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Speaker 1: These one bills Live presented by Called Light to Health.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into one Bills Live on this brainy, rainy ugly

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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon on Thursday Wednesday. This week, the last two

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Speaker 1: weeks have just sent us all through loop. Mattie glab

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Speaker 1: here alongside Steve Tasker as Bump. But to have you

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Speaker 1: in on board game going to be here. Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: is traveling to New England tops on the charter flight

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Speaker 1: with a team traveling in style. Yeah so I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: seat between let me just sitting with between Jimmy Acton

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Speaker 1: and who else is see with Jeff Matthews. Maybe that

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Speaker 1: sounds about right our content team as they travel to

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Speaker 1: face the Patriots on Thursday Night Football. The last three

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Speaker 1: weeks for us and this team have just been all

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Speaker 1: over the place. Sunday was a Wednesday, Monday was a Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday was a fast Friday, Wednesday. Today is a Saturday.

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Speaker 1: For this team, game week Saturday. And anytime you ask

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Speaker 1: me what day of the week it is, I have

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Speaker 1: gotten it wrong, including this show open, I am all

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Speaker 1: over the place. I am so ready to have a

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Speaker 1: regular week next week where we play what a Clock

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Speaker 1: Football on Sunday afternoon. We're going to do the game Thursday.

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Speaker 1: You and I are going to do bills tonight Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night after the game. Post game, we'll be a postgame,

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Speaker 1: my first time in a while because all the crazy

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Speaker 1: full weeks. And then and then Friday we'll do a

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Speaker 1: back on schedule and the team will have the mini

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Speaker 1: buy yep headed into the jet. I guess they'll have

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Speaker 1: the weekend off. We'll see how it goes. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if they get a victory Friday like they did last week,

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Speaker 1: if they go scorch these guys, and if they don't.

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Speaker 1: We got all these tweets on our topic today about

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Speaker 1: what it's going to take. But if they do all

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Speaker 1: the things that all the tweets are saying they should do,

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Speaker 1: they'll probably get the weekend off and get a little

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Speaker 1: chance to recharge. It has been you got You've felt

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Speaker 1: this in your side of the building too, where everything's

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah, the schedule is an absolute

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Speaker 1: everything's all over the place. And this week just feels

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Speaker 1: more tense because it's Patriots Week, and that's just always.

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Speaker 1: How it feels in this building is everybody is wrapped up,

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Speaker 1: everybody is focused on the task at hand. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: team says it's it's a one week at a time approach.

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Speaker 1: Every game is the most important game. The next game

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Speaker 1: that you're playing is the most important game. But the

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Speaker 1: next three games for this team are so so, so,

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Speaker 1: so so important in terms of division title hopes, in

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Speaker 1: terms of AFC seating, in terms of what their future

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs could look like. If it is going

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Speaker 1: to be an easier road than others, if it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a tougher road than others. So buckle up,

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Speaker 1: because we're going to see the future of this team,

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Speaker 1: I think in the next three weeks. In future, I

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Speaker 1: mean the future of this season. They could at the

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Speaker 1: end of this three weeks come out as just what

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Speaker 1: they went into this season, being the unadult traded favorite

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Speaker 1: three and oz and beating three teams that Bills fans

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Speaker 1: I think believe they should beat. They'll be favorite in

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Speaker 1: all three games if they come out of this three

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Speaker 1: conference changes. Everything changes, Everything changes. And not that it's

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Speaker 1: not that this team isn't going to be the same

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Speaker 1: the perception about this team is going to be vastly different.

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Speaker 1: Given just one or two losses over this next three games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: The offense seemed like at times it hasn't been as

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Speaker 1: and so the designations and all that stuff. This is

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Speaker 1: for Vaughan. Defensively, you gotta think with Milano and Edmond's

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Speaker 1: back in the saddle together. They're gonna have an ice game.

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Speaker 1: Taryn Johnson Dane Jackson playing now cornerback two instead of

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Speaker 1: cornerback one. If Turdavious White can go the full distance,

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Speaker 1: which don't all feel go the whole game, but you'd

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Speaker 1: think his snap nap count would expand a little, give

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Speaker 1: you maybe a half. I don't know. If he's gave

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Speaker 1: you sixteen plays against the Detroit Lions, maybe he gives

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Speaker 1: you twenty five or thirty plays against the Patriots. Um,

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Speaker 1: maybe you get to pick who knows any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You're getting better on that side of the ball on

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Speaker 1: a defense that's already playing at a high level and

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Speaker 1: has been doing so. I keep saying this, no pun intended,

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Speaker 1: but hamstrung by injuries. Yeah, they've really been injury prone

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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball, and now they're getting

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Speaker 1: pretty much healthy with the exception of Vaughan. You've really

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Speaker 1: got to feel good going forward. And at that we're

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Speaker 1: at that time of the year, a lot of football

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Speaker 1: to go. It's a week thirteen. There is one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: four or five six games left left for this team

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Speaker 1: in the regular season. We're around the time right now

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Speaker 1: where you want to start playing your best football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to start. You do not want to see

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Speaker 1: any drop off. These next three weeks are huge. You've

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Speaker 1: got the Bengals and the Patriots to finish off the

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Speaker 1: regular season. A couple of these games could get flexed.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine some of these games are going to

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Speaker 1: be played in the nighttime window just because of the

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Speaker 1: opponents and because of what could be at stake for

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Speaker 1: this team. You've got the Dolphins, that's a game that

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Speaker 1: could be flexed Week eight, Week fifteen, and then the

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Speaker 1: Patriots Week eighteen. I said this when I was on

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Speaker 1: earlier this week. I think the division is probably gonna

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Speaker 1: come down to the last couple of games, just because

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Speaker 1: of the way the Bills have started in the division

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Speaker 1: and the way that other teams have played in the

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Speaker 1: division thus far. The Bills still have four games against

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Speaker 1: AFC East opponents, the Dolphins and the Patriots have three,

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Speaker 1: and the Jets have two games left in the division,

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Speaker 1: so much more to come. We've got Mike Reese coming

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Speaker 1: on the show at two o'clock. He's an ESPN NFL

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Speaker 1: Nation reporter for the Patriots, so we're gonna kind of

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Speaker 1: get his pulse on the Patriots in this game ahead

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Speaker 1: for both of these teams, We're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll dip into the two each sheet.

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Speaker 1: Stick with us here on One Bills Live. We are

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Speaker 1: presented by Lyda Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: into One Bill's Live. Mighty glab here fill in for

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown alongside Steve Tasker. We've got a Twitter question

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Speaker 1: for you guys today. You can call us at eight

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Speaker 1: oh three, five fifty or tweet at us. What are

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Speaker 1: your keys to a Bill's victory over the Patriots tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: We've got several that we're gonna go to here in

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Speaker 1: a second, But first we've got a caller hanging on

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Speaker 1: the line. Jim. Jim, and Lancaster is going to join

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Speaker 1: us now. Jim, how are you doing? I'm doing great? Listen.

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Speaker 1: I've got two things. The first one is what a

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Speaker 1: real fine at stadium? I watched our kicker kick six

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Speaker 1: field goals and it Detroit Dome was nice. No women,

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Speaker 1: no snow, no rain. What are we waiting for him? Man?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's crazy. We see ourselves that way.

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Speaker 1: Number two, Odell Beckham, what do you guys think pick

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Speaker 1: him up. Don't pick him up. You think Bean's ready

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Speaker 1: to sign him, there's money gonna be a problem. And Steve,

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Speaker 1: do you think we need him on our team? Well, Jim,

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Speaker 1: here's what I think about OBJ. Good players make you better,

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Speaker 1: and he's a really good player. The question is the

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Speaker 1: question is I mean, it's like everything. Can you afford him?

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Speaker 1: Are you willing to invest in him? What he's demanding

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Speaker 1: and what other teams will get him. Is the package

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Speaker 1: that you can offer Odell unique enough and lucrative enough

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Speaker 1: for him to take it? Certainly? You know this. If

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Speaker 1: he comes up here signs here's a Buffalo Bill, He's

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Speaker 1: gonna love it. We're gonna love him, He's gonna love

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Speaker 1: the team. The team's gonna love him. They're gonna treat

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Speaker 1: him like a million, like like a human being. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna love him, and he's gonna love him back. Odell

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Speaker 1: is gonna love it in Buffalo because everybody does. Let's

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Speaker 1: face it. You can say what you want. You can

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Speaker 1: laugh at that. I know there's people who don't live

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Speaker 1: here laugh at it. Do you come to Buffalo play

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Speaker 1: here for this franchise, particularly at this point in history,

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Speaker 1: you are gonna love being a Buffalo Bill. You'll love it,

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Speaker 1: every bit of it. And he's gonna be on a

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Speaker 1: great team. He's gonna have a role on this team.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna he's gonna have a chance to win a championship.

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Speaker 1: So all of that stuff is in the mix. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's it gonna cost for the Bills? That's the big question.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know the answer to that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if and I think I mean sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure that the Bills have an idea

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Speaker 1: of what a ballpark figure is and what they're ceiling is. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we can't go beyond this, this and this or here's

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Speaker 1: what we're thinking or the parameters. It may not be

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Speaker 1: a money issue at all. It might be a link

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Speaker 1: to contract issue, or it might be a which it

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Speaker 1: kind of amounts to the same thing, if you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but you know, no long term commitment,

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Speaker 1: or it may be something else. I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: if they bring Odell Beckham in and he can play

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Speaker 1: the way he has played recently in the recent past,

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Speaker 1: yes the Bills can use him. He's good. You're always

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Speaker 1: better with better players on your team. Odell Beckham Junior

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Speaker 1: is a really good football player. I wouldn't say he's

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Speaker 1: like right now, he couldn't match Steph Diggs for production

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Speaker 1: because of the knowledge and familiarity has with Josh with

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Speaker 1: you know, the way he can, the versatility he has

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Speaker 1: within the offense, and how long would take OBJ to

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Speaker 1: get acclimated. But he is certainly fit, more physically gifted

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Speaker 1: than anybody on the roster at the top of the roster.

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Speaker 1: Like he's physically gifted. His step is physically gifted as

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis with different gifts, but that same high level.

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Speaker 1: He's probably better than Khalil. At his peak, he was

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Speaker 1: as fast as Isaiah McKenzie. He's bigger, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you sign OBJ, you get better. There's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. You gotta get your mind around that the

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Speaker 1: guy can really play. And I'll say this too. Everybody

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Speaker 1: has their own preconceived notions about him and all the

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Speaker 1: stuff that's been said. When he was in New York

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Speaker 1: and they were all living in a fish bowl and everything,

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Speaker 1: everything he did, even in his off time was scrutinized.

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Speaker 1: His teammates who have played with him love the guy.

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Speaker 1: That's all you need to know. They know him, and

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Speaker 1: they played with him, They live with him in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, they know him when he's off the camera,

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Speaker 1: when he's alone, when he's around at people. They know

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Speaker 1: him off camera. They know him privately, and they like him.

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Speaker 1: That's all you need to know about the kind of

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Speaker 1: person he is. It diversifies your offense the addition of OBJ.

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Speaker 1: It's one more person defenses have to worry about. It's

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Speaker 1: it's somebody that you want to double cover because of

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Speaker 1: what he can do on the offense, because of what

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Speaker 1: type of problem he is when he's on the field,

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Speaker 1: and Von Miller on his Von casts another thing he said.

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Speaker 1: He addressed his injury, but he also talked about ob

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Speaker 1: J and he said, I think once ob J gets here,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna want to leave. He said, it's not

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Speaker 1: over till it's over. So we'll see what happens in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. We'll see if he loves Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: I know all of us are have some bias toward

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Speaker 1: Buffalo because we love it so much here and we

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Speaker 1: know our players love it here as well. So definitely

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Speaker 1: something to monitor, something to follow as he starts to

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Speaker 1: make his way around the NFL with his visits. We

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Speaker 1: want to get into our tweet sheet. It's presented by

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Speaker 1: Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving systems of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and our twitter question keys to a Bill's

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Speaker 1: victory over the Patriots tomorrow? What are your keys? What

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Speaker 1: has to happen? What do the Bills need to do

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Speaker 1: to give the Patriots that big l that we all

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Speaker 1: want to see? Number One from Mel, Please, on everything

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Speaker 1: that is good and holy, do not turn the ball over. Mel.

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Speaker 1: That's a great answer, girl, girl, or guy, whoever it is.

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Speaker 1: Turnovers for the Bills on offense have been a problem

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Speaker 1: this season have been a problem problem as of late

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Speaker 1: um they are unfortunately ranked last in the NFL in

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Speaker 1: terms of turnover per drive percentage sixteen point four percent,

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Speaker 1: thirty second in the leader. If you take that not

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Speaker 1: a stat you want to have to take that off

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Speaker 1: the stat sheet. The Bills are, you know, they're an

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Speaker 1: undefeated football team, but they count and part of the reason,

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Speaker 1: and I heard this on some of the other interviews

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Speaker 1: on WGR over the course of the last couple of days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Josh has turned it over too much, and particularly in

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Speaker 1: the red zone you've lost fumbles, that kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: But with a quarterback like the one the Bills have,

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Speaker 1: you live with it. It just comes you live because

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Speaker 1: for every one of those plays, there's four that go

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Speaker 1: your way, particularly in this day and age, more than

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Speaker 1: two other plays go your way that are difference makers.

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Speaker 1: So Josh is gonna make more plays than he blunders.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna throw the more touchdowns than picks, and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna run for first downs, and he's gonna try and

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Speaker 1: trust his arm a little bit. So I think you

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Speaker 1: kind of lived with those and trust Josh to get

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Speaker 1: into a place where he can relax a little bit

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Speaker 1: and not force it as often as he does, take

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Speaker 1: the shots that are there and keep the ball out

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Speaker 1: of harm's way. But yeah, if the Bills don't turn

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Speaker 1: it over and can still play full throttled football, yeah

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Speaker 1: they're forced to be reckoned with Josh has twenty three

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Speaker 1: passing touchdowns two eleven interceptions, and I completely agree with you.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to put Josh in too much of

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Speaker 1: a harness or or pull him back too much to

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Speaker 1: the point where where he's not doing what makes him

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Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Um, he's

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Speaker 1: got to take what the defense gives him. That's one

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00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: thing that I saw on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: It was Jalen Ramsey talking about how the Bills beat

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Speaker 1: the Rams in that first game of the NFL season,

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Speaker 1: and Jalen said, usually you don't see a quarterback do

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Speaker 1: such a good job of just taking what the defense

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Speaker 1: gives you. And that's what they did, and that's how

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Speaker 1: it opened their offense, and that's how they really started

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Speaker 1: to get going. You can start you talk about a

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Speaker 1: defense that plays so sound and solid that the offense

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Speaker 1: gets frustrated and that well, when an offense is patient

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Speaker 1: and they and you can't get them off the field

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Speaker 1: and they take this little they're gonna take the little

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Speaker 1: chunk place and then they're going to move and the defense, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the defense starts trying to do things to get you

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Speaker 1: off the field and that leaves them vulnerable. So, um,

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Speaker 1: patience is a virtue, particularly for Josh, and I know

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Speaker 1: that we're probably going to get a lot of tweets about,

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Speaker 1: you know, turnovers and how Josh plays all Right, Scottish

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Speaker 1: Bills Mafia says something similar to what we've just been

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Speaker 1: talking about. Keys to a Bills victory over the Patriots.

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00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: No josh Ball heroics on offense places our defense stop

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Speaker 1: the run and force noodle arm into pressure passes. I

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Speaker 1: think I know who he's talking. It's so bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bills fans, you know, I think after what they went

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Speaker 1: through with the Patriots franchise for so long, take, I

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Speaker 1: think there's a there's a good case. Do you know

643
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: what shudon? I think it's called shaudenfreudum taking great pleasure

644
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: in other people's misfortune misery. Bills fans do that with

645
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: Patriots fans better than anybody. And shadenfreud, I think is

646
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: the name of it. And when you say noodle arm

647
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: to the Patriots team about their quarterback and Mac Jones

648
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: isn't as physically gifted as our guy, Bills fans just

649
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: absolutely love doing that in this day and age, don't

650
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: you think? Oh, because the Bills have had the Patriot

651
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: its number over the last couple of years. Um. Yeah.

652
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott started oh and six against Bill Belichick for

653
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: the seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen Now in the last two

654
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: years he's he's three and one against him with the

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00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: winds with the win game being the one loss, so

656
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: it's started to even out on that ledger, but they've

657
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: still got a ways to go, and it's I think

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00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a good football game, a really

659
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: good football game. I think the Patriots are starting to

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00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: get it together a little bit. I still don't think

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00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: if the Bills, if they can't force Bill's mistakes, I

662
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: still think the Patriots really struggle to beat this team. Yeah,

663
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: but that's what they do well, stop stop the run.

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Speaker 1: They're going to have to do that. I think it's

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Speaker 1: just stop Romandre Stevenson overall. He leads the Patriots in

666
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: catches as well, leads the team in rushing yards, leads

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Speaker 1: the team with with fifty catches. So he's somebody that

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00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to shut down right away. Make this

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Speaker 1: team a lot more one dimensional without him playing like

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00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: he plays. He's got over a thousand scrimmage yards so

671
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: far this season, averages just under five rushing yards per

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00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: attempt is right around four and a half, and the

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00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: Bills have done a decent job stopping the run the

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Speaker 1: last couple of games. It's been really nice to see

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Speaker 1: because for a second there they were allowing running backs

676
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Speaker 1: to kind of run all over at the defense where

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00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: they started the years as the best run defense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and kind of went away from that, and

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00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: then you saw some of those running backs get some

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Speaker 1: really explosive plays which kind of ran up that number

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Speaker 1: in terms of the rushing yards that they were allowing.

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00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: But the last couple of games they've definitely gotten better.

683
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson is going to be another person that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna want to stop. You're gonna want to keep that

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Speaker 1: rushing number low for the Patriots. Let's go to our

686
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: third answer from our Twitter us and keys to a

687
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Speaker 1: Bill's victory over the Patriots. Jeremy says, feeding the Patriots

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Speaker 1: some of their own medicine, take away a strong defense

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Speaker 1: and run game and exploit their weaknesses and don't let

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00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: up off the throttle. That was the recipe the last

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Speaker 1: two times these teams have met. I am all in

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00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: the camp of score early and score often. The Bills

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00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: haven't scored on their first drive of the game the

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00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: last couple of games. I can't remember off the time

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00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: I had the last time they scored on their first drive.

696
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: I know the last two games they have not done that,

697
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Speaker 1: and I want this offense to go out there and

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Speaker 1: have that first drive that they have rehearsed and know

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00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: a couple of the plays that they're going to do

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Speaker 1: once they get on the field and put seven on

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00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: the scoreboard right away. I think that's another big thing

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00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: for this game is you got it. You gotta get

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00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: up early. You gotta put points on the scoreboard early.

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00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: You don't want to be down against this team. It

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00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: was a good defense, yeah, that I would agree. You

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start and will make them

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00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: panic perhaps a little bit, make them press a little bit,

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00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: make them change their plan or approach a little bit. Certainly,

709
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Speaker 1: if you can find a matchup that you like exploited,

710
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: they're going to do the same to you. I think

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Speaker 1: matt Judon brings something to this game. For instance, if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna beat their defense, it starts up front with

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00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: Judon in the passing game. With Dion Dawkins out, you know,

714
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: matt Judon is gonna be lined up outside your left tackle,

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Speaker 1: whoever that might be, whether it's Questenbury or well, it

716
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: will be cut Questenbury. Yeah, and you know you gotta

717
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: give him some help and keep Matthew Judon from wrecking

718
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: the game with a pass rush. If you can do

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Speaker 1: that and run the ball as well, effectively, not a ton,

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Speaker 1: but effectively, you give yourself a chance to give them

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Speaker 1: something that they will maybe take away, something that they

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00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: may maybe we're counting on and I think that's really important. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a couple of minutes off here. When

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Speaker 1: we come back. We've got a couple of callers hanging

725
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: on the line. Don't forget, We've got Mike Reese coming

726
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: up at two o'clock to talk about this. Bills and

727
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: Patriots matchup tomorrow night. Don't go Anywhere here where One

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Speaker 1: Other news and notes for the Buffalo Bills Unfortunately, one

736
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Speaker 1: of Buffalo's longest tenured AFL players, Albi Miller, passed away

737
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Yeah, Al was a fixture. He was known

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Speaker 1: by a couple of different generations of Bill's fans, Maddie

739
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: and Bill's players. He was the center for Jack Kemp

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Speaker 1: for the nineteen sixty five AFL championship team, and that

741
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: was he was a you know player for those championship

742
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: years and for fans who were fans of the team

743
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: then then for fans of the teams in my era

744
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: the nineties. He was also on the side lines with us. Then.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that used to stand next to Marv

746
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: and he was marv security detail on the sidelines for us.

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00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: So we all all us younger guys we were younger

748
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: then the young guys knew Al back in the day

749
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Speaker 1: when he was as a player. He was one of

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Speaker 1: the guys with us on the sidelines when we were

751
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: headed the Super Bowl for for four straight years. He

752
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: was also big into a high school and collegiate wrestling

753
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: in this area. I was a member of the Bill's

754
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: family and we lost him today this morning, and our

755
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: condolences to his family and all those who knew and

756
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: loved him so much. We're gonna miss him. He was

757
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: a fixture here in Buffalo, a Buffalo Bill legend for decades.

758
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: He passed away today at the age of eighty four.

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00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: Al we're gonna miss you, and to his family and everything,

760
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,479
Speaker 1: thank you so much for sharing him with us. Yeah

761
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: tough when one of the greats passes away. And I

762
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: think it's so cool that he was a part of

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00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: multiple different teams and in different ways. Played for the

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00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: Bills from nineteen sixty one to nineteen sixty nine, was

765
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: on those championship teams, was a center for this team.

766
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: Meant a lot to the organization and to players like you,

767
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: even when he was around on the sidelines. I think

768
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: that's so cool when you've got a player and they

769
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: have played there now former players, and they just stick

770
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: around and you get it. You sense it in this

771
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: building too, where players and coaches and they get to

772
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: know more than just the players and coaches. They know

773
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: the secretaries and the guys, and you know, the guys

774
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,439
Speaker 1: who are sweeping up and the guys who were mowing

775
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: the grass, and the guys who were us shares at

776
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: the stating. The security guys were kind, you know, kind

777
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: of all get their arms around each other and was

778
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: one of those guys for us. And obviously he was

779
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: a great player for the team for nine years, but

780
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 1: he was also you know, and some of the most

781
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: unbelievably awesome moments in Bill's history. He was standing next

782
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,479
Speaker 1: to him all definitely at the end of games, helping

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00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: him off the field, and he was on the field

784
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: a ton with us. So we we you know, we were, Yeah,

785
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: we were high five in him as much as were

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00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: high five in each other. So a guy who saw

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00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: a lot firsthand, experienced it firsthand and right there in

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00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: the midst of it for a couple of generations of

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Speaker 1: Bill's fans and Bill's players. So he's a that's a

790
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: guy who's a that's a big name and Bill's alumni

791
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: who passed for us today. So sorry to say it

792
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: and sorry to hear it. In condolences and well wishes

793
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: to his family. Before we take a break, we're gonna

794
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: go back to our phone lines. We've got DJ in Hamburg,

795
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: who's been hanging around. DJ, what's up? You're on with

796
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: us on one Bill's Live. Yeah, how are you doing?

797
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: And Steve pre your question, I say, defense, defense, defense,

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Speaker 1: if they do their job right, I think Josh will

799
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: put up enough points to beat the Patriots. Okay, I

800
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: do have a question though, see what your perspective is

801
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: of it. I think our huddle is To me, it

802
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:21,959
Speaker 1: seems like it's a little loose. It's not tight enough.

803
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: And you could see Josh calling out the place office

804
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: play pay sheet on his arm, and I'm just curious

805
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: if that's a problem or that, especially when you're going

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00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: to New England. Maybe they're up in the upper decks,

807
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: but an actor is trying to read some of the

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00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: place that he might be calling. Yeah, kay, I hear you. Yeah,

809
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that. I don't know that they

810
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: got players are going to be doing it on the field,

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Speaker 1: and your own players are just as sensitive to giving

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00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: that stuff away as we are to maybe having somebody

813
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: steal it. So if you think as a player and

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00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: you're looking around your your antenna are always up. As

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00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: a player, you know this too, man. You you sense

816
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: when the other team is sensing you're you know, getting

817
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: out ahead of you. So if they thought, if the

818
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: players thought it was a problem, they would bring it

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00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,280
Speaker 1: up to the coaching staff and they'd make a change.

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00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: So if the guys on the field are okay with

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00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: the way Josh is calling the plays and the fact

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00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: that those they're not getting any inkling that the other

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Speaker 1: team has any idea what they're saying or can hear

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Speaker 1: it or understand it. Yeah. But also you're right, the

825
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: Patriots have always been accused of doing stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: stealing signals, filming defensive signals, filming walkthroughs of their opponents

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00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: in neutral sights. I mean, so, yeah, your antenna up

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00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: in the team is always on the on guard to

829
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: make sure their locker room is secure, that nobody's going

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00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: in there that doesn't isn't supposed to be in there,

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00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: all of that kind of stuff. It's it's yeah, it's

832
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: one of those places where back in my day it

833
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: was the Raiders and we you know that we used

834
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: to think that the Oakland Raiders and Al Davis and

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00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: those guys had spies in every city and that you know,

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00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: you close your practices when you're on Raiders Week and

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00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Uh, it's a common thing. But yes,

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00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: m I'm sure that is monitored constantly by the club.

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Speaker 1: All the stuff you were talking about, Yeah, keep it

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00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: tight on Patriots Week. On whatever week. It's amazing that

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00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: there's teams out there that just feel like they need

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00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: to cheat to be equal with some other. Yeah and yeah, yeah, alrighty,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're

844
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Speaker 1: gonna have Mike Reese on with us. He is in

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Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Nation Patriots Reporter, has been covering the Patriots

846
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety seven. He knows the ins and outs

847
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: of this team, and he's gonna tell us all about

848
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Speaker 1: it when we return here on One Bills Live. We're

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00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: presented by Clyde Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. We've

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Speaker 1: seen He's One Bills Live presented by called Lyde to Health.

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00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: Welcome back into One Bills Live. Matti Glab alongside Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: our two o'clock hour, we would like to bring on

854
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Speaker 1: Mike Reese, ESPN's NFL Nation Patriots Reporter. He's covered the

855
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: Patriots since nineteen ninety seven and is a member of

856
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 1: the Professional Football Writers of America. Mike joins us by phone.

857
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: He's on with us now. Mike, thanks for taking the

858
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: time to speak with us today. Absolutely, Maddie and Steve

859
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: I was just thinking when you mentioned since nineteen ninety seven,

860
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: I was thinking about all the trips at Orchard Park,

861
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: New York over those years, and just you know, we've

862
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: talked about it in the past. Just a great rivalry

863
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: Patriots and Bills. Well, it's great, it has been great

864
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: for the Patriots over the last forty years. Maybe you

865
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: should maybe you should have come to cover the Bills

866
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven. Things would have been that much different

867
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: or maybe not. I don't know. But what give us

868
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: a little insight into how you think this matchup is

869
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: Patriots come in six and five on the season, but

870
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: two and one in the division. The Bills are oo

871
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: and two in the division, and the Bills and over

872
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, this is a maker breaks

873
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: part of the year for all of these teams, no doubt,

874
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: Steve and I was gonna say, I mean, lately the

875
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: Bills have had the Patriots number right in the rivalries.

876
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: So I think that's part of what makes it great, right,

877
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: It goes back and forth a little bit, you know,

878
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. I would say being around him this week,

879
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,959
Speaker 1: one thing that stood out to me is I feel

880
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: like that the defensive players feel like their pride is

881
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: a little bit on the line, you know, the last

882
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: two games, um not not forcing the Bills to even

883
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: have their punter, you know, come out on the field. Um.

884
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: So I think, to me, that's a storyline I'm watching

885
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Just you know, can the Patriots defense provide

886
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: more resistance against josh um you know, and and that

887
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: the Bills offense. And I would say, you know, in

888
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: terms of the Bills are favored and as they should be.

889
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: I do wonder if this stretch catches up to them,

890
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, three games and twelve days, all on the road.

891
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: I think that's a big ask, you know, And so

892
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 1: I want to see how they respond to that. Yeah,

893
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: I would, I would agree. I think at this point too,

894
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: we're we're not the players, and we're even feeling this

895
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: stretch of three games and twelve days and the craziness

896
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: with the snowstorm and a game being moved. And so

897
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: I think our team as a whole just ready to

898
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: have this put behind them and ready to have a

899
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: Sunday one o'clock game, which they will have against the

900
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: Jets next week. You guys played on Thanksgiving as well,

901
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots, did they lost to the Vikings thirty three

902
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: to twenty six. But Mac Jones he had a performance

903
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty two passing yards, seventy two percent

904
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: completion percentage around that, a one nineteen passer rating. What

905
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: made Max so good against the Vikings on Thanksgiving? Mike

906
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: so Maddie. He had more time, more time to throw,

907
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: He got more comfortable as a result of it, and

908
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, we saw more plays down the field. I

909
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: will say those numbers are balanced off a little bit

910
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,760
Speaker 1: by how the offense sort of fell off the table

911
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter when it really mattered the most.

912
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: You know, they had a chance to win the game,

913
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: couldn't pull it off, and offensively, it was big disappointment

914
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: for them because they had the opportunities, you know, to

915
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: do that. And I would highlight one other thing red

916
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: zone offense for the Patriots. You might be surprised to

917
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: hear this. They rank thirty first out of thirty two

918
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL red zone offense. They get to

919
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: the twenty and it's like they cannot punch it in

920
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: and against the high scoring team like the Bills, that's

921
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna be hard. If you have to settle for three

922
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: in those situations. What makes their defense take because certainly

923
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: this has been a team that has won six games

924
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: on the strength of their defense, because you know, their

925
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: offense struggled and it's you know, notably struggled because of

926
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: the coaching change from Josh McDaniels and now it's it's

927
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: the setup that it is now with Patricia Joe Judge

928
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: and the uncertainty that was there between the preseason Mac

929
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: Jones and his second year. This team has really been

930
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: driven by their defense. What's the strength of that defense?

931
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: How does that play out? It's it's the guy in

932
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: the red sleeve, Steve, It's Matthew Judean leads the NFL

933
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 1: with thirteen facts and you know, just tying it into

934
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: tomorrow night with Dion Dokins not playing, you know, is

935
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: that advantage Patriots, Well, it should be, but I would

936
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: point out, you know, last week against the Vikings, they

937
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: were without their starting left tackle Christian Derrissa, who's a

938
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: very good player, and the Patriots, yeah, I would say,

939
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: weren't able to really turn that advantage in their savors.

940
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: So when the Patriots are at their best defensively, they

941
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: marry up their path rush with the coverage. It's team defense,

942
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: and Judon's usually sort of the heartbeat of that defense

943
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: when he's getting after the passer and creating havocs, that's

944
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: usually when they have their best results. Yeah, I was

945
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: going to say the Patriots have been able to pressure

946
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback at a really high rate this year because

947
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: of Matthew Judon and because of somebody like that, your

948
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 1: secondary has more time on the back end to match

949
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: up and to make moves, and that's why they've been

950
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: able to take the ball away at a high rate

951
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: as well. What has been the highlight? Who's been that

952
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: guy in the secondary who's really allowed them to play

953
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: at such a high level thanks to matt Judon, but

954
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 1: also because of what they are able to offer in

955
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: the secondary, because some of those guys have been playing

956
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: lights out this season. It's a great question, and I

957
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: would say Jonathan Jones, cornerback who actually didn't play in

958
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 1: any of the games last year against the Bills due

959
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: to a shoulder injury he had early last season. He's

960
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: been a surprise story basically, you know, you remember JC Jackson.

961
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 1: They lose him in free agency and a big question

962
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 1: was like who's going to replace him? Jonathan Jones had

963
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: been their slot corner for the most part, but they

964
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: end up playing him outside this year and he's been

965
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: very good in that role. So, you know, obviously stepping

966
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: up in class, you know, coming up with Stefan Diggs

967
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: and Gabe Davis, and last week against Justin Jefferson, you know,

968
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones did struggle a little bit. So I want

969
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: to see, you know, how it looks tomorrow, Knight. But

970
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I would say Jonathan Jones is the player that people

971
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: should know number thirty one for the Patriots. Sort of

972
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: a surprise story the way that's unfolded this year. This

973
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: Patriot team seems to be a lot like other Patriots teams,

974
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: and that really really consistent. Certainly they crescendo they started out.

975
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,359
Speaker 1: You can tell that they get their different team from

976
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: month to month. As the season progresses, they get better

977
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: in a lot of areas unless something, you know, injuries

978
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: happen or whatever. But this team seems to be the same.

979
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: And one consistent thing about them is when they give

980
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: up twenty points, they lose. When they don't give up

981
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: twenty points, they win six and oz. When they're they

982
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: hold their opponents to under twenty twenty points and O

983
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: and five when they give up twenty points or more,

984
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: Why is that really a threshold that is can you

985
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: put your finger on why that is so offensively, Steve,

986
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: It's been like a tractor pull at times this year.

987
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: You referenced it before the whole coaching change, and you

988
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: know Mac Jones was injured, you know, miss three games

989
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: with the high ankle spreen, so that's part of it.

990
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: You know, they want to believe that they will be

991
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: able to sort of I guess heightened that threshold, make

992
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 1: it a higher number, and maybe there are signs that's

993
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: coming after this last game. As Maddie mentioned Mac Jones

994
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: numbers against you know, a Vikings defense that has been

995
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: prone to give up some passing yards. But really it

996
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: has been defense and special teams for them and the

997
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: offense complementing them. Maybe it's getting Mac more comfortable. I

998
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,439
Speaker 1: will say this, Like you mentioned building in consistency. Mac

999
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: has cut down on the turnovers the last three to

1000
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: four games, and Zat has been a key. If that continues,

1001
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: maybe that number, maybe it's twenty four, maybe it's twenty seven.

1002
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: As they move forward. Yeah, with those turnovers, what else

1003
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: needs to happen consistency wise with this offense to be

1004
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: able to put more points up on the scoreboard and

1005
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: to feel good about Mac Jones as a quarterback. I

1006
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: know you mentioned red zone efficiency. I checked against the

1007
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: Vikings and they were oh for three in the red zone.

1008
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: The Vikings, on the other hand, sixty percent in the

1009
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: red zone. What else needs to happen for this offense

1010
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: to be more consistent? So Mannie Ramandre Stevenson, the running back,

1011
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,919
Speaker 1: second year out of Oklahoma. It was a fourth round

1012
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 1: pick last year, and his rate of improvement has really

1013
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: been eye opening to Bill Belichick. He's actually mentioned that that,

1014
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, of all the players he's coached in his career,

1015
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: and we're talking forty eight years now, Ramandre Stevenson would

1016
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: be near the top of the list in terms of

1017
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: players who improved at the fastest pace from when they

1018
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: came in like he was. He was sort of benched

1019
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: early in his rookie season, came back and now and

1020
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: what I would say is maybe the highest compliment you

1021
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: could get from Bill Belichick. He said this week that

1022
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: Ramandra Stevenson is making James White level plays. And you

1023
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: both remember James White, the reliable third down back. Well,

1024
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: Ramandre is a big back. He can carry it on

1025
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: first and second down, he can catch it on third down,

1026
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: and so getting him going with the run game to

1027
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: support the pass game, to me, that's the easy formula

1028
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: to make life easier for Mac Jones. What about Mac

1029
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: Jones's outside weapons? Who has started to emerge from that group?

1030
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: So DeVante Parker, Steve coming off one of his best

1031
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: games of the season, big target six three two nineteen,

1032
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, fifty fifty ball type of guy, a contested

1033
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: catch type of receiver. M Nelson Aglore had the long touchdown.

1034
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: More of a speed guy, so he's out there, and

1035
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers is the go to guy, like when they

1036
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: need a play. It seems to me like Mac looks

1037
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: in Jacoby Myers direction more than any other, and he's

1038
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you might call him more of an

1039
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: inside guy, but I would say inside outside guy. He

1040
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: can line up anywhere and be effective. They also have

1041
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: a rookie Taekwon Thornton, who can really run, but he's

1042
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: sort of faded after maybe breaking through a little bit

1043
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: of a month or so ago. And Kendrick Bourne's the

1044
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: other slot guy. So they go five deep at receiver,

1045
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: and it's sort of one of those situations that depending

1046
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: on the week, any one of them, you know, might

1047
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: become a factor, depending on the way the defense sort

1048
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: of plays them. My Greece of ESPN is on with

1049
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: us now. I want to ask you another question about

1050
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: Mac Jones and what he's done this season. Some of

1051
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: the stats show that he's improved in a lot of

1052
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: ways is the season has gone on, especially weeks eight

1053
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: through twelve. But while he's improved, he has also done

1054
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: worse against pressure since Week eight. What has it been

1055
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: about him facing pressure from the beginning of the season,

1056
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: maybe too now that he's struggled with because when he's

1057
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: not facing pressure, he's completed seventy six percent of his

1058
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: passes since week eight. When he is facing pressure since

1059
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: week eight, the numbers down to forty three percent. What

1060
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: has the issue been there? Has it been offensive line

1061
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: related with what Max's been able to or hasn't been

1062
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: able to do? You know, Maddie, I would say it's

1063
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: a combination. You know, At times I've watched and it's

1064
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Speaker 1: just been a pure breakdown for the offensive line. But

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Speaker 1: I would say other times you look and you don't

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Speaker 1: see anyone open. So, you know, when I think about

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, after all those years with the Patriots, like

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01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: the checkdowns, right, the smart pat the easy passes to

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01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: keep yourself out of trouble. You haven't seen as many

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Speaker 1: of those, you know, this year for the Patriots and

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones. So I think offensive line definitely part of it.

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Speaker 1: But I would say, you know, sometimes you gotta have

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Speaker 1: guys uncovered or scheme wise set it up where there's

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01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 1: always an outlet, you know, for Mac to be able

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Speaker 1: to get himself out of that trouble. And as you

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01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: see this game unfold, what do you think if the

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01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: Patriots we're going to have to do something different than

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01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: they've been doing to beat the Bills, what's it going

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Speaker 1: to be? Well, I don't want to give like the cliche.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking the turnovers, which would surprise me, Steve,

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01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: surprise me that the Bills were just plus one. That's

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01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,439
Speaker 1: a lot of giveaways. Oh yeah, for the Bills if Steve,

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01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: and I was surprised when I saw that Patriots have

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01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: the same almost the same number. So but let's get

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Speaker 1: away from turnovers. That's sort of obvious, right, what do

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01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: they have to do? I think they have to possess

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01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: the ball on offense to protect their defense. So I'm

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01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: going to be looking at time of possession because Josh

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Speaker 1: and that offense, they're going to get theirs like it's

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01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: just too good. But if you limit their possessions and

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Speaker 1: create you know, I guess you'd call it a limited

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01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: margin for error for them, maybe you can steal one.

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Speaker 1: So that would be my thought. Possess the ball on

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Speaker 1: offense to complement your defense. And then, Mike, as you

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01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: look around the AFC East and just the way that

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01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: this division has played this year, all teams above five

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01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: hundred right now, and what's at stake, what are your

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01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: thoughts on on the AFC East this season and and

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Speaker 1: kind of what's left for these teams. I mean, we

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01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen here with the division

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Speaker 1: up for grabs. I think it's awesome, Maddie. You know,

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Speaker 1: for so many years it felt like the Patriots it

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Speaker 1: was their division, right and now it's super exciting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have a Patriots team that's six and five. If

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01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: they were in the NFC South, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: they'd be in first place right here. They are in

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Speaker 1: last place. So to me, This is what makes it exciting.

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01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: December football that matters, right, every game matters, and I

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01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna unfold. I don't know how

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01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: if anyone knows how, it's gonna unfold. And I think

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01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: that's part of what makes the NFL so great. All Right, Mike,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us here on one

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01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Good luck covering the game on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: We hope it's an entertaining one from both teams. Definitely.

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Speaker 1: I always great to talk with you, Maddie. Thanks, Steve,

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Speaker 1: have a great one. Thank you, Mike. All Right. That

1117
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Speaker 1: was Mike Greece of ESPN. He's their NFL Nation Patriots

1118
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: reporter has covered the team since the late nineties, knows

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01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: knows a lot about this team and knows about how

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Speaker 1: they have dominated in the AFC East, and now it

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Speaker 1: has been it's been it's been the Bills the last

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01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: couple of seasons, but this season it's been up for grabs.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are o and two in the division, Patriots

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Speaker 1: two and one in the division. The next three games,

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about, is very, very very important for

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01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: the Bills with their division title hopes on the line.

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: The Patriots have beaten the Dolphins or beaten the Jets twice,

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Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins, and the Bills, of course, have

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Speaker 1: lost to the Jets and the Dolphins playing only two

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01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: division games, where everybody else has played more than that.

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01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: The Bills getting most of their division games coming up

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01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: in the next month and a half, three of them

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01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 1: coming up right now. They get a chance to get

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Speaker 1: on the board and the wind column in the division

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Speaker 1: against the Patriots this week or tomorrow night. And it's

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Speaker 1: you know, the Patriots, as you would expect, they're hard

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01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: to beat. Yeah, they're not just gonna They're hard to beat,

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01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: especially in this way easily. Yeah, they've got a good,

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01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: good defense. I was curious because I was you know,

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01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: three AFC East games, three division games. How often has

1141
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: that happened for this team since Sean mcderman has taken over.

1142
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: It's only happened once where they've faced in three straight

1143
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: weeks division opponents. You see two games in a row

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01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: quite a bit, but you don't see three games in

1145
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: a row quite a bit. So, yep, we've got to

1146
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: a caller who's been hanging on the line for a while,

1147
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: So we want to get to you. Before we go

1148
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: to break, let's go to Fred in Rochester, who has

1149
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: a question about the game for us. Fred, you're on

1150
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: with us on one Bill's Live. Hi, guys, thanks for

1151
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: taking the call. I just call the local television station.

1152
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: You're in Rochester and that the game is not being

1153
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: televised here, and you've got a lot of people here. Well,

1154
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: I'm real happy, and that includes the television stations here.

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01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, we're only sixty miles away.

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01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the deal is with Prime or

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01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: the NFL or who makes these decisions, but I can

1158
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: tell you that a big part of your fan base

1159
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: here is not real happy with what's going on. Yeah,

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01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: well I get you, Fred, but there's no I mean,

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01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 1: that's a little bit above the pay grade that you're

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01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: talking to right here. That's at the national level you're

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01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: talking about, and that comes down to where what TV

1164
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: market you're part of. That means when you turn your

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01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: TV on, you get your local markets. If you get

1166
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: the Rochester markets, you're not going to get the Bills

1167
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: game this week. If you get the Bills, if you

1168
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 1: get the Buffalo market and the news and the and

1169
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: the weather and all that stuff. You are going to

1170
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: get the game. And what it comes down to is

1171
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: that Amazon Prime paid literally billions of dollars for the

1172
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 1: right to do that. Now you can go on and

1173
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to do. You get on the air

1174
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: and they make it pretty intuitive, particularly and you get

1175
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: the free trial. You can go on to click on

1176
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: it and it pops right the picture pops right up,

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01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: and you just click on that and that comes right.

1178
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: You go on Prime Video even if you don't have

1179
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 1: Prime Video. This is an Amazon Prime commercial. Yeah, you

1180
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: go on, you click on Amazon Prime. It comes on

1181
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: and it says, hey, look what you can watch on

1182
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. Would you like to watch Amazon Prime free

1183
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: for a free trial? And you say yes, And there

1184
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: you go. That's how you watch it. It's that simple.

1185
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: Although you're right, you can't just turn on your TV

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01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: and on your regular sports channel and get it. So

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01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 1: and I get it, Fred, You're you're not alone in that.

1188
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: And it's ever the times we live in they're changing.

1189
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta learn how to use electronics.

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01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: Um and for old guys like me, that kind of stinks.

1191
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm lling at you because you just drop the

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01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: old guy and it's hard to use electronics. Uh. The

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01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: game is available on the ABC affiliate in the Buffalo

1194
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 1: television market, WKBW, but not Rochester because it's considered a

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Speaker 1: secondary market. So there's no local stations that were allowed

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01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: to purchase rights to the game unfortunately, So your options

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01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 1: are for all my Rochester peeps. I'm so sorry, um,

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01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: but you can drive to Buffalo, drive to Orchard Park,

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01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: watch the game with a friend. Yeah. Yeah, you could

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01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 1: make the make the drive over and or you can

1201
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: do the Amazon Prime thing that that somebody. Yeah, all right,

1202
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back here,

1203
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna get more into the tweet sheet you. We've

1204
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: got a ton of answers as to what should be

1205
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: the keys to victory for the Bills against the Patriots.

1206
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: Give us a call here eight to three h five fifty.

1207
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: We've got thirty minutes left in this show. Stick with

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01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: us here One Bills Live. We're presented by Clyde Health

1209
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're back here on One Bills Live,

1210
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: MTDI Glab and Steve Tasker. As we've got thirty minutes

1211
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: left in this afternoon's show. You guys will be on

1212
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: tomorrow We've got a game tomorrow night. Do your days

1213
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: just feel extra long when you guys have to do

1214
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: the show and then you have the game, and then

1215
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: you get to do the post game shows me, which

1216
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be like midnight. Yeah, this isn't like

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01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: a regular Hell, I don't know. It's gonna be a

1218
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 1: long day tomorrow, but we get that time off between

1219
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: the show and the game, at least I will. Brownie's

1220
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: gonna do the show, this show with me from his

1221
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: hotel room in New England, and he's going to do

1222
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: maybe they stay in Providence, I don't know. And then uh,

1223
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: then he does pre game with you, Then he goes

1224
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: to the game, does the game, does post game, then

1225
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 1: you and I do postca it's long. Then he's fine home.

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Speaker 1: It's a long day. It's going to be a long

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01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: day for everybody. But we're okay with wa bring the

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: coffee tasker, yeah, and just get the win, get the

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Speaker 1: w and nobody else care. Nothing else cares, Elie care about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's h but it is. It's a long day for everybody,

1231
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 1: and it's it's almost as long as those home games

1232
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,600
Speaker 1: at one o'clock in the afternoon here on Sunday here

1233
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: early to be traffic. Yeah, I get here early. So

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01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 1: do you you get early? Right? You get here early

1235
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,600
Speaker 1: in and go have fun. I don't have anything to

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Speaker 1: do till post game. Wow. So I got a couple

1237
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 1: of obligatory stops that I made in the Yeah, and

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01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: then yeah, and then I do that. Uh, and then

1239
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: I watched the game from behind Murph and Eric. Ye

1240
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: the radio booth. Were we you and I sit together? Yeah? Yeah,

1241
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: and we both got our little Yeah, we're surfaced people.

1242
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: We're sitting there. We got all the stats in front

1243
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 1: of us, and we're watched listening to the broadcast, and

1244
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 1: then we do the postgame live all that. We're back

1245
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: on Postgame Live tomorrow. You know, it's been been a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. So you guys can check us out

1247
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: right after the game. It's going to be streaming on

1248
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 1: the app, the website, Twitter, and then we'll also do

1249
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: the same version basically but for MSG that will air

1250
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: at That's Bills tonight. That'll it's supposed to go to say,

1251
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 1: but it'll probably air on Friday morning for the first time.

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01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: I would Yeah, we won't tape it until eleventh right now,

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Speaker 1: at least so yeah, crazy crazy, all right. This week's

1254
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Speaker 1: game sponsor is lee Com. Lee Com We make doctors.

1255
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Speaker 1: Let's go right back into our tweet sheet that we've

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Speaker 1: got what are going to be the keys to a

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Speaker 1: Bill's victory over the Patriots tomorrow. We left off at

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Speaker 1: West Coast Bills Mafia stop the all caps periods in

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Speaker 1: between each word stopped the run. Yes, the Buffalo Bills

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01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 1: are going to have to do that. They've been better

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Speaker 1: at stopping the run the last couple of games. Started

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Speaker 1: the season off as the number one run defense, which

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01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:15,640
Speaker 1: was so good to see for a team who has

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Speaker 1: struggled against the run. Kind of got away from that

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01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: and now they're back to doing a lot better job

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Speaker 1: of stopping the run. They ranked seventh allowing one hundred

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Speaker 1: and five rushing yards per game. They're really going to

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Speaker 1: have to stop Ramandrei Stevenson. He's their weapon on that team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think stopping the run is has a ripple

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Speaker 1: effect when you play this team. It puts the game

1271
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:42,599
Speaker 1: in the hands and Mac Jones turns your front four

1272
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: loose and theoretically, and the way the Bills have been

1273
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: playing lately, third and long is a common occurrence for

1274
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: this offense, for this defense. Yeah, and it's I think

1275
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: the frustrating part about watching the Bills play these days,

1276
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: even though they're they're eight and three and they're you know,

1277
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: they're they're playing really well. The frustrating part is when

1278
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: is when you know they kind of do it to themselves.

1279
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes they'd be they'd be playing every game like they

1280
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: played the first two weeks of this season. They'd hang

1281
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 1: thirty one. It's a thirty one to ten effort against

1282
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,839
Speaker 1: the La Rams and a forty one to seven effort

1283
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: against the Tennessee Titans. I mean, nobody was even you know,

1284
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 1: getting a hand on these guys. But when they start

1285
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: turning it over and when they start giving up the

1286
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,240
Speaker 1: frustrating thing you got to watch on this team Once

1287
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: in a while, I was watching them give up a

1288
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: third and thirteen conversion or a third and eleven conversion,

1289
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: and teams are getting that on them. The frustrating way

1290
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: the Bills seem to be susceptible to the screen pass

1291
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 1: and can't run a screen pass of their own that's

1292
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 1: any good. All of that stuff is frustrating for Bills fans,

1293
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 1: but it hasn't been a detriment to their ability to

1294
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: win games. Um. But when you say stop the run

1295
01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: as a key to win in this game, I think

1296
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:01,560
Speaker 1: it goes a long way because I think this Patriots

1297
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,560
Speaker 1: offense has yet to prove despite what happened against Minnesota,

1298
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: they have yet to prove that mac Jones can line

1299
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: up and beat somebody spling it. We'll see if they

1300
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,760
Speaker 1: can do that if the Bills do stop the roads.

1301
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: John says, I think it comes down to pressure on

1302
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,600
Speaker 1: mac Jones. He's statistically terrible against pressure and ability to

1303
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: keep pressure off Josh. Unfortunately, with question Barry starting and

1304
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 1: Brown struggling in Judon having a good year, this is

1305
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: a tall order go Bills, big question this game. Yet,

1306
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be something that's important to

1307
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: pay attention to. When you guys are watching the game.

1308
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 1: Watch the offensive line for the Bills and for the Patriots.

1309
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: Watch what type of pressure both defensive lines are able

1310
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 1: to get on both quarterbacks. Are they sending extra people,

1311
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: are they sending blitzers? What does that look like? Is

1312
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: Judon able to truly pressure Josh? Is he breaking free?

1313
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,839
Speaker 1: What about some of our guys? How does Greg Russou

1314
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 1: look when he's had a couple weeks off. How does

1315
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: the defense of line look without Von Miller in a game?

1316
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 1: Haven't had that yet this season. So I think, you know,

1317
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: you hear the coaches say all the time, the trenches

1318
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: are so important, the trenches are so important. Trenches are

1319
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: going to be fun to watch this week. I think, yeah,

1320
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:18,840
Speaker 1: I agree, And he's right. The pressure that the Bills

1321
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: put on Mac Jones, how fast does it happen and

1322
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: how many guys does it take to get there? And

1323
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 1: the pressure that the Patriots can put on Josh Allen. Now,

1324
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: Josh is better under pressure than Mac Jones is statistically

1325
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 1: to even you're even to the untrained eye, he handles

1326
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: it better because of his ability to get away from

1327
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 1: it and run and extend the play. And even if

1328
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 1: they you know, you feel like there's a couple of

1329
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: plays if you take a still picture of it and

1330
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 1: you think and you tell people like after this right here,

1331
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: half Josh through a touchdown right where he looks like

1332
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 1: he's like he's gotten and he's not gotten. That's the

1333
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: difference between one of the differences between Josh Allen and

1334
01:13:56,439 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. But those the ability of the defensive line

1335
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: to pressure the opposing quarterback in this game, particularly for

1336
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo given the question marks they have at defensive end.

1337
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: You know, you're just getting Russo's back in the line up.

1338
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: Ajp Andes is back in the lineup. Finally, fawns out,

1339
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: Now what that mix and match is going to look

1340
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: like and the rotation is going to look like? And

1341
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: can the Bills offensive line without Dion Dawkins handle Matt Judon.

1342
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: It's a big question mark for both teams. Yeah, Number

1343
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 1: six from Connor says Buffalo needs a clean game with

1344
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: no turnovers. One percent agree with Steve Tasker that if

1345
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: the Bills don't shoot themselves in the foot, they are

1346
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: unbeatable defense containing Ramandri Stevenson and forcing Mac Jones to

1347
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 1: have to beat us with his arm. Let's go Bills, Yep.

1348
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: Comes to what you can do. Comes down to what

1349
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: this team can do and the mistakes that they can

1350
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: avoid making, because turnovers have have been this team's achilles

1351
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 1: heel this season. Fortunately, with the way they've turned the

1352
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: ball over, turnovers are the stat that has eaten up

1353
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: the Bill's margin of error. Yeah, yeah, I think it's

1354
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: been I also think it's been tough to see that

1355
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: because of how good Josh Allen was in the red

1356
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: zone up until this season, Like his stats were incredible

1357
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: with you know, in sixty seven games he'd only turned

1358
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 1: the ball over once in the red zone or something

1359
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: leading up until when he started to turn the ball

1360
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: over in the red zone this season. But I think

1361
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,640
Speaker 1: because he's done it before, he can get back to

1362
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: doing it again. And like we said, that's just something

1363
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: that comes with the quarterback, something that is just on

1364
01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: the side of with Josh Allen, He's this incredible passer,

1365
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,760
Speaker 1: he's this incredible gamer, and you don't want to take

1366
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: that gamer out of him. And because of that, you're

1367
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: sometimes going to get those turnovers where you scratch your

1368
01:15:56,200 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: head and go, really, yeah, that's right. You got to

1369
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: be willing to live with a little of what goes

1370
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: on with Josh Allen. And yeah, certainly the Bills are

1371
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: will to do that. I mean, but this game is

1372
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: going to hinge on on that a lot. Steve says

1373
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:14,639
Speaker 1: the Bills need to slow down the Patriots pass rush

1374
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: by spreading the field and getting the ball out quickly.

1375
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: Draws and a salad screen game would be nice. Would

1376
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: you like to see a couple of screens from Bills

1377
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 1: on offense. But do you think about that? Sure, I'm

1378
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: all about it. You know, we've seen it before, we

1379
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. And I think I brought this up

1380
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: the other day to Brownie, and I don't know. I

1381
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: don't know if it holds water or not. I was

1382
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: asking just kind of a hypothetical question, is to whether

1383
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: one of the reasons the Bills can't run screens is

1384
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: because of the teams. I don't know their wariness of

1385
01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:56,439
Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback, huh. I don't know. If I don't know,

1386
01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 1: if I can remember, whether it's just me having selective memory,

1387
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 1: Like do mobile quarterbacks notoriously have trouble in the screen

1388
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: game for their teams? Do teams with mobile quarterbacks notoriously

1389
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: have trouble with that? You don't really see, although I

1390
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,679
Speaker 1: think I think Baltimore you see them running a screen

1391
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: most in a while, right, you know. So I don't

1392
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 1: know that it's that, But there's something in the DNA

1393
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: this team that keeps them from having an extensive and

1394
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 1: prolific screen game. What it is, I do not know,

1395
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: but I might that's a hill I might die on

1396
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: saying that's not in their repertoire. Yeah, speaking of screen

1397
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: game and thinking about the running backs on the Bills

1398
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: and what they could do in this game and how

1399
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 1: they could be beneficial to this offense. The Bills have

1400
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,679
Speaker 1: rushed for over one hundred and sixty yards in three

1401
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: straight games. It's actually the longest active NFL streak right now.

1402
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,719
Speaker 1: A little crazy. They rushed for over one hundred yards

1403
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: in every single game this season. They're the only team

1404
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL to do that, and that's a lot

1405
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,799
Speaker 1: of that is on Josh Allen because he's been averaging

1406
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: over fifty rushing yards a game. But Devin Singletary has

1407
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: had over seventy rushing yards in the last two games

1408
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 1: in each game. I think we'd love to see that

1409
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: consistency out of him. He's had three rushing touchdowns touchdowns

1410
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: in the last three games, no rushing touchdowns in the

1411
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 1: first eight games. Would be great to see nihiim Hines

1412
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 1: get involved a little bit more. He had a great

1413
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: performance on special teams in the last couple of games.

1414
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: I think he's helped give this team good field position.

1415
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 1: I think he's a threat on offense with his speed,

1416
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:37,360
Speaker 1: with his versatility, with what he's done on the Colts

1417
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 1: that'd be fun to see him get involved. Love the

1418
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: spark that we saw from James Cook against the Browns

1419
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: didn't really show up against the Lions. He struggled a

1420
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: little bit against the Lions, but want to see some

1421
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: consistency out of him because I think those are are

1422
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:57,679
Speaker 1: a couple players, Devin James Niheim that could really help

1423
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: Josh could really help the offense and have helped. You

1424
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 1: mentioned that Nahem Hines had helped him on special teams

1425
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: with the return game, had a couple of really nice

1426
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: returns and has been a difference maker. I was reading

1427
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: up today and I came across something that you know,

1428
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: Jake Bailey is the new England kicker who's been injured.

1429
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: He's been out for like this maybe his third game out,

1430
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: and they've replaced him with Nick Folk, the veteran. Now,

1431
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: they played indoors last week against the Minnesota Vikings and

1432
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: had seven kickoffs because they their offense scored some points.

1433
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:31,600
Speaker 1: Only two of those kickoffs reached the end zone and

1434
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: that was indoors. So it looks to me like, yeah,

1435
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 1: there may be a chance for some kickoff returns in

1436
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: this game. Now, the Patriots are really good at special teams,

1437
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: So you can't like count those chickens until you sit

1438
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: on him and hatch him. So the Bills. But you

1439
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 1: got to know too that the Bills are gonna have

1440
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: a chance to return some kicks, and they better be

1441
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 1: ready to see if they can get it out past

1442
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 1: the twenty five and get some positive yards on that.

1443
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: But they're gonna have some opportunities depending on how many

1444
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: times they can off. Tomorrow's forecast is looking pretty good

1445
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 1: for this game in Foxborough. I notes raining there now,

1446
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: How glad it's not today? Oh my gosh, no, thank you,

1447
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: people lining up two by two outside. It's so rainy

1448
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: out there. Um, Tomorrow, forty two degrees is your high.

1449
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: Um in Foxboro, twenty five degrees is your low. Sunny

1450
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 1: wins five to ten miles mile per hour overnight, so

1451
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,640
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see. Um, it'll be a

1452
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:35,560
Speaker 1: little bit chilly out there, but it's not going to

1453
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: be rainy. It's not going to be snowy as long

1454
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: as it's not. Oh my gosh, when you think about

1455
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:50,639
Speaker 1: weather games, that game was crazy, crazy, frustrating. None of that.

1456
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, all right. JT says, we've got to stay

1457
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: disciplined and watch the turnovers. Also, wide receivers other than

1458
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 1: fourteen need to start getting open more. Smoke can help

1459
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: with that. Eventually, his speed can stretch the field. Seeing

1460
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: as seventy three will be out getting our starting center

1461
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:13,520
Speaker 1: Mitch back is Big Bills win thirty one to seventeen,

1462
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 1: Go Bills. Do we think we'll see John Brown at

1463
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 1: all in this game? Right now, he's on the practice squad. Well,

1464
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 1: we'll see if he's activated. Don't have to do that today, right, Yeah,

1465
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 1: Tanner Gentry has been activated the last couple of games.

1466
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that John Brown will give you a

1467
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 1: little something, give you anything more on special teams, like

1468
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: as a cover guy, so that I don't think so.

1469
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 1: Tanner Gentry is important because Jake Kumer has been strung,

1470
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: has been out with an injury. Ye, yeah, I don't know.

1471
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:49,519
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. I think John Brown as

1472
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: a veteran player, Oh that Jake Kumer, I mean not

1473
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: Jake Tanner Gentry has been around for now. This is

1474
01:21:55,320 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 1: third years, three years. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I wouldn't

1475
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say no to that. I wouldn't be surprised

1476
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 1: if he gets activated either. Do I think he's going

1477
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: to have a big role in the offense. I think

1478
01:22:09,520 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 1: it'll be really I think it'll be really interesting to

1479
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: see what kind of shape he's in. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: get a handle on that. They've probably put him through

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01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: his paces already to see if they can kind of

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01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 1: find signed off the couch like he was on another team,

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01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: although he has been standing in shape, and yes, he

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01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 1: had made mention that he sent videos of himself doing

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01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: that to Chad Hole, to chat Hole Brandon Bean. So

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Speaker 1: that's interesting. If I'll say this, if he gets elevated

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01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: to the roster and he's in, yeah, he's They're not

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01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: going to elevate him indeed activate Yeah, so yeah, so

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01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for that. Yeah. Who else do

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01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: you want to see get involved in the passing game

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01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: that maybe hasn't as much as we've wanted to this season.

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Speaker 1: I'm James Cook, and I think Dawson as Knox is

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01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 1: who I would like to see Dawson Knox get some

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01:22:57,439 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: more opportunities. I think the Patriots kind of they have

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01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: a really good understanding of how to take away interior

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01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: offensive players, any offensive player. But I think what what

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01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: you have to do when you play the Patriots, you

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01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: have to count on the Patriots having a solid, rock

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01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 1: solid plan for taking away Stefan Diggs as though he's

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01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: not you got to go into this game thing and

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01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 1: as though he doesn't exist, you have a plan for that. Now,

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01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: try and get him the ball like always, but know

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01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:29,679
Speaker 1: that they're going to have a really good plan, solid

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01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: plan to take him away, and not only that, perhaps

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01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 1: bait you into going to him and then picking it

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01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: off kind of thing. So you gotta have a plan,

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01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:45,679
Speaker 1: all right, Who else, Gabe Davis, Dawson, Knox, James Cook

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01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: that kind of plan last year, remember we mentioned it, it

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01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 1: it was Isaiah McKenzie. Twelve targets, eleven receptions for a

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01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: buck fifty or whatever, you know, a couple and a

1511
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:58,759
Speaker 1: touchdown or two crucial plays as well all over the field.

1512
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:04,679
Speaker 1: Josh found him. That's the kind of thing you're gonna

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01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,759
Speaker 1: see tomorrow. Within the Bills are prolific offensively, somebody else

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01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: another is going to have to do it other than Diggs,

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01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: although he can contribute in different ways. They're gonna do

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01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: everything they can to make the Bills beat them left handed,

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01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: as it were. And last week for the Bills, it

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01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: was Isaiah McKenzie as well. He had six catches for

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01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: ninety six receiving yards had a touchdown. Stefan Diggs didn't

1520
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:33,799
Speaker 1: have much production in the beginning of that game, although

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01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 1: he did come on for that final drive there for

1522
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: the forty five yard field goal that Tyler Bass kicked

1523
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,600
Speaker 1: that was a game winner for the Bills. Came on

1524
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: strong in the second half of the game, finished with

1525
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: eight catches for seventy seven yards and touchdown. That's Stefan

1526
01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:52,840
Speaker 1: Diggs was targeted fifteen times though that's a big number,

1527
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: so we'll see if Isaiah McKenzie can have some consistency there.

1528
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 1: The slot is so important Josh Allen and what Josh

1529
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,839
Speaker 1: Allen can do and was his security blanket Colby Easley

1530
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: was in his first couple of years in the NFL.

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01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 1: I think this offense is better when isaaa McKenzie gets going.

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01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,679
Speaker 1: I think this offense is better when they have multiple

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01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: people involved. When you think about the victory that the

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01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 1: Bills had over the Patriots in that playoff game where

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01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 1: they won forty seven to seventeen, your leading receiver not

1536
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:29,839
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, it was Dawson Knox. He had five catches

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01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards and two touchdowns. I know we

1538
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,599
Speaker 1: all remember that game. Gabe Davis also had a touchdown,

1539
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: so did Emmanuel Sanders. If the Bills can protect Josh Allen,

1540
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. You think we see some trickery here

1541
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: on offense. We haven't really seen many trick plays on

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01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: offense this year. I don't. Well, they haven't been in

1543
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: a position where they really needed did that you know

1544
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Certainly there are certain situations where you

1545
01:25:56,840 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: want to try that, But yeah, I think they feel

1546
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: like man manning up and just let's say, let's do

1547
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:08,439
Speaker 1: what we do is good enough. Yeah, Like this this

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01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 1: highlights we're watching here now of last year's Patriot game

1549
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 1: in Foxborough and Isaiah McKenzie splattered all over him. The

1550
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: thing you notice is that Josh just didn't have to

1551
01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 1: run for his life at all. You know, he had

1552
01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: time to look around and he was just delivering it.

1553
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: Speaking of Josh Allen running for his life, we've got

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01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: an interesting stat about how the Bills do when Josh

1555
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: Allen goes for over seventy five rushing yards. So we're

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01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: gonna tell you that here after the break, don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: We're one Bills Live. We're presented by Kalidah Health on

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01:26:42,920 --> 01:27:03,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. A couple of minutes here until we

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01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 1: are closing it out on this Wednesday afternoon that feels

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01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 1: like a Saturday since it's a Buffalo Bills Saturday. I

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01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: told you guys, I had an interesting stat about Josh

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01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 1: Allen with his rushing yards. So here it is. The

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01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: Bills are four and seven when Alan rushes for over

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01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 1: seventy five yards in a game in his career four

1565
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: and seven. They're on and four when he has over

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01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:35,559
Speaker 1: seventy five rushing yards and no rushing touchdowns. Josh's rushed

1567
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: rushed for over seventy five yards in three of the

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Speaker 1: last four games. The Bills are one and two in

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01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 1: those games. So while it helps the team, it helps

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01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: him gain yards, it helps him move down the field.

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01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: I think everybody is happier when Josh isn't the leading

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01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: rusher when he doesn't go over seventy five yards. How

1573
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: many times have we looked at the stats at the

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01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: box score and it's been a Bills win and Devin

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01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 1: Singletary has been the leading rusher and you're like, oh,

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01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: that looks good. That's what I once this season. Right. Uh,

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01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,680
Speaker 1: you're right though, when Josh runs it, it's great when

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01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: he runs it, when he converts down makes plays, but

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01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: it's also better when they save him and when he

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01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: runs it and he gets into the end zone. Um,

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01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:22,000
Speaker 1: that's different. When he's running and he's not getting into

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01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: the end zone, that's because they're having trouble getting open

1583
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: and the offense is not working the way it's supposed

1584
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: to work. And I think that's indicative of it. You

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01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 1: want him to run because it is Josh Allen, but

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01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: you don't want him to put up those types of

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01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 1: numbers when it's hurting the team instead of helping the team.

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Speaker 1: All right. On tomorrow's show, Field Yate, Scott Chandler, Steve

1589
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: Tasker and Chris Brownie played for the Bills and also

1590
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 1: for that in New England Patriots, you're gonna have him

1591
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: on and also Brownie's gonna be in his hotel room

1592
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaker 1: from Providence where wherever they are. Yeah, one o'clock tomorrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us on this rainy Wednesday. We'll see

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Speaker 1: tomorrow one one to three h