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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. E and I are kicking off

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Speaker 1: a new series, the Opponent Preview Series, where E A

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Speaker 1: And myself were breaking down each of the Jets opponents.

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear from the beat writers people that

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Speaker 1: cover the team, whether that's internal for their website or

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Speaker 1: external like a beat writer. Today we're joined by Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: the Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com. And the

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Speaker 1: Jets and Bills played twice before the Jets play any

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Speaker 1: other opponent in the a f C East, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of feels like deja vu all over again Jets

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Speaker 1: Bills Week one, but this time in Orchard Park. It

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Speaker 1: certainly does Yogi Berra. Last year, the Jets started off

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Speaker 1: with a lot of promise at a sixteen nothing lead

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Speaker 1: over the Bills at MetLife Stadium. Then C. J. Mosley

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Speaker 1: went out. As we all know, the Bills came back

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Speaker 1: and one net ball game and at last game that

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Speaker 1: we were at Northshire Park felt like more of a

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Speaker 1: preseason affair. Not from the Jets perspective because they wanted

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Speaker 1: to finish the season strong, but the crowd was sparse.

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Speaker 1: It was a rainy, cold day. The Bills had already

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Speaker 1: clinched their spot in the playoffs, so they played a

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Speaker 1: lot of backup so it didn't have that traditional end

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Speaker 1: the season feel. But these teams are gonna get after

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Speaker 1: early this season, and it was a harbor jer for

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Speaker 1: things to come for the Jets and the Bills, because

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Speaker 1: the Bills got off to a hot start in the

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Speaker 1: following week. They took down the New York Giants at

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, whereas the Jets not only lost C. J.

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Speaker 1: Mosley quarterbacks Sam Donald didn't feel right against the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of days later he was diagnosed with

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Speaker 1: model The Grain and White play four quarterbacks in four games,

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Speaker 1: they start one in seven, and we know how the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season played out where they finished strongly.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, listen week one on the road. I think

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Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity for the Jets because the

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Speaker 1: Bills are going to be an unfamiliar position this year.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand twenty ethan, in my book, I think this

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Speaker 1: is the team who is the favorite NAFC East. I

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Speaker 1: think that this is gonna be a very intense matchup

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to take into account what happened between

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Speaker 1: were basically resting their players before their playoff matchup against

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. So this is in theory, if all

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Speaker 1: parties are healthy and all the top players are healthy,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really good game. And it almost

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Speaker 1: feel like the Jets might be out for blood because

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Speaker 1: of what happened in Week one, and you start to

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Speaker 1: factor in Sam Donald in theory will be a yes,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have Stefon Diggs. I think it's really gonna

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Speaker 1: be a fascinating matchup and I'm really looking forward to it,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, Yeah, we all are. After everything that's

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Speaker 1: happened the spring with the pandemics, and once we saw

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Speaker 1: that schedule release come out, you always tend to think, well,

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Speaker 1: you've got a decent shot that it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a divisional opponent. And it's spent Jets Bills three of

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Speaker 1: the past four years. I kind of like open them

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Speaker 1: up on the road to not because you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: miss your home fans. It's just playing with house money,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. I think when you're on the road

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Speaker 1: I just think this is gonna be important for both

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Speaker 1: can't look ahead because they got San Francisco forty nighters

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Speaker 1: regular season is gonna go on as well. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: from Chris Brown from Buffalo Bills dot com to learn

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Speaker 1: about what Buffalo did this offseason and what he thinks

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Speaker 1: about the Bills in Obviously, Stefon Diggs a huge offseason

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Speaker 1: acquisition for the Bills. What exactly does he add to

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Speaker 1: this offense that maybe the Bills didn't have last year. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a true number one receiver. And you know,

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Speaker 1: But what they're getting is a truly elite receiver. I

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Speaker 1: He gives them that deja vu all over again for

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Speaker 1: Western New York. Week one. What did you think when

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Speaker 1: What else is new? Um? Yeah, It's always kind of

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Speaker 1: put some wrinkles in their playbooks, find some new elements

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Speaker 1: what makes it such an intriguing game, even though it's

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Speaker 1: two opponents who are very familiar with one another. Chris,

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Speaker 1: how much would you say, thinking back to last year,

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Speaker 1: week one was a springboard for the Bills because from

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Speaker 1: It almost felt like the air was sucked out of

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Speaker 1: how much do you think Week one overall between two

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills going into last year, there as

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Speaker 1: But the Bill schedule as it laid out last year,

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Speaker 1: They had a murderous first half and then it lightened

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Speaker 1: What do you make of both of these young quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: do you make of Josh Allen's growth from year one

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Speaker 1: But from year one to year two, where he made

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Speaker 1: like the Jets and the Bills matchup because Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and Jamal Adams are both so hyper competitive and you

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Speaker 1: don't see that from quarterbacks, but Josh Allen seems to

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Speaker 1: to the other side of the ball. How good can

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