speaker 2: watching one of the slowest defenses in the league yesterday,

1950
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 2: but James looked faster yesterday than maybe I've ever seen him.

1951
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:20,720
Speaker 7: I don't know what it was.

1952
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 21: And it's hard to be fast when it's that cold

1953
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 21: outside and you're moving a little slower when when you're

1954
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:26,200
Speaker 21: blood sticker.

1955
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:28,920
Speaker 2: Talking to some other people around the league who had

1956
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,200
Speaker 2: already seen New England leading up to this game. They

1957
01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:33,599
Speaker 2: did tell me that, in their opinion, New England has

1958
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 2: collectively a slow defense, so maybe that's why. But man,

1959
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 2: I felt like he was really running fast yesterday, like

1960
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 2: the fastest I've seen him all season.

1961
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 3: And he's been fast. I mean, he's never not fast,

1962
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 3: but he looked even faster. I don't know, Mike Crazy,

1963
01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:49,600
Speaker 3: No you're not.

1964
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:51,320
Speaker 7: And I thought I saw the same thing on TDD

1965
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 7: Johnson Orray Davis runs when they bounced it outside as well,

1966
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,080
Speaker 7: remember the one where Josh chased him down the sideline

1967
01:41:57,080 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 7: bouncing it out to the outside and getting the edge

1968
01:41:59,840 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 7: like that. He usually doesn't happen because they have recovery speed,

1969
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 7: but it did again doing it did work against this

1970
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 7: team because they didn't have the recovery speed they needed.

1971
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 3: All right, second half King Award.

1972
01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:16,919
Speaker 21: Second Half King, It's going to our defensive coordinator Bobby Babbage,

1973
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 21: because in the first half this defense was having a

1974
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 21: really hard time. They allowed fourteen points seventeen first downs

1975
01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:26,479
Speaker 21: to a team that was averaging sixteen point six first

1976
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 21: downs per game, almost two hundred and forty total yards

1977
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:32,760
Speaker 21: of offense and twenty minutes time of possession is what

1978
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:36,120
Speaker 21: the Patriots finished with in the first half. In the

1979
01:42:36,200 --> 01:42:39,160
Speaker 21: second half, they come out looking I like an entirely

1980
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:43,479
Speaker 21: new team. You have three straight takeaways to really set

1981
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 21: the tone and get the momentum going in your favor.

1982
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:50,519
Speaker 21: And they continue with these pressure packages that weren't working

1983
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 21: in the first half. They decide to throw some more

1984
01:42:53,040 --> 01:42:55,519
Speaker 21: pressure at rookie quarterback Drake May. In the second half,

1985
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 21: it starts to work. It starts to get him off

1986
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:00,599
Speaker 21: his spot, and that's where the defense starts to come

1987
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 21: live and force those takeaways. Bobby Babbage made the adjustments

1988
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 21: he needed to win this game.

1989
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:08,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it has been their calling card. And we

1990
01:43:08,880 --> 01:43:10,680
Speaker 7: talked about a little earlier in the show about how

1991
01:43:11,560 --> 01:43:13,640
Speaker 7: in the first six eight weeks of this season, you know,

1992
01:43:13,720 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 7: they were slow starts and then rebounding in the second half,

1993
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 7: and they were shutting teams down offensively in the second half.

1994
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:23,559
Speaker 7: They did it again last night. And although usually they

1995
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:25,560
Speaker 7: get a little more help from their offense in the

1996
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 7: first half even if their defense does struggle in the

1997
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 7: first half, not last night. I mean, it was a

1998
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:35,320
Speaker 7: slog fest early on, and the defense really pried him

1999
01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:36,640
Speaker 7: out of it with the turnovers.

2000
01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:38,599
Speaker 3: All Right, the next man up Award.

2001
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,840
Speaker 21: Next man Up, it's going to our Swiss Army Knife

2002
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 21: on defense. His name is cam Lewis. Three starters are

2003
01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 21: out in the secondary, so cam Lewis comes in and

2004
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:49,280
Speaker 21: plays safety.

2005
01:43:49,600 --> 01:43:52,880
Speaker 20: He has his first career interception in the end zone.

2006
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 21: It saved what could have been a possible touchdown because

2007
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 21: the Patriots had a great field position at that point

2008
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:04,160
Speaker 21: with a first down, so they had a couple tries

2009
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:08,080
Speaker 21: to score a touchdown, but cam Lewis said, no intercepts

2010
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:11,120
Speaker 21: it in the end zone. McDermott also said after this

2011
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 21: game that Kim Lewis hasn't played a ton of safety

2012
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,840
Speaker 21: this season, hasn't practiced at that spot a bunch. So

2013
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,320
Speaker 21: for him to make a game changing play at that

2014
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:22,839
Speaker 21: point in the game where the Bills needed the defense

2015
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:27,720
Speaker 21: to come alive, this was their second second straight takeaway.

2016
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:29,840
Speaker 21: The first one was that force fumble, then you get

2017
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:32,600
Speaker 21: the interception. So for him to be a part of

2018
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:35,639
Speaker 21: the takeaways that happened in bunches there, I think really

2019
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:39,240
Speaker 21: said a lot about his preparedness for this role, for

2020
01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:42,519
Speaker 21: this opportunity. This is a guy who plays nickel, who

2021
01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:44,840
Speaker 21: can play corner, who can play safety, who plays on

2022
01:44:44,960 --> 01:44:47,760
Speaker 21: special teams. They trust him to do a lot. He's

2023
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:50,800
Speaker 21: been on this team for several seasons now, and he's

2024
01:44:50,880 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 21: the guy who you go to when, Hey, we're down somebody,

2025
01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:55,240
Speaker 21: we need somebody to step in.

2026
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 20: He definitely did so. He's got a great story.

2027
01:44:57,400 --> 01:45:00,719
Speaker 21: An undrafted player who came out of university at Buffalo,

2028
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:03,800
Speaker 21: spent his first three seasons on the practice squad, ends

2029
01:45:03,880 --> 01:45:06,559
Speaker 21: up making the fifty three man roster in twenty twenty

2030
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:09,559
Speaker 21: two and has been a key role player since then.

2031
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:12,320
Speaker 7: And then, of course the right on Time award.

2032
01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:17,160
Speaker 21: Right on Time, it's going to Tarren Johnson. The Bills

2033
01:45:17,280 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 21: needed points. You're heading into the fourth quarter with a

2034
01:45:19,920 --> 01:45:22,920
Speaker 21: three point lead and it just didn't feel like it

2035
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:25,320
Speaker 21: was enough. It felt like you needed another touchdown. You

2036
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:28,759
Speaker 21: needed something to happen, and the offense had just punted.

2037
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 21: So the special teams does a great job of downing it.

2038
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 21: At New England's ten, Drake May has a lateral play

2039
01:45:36,560 --> 01:45:40,799
Speaker 21: that he fumbles and so Arren Johnson recovers it and scores.

2040
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,800
Speaker 20: Tarren Johnson is always ready for a big play.

2041
01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:47,920
Speaker 21: He says that he envisions these things happening and it

2042
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,240
Speaker 21: already goes through his mind before it happens, so he's

2043
01:45:50,360 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 21: ready to make the play when the moment happens for him.

2044
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:56,080
Speaker 21: He had an interception return for a touchdown against the

2045
01:45:56,160 --> 01:45:59,160
Speaker 21: Colts in Week ten on the first play of the

2046
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:03,120
Speaker 21: Colts drive. He had an interception against Aaron Rodgers on

2047
01:46:03,240 --> 01:46:06,759
Speaker 21: the final drive to help seal Buffalo's victory. He's somebody

2048
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 21: who has made game changing plays throughout his career in Buffalo,

2049
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 21: continues to do so. Has had multiple touchdowns now this season.

2050
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 21: That touchdown gave Buffalo the twenty four to fourteen lead

2051
01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:21,160
Speaker 21: at that point in the game, and you just felt

2052
01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 21: like the Bills needed to score. Whether it was on

2053
01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 21: offense or defense. It happens to beyond defense, and because

2054
01:46:26,320 --> 01:46:27,440
Speaker 21: of Aren Johnson.

2055
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 2: Greg Russoe deserves a big time assist on that play

2056
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:35,040
Speaker 2: because that play is designed to get at least five

2057
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:38,760
Speaker 2: yards and it's the right tackles job to cut the

2058
01:46:38,880 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 2: defensive end on that play so that whole side is

2059
01:46:41,439 --> 01:46:43,960
Speaker 2: open and you have the two receivers running clear out

2060
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:47,720
Speaker 2: routes and Greg Russau blows up the cut block and

2061
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 2: avoids it and then absolutely blows up Romandre Stevenson, which

2062
01:46:52,200 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 2: leads to the fumble and That is Greg Russo's third

2063
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:56,240
Speaker 2: forced fumble of the season. I think he's tied for

2064
01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 2: the league lead among defensive ends with three fourth levels.

2065
01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 7: Because russe the balls on the ground, Russeau thinks it's alive.

2066
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:04,080
Speaker 7: He's playing it like it's live, and he looks like

2067
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:05,639
Speaker 7: he's in a bad dream, one of tho dreams where

2068
01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:06,720
Speaker 7: you can't get out of there.

2069
01:47:07,160 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 3: He looked like Shamou. It looked like Shamou out of

2070
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 3: water on Sea World.

2071
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 7: He can't get his feet. He slips and he falls

2072
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 7: and he's trying to get back up to get to

2073
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:19,200
Speaker 7: the end. Tara Johnson obviously flies in, jumps right on it.

2074
01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:21,800
Speaker 7: He runs looking like a walrus here he's gonna pick

2075
01:47:21,840 --> 01:47:23,360
Speaker 7: it up on the run. And then the thing stopped

2076
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 7: and if he can't get back to it, and like

2077
01:47:26,080 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 7: four guys are there before he can actually gather himself

2078
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 7: to get up, and the.

2079
01:47:29,120 --> 01:47:30,880
Speaker 20: Field slippery at that point.

2080
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 3: I hear a lot of player I've heard a lot

2081
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:34,200
Speaker 3: of players talk about that.

2082
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 2: Drake May has obviously never played here up until yesterday,

2083
01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 2: and even he said, you know, the surf field surface

2084
01:47:40,479 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 2: gets very slick when it's this cold, and there's other

2085
01:47:43,280 --> 01:47:44,680
Speaker 2: turf fields that experience that.

2086
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a good answer for that.

2087
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:50,400
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a dry field, but it's cold. Yeah,

2088
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:51,320
Speaker 3: I think it's slick.

2089
01:47:51,439 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 7: The answer for that is just wait till it's twenty

2090
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:59,639
Speaker 7: eight or thirty instead of fifteen or twelve or nine whatever. Yeah,

2091
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:02,400
Speaker 7: there is a threshold there though, no question.

2092
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 3: They just get so slick out there. I don't know

2093
01:48:05,560 --> 01:48:07,280
Speaker 3: how you fix that. He probably can't.

2094
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:09,200
Speaker 20: Well, you build a stadium across the street.

2095
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:10,880
Speaker 3: That has put it on natural grasses. That's right, with

2096
01:48:10,960 --> 01:48:12,320
Speaker 3: a heated coil system underneath.

2097
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 7: We got it fixed.

2098
01:48:13,960 --> 01:48:16,719
Speaker 3: In twenty six the Toughest Nails Award.

2099
01:48:16,880 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 21: Toughest Nails is going to our linebacker Dorian Williams. He

2100
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 21: was limited throughout practice all week with an elbow injury,

2101
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:27,200
Speaker 21: ends up being questionable for this game. Does play, he's

2102
01:48:27,280 --> 01:48:30,280
Speaker 21: not there as a starter on defense in that first

2103
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:31,639
Speaker 21: series they were on the field.

2104
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 20: He does come out later on. Mcdurrett said after.

2105
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 21: The game that they didn't want to play Dorian as

2106
01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 21: much because of that injury, so they wanted to kind

2107
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:42,920
Speaker 21: of share the load with him and bail Inspector. Well,

2108
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:45,839
Speaker 21: bayle in Spector goes out of this game, so Dorian

2109
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 21: needs to take over, and he was all over the place.

2110
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:52,759
Speaker 21: That was one defensive player that I saw consistently trying

2111
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:56,760
Speaker 21: to blow through the offensive line and sack Drake May.

2112
01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:58,840
Speaker 21: I just felt like he was all over the field,

2113
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 21: pressuring May and flying to the football. He finishes with

2114
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:05,240
Speaker 21: a fumble recovery and ties for of these second most

2115
01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 21: tackles with eight in this one.

2116
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:10,759
Speaker 3: He's been productive. There's no debating it. He has been productive.

2117
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:14,840
Speaker 2: When Milonal came back, Milonal's played most of the last

2118
01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:17,960
Speaker 2: two games. When he returned to the lineup, Dwarian Williams

2119
01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:20,200
Speaker 2: was still the team's leading tackler. Even though he's getting

2120
01:49:20,240 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 2: no snaps on defense anymore. For the last three weeks,

2121
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,240
Speaker 2: he was still the team's leading tackler.

2122
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,560
Speaker 3: I think that just points to how many plays he

2123
01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 3: has made for this defense this season. So he's been

2124
01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 3: fun to watch when he's been in there. For sure.

2125
01:49:33,160 --> 01:49:35,400
Speaker 7: Well, we're in this spot, Mattie, where it's weird, and

2126
01:49:35,760 --> 01:49:38,400
Speaker 7: our callers were kind of talking around in circles about

2127
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:40,400
Speaker 7: how weird it is for the Bills not to have

2128
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:42,639
Speaker 7: too much, to have a little something on the horizon,

2129
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:46,120
Speaker 7: maybe to play for maybe to play to keep people

2130
01:49:46,160 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 7: away from stealing the number two seed. But they're already

2131
01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:51,599
Speaker 7: in the playoffs. They're already division champs.

2132
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 3: Worst they can do is the three seed.

2133
01:49:53,200 --> 01:49:54,960
Speaker 7: The worst they can do is the three seed. And

2134
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:57,160
Speaker 7: nobody even knows who the five, six, and seven seeds

2135
01:49:57,200 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 7: are going to be anyway, so you don't even know

2136
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:03,880
Speaker 7: what your match up's going to be. And that leads

2137
01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:05,760
Speaker 7: to a game like to the to the start of

2138
01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 7: a game like we saw yesterday against the Patriots, right,

2139
01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:10,840
Speaker 7: I mean, they just everybody, they're they're kind of playing

2140
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 7: with their food, yeah, a little bit.

2141
01:50:12,280 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 21: And we heard from Bill's quarterback Josh Allen after the game.

2142
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:17,760
Speaker 21: He said, we're at a point in the season where

2143
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,880
Speaker 21: we're trying to figure out how much do we want

2144
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 21: to show these teams? How much do we want to

2145
01:50:22,240 --> 01:50:24,479
Speaker 21: save for the playoffs. There's a point where you have

2146
01:50:24,560 --> 01:50:27,559
Speaker 21: to toe the line, and we're right there. That's it's

2147
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:29,439
Speaker 21: a good place to be in, right because you know

2148
01:50:29,560 --> 01:50:31,400
Speaker 21: you're in the playoffs. You know you want to save

2149
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:33,120
Speaker 21: some great stuff for the playoffs. But then it's a

2150
01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:35,840
Speaker 21: tough place to be because it's like, what are we

2151
01:50:36,040 --> 01:50:38,439
Speaker 21: doing on offense? Do we want to try and hit

2152
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Speaker 21: a rhythm here. Do we want to try and practice

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Speaker 21: some things before we get into the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 21: it's a good problem to have, but it's definitely one

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Speaker 21: that makes life a little bit harder in the next

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Speaker 21: two weeks.

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Speaker 7: It's also exacerbated by the fact you're going to see

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Speaker 7: this exact same team in two weeks. Yeah you don't.

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Speaker 7: I mean you want to have something left in the

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Speaker 7: bag for them then too, even if you were playing

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Speaker 7: lights out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that game might be a throwaway game.

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Speaker 7: Well it might be that Q seed. Even in a

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Speaker 7: scenario where you've got to win every game, you may

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Speaker 7: leave some stuff in the bag. I guess this team.

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Speaker 2: I just think when you're not playing with all the

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01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:16,560
Speaker 2: bullets in your gun, I think players struggle with what

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Speaker 2: their identity is because, yeah, we're not turning too this

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Speaker 2: which we like a lot, or we're not going to

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Speaker 2: use that because we like that a lot against this

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01:51:23,439 --> 01:51:25,719
Speaker 2: kind of coverage, So we're gonna hold that back.

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Speaker 3: So what are we today?

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Speaker 15: Like?

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Speaker 3: I think they almost asked themselves that question and they

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01:51:29,800 --> 01:51:30,519
Speaker 3: don't know the answer.

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01:51:30,600 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 7: Well, you gotta go out, you go out and play.

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01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:34,000
Speaker 7: But you're out there going on, all right, we've got this,

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01:51:34,120 --> 01:51:35,640
Speaker 7: this is the perfect call on this, and then you

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01:51:35,680 --> 01:51:37,280
Speaker 7: go out there it's like, well, this isn't the perfect call.

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01:51:37,280 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 7: We're going to stay in it. Then it's like, well,

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01:51:40,160 --> 01:51:41,320
Speaker 7: what are we doing out here?

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Speaker 9: You know.

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01:51:42,479 --> 01:51:43,519
Speaker 7: It's a little bit of that going on.

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Speaker 21: And one player that I wonder about is like somebody

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01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:48,759
Speaker 21: who you would maybe want to get going a little

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01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:50,920
Speaker 21: bit in the next two weeks. Who was who missed

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01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:54,240
Speaker 21: some time as Kean Coleman. Do you want to get

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01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 21: a rookie like him, who who was a big part

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01:51:57,040 --> 01:51:59,879
Speaker 21: of your offense before he got injured with big plays

2190
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:03,599
Speaker 21: he was averaging. I think it was the most yards

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01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:06,439
Speaker 21: after catch per reception among rookies, and I think it's

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01:52:06,479 --> 01:52:09,880
Speaker 21: still pretty high up there. But he has that big

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01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:14,000
Speaker 21: sixty four yard reception two weeks ago. Now he has

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01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:17,679
Speaker 21: this in this game against the Patriots, he was targeted twice,

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01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:19,759
Speaker 21: has one reception for seventeen yards.

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Speaker 20: Is that somebody that you want to scheme them something's

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01:52:23,680 --> 01:52:24,200
Speaker 20: up for in.

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Speaker 21: The next two weeks to make sure, Hey, rookie is

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Speaker 21: going to be in his first playoff appearance ever as

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01:52:29,520 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 21: an NFL player, Maybe we want to get him going

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Speaker 21: with some things so that we feel like he's in

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Speaker 21: a good rhythm when we get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I think Cooper falls into that yeah bucket too, because

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01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:43,479
Speaker 2: the last two games he hasn't really done a whole lot.

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01:52:43,640 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 7: I had I had ran a minute ago, Maddie that

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01:52:47,200 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 7: they still got two weeks to do that. I mean, good,

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01:52:49,120 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 7: yes they do. I mean they swed the division of

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01:52:52,240 --> 01:52:55,559
Speaker 7: a month ago and then it got hurt. They got

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Speaker 7: some injuries to it. So if they want to get

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01:52:57,000 --> 01:53:00,280
Speaker 7: sharp with these guys, they got plenty of opportunity that

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01:53:00,760 --> 01:53:06,599
Speaker 7: despite yesterday where they didn't. I mean, so, I'm there's

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01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 7: just you know, they really are in a kind of

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01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:13,320
Speaker 7: malaise of you know, what do we really want to

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01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 7: get done in these next two weeks and what do

2215
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 7: we really need to get done in these next two

2216
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:17,040
Speaker 7: Is this.

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01:53:17,080 --> 01:53:20,080
Speaker 21: Where the talent of your coaching staff really shines in

2218
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 21: the next two weeks where you have to you know,

2219
01:53:23,200 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 21: you're probably having conversations with players of hey, we know

2220
01:53:27,080 --> 01:53:29,519
Speaker 21: we were in the playoffs, but we still have to

2221
01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:33,680
Speaker 21: play like you know, like like our culture says, like

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01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:37,600
Speaker 21: we don't want to fall by the wayside of what

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01:53:37,760 --> 01:53:39,600
Speaker 21: we believe in and what we're known for over the

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Speaker 21: next two weeks.

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Speaker 2: I just think the thing that even the coaches are

2226
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,320
Speaker 2: wrestling with internally is what has happened to this team

2227
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:51,559
Speaker 2: last year in the postseason and this year during the season.

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01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 2: And those two problems are last year getting injured at

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01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:57,760
Speaker 2: the end of the year or having to play in

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01:53:57,800 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 2: the wild card round and suffering injuries. You can avoid that,

2231
01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 2: at least here at the end of the regular season

2232
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:07,040
Speaker 2: to get healthy, presumably, assuming the seed gets locked in

2233
01:54:07,240 --> 01:54:10,040
Speaker 2: this week, you can use next week as a buy

2234
01:54:10,400 --> 01:54:13,240
Speaker 2: of sorts. But at the same time, the other prevailing

2235
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:16,879
Speaker 2: problem has been slow starts for your offense and defense.

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01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:19,840
Speaker 2: So at the same time, you'd like to be sharp

2237
01:54:20,280 --> 01:54:23,160
Speaker 2: going into the postseason, and you're usually only doing that

2238
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 2: if you're playing. So the balancing act here, I think,

2239
01:54:27,560 --> 01:54:29,800
Speaker 2: is one that the coaching staff is even wrestling with.

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Speaker 21: Here with two weeks to go, and you don't want

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01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:35,240
Speaker 21: to sleep walk into the playoffs, because there's not that

2242
01:54:35,520 --> 01:54:37,320
Speaker 21: it's hard to get up for a playoff game. It

2243
01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:39,800
Speaker 21: should be so easy get up for a playoff game.

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01:54:39,880 --> 01:54:43,120
Speaker 21: I believe that this entire team is capable of getting

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01:54:43,200 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 21: up for a playoff game, but you just think about

2246
01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:49,160
Speaker 21: using those two weeks to help use and push some

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01:54:49,240 --> 01:54:51,920
Speaker 21: of that momentum into the playoffs. It's you know, there's

2248
01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 21: going to be some interesting conversations happening within the team,

2249
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:57,040
Speaker 21: within the locker room, within the coaching staff over the

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Speaker 21: next two weeks of how do we want to approach

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Speaker 21: this from the right way to make sure that we

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01:55:01,800 --> 01:55:05,080
Speaker 21: keep our players healthy, but we also are are making

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01:55:05,160 --> 01:55:08,120
Speaker 21: sure that we're fine tuning our mentals as well.

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01:55:08,240 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 7: I'll say this though, this team, I'm confident this team

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Speaker 7: when they when they want to show up and play

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01:55:12,760 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 7: and they're gonna give their best, you're gonna know it.

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Speaker 7: They did it against the Kansasity Chiefs. They did it

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01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:17,400
Speaker 7: against Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 7: They even did it against the San Francisco forty nine

2261
01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:21,920
Speaker 7: ers and against the Rams, even on the road in

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01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:25,280
Speaker 7: the game they lost, they showed up and they they

2263
01:55:25,400 --> 01:55:28,000
Speaker 7: understood the moment. I think that this with guys like

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01:55:28,120 --> 01:55:31,400
Speaker 7: Josh and Dion Dawkins and Milano and and now Trell

2265
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:34,200
Speaker 7: Bernard and Rasul Douglass. They got some guys out there

2266
01:55:34,240 --> 01:55:36,800
Speaker 7: they're like, listen, guys, let's go, and you know they're

2267
01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 7: gonna be able to set the tone. So I have

2268
01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:41,400
Speaker 7: no doubt that they're going to show up all guns

2269
01:55:41,440 --> 01:55:43,440
Speaker 7: blazing when the when the games do matter, in the

2270
01:55:43,480 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 7: playoffs and all that. So because they've proven that just

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01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:48,360
Speaker 7: within the last month that they can do that multiple times.

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Speaker 9: In a row.

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Speaker 3: Maddie, thanks as always for the Mattie Awards.

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01:55:51,280 --> 01:55:52,800
Speaker 2: We hope to see you next week here because that

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01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 2: should mean that the Bills have the two seed. All

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Speaker 2: gotta take a break here your phone calls when we

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Speaker 2: come back on a Buffalo Victory Monday here on One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 3: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 2: Then I get back to the phones here on a

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Victory Monday on One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 2: Tasker with you. Open lines for you at eight oh three,

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Speaker 2: oh five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two, five

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Speaker 2: point fifty to John and Jamestown.

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Speaker 3: Next, what do you got for us? John?

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Speaker 11: Hey, Hi, guys, doing good. Good listen, thanks for taking

2287
01:56:39,840 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 11: my call. Sure, I have a couple of things. And

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01:56:43,880 --> 01:56:47,520
Speaker 11: number one, I've been in Bill's fam my entire life,

2289
01:56:48,160 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 11: and uh, you know, I was gone out of the

2290
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 11: area when I graduated high school in the seventies and

2291
01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:57,160
Speaker 11: went into the military and was gone for forty years,

2292
01:56:57,640 --> 01:56:59,920
Speaker 11: but moved back up here and I live in Jamestown now,

2293
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:07,560
Speaker 11: and I don't understand. The Bills are having a phenomenal

2294
01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:11,640
Speaker 11: season as far as I'm concerned, Absolutely phenomenal. I think

2295
01:57:11,680 --> 01:57:16,240
Speaker 11: they're playing better than I've ever seen him play, maybe

2296
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:19,240
Speaker 11: back the days of Jim Kelly, Jays Steve when you

2297
01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:24,600
Speaker 11: were there. And the negativity, I mean they you know,

2298
01:57:25,720 --> 01:57:33,640
Speaker 11: they lost to three teams and I don't even understand it.

2299
01:57:33,840 --> 01:57:36,480
Speaker 11: I don't understand the negativity. I think the Bills are

2300
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 11: playing the most. Like you know, when the season was

2301
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:43,800
Speaker 11: about to begin, I was kind of, oh boy, this

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01:57:43,960 --> 01:57:46,720
Speaker 11: could be bad. You know, this doesn't look good. Everybody's

2303
01:57:46,760 --> 01:57:49,920
Speaker 11: predicting the Bills to finish third or fourth in the

2304
01:57:49,960 --> 01:57:53,320
Speaker 11: as you know, and they marched through it. I mean,

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01:57:53,840 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 11: there's only three teams that are are better than them

2306
01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,360
Speaker 11: in overall records, and the Bills have beaten two out

2307
01:57:59,360 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 11: of those three teams. So I don't get the negativity.

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01:58:04,520 --> 01:58:07,880
Speaker 11: And you know, the second thing is is I think

2309
01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:14,040
Speaker 11: that the Bill's coaching staff should be given a gigantic

2310
01:58:14,200 --> 01:58:18,320
Speaker 11: pad on the back because you know, I watch every

2311
01:58:18,360 --> 01:58:21,960
Speaker 11: single solitary game, every minute. I even tape them and

2312
01:58:22,040 --> 01:58:25,320
Speaker 11: I watch them again the next day, and they're when

2313
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:27,960
Speaker 11: they come out in the second half, it's like they've

2314
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:31,680
Speaker 11: figured out exactly what the other team's doing and they're

2315
01:58:31,720 --> 01:58:34,839
Speaker 11: going to beat them. And that's just my take on everything.

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01:58:35,600 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 7: All right, fair enough, John, Thanks John, And you know,

2317
01:58:38,720 --> 01:58:40,920
Speaker 7: thanks a lot of that. Thanks for service, by.

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01:58:40,840 --> 01:58:44,240
Speaker 3: The way, Yeah, thanks for your service. Yeah, you're right.

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01:58:44,520 --> 01:58:48,560
Speaker 2: I mean, they've only got three losses all season, ones

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01:58:48,600 --> 01:58:50,520
Speaker 2: to a Rams team that's going to win the division

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01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:54,360
Speaker 2: in the NFC West, the other ones to a Houston

2322
01:58:54,440 --> 01:58:57,400
Speaker 2: team that has already won the AFC South, and the

2323
01:58:57,520 --> 01:59:00,240
Speaker 2: other ones to Baltimore who's probably going to win the

2324
01:59:00,280 --> 01:59:03,280
Speaker 2: AFC North before all is said and done here. So

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01:59:03,960 --> 01:59:07,320
Speaker 2: your three losses are to three division winners this year,

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01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:09,600
Speaker 2: right in all likelihood?

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Speaker 7: So I like, I'm with you, John. I think the

2328
01:59:14,280 --> 01:59:19,520
Speaker 7: teams are they're a wagon. And in fact, they're a wagon,

2329
01:59:19,600 --> 01:59:22,880
Speaker 7: and they've been a wagon for so long. It's it's

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01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:24,800
Speaker 7: now late in the season when they've got so much

2331
01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:29,760
Speaker 7: con when they have so much guaranteed, it's hard to

2332
01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:35,120
Speaker 7: get them interested. I remember it's and I think fans

2333
01:59:35,160 --> 01:59:38,120
Speaker 7: are like that too. Sometimes when you've been good for

2334
01:59:38,200 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 7: a minute, you get the expect the bar goes up

2335
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:43,720
Speaker 7: for what you expect the team to how that you

2336
01:59:43,800 --> 01:59:46,160
Speaker 7: expect the team to make you feel a little bit,

2337
01:59:46,240 --> 01:59:50,040
Speaker 7: And they that first half yesterday didn't make people feel

2338
01:59:50,080 --> 01:59:52,880
Speaker 7: the way they usually feel about a Bills game. So,

2339
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 7: uh yeah, it's it's hard to do it. And you

2340
01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 7: look around the league and you tend to compare the

2341
01:59:58,440 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 7: Bills to this game and that game, and that team

2342
02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:03,879
Speaker 7: and to this team. It's all different. Their their schedules

2343
02:00:03,880 --> 02:00:08,120
Speaker 7: are different, the game to game week to week. Happenings

2344
02:00:08,200 --> 02:00:12,720
Speaker 7: and injuries and game plans and matchups are all different

2345
02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:15,440
Speaker 7: every game every week, and it's hard to it's hard

2346
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:18,240
Speaker 7: to compare across the league. But well, they did this

2347
02:00:18,440 --> 02:00:21,240
Speaker 7: and that team did that, and you just gotta go

2348
02:00:21,320 --> 02:00:23,360
Speaker 7: with your team. And I'm telling you, when the Bills

2349
02:00:23,440 --> 02:00:29,280
Speaker 7: get on the field against teams, they're they're the better team.

2350
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:32,400
Speaker 7: Most often, they're the better team. Now, if they don't

2351
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 7: play well, they don't look like the better team. But

2352
02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:37,680
Speaker 7: man oh man, when they get beat, you can tell

2353
02:00:37,760 --> 02:00:39,800
Speaker 7: why they're getting beat. It's not because they're not good.

2354
02:00:39,880 --> 02:00:42,200
Speaker 7: Because the other team makes a play or or the

2355
02:00:42,280 --> 02:00:46,520
Speaker 7: Bills don't play their best. It's that simple. That's how

2356
02:00:46,560 --> 02:00:49,440
Speaker 7: good they are. They are a wagon. It doesn't mean

2357
02:00:49,480 --> 02:00:53,360
Speaker 7: they're gonna win every game, but it does mean they're

2358
02:00:53,360 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 7: gonna win. They're good enough to win games when they

2359
02:00:55,800 --> 02:00:58,240
Speaker 7: aren't their best, which is what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back to the and to joe In Snyder.

2361
02:01:02,440 --> 02:01:03,000
Speaker 3: What do you got first?

2362
02:01:03,080 --> 02:01:07,880
Speaker 22: Joe, Hey, guys, how you doing good? I've always got

2363
02:01:07,960 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 22: good advice from you.

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Speaker 18: Guys.

2365
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Speaker 13: You guys are the best.

2366
02:01:10,400 --> 02:01:10,880
Speaker 9: You're better.

2367
02:01:11,280 --> 02:01:14,800
Speaker 22: You might be better than the psychiatrist. Pick off within Hamburg.

2368
02:01:16,000 --> 02:01:17,520
Speaker 22: Just got an easy one for you.

2369
02:01:17,760 --> 02:01:18,040
Speaker 3: Okay.

2370
02:01:18,720 --> 02:01:20,520
Speaker 9: My future son in.

2371
02:01:20,560 --> 02:01:23,240
Speaker 22: Law came up here from New York. He took me

2372
02:01:23,360 --> 02:01:26,840
Speaker 22: to the game last night. Expensive tickets were in the

2373
02:01:27,000 --> 02:01:31,280
Speaker 22: heated seats there. Whatever what they want, Whatever what I want?

2374
02:01:31,400 --> 02:01:34,160
Speaker 22: He says, get two of them. We go, We get

2375
02:01:34,280 --> 02:01:40,000
Speaker 22: chicken wings. He puts ranch dressing on his chicken wings.

2376
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:42,000
Speaker 22: I feel like I should whisper that.

2377
02:01:43,360 --> 02:01:43,600
Speaker 15: See.

2378
02:01:43,640 --> 02:01:45,160
Speaker 22: How big of an issue do you think?

2379
02:01:45,240 --> 02:01:45,520
Speaker 7: Okay?

2380
02:01:45,560 --> 02:01:50,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is clearly a certainly football relationship hotline question.

2381
02:01:50,800 --> 02:01:54,400
Speaker 7: I will say this, you do need to have conversation

2382
02:01:54,520 --> 02:01:59,440
Speaker 7: with him. Yes, you at least need to alert him

2383
02:02:00,280 --> 02:02:04,440
Speaker 7: that there's gonna be that's gonna be a problem for

2384
02:02:04,720 --> 02:02:06,560
Speaker 7: some Bills fans. And you want to if you've gonna

2385
02:02:06,600 --> 02:02:08,960
Speaker 7: if you're gonna put ranch dressing on your wings, you

2386
02:02:09,240 --> 02:02:11,080
Speaker 7: keep it quiet and not tell anybody. Yeah, that is

2387
02:02:11,120 --> 02:02:14,200
Speaker 7: a taboo, That is a that is a privacy of

2388
02:02:14,240 --> 02:02:15,080
Speaker 7: your own home issue.

2389
02:02:15,120 --> 02:02:19,000
Speaker 3: Now here's the thing. Here's the thing, though, I would

2390
02:02:19,080 --> 02:02:20,200
Speaker 3: suggest Joe.

2391
02:02:21,840 --> 02:02:29,200
Speaker 2: Having him try Buffalo based blue cheese, because the prevailing

2392
02:02:29,320 --> 02:02:33,440
Speaker 2: opinion from people outside of Buffalo is the blue cheese

2393
02:02:33,520 --> 02:02:37,880
Speaker 2: they have tried elsewhere in the country is filled with

2394
02:02:38,040 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 2: the moldy blue chunks and has a much more sour

2395
02:02:44,800 --> 02:02:48,760
Speaker 2: taste than the blue cheese here in Buffalo. I would say,

2396
02:02:48,800 --> 02:02:52,560
Speaker 2: the blue cheese here in Buffalo specifically is creamier.

2397
02:02:53,240 --> 02:02:55,960
Speaker 3: It's not as thick, not as chunky, Yeah and not

2398
02:02:56,200 --> 02:02:57,680
Speaker 3: and definitely not as chunky.

2399
02:02:57,800 --> 02:03:02,000
Speaker 2: And so your gateway into getting him to be a

2400
02:03:02,080 --> 02:03:05,839
Speaker 2: blue cheese fan, I think is to try Buffalo based

2401
02:03:06,760 --> 02:03:10,440
Speaker 2: blue cheese. That is your way to bring him, bring

2402
02:03:10,520 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 2: him out from the dark side and over to the

2403
02:03:12,800 --> 02:03:14,920
Speaker 2: light side and the right side.

2404
02:03:15,440 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 7: Not so much New York where your son laws from,

2405
02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:21,320
Speaker 7: but around the country ranch is just much more prevalent. Yes,

2406
02:03:21,480 --> 02:03:23,600
Speaker 7: it's easier to come by. Blue cheese is not always

2407
02:03:23,600 --> 02:03:26,280
Speaker 7: available and other regions of them.

2408
02:03:26,520 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 2: And you would agree though it's different here, right, It

2409
02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:30,760
Speaker 2: tastes different than blue cheese you find elsewhere.

2410
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:34,120
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and much more palatable here. It's the same

2411
02:03:34,200 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 7: thing when I got here, you know, almost forty years ago.

2412
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:40,440
Speaker 7: It's the same thing. I was, you do what with him?

2413
02:03:40,840 --> 02:03:43,120
Speaker 7: You know? I was like, okay, so you got to

2414
02:03:43,640 --> 02:03:45,600
Speaker 7: It's a new thing for most people who are not

2415
02:03:45,720 --> 02:03:46,480
Speaker 7: from this region.

2416
02:03:46,600 --> 02:03:49,960
Speaker 2: And Joe, in the grand scheme of things, if that's

2417
02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:52,000
Speaker 2: the worst thing that he does, and he's your future

2418
02:03:52,040 --> 02:03:54,280
Speaker 2: son in law, you're in pretty good shape, to be honest.

2419
02:03:54,440 --> 02:03:56,480
Speaker 7: I mean, I would say it's not a deal breaker,

2420
02:03:56,600 --> 02:04:02,560
Speaker 7: not a deal breaker. Certainly it becomes a family inside joke. Yeah,

2421
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:07,440
Speaker 7: and it's something that you will never not talk about. Yeah,

2422
02:04:07,800 --> 02:04:09,360
Speaker 7: but it's not a deal breaker.

2423
02:04:09,520 --> 02:04:09,680
Speaker 18: Yeah.

2424
02:04:09,760 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 2: As long as you respects your daughter treats are like

2425
02:04:11,800 --> 02:04:14,920
Speaker 2: a queen, you're in good shap that. Uh, Let's move along,

2426
02:04:15,160 --> 02:04:16,680
Speaker 2: And who do we got next?

2427
02:04:16,760 --> 02:04:16,880
Speaker 7: Here?

2428
02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:19,440
Speaker 3: We've got Mike in Buffalo. Next, what's that Mike?

2429
02:04:20,480 --> 02:04:20,640
Speaker 9: Hey?

2430
02:04:20,800 --> 02:04:24,880
Speaker 23: You take him across Hey by the way, you know,

2431
02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 23: happy how it is to you in New Year's Yeah,

2432
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:27,320
Speaker 23: you as well?

2433
02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 7: You two thanks.

2434
02:04:29,080 --> 02:04:30,800
Speaker 23: Yes, I just want to say, you know, that was

2435
02:04:30,880 --> 02:04:32,960
Speaker 23: a good game. I was trying of nervous, you know,

2436
02:04:33,560 --> 02:04:36,440
Speaker 23: like I wasn't with Detroit Lions, you know in Detroit.

2437
02:04:37,040 --> 02:04:43,680
Speaker 23: But myke trum it is hopefully you know, we will win.

2438
02:04:44,160 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 23: You know, I'll playoffs with the homes and I don't

2439
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 23: want to get your comments on the homes. You know, injuries,

2440
02:04:50,120 --> 02:04:53,680
Speaker 23: fake injuries, what's you think about your thoughts on it.

2441
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:56,440
Speaker 23: I don't know if he's gonna if I don't know

2442
02:04:56,480 --> 02:04:57,200
Speaker 23: if he's faith in.

2443
02:04:57,240 --> 02:04:57,920
Speaker 2: It or not.

2444
02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:01,680
Speaker 23: But you know, this is so ambilit what he does.

2445
02:05:02,520 --> 02:05:04,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he's not faking it.

2446
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not faking injuries, Mike.

2447
02:05:07,120 --> 02:05:10,000
Speaker 7: But I'll say this, it's the same thing about Josh

2448
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:13,520
Speaker 7: is he got his funny bone hit yesterday and everybody's

2449
02:05:14,080 --> 02:05:16,040
Speaker 7: you know, we've got to have five conversations about it

2450
02:05:16,120 --> 02:05:18,640
Speaker 7: with everybody. And it's a funny bone. It's it's fine.

2451
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:21,120
Speaker 2: But when you have an athlete that is that high

2452
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:25,320
Speaker 2: profile that plays the quarterback position, it's going to get

2453
02:05:25,400 --> 02:05:29,280
Speaker 2: far more attention than it probably deserves. And because of

2454
02:05:29,400 --> 02:05:32,720
Speaker 2: that it can turn fans off, especially fans that are

2455
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 2: tired of hearing about Patrick Mahomes and how great he is.

2456
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 2: So when he comes back from an injury, he's even

2457
02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:42,120
Speaker 2: more great and all yeah, on and on and on

2458
02:05:42,240 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 2: it goes, and it turns you off, Mike, and I

2459
02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:47,280
Speaker 2: get it, because I'll be frank with you, I'm tired

2460
02:05:47,320 --> 02:05:48,320
Speaker 2: of Patrick Mahomes too.

2461
02:05:48,600 --> 02:05:50,400
Speaker 7: They won the Super Bowl two years ago and he

2462
02:05:50,440 --> 02:05:52,680
Speaker 7: said the injury had two years ago was worse than

2463
02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:54,320
Speaker 7: this one. And they won the super Bowl with him

2464
02:05:54,360 --> 02:05:57,400
Speaker 7: having that injury. Who's who's really upset? I mean, what

2465
02:05:57,480 --> 02:05:58,240
Speaker 7: are we talking about?

2466
02:05:58,280 --> 02:05:58,400
Speaker 9: Then?

2467
02:05:58,800 --> 02:06:02,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, so let's yeah, take it with a grain of salt.

2468
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:05,840
Speaker 7: It's gonna get a lot of conversation because he's the he's,

2469
02:06:05,920 --> 02:06:07,680
Speaker 7: you know, the best player in the league and he's

2470
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 7: all of this. You know, he's two time Super Bowl

2471
02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:12,920
Speaker 7: champ defending and he's the number one seed coming. So

2472
02:06:13,160 --> 02:06:15,720
Speaker 7: if he gets a hangnail, you're going.

2473
02:06:15,640 --> 02:06:16,480
Speaker 3: To headline news.

2474
02:06:16,680 --> 02:06:19,800
Speaker 2: So if anything, playing the media for sensationalizing it right,

2475
02:06:19,880 --> 02:06:23,560
Speaker 2: Because to Steve's point, Patrick was downplaying the injury last

2476
02:06:23,880 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 2: when he.

2477
02:06:24,080 --> 02:06:25,280
Speaker 7: Was asking, he said, it's not as bad as it

2478
02:06:25,400 --> 02:06:27,160
Speaker 7: was two years ago. So yeah, you knew he was

2479
02:06:27,200 --> 02:06:28,680
Speaker 7: going to play. There was never a doubt on it.

2480
02:06:28,760 --> 02:06:33,240
Speaker 7: But but it's a hot subject. Quarterback injuries are a

2481
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:35,400
Speaker 7: hot subject, and and it's going to get exploited for

2482
02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:36,280
Speaker 7: that to.

2483
02:06:36,600 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 2: Kyle down in Florida. Let me punch him out here.

2484
02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:40,120
Speaker 2: What do you have for us, Kyle?

2485
02:06:41,400 --> 02:06:46,840
Speaker 24: Hey, guys, happy holidays. I'm excited to talk to you.

2486
02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:47,080
Speaker 12: Guys.

2487
02:06:47,080 --> 02:06:48,360
Speaker 24: I never get to talk to you about a day

2488
02:06:48,360 --> 02:06:52,160
Speaker 24: off today because the holidays. So hey, one of the

2489
02:06:52,280 --> 02:06:55,160
Speaker 24: things that that well, first of all, I was texting

2490
02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:57,120
Speaker 24: my buddies this morning, said, isn't it great that we

2491
02:06:57,160 --> 02:06:59,400
Speaker 24: can be complaining about an ugly win at twelve and three?

2492
02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:00,920
Speaker 24: Pinch me up thirty eight years old?

2493
02:07:01,200 --> 02:07:01,240
Speaker 9: Like?

2494
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:02,160
Speaker 7: What are world we live in?

2495
02:07:04,040 --> 02:07:06,600
Speaker 24: But two questions and I'm hoping you guys maybe can

2496
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:10,400
Speaker 24: get them both in one. Is I mean, I think

2497
02:07:10,440 --> 02:07:14,840
Speaker 24: it's clear now three games back that we lose a

2498
02:07:14,880 --> 02:07:18,560
Speaker 24: step with Williams, With Dorian Williams out of the starting lineup, Chris,

2499
02:07:18,640 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 24: I heard you this morning with the guys kind of

2500
02:07:20,720 --> 02:07:24,200
Speaker 24: talking about it too. I know that they wanted to

2501
02:07:24,280 --> 02:07:26,920
Speaker 24: get Milano reps, but I feel like that should be

2502
02:07:26,960 --> 02:07:30,680
Speaker 24: more of a rotation because Williams. Williams makes an impact

2503
02:07:30,720 --> 02:07:32,800
Speaker 24: and you saw it yesterday when he went full time.

2504
02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 24: I mean that the defense was different, and so curious

2505
02:07:36,600 --> 02:07:38,320
Speaker 24: to get your guys thought on that if you think

2506
02:07:38,400 --> 02:07:43,280
Speaker 24: that they would maybe kind of go back to that.

2507
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:49,320
Speaker 24: And then the second one is hypothetically, if the Chiefs

2508
02:07:49,400 --> 02:07:52,720
Speaker 24: win on Wednesday, do you see a world in which

2509
02:07:52,760 --> 02:07:55,640
Speaker 24: the Bills basically rest starters for two weeks? Do you

2510
02:07:56,040 --> 02:07:58,360
Speaker 24: see them caring that much about the two versus three?

2511
02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:00,960
Speaker 24: Because I think so some of us would argue that

2512
02:08:01,400 --> 02:08:05,400
Speaker 24: maybe the bottom that seven could even be more concerning

2513
02:08:05,480 --> 02:08:09,000
Speaker 24: than those who get flat in the sixth. So would

2514
02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:09,960
Speaker 24: love your guys thoughts on that.

2515
02:08:10,080 --> 02:08:12,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, Throblem, Yeah, that's it's all stuff that you

2516
02:08:12,800 --> 02:08:17,720
Speaker 7: can't control, Kyle, And you're right. I mean, they were

2517
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:23,040
Speaker 7: trying to rotate Specter and Williams in because Williams wasn't

2518
02:08:23,040 --> 02:08:25,920
Speaker 7: one hundred percent yesterday and neither respector neither was Spector,

2519
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:28,080
Speaker 7: So they were kind of having both of those guys

2520
02:08:28,160 --> 02:08:30,000
Speaker 7: so that they wouldn't get the full load. And then

2521
02:08:30,040 --> 02:08:32,000
Speaker 7: Spector goes down, Williams has to go the whole way.

2522
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:37,360
Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm for that. I'm thinking yeah, that's that's

2523
02:08:37,440 --> 02:08:40,200
Speaker 7: the reason he was in and out, in and out,

2524
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:42,000
Speaker 7: and then finally in because of the injuries. And this

2525
02:08:42,080 --> 02:08:44,800
Speaker 7: why they even even tinkered with the fact of playing spector,

2526
02:08:44,840 --> 02:08:46,520
Speaker 7: because they didn't want Dori to have to take the

2527
02:08:46,560 --> 02:08:47,000
Speaker 7: full load.

2528
02:08:47,160 --> 02:08:50,640
Speaker 2: There is a suddenness and an explosiveness to Williams game,

2529
02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:54,320
Speaker 2: and we have not yet seen from Milano yet since

2530
02:08:54,360 --> 02:08:58,560
Speaker 2: he has returned. I think they believed he was trending

2531
02:08:58,640 --> 02:09:01,000
Speaker 2: in that direction, but then he as the groin injury,

2532
02:09:01,520 --> 02:09:04,360
Speaker 2: and now he's got another setback, and we don't know

2533
02:09:04,480 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 2: how long that's gonna take. And for all we know,

2534
02:09:07,360 --> 02:09:09,360
Speaker 2: they may have made the decision to shut him down

2535
02:09:09,440 --> 02:09:13,160
Speaker 2: until the postseason. We don't know that, and we're only

2536
02:09:13,240 --> 02:09:15,080
Speaker 2: gonna know if we don't see him out there again

2537
02:09:15,160 --> 02:09:17,040
Speaker 2: this Sunday and the next Sunday.

2538
02:09:17,640 --> 02:09:19,800
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to wait and see where that

2539
02:09:19,960 --> 02:09:26,200
Speaker 3: thing sits with Matt going forward. But look, I think

2540
02:09:26,240 --> 02:09:27,040
Speaker 3: you need to know this.

2541
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:32,400
Speaker 2: The coaching staff when they get to the postseason, is

2542
02:09:32,440 --> 02:09:34,360
Speaker 2: gonna put the eleven players on the field that they

2543
02:09:34,440 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 2: feel is gonna help them win football games. And they're

2544
02:09:37,720 --> 02:09:40,960
Speaker 2: not going to mince words, and they're not gonna worry

2545
02:09:40,960 --> 02:09:44,920
Speaker 2: about hurt feelings, right, because they have to put the

2546
02:09:45,000 --> 02:09:47,760
Speaker 2: best eleven on the field. That is their job, and

2547
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:51,800
Speaker 2: that's what they owe the football team. Because with these

2548
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:53,680
Speaker 2: guys laying it on the line the way they have

2549
02:09:53,840 --> 02:09:56,320
Speaker 2: for the last seventeen weeks, you don't do your team

2550
02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:59,840
Speaker 2: a disservice by not putting your best eleven on the

2551
02:10:00,520 --> 02:10:03,200
Speaker 2: in a do or die situation, which is the postseason.

2552
02:10:03,440 --> 02:10:05,720
Speaker 2: So I think you can rest assured that they will

2553
02:10:05,760 --> 02:10:08,280
Speaker 2: play the right people at the end of the season.

2554
02:10:08,360 --> 02:10:12,200
Speaker 2: These guys watch and review every play of practice, every

2555
02:10:12,280 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 2: play of every game. They are the most invested in

2556
02:10:16,120 --> 02:10:19,200
Speaker 2: those decisions, so they will play the top of levers players.

2557
02:10:19,760 --> 02:10:21,400
Speaker 7: Idea. I'll give you an idea how this works, and

2558
02:10:21,600 --> 02:10:26,120
Speaker 7: this is from my experience and watching and learning, talking

2559
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:27,800
Speaker 7: to and being on a team with a bunch of

2560
02:10:27,840 --> 02:10:30,400
Speaker 7: Hall of famers and role players and four Super Bowls

2561
02:10:30,400 --> 02:10:36,920
Speaker 7: and the different roster changes through that process. Certainly the

2562
02:10:37,000 --> 02:10:40,280
Speaker 7: guys at that position group, like the linebackers in this case,

2563
02:10:40,320 --> 02:10:43,400
Speaker 7: are the corners or the safeties, that certainly they know it,

2564
02:10:43,480 --> 02:10:46,320
Speaker 7: and usually everybody on that side of the football, the

2565
02:10:46,400 --> 02:10:50,120
Speaker 7: offensive offensive team knows that the receivers know about the

2566
02:10:50,200 --> 02:10:53,480
Speaker 7: offensive line. The offensive line understands what the receivers are doing.

2567
02:10:53,840 --> 02:11:00,240
Speaker 7: They know the guys, and everybody knows which guy they

2568
02:11:00,320 --> 02:11:04,920
Speaker 7: want on the field. Every guy knows the eleven guys

2569
02:11:04,960 --> 02:11:06,680
Speaker 7: that should be on the field and get way shape

2570
02:11:06,720 --> 02:11:09,640
Speaker 7: or for them. Now, they understand different personnel groups, but

2571
02:11:09,720 --> 02:11:11,600
Speaker 7: they also say that when this group is in this

2572
02:11:11,760 --> 02:11:13,520
Speaker 7: is what we do. This is what we do well.

2573
02:11:14,120 --> 02:11:16,200
Speaker 7: When this guy's on the field with this guy, this

2574
02:11:16,440 --> 02:11:18,880
Speaker 7: is what we do well. And that guy's when he's

2575
02:11:18,960 --> 02:11:21,640
Speaker 7: on that's what we do well here. So they know

2576
02:11:22,400 --> 02:11:24,800
Speaker 7: that if there's different personnel on the field, they know

2577
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:26,960
Speaker 7: what they're capable of, They know what they want to

2578
02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:30,920
Speaker 7: try and do, and they know whether they're going taking

2579
02:11:30,960 --> 02:11:33,879
Speaker 7: their best shot at their opponent because of the matchups

2580
02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:36,640
Speaker 7: they've been prepared for. So when you get to this

2581
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Speaker 7: point of the season, the coaching staff is ultra sensitive

2582
02:11:41,400 --> 02:11:44,440
Speaker 7: to playing the guys that give you the best chance

2583
02:11:44,520 --> 02:11:47,800
Speaker 7: to be successful, not just active on the game day,

2584
02:11:48,040 --> 02:11:52,040
Speaker 7: but play to play series to series. The players know it,

2585
02:11:52,240 --> 02:11:55,800
Speaker 7: the coaches know it, the individual knows it. I shouldn't

2586
02:11:55,840 --> 02:11:58,560
Speaker 7: be out here, I'm They're they're putting me in here.

2587
02:11:58,640 --> 02:12:00,840
Speaker 7: Because their guy got hurt. I'm gonna give them everything

2588
02:12:00,880 --> 02:12:04,080
Speaker 7: I got. I but I'm not the guy that's supposed

2589
02:12:04,080 --> 02:12:06,480
Speaker 7: to be here, but I'm gonna get you know, I'm

2590
02:12:06,520 --> 02:12:07,960
Speaker 7: gonna give it to him. And they know that too.

2591
02:12:08,040 --> 02:12:10,360
Speaker 7: They don't hate the guy, but they know they got

2592
02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:13,480
Speaker 7: they've got an issue there. That's how it works. They

2593
02:12:13,560 --> 02:12:16,080
Speaker 7: know each other that well, they know each other's skill

2594
02:12:16,160 --> 02:12:19,160
Speaker 7: sets that well, and they're prepared for all of it,

2595
02:12:19,400 --> 02:12:22,880
Speaker 7: so the coaching staff will put the best guy on

2596
02:12:23,000 --> 02:12:25,400
Speaker 7: the best guy out there quickly.

2597
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Speaker 2: To answer your other question, Kyle, I think the two

2598
02:12:29,080 --> 02:12:32,640
Speaker 2: seed matters if the Chiefs win and the one seed's

2599
02:12:32,680 --> 02:12:34,520
Speaker 2: off the table. No, I do not think they rest

2600
02:12:34,560 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 2: players for two weeks because I think they want the

2601
02:12:36,640 --> 02:12:40,600
Speaker 2: two seed and if Baltimore wins on Christmas Day, they

2602
02:12:40,680 --> 02:12:43,280
Speaker 2: need one more win to cinch the two seed.

2603
02:12:43,320 --> 02:12:45,080
Speaker 3: And you say, well, what's the difference between the two

2604
02:12:45,120 --> 02:12:46,480
Speaker 3: and the three seed? The difference is this.

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02:12:47,240 --> 02:12:50,200
Speaker 2: If Buffalo wins their game as the two seed, and

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02:12:50,360 --> 02:12:53,080
Speaker 2: let's just say hypothetically, Baltimore is the three seed, wins

2607
02:12:53,160 --> 02:12:56,800
Speaker 2: their game in the first round of the playoffs, guess

2608
02:12:56,840 --> 02:13:00,280
Speaker 2: where the divisional matchup is. It's in Buffalo in the

2609
02:13:00,320 --> 02:13:02,960
Speaker 2: divisional round because the two seed plays the three seed,

2610
02:13:03,760 --> 02:13:05,920
Speaker 2: the one seed that had the buy they'll play the

2611
02:13:06,000 --> 02:13:08,840
Speaker 2: four or the five. They'll play the lowest remaining seat.

2612
02:13:09,320 --> 02:13:11,280
Speaker 2: So the three seed would come here. If you're the

2613
02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:14,280
Speaker 2: three seed and Baltimore's the two, and you win your

2614
02:13:14,280 --> 02:13:16,360
Speaker 2: first game, you're going to Baltimore to play them in

2615
02:13:16,400 --> 02:13:18,400
Speaker 2: the divisional round. I think we all know where we

2616
02:13:18,440 --> 02:13:20,960
Speaker 2: would prefer to see that game played. Gotta take a break.

2617
02:13:21,360 --> 02:13:41,200
Speaker 2: Final segment coming up. Stay with us, all right, Sorry

2618
02:13:41,240 --> 02:13:43,240
Speaker 2: to the callers holding We're not going to have enough

2619
02:13:43,280 --> 02:13:44,840
Speaker 2: time to get to anybody with the time.

2620
02:13:44,760 --> 02:13:45,440
Speaker 3: Left in the show.

2621
02:13:46,520 --> 02:13:48,960
Speaker 2: I will credit Mark in Jersey City for sending us

2622
02:13:49,040 --> 02:13:51,800
Speaker 2: this though, one of our frequent callers. He found a

2623
02:13:51,880 --> 02:13:55,240
Speaker 2: tweet from your former teammate John Davis, the offensive lineman

2624
02:13:55,240 --> 02:13:58,880
Speaker 2: who played in the four Super Bowl teams, and he's

2625
02:13:59,120 --> 02:14:02,360
Speaker 2: addressing the conversation we're having today about these last two

2626
02:14:02,440 --> 02:14:04,600
Speaker 2: games and how to play people. He said, during the

2627
02:14:04,640 --> 02:14:07,600
Speaker 2: four Super Bowls, we went nine to three the last

2628
02:14:07,680 --> 02:14:10,920
Speaker 2: three games of the year. Coach Levy did a masterful

2629
02:14:11,040 --> 02:14:14,280
Speaker 2: job of knowing when and when not to sit starters

2630
02:14:14,600 --> 02:14:17,040
Speaker 2: but still have the goal of winning It was hard,

2631
02:14:17,640 --> 02:14:18,840
Speaker 2: but somehow we did it.

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02:14:20,360 --> 02:14:23,320
Speaker 7: That's good. Yea. I remember it was difficult, but we

2633
02:14:23,440 --> 02:14:26,960
Speaker 7: let the coaches make the decision. The guys played, certainly,

2634
02:14:27,040 --> 02:14:29,160
Speaker 7: we had a ton of guys that did take some

2635
02:14:29,320 --> 02:14:33,120
Speaker 7: rests and stuff, and we made good runs through the playoffs,

2636
02:14:33,120 --> 02:14:34,080
Speaker 7: although we never won it.

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02:14:34,480 --> 02:14:37,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we'll be back on the air tomorrow, Christmas

2638
02:14:37,640 --> 02:14:39,560
Speaker 3: Eve show here at one. Don't miss it. You'll be

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Speaker 3: at home watch us