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Speaker 1: They just didn't come out fired up, and Tennessee came

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Speaker 1: and in it shows that is your game. Rewind brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Toshiba, the official copy your company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Queuing it up here on a recap Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker Won Bills live broadcasting from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park and ready to be

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Speaker 1: your therapists today taking your phone calls at eight oh three,

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Speaker 1: morning on tech sloops with all you know, my friends

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Speaker 1: guy in an inside rush, and he lets Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: out the gate on a couple of occasions, including the

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Speaker 1: down run. So yes, is it undisciplined, Absolutely, And that's

430
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Speaker 1: got to get fixed. You got to hold the edge

431
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Speaker 1: and they didn't do that for a good number of plays.

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Speaker 1: What else you got, Teddy, I'm saying, Jerry Youth, I

433
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Speaker 1: have not been performing for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: We're paying them a lot of money and he's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a true veteran and give us pressure like

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Speaker 1: I give him that. He gets the pressure, but he

437
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Speaker 1: don't be good at the impact of the ball like

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Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks just brush them all. Yeah, he

439
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Speaker 1: doesn't finish. He hasn't finished a ton of plays of late.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you that. His pressure rate is always very high,

441
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Speaker 1: at least it has been the last two years. But

442
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Speaker 1: in terms of getting a quarterback on the ground stripping

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Speaker 1: it out, I would agree with you, Teddy, that hasn't

444
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Speaker 1: been there as much as they probably and he probably

445
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Speaker 1: would like quite frankly. I mean, Jerry's a very proud

446
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Speaker 1: player and he wants to be productive for this team.

447
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean getting there and getting home to

448
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Speaker 1: finish the play has probably not been there, certainly, not

449
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Speaker 1: as much as you would like, and I would guess

450
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Speaker 1: probably not as much as Jerry would like himself. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call. Yeah, I mean he's not the only

452
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Speaker 1: one having trouble getting back to that quarterback though. This

453
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Speaker 1: team's got ten sacks in five games. Yeah, there's one

454
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Speaker 1: guy in the whole league's sacking the quarterback and it's

455
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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. He had four against the Washington football team

456
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Speaker 1: this last week, had a couple against us. So he's

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Speaker 1: doing I can't think of anybody else's having that kind

458
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Speaker 1: of you know, there's just nobody doing it. There's no

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Speaker 1: defenses that are not. The Bills gave up one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty nine yard rushing yards yesterday. Forty two of

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Speaker 1: them were the quarterback. You know that. You know, Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry had nineteen rushes for fifty seven yards. That's less

463
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Speaker 1: than three yards of rush. Yeah, so or right at

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Speaker 1: three yards of rush. So it's you know, they're not

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Speaker 1: getting crushed in the running game, but when your quarterback,

466
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Speaker 1: and the league is about this, Josh Allen did it,

467
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Speaker 1: and so did Ryan Tannehill. The league is about good

468
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Speaker 1: quarterback taking the opportunity to run down the field. Nobody

469
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Speaker 1: can hit them when they run, so they turn into

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Speaker 1: quite the weapon. And I get it too. You know,

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Speaker 1: you want to see more pressure and you know, more sacks.

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Speaker 1: You want to see their quarterback knocked off this spot.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen the way it once did because

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Speaker 1: of the fact that the ball comes out on time

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Speaker 1: most of the time, and you don't have defensive back

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Speaker 1: contingents that are deep enough to cover four receivers three receivers,

477
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Speaker 1: these athletic tight ends. I mean, even though they call

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Speaker 1: it eleven personnel, a lot of these tight ends in

479
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Speaker 1: the league, it's like big ten personnel. They're they're like

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Speaker 1: detached tight ends there. You might as well call them

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Speaker 1: tight receivers, not tight ends. I mean, that's just what

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Speaker 1: you that's what you're dealing with in this league. Right now,

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty, we go to Rick

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Speaker 1: in a car Rick, Welcome to the show. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? Hey, guys, good morning. M I

486
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Speaker 1: kind of this questions towards Steve. I kind of grew

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Speaker 1: up watching the Bills. You know, when you guys were

488
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Speaker 1: in your hey day. I was a year two younger

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Speaker 1: than you, so like I felt like I was in it.

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Speaker 1: And I remember back then, you know, you guys had

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Speaker 1: your flat day once in a great while. You know,

492
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Speaker 1: we expected you to just wreck people all the time.

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Speaker 1: My question to you is what did you or the

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Speaker 1: coach to do to help get you guys back on it.

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Speaker 1: I know there's injuries, but if you watch a game yesday,

496
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Speaker 1: there were so many drops, so many penalties, so many misassignments.

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Speaker 1: What did you guys do to bounce back after that?

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Speaker 1: It will Rick, here's the thing, and it'll be it's

499
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Speaker 1: easier for the players and the coaches to bounce back

500
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Speaker 1: from a loss like they took yesterday than it is

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Speaker 1: for fans to do it. Yeah, it's much easier for

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Speaker 1: the players and coaches to bounce back than it is

503
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: for fans because the players and the fans are thinking.

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Speaker 1: The players and the coaches they're working towards the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: right now. They they'll go over they'll learn what they

506
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Speaker 1: did from you, but they've got another game to think about.

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Speaker 1: They are onto this one. They got to think about

508
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Speaker 1: this one. They'll learn what they can about what happened

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Speaker 1: last week, and they'll watch the film and dissect it.

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Speaker 1: But they're thinking about getting ready to play the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: on Monday night at five pm. You know. So that's

512
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Speaker 1: they're they're over it. They gotta be over it. It's

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Speaker 1: it's harder for the fans to let go because we

514
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Speaker 1: stew on it, because we don't have another game to

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Speaker 1: think about yet. We can't get into that game yet,

516
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: we're thinking about this last one. We gotta live with

517
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Speaker 1: it as fans. We don't have anything to work for

518
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Speaker 1: and no action to take in order to make sure

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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen again. And I saw something. Maybe it

520
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: was you who tweeted out there was a ton of

521
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: It was a regular occurrence for the team that was

522
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Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl every year for four years.

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Speaker 1: We got beat by double digits every year, at least once,

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Speaker 1: I think it were over the course of the four

525
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl years, we lost by fifteen or more points

526
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Speaker 1: eight times. You know, it happens, but you set it aside,

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Speaker 1: You put it and you and you move forward. And

528
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Speaker 1: that's what It's easier for the players and coaches this week.

529
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Speaker 1: It'll be easier for them to put this behind him

530
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Speaker 1: and listen, I got another game to think about. I'm

531
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Speaker 1: not gonna do that. I gotta who am I playing

532
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Speaker 1: this week? All right? He's different than the guy played

533
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Speaker 1: last week. What do I gotta do this week so

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Speaker 1: that last week doesn't happen again? It's almost better that

535
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Speaker 1: it was a blowout, because you're like, man, we just stunk.

536
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Speaker 1: We didn't have a chance in that one. You lose

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Speaker 1: a one point game, I might sit with you for

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Speaker 1: a couple of Yeah, was right there. I can't believe

539
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Speaker 1: we lost that stinking game yesterday. It's like, yeah, we

540
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance, right, I didn't have a chance.

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Speaker 1: They didn't show up. They showed up flat that this

542
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Speaker 1: and the and the Titans didn't And they were easier

543
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Speaker 1: like I said they were. They were on vacation, the

544
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Speaker 1: Titan They could not have been happier to be on

545
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: the beach. And so the Bills, on the other hand,

546
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Speaker 1: you know that game was over. And I said it before,

547
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: this is a good foot. The Bills are good, but

548
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: they're not as good when they're down five starters and

549
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: they're turning the ball and they're turning the ball over

550
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: that they're not that they're not good enough to overcome them.

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Speaker 1: But it is not against the Tennessee Titans, whether they've

552
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: had two weeks in activity or not, they're not that good.

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Speaker 1: Uh So they've got to get guys healthy and they've

554
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 1: got to play better, no question, They've got to play

555
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: with more emotional content. I was saying it all week.

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Speaker 1: I really expected the Titans to come out really fresh

557
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: and on fire, and they hit the Bills in the

558
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: mouth right away, and the Bills kind of responded to

559
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 1: first thing. But once it started going the Titans way,

560
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: you know, the dam burst and they just kept going,

561
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, and that was that was the way that went.

562
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Speaker 1: I thought they might happen. I thought they were going

563
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: to come out emotionally on fire, and they did, and

564
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: the game started to go their way, and then there

565
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: was no stopping it because of I think the lack

566
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Speaker 1: of star players that were in the game. They couldn't

567
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Speaker 1: stem that tide early enough in the game to stay

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Speaker 1: in it. Let's go to Jim and Buffalo. Jim, you're

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us. Hi, how

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Speaker 1: are you good? Yeah? I was basically going to touch

571
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Speaker 1: on effected that was kind of the proverbial trap game. Yeah,

572
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: I get you. You think they're looking ahead to the Chiefs. Well,

573
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: it's a funny practice week and nobody knows what's going on,

574
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: and we're distracted and we're not taking everything at hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I could understand why you'd feel that way.

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Speaker 1: Jim you know, just listening to the players and their

577
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Speaker 1: postgame comments, being on some of those zoom calls after

578
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Speaker 1: the game last night, I can tell you, to their credit,

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Speaker 1: they didn't make any of those kinds of excuses. They

580
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: just said, we got beat. You know, we didn't bring

581
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: it the way the Titans did, and for whatever reason,

582
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: sometimes that happens. You can point to whatever circumstance or

583
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: scenario you want to, but they just flat didn't execute.

584
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was an execution problem from start to finish,

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Speaker 1: whether it was ill advised decisions, a lack of focus

586
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: and concentration so you're committing. I mean they had I

587
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: think it was seven pre snap penalties, five penalties on offense,

588
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: four on defense, and one on special teams, which was

589
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: an illegal block above the waist. And it was evenly

590
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: spread across all three phases yesterday, everything from the laces

591
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Speaker 1: being turned in all on a field goal to you know,

592
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: three refall starts by three different players in the span

593
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Speaker 1: of six snaps of the football, and you had four

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Speaker 1: drops by four different guys. Doctor Knox, Gabriel Davis, Andre Roberts,

595
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: and Steph Diggs. All four of those guys had a

596
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: dead pass board. Yeah, it was. It was a systemic

597
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,719
Speaker 1: problem of lack of focus and being completely distracted by

598
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: everything else when you're week leading up to the game,

599
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: not knowing if the game was either gonna happen. And

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Speaker 1: I heard one of somebody said last night on the

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Speaker 1: broadcast that you know, if you want to see a

602
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Speaker 1: team that's unfocused and unmotivated, tell them you don't know

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna actually play. And that's that's what the

604
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: Bills were living in for eight days or eight days

605
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Speaker 1: after the Vegas game. This game was never gonna happen

606
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: until Sunday afternoon, and then it was gonna happen. Then

607
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: it happened. They said, yeah, you're playing on Tuesday. Um,

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Speaker 1: they were. They looked distracted by everything that all the

609
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: stuff that we talk about all the time, the Tuesday

610
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: start time, the again off and on again, off again.

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Speaker 1: Are they gonna have another positive test today? Are the

612
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: Bill's gonna have a positive test? Are the Bill's gonna

613
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: catch the virus during the game? Or you know who's

614
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play? Who's in, who's out? And

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Speaker 1: by the way, oh yeah, the game isn't on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Well no, wait, if it's not on Tuesday. You're not

617
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Speaker 1: gonna play those guys. You're gonna play the Chiefs on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and he just gonna go straight into the Thursday. All

619
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Speaker 1: that stuff. You could see it in the way the

620
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: Bills showed up on last night. On Tuesday night, they

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Speaker 1: there is this really gonna They didn't know if that's

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00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Even Tuesday morning. You could have convinced him,

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Speaker 1: this's like, I don't know, are we really gonna play

624
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: this game there? And they looked it. Um, that was

625
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: That was quintessential sabotage of schedule and all of that stuff.

626
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: Now you can say what you want about guys. You

627
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: gotta be a professional. You gotta get a bring. I

628
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: get all that, But man, o'man, those are curveballs that nobody,

629
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: nobody really has to should have to deal with, and

630
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: it looks like the Bills aren't going to be the

631
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: only one dealing with it this year. You can look

632
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: for that to be a we should keep track of that.

633
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: All these teams that are is this game on? Is

634
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: this game off? See how those teams show up in

635
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: those games. I'll keep track of that. Mike and Rochester,

636
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: David Florida Neil in Toronto, Chuck and Clarence, Mike and Salamanca,

637
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Speaker 1: hang tight. We'll get to you in the next segment here,

638
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: but we gotta take a break back with more of

639
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: your phone calls as we recap the lopsided loss in

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Speaker 1: Nashville last night, forty two to sixteen. More in a

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Speaker 1: moment here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday recap edition of the game that was here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. And we'll get right back to the

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Speaker 1: phones at eight oh three oh five fifty and we

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Speaker 1: begin with Michael and Rochester and Michael, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? Thanks for joining the show. Hey all,

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Speaker 1: you're doing good afternoon. My thing is about Harrison Phillips.

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Speaker 1: All right, when he was next to Kyle Williams, he

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Speaker 1: was he was a stud and of course, because Kyle

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Speaker 1: was getting the bulk of the blocks, you know, he

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Speaker 1: was getting double teamed almost every play, and he got

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Speaker 1: hurt last year. So you know, Jordan Phillip stepped in

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Speaker 1: and he was a complete savage. You know, he was

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Speaker 1: blowing up plays in the backfille sack and a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and I feel he got snubbed on the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But he's no longer a round dude to getting the

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Speaker 1: check cut a nice, healthy one, and he's not with

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Speaker 1: the franchise anymore. So Harrison Phillip pops up and I

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Speaker 1: don't see anything. You know, he replaced one hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars man and he hasn't lived up to the hype. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't see any pressure. I don't see any aggression.

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Speaker 1: I don't see nothing. Like, what do you think of that?

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Speaker 1: I think I hear what you're saying, Michael. My point,

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Speaker 1: my thought about it is this, it's not And we've

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Speaker 1: had calls on Jerry Hughes today, We've had calls now

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Speaker 1: on Harrison Phillips. We've had got questions on Twitter about

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Speaker 1: why is Starlow to Lelay's absence a big deal for

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Speaker 1: this thing. Here's the thing. I don't think there's too

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Speaker 1: many fan bases or even organizations right now who are

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Speaker 1: looking at their defensive line and saying, man, these guys

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Speaker 1: are killing it. I think around the league, across the league,

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Speaker 1: there's something going on with either the way they're officiating

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Speaker 1: or the way offenses are being run now that it is.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a time like defenses are way behind. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I've never seen a time where the pass rushers,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't see any highlights of them. You

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Speaker 1: don't see any any guys, any pass rushers get any

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Speaker 1: of the sports shows or any none of them are

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Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form being looked at. His saying, man,

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Speaker 1: he's playing great this year, except for maybe the guy

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Speaker 1: mentioned Aaron Donald is doing really well in Pittsburgh's doing

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Speaker 1: well with sex this year too. But the whole league

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Speaker 1: is about coverage now, and it's about setting the edge

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Speaker 1: and stopping the run game and keeping quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 1: pocket rather than letting them get out and run. With

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, with Josh Allen, with Lamar Jackson, with Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson on the list, Russell Wilson, you go down Baker Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: it's all about keeping him in the pocket. And when

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Speaker 1: you get do get close to the quarterback, he busts out,

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Speaker 1: bust container. It turns into a big play or a

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Speaker 1: positive gain and the quarterback slides no problem. So for

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Speaker 1: at this point in history, to me, I think, for me,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to hang this on it on Harrison

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Speaker 1: Phillips or Jerry Hughes or the absence of Jordan Phillips

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Speaker 1: or Kyle Williams or any of these guys. The league's

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Speaker 1: different this year. It's really different this year, and I

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Speaker 1: think we're seeing the results of it. I will say

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Speaker 1: this too, Michael, I think if you came into this

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Speaker 1: season expecting Harrison Phillips to be Jordan Phillips, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be disappointed because they're not the same player. Jordan Phillips

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Speaker 1: is a three hundred forty pound freak of nature. The

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Speaker 1: explosion that he gets for a man his size is

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Speaker 1: supremely rare. Men that are six foot five, three hundred

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Speaker 1: forty pounds are usually stand in there and grind with

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Speaker 1: two players and let everybody else make the plays. Jordan

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Speaker 1: Phillips can play the three technique at six five and

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Speaker 1: three forty that he's one of about probably four guys

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Speaker 1: in the entire world that can do that. And I

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Speaker 1: got news for you, Harrison Phillips is not that type

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Speaker 1: of player. First of all, he's given up twenty five

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Speaker 1: pounds to Jordan Phillips, and second of all, he's not

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Speaker 1: as explosive an athlete as Jordan Phillips. Now that's not

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Speaker 1: to say he can't be of value to this defense.

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Speaker 1: I believe he can. I also think that, in fairness

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Speaker 1: to Harrison Phillips, you may have to give him a

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Speaker 1: good portion of this year to get back up to

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Harrison Phillips, I don't think he's there yet,

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Speaker 1: coming off what was two knee surgeries in the offseason,

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Speaker 1: one on each of his knees, the more severe obviously

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Speaker 1: being the all in the one knee. But it doesn't

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Speaker 1: just come right back for some people when you have

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Speaker 1: major knee surgery. It sometimes takes a player a full

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Speaker 1: year of playing before they get to the next year

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Speaker 1: and really show what they once were. And I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: if Harrison Phillips is going through that because Leslie Frasier

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Speaker 1: alluded to it a couple of weeks ago. He said

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Speaker 1: he's working, but he's not all the way back yet.

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Speaker 1: He's not the old Harrison Phillips, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to take some time. So to expect him to

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Speaker 1: be somebody else, And what somebody else did? I think

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Speaker 1: he's unfair number one, and then number two, I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's all the way back to being the player

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Speaker 1: that he showed flashes of being last year. So I

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Speaker 1: know patience is not something that fans generally have, especially

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Speaker 1: when the performance is subpar by a respective side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. But I just don't think he's there yet

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Speaker 1: in his recovery. Yeah you can, you can make that

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Speaker 1: argument it for sure, But and I see it too.

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Speaker 1: And in a loss like they took last night, it's

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Speaker 1: easy to exaggerate or to pinpoint guys who haven't shown

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Speaker 1: up in a way that you thought they would, or

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Speaker 1: if the defense looks differently, you're you're there to point

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Speaker 1: the point the finger and say this is completely there.

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Speaker 1: They should fix this and that and the other. I'm

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Speaker 1: not there. This is a much better we know, it's

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Speaker 1: a much better football team than they showed last night.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of alter, you know, of weird factors

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Speaker 1: about that game last night, in the scheduling and who

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Speaker 1: they played, how they played. And I'll say this, I

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Speaker 1: said this in the pregame last night before they before

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Speaker 1: the show, that this is a game where it's really

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Speaker 1: you know, the head coach has to navigate his team

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Speaker 1: and get them ready to play. And by all accounts,

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Speaker 1: this is a team. We said it. They weren't ready

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Speaker 1: to play last night, and you talk to look at

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, you think about it, How is a head

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Speaker 1: coach gonna get his team ready to play when he

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's getting them ready to do? He

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Speaker 1: does when they to play. When they're playing, you don't

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Speaker 1: know where it's gonna be. That's a really difficult spot

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Speaker 1: for a franchise to be in. And they kept moving

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Speaker 1: the Finnish line and not even the finish line. They

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Speaker 1: kept moving the finish line and the competitor the finish

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Speaker 1: where the yeah, where the Finnish line was gonna be?

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Speaker 1: And who was gonna be there at the Finnish line.

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Speaker 1: They kept moving it around. This team didn't know who

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Speaker 1: they were getting ready to play or when they were

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Speaker 1: gonna play the game. That is sabotage to me, um

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Speaker 1: And you know, Sean McDermott had no comment last night

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Speaker 1: on the schedule makers and the league and how they

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Speaker 1: handled the revolving door schedules. When the Bills were coming

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, it was five or six days of

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Speaker 1: absolute limbo that the club was trying to prepare in

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Speaker 1: and that's just no way to get a team motivated

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Speaker 1: to play a football game. Let's go to Dave in

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Speaker 1: Florida at eight fifty Dave, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Yod you guys join to day. All right, yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: all right, listen, you guys should covered everything I was

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Speaker 1: going to say. I appreciate your honesty for this. Remember

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Speaker 1: one thing, we're still in first place. Okay, we're only

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Speaker 1: four and one. We're four and one, and I wouldn

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Speaker 1: concentrate on one team for the next game. I think

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Speaker 1: that's it. Okay, have a good day. You're right they

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Speaker 1: I agreed that the last night's loss, as ugly as

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Speaker 1: it was, as uncomfortable, it was, as you know, discouraging

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Speaker 1: and sickening it was for the fans. This is I

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Speaker 1: still think, and I don't know if you're everybody's with me.

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Speaker 1: I still think it's a really good football team. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: really good football team. And when they're healthy, they are

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Speaker 1: really really good. They do need to get healthy, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. But now that they've got a destination

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Speaker 1: that they know is coming, I think they're gonna play better.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're gonna line up and beat

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Speaker 1: the world champion Kansas City chiefs. But if they're healthy,

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Speaker 1: it's a game I want to see. I think they

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Speaker 1: got a shot at it. So yeah, I'm with Dave.

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Speaker 1: I'm there. Don't start tearing down the house because you

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Speaker 1: got a chip on the paint. No, just right, the

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Speaker 1: ship's say, or you got a broken window, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't tear the house down. So that's that's where I'm at.

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Speaker 1: I got you, I got you. We have to step aside.

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Speaker 1: We're up against the break again. If you're on the line,

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Speaker 1: hang on, we will get to you as we are

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Speaker 1: taking phone calls here on a recap Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Yeah, guys, I have

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Speaker 1: just three observations and I'll jump off and you guys

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Speaker 1: can talk about whatever you want on these. The first

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Speaker 1: one is a linebacker Edmonds. I'm really getting frustrated with

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Speaker 1: him because my expectations for him were so high. I

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Speaker 1: would like to see his nose in there first on

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Speaker 1: a lot of these tackles and not second and third.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's been misused a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: think he can really be a threatening more with blitzes

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Secondly, Josh, we went from oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, he's running so much, he's going to get

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Speaker 1: hurt too. I think we're protecting him too much. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see some more set plays with him, maybe

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Speaker 1: the role situation like they're doing in Cleveland, which I

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Speaker 1: think has really changed their quarterback and even if he's

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Speaker 1: not running, just to keep that team at bay and

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Speaker 1: to change that game board out in front of him.

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Speaker 1: I think he can change that more and have them shift.

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Speaker 1: We seem a little bit more protective, maybe to protective him.

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Speaker 1: He's probably the best athlete out there. We need to

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Speaker 1: keep that ball in his hand. And then the third thing,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys noticed this. Much of

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Speaker 1: us were watching it. We thought in mcdermot's frustration during

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Speaker 1: mask on. Did he may have taken that defensive card

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Speaker 1: away from Leslie Frasier at some time? And I wondered

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Speaker 1: if you guys saw that or yeah, and thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call, Jack. I did see him signaling into defensive

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Speaker 1: players late in the game. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: necessarily means he was doing the play calls. I know

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Speaker 1: he sometimes as a conduit for that side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: but to say he outright took the play calls away

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Speaker 1: from coach Frasier, I don't know if we can definitively

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Speaker 1: say that. It could have been the case. It happened

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Speaker 1: once before in his tenure here, where it happened for

852
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: probably a second half of a game and then he

853
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: gave it right back to Frasier for the next week.

854
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: But yeah, sometimes frustrations boil over. Your defensive coordinator has

855
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: tried everything under the sun and it's not working, and

856
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 1: maybe it's time to call in a relief pitcher, namely himself.

857
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: It's not uncommon, it happened sometimes, so I'll say that

858
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: with respect to moving Josh, I'm in favor of it.

859
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: We see how well the bootlegs work for the Rams

860
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: and Jared Goff. I mean, they run at a countless

861
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: number of times each game, and I wouldn't mind getting

862
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: back to a few design runs for Josh here and there,

863
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: especially as these defenses start to morph and change in

864
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: the way they play this Bill's offense, and we saw

865
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: some of that this week. The Titans very rarely blitzed,

866
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: dropped seven into coverage sometimes eight, and dare Josh to

867
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 1: throw into tight windows where they basically kept everything in

868
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: front of them and said, let's see you be good

869
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: enough to nickel and dime your way down the field.

870
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: Especially after the Titans got up on the scoreboard early,

871
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: they said, we're just going to play an umbrella defense.

872
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: Here in the back. You can nicol and diamonds in

873
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: the front if you want, chew up some clock, but

874
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: we're up eleven on the scoreboard. And then when they

875
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: were up eighteen, it only enforced them all the more

876
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: to do that. So I think some teams are going

877
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 1: to be going to school on how the Titans performed

878
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: defensively against the Bills, and they basically will say, Hey,

879
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 1: if we can get an early lead on this Bills team,

880
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: let's force them to put together twelve and fifteen play

881
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: drives to get points if we're up in the if

882
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: we're up in the game. I said this a little

883
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: bit yesterday, and also in the pre game a little

884
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: bit these two and maybe maybe in the conversations after

885
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but I remember saying it that these

886
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,959
Speaker 1: two teams are a lot alike. Now, certainly they've played

887
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: in close games, and you take away three turnover was

888
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: from Buffalo last night. I know you can't do that,

889
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: but this was they were hard fought. That was a

890
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: hard fought game. This game would have been a one score,

891
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: one possession game, just like the others were. The three

892
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: more before this were just those last play of the

893
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: game kind of games. But when you turn it over

894
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: three times in their own end like the Bills did,

895
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: or it end up the turnover ended up in your

896
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: end like it did, you lose big. And that's what happened.

897
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: I get that about you know, McDermott taking over the

898
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: play calling and all that, and the Tremaine is is

899
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disappointment. This should listen. The

900
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: whole defense has got to be disappointed with the way

901
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: they played. You know, they got put in tough spots

902
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: last night. But even so, Ryan Tannehill is playing at

903
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: a high level right now. Josh not running enough? I mean, yeah,

904
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: maybe the pendulum has swung back the other way. At

905
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year week one and two, people

906
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: were asking is he running too much? How long are

907
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: they going to do this? And now we're back the

908
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: other way with the running and I can I think

909
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: you can see they pick their spots when they run him,

910
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: and they'll have a stretch of games here coming up

911
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: where there'll be a few games where we'll start to

912
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: ask the other question, is he running too much? Now?

913
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: What are they trying to compensate for by running him

914
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: so much? Those will be the questions that will will

915
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: field in the next three games. So I just think

916
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: it's a game planned, game by game, week by week

917
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: scenario with Josh running up. And then with respect to

918
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, I agree, when this guy goes to the

919
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl last year, you're expecting big things out of

920
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: him to be You're expecting him to be an impact player,

921
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: and in the absence of Milano, you need that from

922
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: Tremaine all the more, right, And I think because fans

923
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: are not seeing that from him, they're troubled by it

924
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 1: because this isn't the first call we've gotten on Tremaine

925
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: Edmonds play out there. And I'm gonna have to take

926
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: a closer look at the coaches film when we get it,

927
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: because watching it on this TV copy is just not

928
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: doing me any justice and trying to make any kind

929
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: of an assessment. I don't know if they're just the

930
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: backs just aren't running into his gap allowing him to

931
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: make a play. And yes, does he rack up a

932
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: good number of tackles, Yes, by virtue of where he

933
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: plays on the field, But right now, a lot of

934
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: these tackles are of the London Fletcher variety, five, six, seven,

935
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: eight yards down the field. Those are not impact plays.

936
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: Impact plays are making tackles behind the line of scrimmage,

937
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, batting down a pass, getting

938
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 1: a pressure on a quarterback. And I agree with Chuck.

939
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Tremaine as a blitzer with that

940
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: length and that ability to reach the quarterback maybe a

941
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: half second sooner because he's got, you know, an eight

942
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: foot wingspan. I'm in favor of that. Not all the time,

943
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: but there's certainly no reason you can't dial him up

944
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: and call his number. You know, they used to line

945
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: up in those double A gaps all the time. I

946
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: don't even think they're doing that as much, right, I

947
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: agree with you. It's a different world, these defenses than

948
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: the NFL are living in. Right, he's a freak athlete.

949
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: You shouldn't take advantage of the YEA and I and

950
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: I was thinking too last night. One of the things

951
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: you might do when you get a team like Tennessee

952
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: play actions so much and Ryan Tannehill the ball comes

953
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: out is I thought there'd be especially in the league

954
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: all around, like there'll be more batted passes than there

955
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: have been. You can't get home, do something to help,

956
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: you know, get your hands up whatever. And one of

957
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: the other callers, and maybe it was Michael and Rochester,

958
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: somebody's talking about Jerry Hughes, who you know, you get

959
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: somebody gets penetration and they come right up the middle

960
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: and all in the quarterbacks they just break contain and

961
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: move to one side or the other and keep their

962
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: eyes down the football field and make throws. That is

963
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: as effective a play and as common a play as

964
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: you'll see in the NFL these days. Tannehill's doing it,

965
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's doing it, every single guy is doing it,

966
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: and there's really no way to defend it. You got

967
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: four guys chasing the quarterback. If he gets outside of

968
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: those four guys, he's got all the time in the

969
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: world to throw it. And it's become commonplace, and it's

970
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: it's frustrating for fans of defense to watch, you know,

971
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: when it's your defense that's getting taken advantage of like that.

972
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: It's frustrating and you start to say, what, you know,

973
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing. I don't think you can

974
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: put this all on the at the feet of defensive

975
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: players in the NFL. I think it starts a little

976
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: higher up than that. I think it's the way the

977
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: league is functioning. I think the way it's the way

978
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: they've legislated. It is the way these offensive coordinators are

979
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: figuring out ways to maximize their talent. With the way

980
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: the rules are these days, their quarterbacks can be protected

981
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: out there. If the quarterback is smart enough to slide

982
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: and go down. He's never gonna get hurt. And you

983
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: can make big plays and maybe only a handful over

984
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: the course of a month, but that handful of plays

985
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: over the course of a month means three wins instead

986
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: of one, and that's a big difference. Yeah, we are

987
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: up against the break. A reminder in the two o'clock

988
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: hour we will have Brian Baldinger at two as he'll

989
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: be breaking down this game with us and Eric Wood

990
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: at two thirty. But the next hour it's more of

991
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: your phone calls at eighth, three, five fifty, So Neil

992
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: and Toronto hang on. You'll lead us off. In the

993
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: next segment, we'll get to Ray, Steve and Paul All

994
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: coming up next. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

995
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: Collid to Health, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bills

996
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Date your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

997
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: The Bills fall to four and one on the season

998
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: after last night's forty two sixteen loss to the Titans.

999
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had two interceptions and the Bills turn the

1000
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: ball over three times, which led to twenty one Tennessee points.

1001
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: Quick turnaround for the Bills as they will return to

1002
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: the practice field on Thursday as they prep for their

1003
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: Monday evening game with the Chiefs here at Bill's Stadium.

1004
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: One injury note from last night's game, tight End Dawson

1005
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: Knox left in the second half with a calf injury.

1006
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,439
Speaker 1: Get an update on him and some players that missed

1007
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: the game, including tradebus White, John Brown, and Matt Milano.

1008
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott is scheduled to speak to the media at

1009
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: four this afternoon. Five games into the twenty twenty season,

1010
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: the New York Jets have decided to pull the plug

1011
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: on their relationship with running back lay Beyond Bell. General

1012
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: manager Joe Douglas announced the end to Bell's tumultuous Jets

1013
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: tenure Tuesday night. If he clears waivers, Bell will become

1014
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: a free agent this afternoon at four pm and free

1015
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: to sign with any team. College football, just four days

1016
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 1: before their scheduled to play LSU, the Number ten Florida

1017
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: Gators have put football activities on hold due to a

1018
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: coronavirus outbreak. Florida's football program, including players, coaches, and personnel,

1019
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: had nineteen positive tests over the last several days, and

1020
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: baseball Playoff Action Championship Series continues tonight Game three between

1021
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Bravos. In the NLCS, the Braves

1022
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: lead that series two games to none. In the ALCS,

1023
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays can close out their series with

1024
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: the Cheat and Astros with a win in to night's

1025
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Game four, going for the sweep to advance to the

1026
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 1: World Series. That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1027
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you our number two of

1028
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: the programs set to begin and your phone calls at

1029
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: eight oh three h five fifty and we begin north

1030
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: of the border as we go to Neil in Toronto

1031
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: to lead us off here in the second hour the program.

1032
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Neil, you're on One Bill's Live.

1033
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Chris, Steve, how you doing today? Good? Good Again?

1034
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 1: As I said to your screener, I am a huge

1035
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan living here in Toronto, but my brother and

1036
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: I are season ticket holders for the Bills, so we're

1037
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: missing that part, not being able to drive down and

1038
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: do the tailgate. And as a you know, a non

1039
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: Bills supporter, I watched the games a little more neutral

1040
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: maybe than some Bills fans. And one thing that I

1041
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: was very very impressed with last night was Alan's composure

1042
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 1: from the word goal, with the balls that were dropped

1043
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: by as receivers and the penalties in the drives that

1044
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: were stalled. If you look at if you watch the

1045
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: replay age of the game, and a lot of you

1046
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: guys do during the week, he just looked like he

1047
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: went four years in maturity from last year this year.

1048
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: Even after that first interception, you know, the miscatching and

1049
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: the run back, he come back the next set and

1050
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: he's just he's there. He's calm, his feet aren't jittery,

1051
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: he's not running around, he's not panicking. And one of

1052
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: the colors this morning on the early morning show called it.

1053
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: He said, oh he had primetime jitters and there was

1054
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: none of that. I mean, really the second interception in

1055
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: the third quarter at that time, we're down eleven points,

1056
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: two scores, and the whole you know, other side knows

1057
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: that you're teeing off, you're throwing the ball every time.

1058
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: That's the kind of thing. You know, mistakes that Breeze

1059
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: and Roethlisberger and Rogers, everybody's gonna make those mistakes. And uh,

1060
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, even when he did so throw that, you

1061
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: know it should have been a long field but again

1062
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: he ran it back because of mistackles. So I thought,

1063
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I've never been a you know,

1064
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: an Alan supporter, obviously being in the same division. But

1065
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: watching that game last night, I thought it was anything

1066
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: but his fault, even though he was, you know, taking

1067
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: some of the blame afterwards, I thought it was very unjust.

1068
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 1: He had a really good game. And if you look

1069
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: at the other side of it, if I, you know, Steve,

1070
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 1: if I had told you before the game that Henry's

1071
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna run for less than fifty five yards and Tanney

1072
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: Hill's gonna throw for left and two hundred yards, you'd

1073
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: taken that. Yeah, there's a lot there, and you're right. Um. Statistically,

1074
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: the teams were pretty even excepting the turnover h mat

1075
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: the Bills were mindus three and and because of the turnovers,

1076
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: the field position. Even in after the first half, when

1077
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: the Bills were trailing and it had gone bad for them,

1078
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: they led time of possession because the points that the

1079
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: Titan scored were off short fields. And I'll agree with

1080
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: you a little bit about what I saw from Josh.

1081
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: He he didn't get upset when the you know, the

1082
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: tipped interception and the four drops that happened to him,

1083
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: And you know, you think about it. If held well,

1084
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 1: he would have thrown for like seventy three or seventy

1085
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,479
Speaker 1: four percent. If those four drops, every nothing else changed

1086
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: and those drops wouldn't have happened. If they would have

1087
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: caught those balls, he would have been thirty for forty one.

1088
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: Who knows what happens after that, though, But he wasn't

1089
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: playing badly. I did sense in him, unlike you or whatever,

1090
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: because I watched the guy. His demeanor wasn't the same

1091
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: last night. He wasn't upset or wasn't this, but he

1092
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: didn't look confident and relaxed. To me. At times, he

1093
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: looked a little bit like what am I looking at

1094
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: out here? And I think one of the things that

1095
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: happened was the two safeties Vicaro and Butler late rotation.

1096
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: Those guys gave Josh Allen a dose of what Payer

1097
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: and Hide have been giving opposing quarterbacks for a long time.

1098
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: Josh didn't know exactly what he was seeing. You could

1099
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: see it in his eyes when he was behind the

1100
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: center and they got a big close up him. He

1101
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: was his eyes were looking back and forth back there,

1102
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: and he didn't look exactly confident of what he was seeing.

1103
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: And I think Butler and Vacaro did a really nice

1104
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: job last night, given him, given him some problems, and

1105
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I'm with you the Bills. Let's face the Bills offense

1106
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: this year is the engine of the team. Last year,

1107
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: it was the defense, no question about it. This year

1108
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: they've switched it, and it's hard to get used to that.

1109
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: We're not the Bills are not alone in that. In

1110
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: the NFL. There are a lot of teams struggling defensively

1111
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: that thought they were gonna have a much better year.

1112
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: Not everybody, but a lot of them. And offenses are

1113
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: flying high and scoring a lot of points this year,

1114
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills defense has been a lot of a

1115
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: big victim of that. They've played four out of the

1116
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: top six quarterbacks of the National Football League, more like

1117
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: four out of the LA top seven, but the seventh

1118
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: one is one of the seven is their guy. So

1119
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: four out of the top six quarterbacks in the league

1120
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: this year the Bills defense has Last year that wasn't

1121
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: the case. That point has been made a couple of

1122
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: times over the course of the morning here. But it's

1123
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: the Bills defense is up against a lot of good offense.

1124
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: There's a lot of very effective quarterbacks, and the league

1125
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: is also slanted offensively this year, so I'm not willing

1126
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: to throw any of these defensive guys under the bus.

1127
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: They've made some changes up in front. Maybe that hasn't

1128
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: an effect on Tremaine Edmondson's his effectiveness and how he's looked,

1129
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: no question, but it's a different league twelve months from

1130
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: when was twelve months ago, So yeah, I get I

1131
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: was Josh is playing very well, very well, even with

1132
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: last night's game one bad interception, one interception that was

1133
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,439
Speaker 1: completely not his fault, and other than that, he's thrown

1134
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: for two eighty eight and a couple of touchdowns. So yeah,

1135
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm not the offense is playing well. There's still a

1136
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: good football team this morning, just like they were yesterday

1137
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: morning before that game, and I think they're going to

1138
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: continue to be. And then with respect to the field position,

1139
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: because I pointed this out in the Numbers to Know

1140
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: column that's up on Buffalo bills dot com, the Bills

1141
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: actually had one more possession than the Titans did in

1142
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: the game, and the reason why was because the fields

1143
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: were so short for the Titans, they didn't need to

1144
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: hold on to the Paul very long. I mean the

1145
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: first interception, the first drive start for the Titans offense

1146
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: is the Bills sixteen yard line. Two plays later they're

1147
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: in the end zone. Their third possession, they're at the

1148
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: Bills thirty yard line. I mean, you need thirty yards

1149
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: to drive the field and get to the end zone.

1150
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's a cakewald with the way offenses are

1151
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: playing right now. Four of Tennessee's nine total possessions almost

1152
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: half we're in not only in Buffalo territory. Three of

1153
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: them were inside the red zone. First in ten inside

1154
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: the red zone. I mean, that's a Christmas gift for

1155
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: an NFL offense. So the Bill's best drive start was

1156
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: their own thirty one yard line when Matt Barkley came

1157
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: into the game. Everything else was their own twenty five

1158
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: yard line. And in I mean, and the Bill's offense

1159
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: is good. They have driven the field this year, a

1160
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: lot of long scoring drives. But when you're down on

1161
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: the scoreboard, buy more than one score, and you've got

1162
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: to drive the length of the field, and they're forcing

1163
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: you to take all of the underneath stuff because that's

1164
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,439
Speaker 1: all they're giving you. That's a tough road. To hope

1165
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: to climb back into a football game. And I think

1166
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: that's why Josh fell victim to that throw that he made.

1167
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: They had been Nicol and Diamond all the way down.

1168
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, let me take a shot here.

1169
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm off my back foot and this guy's underneath that

1170
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: didn't see him, and they're going the other way. Eight

1171
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 1: h three fifty fifty two five fifty. Let's go to

1172
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: Paul on a cell. Paul, you're on one Bills Live.

1173
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Sir? Hey, guys, thanks

1174
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: for taking my call and love the show. Thank you.

1175
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 1: I just wanted to touch base. Before the game last night,

1176
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about the Bills going five and oh,

1177
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: like the ninety one Bills, right, and that didn't happen.

1178
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: And if you look back, like a little history lesson

1179
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: in ninety one, the Bills went five and oh they

1180
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: got their butts kicked, like thirty three to six against

1181
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: Kansas City in week six. Then the following week they

1182
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: went out and beat the Colts forty two to six,

1183
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: right like you know, and then they went on another

1184
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: five game winning streak. So I'm hoping history kind of

1185
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: repeats itself here and if they needed to kind of

1186
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: get slapped around, maybe this is a good week for

1187
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: that to happen. And Steve, I know you live this

1188
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: through this, and I kind of wanted to get all

1189
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: your thoughts. Can the Bills go three, four, five and no,

1190
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: especially with you know, Kansas City, New England and Seattle

1191
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: on the dockets. But heck, I'd be happy with the

1192
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: Bills being six and two at the halfway point. Yeah,

1193
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, I think you have to be.

1194
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question I remember the game you're

1195
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: talking about when they got it. We got embarrassed on

1196
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football with Derek Thomas running. It was Derek

1197
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: Thomas and it was Montang Joe Montan and Marcus Snow

1198
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: it was Marcus Allen. Yeah, it was the same we meet.

1199
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: We subsequently met that exact team in the AFC Championship

1200
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: Game that year. I think no, no, that was that

1201
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: was ninety three is two years later, So yeah that,

1202
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: um I remember. Somebody just reminded me that on the

1203
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: plane ride home. And I'm might say the Bills did

1204
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: this with Tennessee last night. But after the Bills were

1205
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: four and oh in night five ninety one and got

1206
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: crushed in Kansas City. On the plane ride home from

1207
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: Kansas City. This was back in the day of a

1208
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: less politically correct time when they're doing the tomahawk chalk

1209
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: and doing that and doing the Florida state thing that

1210
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: they used to do, and they did that. You can

1211
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: imagine the Chiefs fans were doing that all night during

1212
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: that game. It was it was an absolutely non stop

1213
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: that that thing. It was like, you know, one of

1214
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: those college fight songs. That was every thirty seconds, that

1215
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: thing was going on. Everybody in the stands was doing

1216
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: this tomahawk job. So we get embarrassed and get out

1217
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: of there, and we get to the airport when we

1218
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 1: start flying home and guys and we're playing cards on

1219
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: the plane and all that, and the guys in the

1220
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: plane they went a hand of cards or something, they'd

1221
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: start doing the tom Hank job. We were singing it

1222
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 1: on the way home. We couldn't get it out of

1223
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: our minds. We couldn't get it out of our heads.

1224
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: And that was kind of the thing that kind of

1225
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: got us over that game. It was just it was

1226
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: a bad night, you know. And we met that team.

1227
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we met that team later and We've

1228
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: met him a couple of times over the course of

1229
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: those years, and they beat us good in Kansas City again,

1230
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: and we met him in the championship game. Was Joe

1231
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: Montana's last game as quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs

1232
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: and his last game as an NFL player, and Bruce

1233
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: put him out of the game with a concussion. Saturday night,

1234
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: the night before that game, we're watching one of those

1235
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: old games where they just handed us our heads. They

1236
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: just took our head, ripped our heads off and handed

1237
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: them to us, right, I mean, they crushed us. And

1238
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: we watched that film the night before we laid him

1239
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: in then AFC championship game and we're sitting there watching

1240
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: and the room is it's dark, and we're watching this

1241
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: this video and the room is silent. You can hear

1242
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: that running the back and forth, the films going backwards

1243
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: and forwards and Tom Brasener hands running it and the

1244
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: room is just dead. We're about to play these guys again.

1245
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: So are people seething. We're sitting there's silent, and finally

1246
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 1: they he turns it off and the lights come up.

1247
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. It's quiet and Thurman Thomas speaks

1248
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: up and he goes, guys, that was just a bad night.

1249
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: And that was it. Guys, that was just a bad night.

1250
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: So game media after the game, and Thurman goes out

1251
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: the next day and rushes for one hundred and eighty

1252
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: six yards and we built and we kill him. He goes, guys,

1253
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: that was just a bad night and that and we

1254
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: all said, you know what, He's right. We just looked awful.

1255
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: You know, we wrong. Everything was wrong, and uh, you know,

1256
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: you go out the next day and it's a different story.

1257
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: It's a difference. What did he say in the post game?

1258
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: I just remember him standing up there saying, is that

1259
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: good enough for you? Is that good enough for you?

1260
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: Because I guess people had him dead and you had

1261
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: you guys dead and buried by that time though it

1262
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: was a fourth Super Bow. Yeah, I don't think people

1263
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: thought you had it in you. And he's basically up

1264
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: at the podium point that everybody in the media saying

1265
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 1: is that good enough for you? Was that good enough

1266
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: for you? Was that good enough for you? And then

1267
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: answered two questions and he walked off. We're going to it.

1268
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: So they're going to the team's going to their fourth

1269
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And nobody outside our locker room, even Bills.

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Speaker 1: There were some Bills fans that just had enough. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't they couldn't take they couldn't take the heartbreak of

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Speaker 1: another Super Bowl. But that was the sign I remember

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Speaker 1: seeing in the stands, we're back deals in America right,

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01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: because they were. The rest was tired. Not all Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: but you know there's always you know, like your your

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Speaker 1: grandma and your aunt who's in I just don't want

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Speaker 1: him to go because I can't stand it when they don't,

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Speaker 1: you know, that kind of you know, those kind of fans,

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Speaker 1: And and we kind of picked that up as a

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Speaker 1: rallying cry and said, listen, if you don't want us

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Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl again, hey beat us.

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Speaker 1: Let's see you do it. Um. We went through some

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Speaker 1: games like the Bills went through last night on the

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Speaker 1: way to that to that you know, super Bowl, and

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Speaker 1: you got to take it for what it is. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that go into these games. Not

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Speaker 1: all of them happened between the whistles, and that last

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Speaker 1: night was a perfect example. I told you all week

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Speaker 1: that I didn't want to go overboard with it, but

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Speaker 1: the Titans were going to show up emotionally charged, pent

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Speaker 1: up energy. For the better part of the last two

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Speaker 1: they were in solitary confinement for two weeks. They were

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Speaker 1: they were vilified, and as you saw, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've seen a Taylor Luan who is never want

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01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: to filter anything after the game was what just went off?

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Speaker 1: And you know, so he's you know, he yeah, But

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Speaker 1: that's the mentality that team had. Everybody hates us. Everybody

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Speaker 1: thinks we're filthy animals that were lazy, that we didn't

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Speaker 1: do the protocols right, that we weren't taking it seriously

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Speaker 1: there and we had to sit there and those guys

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Speaker 1: are by themselves apart, separated. They're reaching their own homes

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Speaker 1: watching the league just roll on. The league is playing games,

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01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: the league is talking about all this stuff. There's statistics,

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01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: this guy's they're all everybody's doing all these great things.

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01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: And they are forced to sit there and watch that.

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01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: The league is taken off and leaving them, and they're

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Speaker 1: sitting there being punished day by day by that. Then

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Speaker 1: they get a chance to go out on the field

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Speaker 1: and have a say and just like answer everything with

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Speaker 1: one game. That's the emotional content they brought to it,

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01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: and the Bills are like, not there right, The Bills

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01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: are someplace completely different. They're like, gosh, he's COVID are

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01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna play these guys as what's gonna happen? And

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans are on vacation. They're like, whoa, let's go.

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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of emotion emotional difference that makes

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Speaker 1: games like that happen. It's like weekend R and R

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Speaker 1: for Cadets. It was exactly. It's a total release for

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, and it's it's like the Bills are

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Speaker 1: going into jail and the Titans got a furlough from

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Speaker 1: death row. Yeah, eight h three oh five fifty. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Stephen las Vegas. Steve, what do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? Thanks for joining one Bills Live. Hey, it's

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01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: good to talk to you guys. Listen, I agree about everything.

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01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: You just shut Steve, you get the nail on the head.

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01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,560
Speaker 1: I had a couple of points that I want to

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Speaker 1: get across it actually turning the three now because coming

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Speaker 1: into this game, I was a little bit literally about

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Speaker 1: the running game. Dere Derek Henry in the backfield, Henry

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Speaker 1: gonna be potting the ball. I'm all disappointed that our

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01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: defense overall hasn't blitched more. I know we're undermanned because

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Speaker 1: of injury. Getting back to Les Frazier, he's got a

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01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: middle linebacker that's built like a full grown condor, and

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01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: they don't use them as a ballhawk. He should be

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Speaker 1: in the quarterback space as often as possible. It needed

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Speaker 1: the blots more, not just yesterday, but throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: I know they pick and choose at times to do so,

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01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: but we put pressure on a quarterback, It's gonna make

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Speaker 1: a difference, and if you don't, you're gonna look like

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01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: a you know, I give turn average guy into somebody

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01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: really special. Given the turnovers I know we were. You know,

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01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: it dictates the game plan. But as I said, going

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Speaker 1: to the game and expect to win the game. I

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01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 1: didn't expect a sixteen and old season, and I think

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01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: nobody does. You know, I'm looking at a four last

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01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: season coming in this year. You know, we wear colors

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01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: out here in Os Vegas, proud and loud, because that's

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01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: just we do. There's quite a few of us out here.

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Speaker 1: But in the last point, I hope it's it's probably

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01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: gonna be overlooked with so thin at running at the

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01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: running a back position. I wish they'd use Josh Moore

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01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: with a read option. You know, t j Alden is

1352
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: an okay guy, had a good game, but you know

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01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: we're really thin in the backfield. I hope Brandon Bean

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01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: listens to the program. I know he's well aware of

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01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: Levi end Doll. I don't know if you want to

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01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 1: bring a problem player to your team in the middle

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01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: of the season, but just to have him he signed

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01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,560
Speaker 1: up in uniform in the backfield on a third and

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01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: long or any any situation would certainly go great distances.

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01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 1: I know we got money under the cap. I wasn't

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01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:32,519
Speaker 1: going to pour that in because a lot of people

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01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: would not welcome that at all. But we need here

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01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: to help it running backs and there's no doubtos ever

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,640
Speaker 1: and yesterday, and minus the turnovers, it could have been

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01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: a whole different story. I hope to be I know

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Speaker 1: that I learned from the loss, because it adds character

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01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: every time we lose a game. The problem for me

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01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 1: out here is I don't read the newspaper to watch

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01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: highlights for the whole week because I'm too disgusted to

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01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: do so. I'm one of those poor losers. But I

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Speaker 1: can't wait for next weekend and Monday night, and I

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Speaker 1: hope it's better a better TURNOUTO Kansas City. I hope

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Speaker 1: it's a good day. Guys. Thanks, thank appreciate your comments. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're necessarily thin at running back. Steve,

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Speaker 1: tell me what you saw from the run game, because

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Speaker 1: to me, I thought there was an inordinate amount of

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01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: penetration into the backfield. This isn't the first time we've

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01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: seen it. But how many times have we seen Devin

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01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: Singletary headed towards the hole where the play is designed

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: to go and have to throw it in reverse and

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01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: bounce a run wide. I mean a lot, right, Yeah,

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01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,560
Speaker 1: there's a couple of times to see. I think this.

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01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 1: I'll go back and maybe put this a little bit

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01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: of this on Josh. There was a couple of times

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01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 1: last night when it looked like Josh didn't get him

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01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: out of or got him into a play that ran

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01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: right into a blitz, run right into a run blitz.

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: They got caught a couple of times on gotcha defenses

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Speaker 1: last night. I'm not I'm not the depth of running back.

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is the guy you need. You need somebody

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01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 1: to spell him once in a while. And I'm you know,

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01:11:57,800 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: they've got Zack Moss waiting in the wings. He's gonna

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01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: get back in there. And I think t j Yelden

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01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks has played really well.

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01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: He had a couple of charity artage. Yesterday, he had

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01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: a couple of really nice carries against the Rams, did

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01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 1: some nice stuff against the Vegas and then last night

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01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: he came in and played well as as two and

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Speaker 1: especially in short yardage. Like you says, So I'm not

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Speaker 1: really upset about the depth of their running back position.

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01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: And also, you know, you talk about the defense, You've

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01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,759
Speaker 1: got a defensive head coach, You've got a defensive coordinator

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01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: who has been a head coach, and they have had

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01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: one of the top defenses in the league for the

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01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: past two years. If something needs to be fixed other

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 1: than what they're trying to do, those are the guys

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01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 1: you want fixing it. They know, if Tremaine's not playing well,

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01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna help him to play better. If you know,

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01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: if it's anything other than in the secondary, if it's

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01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 1: anything other than injuries, they're gonna fix it. They've got

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01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: They have got their minds around this defense totally, and

1412
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: I think if they're the defense is not playing well,

1413
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: they'll know the reasons why they'll be trying to fix it.

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01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,640
Speaker 1: And if, like forget about Levion Bell, if there's a

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01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: defensive player out there that they think can help them

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01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 1: or that they're gonna make that change. This coaching staff

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01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 1: doesn't pull punches, even with their players. You saw last

1418
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: night a j Epenezza was on the field, false start

1419
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: or illegal procedure, went from third and seven to third

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01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:32,640
Speaker 1: and two. He's off the field. Same thing happened to

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Speaker 1: Ed Oliver. He's It's happened to add Oliver a number

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Speaker 1: of times, you know, jumping off side, get him off

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01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 1: the field. They send a message to the players that

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01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 1: there's an expectation there that they play at a certain level,

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01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: and when they don't, they're off the field. That's been

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Speaker 1: true of every everything that I could was in a

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01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: position to observe. That has been the case. So if

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01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 1: there is a change that needs to be made with

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01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds and the way he's used, Matt Milano, Tyrel Dodson,

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01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: you name it, they're gonna make those changes and they're

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01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: also working to help those guys that aren't playing bad

1432
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: or playing good to play better and to give those

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01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 1: guys some help. And they spend the dial at the

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01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: bottom of the roster too. I mean, they won't hesitate.

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01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:17,679
Speaker 1: If there's somebody that's killing it on the practice squad

1436
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: in practice the last three weeks, they'll call him up

1437
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: and play him. Yeah, next week they give him a chance.

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01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: They give you a show out in practice, and you're

1439
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: out playing the guy that's been on the active roster

1440
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. They'll flip flop you in a second. Yeah.

1441
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's what they were trying to find

1442
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 1: out about Josh Norman before, uh Levi Wallace. You know,

1443
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: in that non contact ankle twitch either high ankle or whatever.

1444
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: I think Josh Norman was gonna get sprinkled in for

1445
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: some snaps and all of a sudden, you know, Levi

1446
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: goes down with an unexpected ankle injury. Um, now you're

1447
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:59,720
Speaker 1: in so we'll see. But they are nicked up at

1448
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 1: one of the most crucial positions in the league, and

1449
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: that's corner. They need to get those guys healthy and

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01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 1: back on the field to be a better defense. All right.

1451
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but when we return

1452
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls Ray and Buffalo, Rick and Nashville,

1453
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: John and Buffalo. Hang tight. We'll get to you when

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01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 1: we return. Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalido Health,

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown, Steve Tasker's second

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01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:36,080
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Speaker 1: years or older to purchase a lottery ticket. Last night's

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01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 1: game the second in the NFL to be played on

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01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: a Tuesday in seventy three seasons, the last one being

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: on December twenty eight, twenty ten, when the Vikings defeated

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty were fourteen, and that was moved due

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01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: to a blizzard. If memory serves ten years ago. Steve

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: task here, Chris Brown, with you taking your phone calls

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01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,919
Speaker 1: at eight O three five fifty as we're acting essentially

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01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 1: as therapists today. After a humbling forty two to sixteen

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01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: loss by the Bills last night, we go to Ray

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01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, who's been waiting patiently, Ray, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? Welcome to the show. Good. How are

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01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: you guys doing? We're doing all right? Man. So just

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01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 1: from what I see through these first couple of weeks, Um,

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01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 1: there's there's two inconsistencies that I'd like to get your

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01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 1: guys opinions on. One on offense, one on defense. One

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01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 1: beyond offense is I feel like each half we pick

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Speaker 1: a receiver. That receiver is our go to guy, and

1478
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: then you know, second half comes into another guy. I

1479
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 1: feel like our first half guy is more of like

1480
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 1: our Diggs. We're trying to get a quick started off,

1481
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: and then we switched more to Beasley Brown and Um,

1482
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: you know the other guys whoever is being put in

1483
01:16:56,040 --> 01:17:00,160
Speaker 1: if there's injuries. The second thing is on defense. Our

1484
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: run defense yesterday was nothing short of unreal. I think

1485
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: we played really really well against Dearah Henry. Um. It

1486
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 1: surprised me a little bit because the first couple of

1487
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: weeks I don't think we were entirely there. We were

1488
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: letting up big runs, but especially with Trey being out,

1489
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: Mabolano being out, and Levi Walls being out, I think

1490
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 1: it hurt our past defense what do you guys think

1491
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: as far as getting on a more consistent basis on

1492
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: both sides of the field. Take that one, Steve, what

1493
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,759
Speaker 1: do you got well? I think yesterday the run defense,

1494
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,799
Speaker 1: it was a hard team to get off the field.

1495
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: They the Titans never they did a couple of times

1496
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 1: last night, maybe, but they almost never take a negative play.

1497
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: The biggest negative play they get is an incomplete pass,

1498
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: which is very rare. He's twenty one to twenty eight

1499
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: last night. That is, They're just hard to get off

1500
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 1: the field offensively, and that was really the difference last night.

1501
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: The Bills could not get Ryan Tannehill off the off

1502
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: the field punted once right, and that's frustrating. And they

1503
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: never put the ball at risk either. Really, the ball

1504
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: was never risked last night. So it's hard to get

1505
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:10,759
Speaker 1: the ball out of their hands like with a fumble

1506
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: or anything else. I saw glimpses yes yesterday of even

1507
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 1: guys like Cam Lewis and Dean Marlo. These guys they

1508
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: came up out of the secondary, set the edge and

1509
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: made the tackle great. I even saw aj Epeneza make

1510
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: a tackle for loss in the backfield on Henry as well. Yeah,

1511
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:29,679
Speaker 1: there were flashes of that, But it's hard to play

1512
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: good defense. I believe it's hard to play good defense

1513
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: at this point in the NFL. Maybe it'll change later

1514
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: this season. Maybe they'll start to call more holding, Maybe

1515
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: offenses won't be able to, you know, get in the

1516
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 1: third and one or a second or one so often.

1517
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 1: But um, I think, yeah, the Bills didn't fall on

1518
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: their faces last night. Defensively, they were put in some

1519
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 1: tough spots because the offense turning it over and they

1520
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: played a quarterback who and is you know, there's a comparison.

1521
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: He's got exactly the same numbers, actually better numbers than

1522
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes in the last thirteen games. That's how good

1523
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 1: Bryan Tannehill's playing for those guys. So yeah, they played

1524
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 1: okay last night. They didn't fall on their faces, and

1525
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: they met a really good football team, which we all

1526
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: thought Tennessee was, and they played like it. And when

1527
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over against those guys, you're gonna lose.

1528
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. And on offense about targeting one

1529
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: guy per half, yeah, I'm not totally agreeing with that.

1530
01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a concerned I know that

1531
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: they have plays that they'll every play has a guy

1532
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: that say listen, we're thinking we're gonna get this, and

1533
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: this is the guy you're gonna go to. I rarely

1534
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna say, Okay, now we're gonna throw

1535
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: to this guy for the next three or four options.

1536
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna give this guy the tart. I don't think

1537
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: that's the case. I think that has as much to

1538
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:47,560
Speaker 1: do with the decisions that the defenders make more so

1539
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: than the decisions Josh Allen makes. And he's looking for

1540
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:53,200
Speaker 1: an open guy, right. We hear Brian dab will say

1541
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: it all the time. This isn't an offense that features

1542
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 1: any one player. It's designed for Josh to make the

1543
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:02,519
Speaker 1: right decisions and throw to the guy that's open. And

1544
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 1: the target chair would be a strong indicator of that. Now.

1545
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 1: I know last night because I pointed it out on Twitter.

1546
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: Of the first twenty targets that Josh had in the

1547
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 1: passing game, nine went to Stefan Diggs. I think that

1548
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: was a byproduct of two things. Number One, Stefan Diggs

1549
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: is a damn good separator and is going to get

1550
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: open often, which he did last night. Number Two, the

1551
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: absence of John Brown, who Josh Allen arguably has the

1552
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 1: best rapport with of any player on the offense, was

1553
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, and so he was looking for

1554
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: his next best option that he trusts the most, and

1555
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:42,600
Speaker 1: that was Diggs. Now did he ignore Cole Beasley in

1556
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: the first half, Probably to some extent he did. And

1557
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 1: you better believe that the offensive staff was in his

1558
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,799
Speaker 1: ear saying, hey, Beasley's running free underneath constantly. He's winning

1559
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: on ninety percent of his routes. Get him the ball,

1560
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: so we can stay on schedule on offense. And at

1561
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:58,560
Speaker 1: the start of the second half they did that. He

1562
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: had four catches on the first drive. I mean, he

1563
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: was intimately involved once the second half started. So I

1564
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 1: understand why you might think that way. But if you

1565
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 1: look at the distribution of the ball in the passing

1566
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: game through the first five games this year, I mean,

1567
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:14,519
Speaker 1: routinely in a game they are hitting eight nine different

1568
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: players with receptions over the course of the game. Certainly

1569
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: some more than others, like the top three, but on

1570
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: the whole, they're spreading the ball around and he's just

1571
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: thrown it to the open man. Yeah, Diggs had sixteen

1572
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: targets last night. Caught ten of them. Gabe Davis had

1573
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis had nine targets and five receptions. Cole Beasley

1574
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: six targets, six receptions. Yeah, that's pretty good efficiency, and

1575
01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things why you had

1576
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: noticed him. You don't notice him missing passes. But Steph

1577
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: Diggs and Steph Diggs had a drop. Gabriel Davis had

1578
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: a drop. Andre Roberts had a drop, and Dawson Knox

1579
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 1: had a drop and they were dropped. Now they were

1580
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: you know, would have been nice catches, but you wouldn't

1581
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: even have batted an eye that they pulled him in.

1582
01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: Those are catches you gotta make. All four of those

1583
01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: guys had a drop, and that to me also speaks

1584
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: of where they that the whole team was mentally when

1585
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: he got that many different guys dropping passes that they

1586
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: catch usually eight three, five fifty. We go to Rick

1587
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Rick, what do you have for us? Welcome

1588
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey, thanks, Yeah, I was at the

1589
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: game last night. Um, a couple of things I thought

1590
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: they were gonna do. I like Dable, so this isn't

1591
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 1: the stable hating guy. Um, but why we didn't run

1592
01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: a hurry up offense with a team that hasn't done

1593
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,560
Speaker 1: anything in two weeks. Maybe Steve could speak to the

1594
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:32,680
Speaker 1: conditioning at that point. And then, um, they played a

1595
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 1: lot of too deep safety and we still could not

1596
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 1: get the running game going. It's very concerning. Um. And

1597
01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: then Spain isn't active. I mean he knew something wrong

1598
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 1: and he got well rick he uh, Quentin Spain got

1599
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: came up lame in pregame warmups. He was gonna play,

1600
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: it was gonna be active, and he banged his foot.

1601
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: He aggravated a foot injury he's been dealing with during

1602
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: pregame warmups. Oh did not know that. Yeah, so he

1603
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: said he couldn't go. So he was a late scratch

1604
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: before the game. As far as the run game, though,

1605
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 1: I think you're dead on with that because coach McDermott

1606
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: even addressed that after the game, saying, you know, and

1607
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:13,720
Speaker 1: running down the laundry list of things he wasn't happy with.

1608
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: He said, we've got to be able to run the

1609
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: football better against cover two, and he goes, one hundred percent, right,

1610
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 1: you got a seven man box. You gotta win. Yeah,

1611
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: you gotta win there and get positive gains, and they

1612
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: did not do that last night. Well, then what about

1613
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: running the hurry up offense? Why wouldn't you do that

1614
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: to a team that hasn't done anything. Yeah, they caught

1615
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,640
Speaker 1: him in that tempo play in the first half. You know,

1616
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: they got quick up to the line on third and

1617
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 1: short and Josh you know, went with the sneak and

1618
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,799
Speaker 1: got the first down and they kept clowning off the field,

1619
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: which was good. I would say this, Rick, I think,

1620
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 1: and I haven't heard Brian Dable speak to this. I

1621
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody say this. And it's not just because

1622
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 1: I played a lot of the large part of my

1623
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 1: career and a team that did a lot. I think

1624
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: it comes down to the preferences of the guys. The

1625
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: guy that's taking the snaps. I don't know that Josh

1626
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: Allen is as good going fast or as comfortable going

1627
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: fast as as they want. I think he's more comfortable

1628
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: coming up getting a look at everything pre snap and

1629
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 1: getting a read on the huddle fast. Yeah, but I

1630
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: look at that everything. I think Josh Allen likes to

1631
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: get up on the line and then stand there and

1632
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: look at this and what's see what's going on with

1633
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: that play in his mind? And I think the way

1634
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: they run their offense now that Josh has become very

1635
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: comfortable doing is having them a play and then off

1636
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: of that play, they've got a couple of checks that

1637
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: they go to run or pass checks that are different

1638
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,559
Speaker 1: than the play they've already called. So you've got one

1639
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: of each. And I think Josh feels comfortable doing that.

1640
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: And I think going fast the only reason, the main

1641
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 1: reason the old Time Bills with I played on used

1642
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: to do that is because our quarterback loved going fast.

1643
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: He felt more comfortable doing that. And back then, defenses

1644
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: got simpler the faster you went because they didn't try

1645
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: to make any checks. They just want to get lined up.

1646
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: Defenses are a bit beyond that now they can still

1647
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: remain a little bit multiple even if they're going fast.

1648
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 1: They're that well schooled. So it's a little different atmosphere

1649
01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:17,720
Speaker 1: in a different world they live in now. Yeah, and

1650
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 1: fewer specialized players that casey game when you guys got killed. Yeah,

1651
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: I'll call in it in the off season. I've got

1652
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: a really good story about to win my jackets that

1653
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: took place in that game. All right, call us put

1654
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 1: that in account. A day off in the future. Put

1655
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: it in your calendar and call us on that day.

1656
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Rick, Um. We may have to

1657
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 1: tell Rick to stop going to road games. If he

1658
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:45,160
Speaker 1: went to that game where the Bills got waxed against

1659
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and then the Titans got waxed last night,

1660
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: may not be allowed. May have to take his road

1661
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,439
Speaker 1: game travel card away from him. Were you at any

1662
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: of the road games we actually won? I don't know.

1663
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: All right, we have to take a break back with

1664
01:25:57,240 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls when we return here on

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01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

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01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:19,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Brown Steve Tasker One Bills Live, a Wednesday

1667
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 1: recap edition, and time now for our reads, Jen's Milestones Reads.

1668
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 1: Jen's the official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. Stefan Diggs

1669
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 1: now has five hundred nine receiving yards this season. It's

1670
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: the fifth time a Bill has had five hundred plus

1671
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: receiving yards in a season's first five games. He's the

1672
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: first to do it since Eric Moltz had five hundred

1673
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,680
Speaker 1: thirty yards in the first five games of the two

1674
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:49,640
Speaker 1: thousand two season, and Diggs is leading the AFC in

1675
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: receiving yards. That guy has been everything Bills fans hoped

1676
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: he'd be in a game where John Brown couldn't get

1677
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: into the game. He got targeted sixteen times, had ten

1678
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred plus one hundred and five yards

1679
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. You know, just a guy that

1680
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: is dependably getting open constantly and has the confidence of

1681
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,719
Speaker 1: his quarterback. He gives Josh an outlet, and he gives

1682
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: him space to fit the ball in. He has shown

1683
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: up big time and big moments. He's made big catches.

1684
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 1: He has been He's gone to the top of the

1685
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: depth chart and the top of the choice list of

1686
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: Bill's offense, and he man, he's lived up to it.

1687
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: He has been everything the Bills hoped he would be.

1688
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: And h and maybe more maybe more, yeah, maybe more.

1689
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,599
Speaker 1: Five five games into the season, he's got five hundred

1690
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: yards receiving. Thank you. If he stays on that piece,

1691
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,280
Speaker 1: we're talking about a sixteen hundred yard season. I mean

1692
01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 1: he's averaging one hundred and one receiving yards a game, absolutely,

1693
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: and it's it's been pretty cool to watch u. And

1694
01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 1: plus he's getting helped from John Brown. Cole Beasley has

1695
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: chipped in a enormous amount. You know, you think about

1696
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,680
Speaker 1: and the bare bones of it. Last night is no

1697
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: matter if you say they showed up flat, if whatever

1698
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: the emotion that was for the content that Tennessee brought

1699
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 1: to the table and the Bills didn't know who they

1700
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: were playing, they kind of showed up in a daze.

1701
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: The offense, you put this offense last night, if the

1702
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: turnovers they had notwithstanding, but you put that offense last

1703
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: night and transposed on the twenty nineteen season, it's the

1704
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: best day of the year. Yeah, if you know, with

1705
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 1: no turnovers and right he threw for two eighty eight

1706
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. Yeah, you know, and he's got guys

1707
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, receiver going over a hundred yards that I mean,

1708
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 1: it's m The bar has absolutely skyrocketed for the offense

1709
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: this year. Now, certainly for this defense and every other

1710
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:51,599
Speaker 1: defense in the league is like how do you stop anybody?

1711
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:56,719
Speaker 1: But this offense is with Steph Diggs and the numbers

1712
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:59,759
Speaker 1: you just read, and it's a blast to watch these guys.

1713
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 1: I was even in the midst of last night, I

1714
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:05,680
Speaker 1: was like, I can't. I was sitting back when he

1715
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 1: converted another third and ten that first touchdown drive. They

1716
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 1: converted a third and one a third and thirteen, a

1717
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:14,720
Speaker 1: third and seven, and a third and fifteen after a

1718
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: touchdown got called back on an illegal shift penalty. They

1719
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 1: they and they cut to Rabel on the sidelines and

1720
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 1: he was shaking his head. After Josh converted the third

1721
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:27,719
Speaker 1: and seven with the scramble, He's standing on the sidelines

1722
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: looking at his call shee and he's like, what are

1723
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:31,640
Speaker 1: we doing here? I don't know what else to do that?

1724
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: They they were, They are hitting so well offensively, playing

1725
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:40,400
Speaker 1: so well offensively. Just had a couple of mistakes. Yeah,

1726
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:42,400
Speaker 1: that's all the bad pick. The bad pick is the

1727
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:43,920
Speaker 1: one you look at and then the drops, you know,

1728
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:48,120
Speaker 1: and if all of that stuff happens in favor of

1729
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: the Bills, I still think that is a dog fight

1730
01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: of a game. Yeah, I know. The Titans are not

1731
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: going in They make you grind out games plays quarters series,

1732
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: they just make they put you through a grinder. You

1733
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:03,400
Speaker 1: gotta earn it again. They are a really good football team.

1734
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: They really are. Despite the fact they've been out of

1735
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 1: the building for two weeks and the Titans showed up

1736
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: last night. They are a really good football team and

1737
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:14,719
Speaker 1: they're built to have teams like Buffalo hand them games,

1738
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 1: and that's what the Bills. Yeah, purchasing. They just play

1739
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 1: good enough, and if you make a single mistake, we

1740
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,040
Speaker 1: take advantage of They take advantage of it, and you

1741
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: don't get at You never get a chance to make

1742
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: up for that mistake. You have to play perfect the

1743
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 1: rest of the way. No sacks, no turnovers. I mean

1744
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: the worst thing they did was punt once. Actually punted

1745
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:42,719
Speaker 1: three times. Three times. I'm surprised to see that myself.

1746
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 1: I was shocked, but yeah, that's the kind of game

1747
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: you're looking at with those guys, and you know, with

1748
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 1: Brett Kerrn punting. Fantastic job last night for them to

1749
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: John and Buffalo at eight oh three, five fifty John,

1750
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Welcome to the show.

1751
01:30:56,640 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: How are you doing good? Great? Thanks for having me on.

1752
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:03,680
Speaker 1: Sure I'm here. Started to say that everything's going to

1753
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 1: be all right. I'm seventy seven then, a Bills fan

1754
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 1: for sixty five years, probably the only Bills fan that

1755
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:13,240
Speaker 1: ever saw the Buffalo Bills played the Hamilton Tiger Kiss.

1756
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:17,639
Speaker 1: I heard about that game. Yeah, that was I think

1757
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:19,680
Speaker 1: it was worse than the Titans game. They didn't know

1758
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:23,719
Speaker 1: what the hell they were doing. I'm calling on two things. First.

1759
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: The first aspect. First of all, before say anything more,

1760
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 1: Guy made the Hall of Fame, Steve, you should make

1761
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame because you're the special person that

1762
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 1: made Special Team special. And I really mean that, okay,

1763
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: Ray Guy. Then the other thing is what I took

1764
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: away from the game was right at the end when

1765
01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 1: they showed Josh Allen going around player to player to player.

1766
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Remind me of the Leavy book where he says he

1767
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 1: was ready to go up to Norton on the return

1768
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 1: Scottie Norman, you know, on the return from the Super

1769
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,560
Speaker 1: Bowl twenty five, but he said before he could do that,

1770
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 1: it seemed like every single player went up to Scottie

1771
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: and said, it wasn't your fault. I could have done this.

1772
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: I could have done that. And leadership is really when

1773
01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: you're behind and you're down. And at the beginning of

1774
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:16,720
Speaker 1: the year I predicted that they would be twelve and four.

1775
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: One of the games I thought they would lose was

1776
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:23,920
Speaker 1: this Titans game. And I believe the most important games again,

1777
01:32:24,320 --> 01:32:27,559
Speaker 1: and the big thing that they're looking for is the EFS,

1778
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: the Eastern title, and the big games are because they're

1779
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 1: like twice the amount are Miami, New England and the Jets.

1780
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that really, really really do come

1781
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:43,639
Speaker 1: and I think they'll still go twelve and twelve and two.

1782
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: All right, John, thanks for the call. Thank you an

1783
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: insight there. We are up against the clock here, because

1784
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 1: coming up on the other side of the top of

1785
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: the hour is Brian Baldinger from NFL Network is going

1786
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 1: to help us break this one down from an x's

1787
01:32:57,320 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: and o's perspective, so we'll get his thoughts on the

1788
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: game when we return here on One Bill's Line. Presented

1789
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:15,799
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radiofalo Bills

1790
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Update, Your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1791
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,120
Speaker 1: The Bills fall to four and one on the season

1792
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 1: after last night two sixteen lost to the Titans. Josh

1793
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:28,760
Speaker 1: Allen had two interceptions and the Bills turn the ball

1794
01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 1: over three total times, which led to twenty one Tennessee points.

1795
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:34,560
Speaker 1: Quick turnaround for the Bills as they returned to the

1796
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: practice field on Thursday to prep four their Monday evening

1797
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: game with the Chiefs here at Bill's Stadium. One injury

1798
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 1: note from last night's game, tight End Dawson Knox left

1799
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 1: in the second half with a calf injury. We'll get

1800
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:47,560
Speaker 1: an update on him and some players that missed the

1801
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:51,040
Speaker 1: game entirely, including Tredavious White, John Brown, and Matt Mulano

1802
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:54,640
Speaker 1: when coach McDermot speaks with the media at four this afternoon.

1803
01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:57,439
Speaker 1: Five games into the twenty twenty season, the Jets have

1804
01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,720
Speaker 1: decided to release st our running back lady On Bell.

1805
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 1: GM Joe Douglas announced the end to Bell's tumultuous Jets

1806
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 1: ten tenure Tuesday night. If Bell clears waivers, he becomes

1807
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: a free agent at four pm this afternoon and free

1808
01:34:10,640 --> 01:34:13,840
Speaker 1: to sign with any club college football. Just four days

1809
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:16,839
Speaker 1: before their schedule to play LSU, the number ten Florida

1810
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:19,519
Speaker 1: Gators have put football activities on hold due to a

1811
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 1: coronavirus outbreak. Florida's football program, counting players, coaches in personnel,

1812
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:29,520
Speaker 1: had nineteen positive tests over the last several days. Championship

1813
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: series in Major League Baseball continues tonight Game three between

1814
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:36,560
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Braves, and the NLCS Bravo's lead that

1815
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 1: series two games to none. ALCS Tampa Bay can close

1816
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: out their series with the Astros for the winning Tonight's

1817
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,600
Speaker 1: Game four, going for the sweep to advance to the

1818
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,720
Speaker 1: World Series. That is your sports update here from one

1819
01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:53,879
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Our number three of the program, Steve Tasker

1820
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,639
Speaker 1: Chris Brown and joining us on the line right now

1821
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,639
Speaker 1: is the guy that you see just a out everywhere

1822
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:06,880
Speaker 1: NFL Network. He's also the RGC Sports NFL Insider and

1823
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger's insider calls brought to you by Indeed. If

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01:35:10,479 --> 01:35:13,680
Speaker 1: you need to hire, you need Indeed learn more at

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Speaker 1: indeed dot com. Forward slash credit Brian, Welcome to the show.

1826
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 1: How are you, sir? I'm doing great. Good to see

1827
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:25,479
Speaker 1: you guys. Good looking set that y'all have. Steve, what's

1828
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 1: going on man? Good to see you Baldly. How you

1829
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:31,760
Speaker 1: How are you making it through this uh COVID inflicted

1830
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 1: football season? So far, so good, So far, so good, Steve.

1831
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: You know like I'm in my film room here NFL Films.

1832
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,759
Speaker 1: I'm I'm up in the third floor here. I'm literally

1833
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: the only person on the third floor. I practice physical

1834
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:51,679
Speaker 1: distancing every day here, so that's good. And then I've

1835
01:35:51,720 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 1: been on the road doing games every weekend. I saw

1836
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:57,759
Speaker 1: the Bills two weeks ago take a part to Raiders

1837
01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 1: there at the New stadium. So it's been good for me.

1838
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:04,760
Speaker 1: You know, I'm doing what I was supposed to do.

1839
01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of mask over here, Steve. As

1840
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:09,920
Speaker 1: soon as I leave this office, I put one on.

1841
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: So I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to do.

1842
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:14,680
Speaker 1: So far, so good. Well, I guess you and the

1843
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: Titans like you're doing better than the Titans or what

1844
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: did you think of that game last night? Did you

1845
01:36:18,320 --> 01:36:22,040
Speaker 1: get a chance to see the Titans Bills? Yeah, I

1846
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:24,600
Speaker 1: watched it. I studied it this morning, Steve, so I

1847
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:28,680
Speaker 1: saw it. You know, the Bills were very shorthanded defensively.

1848
01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 1: You know, you lose Levi Wilds, you lose Trdavious White,

1849
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: you lose Matt Mulano. I mean, you got a lot

1850
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:36,680
Speaker 1: of guys out. You know, John Brown might have made

1851
01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 1: a difference, but I just thought they were off. I mean,

1852
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: you know, just in the first quarter, Alan Steve offensively.

1853
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, Andre Roberts dropped that ball that

1854
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:48,160
Speaker 1: got picked by Malcolm Butler. I saw Daves dropped some balls.

1855
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:51,720
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, gave Davis score touchdown that got

1856
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:55,799
Speaker 1: called back because you know, somebody wasn't set on the offense.

1857
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:59,000
Speaker 1: You know, third and one, you know, gave Davis full starts.

1858
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I just saw him as kind of uncharacteristic

1859
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 1: mistakes of any Sean mcdermot's team, not just this year,

1860
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:10,400
Speaker 1: but just any Sean McDermott team. How maybe explain to

1861
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:14,080
Speaker 1: the listeners and the viewers, Baldy, just when you have

1862
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:17,519
Speaker 1: to plug guys in to fill roles. I mean, we

1863
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: hear this step in step up philosophy that every coach

1864
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:24,960
Speaker 1: speak out there uses. But the bottom line is the

1865
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,559
Speaker 1: Bills had to put Josh Norman in as their number

1866
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 1: one corner. They had to put an undrafted second year

1867
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 1: kid in cam Lewis into a number two corner role,

1868
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, etc. Etc. On down the line. When you

1869
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: have to make that many big asks, that's tough like

1870
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:45,799
Speaker 1: for a team to expect the same kind of production.

1871
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 1: I mean, as much as those guys are laying it

1872
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,320
Speaker 1: on the line, and some of those guys flash last night,

1873
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: cam Lewis early in the game run support corner. I mean,

1874
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: nice job on Derrick Henry. But you know, in the

1875
01:37:56,200 --> 01:37:58,240
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, when you have to ask guys

1876
01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 1: to do that much and they're out there for some

1877
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 1: odd plays, that can be a big ask against the

1878
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: team the quality of the Titans, right they can't be.

1879
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:08,800
Speaker 1: I mean it was trickling down effect. Nobody's can make

1880
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:11,720
Speaker 1: an excuses at one Bill's place. They shouldn't either. I

1881
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:13,760
Speaker 1: mean Dodson goes down, a j Klein has to come

1882
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,519
Speaker 1: in a linebacker. I mean they lost players during the game.

1883
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:19,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's just that's just the life

1884
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. I mean I would say,

1885
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:25,400
Speaker 1: and I think Sean McDermott, I think Josh Allen, I

1886
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: think some of the guys, you know, Stefan Diggs, I mean,

1887
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them would say that they

1888
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:33,720
Speaker 1: inflicted a lot of their own wounds, that they were

1889
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 1: the biggest enemy last night. Between the penalties, I don't

1890
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: really agree with some of the defensive past interference penalties

1891
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 1: of Josh Dorman last night. Yeah, I thought it was

1892
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 1: just playing, to be honest with you, But they gave

1893
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 1: him first down. So look, you know, even after the

1894
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 1: second interception, which Josh Allen knew, I mean he saw

1895
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 1: what happened, he saw Malcolm Butler playing that cover two trap,

1896
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 1: and you know, as soon as he let the ball go,

1897
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 1: he knew it was a bad throw. But you know,

1898
01:38:59,120 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 1: I mean, look at you know, Josh Allen should learn

1899
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:03,800
Speaker 1: from that, you know. But my point about that play was,

1900
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: as soon as Malcolm Butler makes that interception, there's six

1901
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 1: guys that can make a tackle. Nobody makes a tackle.

1902
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,640
Speaker 1: So I mean, those are just the little things that

1903
01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 1: I think you could put on the bills before you know,

1904
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:17,439
Speaker 1: he goes sixty eight yards in the return, that you

1905
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: can put on the bills, you know, the drops, the penalties,

1906
01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:23,560
Speaker 1: the last interception, I think those are all things that

1907
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:25,840
Speaker 1: they could clean up on their end. And when as

1908
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: you see this game and you see this season going

1909
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:32,960
Speaker 1: and all the scrambler that they put the the schedule through,

1910
01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: the Titans are gonna find themselves coming out of this.

1911
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:39,840
Speaker 1: Certainly they probably won't have a bye week the rest

1912
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 1: of the way. But their team looks really tough to beat.

1913
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 1: They run the ball well and Tannehill doesn't really risk

1914
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:49,479
Speaker 1: the football even in the passing game twenty one of

1915
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:54,880
Speaker 1: twenty eight last night. How far can this Titans team go? Well,

1916
01:39:54,920 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 1: they're like a lot of teams, you know, they've they've

1917
01:39:56,479 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 1: lost a lot of players. They played without two, you know,

1918
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:01,599
Speaker 1: starting receivers last night. So you know, I mean Calif

1919
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: Raymond stepped up and Nick West broken a bunch of

1920
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: guys that were But anyways, they're a good team. I mean, look,

1921
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 1: Steve Ryan Tannehill is fourteen and four as the starting

1922
01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:14,880
Speaker 1: quarterback since he took over a week seven last year.

1923
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: You saw the difficulty that he is to defend last night.

1924
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:21,639
Speaker 1: I mean when he gets outside the pocket, his ability

1925
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:25,839
Speaker 1: to scramble, scramble and put the defense in compromising positions.

1926
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 1: His accuracy, Um, you know, he was tough. I mean,

1927
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:32,120
Speaker 1: you get a blitz right here and second play the

1928
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: game and he throws it over the top right there,

1929
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:36,800
Speaker 1: and you know, puts a puts a right on a J.

1930
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:40,080
Speaker 1: Brown who's a real number one wide receiver. Uh, you know,

1931
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:42,800
Speaker 1: he was excellent last night, just excellent. That throw to

1932
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: Clif Rayman. That's third and twenty right there, you know,

1933
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 1: in theory and two two man right there, you think

1934
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,080
Speaker 1: you're getting off the field, and he converts that and

1935
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 1: he gets outside the pocket here and you know, I mean,

1936
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:56,559
Speaker 1: look that's a walk in apart for him. Everything he's

1937
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 1: spt to finish and the stumble. But yeah, but he's

1938
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:01,639
Speaker 1: but he's really good. I sat down with them. Steve

1939
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:03,720
Speaker 1: in a film session I did with him at the

1940
01:41:03,760 --> 01:41:06,639
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl last year, Kurt Warner myself and I came

1941
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: away with a complete different understanding of what who I

1942
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:13,840
Speaker 1: thought he was. I mean, he has a really clear

1943
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 1: picture of what defenses are doing and how they want

1944
01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:19,560
Speaker 1: to do it, and what his answers are, and so

1945
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 1: he's got real good veteran experience, and I think the

1946
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 1: players really like playing for him. Question I have for

1947
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: Ubaldi on a league wide perspective, it looks as though,

1948
01:41:30,800 --> 01:41:37,599
Speaker 1: at least on the surface, that no preseason and no OTAs, etc.

1949
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people going in thought it

1950
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:44,439
Speaker 1: was going to adversely affect offenses around the league. No

1951
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 1: chance to get your timing down in the passing game,

1952
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: no execution, no reps. And it really looks like it's

1953
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 1: been the exact opposite effect. And we've talked to some

1954
01:41:54,439 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 1: of the defensive players on the Bills. You know, tackling

1955
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:01,360
Speaker 1: has been poor, not only here in Buffalo, but league wide,

1956
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 1: and Micah Hyde was saying, Hey, you know, we basically

1957
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: got a glorified scrimmage here against our own guys who

1958
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: we still can't tackle to the ground because they are

1959
01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:13,599
Speaker 1: our own guys. And then it's like, don't play preseason football,

1960
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:16,680
Speaker 1: go play regular season football. How much do you think

1961
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: that is a factor in all the offense that we

1962
01:42:19,120 --> 01:42:22,800
Speaker 1: have seen exploding all over the NFL because there are

1963
01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot of defenses across the league right now. Baldi

1964
01:42:25,200 --> 01:42:28,000
Speaker 1: that they got defensive coordinators up in rooms scratching their

1965
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,760
Speaker 1: head practically in the fetal position, saying, how are we

1966
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:34,479
Speaker 1: going to stop these teams? Nobody's stopping anybody, it seems. Yeah.

1967
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:36,680
Speaker 1: I mean, scoring is at an all time record right now,

1968
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of reasons to contribute. Certainly, no

1969
01:42:39,600 --> 01:42:44,400
Speaker 1: preseason hasn't helped. There's been just far too many injuries

1970
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,599
Speaker 1: because teams just could not get and build a calcids.

1971
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 1: You got to build, you know, in preseason with just

1972
01:42:50,280 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 1: hitting in contact in preseason games. They didn't get that.

1973
01:42:53,280 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: So we're seeing a lot of injuries I think as

1974
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,640
Speaker 1: the result. And then you know, just the rules. I mean,

1975
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 1: you saw Josh Dormer last night. I thought, that's how

1976
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 1: you play defense, you know, I thought all this contact

1977
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 1: was within five yards and they threw a flag and

1978
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,720
Speaker 1: its two first downs and you know, you know, you

1979
01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 1: can't get off the field, and so you saw a

1980
01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:14,160
Speaker 1: late hit you know on Ryan Tannehill last night, can't

1981
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: touch the quarterback. And I mean these things are all

1982
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:18,640
Speaker 1: safety relating for the most part, and they get a

1983
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 1: fresh set of downs and throw a touchdown, you know

1984
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: as a result. So I think the penalties, the no preseason,

1985
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: the injuries, I think they've all kind of contributed right now,

1986
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 1: and and just the general rules and the way the

1987
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:34,080
Speaker 1: game is. You know, you're gonna get games in the thirties,

1988
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, week in week out, right now. Do you

1989
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:40,599
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen taken all into into account Josh Allen's

1990
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:43,280
Speaker 1: development and the step he's taken this year. Certainly it's

1991
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 1: been significant, even given the step that he took last year,

1992
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: did you I mean, I know you've been a supporter

1993
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 1: of his. You've seen it on the horizon. We've seen

1994
01:43:53,400 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: flashes of it. Even his even his most ardent supporters

1995
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:03,120
Speaker 1: like us here, we didn't see this step coming. I

1996
01:44:03,160 --> 01:44:04,680
Speaker 1: didn't either, Steve. I didn't think it was going to

1997
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:06,720
Speaker 1: be this good. I mean even last night. He made

1998
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 1: a lot of great throws last night, I mean across

1999
01:44:09,320 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: his body, scrambling eyes down the field, protecting the ball,

2000
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: look the one one interceptions, A tip ball one interception.

2001
01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Malcolm Butler got him. That's gonna happen. I

2002
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:23,960
Speaker 1: thought he was awesome against the Raiders. I thought, I

2003
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:25,680
Speaker 1: love the way that they played that game. You get

2004
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:29,680
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter fumble and immediately you attack down the

2005
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: field to digs for fifty yards and you score. I mean,

2006
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:35,720
Speaker 1: I love the way that he plays and his accuracy

2007
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:38,479
Speaker 1: right now. I mean he's at seventy percent. I don't

2008
01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:41,120
Speaker 1: know that anybody thought coming out of Wyoming he'd ever

2009
01:44:41,200 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: complete seventy percent of his passes and the mistakes are

2010
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 1: way down, and you know his ability just in the

2011
01:44:46,400 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 1: pocket right here, this highlight you're showing to make that

2012
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 1: throw in the sideline. I think he's fantastic. I mean

2013
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:55,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna go a long ways and Josh Allen's a

2014
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:57,600
Speaker 1: big part of it, and he's tough as can be

2015
01:44:58,080 --> 01:45:01,280
Speaker 1: and he never points a finger. Players love playing with them,

2016
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: and they play, you know, they play more four wide

2017
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 1: receivers than any team in the league, more ten personnel

2018
01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 1: than anybody, and they put it on him, you know,

2019
01:45:10,120 --> 01:45:12,840
Speaker 1: to execute, and they dress six wide receivers and they

2020
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:16,240
Speaker 1: all get it. It's an aerial circus, and he loves

2021
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 1: kind of being at the forefront of it. Everybody's getting

2022
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 1: fed what Cole Beasley did in that second half. He

2023
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:24,960
Speaker 1: can't ask for anything more. There's nothing I don't like

2024
01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:29,520
Speaker 1: about this quarterback. Nothing talking NFL Network analyst Brian Pauldinger,

2025
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:33,560
Speaker 1: and you know, we look at his improvements on the

2026
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:36,400
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. We've been taking calls from

2027
01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:38,840
Speaker 1: fans who are a little bit concerned about Tremaine Edmonds.

2028
01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 1: Knowing the amount of film that you watch, Baldi is

2029
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:45,759
Speaker 1: to say he has regressed from his Pro Bowl form

2030
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 1: last year. Too strong or what might it be that

2031
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:52,599
Speaker 1: is keeping him from being more of the impact player

2032
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:54,560
Speaker 1: that I think fans expect him to be. In the

2033
01:45:54,640 --> 01:45:59,519
Speaker 1: middle of that Bill's defense. I think, you know, I

2034
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: think preseason doesn't you know, not playing doesn't help. He

2035
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 1: missed a game, his partner Matt Mulatto has been in

2036
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:07,200
Speaker 1: an out of the lineup. I mean, I can pointing

2037
01:46:07,240 --> 01:46:10,719
Speaker 1: to a lot of different things. I think the longer

2038
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 1: he plays, the more plays will make. I mean, he's

2039
01:46:12,360 --> 01:46:14,559
Speaker 1: always been a hard guy to throw the ball over

2040
01:46:14,640 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: his head. Just his size alone. You know, he still

2041
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:20,920
Speaker 1: runs just the same sideline to sideline that you know,

2042
01:46:21,160 --> 01:46:23,840
Speaker 1: missing star inside. I think it's a big is a

2043
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:26,960
Speaker 1: big problem for this defense right now. They're not quite

2044
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 1: as stout as they were. It's hard to just gauge

2045
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:35,040
Speaker 1: how good Starletulae was and how unselfish he was keeping

2046
01:46:35,120 --> 01:46:37,679
Speaker 1: him free. But I think there's a lot of contributing factors.

2047
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody really wants to make excuses for him.

2048
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:42,360
Speaker 1: His job is to make a lot of tackles and

2049
01:46:42,640 --> 01:46:44,840
Speaker 1: to you know, knock the ball out and make some plays,

2050
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:47,400
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been doing that at the pace that

2051
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:50,560
Speaker 1: he had the first couple of seasons. But I'm a

2052
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:53,759
Speaker 1: big believer in what Tremaine can do and I expect

2053
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:56,920
Speaker 1: him to get back into groove here pretty soon. Yeah.

2054
01:46:56,960 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: And I think the unexpected thing that the Bills have

2055
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:01,240
Speaker 1: gone through this year that they did not go through

2056
01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:04,080
Speaker 1: last year almost at all, is the fact that they

2057
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 1: were without their one and two corners last night, and

2058
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:10,839
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace and Tradevious White, and they last Matt Milana

2059
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: as well on the linebacking corps. How important and how

2060
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: are other teams around the league faring? Is anybody else

2061
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 1: going through this? They see a ton of soft tissue

2062
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:22,920
Speaker 1: injuries around the league, and everybody's got to be dealing

2063
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: with the same kind of thing. Even with the COVID

2064
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: list and all the injuries the Titans have. They were

2065
01:47:27,320 --> 01:47:31,120
Speaker 1: off for sixteen days, they still had guys injured. Yeah,

2066
01:47:31,160 --> 01:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's dealing with it, Steve. I mean, you know,

2067
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: the Eagles have lost three starting offensive linemen, you know,

2068
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:39,439
Speaker 1: four if your count Lane Johnson has been in and

2069
01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:41,920
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. The only guy that was there

2070
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:45,280
Speaker 1: from the off season of preseason is Jason Kelsey. But

2071
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:49,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have two starting offensive tackles out that aren't

2072
01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:52,280
Speaker 1: coming back. I mean, you go across the league right now,

2073
01:47:52,720 --> 01:47:55,160
Speaker 1: and it's really thin. I mean that's basically sixty nine

2074
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,600
Speaker 1: man rosters, you know, counting the sixteen man you know,

2075
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:01,960
Speaker 1: practice squad and teams. I mean, the Titans did it yesterday,

2076
01:48:02,439 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 1: guys being called up for the practice squad and getting

2077
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: a chance. But you know, in Philadelphia they called a

2078
01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 1: guy up Travis Fogum from the practice squad two weeks ago,

2079
01:48:11,080 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 1: and he's the best receiver, and Carson Wentz is a

2080
01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:16,080
Speaker 1: better quarterback with him in the lineup. So you don't

2081
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:18,200
Speaker 1: know until these guys get an opportunity to play what

2082
01:48:18,360 --> 01:48:20,240
Speaker 1: they might be able to do. You know, you saw

2083
01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:23,560
Speaker 1: Cameron Lewis last night making those hits on you know,

2084
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:25,840
Speaker 1: the biggest back in the league, and you look pretty

2085
01:48:25,840 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 1: fearless doing it. You got a chance. But this is

2086
01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:31,400
Speaker 1: really you can't find a replacement for Tradevious White the

2087
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:34,840
Speaker 1: way Levi Wallace played, you know, over the last couple

2088
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:37,880
Speaker 1: of seasons. I mean that secondary was his health as

2089
01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:41,519
Speaker 1: any self secondary in football over the last three seasons.

2090
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: And so when you play all those games together, just

2091
01:48:45,240 --> 01:48:48,040
Speaker 1: the level of communication, it's gonna be so much better.

2092
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:50,680
Speaker 1: If you play a team like Tennessee last night with

2093
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:53,400
Speaker 1: a true number one and a j Brown, I mean,

2094
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,200
Speaker 1: you put Tradevious on him and maybe he doesn't catch

2095
01:48:56,240 --> 01:48:58,120
Speaker 1: that touchdown pass to start to you know, the game.

2096
01:48:58,400 --> 01:49:02,960
Speaker 1: So the shorthanded, but everybody else is also. So the

2097
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:05,639
Speaker 1: Patriots are and everybody in the division. The Jets haven't

2098
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:08,559
Speaker 1: had a healthy wide receiver all year. The Dolphins are

2099
01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:10,759
Speaker 1: overcoming a lot of it just in your own division

2100
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 1: right now. So, Baldy, now the Bills have to kind

2101
01:49:13,880 --> 01:49:16,479
Speaker 1: of reset the deck and get ready for oh the

2102
01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:19,679
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl chants that are covering in on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Did you look at that Raiders Chiefs game last week

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Speaker 1: and how interested were you in how the Raiders chose

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Speaker 1: to defend Mahomes dropping a lot into coverage, not really

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Speaker 1: blitzing him all that much. I think they had a

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Speaker 1: spy on him at times where they you know, basically

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Speaker 1: dropping seven a lot of the game, trying to keep

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Speaker 1: everything in front of them. And I know Watkins got

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Speaker 1: hurt in the game and left, so that kind of

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Speaker 1: hurt the Chiefs passing game a little bit. But just

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on how the Raiders chose to defend Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and if the Bills can go to school on that

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Well, I announced the games. I was

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Speaker 1: in Arrowhead for the game, so I saw a live

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Speaker 1: I watched it, and that was a halftime adjustment that

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Speaker 1: they made. Mahomes really hurt him in the first half

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Speaker 1: by scrambling and leaving the pocket and extending plays, and

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Speaker 1: so at halftime, defense coordinator Paul Gunter basically put arden

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Speaker 1: Key as a spy and they rushed three and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs were over five on third downs and on fourth

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Speaker 1: and six, patch Mahomes to his only interception of the season.

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Speaker 1: So it definitely bothered him. It's not what Sean McDermott does,

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Speaker 1: but when you see how effective it was, it might

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Speaker 1: be something that they might try. Some teams will try

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Speaker 1: that defensively. I think that the Chiefs really had trouble

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Speaker 1: with just the explosive plays that the Raiders had. They

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Speaker 1: had six plays in the game of forty yards or more,

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Speaker 1: two of them for touchdowns. And so Derek Cart played

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Speaker 1: his best game I've seen him play, maybe ever, but

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Speaker 1: certainly his best game ever against the Chiefs. That man

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Speaker 1: in your picture, Henry Ruggs, makes a difference, and so

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Speaker 1: he got behind Tyrone and some of those guys. But look,

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Speaker 1: the big thing was in the second half the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: teadn't get an explosive play. They got one drive the

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Speaker 1: whole half, and that was a real credit to what

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Speaker 1: the Raiders did and how they played. And you'll have

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Speaker 1: to let you go to The Bills are a big,

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Speaker 1: four man rush team. I don't see them rushing three

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Speaker 1: and spine with Tremaine Edmunds, although I might be I

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Speaker 1: might think hard about trying to do something like that

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Speaker 1: because he'd be a great spy. Yeah. Yeah. Looking around

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Speaker 1: the league, though, there's been a lot of surprising things.

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Speaker 1: Particularly you know, all these offenses are flying, high flying

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Speaker 1: and all that. We also have a couple of young

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks like Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert, who they look great.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know whether playing quarterback in the NFL

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Speaker 1: has gotten easier or not. It doesn't seem to me

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Speaker 1: that it has. But Justin Herbert, even in the loss

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Speaker 1: this last weekend, he looks great. How good do you

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Speaker 1: think he is now? And could he be in the future? Well,

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Speaker 1: I did this first start, you know when you know

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Speaker 1: the quarterback had his lung punctured and he got got

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Speaker 1: to start five seconds before kick and he was awesome

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Speaker 1: in that game against the Chiefs, and he was awesome

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Speaker 1: money night against the Saints. US. He's the real deal.

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Speaker 1: I'man that offense. I mean they're mineus starting offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen went out and you know Austin Ekeler,

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Speaker 1: but you know he makes up for it. I mean

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Speaker 1: they they they battered him. They sacked him three times,

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Speaker 1: they hit him twelve times, and he just he's very athletic,

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Speaker 1: he extends plays. He he's a lot like Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, with you. He's got a big arm. M.

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Speaker 1: He's fearless. He showed it. Uh. I mean he's been

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Speaker 1: very good. Joe Burrow has been awesome. I mean the

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Speaker 1: Ravens sacked him seven times on Sunday and hit him

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Speaker 1: fifteen times. They just kept firing. Um. He doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a lot around him right now, but I saw him

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Speaker 1: against the Eagles and saw him win his first football game.

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Speaker 1: He's he's the real deal. They need help, But you know,

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Speaker 1: this league is own as healthy really as the starting

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and the head coaches of the league were were

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Speaker 1: needing better head coaches. We're gonna you're gonna see that

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Speaker 1: right now with coaches being let go already this early

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Speaker 1: in the season. But quarterbacks are only you know, every

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Speaker 1: team's looking for one. Every team's looking to build around.

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Speaker 1: The way the Bills built around Josh Allen. They've done

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Speaker 1: it the right way. And that's what the Charges are thinking.

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Speaker 1: We'll do with Justin Herbert, and that's what the Bengals

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Speaker 1: challenges right now with Joe Burrow, because I think both

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Speaker 1: of them are really good prospects. Last one I've got

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Speaker 1: for you, Baldi, where do you think Levan Bell ends

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Speaker 1: up is there a market for this guy? Well, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna end up until after four o'clock today because

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna pay the freight to get them right, so

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Speaker 1: there there'll be a big interest. I I just don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen a football player sit out

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Speaker 1: a season, he said, out a whole season with the

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Speaker 1: contract that was fifteen million dollars guaranteed. Yeah, I never

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Speaker 1: saw a player ever sit out, So that kind of

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Speaker 1: always made me think, like, does he really want to play?

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Speaker 1: And then so but you know, look, I maybe to

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Speaker 1: the chests were just a bad fit form I don't know,

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Speaker 1: complaining about getting the ball thirteen times last week and

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Speaker 1: not enough in the passing game. He really has been

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Speaker 1: a good player in three years. But I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: team you know, at with the right contract probably incentive Layton.

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Speaker 1: It's going to try to sign him later today. But

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Speaker 1: I really couldn't tell you. There's a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: that need a back right now, including Buffalo and the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and you know there's San Francisco. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams that could use it back. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: how interested teams are going to be right now. Just

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Speaker 1: judging by what they've seen over the last three years. Baldy,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, thanks for being on with his good seeing you, Broy,

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Speaker 1: my pleasure of Steve. Take care now all right we're

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Speaker 1: joining again. Yep, thanks Baldy. That was RDC Sports NFL

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Speaker 1: like Gray co Sell that guy watch is a ton

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Speaker 1: of film. So it's just good to pick his brain

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Speaker 1: sometimes on things like, you know, what the heck's going

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Speaker 1: on with all these defenses across the league, Like what's

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Speaker 1: his take on it? And I think I think that

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be at the end of it all, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to look at the statistics in comparison

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Speaker 1: and they'll be they'll be like team sacks or sacks

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Speaker 1: given up or whatever. They'll be holding penalties. They'll be

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Speaker 1: certain statistics where it jumps out how different this year is.

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Speaker 1: Don't know exactly what those are gonna be. Probably some

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Speaker 1: holding penalties statistics that are gonna be like, wow, they

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Speaker 1: didn't call very many that year. There'll be some sack

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Speaker 1: numbers or defensive numbers and yards given up and team numbers,

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Speaker 1: and how the rankings went, and how this team's ranking

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Speaker 1: would have been like twenty third overall, this number one

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Speaker 1: ranking would have been twenty third overall two years ago.

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Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. I don't know what those statistics

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Speaker 1: are gonna be, but I'll bet you there's gonna be pretty.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be some aberrations in those statistics that make

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Speaker 1: the look at this year defensively and go what happened?

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Speaker 1: Like third down conversion percentage? I mean it is through

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Speaker 1: the roof. The Bills are as good as there is

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Speaker 1: in the league. They're a number one in the league

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Speaker 1: by far. Yeah, fifty eight point something. They were seventy

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Speaker 1: three percent last or seventy six percent last night, thirteen

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Speaker 1: to seventeen. I've never seen that. Three I actually three

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Speaker 1: turnovers and you're crushed. Hold on in thirteen to seventeen

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Speaker 1: and third down because I put this number together for

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Speaker 1: or by the numbers column on Buffalo bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: So they're fifty eight percent third down conversion rate for

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Speaker 1: the season. Okay, yesterday the conversion rate was seventy six

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Speaker 1: percent thirteen out of seventeen. It was the third highest

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Speaker 1: single game conversion rate in Bill's history. I think about

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Speaker 1: all the games have been played. That was the third

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Speaker 1: highest third down conversion rate in history. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: numbers are off the charts this year. Yeah. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just here in bubble, it's everywhere. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: it's mind blow. It's easy. I mean, it's sitting here

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Speaker 1: and I get it too. Fans are like, they're like us,

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Speaker 1: you know what you've seen. We know football from what

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Speaker 1: we have watched. This football is a little different than

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Speaker 1: what we've watched, and that the reaction to it is,

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with these defenses? What's why is this guy

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Speaker 1: not playing well? Why doesn't this guy have sex? What

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Speaker 1: are these guys? Maybe it's the defensive line they can't pursue,

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Speaker 1: we're not getting pressure, or what happened, maybe how our

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks are hurt or whatever. It's not just you, it's

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Speaker 1: every team in the league. So it's going through this.

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Speaker 1: This is more of a cyclical thing that the that

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Speaker 1: the league goes through sometimes where one side of the

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Speaker 1: ball kind of gets an edge and the other side's

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01:57:32,160 --> 01:57:34,320
Speaker 1: playing catch up. For most of the year, but you

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Speaker 1: watch this offseason that they competition committee will say, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's look at this, and they'll they'll come up and

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Speaker 1: they'll say, okay, here's all we think. They'll say, what's

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Speaker 1: what's going on. They'll know the reasons for it. They

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Speaker 1: will absolutely be able to tell you, you know, nuts

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Speaker 1: and bolts of why the offenses are ahead of the defenses,

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Speaker 1: and here's what's happening, and here's what is what the

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Speaker 1: defenses are struggling with. They'll all know it from top

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Speaker 1: to bottom, backwards and forwards. The question is will they

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Speaker 1: be able to come up with something that swings the

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Speaker 1: pendulum a little bit back towards center without being of

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Speaker 1: having a ripple effect of unintended consequences. The only other

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Speaker 1: third down conversion rates that were higher in a single

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Speaker 1: game in Bill's history both took place in the ninety

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Speaker 1: one season against the Colts on the same exact date,

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Speaker 1: October thirteenth, and they converted eighty six percent of the

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Speaker 1: third down How many I don't have that in front

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Speaker 1: of me here, and then against the Dolphins in the

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Speaker 1: season opener eighty two percent conversion. In ninety one, both

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Speaker 1: of the best conversion days are in ninety one. The

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Speaker 1: third best was last night? Did they in a loss?

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Speaker 1: Did they? Did the Bills win those other two games?

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Speaker 1: They did right because they started five and oh that year?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there you go. So yes, uh seventy six

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Speaker 1: percent conversion yesterday and you lose by twenty five? Hi, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, we have to yeah, yeah, we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break. But for more analysis on this one,

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Speaker 1: we will be turning to one Eric Wood in our

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Speaker 1: next segment. He will be here to break things down

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Speaker 1: and tell us how he saw it. That's coming up

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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio final half hour of the program,

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday recap addition to One Bills Live broadcasting from

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line right now is Bills analyst.

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Speaker 1: He was on the late last night on Bills Tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's Eric Wood joining the program here. Eric, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. What comes at you at first blush after

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Speaker 1: watching this thing and the way it ended very late

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Speaker 1: last night on Bill's Tonight. Thanks for that, Chris, and

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Speaker 1: thanks for anyone who tuned in late night and came

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Speaker 1: and caught me and Maddie breaking down the loss. But

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Speaker 1: you know, when I looked at the game, when I

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Speaker 1: watched the game live, the thing that just sticks out

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Speaker 1: to me is, while this Bill, this Bill's team is

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Speaker 1: excellent this year, I don't think there's any reason at

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Speaker 1: all to panic. They've just they were enlightened yesterday that

2311
02:00:23,080 --> 02:00:27,360
Speaker 1: their recipe for success cannot include losing the turnover battle

2312
02:00:27,640 --> 02:00:32,120
Speaker 1: by three, which virtually no team in the NFL ever overcomes.

2313
02:00:32,480 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 1: And you cannot hurt yourself with the amount of unforced

2314
02:00:36,560 --> 02:00:39,520
Speaker 1: errors that they had. You start the very first play

2315
02:00:39,600 --> 02:00:41,280
Speaker 1: of the game, or the very first third down of

2316
02:00:41,320 --> 02:00:43,200
Speaker 1: the game, the first pass of the game off with

2317
02:00:43,320 --> 02:00:48,520
Speaker 1: a tipped interception deep in Bill's territory. Well, the Bill's defense,

2318
02:00:49,240 --> 02:00:51,440
Speaker 1: no defense is set up for that much less a

2319
02:00:51,600 --> 02:00:55,320
Speaker 1: defense that is missing the best player on the entire

2320
02:00:55,480 --> 02:00:58,560
Speaker 1: team in turdevious White in my opinion, and then also

2321
02:00:58,640 --> 02:01:01,840
Speaker 1: an excellent linebacker at Milano, plus your other quarterback in

2322
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:05,800
Speaker 1: lee By Wallace, who start is your starter, assuming he's

2323
02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:09,200
Speaker 1: still the starter when he comes back. So it was

2324
02:01:09,280 --> 02:01:12,600
Speaker 1: just a bad recipe of unfortunate events. I think it'll

2325
02:01:12,600 --> 02:01:14,680
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a wake up call. Every

2326
02:01:14,840 --> 02:01:18,240
Speaker 1: team has bad games throughout the year. You'd rather have

2327
02:01:18,360 --> 02:01:21,720
Speaker 1: it be Game five than maybe a crucial one down

2328
02:01:21,800 --> 02:01:24,640
Speaker 1: the stretch or have something like this pop up into

2329
02:01:24,680 --> 02:01:28,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, and I agree with you. What did

2330
02:01:29,000 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: you think about the Bills ability to prepare for a

2331
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:33,960
Speaker 1: game They didn't know exactly what if it was going

2332
02:01:34,000 --> 02:01:36,520
Speaker 1: to happen, right up until maybe twenty four hours before,

2333
02:01:37,680 --> 02:01:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, with the positive tests and the way Tennessee

2334
02:01:40,880 --> 02:01:42,640
Speaker 1: handled it, the way they had to go through the

2335
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:46,200
Speaker 1: entire week, with day by day Tennessee getting another positive,

2336
02:01:46,240 --> 02:01:48,600
Speaker 1: and another couple of positives, and another one, and then

2337
02:01:48,720 --> 02:01:50,840
Speaker 1: finally getting a day without one, and then and they

2338
02:01:51,160 --> 02:01:53,040
Speaker 1: they got another one and then they you know, and

2339
02:01:53,160 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: the league was telling the Bills, if you don't play

2340
02:01:55,760 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee on Sunday or Monday, you're gonna play the Chiefs

2341
02:02:01,600 --> 02:02:04,560
Speaker 1: on Thursday. But if you do put play the team,

2342
02:02:04,560 --> 02:02:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff is in the water. How

2343
02:02:07,240 --> 02:02:09,160
Speaker 1: tough is it to go out and prepare for a

2344
02:02:09,240 --> 02:02:12,680
Speaker 1: game that you're not even convinced it's going to happen. Well,

2345
02:02:12,720 --> 02:02:15,880
Speaker 1: I'll say this, throughout my nine year career, I loved

2346
02:02:16,040 --> 02:02:20,560
Speaker 1: routine and I loved schedules, and this broke all of that.

2347
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:23,320
Speaker 1: For all these guys on the team, the coaching staff,

2348
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:25,760
Speaker 1: there was a lot of uncertainty out. I truly love

2349
02:02:25,800 --> 02:02:29,320
Speaker 1: the fact that Sean McDermott never would allow himself or

2350
02:02:29,360 --> 02:02:31,640
Speaker 1: any of the players to ever make an excuse about that.

2351
02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:36,960
Speaker 1: But there is the reality that you can over prepare

2352
02:02:37,040 --> 02:02:39,240
Speaker 1: for a team. You can have too much prep time

2353
02:02:39,480 --> 02:02:41,920
Speaker 1: to where it almost becomes a little stale. And you

2354
02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:45,120
Speaker 1: had opposite scenarios in this game. And when they came out,

2355
02:02:45,200 --> 02:02:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Bills came out flat. They seemed motivated.

2356
02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:50,440
Speaker 1: Did they seem to have the same juice they did

2357
02:02:50,520 --> 02:02:52,720
Speaker 1: weekend week out, the same focus that we saw from

2358
02:02:52,760 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 1: the first four weeks. Maybe not, And maybe that's from

2359
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:59,120
Speaker 1: the staleness that comes from preparing, taking a day off

2360
02:02:59,200 --> 02:03:02,520
Speaker 1: on a Friday, then back to work for a Saturday,

2361
02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:06,440
Speaker 1: you're practicing your walkthroughs. It became so much. And then

2362
02:03:06,480 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: on the opposite side, you have Tennessee who's just excited

2363
02:03:09,640 --> 02:03:12,240
Speaker 1: to be back out there. They're excited to get back together,

2364
02:03:12,720 --> 02:03:14,960
Speaker 1: and it was fresh and you saw a spark from

2365
02:03:15,040 --> 02:03:17,800
Speaker 1: them the entire team. You saw it on offense, defense

2366
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:21,840
Speaker 1: and special teams, and so I think that likely contributed

2367
02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:25,000
Speaker 1: to the game last night. And I think back to

2368
02:03:25,080 --> 02:03:27,919
Speaker 1: the one time in my career where everything was completely

2369
02:03:28,040 --> 02:03:30,320
Speaker 1: up in the air and we were in the Titan situation.

2370
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:33,600
Speaker 1: Was the Jets snow Member game when we got pushed

2371
02:03:33,680 --> 02:03:36,760
Speaker 1: from a Sunday to a Monday. We did virtual meetings

2372
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: all week. We were not able to meet together. We

2373
02:03:41,080 --> 02:03:43,680
Speaker 1: weren't able to work out. I mean, gosh, at least

2374
02:03:43,720 --> 02:03:46,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee had some good fall weather down there. We were

2375
02:03:46,480 --> 02:03:48,800
Speaker 1: stuck literally in our houses to where they were sending

2376
02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 1: us workout body weight exercise workouts to do in our

2377
02:03:52,200 --> 02:03:55,760
Speaker 1: homes because we couldn't leave. And I say all that

2378
02:03:56,240 --> 02:03:58,480
Speaker 1: we end up smoking the Jets. The Jets had so

2379
02:03:58,640 --> 02:04:00,760
Speaker 1: much time to prepare. That was a pretty good Jets

2380
02:04:00,800 --> 02:04:04,280
Speaker 1: team when we're facing two and we go to Detroit

2381
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:08,880
Speaker 1: and smoke them. So that scenario played out again last

2382
02:04:09,000 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 1: night in the Bills Titans. You've actually referenced that on

2383
02:04:11,880 --> 02:04:13,480
Speaker 1: the show earlier in the week, So I'm going to

2384
02:04:13,520 --> 02:04:15,600
Speaker 1: give him full marks for that one. I knew that

2385
02:04:15,840 --> 02:04:18,400
Speaker 1: you brought that game up specifically and warned that this

2386
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: could happen last night. I knew that that was going

2387
02:04:20,440 --> 02:04:22,160
Speaker 1: to be the guy. I knew the Titans would come

2388
02:04:22,200 --> 02:04:25,040
Speaker 1: out and hit him in the mouth early, and if

2389
02:04:25,080 --> 02:04:27,040
Speaker 1: they had some success, maybe they'd keep it going. But

2390
02:04:27,200 --> 02:04:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't know how long that emotion could

2391
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:32,200
Speaker 1: come through. If and certainly if the Bills don't turn

2392
02:04:32,280 --> 02:04:34,360
Speaker 1: it over. If they come out and then they do

2393
02:04:34,720 --> 02:04:37,560
Speaker 1: continue to get seventy six percent of the third downs

2394
02:04:37,600 --> 02:04:40,080
Speaker 1: and they don't turn it over, that's a dogfight of

2395
02:04:40,120 --> 02:04:42,080
Speaker 1: a game. And I don't know that Tennessee would last

2396
02:04:42,160 --> 02:04:45,200
Speaker 1: through four quarters of a fight like that after being

2397
02:04:45,240 --> 02:04:47,400
Speaker 1: off two weeks, but certainly when it started to steamroll

2398
02:04:47,440 --> 02:04:50,120
Speaker 1: in their favor, they have no problem front running. I

2399
02:04:50,200 --> 02:04:53,800
Speaker 1: think that s November game you're talking about was my

2400
02:04:53,920 --> 02:04:58,760
Speaker 1: go to example of that exact emotional state for both teams. Yeah,

2401
02:04:58,800 --> 02:05:00,320
Speaker 1: I think you hit it on the head there, Steve,

2402
02:05:01,240 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 1: where you say that if the Bills could have jumped

2403
02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:05,320
Speaker 1: on them early, if they could have instilled their will,

2404
02:05:05,320 --> 02:05:08,120
Speaker 1: if they weren't playing catch up all, then maybe you

2405
02:05:08,240 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: take advantage of the lack of conditioning that the Titans

2406
02:05:11,200 --> 02:05:15,000
Speaker 1: would have suffered from being quarantine, being at their houses

2407
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:16,520
Speaker 1: and all that. But the Bills were never able to

2408
02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:19,600
Speaker 1: capitalize on that based upon the slow start. Talking to

2409
02:05:19,720 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: Eric would here on one Bills Live, Eric, I want

2410
02:05:22,240 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: you to give me your synopsis of the type of

2411
02:05:24,920 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 1: team that you believe the Titans to be. Now, they

2412
02:05:28,040 --> 02:05:31,480
Speaker 1: were shorthanded in their own right, missing some key players

2413
02:05:31,560 --> 02:05:34,400
Speaker 1: like Jeffrey Simmons and Dorry Jackson. You can run down

2414
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:36,240
Speaker 1: the list of the guys that were on the COVID list,

2415
02:05:36,320 --> 02:05:39,480
Speaker 1: guys on the injury list, so missing their top two,

2416
02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:42,960
Speaker 1: well two of their top three receivers. They did get

2417
02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:48,240
Speaker 1: a j brownback. All of that aside, the Titans just

2418
02:05:48,320 --> 02:05:51,200
Speaker 1: seem like this kind of team that makes you grind

2419
02:05:51,520 --> 02:05:55,560
Speaker 1: for everything that you want to get. And maybe just

2420
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:59,080
Speaker 1: take us into the player's perspective of that, when you

2421
02:05:59,240 --> 02:06:01,200
Speaker 1: know your face in a team that is going to

2422
02:06:01,280 --> 02:06:04,560
Speaker 1: make you fight tooth and nail for every single inch

2423
02:06:04,680 --> 02:06:06,920
Speaker 1: on the field, and how that impacts you over the

2424
02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:10,600
Speaker 1: course of a four quarter game. Yeah. Similar to the

2425
02:06:10,680 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 1: way the Bills emulate the personality of their head coach

2426
02:06:13,680 --> 02:06:16,400
Speaker 1: in a great way in Sean McDermott, I believe the

2427
02:06:16,480 --> 02:06:19,560
Speaker 1: Titans also emulate the personality of their head coach in

2428
02:06:19,720 --> 02:06:22,800
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel. They are tough, they're well coached, they don't

2429
02:06:22,800 --> 02:06:28,360
Speaker 1: beat themselves. They've assembled a roster big, physical players, and

2430
02:06:28,400 --> 02:06:30,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to grind it out on them. Just

2431
02:06:30,840 --> 02:06:34,280
Speaker 1: like you said, Chris, I think Ryan Tannehill and Arthur Smith,

2432
02:06:34,320 --> 02:06:37,959
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, have appeared to have just unbelievable chemistry.

2433
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:42,880
Speaker 1: He's running their offense really, really well, really efficiently down there.

2434
02:06:42,920 --> 02:06:45,360
Speaker 1: Ever since taking over the reins when the Bills got

2435
02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:49,720
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta permanently benched last season, and so they've gotten

2436
02:06:49,760 --> 02:06:53,120
Speaker 1: stability from the quarterback position now. Derrick Henry's an excellent

2437
02:06:53,200 --> 02:06:55,520
Speaker 1: running back. The Bills actually did a great job against

2438
02:06:55,600 --> 02:06:58,000
Speaker 1: him last night, holding him to three yards of Kerry

2439
02:06:58,040 --> 02:06:59,840
Speaker 1: because he is a premium running back in the league.

2440
02:06:59,880 --> 02:07:02,720
Speaker 1: I think the big concern all week was could the

2441
02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:06,920
Speaker 1: Bill stop Derrick Henry because they've shown weakness against other

2442
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:09,320
Speaker 1: teams run game. They did a great job shutting him

2443
02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 1: down the passing game of Tennessee and then the quarterback

2444
02:07:12,760 --> 02:07:16,360
Speaker 1: scrambles of Brian Tannehill I thought at times were backbreakers themselves,

2445
02:07:16,720 --> 02:07:21,040
Speaker 1: and those led to the Titans ended up, you know,

2446
02:07:21,200 --> 02:07:23,880
Speaker 1: with the lopsided victory. But when you all boil it

2447
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:26,880
Speaker 1: down to your point, Chris, when you play a team

2448
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:29,760
Speaker 1: that is not going to beat themselves, that is tough.

2449
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:32,480
Speaker 1: You can't lose the turnover battle, you can't make pre

2450
02:07:32,600 --> 02:07:36,080
Speaker 1: snap penalties, and you can't drop footballs, especially when they

2451
02:07:36,120 --> 02:07:39,400
Speaker 1: result in interceptions. And also you add all that and

2452
02:07:39,560 --> 02:07:42,240
Speaker 1: you add a long punt return into which we haven't

2453
02:07:42,280 --> 02:07:46,000
Speaker 1: seen against the Bills in a long time. Eric, I've

2454
02:07:46,080 --> 02:07:49,040
Speaker 1: maintained for a long time, and I said it today

2455
02:07:49,120 --> 02:07:51,720
Speaker 1: that it's easier for the players on the Bills and

2456
02:07:51,880 --> 02:07:54,440
Speaker 1: the coaches to get over this bad loss to the

2457
02:07:54,520 --> 02:07:57,160
Speaker 1: Titans than it is for fans, because the fans have

2458
02:07:57,280 --> 02:07:58,920
Speaker 1: to sit at home and kind of stew about it

2459
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:00,800
Speaker 1: and don't have anything else to think about until the

2460
02:08:00,840 --> 02:08:03,600
Speaker 1: next game. The Bills and the Bills, with the players

2461
02:08:03,640 --> 02:08:07,120
Speaker 1: and the coaches, they're already thinking about Kansas City this afternoon.

2462
02:08:07,160 --> 02:08:09,880
Speaker 1: They've they've turned their sights on it, and they're kind

2463
02:08:09,880 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 1: of refreshed because they have work to do to get better.

2464
02:08:12,840 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 1: What do you think the mindset will be for the

2465
02:08:14,920 --> 02:08:18,680
Speaker 1: Bills getting ready for another odd game a Monday at

2466
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:22,760
Speaker 1: five pm game next week? You know, I think they're

2467
02:08:22,840 --> 02:08:24,440
Speaker 1: just going to dive into the game plan and they're

2468
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 1: gonna prepare like crazy for the Super Bowl chance. I

2469
02:08:27,600 --> 02:08:30,400
Speaker 1: think it's another great opportunity for them to show up

2470
02:08:30,400 --> 02:08:33,120
Speaker 1: in primetime. The Bills played excellent in prime time all

2471
02:08:33,200 --> 02:08:37,000
Speaker 1: year last year, this last game, this Tuesday, that game,

2472
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:38,680
Speaker 1: I guess we call that prime time. It's the only

2473
02:08:38,760 --> 02:08:42,440
Speaker 1: game on that is prime time. But the Bills kind

2474
02:08:42,480 --> 02:08:44,440
Speaker 1: of laid an egg. I think they'll be really excited

2475
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:48,120
Speaker 1: to get out there on Monday afternoon evening, whatever you

2476
02:08:48,200 --> 02:08:49,920
Speaker 1: want to call it, and get back to work. But

2477
02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:51,840
Speaker 1: you're right, Steve. You know you have to have a

2478
02:08:51,880 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 1: short memory, especially on a short week. Normally you give

2479
02:08:55,400 --> 02:08:58,360
Speaker 1: yourself twenty four hours to well, oh, get ticked off,

2480
02:08:58,480 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: you catch a workout, you're a value waiting the film,

2481
02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:03,560
Speaker 1: You go to meetings, you get your butt ripped because

2482
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:05,520
Speaker 1: you know there's not going to be too many people

2483
02:09:05,560 --> 02:09:08,120
Speaker 1: that come out of those meetings today with too good

2484
02:09:08,160 --> 02:09:11,480
Speaker 1: of a feeling. But now it's immediately flipped the switch.

2485
02:09:11,960 --> 02:09:14,600
Speaker 1: And that's where I think. And just knowing Sean and

2486
02:09:14,720 --> 02:09:17,120
Speaker 1: his staff and the performance staff with the Bills, I'm

2487
02:09:17,200 --> 02:09:20,280
Speaker 1: sure they gave them some extra rest leading up to

2488
02:09:20,360 --> 02:09:22,440
Speaker 1: the game, knowing that they were likely going to have

2489
02:09:22,480 --> 02:09:26,280
Speaker 1: another short week coming last one for you, Eric, The

2490
02:09:26,440 --> 02:09:29,520
Speaker 1: Raiders had a very interesting second half approach to Patrick

2491
02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:33,840
Speaker 1: Mahomes last week. They come out, they rushed three drop

2492
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:38,720
Speaker 1: seven and they use arden Key as a spy on

2493
02:09:38,960 --> 02:09:42,680
Speaker 1: Mahomes in case he does escape, and it had him

2494
02:09:42,720 --> 02:09:45,440
Speaker 1: crossed up. He really struggled in the second half, even

2495
02:09:45,480 --> 02:09:48,040
Speaker 1: through his first interception of the season, I believe. So.

2496
02:09:48,920 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 1: I know that might not be the mo of how

2497
02:09:52,320 --> 02:09:55,760
Speaker 1: the Bills play defense, but could you foresee perhaps a

2498
02:09:55,920 --> 02:09:59,240
Speaker 1: package of plays where the Bills maybe turned to that

2499
02:09:59,440 --> 02:10:03,320
Speaker 1: to see how it might play out. Yeah, it's a

2500
02:10:03,360 --> 02:10:05,560
Speaker 1: copycat league. I think you have to try it and

2501
02:10:05,720 --> 02:10:07,920
Speaker 1: see if they've solved it. You have to see if

2502
02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:10,880
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and you read Eric b enemy if they've

2503
02:10:11,040 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: solved that issue. And so you have to try it.

2504
02:10:14,040 --> 02:10:16,440
Speaker 1: But with the Buffalo Bills, like I mentioned earlier, it's

2505
02:10:16,440 --> 02:10:18,960
Speaker 1: not time to panic, it's not time to abandon everything

2506
02:10:19,040 --> 02:10:22,040
Speaker 1: they do. But I think against a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes,

2507
02:10:22,120 --> 02:10:26,600
Speaker 1: you need to mix in blitz pressures with four man rush,

2508
02:10:26,720 --> 02:10:29,680
Speaker 1: maybe a little three man rush with a spy as

2509
02:10:29,720 --> 02:10:31,800
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Chris, and I think you need to mix

2510
02:10:31,880 --> 02:10:33,320
Speaker 1: it up because if you give them the same thing

2511
02:10:33,440 --> 02:10:35,960
Speaker 1: over and over, then he'll be able to pick you apart.

2512
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:39,000
Speaker 1: But when you look at what the Raiders did is

2513
02:10:39,120 --> 02:10:41,520
Speaker 1: similar to what the Titans did to the Bills last night.

2514
02:10:41,560 --> 02:10:43,920
Speaker 1: It was, hey, we'll let you run the ball for

2515
02:10:44,000 --> 02:10:46,680
Speaker 1: a few yards to carry. We will let you complete

2516
02:10:46,720 --> 02:10:50,680
Speaker 1: these underneath routes. Can you drive the ball fifteen sixteen

2517
02:10:50,760 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: seventeen plays every single drive and put it in the

2518
02:10:53,200 --> 02:10:55,400
Speaker 1: end zone without making a mistake. And what the Bills

2519
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:58,960
Speaker 1: did last night, which I think cost them all throughout

2520
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:02,320
Speaker 1: the game, was the priest Nats. They constantly were putting

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Speaker 1: themselves going backwards and I understand they were thirteen of

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Speaker 1: seventeen on third down of the game, But then those

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Speaker 1: were miraculous plays. Those were great plays a lot of

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Speaker 1: times to make those third downs as opposed to just

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Speaker 1: continuing the tempo of a drive. Eric, thanks man, it's

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Speaker 1: good to see and we'll look forward to talking with

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Speaker 1: you after the Chiefs game. Yeah. Likewise, thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me on guys. All right, Eric Wood breaking it down

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Speaker 1: for us here on a game recap Wednesday. Addition to

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Speaker 1: the show, one more break before we find out, what

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Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show? That's coming up next

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills were a radio and for what have

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Speaker 1: we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Steve, I think

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Speaker 1: we learned that turnovers, penalties, and injuries and injuries cause

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Speaker 1: you to lose football games can cost you a game

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, And we will find out from coach

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Speaker 1: McDermott hopefully a little bit of information about where some

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Speaker 1: of these injured players stand as it pertains to Monday

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Speaker 1: Night's game, because right now, this is a season where

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Speaker 1: the Bills are playing a gauntlet of really good football teams,

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Speaker 1: and certainly none of those teams are going to be

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent either like the Bills are. But the Bills,

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Speaker 1: you know, weekend week out, it's coming down to how

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Speaker 1: healthy can you get your good players to be and

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Speaker 1: can you get them on the field. I think we

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Speaker 1: should I mean, I'm not gonna set this in stone,

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Speaker 1: but I think we should be encouraged that Tredevious White

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Speaker 1: at least tried to give it a go in pregame

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Speaker 1: warmups last night. That would certainly seem to be an

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Speaker 1: indication that he's not terribly far away, and knowing that

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Speaker 1: the next game isn't until Monday, hasn't played since the

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Speaker 1: Raiders game, hoping that you know he's good to go

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Speaker 1: next week, because not only you don't have him against

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Speaker 1: those horses, right not Irek Hill, I mean yeah, not

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Speaker 1: only that, but you know Zach Moss is now is

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Speaker 1: working on a month of being out now and we're sorry. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Davin Singletary miss four games last year in the first

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Speaker 1: half of the season, two mister games two through six,

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Speaker 1: and a bye, so it was in there as well.

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Speaker 1: So we made miss three games with the bye. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he'll get back on the field. We don't even know

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Speaker 1: what he can give us yet. Um. The other one,

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Speaker 1: the other one is John Brown. We gotta get John

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Speaker 1: Brown on the football field. We need our wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Cord to be healthy because if you're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: a track meet, you need guys that can run. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back to talk more as the Bills are back

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Speaker 1: on the practice field tomorrow. We'll have an update from

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Speaker 1: the sidelines and plenty more coming your way on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live Thursday edition. Join us then two,