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Speaker 1: disappear as a defensive end, and Boogie and Rousseau have

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Speaker 1: done that at times. Both of them, you know, been

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Speaker 1: an active. Russeau has never been an actor flash like

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Speaker 1: flash or yeah they now. Rousseau yesterday got out loose

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Speaker 1: and Mac Jones bang that pass off his shoulder. Early

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Speaker 1: on he thought, mighty, maybe bring it, bring it down.

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Speaker 1: But you think back, think about this. Rousseau got off

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Speaker 1: to a fast yeah, fast, Yeah, the Chiefs game where

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Speaker 1: he pulls it down and intercepts that ball. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you got to think, you know something in there that

436
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Speaker 1: is keeping these guys from feeling comfortable enough to play well.

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Speaker 1: And what that is it's up for the coaches and

438
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Speaker 1: for them to and themselves to to uncover. But you're right, Fabada,

439
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: he's a big, strong, physical player, and he's got a

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Speaker 1: he's got a fast motor. He's got a fast motor,

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Speaker 1: and he's starting to flash. And he's a guy who's

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Speaker 1: got more experience even now as a pro than bash

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Speaker 1: him and Rousseau do. And he's starting to, I think,

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Speaker 1: tap into that and get some benefit from it. Yeah,

445
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: more of a power rusher than a speed guy off

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Speaker 1: the edge. But yes, he's been effective each of the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks. I feel like he's coming on at

448
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Speaker 1: just the right time because they need a shot in

449
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Speaker 1: the arm off the edge, and if he can be that,

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Speaker 1: look out. What did you think of the defensive scheming

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Speaker 1: by Leslie Frasier. We had a lot of phone calls

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Speaker 1: this week saying, Hey, if the Patriots run again, are

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Speaker 1: we gonna put aj Klein on the field. Well, they

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Speaker 1: did that whenever they saw six offensive linemen. So when

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Speaker 1: on when you their sixth offensive lineman came on the field?

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00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: AJ Klein came on and sometimes Siran Neil even came

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Speaker 1: on right a little bit heavier corner obviously, third linebacker

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Speaker 1: in for Tarren Johnson. And I mean, you can argue

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Speaker 1: the effectiveness of it, but I like the chess match

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Speaker 1: that Leslie Frasier was willing to engage in there to

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Speaker 1: try to get some bigger, heavier players to fit up

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Speaker 1: the run front. Yeah, they still snapped off a thirty

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Speaker 1: nine was a thirty nine yard or a thirty one

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Speaker 1: yard run? They're in the second half when you know

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Speaker 1: the players, you know it was it was Tremaine and

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Speaker 1: the and the defensive tackle. They just overpursued and cut

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Speaker 1: back snaps open and the guy breaks off a big

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Speaker 1: one and think, here we go. Still their run defense

469
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: isn't where they want it to be. But I'll say this,

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00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: they're built. That defense is built to play with Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: This offense playing like it did yesterday. It's happened all

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Speaker 1: too and frequently released up and down throughout the season,

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Speaker 1: and even when their offense didn't show up a couple

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Speaker 1: of times the defense did. Even in the first meeting,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots had fourteen points in the In the Jacksonville game,

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Speaker 1: they give up nine points. They shut out the Dolphins. Um,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff falls on your defense. And when

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Speaker 1: even when your offense doesn't play well, they still give

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Speaker 1: you a chance. This defense. But they are built to

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Speaker 1: play in a game like they did yesterday, where the

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Speaker 1: team is like this one. They've got to put the

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Speaker 1: ball in the air to be successful and score enough

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Speaker 1: points and keep up when you get down double digits

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna run the ball you particularly when you

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Speaker 1: can't stop the Bills. Like we said, one fourth down,

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00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: two an end of half, an end of game. There's

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Speaker 1: the only three possessions that the Bills didn't score points

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Speaker 1: on You got to keep up and that's what this

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Speaker 1: defense is built to That's what this defense is built

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Speaker 1: to do. That's the winning formula. Get up early, force

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Speaker 1: the other team into pass mode, and the Bills have

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Speaker 1: you right where they want you. Eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to the phones. We lead off with Bob and Amhurst today. Bob,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live the first one as big shout out to Steph

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00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Diggs when he scored the touchdown, went into the crowd

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Speaker 1: and said a couple of things that I think Bills

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00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: fans have wanted to say for twenty years. So real

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Speaker 1: shout out to him. And if he gets fine for that,

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00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: I think that that the Bills mafia should stand up

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00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: and I'm willing to give fourteen dollars to pay his fine. Okay, right,

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00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: I think that we should step up and pay its

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00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: fine if he gets fine for us. Yeah. The other

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00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: thing is and Steve brought it up and he was

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Speaker 1: talking about it at the offensive line. Kudos to them,

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00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: Holy cout for Josh not to get sacked, not touched.

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00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Bobby Johnson deserves a lot of credit, the

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach, all the coaches, I mean, mixing that up.

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Speaker 1: Whatever they did. You know, they certainly wear a different

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Speaker 1: offensive line for that game, and they have that in

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Speaker 1: the past. So those are my two comments. All right,

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Speaker 1: thanks Bob. I've appreciate the phone. So this we were

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Remember the play the shovel passed at

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Speaker 1: Josh on the third and eight or third and nine

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Speaker 1: or third and ten where Josh flipped the ball between

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Speaker 1: the two defenders and Steph Diggs was there and he

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00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: spun around and all that. If you go back and

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00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: watch Dion Dawkins on that play with Steph Diggs, he

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Speaker 1: takes on I think jac Jackson rushes as a corner,

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Speaker 1: blitz off the corner, and Dion pancakes and lands on him,

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Speaker 1: and then then the play moves away from him. He

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Speaker 1: goes out of the frame. Then is Diggs catch and

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Speaker 1: spins around Dawkins. That was on the thirty five yard line.

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Speaker 1: When when Diggs gets down to the fifteen, Dawkins shows

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Speaker 1: up again and pancakes another guy with a full head

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Speaker 1: of steam. He rolls over. I think it might I

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00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: guess it's Judon then he rolls over Diggs gets it,

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Speaker 1: gets down to the fifteen, and Dawkins comes in downs

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00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: another guy. Um the hustle that the offensive line showed

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Speaker 1: to cover that play and plays like it throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's a big tone setter, a big

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Speaker 1: tone setter, and uh it's it speaks to you know,

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Speaker 1: these guys being in there with each other and together.

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Speaker 1: So it was, oh, yeah, there it is Dawkins, it

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00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: was it was Jackson was second, Judon was first, Jackson

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00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: was second. Um Man on your offensive lineman covering the

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00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: play from behind. It just shows the energy that they

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00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: were playing with and wherever they got it from, bottle

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Speaker 1: it and keep it. And that's something we got to

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Speaker 1: talk about later on in the show here because some

542
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: of their best performances this season have come against teams

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Speaker 1: that they had an axe to grind against or that

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00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: had a high profile. One of their best games of

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00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: the season was against the Chiefs, they had an axe

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Speaker 1: to grind. One of the best comebacks of the season

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00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, defending Super Bowl champs. You get embarrassed

548
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Speaker 1: in the first half, and then now after losing your

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00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: first game to the Patriots, you're all amped up to

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Speaker 1: play them again. You have to manufacture that energy in

551
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Speaker 1: any way, shape or form possible for these last two

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Speaker 1: regular season games. Do not play down to the level

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Speaker 1: of your competition. Stay up where you are right now,

554
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: and you'll start steam rolling them. Yeah, you've got to

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00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: really really put your foot down because you gotta. I mean,

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00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: this is a team now that's starting to remember what

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00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: they did last year at the end of the season

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00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: to kind of get into the playoffs. They won't two

559
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Speaker 1: playoff games last year against two really good football teams,

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Speaker 1: but they did it by finishing the regular season strong,

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00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: by hanging fifty on the on the Dolphins, by hanging

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Speaker 1: forty six on the Broncos, by hanging thirty nine on

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I mean, they finished the season accelerating. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they gotta remember that. Yeah, break time for us here,

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Speaker 1: more of your phone calls coming up next. Judy, Bobby

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Speaker 1: and Jerry. Hang tight. We'll get to you guys in

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Speaker 1: the next segment. You're on One Bills Live presented Boy

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Speaker 1: Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown's few task with you.

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Speaker 1: It's the Buffalo football victory Monday, and coming up in

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Speaker 1: about an hour, we'll have our colleague Maddi Glab with

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Speaker 1: the Maddie Awards, as she does after every Bill's victory,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what Maddie has come up with this

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Speaker 1: week after this monumental win. And then third hour of

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Speaker 1: the show, we'll have Bills radio coller analyst Eric Wood

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Speaker 1: joining us for his take on the game that he

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Speaker 1: witnessed at Gillette Stadium on Sunday in the radio booth.

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Speaker 1: But we want to get back to the phones at

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Speaker 1: eight oh three fifty two five fifty open line for

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Speaker 1: you there to let us know your biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 1: the game, and we lead off with Judy and Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Judy, I expected Hunter

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Speaker 1: Henry to be a key player for the Patriots. Patriots

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Speaker 1: yesterday his name was barely mentioned. I want I remember

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Speaker 1: one four yard game he made. What did the Bills

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Speaker 1: do to contain him? Good question, Judy. Um, First of all,

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Speaker 1: I just think they're cut. They made a point early

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Speaker 1: in the ball game to eliminate him as an option,

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Speaker 1: particularly on down because if you go and look at

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Speaker 1: their third down plays, at least through the course of

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Speaker 1: the last four weeks, which is something that I did.

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Speaker 1: Their main third down targets are Hunter Henry and Jacoby Myers.

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Speaker 1: It's one or the other, and I thought they did

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Speaker 1: a very good job of eliminating him as an option

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Speaker 1: for mac Jones. And I think that threw him off

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Speaker 1: a little bit, much in the same way that the

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Speaker 1: Bills against Tua would shut off his first read and

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00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: force him to pat the ball, look for the second,

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Speaker 1: look for the third pass. Rush gets home two was

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Speaker 1: knocked out of the game, and like the first quarter

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Speaker 1: back in week two, they took a similar approach and

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Speaker 1: shutting off Hunter Henry as an option for mac Jones,

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Speaker 1: knowing he likes to go to him, particularly in the

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Speaker 1: red zone. Not that those opportunities cropped up all that.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the things too, they had a

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Speaker 1: hard time pushing the ball down the field. Whether that's

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Speaker 1: because Mac doesn't like to throw it, or they don't

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Speaker 1: feel confident in letting him throw press the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field, or whether he just didn't have the arm

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Speaker 1: for whatever you want to say. And that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's so if you're gonna let the wide receivers run

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Speaker 1: free down the field, thinking they're not gonna be the

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Speaker 1: first option anyway. And you jump, you jump the tight end.

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Speaker 1: It makes it easy. So if if you know wherever

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Speaker 1: he is, you think he's got you almost take him

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Speaker 1: away as a first option. With a young quarterback like that,

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Speaker 1: who's not going to throw the ball down the field

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Speaker 1: the tight end. I mean, if you're if you're running

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Speaker 1: that offense, even fans will tell you, yeah, that titan's

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Speaker 1: going to really help that young quarterback. It's gonna be great. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you know that as a defense, who's the first

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Speaker 1: guy you jump in front of. Yeah. So the coverage

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Speaker 1: was so good on Henry in the first half of

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Speaker 1: the game. He didn't get a target until under three

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Speaker 1: minutes left in the first half, which you know is

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Speaker 1: somewhat unusual. The thing that shocks me about the Patriots

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Speaker 1: offense is there are not more seam throws to the

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Speaker 1: tight ends. They spend giant money on John U. Smith

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Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry and they don't have Mac Jones throw

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Speaker 1: the seam ball all that much. Yeah, it's really surprising

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Speaker 1: now considering the investment, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 1: we've seen we saw John H. Smith do that in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: So Hunter Henry do that in LA with the Chargers, right,

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Speaker 1: they don't do it with Mac. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: I say this. To think about this. They spent their

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Speaker 1: money on the on born Um Hunter, Henry, John U. Smith, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Jude and Jude on a man, that's money well spent.

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Speaker 1: But for the offensive guys, the two tight ends, they

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Speaker 1: got those guys just for the exact reason they are

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00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: in this position right now. They got those guys to

641
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Speaker 1: help a young quarterback be it down inside. Give good targets,

642
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: guys who can separate a little bit in the passing game,

643
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: give you something in the run game. Two is tight

644
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: end blockers. And they're nine and you know they're nine

645
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: and six, so they're they're doing something right. The problem

646
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: with Hunter, Henry and John H. Smith it's not though,

647
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: it's not Hunter Henry, it's Mac Jones. Yeah, it's Mac Jones.

648
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: That's the problem. Um so I'm and you can you back.

649
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: I was looking at my I was watching this a

650
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: little bit with my one of my sons. Mac was

651
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: missing those guys. Well, yeah, he had a couple. I

652
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: was just gonna say he had a couple of long

653
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: passes one day on the left sideline. I remember distinctly,

654
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: he just flat out missed him, Like Henry can't even

655
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: get a hand on it. And if he had targeted

656
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: six times, he got one catch for nine yards through it.

657
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: He threw it shore, He's thrown it in the dirt.

658
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: He's thrown it out of bounds in front of a

659
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: receiver going, you know, to the sideline, thirty one passer

660
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: raining yesterday. Yeah, he struggled yesterday. Mac Jones struggled yesterday.

661
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Speaker 1: And that's why I think it's more about Mac than

662
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: it is about Hunter Henry. Let's go back to the

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Speaker 1: phones and we go to Bobby in Buffalo. What do

664
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Speaker 1: you have for us? Bobby? Hey, how you doing to take?

665
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: I took two things, guys. Yeah. First of all, Number one, Um,

666
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: I did not realize that the Bills not punt that

667
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: whole game yesterday. It made me think about back and

668
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker might laugh at this when I say this,

669
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Speaker 1: but this made me think about the ninety two punt

670
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: game against the forty nine ers back in the day. Yeah.

671
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: But um, but now my main question is this, how

672
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: far do you guys think that the Bills would go

673
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: if they went out the AFC East if they went

674
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: out the division, how far do you think they would

675
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: go if they play their in the playoffs? Yes, they have.

676
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: I've said this last year when they went and they

677
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: lost in the FC Championship game. Last year, I said it,

678
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: I think they got a talent enough on this team

679
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: to win the super Bowl. But they got to play

680
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: like that every time they play. They got to play

681
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: like that in the playoffs. They've got to play their

682
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: best football when they need to play their best football

683
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: to advance. If they do, they can beat absolutely anybody.

684
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: But as we've seen this year, the inconsistency is is

685
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: their Achilles Hill. Here. They can lose to anybody. They

686
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: ala Jacksonville. So they are good enough to win at all.

687
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: But they're also good enough, as we saw coming into

688
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: this weekend, they made it. They might not have made

689
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: it all at all, might not have made it at all.

690
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: So that's that's a thing. It's a big spectrum. You guys,

691
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: just say consistency. And that's what the Bills need to

692
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: learn how to do, is to be consistent, right and

693
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: that and that's you know, and thanks for the call, Bobby.

694
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: We got to remember we're only two weeks removed from

695
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: this team trading wins for losses every other week for

696
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: two months, right, win loss, win loss, win loss win.

697
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: They did four times in a row. That's that's an issue.

698
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: So now you've got you stacked a couple of wins here,

699
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: keep stacking them because we've seen this before, Steve. The

700
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: right team that gets hot in December and rolls into

701
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs can go all the way. Tampa Bay did

702
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: it last year. They had a three game losing streak

703
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: in November and then turned it on down the stretch,

704
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: caught fire and nobody could stop him. The Bills have

705
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: to set their mark on being that team right now.

706
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: So that means coming in next week and obliterating the

707
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: Falcons and then stopping all over the Jets in Week eighteen.

708
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: Roll into the playoffs and be ready to take on

709
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: anybody that stands in your way, keeping you from what

710
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: you probably should have had a good look at last year.

711
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: That's right. And as for you know what Bobby brought

712
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: up to begin with the no punt game in nineteen

713
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 1: ninety two, that was a fun one to watch. Neither

714
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: team punded, not just one, neither team punded. Now Montana

715
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: threw a couple of picks. Jim threw a couple of picks.

716
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: That's the only way the ball turned over unless she scored. Yeah,

717
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: and actually I was an inventsive clim Yeah, and you

718
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: can you can listen to this. That was my first

719
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: ever start at wide receiver because we went four wides

720
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Speaker 1: and and you benefited from the fact that there were

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Speaker 1: no punts. Special team, right, so it's like, yeah, I

722
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: get sure if we're not gonna punt, well, yeah, you're

723
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: you can play offense. Come on. But it was a

724
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: weird game. And I'll say this though too, in no

725
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: punt game. Um, and I've said this before as well.

726
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: That was we had been to a couple of Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls or one super Bowl. Yeah, we had been to

728
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: one two super Bowls. And it was like week two

729
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: of the regular season. It's real early and the Niners

730
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: were the team. Man, they were. They were good football team.

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Speaker 1: We knew that if we got far enough that those

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Speaker 1: might be the guys that we're gonna see. And we

733
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Speaker 1: went and we knew going out there is gonna be

734
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Speaker 1: a tough game. And Joe Montana and Jerry Rice and that,

735
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: and sure enough we beat him. And I'll never forget.

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Speaker 1: I was on the victory formation, the kneel down in

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00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: that no punt game. I never remember a huddle that

738
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: was more happy and excited that we won that game.

739
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: They were like even more than the time you beat

740
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: the Giants in ninety before you played him in the

741
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl. We didn't neel down that We didn't

742
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: kneel down in that game, or at least I wasn't

743
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: on the field. I don't think I know we didn't,

744
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? Yeah, um, because that was

745
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: a big win too, that first Super Bow. The locker

746
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: room after the Giant game was bigger. Okay, But this

747
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: huddle with Jim Can't Haul, Will Woolford and all the

748
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: you know Thirm, you know all these guys, they were

749
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: stay where because I had never been in I don't

750
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: go in that huddle off right. Yeah. They were stoked,

751
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: all of them, and that was it was. It was

752
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: a fun huddle to be in. But that we walked

753
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: off and I it's one of those games where you

754
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: walk off like what, hey, well, how'd you do? We

755
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: didn't punt today? You had not known neither today? I

756
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're right, because you know you're so

757
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: focused on it, you know, Yeah, you don't realize it.

758
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: That was the same way yesterday. I didn't realize the

759
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: Bills didn't punt until after the game was over. Hawk

760
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: who said, hey, Josh, we gotta take a picture in

761
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: the locker room. That's never happened before. Not punted it again.

762
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: And they took a picture with everybody's holding up goose eggs.

763
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: It was pretty good. Yeah, we have to take a

764
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: break here, Jerry in Springville. We'll get to you first

765
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: here coming out of this break, because it looks like

766
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: you've got a good thing to talk about too. I

767
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: may agree with you. We'll see what Jerry has on

768
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: his mind as we take more of your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: Next here on one Bill's Line presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Let's stand for Josh looks the

771
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: throne looks down the middle to Dick's caught touchdown a

772
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: twelve yard strength. What a lazer thrown by Josh Allen. Wow,

773
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Speaker 1: what a throne. That is your hunter or red zone

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776
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: a touchdown to put the Bills up seventeen seven in

777
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: the first half, and once you saw that score, you

778
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: knew that the Patriots, we're gonna have to come out

779
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,439
Speaker 1: of whatever their game plan was, which was presumably run

780
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: set ups in play action, pass play, sound defense right,

781
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: shortened the game with ball control, and that did not

782
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: work at all. No, I was, we were sitting there

783
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: in the in the break. Yeah, that the game unfolded

784
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 1: exactly like the Bills needed it too. And in fact,

785
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: it unfolded so well that they could leave two touchdowns

786
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: on the table and not look back. That could have

787
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: been a blowout like tonight. They were a half step

788
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: from that being a beat down, a half a step

789
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: to drop pat two literally to drop passes in the

790
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: end zone in the end zone. What are we looking at?

791
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: Another fourteen so another fourteen points, so probably eleven points

792
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: when it all comes you're looking at a forty burger

793
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: set of thirty one. They were a half. They were

794
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: a half beat away from that. Yeah, we're we're talking

795
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: about I was. We were all watching the game and

796
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: watching this, and everybody watched it when their own win.

797
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: I'm getting text. I have three older brothers who are living,

798
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: you know, in Kansas. They all texted me, who who

799
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: are the announcers? They didn't like Charles Davis and I

800
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 1: I was. I was hearing it on on social media

801
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: too a little bit. They didn't like Charles Davis and

802
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: I an eagle yesterday. I don't. I don't know. Well,

803
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: I didn't. I gotta be honest. I wasn't even listening

804
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: to them. The sound, the sound was on, everything was on.

805
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: I am. I was in my own planetary system. So

806
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: they're just white noise for you, white noise. I don't

807
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 1: even that. It does not even register with me because

808
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: I got my own thoughts about it, obviously, and maybe

809
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: because I did it for so long, I just tuned

810
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: it out. But man, oh man, I I was getting

811
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: text from people like going like it was my fault.

812
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: Spoken like a true big brother. Can I say, back

813
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: to the phones, we go. Jerry's been waiting patiently. Let's

814
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: get to Jerry in Springville. What do you got for us? Jerry?

815
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: You're one bills live. I think this team reminds me

816
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: of the New York Giants from seven one. They won

817
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against the Patriots. Okay, tell me why,

818
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: Because the Giants were up and down every week that year,

819
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: and they went into the playoffs after they beat the

820
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: Bills and they destroyed everyone, and then they went into

821
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and beat the Patriots. I think this

822
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: is going to be the year for the Bills. I

823
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: think after that Tampa Bay loss, they are definitely going

824
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,479
Speaker 1: to be the Bill the Giants from last year, even

825
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: with the Pro Bowlers, with the stumps of Josh Allen

826
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Speaker 1: and the d time, I think that's going to be

827
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Speaker 1: motivating for the Bills through the playoffs and for the

828
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Speaker 1: next two weeks. All right, fair enough, Jerry, that's a

829
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Speaker 1: that's a comparison you could throw out there. I suppose

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00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: the Giants in that year they started off oz and two,

831
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: ripped off sixth straight, six and two at the turn,

832
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: and then they do kind of trade some wins and

833
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: losses over the next month, actually pretty much through the

834
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Speaker 1: rest of the season loss win loss, win win loss

835
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: win loss. But that was the year, wasn't that the

836
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: year when Jim fossil That was two thousand and they

837
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: go into the postseason as a wild card. They win

838
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: at Tampa Bay twenty four to fourteen. Then in the

839
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Speaker 1: Divisional round they beat the Cowboys twenty one seventeen in Dallas.

840
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: They go on the road again beat Green Bay twenty

841
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: three twenty that's the Is that the David Tyree catch game? No?

842
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: That game was I remember Tom Coughlin on the sideline

843
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: of that Green Bay game January twentieth. It looked like

844
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: his face was going to freeze off. It was so red.

845
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: One of those those sleeves. Yeah, but it looked like

846
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: his face was gonna pop like a summer sausage on

847
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: the drill. He looked miserable. It did not look good.

848
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, somebody gets some vasoline for

849
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: that guy's cheeks. He looks terrible. Uh. And they somehow

850
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: won that game. Uh, and then they obviously ruined the

851
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: Patriots perfect season. Uh. Seventeen fourteen. That was the David

852
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: Tyree catch in the in the Super Bowl. That happened.

853
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. Uh yeah, you want to take it.

854
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: I'll take it as a comparison if if this, if

855
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: the same end result happens, you'll take that in a second.

856
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: I kind of I kind of like in it though.

857
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: More to um the Tampa Bay season last year, he

858
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: had a three game or cameras we're not having an earthquake.

859
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: If our MSG viewers are watching, um we uh. I

860
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: kind of liken it more to the Tampa Bay season

861
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: last year, that three game losing streak, not that the

862
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: Bills have had a three game losing streak this year,

863
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: but they couldn't find themselves there in the middle throws

864
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: of the season, and then they kind of catch fire

865
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: at the right time here. So I'm hoping they're catching

866
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: fire here's the same. And I think so this year

867
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: more than any other in Hit League history, because it's

868
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: the first year with the seventeen game schedule and a

869
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: bye week, three preseason games, a long, long, long stretch.

870
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: I think now more than ever, every team who wins

871
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl is going to be a team like

872
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were last year and go back

873
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: that they're gonna You're gonna go back and look at

874
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: their season. They say, Wow, at this point of the season,

875
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: it did not look good, right. I mean you can

876
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,439
Speaker 1: say that at at every team at this point, because

877
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: the season has become a four and a half month

878
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: marathon where you're gonna go through some lulls, you're gonna

879
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: get key people hurt, particularly in this year when he

880
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: got eighty twenty two guys on COVID, plus you're injured

881
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: reserve guys, guys who you lost early in the season

882
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: now can come back. All of that stuff goes on now,

883
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: and the league has really become one of these a

884
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: little bit more like other sports like the NBA, baseball

885
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: and hockey. Not obviously not to the great extent, but

886
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: there's gonna be points where every team goes through a

887
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: lull in the season because it is so long. You

888
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: can't play that well for that long because of the

889
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: physicality and the guys that are gonna be in and

890
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. So I think it is crucial.

891
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: Like I said at the end of the last segment,

892
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: the Bills hit the playoffs last year at a dead run.

893
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: They beat a really good Cult team, they beat a

894
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: really good Baltimore Raven team, and they went in and

895
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: lost to a Chiefs team who you know, had played

896
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: good and won a lot of games over them, but

897
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: hadn't really played their best. And on AFC Championship Game Sunday,

898
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: they played their best. The Bills did not, and that's

899
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: who goes to the Super Bowl. I think that we're

900
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: seeing that a lot, so you can make that comparison

901
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: with the Bills and the seven Giants, and you made

902
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: the comparison last year's like the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

903
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: I think every team in the league. Look back, who's

904
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: gonna win this year? You know, look, you're catching fire

905
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: at the right time. Yeah. The Chiefs, Yeah, and they

906
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: stunk for a month. The Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers.

907
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: Now he's in COVID. Now there's controversy, he's got a

908
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: busted toe, he's got all this going on. Okay, now

909
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: they catch fire. Now they're playing well, same thing with

910
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: any other team. The Miami Sinking Miami Stinking Dolphins are

911
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: still Yeah, they win tonight. They're seventh seeds. They replaced

912
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: the Ravens as the seventh seed in the AFC playoff race,

913
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: bless their heart. Unbelievable. That's unbelievable. And we have three

914
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: AFC East teams in the playoff hunt. That's big and

915
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, kudos. So that's you know, every team at Pittsburgh,

916
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: you know, Vegas, oh my god, the Chargers, Carbon right,

917
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: I know, I am. But the points still there to

918
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: be made. All these teams and even at the top

919
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Cincinnati there. They went through Cincinnati, went from

920
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: that one where they were the one seed, and then

921
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: they dropped down to the like the eight seed, the

922
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,479
Speaker 1: nine seed or something like that. Another fence looks pretty

923
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: damn good man, Right, all these teams are going through

924
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: this where there was a stretch in there, but it's like, well,

925
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: it's a good run. We thought we had it, but

926
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, So maybe that's where the

927
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 1: Bills aren't. The Bills did it for two months, let's

928
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: face it, win loss, win loss. Hopefully they can continue

929
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: to stack wins now that they have back to back

930
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: victories with some opponents that you would say the Bills

931
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 1: are clearly better than on paper. Question is, as Steve

932
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: always says, can you play your best when you're actually

933
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: on the field to win the football game and then

934
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: win the next one and the next one after that.

935
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here though. More are

936
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: your phone calls though, coming up, Mike and Connecticut, Bob

937
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: on a cell. Hang tight. We'll get to you guys

938
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: when we return for our number two. Here on this

939
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo Football Monday, It's one Bills Live, presented by Colloid

940
00:51:53,440 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hey, listen, trim it. Now.

941
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 1: That's the hell of the team. Were got held the

942
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: team win they had us for Damn baby, we ain't

943
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: dying yet. Listen, listen now, you gotta stay humble right here,

944
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: because we got two more games to go. One at

945
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: the time. That's number two right there, right, that's number two.

946
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: That's number two, and we gotta stay humble. We may

947
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: play him again off right, just keep sneaking up on people.

948
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: Nothing more important than the next woman. Enjoy this and

949
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: just get on twit tomorrow, love y'all. All right, there's

950
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: the locker room speech after the victory. Josh always ends

951
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: it with the same one went on three one through

952
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: three one, and he says that so fast as fast

953
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: as you can. We gotta ask him sometime why he

954
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: does that? When? What do we Why does he do

955
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: it so fast? I mean, I don't know. That's probably

956
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: just that's doesn't mean that is his last, you know what,

957
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: hero ball moment there. He's got to get it all

958
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: out in one one play. I guess I don't trying

959
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: to win the game on that one chant. Your biggest

960
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: takeaways from the twelve point victory over the New England

961
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: Patriots to put the Bills in the driver's seat for

962
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: the AFC East title. Two games to play Falcons and Jets,

963
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: both at home, two seemingly very winnable games. Provided they

964
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: take care of business on their home field these last

965
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: two weeks, they will be AFC champs AFC East Champs,

966
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: excuse me, for the second straight season, and we'll lock

967
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: up a home playoff game. We go back to the

968
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: phones here in our number two and we lead off

969
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: with Mike in Connecticut. Mike, what do you have for us?

970
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills live. Hey, Chris, do you think

971
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: for taking my call? Sure? Obviously happy with the win yesterday,

972
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: and I'm just calling because I want to get your

973
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: opinion on two players on defense, Tremaine Edmonds and Harrison Phillips.

974
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: I guess Tremaine Edmunds would be the first Sky just

975
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: because of his draft status and his expectations. I feel,

976
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: you know, um, he's missing tackles, he's shooting the wrong gaps,

977
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: he's getting pushed back, and that's just to my you know,

978
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: naked eye. I'm not obviously an expert or a scout,

979
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: but I was just going to ask your opinion on

980
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: do you think Treman. Edmonds has lived up to his

981
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: first round UH draft status. And you know he's been

982
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: in the league now like three years, and I don't

983
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: see any improvement. Um a lot of tackles, but like

984
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're not solo tackles. You know they

985
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: might be with Milano or Klein so um and then

986
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips. I guess I would just ask if you

987
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: feel he's lived up to his expectations and do you

988
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 1: think both players will be on the roster come next year? Okay,

989
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: we can take that, Steve, you want to lead off there?

990
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: Where do you want to stay star with? Edmond? Edmonds

991
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: led the team in tackles. He's a middle linebacker. You

992
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: might expect that, but I'll say this, he's He's always

993
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: been a guy that Bills fans have struggled to get

994
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: their arms around. He's a great he's a huge specimen,

995
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: and he does a lot of things very well. But

996
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: this is a defense that is not built like the

997
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: old Pittsburgh Steelers defense or the old or whatever defense

998
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: you want to call it. Tremaine Edmonds is asked to

999
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: do things that other middle linebackers aren't to do. This

1000
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: aren't asked to do. It's a defense that has built.

1001
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: As Brownie and I have said, to play with the

1002
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: offense they're playing with, they need Tremaine Edmonds to cover

1003
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,760
Speaker 1: a lot of ground, They need to drop into coverage.

1004
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: They ne him to set the defense. They want to

1005
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: be a leader. So he's got all that intangible stuff.

1006
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: This is fourth year, by the way, and I don't

1007
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: know what kind of improvement you want him to have.

1008
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: He's a multi pro. He's a multi year pro bowler.

1009
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of coaches and players around

1010
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: the National Football Leave you think a lot of him,

1011
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 1: and they're the ones who play against him and coach

1012
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: against him. This coaching staff has been resolute in their

1013
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: commitment to him and their praise of what he does.

1014
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: So certainly, and I see it too. You see it

1015
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: sometimes when he gets tied up with a blocker, can't

1016
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: get off, or takes at angle or at least some

1017
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: guys or missus a tackle er gets or you know whatever.

1018
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: All the stuff you mentioned. You can say all of

1019
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: that stuff and there's no there's no debating it. You

1020
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: can see him, you know, as the miss tackle here,

1021
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: or they snap off a big run here where he

1022
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: was standing there, should have made the tackle, or you

1023
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: feel like he should have I get all that, But

1024
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: for what they ask him to do, they love what

1025
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: he does. It's that simple. He doesn't. I don't think

1026
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker the Buffalo Bills is asked to do

1027
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: the same thing the inside linebackers asked to do in

1028
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears defense or the Jets defense, or the

1029
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: Seattle defense or whatever. They got a special role they

1030
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 1: want him to play, and I think they're very happy

1031
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: with the way he plays it. I'm not going to

1032
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: get into and make a you know, make some claim

1033
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: like I know exactly what that is, because I know

1034
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: this this defense. They don't. They don't vary. They're in

1035
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: nickel all the time. And I see Tremaine Edmonds in

1036
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: coverage as much as I see him stepping up into

1037
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: the line to stop the run game. So I think

1038
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: they like what he does. I'm not telling you and

1039
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: I know this, but I know I hear you. We

1040
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: get it, Brownie, and I get calls all the time

1041
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: about Tremaine Edmonds and how disappointed people are in him,

1042
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 1: or the fact that they think he should be playing

1043
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: defensive end or a different position or outside outside light,

1044
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: you name it. I just know this. I think the

1045
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff likes where he's at. They like what he

1046
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: brings to that position, and I don't think he's moving.

1047
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: I would say the only thing about Tremaine, I feel

1048
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: like sometimes he's almost a victim of his own athleticism.

1049
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is yesterday you see

1050
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: that Damian Harris run leak out and he and Milano

1051
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: both over pursue the backsides open and he exploits it.

1052
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: I think Tremaine is so fast and gets to his

1053
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: assigned spots so quick that sometimes he falls victim to overpursuit,

1054
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: and opponents play that against him. Sometimes you got a

1055
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: good enough play caller and schemer, they'll do that. Jan

1056
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: Gailey is to do that all the time here. When

1057
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: he was calling plays and was the head coach here,

1058
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: he used to set up pre snap alignment in such

1059
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: a way against linebackers he knows would cheat half a

1060
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: step one way or the other based on how that

1061
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: running backs lined up in the backfield. So he would

1062
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: purposely line up CJ. Spiller of Fred Jackson offset him

1063
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: even a little bit more in the backfield. Because guys

1064
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: like Ray Lewis and others would cheat a half a

1065
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: step because that's where they think the play design's going,

1066
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: and then they'd bring it back the other way. And

1067
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: a guy like C. J. Spiller was so fast, you're

1068
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: a half step the wrong way at the start of

1069
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: the snap, the play's over. I think Tremaine falls victim

1070
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: to that. Sometimes. I will say the last couple of

1071
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: weeks when I've been watching, I feel like he's shedding

1072
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: a little bit better and making plays. There was one

1073
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: particular replay I saw where he shed blocker, made the tackle.

1074
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: Yes it was four or five yards up the field,

1075
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: but made the play, didn't just stand there in the grind.

1076
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: One thing he really struggles with in my mind, the

1077
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: only thing is he's so tall. And I mean he's

1078
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: the tallest guy on the field unless Russeau's out there.

1079
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: He's six five plus. He's so tall. I think he

1080
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: struggles with playing too high, and I think it's easier

1081
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 1: for guards running backs tightened to get underneath him because

1082
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: he is so tall. He's struggled. He doesn't bend his

1083
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: knees or has trouble getting down low and accepting block

1084
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: He plays too high sometimes because he's a head, half

1085
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: a head or a full head taller than the guys

1086
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: who's he's engaging with, and I think that I think

1087
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: he struggles with that sometimes. I think it's a problem

1088
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: for him. But I'd also think the height and the

1089
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: length that he has is also a big asset and

1090
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: the other things he does. I don't think there's any question,

1091
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's any question. Once in a

1092
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: while he gets caught because he's just so stinking tall. Yeah,

1093
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: And then with respect to Harrison Phillips, I think he's

1094
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: back back to playing some of his better football. Um

1095
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: the knee injury, you know, two years ago really set

1096
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: him back. He was playing some excellent football in twent nineteen,

1097
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: gets injured in Week three, tears his acl against the Bengals.

1098
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: It's been a long road back for him and I

1099
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: think he's finally in the last month, I want to say,

1100
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: getting back to the kind of play that he was

1101
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: flashing two years ago. It's been that long of a

1102
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: road back, but right now he has been a welcome

1103
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: edition in there, especially with the lack of availability with

1104
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: Star Latulae. He has been a welcome gap plugger in

1105
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: Latulae's absence. Where he can take it from here. We'll

1106
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,919
Speaker 1: have to see, But right now I think he's playing

1107
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: some of his better football and hopefully that continues going forward.

1108
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,479
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. We go to Bob

1109
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: on a cell. Bob, what do you have for us?

1110
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live. I ha to near Chris Steve,

1111
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: the least caller, was completely opposite of what I thought

1112
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: of Tremina. Okay. I saw the game yesterday and I

1113
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: saw him lay some licks on a couple of guys

1114
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: that their ancestors must have felt it. Okay, And two

1115
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: weeks ago I actually told my son to leave the

1116
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: room because he was all over Jermaine Edmonds, and I

1117
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: kept saying, you don't see everything he's doing. I think

1118
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: him and Milano are like butter and jelly. They feed

1119
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: off each other, and I think they need to sang Germaine,

1120
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: you know, to keep that cohesiveness together. I appreciate you,

1121
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: Steve sticking up for him. I honestly believe that he

1122
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: is a multi year bull bowler. Well, he already is,

1123
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: so he's been to two. He was the first alternate

1124
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: this year with Josh. They were both first alternates for

1125
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. They didn't make it out right, but

1126
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: they were both first alternates, and as I said, I

1127
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 1: I felt in the last couple of weeks he shed

1128
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: blocks a little bit better. I think there's one thing

1129
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: you can definitively say about Tremaine. He is a tireless worker.

1130
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: And if there are areas and nuances of his game

1131
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: that aren't at a level that he or his coaches

1132
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: find acceptable, he's definitely at work on it. I mean,

1133
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: you never have to push that guy to work, but

1134
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: he is a worker. Comes from a family of workers.

1135
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: I mean his parents were. They were hard driving parents

1136
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: with their kids. That's why all three of them are

1137
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. Yeah, his dad was a

1138
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl tight end for the Dolphins. I played with

1139
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: him three Pro Bowls myself. Farrell Edmonds and their mom

1140
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: was a track star in college. Yeah, Farrell Edmonds was

1141
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: is absolutely giant of a guy, much like Tremaine. I

1142
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: think he's thicker than Tremaine, but yeah, he's And Tremaine

1143
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: and his brothers have said the hardest coach they ever

1144
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: had in their life was their mom. So he works

1145
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: hard at it and I think he brings everything and

1146
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: I get it. But man or man. You're looking at

1147
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: the top top three. He's been last two. Two of

1148
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: the last three years, this has been a top three

1149
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League and he's in the

1150
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: middle linebacker for it. You know, you may not like

1151
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 1: the way he looks or the way some of the

1152
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: things that go down, but they're effective with him in

1153
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: the middle. They're really effective. So and I think that

1154
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: the coaches depend on him to get a lot of

1155
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: that done. So and I get it, but I keep

1156
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: saying it. They're not. They don't. He's not out there

1157
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: to look like every other middle linebacker in the NFL.

1158
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like him physically, and they don't ask

1159
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: him to play like that. So you you kind of

1160
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: gotta live with that. I think time for us to

1161
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: go around the locker room, presented by connect Life, your

1162
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: Blood and organ Donor Network, and we begin with Josh Allen,

1163
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: who was quick to credit his offensive line, knowing all

1164
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: the shuffling they had to undergo after the Achilles injury

1165
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: suffered by Ike Bucker. I think it was a Christmas

1166
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: presents I got him. They were they were pumped up,

1167
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: and they played a little harder for him. So um

1168
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: never never heard to treat those big guys, and I'm

1169
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: super proud again adversity, just guys being pulled out. Um,

1170
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan Bates stepping up, he played fantastic. Ike

1171
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: goes down, Dion comes back in after being you know,

1172
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: at home with COVID and not really knowing much of

1173
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: the game plan, um, and not actually practicing the game plan.

1174
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: That's really tough to do. I'm so happy for our

1175
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: guys how they responded. Um. But again, we got two

1176
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: more games left and we gotta go. We gotta keep going. Yeah,

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01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: I mean the Ike Bucker injury. I don't I don't

1178
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: want to assume, but usually when you have an achilles

1179
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: injury like that, it is season ending. Um. And so

1180
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: as much as I don't want to assume that, it's

1181
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: hard not to think that's the likely outcome here. If

1182
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: he ruptured his achilles, that's it. Yeah, year, that's a

1183
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: year long injury. That is it's a devastating injury. And yeah,

1184
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: this year is certainly not I and I only until

1185
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: up in. Kobe Bryant is the only guy I've ever

1186
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: seen come back and play at a high level with

1187
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: that injury. Other guys have done it, but it and

1188
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: it's only now becoming more and more common. Manuel Sanders

1189
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: had it. At one point, if you ruptured your achilles tendon,

1190
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: it was a death sentence here. It was like the

1191
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: old time knee injury. Yeah, it was an absolute death

1192
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: sentence to anything athletically you ever wanted to do. Again.

1193
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: Now not so much. Yeah, if you rupture it in

1194
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: the middle, that's really bad. The reason why is when

1195
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: they surgically repair it, they overlap the tendon. They don't

1196
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: reattach it end to end where ruptured. They overlap it.

1197
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: And then it's your job, through rehab stretch it out

1198
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: to get it back to its original length again, and

1199
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 1: that takes time, and that's why it is a year

1200
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: long rehab. Kyle William when he was here, had bone

1201
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: spurs that were rubbing on both of his achilles. Fortunately

1202
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: for him, they were able to remove the bone spurs

1203
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: before they ruptured his achilles. But what he had to

1204
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: have done was because of the wear on his achilles.

1205
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: The doctors went in, they detached it from his heel,

1206
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: took the bone spurs off, and then reattached the achilles again.

1207
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 1: They did that on both his feet in consecutive years.

1208
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: You and even then the rehabilitation was five months. So

1209
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: it's a major, major injury and it is difficult to

1210
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: come back from. As I mentioned, Immanuel Sanders had that

1211
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: injury and did come back from it, so credit to him.

1212
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: Josh also talked about his superstar Mighty Mouse pocket rocket

1213
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 1: receiver yesterday, Isaiah McKenzie, who stepped up in a big

1214
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: way against the Patriots when they were down receivers. For

1215
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: him to come out and play this way, you know,

1216
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: day after Christmas, you know, it means a lot to him,

1217
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: but I think it means a lot to everybody on

1218
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: this team, just seeing a guy like that who has

1219
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: his ups and downs throughout the year, loses the returning positions,

1220
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: sat for a couple of games, and comes out and

1221
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean he was unbelievable today. You know, I think

1222
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: he had eleven plus catches, one hundred plus yards. The

1223
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 1: touchdown in the opening drive just an absolute, just phenomenal,

1224
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: phenomenal day for him, and I'm so so happy for him.

1225
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: I can't express that enough. Yeah, that first touchdown, Steve

1226
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: Josh was hanging in the pocket there and waited for

1227
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah to get open. In the second window. You gotta

1228
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: wait a long time. He ran a pretty circuitous route

1229
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: to the back of the end zone. There. That catch

1230
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: the Isaiah made going to his right, catching it back

1231
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: on his left side behind him, kind of right on

1232
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: his shoulder, was the exact mirror image of the one

1233
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders would drop two series later. Josh put her

1234
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: on their body and threw a fastball, and those are

1235
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: hard to catch east and they touchdown. He threw to

1236
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs in the back of the end zone on

1237
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: the on a little post route inside was an absolute

1238
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: rocket and he snared it um in the red zone.

1239
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 1: I think Josh, they they're they're most effective when Josh

1240
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: has time to throw it because he can fit it

1241
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: into a window where he can gun it, and they can't.

1242
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: They can't react, they can't knock it down. The touchdown

1243
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: was an example of that as well. I mean, that's

1244
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: a tight it's a tight window and closing fast, even

1245
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: the one did Davis here at home right before that's

1246
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 1: I mean the windows closing fast. He throws it, throws

1247
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: it so hard, you know it's hard to catch, but

1248
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: you know that got him off to a start. After

1249
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: the defense coming out on after the opening kickoff, the

1250
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 1: defense comes out third down, sack, punt, three and out,

1251
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 1: and then to go on a thirteen play seventy five

1252
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: yard drive that ends in a touchdown against you know,

1253
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: the number one scoring defense in the league. Right out

1254
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: of the gate. It sets you up to feel pretty

1255
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 1: good about what you're doing and that that you were

1256
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: talking that beats any pre game speech you'll ever get,

1257
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,680
Speaker 1: right right, Oh yeah, that's the best way to go

1258
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: out and start a game. Speaking of Iay, I'm a Kenzie.

1259
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 1: He was at the podium after the game talking about

1260
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: his career day against the Patriots. Let's hear what he

1261
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,640
Speaker 1: had to say about it. That was my first time

1262
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 1: sitting down in a while, and I just had to

1263
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: take even just you know, think to myself, like what

1264
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 1: can I do better? You know, I just show up

1265
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 1: the practice every day and get my teammates better, do

1266
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: what I gotta do, whatever I gotta do to make

1267
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: myself better my teammates. So those two weeks I was inactive,

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01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: I just thought about things, you know, it's just revaluate,

1269
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 1: reevaluated myself. And then just you know, this opportunity came around,

1270
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, with me coming and you know, not because

1271
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: bas got covid or Gate. But just it was my turn,

1272
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: and I felt like I just had to step up

1273
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: for my team. I've been doing it, you know, for

1274
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: a couple of years now, and I don't mind doing

1275
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 1: it if I gotta. If it's whatever I gotta do

1276
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: to help team win. If I gotta get one ball

1277
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: a game, that's what I'm gonna do. If I gotta

1278
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: get to plays the game, that's what I'm gonna do.

1279
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: But today I got on mostly all the place, and

1280
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: I made the best of it. And um, but like

1281
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: I said, sometimes it's hard, but you gotta you gotta

1282
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 1: get out of your own head sometimes. Yeah, and all

1283
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: indications are he was pretty dejected when he found himself

1284
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: as a healthy and active for the Saints game and

1285
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: then the game after that, which was one game removed

1286
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: from his bad fumble when he fell down and the

1287
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: ball came out from under him against the Colts on

1288
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 1: a kick return that basically ended the game before halftime,

1289
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 1: right twenty four to seven, as the Colts went in

1290
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: and scored one play later after recovering his fumble. And

1291
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:47,560
Speaker 1: it was hard for him. I mean, he's he's a competitor.

1292
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody of that stature that makes it to

1293
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: this level of football here. You're a special kind of

1294
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: competitor to get here at five foot six hundred and

1295
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: seventy three. I mean, yeah, he's my size, no question.

1296
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: Doing what he's doing, yeah, no question. It's uh and

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01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: I think it's you can question it all you want,

1298
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 1: you can wonder, you know, if they had. You know,

1299
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of coaching staffs out there that don't

1300
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: do that to players that wouldn't either what you call it,

1301
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 1: whatever you call the courage or the audacity or the

1302
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,560
Speaker 1: security in their own job to bench a player of

1303
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: Mackenzie's stature after he's been your number one returner for

1304
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: a couple of years, to come out and bench the

1305
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: guy for a game or two after making a mistake,

1306
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a an outfront mistake, kind of

1307
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: a you know, hard to hide mistake. Right. So, but

1308
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: most coaching staffs, on a lot of them, don't make

1309
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 1: moves like that. Um that I can't begin to communicate

1310
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: how big these moves play in the locker room, benching

1311
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: Isaiah Mackenzie after want and Mark Quest Stevenson, never taking

1312
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: a snap, never play you're in you even like Josh

1313
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: like Mitch Morris is sitting there going, man, oh man,

1314
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 1: you know I gotta do my I gotta I gotta

1315
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: hold my end of the deal up like Mitch. More

1316
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:17,679
Speaker 1: like a guy on another on the different position group,

1317
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: your defensive linemen are going they benched him for Wow,

1318
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: I better keep my foot on the gas. That it.

1319
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what a message that is. Woll

1320
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: And even Mackenzie said after the game yesterday, Yeah, I

1321
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:31,519
Speaker 1: learned my lesson. I can't make that mistake ever again.

1322
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean, as what basically said, because that's basically the

1323
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: way he interpreted sitting down for two weeks. Because when

1324
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: they do that to a prominent player, the more prominent

1325
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: the player, the more deeply it resonates with everybody because

1326
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 1: they know if that guy's getting it that treatment, they

1327
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: ain't gonna hesitate to do it to me. You can

1328
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: imagine how I felt what they do that something like

1329
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: that to like whatever Bruce or Jim or I'm like,

1330
01:12:53,920 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they may put me on in a guillotine, right. So,

1331
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it really sends a strong message around the

1332
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: locker room when they when they treat prominent players the

1333
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: same way they would treat a practice squad player. It's

1334
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 1: it's very effective leadership, really effective leadership. We finish our

1335
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: trip around the locker room with Jordan Poyer as he

1336
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: gives his assessment on the defensive performance in the second

1337
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: meeting with the Patriots as opposed to the first. I

1338
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: think we were all criticized in the first game. I

1339
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: think we all wanted to play better. I think we

1340
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: all expected to play better. Um, and like I said earlier,

1341
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, we knew he had to come out today

1342
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: and execute. And you know, coach Fraser and Sean put

1343
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: a hell of the game plan together for us on

1344
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: defense that allowed us to go play fast and execute

1345
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: our job. You know, they had some they had some runs,

1346
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 1: they made some plays, but you know, nobody blinked and

1347
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, Michael was able to get two takeaways, key takeaways,

1348
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: the one that sealed the game, and um, you know

1349
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: that's what we're just trying to come out and do

1350
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: every week. Yeah, So, you know, I don't think the

1351
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: defense did anything super flashy. I think they just kind

1352
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: of played their game. That's kind of the feeling I

1353
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: took away, Like, yeah, there were some big runs in there,

1354
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the day, the

1355
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 1: Patriots run for one fifty they average five per carry.

1356
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: But when the Bills get up on their opponents early,

1357
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: it plays right into the hands of how this defense

1358
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,719
Speaker 1: wants to play because they're bill to defend the passes.

1359
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,600
Speaker 1: We know, and mac Jones was you think of ineffective.

1360
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 1: They put them in a bat and they put the

1361
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: Patriots in some spots that they're pretty probably pretty uncomfortable

1362
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: for most teams. I don't know. I can't speak for

1363
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots, but they were one of ten on third down,

1364
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 1: but they were five of six on they had to

1365
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: go for it six times on fourth down. They got

1366
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:42,760
Speaker 1: five of the six, so they're really good at it.

1367
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:45,759
Speaker 1: But how comfortable is that being put in a position

1368
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 1: where you got six times during the game you gotta

1369
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down? And I think a

1370
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,839
Speaker 1: lot of it was the lack of success the Patriots

1371
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 1: had on first and second down. There was a lot

1372
01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: of the third second and eight second and ten second

1373
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: elevens to begin the game when they, you know, wanted

1374
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: to hand it off on first and second down and

1375
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 1: the Bills weren't having it. Bill's third down defense in

1376
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: the two meetings with the Patriots. They gave up three

1377
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 1: conversions on twenty two opportunities. Yesterday the Patriots were one

1378
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:19,719
Speaker 1: for ten on third down, and in the Windstorm game

1379
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: they were two for twelve. And that's pretty dang good.

1380
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: Even if you know they're going forward on fourth and

1381
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: get a couple of those, more often than not you're

1382
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: getting off the field. On thirday, we can talk about

1383
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,600
Speaker 1: the fourth down decisions and the way it went to

1384
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: do that. We'll do that. It's it's pretty interesting. So yeah,

1385
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here when we come

1386
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: back at his time for the Maddie Awards. Mattie Glab

1387
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: coming up next with her awards after this Bill's victory.

1388
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: Next on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, it's

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01:15:49,400 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hey, we're halfway through a Buffalo victory Monday.

1390
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: Chris Brownski tasker with you, and it's that time in

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01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: the show after every Bills victory where we have the

1392
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier

1393
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. Welcome, Maddie. It's very good to

1394
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: see you on this Monday. In particular, I agree, guys,

1395
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 1: back to back weeks for the first time in a

1396
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: long time. Let's keep it going through the end of

1397
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: the regular season, because I think the Buffalo Bills can

1398
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 1: win the next two especially with the last two games

1399
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 1: they've played in. Yeah, that's true. Let's jump right into

1400
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: the awards here, Maddie, because I'm eager to see what

1401
01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: titles these have this week? Can you begin with cheat code?

1402
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 1: The cheet code that has got to be our guy

1403
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:55,799
Speaker 1: ISAAA Mackenzie. He's been called the gadget player, the Swiss

1404
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 1: Army Knife to this offense, and we haven't seen him

1405
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: around that much this year in the offense because he

1406
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 1: started the season as a punt and kick returner. We

1407
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 1: saw him getting benched and then he climbed his way

1408
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: back into a role on offense. And yesterday when he

1409
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: had a big opportunity with gold Beasley and Gay Davis down,

1410
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: he had eleven receptions, one hundred and twenty five receiving

1411
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown. It's not easy to step up

1412
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: like that when you've been benched, when you have a

1413
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:26,680
Speaker 1: huge opportunity, a big role to play against a talented

1414
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: defense that's not allowing too many yards or points. Little

1415
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: dirty that's what his team calls him showed out. I

1416
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: think this offense is different when he's in it, whether

1417
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: it's catching passes or jet sweeps. We've seen a lot

1418
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: of the jet sweeps, a lot of the motioning from

1419
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: him when he's been involved in the offense before. I

1420
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: don't think we've really seen this out of him yet,

1421
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: what he did yesterday, and I really hope he gets

1422
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:52,640
Speaker 1: a bigger role from it. It's been an up and

1423
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: down season for him, like I said, and I'm glad

1424
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: he came through in a big time moment when his

1425
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 1: team needed him. And MYO, my were his teammate's super

1426
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: proud of him. After the game, you know, we were

1427
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: commenting about how comfortable he looked in that offensive role,

1428
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: one that he hasn't played really in two or three years,

1429
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: at least even for a full game. I guess he

1430
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: did last year and then the week seventeen against the

1431
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: Dolphins would have been the last time he did that,

1432
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: and he showed out there as well. So it's good

1433
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: to see. And I think that was the most surprising

1434
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: thing is how normal it looked with him out there

1435
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: catching eleven balls for a buck twenty five seems amazing.

1436
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 1: When he talked about it, but it was like, oh,

1437
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: there he is. That was kind of cool. So your

1438
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: next award is the King of the East. Should we

1439
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: take a wild guess at who that is? Yeah, take

1440
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: a wild guest. Please gotta be Josh. Oh, you are

1441
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: so right. Hit nail on the head there with Josh Allen.

1442
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: I think after his performance yesterday, he's the King of

1443
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: the East. There is nobody else who can touch him.

1444
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 1: Based on the last couple of games, he's completely put

1445
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 1: the team on his back to earn the Bills several

1446
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: victories this year, and yesterday's game was nothing different. I

1447
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:10,320
Speaker 1: mean that pass that he had to step on digs

1448
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: in the end zone, that laser beam he threw on

1449
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: third and eleven to put the Bills up seventeen to

1450
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 1: seven was just the icing on the cake there. He

1451
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 1: had several impressive throws that not many quarterbacks can make

1452
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: throughout the game. He had that fighter mentality yesterday, which

1453
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: is what they needed going into this game, and to

1454
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:31,919
Speaker 1: take the team through a tough game against a tough opponent.

1455
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean over three hundred passing yards, he also crosses

1456
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: the one hundred passing touchdown mark and becomes the first

1457
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 1: quarterback to have more than one hundred passing touchdowns and

1458
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: twenty rushing touchdowns in the first four seasons. Josh Allen

1459
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 1: just continues to amaze, amazed Bills Mafia over and over

1460
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,160
Speaker 1: again with what he's able to do from game to

1461
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: game of just an incredible performance by him. He is

1462
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 1: that dude, He is that guy, and he's the King

1463
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,640
Speaker 1: of the East. All right, yeah, I'll sign up for that.

1464
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: The next award is your kudos award. Guy gives some

1465
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: kudos to the offensive line. I feel like this year

1466
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:12,640
Speaker 1: a lot of the time when we're talking about the

1467
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 1: offensive line, it's because they might have not done their job,

1468
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: or we needed more from them in a game, or

1469
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 1: the protection wasn't there, Josh Allen didn't have enough time

1470
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: in the pocket to make throws or make decisions. Well,

1471
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: yesterday they held it down and they go into the

1472
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: game again all jumbled without their regular starting five, which

1473
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time they had the

1474
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: five starters who we thought it would be. From the

1475
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, it seems like every week there's

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Speaker 1: a new guy put into the lineup, and it was

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01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: Ryan Bates yesterday who got folded into the mix. Well,

1478
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: Ike Bucker goes out in the middle of the game

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01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: and Dion Dawkins, who was just activated from the COVID

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01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: nineteen list, comes in. We weren't sure if he was

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01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: going to be able to play a full game, let

1482
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: alone a couple of quarters. And they didn't miss a

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01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: beat the entire game, whether Ike was in or Ike

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01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:01,679
Speaker 1: was out, or whether Ryan Base was in or Dion

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01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 1: Dawkins was in. The group hasn't always been on point

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Speaker 1: this year, but they were totally on point in yesterday's game,

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01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: and I really hope it continues. Yeah, I would agree

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01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: with that. That the fact that they had to do

1489
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 1: it in game and still didn't give up a sack.

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01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 1: The team never punted, I think says a lot about

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01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: what they were doing physically upfront. The next award is

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01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 1: the confidence booster. All Right, there's a couple things that

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01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: happened in yesterday's game that can give them Bills some

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01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: confidence going into the rest of the regular season as

1495
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: well in the playoffs. Number one, going three of four

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01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: on fourth down, having the trust that Sean McDermott did

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01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: in his offense keeping them on the field, and they

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01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: came through converting on three of four of those opportunities.

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01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 1: I love that for them. I hope they continue to

1500
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: go to go to four thousands in the future. We

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01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: saw how this game would look. The Patriots came right

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01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:56,600
Speaker 1: back and started going for it on fourth down. We

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01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 1: could see that going forward as games start to get

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01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: more important in the playoffs. Another thing that can totally

1505
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 1: boost this team's confidence. No punts. Matt Hawks said that

1506
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: was the first time he's ever played in a game

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01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 1: where he didn't punt, and he asked for a picture

1508
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen and the specialists after to remember the moment.

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01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely love that, and it was the first time in

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01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,719
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's career as a head coach where his defense

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01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:22,880
Speaker 1: didn't force a punt. I think it is four hundred

1512
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: and seventy four games incredible staff for the Buffalo Bills

1513
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: to have, and then going six of twelve on third down.

1514
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:31,919
Speaker 1: The last time they played the Patriots in Week thirteen,

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01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: they were terrible on third down, converting only thirty percent

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01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: of their third down opportunities, had fifty percent yesterday. So

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01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,720
Speaker 1: I think these are very important statistics that can keep

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01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:45,560
Speaker 1: them going forward into the rest of the season and

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01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. So confidence boosters right there. All right,

1520
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: we move along and we go to the right on

1521
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: time award. And this didn't just happen one time in

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01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:59,839
Speaker 1: the game. Now, what happened two times? Big time award,

1523
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: right on time for Micah Hyde, one of the Buffalo

1524
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: Bills safeties. He now has five on the season and

1525
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: ties with Jordan Poyer. Of course, love it. Those two

1526
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:13,799
Speaker 1: have ten interceptions, a huge number to have as a safety.

1527
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 1: And the Patriots they were getting some momentum there on

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01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: some of those drives and who shows up It was

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01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde there to stop that momentum. It was the

1530
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 1: first time this team forced multiple takeaways in a game

1531
01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:28,240
Speaker 1: since the Week ten win over the Jets, So it's

1532
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: been quite some time since this group has forced multiple takeaways.

1533
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 1: They did that quite a bit in the first half

1534
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: of the season, finally got back to it yesterday. The

1535
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,639
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's offense didn't score off of any of those takeaways,

1536
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: but I think they were still very important to kind

1537
01:23:42,080 --> 01:23:44,640
Speaker 1: of stalling the Patriots and the momentum that they were

1538
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 1: trying to get. Yeah, of course, that first takeaway, the

1539
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 1: first tipped interception that Micah Hyde got ended up in

1540
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,759
Speaker 1: the fourth and one lack of conversion gave the Patriots

1541
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 1: a ninety nine yard field to go to that they

1542
01:23:57,880 --> 01:23:59,600
Speaker 1: couldn't make a first down in the Bills got it

1543
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: back and feeling that did turn into a touchdown, So ultimately,

1544
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: even that turnover gave him the fuel position that led

1545
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 1: to them being able to punch it in. All right,

1546
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 1: now we've got one of the more unusual awards. I

1547
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say for the course of this season,

1548
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 1: it's called the best Question Award, Maddie, and I think

1549
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: we're going to let the actual event take the lead

1550
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 1: on this before we turn it over to you. Him

1551
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:28,960
Speaker 1: football aside. Sorry, but I'm doing a story about New

1552
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions, and I was just wondering if you had

1553
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 1: any you wanted to share with your fans and our readers.

1554
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: Yeah no, not right now, Okay, thanks Every next week,

1555
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 1: take it away, Maddie, I can't stop last weekend. I

1556
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: think that's going to be my new phrase from now on.

1557
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: Maybe next week, when anybody asks me something absolutely hilarious,

1558
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: I can shout out to that reporter for not caring

1559
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 1: about what happened in that game and ask her question.

1560
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 1: There was a huge pregnant pause before that, reporter asked

1561
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: the question where nobody wanted to ask Bill Belichick a

1562
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:11,160
Speaker 1: question because of what just happened in the game. And

1563
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: here she goes with her question about the story that

1564
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,600
Speaker 1: she was writing about, which was New Year's Resolutions. And

1565
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: I love that she was playing by her own rules there.

1566
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: She was writing a story. She did not care what

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01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:26,759
Speaker 1: had gone on. She had a question to ask Bill Belichick,

1568
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:28,720
Speaker 1: and she was going to ask that question. And the

1569
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: response that Bill gave was absolutely amazing. Yeah, next week.

1570
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: That's the most underrated thing about the entire scenarios. His

1571
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: ability to say no, not right now, like emotionless, totally detached.

1572
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 1: He's usually emotionless, right that is That's an amazing I

1573
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 1: hold on a second, that may be the most mentally

1574
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: tough answer Bill Belichick has ever given. I want to

1575
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: ask both of you, do we put this above or

1576
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 1: just below? On to Cincinnati, which was his answer for

1577
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:07,560
Speaker 1: about ten consecutive questions. I think this is above it.

1578
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 1: I think this is more of it. I think this

1579
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: is this is more mentally tough to come up right

1580
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: in that moment to say that the way he did

1581
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: and leave it at that, and then to add in

1582
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 1: when maybe next week that is unbelievable. Let me let

1583
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 1: me leave you a breadcrub here that is next week.

1584
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely unbelievable that he was able to maintain it total

1585
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 1: Flatline's say it, Maddie, what do you think you put

1586
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 1: it above or below? On to Cincinnati. Oh, I'm saying above.

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01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: Tasker and I were having a time watching this during

1588
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: commercial breaks while we were taking gholsts tonight last night.

1589
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we watched it probably four times, and there

1590
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,720
Speaker 1: is the same amount of laughter, if not more, after

1591
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: every time we watched that exchange. It's unbelievable, is that

1592
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 1: it is? Because we've all been there, right, Maddie you

1593
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:58,680
Speaker 1: played competitive softball, Brownie, you were a soccer player, and

1594
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:00,600
Speaker 1: I was in the league with through this stuff. You

1595
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 1: know how like like your head's about to explode, either

1596
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: for good or for bad or whatever, and somebody out

1597
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 1: of nowhere hitch in the back of the head with

1598
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:15,120
Speaker 1: a question like that. It's like, what, like you're in

1599
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: an alternate universe and which is exactly where this lady's

1600
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: asking this question from. Yeah, I had to handle it

1601
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,799
Speaker 1: like that is It's amazing. I appreciate you lumping Maddie

1602
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: and I in that category with you. I don't know

1603
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: if it's quite deserving because I don't know if I

1604
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 1: ever did more than one interview in my entire athletic career.

1605
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 1: But thanks, Steve Brownie, don't worry. I appreciate the credit,

1606
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 1: really I do. It's amazing though, Yeah, it is amazing. Yeah,

1607
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:41,760
Speaker 1: Maddie and I are more likely to be the ones

1608
01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: asking those hit you in the back of the head

1609
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 1: questions than we are to be on the receiving end

1610
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:48,080
Speaker 1: of those. But I appreciate the consideration there, Steve. That

1611
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: was very nice of you. Maddie. We are unfortunately out

1612
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,640
Speaker 1: of time, but thank you, and we look forward to

1613
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:56,759
Speaker 1: seeing you on future Mondays because that means the Bills

1614
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: keep winning. YEP, I completely agree. Guys. Have a good

1615
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:03,559
Speaker 1: rest your show, all right, Mannie with the Maddie Awards.

1616
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: Mandy Glad with the Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Mark,

1617
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: the official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills. We will

1618
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,759
Speaker 1: step aside here, but get back to your phone calls

1619
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: when we return. On this Buffalo football victory Monday, one

1620
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: Bill's Line presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1621
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to one Bills live on this

1622
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:39,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo victory Monday. After the Bills twelve point went over

1623
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:42,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots to put themselves in the driver's seat for

1624
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: the AFC East title when their last two games they

1625
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 1: are AFC East champs for a second straight season. But

1626
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: we want to get back to the phones and we

1627
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 1: go to Sheldon and Ken Moore next. What do you

1628
01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: have for a Sheldon? How you doing? Chris good? Hey,

1629
01:28:57,080 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: I was listening to the guy about the Tremaine Edmund's

1630
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: a deal that he you know, and you know when

1631
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: Steve said, well, maybe they're just giving him too much

1632
01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: responsibility back there, I agree with Steve. But no, just

1633
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 1: let me ask you one thing here. What would you

1634
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 1: say to switching Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmund's positions? I

1635
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:30,120
Speaker 1: think Milano is a better run stopper and he's damn

1636
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 1: good on bass coverage. Why would just just thought? Why

1637
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: switch him? They got there the number three defense in

1638
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: the league, and two years ago they were the number

1639
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 1: one defense in the league, and they've been top three

1640
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:46,720
Speaker 1: against the past two of the last three years. Why

1641
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:53,720
Speaker 1: why change anything? Yeah? He left, we had to well,

1642
01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 1: we had to move on. We got two more calls. Yeah,

1643
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I get it. I mean they

1644
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:02,040
Speaker 1: won't every don't want any successful plays at all against

1645
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 1: their defense. Otherwise somebody's got to go. But I'm that's

1646
01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: a little bit of hyperbole, but you know that's sarcastic. Right. Yeah,

1647
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: the guy's been in the Pro Bowl twice and he

1648
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,519
Speaker 1: gets voted in by his coaches and players that he

1649
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 1: plays against. So he's doing something right. Yeah. Let's move

1650
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:26,320
Speaker 1: along though, and we go to John and Williamsville. What

1651
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 1: do you have for us? John? Hey, A great show

1652
01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 1: is always gays. Thanks. My question is star Lookeelly. Okay,

1653
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:39,880
Speaker 1: he has been out the last two weeks for personal reasons. Now,

1654
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: seeing that he was on the virus last year, he

1655
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:50,719
Speaker 1: opted out because of the virus. Right, is his personal

1656
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: reasons because of the virus this year that he opted

1657
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: out for the last two games for personal reason. He

1658
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:58,600
Speaker 1: did not wait out for the last two games for

1659
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 1: personal reasons. He missed an other game because of a

1660
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:05,920
Speaker 1: toe injury. He played. He played against Carolina, didn't he?

1661
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 1: I think he did? And then he missed the game

1662
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 1: prior to that with a toe injury. And then he

1663
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: missed the Thanksgiving Day game because he was on the

1664
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:20,160
Speaker 1: COVID list, right, So I think I have that right,

1665
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:22,719
Speaker 1: But it was this is the first game he's missed

1666
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 1: for personal reasons, and we do not know what those

1667
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 1: reasons are. We don't know if somebody and his family's ill,

1668
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: we don't know, We don't know anything. It could be

1669
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 1: any number of reasons. Over the years, reasons that are

1670
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:40,800
Speaker 1: deemed personal have been anything from their wife having a

1671
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: baby to you know, a mom tragically passing away. They

1672
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:48,280
Speaker 1: got to go to a family funeral. Could be anything,

1673
01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 1: anything under the sun that's deemed personal. And he missed

1674
01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:54,360
Speaker 1: a couple of days of practice this week and then

1675
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 1: missed the game. I'm imagine we probably won't find out right,

1676
01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:02,880
Speaker 1: and we don't know, So sorry John, but yeah, I

1677
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 1: mean it was only this week that he miss due

1678
01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:07,840
Speaker 1: to personal reasons. He's missed him games because of COVID

1679
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:10,600
Speaker 1: and because of a toe injury, and that's kind of

1680
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:15,640
Speaker 1: where it's at. I know that his lack of availability

1681
01:32:15,720 --> 01:32:19,959
Speaker 1: of late has been frustrating for some fans, but sometimes

1682
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:25,640
Speaker 1: it's out of everyone's control. It's a barbaric sport. I

1683
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: don't think that has to be explained. So injuries do

1684
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: happen the personal reasons or personal reasons, and the coaching

1685
01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 1: staff would not have granted him the time away from

1686
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:40,640
Speaker 1: the team unless they felt that personal matter warranted that

1687
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: kind of attention. So that's what we're going to have

1688
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:47,839
Speaker 1: to accept being on the outside looking in. Let's squeeze

1689
01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:50,560
Speaker 1: Chris in Brooklyn in here real quick before we go

1690
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:52,599
Speaker 1: to break. What do you have for us? Chris? Hey,

1691
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,320
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, guys. I hope you had a good holiday. Thanks.

1692
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: I'll mean quick first run games still not great, but

1693
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 1: I think I thought it was effective when when it

1694
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:02,280
Speaker 1: needed to be, which is why I was a little

1695
01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 1: confused during one of our earlier red zone appearances that

1696
01:33:05,320 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 1: we threw three straight passes from the Patriots one without

1697
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:11,080
Speaker 1: running it at least once. My other takeaway is, and

1698
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:13,120
Speaker 1: this may be a hot take, and I invite you

1699
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:16,560
Speaker 1: guys to talk me off the ledge, but with Mackenzie's

1700
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:20,280
Speaker 1: performance yesterday, like, does it make sense for us to

1701
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 1: walk away from Cole Beasley at this point in particularly

1702
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,120
Speaker 1: given the year he's having um and it's likely to

1703
01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:27,479
Speaker 1: pickyback off of the last call, or also might make

1704
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,519
Speaker 1: sense for us to walk away from Starlot Tula for

1705
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,640
Speaker 1: next year as well. Um, that's why I got what

1706
01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:35,639
Speaker 1: one quick thing for Steve grew up watching the Bills

1707
01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 1: and there were two things my dad yelled at the

1708
01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 1: TV screen during every game. The first was Bruce, the

1709
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 1: second was task. You left it out on the field

1710
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:52,680
Speaker 1: every single time you stepped out on the field. They

1711
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,719
Speaker 1: don't make them like they don't make them like you anymore.

1712
01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:57,599
Speaker 1: And it was a pleasure to watch you play. Thanks.

1713
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:00,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate, appreciate the a couple of things in there,

1714
01:34:00,439 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 1: the running game and the play call. I don't know,

1715
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,559
Speaker 1: I have a really hard time criticizing anything that they

1716
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: did yesterday. Play call wise, I thought Brian day ball

1717
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: was and I said it on Bill's Die he was money.

1718
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: Yesterday you take away two dropped stone cold, perfect play

1719
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: called drop touchdown passes in the end zone and it's

1720
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 1: an absolute beat down by the Buffalo Bills. Kumero's drop,

1721
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders drop, and then you got a soft man

1722
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: down an ineligible player down the field on Dawson Knox's touchdown.

1723
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 1: It gets called back. You know they the Bills were

1724
01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:37,599
Speaker 1: on it, So I don't I don't have a problem

1725
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:39,599
Speaker 1: with the way their run game was working yesterday, good

1726
01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 1: or bad, and throwing it when you got down there,

1727
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 1: Josh was the guy you wanted the ball in the

1728
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:46,120
Speaker 1: hands of. So I don't have a problem with that

1729
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 1: at all. The other thing, no, I don't think you

1730
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:51,040
Speaker 1: want to step away from Cole Beasley or Starlow two

1731
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:54,280
Speaker 1: Lalay at this point. No. You you want to get

1732
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 1: them to contribute going forward, even if it's only until January, February,

1733
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:01,599
Speaker 1: whenever the season happened is to end. You need everybody

1734
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: on board pulled in the same direction. Don't push good

1735
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 1: players aside. Start throwing people overboard, right, j Don't push

1736
01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 1: good players aside for reasons that don't have anything to

1737
01:35:10,920 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: do with football. I know Isaiah McKinzie had a fantastic

1738
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:17,839
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Maybe that will continue, and maybe Cole Beasley

1739
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 1: will will sit to the side and then get back

1740
01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:23,080
Speaker 1: in and he'll be ready to come in when he's ready. Fine,

1741
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: But one of the things that made this team a

1742
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 1: contender was the depth they had at that position when

1743
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:34,440
Speaker 1: the season began. You throw that away now or compromise

1744
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:36,600
Speaker 1: that in some way, shape or form, now that the

1745
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 1: season's critical and it's do or die. No, you keep

1746
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 1: those guys that goes for Starlo tu Lay as well. No,

1747
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 1: these guys have been there, they and for whatever reason

1748
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:48,840
Speaker 1: they're not on the field now or whatever you think

1749
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: about them off the field. When they're on the field,

1750
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 1: they're contributors and contributors in a big way. And I

1751
01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:57,560
Speaker 1: think you're better when you have your best players in

1752
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:00,360
Speaker 1: the building helping you, whether they're on the field or not.

1753
01:36:01,360 --> 01:36:06,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, just I get it. It's a reactionary society

1754
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: we live in. Now that we've got this, let's forget

1755
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: all of that and know, oh, those guys are important,

1756
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 1: they can help and if you need him, you really

1757
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,559
Speaker 1: need him. You don't want to say, well, we got

1758
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:18,320
Speaker 1: rid of him because Isaiah. We got rid of Cole

1759
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: Beasley because Isaiah had a really good game, and now

1760
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 1: we Isaiah's down with a toe injury. Now what are

1761
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 1: we gonna do? It didn't Now you can't, You can't

1762
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: bring him. He's done, he's gone. So yeah, I know,

1763
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,760
Speaker 1: don't change anything about the lineups or whatever like that.

1764
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:36,200
Speaker 1: You go into every game preparing to give yourself the

1765
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: best chance to win. If that means Isaiah McKenzie instead

1766
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:41,679
Speaker 1: of Cole Beasley and Cole Beasley is a reserve, that's fine,

1767
01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 1: or vice versa, that's fine. But the coaching staff is

1768
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna put those guys on the roster and activate the

1769
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:48,519
Speaker 1: guys they think gives them the best chance to win

1770
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons this week, both those guys could

1771
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: be on the field. They may go four wide with

1772
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,879
Speaker 1: two slots. Now you got a problem if you're the Falcons.

1773
01:36:56,320 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: So there's that on the table. So you pump the

1774
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:07,160
Speaker 1: brakes on changing anything about what you're doing right now.

1775
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 1: After a game like you just played yesterday, despite the

1776
01:37:10,439 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 1: success or lack thereof in any phase of the game,

1777
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: were great time for us here when we come back,

1778
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls and comments on the tweet sheet.

1779
01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:23,759
Speaker 1: Your biggest takeaways from me yesterday is a resounding victory

1780
01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:28,320
Speaker 1: over the hated Patriots thirty three twenty one, your final

1781
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:31,479
Speaker 1: It was so delicious. We're gonna silk up more of

1782
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 1: it when we come back here. On one Bill's Live

1783
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had

1784
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:58,080
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been over the fields. Kind

1785
01:37:58,080 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role player

1786
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:07,040
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straded beer

1787
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:12,679
Speaker 1: of normalcy, all right ere. We are our number three

1788
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:18,040
Speaker 1: on a Buffalo football victory. Monday. Mills now nine and

1789
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:20,479
Speaker 1: six on the season, moving ahead of the Patriots after

1790
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: their win at the Raisa as they call it up

1791
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: there Jillette Stadium. Monster effort by Josh Allen, resourceful effort

1792
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:36,240
Speaker 1: by the Bill's offensive line, big step up to the

1793
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:42,120
Speaker 1: plate effort by Isaiah McKenzie, and opportunistic effort by Buffalo's defense,

1794
01:38:42,200 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: chiefly that of Micah Hyde with two interceptions. They get

1795
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:47,839
Speaker 1: the much needed victory. We want to know your biggest

1796
01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 1: takeaways from the game, what it means for this team

1797
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: going forward. The phone lines were open at eight o

1798
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two,

1799
01:38:56,320 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 1: five fifty bottom of the hour here about twenty minutes

1800
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 1: or so, will be joined by Bill's radio network analyst

1801
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 1: Eric Wood get his thoughts on the game and the

1802
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:10,639
Speaker 1: atmosphere he experienced out there in Foxborough. But for now,

1803
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 1: it's you and us on the phone lines at eight

1804
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,719
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one, eight eight fifty two, five fifty,

1805
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:20,200
Speaker 1: and also on the tweet sheet, which is brought to

1806
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving provider

1807
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. From front and first up on

1808
01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:35,719
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet is Josh, who says, the offense clicked

1809
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 1: the whole game for the first time since the beginning

1810
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:40,920
Speaker 1: of the season. It was refreshing to watch our team

1811
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:44,120
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that couldn't be stopped. It looks like

1812
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 1: we are peaking at the right time. And really, that's

1813
01:39:49,280 --> 01:39:51,960
Speaker 1: that's the That's the next part of this conversation, Steve,

1814
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:53,800
Speaker 1: the wind's been put to bed. You got the win

1815
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:56,240
Speaker 1: that you needed to put yourself in the driver's seat

1816
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 1: for the division title. You still have to win these

1817
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:01,680
Speaker 1: last two and in of your position, not only to

1818
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: lockdown the division, but you know, a good seed in

1819
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:10,160
Speaker 1: the AFC playoffs. Yeah, it's and you know, peaking at

1820
01:40:10,200 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 1: the right time. Yeah, I'm sure a month and a

1821
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:15,960
Speaker 1: half early actually, but yeah, I mean, you gotta keep winning,

1822
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:19,760
Speaker 1: but you really want to peek in three four and

1823
01:40:19,880 --> 01:40:22,160
Speaker 1: five weeks away from now three four or five and

1824
01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: six weeks. Yeah, but you gotta be playing your best

1825
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 1: football to get there too. And I think there's no

1826
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:30,400
Speaker 1: question I think yesterday was their best game of the season.

1827
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:32,280
Speaker 1: I would even put it ahead of the Kansas City game.

1828
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 1: Maybe those are probably the two right on this one.

1829
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,000
Speaker 1: The Kansas City game meant something personally, the most Bills

1830
01:40:39,040 --> 01:40:40,600
Speaker 1: fans on this team after being put out of the

1831
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, this one had some weight all the

1832
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 1: way around the conference and it was a big one

1833
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:49,759
Speaker 1: not just for the Bills Patriots, but for the conference.

1834
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:53,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is their best game of the season

1835
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 1: and it came at a time when they absolutely had

1836
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 1: to have it. It's nice because it gives you some

1837
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: and whether it's true or not, whether it's legit or not,

1838
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:04,640
Speaker 1: it gives you some faith that when they need it,

1839
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: they can call it up right. The one of the

1840
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 1: interesting comments after the game that we heard was from

1841
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and I think there was another player that

1842
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:19,799
Speaker 1: mentioned it as well. They they were appreciative of the victory,

1843
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:22,240
Speaker 1: glad they were able to get it, but in the

1844
01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:24,560
Speaker 1: next breath they're very quickly said we may see this

1845
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 1: team again. And ESPN has their ESPN dot Com has

1846
01:41:29,439 --> 01:41:34,920
Speaker 1: their Football Power Index, which does a number of different

1847
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:38,200
Speaker 1: simulations to try to predict what might be coming down

1848
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: the pike. Most likely Wildcard round matchups. Per the ESPN

1849
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: dot Com Football Power Index, the highest degree of certainty

1850
01:41:48,720 --> 01:41:54,679
Speaker 1: forty nine percent chance Bill's Patriots wildcard round the second

1851
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 1: most likely matchup, Colts Bengals thirty seven percent. Third most

1852
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:04,719
Speaker 1: likely Cardinals Rams thirty three percent, followed by Eagles, Bucks

1853
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 1: and Cardinals Cowboys at twenty six percent, respectively. So Patriots

1854
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:12,800
Speaker 1: Bills probably gonna happen again. Probably going to happen again.

1855
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: And I think it's due in large part to the

1856
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:20,920
Speaker 1: fact that the Bills have two favorable matchups left on

1857
01:42:20,960 --> 01:42:24,600
Speaker 1: their schedule right The Patriots maybe a little bit less so,

1858
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:27,840
Speaker 1: but they have Jacksonville this week, Miami on the road

1859
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen. In Miami has won their last sixth straight.

1860
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how it all comes out

1861
01:42:35,160 --> 01:42:37,760
Speaker 1: in the wash. And it's not only how those two

1862
01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:40,599
Speaker 1: teams do the rest of the way, it is also

1863
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 1: how all the other teams in AFC contention do over

1864
01:42:45,320 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 1: these final two weeks. And they're gonna be playing a

1865
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:49,840
Speaker 1: lot of the teams in their own divisions as well.

1866
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:53,559
Speaker 1: I'm thinking we could get you could get Cincinnati too

1867
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:58,000
Speaker 1: in this mix. They place Kansas City this week this

1868
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 1: coming week week seventeen, and that's an offense that you

1869
01:43:02,160 --> 01:43:04,040
Speaker 1: might think could go tee to tee with Kansas City

1870
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:06,599
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, but still you could also see

1871
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 1: him going and not winning. It's my point getting their end.

1872
01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 1: It's at home against Kansas City, so Kansas's got to

1873
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:18,599
Speaker 1: come in. But if Kansas City goes in there wins,

1874
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 1: that changes the bengals outlook. And also they play Cleveland

1875
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: next week if they win that, so they're in. They're

1876
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 1: still fighting for a division, right, I mean they lead

1877
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:34,479
Speaker 1: it now, but it's not locked down, right, they would

1878
01:43:34,520 --> 01:43:41,240
Speaker 1: win their division situation, right, So yeah, I mean there's

1879
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:45,800
Speaker 1: sixty four games they got to play yet. So the

1880
01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:51,240
Speaker 1: Chiefs throttled the Steelers without Travis Kelsey. I mean it

1881
01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 1: wasn't even close. Steelers were done. Oh, it was over

1882
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. It was over in the first quarter.

1883
01:43:57,160 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 1: It was at twenty one nothing in the first quarter

1884
01:43:59,760 --> 01:44:02,679
Speaker 1: at the into the first quarter, and the Pittsburgh Steelers

1885
01:44:03,760 --> 01:44:06,759
Speaker 1: you could they were on the sidelines packing duffel bags

1886
01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:10,640
Speaker 1: to leave enough with three quarters of that game to go,

1887
01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 1: and then they decided just not to hold on to

1888
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 1: the football. Wow, it was bad. That was you know

1889
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,280
Speaker 1: how bad it was. That was the epitaph. That was

1890
01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: the eulogy for the Sea twenty twenty one Steelers. Yesterday,

1891
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:28,719
Speaker 1: the broadcast went to watch the end of the Vegas

1892
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:33,200
Speaker 1: game against I don't know whoever, Denver. They went to

1893
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 1: that while Vegas was to watch Vegas kneel down, rather

1894
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:39,599
Speaker 1: than go to the Chiefs Pittsburgh game that was still

1895
01:44:39,680 --> 01:44:43,439
Speaker 1: in progress. We'll see you later, Jim Nanson, Tony Romo,

1896
01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:45,639
Speaker 1: We're going to Vegas. They went to Vegas to watch

1897
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 1: it kneel down before they switched to the Pittsburgh kids.

1898
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,080
Speaker 1: All right, Unfortunately, we will take you back now to

1899
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:54,519
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Now that the Raiders game is over. There's

1900
01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 1: nothing else we can show you. We had to show

1901
01:44:56,479 --> 01:44:59,800
Speaker 1: you this and we're not putting a heidiot Um. Yeah,

1902
01:45:00,760 --> 01:45:02,479
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones at eight oh three, oh

1903
01:45:02,560 --> 01:45:05,000
Speaker 1: five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two to five

1904
01:45:05,120 --> 01:45:07,840
Speaker 1: fifty and we bring Ron from North Carolina on board.

1905
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:11,800
Speaker 1: But we got first Ron. Yeah, man, I just wanted

1906
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:14,920
Speaker 1: to talk about the whole Ko Beasley McKenzie thing sure

1907
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: love the show, listening all every day, and I agree

1908
01:45:17,880 --> 01:45:21,960
Speaker 1: with pastor Um. I gotta be honest, man, If McKenzie

1909
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:26,000
Speaker 1: shows any symptoms, he's going on the COVID this and

1910
01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:28,559
Speaker 1: when Cole comes back the way the words written, how

1911
01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:31,599
Speaker 1: I explain, how I understand it. He doesn't get tested

1912
01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:33,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. He's got a ninety day

1913
01:45:33,200 --> 01:45:35,560
Speaker 1: window where he doesn't get tested. That is correct. So

1914
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 1: I think having both of them is huge. And I

1915
01:45:39,200 --> 01:45:43,320
Speaker 1: think also the Patriot is not having taped on McKenzie

1916
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 1: from lack of playing time helped us out tremendously. Yeah.

1917
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:49,599
Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with that. The only tape

1918
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:53,080
Speaker 1: anybody would have of mackenzie working out of the slot

1919
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 1: would be in the preseason game against Chicago wept where

1920
01:45:56,960 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 1: he and Trubisky were carving up that Bears defense seventeen

1921
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:03,800
Speaker 1: last year with Matt Barkley quarterback. But that's a valid point.

1922
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you were saying you need everybody on board

1923
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,519
Speaker 1: for this playoff run, and I agree with that, But

1924
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:13,799
Speaker 1: we didn't even mention the COVID risk for other players

1925
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 1: who could suddenly be unavailable on a given Sunday the

1926
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:18,720
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Beasley should be good for the

1927
01:46:18,760 --> 01:46:21,479
Speaker 1: rest of the year, well, once he gets back. Yeah, yeah,

1928
01:46:21,479 --> 01:46:25,519
Speaker 1: And that's um And I don't know, I don't know

1929
01:46:25,560 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 1: if I Yeah, that's the lack of film doesn't say

1930
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:34,720
Speaker 1: anything about the fact that the Patriots just didn't do

1931
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: a good job of adjusting to it or I was

1932
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 1: shocked by that. But but think about it too. Look

1933
01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: at it from the Patriots perspective. Steph Diggs, Emmanuel Sanders,

1934
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:48,280
Speaker 1: Isa McKenzie and Dawson K and Dawson. Who is the

1935
01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 1: guy in that of the season that the Bills have had.

1936
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:54,240
Speaker 1: Who's the guy there that's the most unknown, probably not

1937
01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:56,679
Speaker 1: gonna be as good as the other guys. It's Isam McKenzie.

1938
01:46:57,640 --> 01:46:59,679
Speaker 1: That's the guy that's gonna get single. You're gonna double

1939
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: day and you're gonna let Sanders go, and Knox is

1940
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:04,719
Speaker 1: going to be covered by other guy. You're not gonna

1941
01:47:04,720 --> 01:47:08,640
Speaker 1: cover him with the same guyot right, Yeah, So mackenzie's

1942
01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:10,720
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, that's just the way it boiled down.

1943
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 1: McKenzie would still be the fourth guy you would think

1944
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 1: is the most fourth most dangerous guy at a three

1945
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver set for the Buffalo Bills, it would be

1946
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 1: Digs Sanders knocks or Digs Knox Sanders, whichever, and then

1947
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:27,320
Speaker 1: Beasley and you might even put you might even put Singletary. Yeah, McKenzie,

1948
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:31,680
Speaker 1: you might even put Singletary ahead of him, So, I mean,

1949
01:47:31,760 --> 01:47:38,639
Speaker 1: I get it, But not having film on Mackenzie doesn't

1950
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:41,479
Speaker 1: say as much to me as about their steadfast belief

1951
01:47:41,640 --> 01:47:43,800
Speaker 1: that the other three guys, if they'd left them, they

1952
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:45,719
Speaker 1: were even worse. They were gonna have an even bigger

1953
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:49,040
Speaker 1: day than McKenzie, didn't you see what I'm saying. Yeah,

1954
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:51,479
Speaker 1: but once it was going that way, why did you

1955
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 1: not do anything to adjust to that? I mean, you

1956
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:56,400
Speaker 1: were getting flat out dominated by the smallest guy on

1957
01:47:56,479 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: the field, and you never changed your approach. I was

1958
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:02,360
Speaker 1: stunned by that, you know what. I was stunned not

1959
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:05,120
Speaker 1: by the coverage choices they made. I was stunned by

1960
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:09,559
Speaker 1: their lack of pass rush. Yeah. Again, I think part

1961
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 1: of that was rooted in. It was clear to me

1962
01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:15,160
Speaker 1: there were some plays where the ends just fought their

1963
01:48:15,200 --> 01:48:17,479
Speaker 1: way up the field to a certain point and then

1964
01:48:17,960 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 1: just grappled with the tackle and just kind of peaked

1965
01:48:21,280 --> 01:48:23,240
Speaker 1: one side to the other. With Josh, they were looking

1966
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: to keep him from leaking out. I don't know why.

1967
01:48:26,760 --> 01:48:30,240
Speaker 1: I mean, we know why that's a concern, but why

1968
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:32,200
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even try to get him on the ground.

1969
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 1: When he's killing you, you gotta I mean send extra pressure. Well,

1970
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 1: I mean there were times that they did send blitzers.

1971
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:43,960
Speaker 1: There was one in particular that came up the middle

1972
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:45,400
Speaker 1: that I remember when the Bills were in the red

1973
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:47,479
Speaker 1: zone and it forced Josh to throw it out of

1974
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:49,560
Speaker 1: bounce the back of the end zone. Yeah. Yeah, that

1975
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 1: was an effective blitz call. They had a couple of others.

1976
01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:53,960
Speaker 1: But I think the other element here that we haven't

1977
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 1: discussed is the fact that Josh recognized blitz early in

1978
01:48:59,120 --> 01:49:02,320
Speaker 1: the down and got out of the pocket, extended the play,

1979
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: and then made a completion. Yeah, he heard him, So

1980
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: when they blitzed him, he still had answers. So I

1981
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 1: think he got to a point where Belichick junior over there,

1982
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:13,920
Speaker 1: who was calling defensive plays, was saying, well, the hell

1983
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: with blitzing him. He keeps beating us with that. Let's

1984
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 1: just try to hold him in the pocket and hope

1985
01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 1: our coverage holds up. I didn't work either. Let's just

1986
01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:21,680
Speaker 1: see if we can if you make him take the

1987
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:24,479
Speaker 1: short just a guess, but take the short ones and

1988
01:49:24,640 --> 01:49:27,200
Speaker 1: I get it. I you know that we're seeing the

1989
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:29,720
Speaker 1: highlight here. We're watching the twenty five yard run he

1990
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:31,760
Speaker 1: had when he you know, he runs about fifteen ten

1991
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:34,360
Speaker 1: yards and then tucks it finally tucks it under his arm.

1992
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 1: And then one thing about it, he's not a he's

1993
01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:43,479
Speaker 1: not a slider, no, not much at I know, man,

1994
01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:45,960
Speaker 1: he took some shots just not I mean, not big ones,

1995
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:49,280
Speaker 1: but he was tackled hard. You know, I don't know,

1996
01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:55,639
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm I just I thought that there their

1997
01:49:55,720 --> 01:49:58,720
Speaker 1: plan for Josh and we've seen it before. We saw

1998
01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:01,320
Speaker 1: Robert Salo last year in San Francisco when he's standing,

1999
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 1: he's got one of the best defenses around. It was

2000
01:50:04,080 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 1: he was belieguered by injuries, no question last year. But

2001
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:09,240
Speaker 1: Sali is over there with that, He's got a COVID

2002
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:12,800
Speaker 1: mask on. He out there and he's like he's just

2003
01:50:12,880 --> 01:50:15,559
Speaker 1: looking there like he's in a daze. He has no answers.

2004
01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 1: He's a he's a gunfighter with no bullets and he's

2005
01:50:19,080 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 1: sitting there in the second second, five second half of

2006
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 1: that game, he's sitting there and he is glazed over.

2007
01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:28,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he is looking at chan I got nothing.

2008
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,320
Speaker 1: And then last year in Denver, when you got Vic

2009
01:50:31,439 --> 01:50:33,400
Speaker 1: Fonzio over there, he's got his play sheet and he's

2010
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:39,559
Speaker 1: watching and Josh Allen pump fakes runs around the left

2011
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:41,519
Speaker 1: end and just reaches into the ends on touchdown. Thanks,

2012
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:46,680
Speaker 1: and Vic Fonio's literally throws his arms in the air

2013
01:50:46,760 --> 01:50:49,000
Speaker 1: with his playsheet and he's like this. He's like, what

2014
01:50:50,760 --> 01:50:52,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no answer for that. And that's where

2015
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:57,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots were yesterday. When our boy is playing like

2016
01:50:57,160 --> 01:51:01,840
Speaker 1: he did yesterday, we went in period. And that's why

2017
01:51:02,040 --> 01:51:04,040
Speaker 1: it's a balance that you gotta strike. He's got to

2018
01:51:04,120 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 1: do just enough to keep everybody else involved, Guys like

2019
01:51:07,080 --> 01:51:10,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKinsey, guys like Steph Diggs, guys likes Devin Singletary

2020
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:12,600
Speaker 1: if they can stay involved and he doesn't have to

2021
01:51:12,640 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: play hero ball. You just give him the ball or

2022
01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:17,960
Speaker 1: give him a chance to get the ball. You can't

2023
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,280
Speaker 1: beat that offense. Yeah, But as I said at the

2024
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:21,880
Speaker 1: top of the show, I thought he took a step

2025
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 1: yesterday with that was the most sound decision making by him,

2026
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: from start to finish, maybe in any game he has

2027
01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:33,519
Speaker 1: ever played. Because he read Blitz early, made good decisions

2028
01:51:33,560 --> 01:51:36,559
Speaker 1: as who went to run, he recognized man coverage. Everybody's

2029
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 1: got their back turn I can get some yards here,

2030
01:51:38,280 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: nobody's open. He recognized Blitz, as I said, when there

2031
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:47,880
Speaker 1: was a guy open on a checkdown, he hit him immediately.

2032
01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:51,519
Speaker 1: He didn't wait for something better. And I just think

2033
01:51:51,600 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 1: all of his decisions all stacked together start to finish

2034
01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:57,880
Speaker 1: in that game yesterday might have been the most consistent

2035
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 1: decision in terms of going to the right answers for

2036
01:52:03,479 --> 01:52:06,000
Speaker 1: sixty minutes that he's ever had in a football game. Well,

2037
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:08,599
Speaker 1: certainly it'd be hard pressed to find one this year

2038
01:52:08,640 --> 01:52:10,599
Speaker 1: that was as good as it was yesterday. The Kansas

2039
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:12,080
Speaker 1: City game was a good one of them. It's been

2040
01:52:12,120 --> 01:52:14,080
Speaker 1: some good games. I mean, let's face it, another guys. Yeah,

2041
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking the other perform having an all time

2042
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:19,919
Speaker 1: great year, But I just think his mental acuity yesterday

2043
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:22,720
Speaker 1: was on point to start this too. You gotta give

2044
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:27,280
Speaker 1: brand day Bole and Davis Webb and Ken Dorsey and

2045
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: all the guys that were in the room with him

2046
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: getting him ready. The message they gave him got through

2047
01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:34,439
Speaker 1: yesterday because whatever they told him about yesterday and what

2048
01:52:34,479 --> 01:52:36,320
Speaker 1: it was gonna take, he believed it and did it.

2049
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:41,679
Speaker 1: The quick early completions are the thing that's set yesterday

2050
01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:43,960
Speaker 1: apart I'll go along with you there. I thought that

2051
01:52:44,479 --> 01:52:46,720
Speaker 1: getting them off to the start that they did set

2052
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:49,920
Speaker 1: him up for success later rhythm and he knew and

2053
01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:54,719
Speaker 1: he realized, Hey, it's thirteen play seventy five yard drives,

2054
01:52:54,720 --> 01:52:57,479
Speaker 1: pretty pretty cool. And they did it like three times

2055
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:00,880
Speaker 1: and six yards on a pass. That's a good play

2056
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:02,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He took us out your second and

2057
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:06,040
Speaker 1: four he took early in the game, he took a

2058
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:09,439
Speaker 1: two yard pass to Devin Singletary, who pushes at eight

2059
01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: yards for the first day. Eleven yards is eleven yard play.

2060
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 1: It was like, Wow, you know, guys will do something

2061
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:16,479
Speaker 1: for you. It's not all about you if you can

2062
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:19,120
Speaker 1: give him a chance. That was that happening or as

2063
01:53:19,160 --> 01:53:22,320
Speaker 1: early as it did. Um. I think that changed the

2064
01:53:22,360 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: complexion of the game and the way Josh thought about things. Yeah,

2065
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: let's get back to the phones. We go to Jim

2066
01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:31,639
Speaker 1: in Niagara Falls next. What do you have for us, Jim,

2067
01:53:32,640 --> 01:53:36,400
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, guys, Thanks for taking my call, long time listener,

2068
01:53:36,520 --> 01:53:39,160
Speaker 1: first time caller, thanks for doing it. Was there for

2069
01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:41,880
Speaker 1: the glory days with you. Steve all the best and

2070
01:53:41,960 --> 01:53:43,680
Speaker 1: I wish nothing more than you to be in the

2071
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,960
Speaker 1: Hall of fame. You're you're definitely deserving of it. My

2072
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:50,840
Speaker 1: point for the game yesterday, the unsung heroes, the guys

2073
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 1: on the offensive line who stepped in heart. I'm not

2074
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:55,920
Speaker 1: sure who came in if a heart came in for

2075
01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 1: Bodeker when he went down. Kudos to them because there

2076
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: were a lot of time when I saw Josh had time,

2077
01:54:02,240 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: there was no pressure from the flour line front and

2078
01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:07,840
Speaker 1: he just picked them apart. And kudos to those guys.

2079
01:54:08,160 --> 01:54:10,240
Speaker 1: Even the run game was they were getting off on

2080
01:54:10,280 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: their blocks. That's the difference. I think in the last

2081
01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:16,680
Speaker 1: six weeks or eight weeks that we've had, inconsistency on

2082
01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:19,519
Speaker 1: the line has determined the whole offense. And I think yesterday,

2083
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever that combination was, but they hit

2084
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:24,640
Speaker 1: it right on the head and it just everything call

2085
01:54:24,720 --> 01:54:27,519
Speaker 1: into place. I'll hang up, thanks for taking my call

2086
01:54:27,640 --> 01:54:30,920
Speaker 1: and go Bills. Yeah, okay, thanks for the call, Jim. Yeah,

2087
01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:33,560
Speaker 1: I mean I want to give him a ton of

2088
01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:36,280
Speaker 1: credit too. They played a very good game despite all

2089
01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: of the turnover and the shifting that they had to do.

2090
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 1: When Nike butcker. First of all, they start the game

2091
01:54:43,560 --> 01:54:46,600
Speaker 1: without Dion Dawkins. He's available but he hasn't practiced all week,

2092
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:52,600
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced since late the week before, so you know

2093
01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:54,840
Speaker 1: he's trying to cram the game plan in the hotel

2094
01:54:54,960 --> 01:54:59,440
Speaker 1: room Saturday night without repping it. And so they got

2095
01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:03,360
Speaker 1: Spencer Round playing on the left side again. You got

2096
01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams kicking back out to right tackle. He's been

2097
01:55:06,880 --> 01:55:09,120
Speaker 1: going back and forth to right tackle right guard almost

2098
01:55:09,120 --> 01:55:11,800
Speaker 1: every other week, it seems. And then you had Ryan

2099
01:55:11,880 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: Bates playing right guard, making his first career start, and

2100
01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 1: Ike Butcker and Mitch Morris the only two guys in

2101
01:55:17,320 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 1: their normal spots at left guard and center. Bucker goes

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Speaker 1: out with an achilles injury, and the whole thing has

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01:55:23,840 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: to flip. Four guys move to new spots. Bates goes

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Speaker 1: from right guard to left, Brown goes back to his

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01:55:30,200 --> 01:55:33,360
Speaker 1: right tackle so Dion can play left, and Williams moves

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Speaker 1: back inside to right guard. Now, as helter skelter as

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Speaker 1: that might seem, there are four guys playing in their

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Speaker 1: most advantageous spots, arguably their best positions, and the new

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Speaker 1: guy on the field, Ryan Bates, has played guard. So yeah,

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01:55:51,920 --> 01:55:55,520
Speaker 1: he's smart, he's tough, he's a backup center most of

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Speaker 1: the time. But he's the reason he's here is because

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Speaker 1: of his intelligence and his toughness, and that's why they

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Speaker 1: like about him. And he played, he played well, But

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Speaker 1: that to me, if you want to talk about the

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01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 1: Patriots and what they did yesterday, I thought that's one

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01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:14,320
Speaker 1: of the things that they missed in their game planning

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Speaker 1: was that they're facing an offensive line that had been shuffled,

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01:56:16,960 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: then got shuffled reshuffled as the game went on, and

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Speaker 1: they did nothing to try and confuse it or change

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01:56:22,600 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 1: it up or overpower it, or like Bates hadn't started

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01:56:25,800 --> 01:56:29,240
Speaker 1: a game in two years, he didn't have an NFL

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01:56:29,320 --> 01:56:30,840
Speaker 1: start in the right race, and so now all of

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01:56:30,840 --> 01:56:33,240
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're you're not doing anything to make it

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01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:35,240
Speaker 1: tough on him or not enough. Anyway, maybe they did,

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01:56:35,360 --> 01:56:37,360
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we missed it, and maybe he held up.

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01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:39,680
Speaker 1: Maybe he played like an all pro level. I don't know,

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01:56:40,400 --> 01:56:42,560
Speaker 1: but it seemed to me like that was something that

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01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots should have explored ways to confuse and get

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01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:47,920
Speaker 1: free runners in on Josh. And maybe they just believe

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01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:50,360
Speaker 1: that if they did that, Josh would beat him worse,

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01:56:50,960 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 1: or that that was a bad idea, But the way

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01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:56,760
Speaker 1: the game progressed. I thought, at least there was times

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01:56:56,800 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: when they should have tried a lot more often than

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01:56:58,440 --> 01:57:01,840
Speaker 1: they did. I thought that's some thing that I was today.

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Speaker 1: I would raise my eyebrows a little bit. Didn't seem

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01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:06,640
Speaker 1: to be terribly aggressive. I think we could agree on that.

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Speaker 1: Let's get one more in before the break. Here, Homer

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01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:12,960
Speaker 1: in Lancaster. What do you got for us? Homer? Yeah?

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01:57:13,560 --> 01:57:15,760
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Homer? You're on yea?

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01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:18,880
Speaker 1: So hi, guys. I enjoy your show. Thanks, watch it

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01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:22,440
Speaker 1: all the time when the Bills win anyway, but I

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01:57:22,520 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 1: wondered if you if you realize you're noticed. After the game,

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01:57:28,120 --> 01:57:32,760
Speaker 1: Belichick came up to Um Josh Allen after the game

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01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:36,920
Speaker 1: and really grabbed his ham with shaking, shaving his Hammond,

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01:57:36,960 --> 01:57:38,720
Speaker 1: patted him on the back and looked like he was

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01:57:39,160 --> 01:57:43,160
Speaker 1: congratulating him for a good game. I was really surprised

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01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:47,320
Speaker 1: because Belichick when he reached the coach after the game, Hill,

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01:57:47,360 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: he even looks at him, but he was showing Um

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01:57:51,320 --> 01:57:55,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allan of respect. And I wonder what you what

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01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:58,320
Speaker 1: you think about that. I'll hang up and listen to you. Yeah,

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01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:00,960
Speaker 1: I mean I think that you know Belichick for all

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01:58:01,040 --> 01:58:05,760
Speaker 1: of the gruff and off putting demeanor he sometimes puts

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01:58:05,800 --> 01:58:10,400
Speaker 1: on display, particularly at press conferences. The bottom line is

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01:58:10,720 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 1: the man is a huge student, an ambassador of the game,

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01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 1: and will be long after he's done coaching football. He

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01:58:21,240 --> 01:58:23,320
Speaker 1: has an enormous respect for the history of the game

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01:58:23,760 --> 01:58:27,560
Speaker 1: and for supremely talented players and coaches for that matter.

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01:58:27,760 --> 01:58:29,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he came across the field last year after

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01:58:29,640 --> 01:58:31,839
Speaker 1: the thirty eight to nine beat down in Weak sixteen.

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01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:35,920
Speaker 1: He talked to Sean McDermott for almost forty seconds after

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01:58:36,040 --> 01:58:38,080
Speaker 1: that game. It wasn't a dead fish handshake and see

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01:58:38,080 --> 01:58:40,480
Speaker 1: you later. Yeah, he's talked him for a while and

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01:58:40,600 --> 01:58:42,920
Speaker 1: did the same to Josh yesterday. And he has said,

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01:58:43,080 --> 01:58:46,160
Speaker 1: and he was asked about things like that, because sometimes

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01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: he'll do that to opposing coaches or opposing players. He'll

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01:58:48,640 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 1: spend a minute with him, or he'll seek out a

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01:58:51,360 --> 01:58:54,320
Speaker 1: player on the other team and spend a moment talking

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Speaker 1: with him, and they he's been asked about that, and

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01:58:58,080 --> 01:59:00,960
Speaker 1: he said, and rightfully, so he knows what he's looking at.

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Speaker 1: And when somebody on he's just said, playing out, he's

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01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:07,080
Speaker 1: when I feel somebody on the other side deserves it.

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01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:09,520
Speaker 1: I I gotta go say something to him, say good game,

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01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 1: and he did. Really, whatever it is, whatever the case

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01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:15,840
Speaker 1: may be, he spends a moment with them as an

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01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:19,440
Speaker 1: acknowledgement of how well they played that day. He does

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01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:21,920
Speaker 1: that not only to guys like Sean McDermott in a

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01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,400
Speaker 1: game like it was last year, but yesterday it was

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01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:26,400
Speaker 1: about Josh. He went to Josh and said, man, that

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01:59:26,760 --> 01:59:29,240
Speaker 1: was awesome. So or whatever it was he said, he

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01:59:29,360 --> 01:59:32,080
Speaker 1: has made it a point. So I it's not nothing

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01:59:32,880 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 1: when he does that, and it's not premeditated like he's

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01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: gonna do it before the game. He decides he gotta

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01:59:38,760 --> 01:59:40,800
Speaker 1: go say hi to Gay. It's what happens in the

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01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:43,680
Speaker 1: game motivates him, and it's based on the performance. And

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01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:47,200
Speaker 1: I think it's probably in this day and age with

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01:59:47,360 --> 01:59:50,760
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and his reputation, it's probably his biggest sign

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01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:54,040
Speaker 1: of respect after a game that you could get break

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Speaker 1: time for us here when we return. Eric Wood joins

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Speaker 1: US Bills Or Radio Network Kellor Alo. He was in

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Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium yesterday and watch that whole thing from start

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Speaker 1: to finish. We'll get his thoughts on the game next

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Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you, and it's

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Speaker 1: that time on a Buffalo Football Monday. To be joined

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Speaker 1: by Bills Radio Network color analyst Eric Wood to go

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Speaker 1: over this one as he was there at Gillette yesterday

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Speaker 1: to drink it all in and Eric, Steve and I

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Speaker 1: last week we're talking about the importance of this team

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Speaker 1: getting off to a fast start, points in the first

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Speaker 1: quarter in three of their last five games, and scoring

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Speaker 1: points in the first quarter. They get a touchdown on

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Speaker 1: that opening drive, and it really just seemed to put

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Speaker 1: in motion the plan that this team is built to execute,

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Speaker 1: both offensively and defensive. It seems, yeah, you're exactly right,

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Speaker 1: and most teams don't play well down in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: But when you consider the way, especially this defense is built.

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Speaker 1: When you're playing against a team like the Patriots and

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Speaker 1: you just let them continue to run the football, it

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Speaker 1: will on you just suck the life out of the ball,

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Speaker 1: mixing a little play action that becomes the tough that

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Speaker 1: becomes tough to stop, that becomes stop to stop for anybody.

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Speaker 1: But really, the way this defense is built. They're not

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Speaker 1: the best run defending team in the league, and so

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02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:32,280
Speaker 1: they obviously played better with a lead, and it showed

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Speaker 1: again yesterday and they were able to you know, the

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Speaker 1: Patriots score twenty one points, but mac Jones only throws

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty five yards. Yes, Damien Harris

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02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:44,600
Speaker 1: goes over a hundred, but that run game doesn't kill

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Speaker 1: you when you're able to put points on the board yourself,

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Speaker 1: especially early. Yeah, there were only three drives in the

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Speaker 1: entire game the Bills did not score points on. One

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Speaker 1: was the fourth down conversion on fourth and one in

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Then there was an end of the half,

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Speaker 1: and then the end of the game where they knelt

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Speaker 1: down the rest of them. They moved all the way

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Speaker 1: down and were in red zone scoring. They were, you know,

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Speaker 1: four or five in the red zone, three or four

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Speaker 1: actually on fourth down. They were six of twelve on

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Speaker 1: third down in the red zone. They were four of

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Speaker 1: seven in their time down. There a couple of field

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Speaker 1: goals and then three touchdowns and then the one turn

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Speaker 1: away on downs, it's seven seven trips to the red

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Speaker 1: zone is a bunch. Yeah, you're moving the football right,

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02:02:28,600 --> 02:02:30,720
Speaker 1: you know. They had the one turnover and then they

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Speaker 1: had the one part return that put them just right

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Speaker 1: around midfield. But they were driving the football at will

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Speaker 1: throughout the game against a really good defense with an

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Speaker 1: offensive line that was shuffled all around. Again without Cole Beasley,

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Speaker 1: without Gabe Davis, this team showed incredible resiliency. The play

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Speaker 1: calling was excellent, the execution was excellent. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: seen a lot about Dion Dawkins play where he flattens

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Speaker 1: Matt jude On and it goes up the field and

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02:02:56,520 --> 02:02:59,320
Speaker 1: he pancakes the guy down the field. Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: one of the one guy who just simply has to

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Speaker 1: be looked at a hero. Yesterday, as Ryan Bates, I

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02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: thought he played well at right guard early in the game,

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Speaker 1: and then he flips over to left guard when there's

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Speaker 1: the injuryed Dike Bucker, and he played well there too,

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Speaker 1: And that's a guy that man. When you look back

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Speaker 1: at the game, it's easy to say Mackenzie did this,

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Speaker 1: and Diggs did this, and there was all those flash

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02:03:19,840 --> 02:03:23,000
Speaker 1: plays from Josh Allen, Devin Singletarre was productive, especially catching

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02:03:23,040 --> 02:03:25,120
Speaker 1: the football. You look at all that, but then you

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Speaker 1: got to look at some individuals. That's stepped up on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line as well, Dion Dawkins not practicing and

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Speaker 1: over a week and then stepping in at left tackle,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the plan was basically, you know, hopefully

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Speaker 1: you don't have to use Dion, give him some extra

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02:03:37,360 --> 02:03:39,080
Speaker 1: time to get his legs back under him. Well, you

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02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:40,680
Speaker 1: know what, he had to throw him in there, and

2262
02:03:40,760 --> 02:03:43,720
Speaker 1: he played his heart out out there. Spencer Brown looked

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Speaker 1: more comfortable on the right side again back over there,

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02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 1: and he was flying around. It was a heck of

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02:03:49,040 --> 02:03:51,160
Speaker 1: an effort by the offensive side of the football as

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Speaker 1: well yesterday. And then you know Isaiah McKenzie with a

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Speaker 1: gigantic effort, smallest guy on the field makes the biggest

2268
02:03:57,040 --> 02:03:59,600
Speaker 1: impact in the passing game through the course of the contest,

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Speaker 1: and he touched the ball on just about every scoring drive,

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Speaker 1: was critical on some third and fourth down conversions. The

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Speaker 1: thing that shocked me and Steve Eric is it never

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Speaker 1: appeared as though the Patriots defense changed anything to alter

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Speaker 1: that lopsided matchup with Myles Bryant. What did you see,

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Speaker 1: you know, being there and being able to view the

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Speaker 1: field as you wanted. You know, we're kind of victims

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Speaker 1: of the camera angles. No, I thought the same exact thing.

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Speaker 1: And actually in New England you're kind of a victim

2278
02:04:31,160 --> 02:04:33,320
Speaker 1: of the angle that you watched the broadcast from as well,

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02:04:33,320 --> 02:04:36,240
Speaker 1: because it's it's low, so you feel a real strong

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02:04:36,360 --> 02:04:38,200
Speaker 1: part of the action, but it's so low it's hard

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02:04:38,200 --> 02:04:43,280
Speaker 1: to actually analyze the schemes at times. So I saw

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02:04:43,360 --> 02:04:46,080
Speaker 1: the same thing as you did, Steve. I saw Isaiah McKenzie,

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02:04:46,200 --> 02:04:50,640
Speaker 1: torchun Brian in the slot, and then against zone defense,

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02:04:50,800 --> 02:04:53,600
Speaker 1: Josh did such a remarkable job of checking it down

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02:04:53,680 --> 02:04:56,800
Speaker 1: at times when those linebackers would bail deep and try

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02:04:56,800 --> 02:04:58,760
Speaker 1: and take away some of those crossing routes, and then

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02:04:58,760 --> 02:05:01,160
Speaker 1: as soon as they sucked up, he was able to hit,

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Speaker 1: whether it's mackenzie or digs across the middle of the

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Speaker 1: field exploiting the zone. It was excellent execution and I'm

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02:05:09,240 --> 02:05:13,840
Speaker 1: sure for two sub six footers like yourselves he really

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02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:17,520
Speaker 1: easy to Hey, Kenzie yesterday he got it right. That's right.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta ask you this, how fragile is this

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02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:23,560
Speaker 1: blueprint for the Buffalo Bills when it depends so much

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02:05:23,680 --> 02:05:26,720
Speaker 1: on the guy right on Josh where he not only

2295
02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:30,400
Speaker 1: because you have to throw it, but his legs and

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02:05:30,760 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: you know this and in a close game it comes

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02:05:33,640 --> 02:05:35,520
Speaker 1: down to three to five plays over the course of

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Speaker 1: sixty minutes. His legs and his ability to move the

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Speaker 1: pocket and to make plays in any situation. Really the

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Speaker 1: difference in the game what happens, how fragile and how

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Speaker 1: sustainable is it. If you know, if Josh Allen's not

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Speaker 1: in there, can Mitch Trubisky given his physical tools, you know,

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02:05:51,680 --> 02:05:53,920
Speaker 1: how much success can he have in an offense like

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Speaker 1: this if he doesn't play, you know, quite up to

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Speaker 1: Josh's level, but you know, maybe he can take the

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Speaker 1: easy completions like Josh did early in the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about how fragile this blueprint is

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills if Josh is on the list?

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Speaker 1: I know. And that's the reality of this world we

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Speaker 1: live in right now that any week it could be

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Speaker 1: your quarterback. It could be the quarterback room. I know

2312
02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:19,520
Speaker 1: they're doing the virtual meetings right now to try and

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02:06:19,800 --> 02:06:22,920
Speaker 1: prevent anything like that, but gosh, it could be your

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02:06:22,960 --> 02:06:25,520
Speaker 1: whole quarterback room. And that's that's kind of the shame

2315
02:06:25,560 --> 02:06:27,680
Speaker 1: of what everything's going on right now, is that you

2316
02:06:27,720 --> 02:06:30,920
Speaker 1: could truly have a team cheated, whether it's fragile. Yeah,

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02:06:30,960 --> 02:06:33,280
Speaker 1: that's probably fragile, But there's a lot of teams in

2318
02:06:33,360 --> 02:06:35,840
Speaker 1: the league that their game plan, in their approach the

2319
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:38,800
Speaker 1: week to week is pretty fragile based upon the quarterback

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Speaker 1: play and who's in there a quarterback. Understand your point though,

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02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:43,920
Speaker 1: being that Josh is such an instrumental part of the

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02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:46,600
Speaker 1: run game as well for the Bills, as well as

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02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:49,360
Speaker 1: being a dynamic passer. But gosh, some of the plays

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02:06:49,360 --> 02:06:51,640
Speaker 1: he made with his legs yesterday. I was worried heading

2325
02:06:51,720 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 1: in because we didn't get to see him move around

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02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:55,480
Speaker 1: a whole lot against the Panthers. He didn't need to.

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02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:58,120
Speaker 1: I was worried heading in yesterday. Would he be able

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02:06:58,160 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: to evade the rush, could he take advantage of some

2329
02:07:00,800 --> 02:07:02,760
Speaker 1: man to band looks and take off down the field

2330
02:07:02,760 --> 02:07:04,720
Speaker 1: and make those plays with his legs. Was he going

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02:07:04,800 --> 02:07:06,680
Speaker 1: to be a viable option in the red zone to

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02:07:06,760 --> 02:07:09,040
Speaker 1: run the football because they struggled so bad in the

2333
02:07:09,080 --> 02:07:11,240
Speaker 1: red zone against the Patriots last time. Could he be

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02:07:11,320 --> 02:07:13,760
Speaker 1: a weapon with his legs and then to also pick

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02:07:13,840 --> 02:07:16,720
Speaker 1: up some short yard and stuff. And the answer was yes,

2336
02:07:16,800 --> 02:07:19,680
Speaker 1: that that foot looked fine yesterday. Flipping it over to

2337
02:07:19,680 --> 02:07:22,680
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. After getting two sacks

2338
02:07:22,720 --> 02:07:25,480
Speaker 1: in the win over Carolina, fa Obada got more playing

2339
02:07:25,560 --> 02:07:28,880
Speaker 1: time in this game against the Patriots and was a factor.

2340
02:07:28,920 --> 02:07:31,440
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to remember his roughing the passer penalty, but

2341
02:07:31,960 --> 02:07:35,320
Speaker 1: he made an impact in terms of the pass rush yesterday.

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02:07:35,800 --> 02:07:39,120
Speaker 1: I thought it also interesting that Leslie Fraser chose to

2343
02:07:39,240 --> 02:07:42,640
Speaker 1: deploy Aj Klein and Seran Neil to get some heavier

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02:07:42,720 --> 02:07:45,320
Speaker 1: players on the field to better defend that run. Just

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02:07:45,480 --> 02:07:49,200
Speaker 1: your thoughts on a Obada's play off the edge and

2346
02:07:49,360 --> 02:07:53,440
Speaker 1: then be the use of Klein and Neil. I thought

2347
02:07:53,480 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 1: Obada was excellent two weeks ago, and as this team

2348
02:07:56,240 --> 02:07:59,320
Speaker 1: just constantly looks for who becomes the guys that can

2349
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:03,120
Speaker 1: generate pressure in a four man rush, Fobodas emerged as

2350
02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:06,080
Speaker 1: at least in the top four, whether you're putting him

2351
02:08:06,080 --> 02:08:08,920
Speaker 1: at three technique, letting him russia inside, or letting him

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02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:13,280
Speaker 1: rush on the outside. They also would use fo Faoboda

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02:08:13,440 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 1: generally when they would put that added offensive lineman in

2354
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: to stop the run. That's a guy that you have

2355
02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:20,440
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in the way he's playing right

2356
02:08:20,480 --> 02:08:22,760
Speaker 1: now versus the run and the past. And I'm not

2357
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:25,520
Speaker 1: sure if this was by game plan for the Patriots.

2358
02:08:25,520 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 1: But there's twice they put Faobody on the open end

2359
02:08:28,280 --> 02:08:31,320
Speaker 1: of the field. One time they ran a jet suite

2360
02:08:31,400 --> 02:08:33,880
Speaker 1: past him and got passed him. Another time they did

2361
02:08:33,920 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 1: the fake fullback dive. They flipped it outside of him

2362
02:08:36,200 --> 02:08:39,280
Speaker 1: and that was the touchdown. And where Flobota is a

2363
02:08:39,400 --> 02:08:42,600
Speaker 1: physical specimen, I think maybe on those two plays it

2364
02:08:42,680 --> 02:08:45,920
Speaker 1: was situational awareness that you don't get from having played

2365
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:48,800
Speaker 1: football as long as most of the guys you're playing with.

2366
02:08:49,280 --> 02:08:51,560
Speaker 1: But that's a guy with tremendous upside and those are

2367
02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:54,040
Speaker 1: learning moments for him, and that's a guy that you

2368
02:08:54,120 --> 02:08:57,480
Speaker 1: could see getting better and better. And we've talked about

2369
02:08:57,520 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 1: it on this show at Will and you know, Steve,

2370
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:03,240
Speaker 1: we had this conversation last week that the Bills need

2371
02:09:03,320 --> 02:09:07,080
Speaker 1: a Darrell Talley, you know, that tough, physically impotasing guy

2372
02:09:07,440 --> 02:09:09,880
Speaker 1: that that offense is kind of scared of. Well, you

2373
02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:13,120
Speaker 1: know what, maybe Felbada is that guy for this Bill's defense.

2374
02:09:13,480 --> 02:09:16,200
Speaker 1: And then I love the game plan and switching it

2375
02:09:16,280 --> 02:09:20,080
Speaker 1: up doing something different against this Patriots offense. I understand A. J.

2376
02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:22,840
Speaker 1: Klein was not available last time, and that was your

2377
02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:26,440
Speaker 1: first game without Tredavious White, So how were you going

2378
02:09:26,480 --> 02:09:30,200
Speaker 1: to adjust to that? And the Bills obviously made adjustments

2379
02:09:30,240 --> 02:09:32,560
Speaker 1: in this game. They were much better against the run. Yes,

2380
02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:35,080
Speaker 1: Damien Harris still goes for over five yards of carry,

2381
02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:38,160
Speaker 1: but they were noticeably better against the run. And I

2382
02:09:38,320 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 1: like that they just provided different answers for the defense.

2383
02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:44,760
Speaker 1: And when you go into a game like that and

2384
02:09:44,840 --> 02:09:46,280
Speaker 1: you say, hey, we're not going to do the same thing,

2385
02:09:46,440 --> 02:09:48,560
Speaker 1: and look, we got different guys in there that can

2386
02:09:48,640 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: give you some confidence that what worked for them last

2387
02:09:50,760 --> 02:09:52,800
Speaker 1: time will not work again this time. What do you

2388
02:09:52,840 --> 02:09:54,840
Speaker 1: think the Bills should do with their weapons they've got?

2389
02:09:54,880 --> 02:09:57,200
Speaker 1: And Cole Beasley, for all the things that have happened

2390
02:09:57,240 --> 02:09:59,160
Speaker 1: to him, he's still a really good player and a

2391
02:09:59,200 --> 02:10:02,120
Speaker 1: contributor for this team. You got Isa McKenzie popping in

2392
02:10:02,280 --> 02:10:05,600
Speaker 1: and having a game like he did yesterday. Gabe Davis

2393
02:10:05,760 --> 02:10:08,280
Speaker 1: stepping in for Emmanuel Sanders when he's out with an

2394
02:10:08,280 --> 02:10:11,360
Speaker 1: eaton has a great game as well. It was one

2395
02:10:11,400 --> 02:10:13,040
Speaker 1: of the strengths of the team coming into the season

2396
02:10:13,080 --> 02:10:15,600
Speaker 1: where we got all these wide receivers, they're all playing,

2397
02:10:15,640 --> 02:10:17,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna go. We can go deeper in our lineup

2398
02:10:17,800 --> 02:10:20,840
Speaker 1: than other teams can go to covers, but you can

2399
02:10:20,920 --> 02:10:23,600
Speaker 1: only have like five eligible receivers out there at one time.

2400
02:10:24,080 --> 02:10:27,280
Speaker 1: So with Gabe Davis playing well and begging for more reps,

2401
02:10:27,400 --> 02:10:31,760
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, Azaia McKenzie, and even

2402
02:10:31,840 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero made a clutch catch yesterday, So all of

2403
02:10:34,680 --> 02:10:36,760
Speaker 1: these guys are playing at a high level or at

2404
02:10:36,800 --> 02:10:39,240
Speaker 1: least playing well enough, so you'd say, Wow, I wish

2405
02:10:39,280 --> 02:10:42,000
Speaker 1: we could get him more opportunities. What do they do

2406
02:10:42,280 --> 02:10:46,160
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch as this season rolls down to

2407
02:10:47,120 --> 02:10:50,800
Speaker 1: not a keep all those guys involved somehow or win

2408
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:53,440
Speaker 1: games by scoring a lot of points and be keeping

2409
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:56,640
Speaker 1: all these guys happy and interested and rewarding them for

2410
02:10:56,720 --> 02:10:59,280
Speaker 1: the hard work they put in. Well, Steve, you know

2411
02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:01,680
Speaker 1: from being in a receiver room, those receivers are not

2412
02:11:01,800 --> 02:11:04,000
Speaker 1: happy unless they're getting the ball, if they're in the

2413
02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:06,560
Speaker 1: game plan throughout the week or else, they truly will

2414
02:11:06,640 --> 02:11:08,920
Speaker 1: not be happy. And I think the Bills saw some

2415
02:11:09,040 --> 02:11:11,320
Speaker 1: of that and tried to start the season in that manner.

2416
02:11:11,360 --> 02:11:14,240
Speaker 1: They started the season with a five wide receiver look

2417
02:11:14,320 --> 02:11:17,200
Speaker 1: with actually Isaiah McKenzie lined up at the running back position,

2418
02:11:17,280 --> 02:11:19,480
Speaker 1: so they came out of training camp in the preseason

2419
02:11:19,600 --> 02:11:23,520
Speaker 1: understanding where their talent was on this team. Now, when

2420
02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:25,920
Speaker 1: you're going in and you're game planning week to week

2421
02:11:26,040 --> 02:11:28,920
Speaker 1: and guys like Sanders and Beasley have done it over

2422
02:11:29,080 --> 02:11:32,720
Speaker 1: numerous years, you have confidence in those veteran players. But

2423
02:11:33,000 --> 02:11:35,440
Speaker 1: as this season has gone on and you see what

2424
02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:39,200
Speaker 1: a guy like Gabe Davis did really two you know,

2425
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,880
Speaker 1: two previous weeks prior to missing the Patriots game, what

2426
02:11:43,040 --> 02:11:46,560
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie did and his added rolldex last week, I

2427
02:11:46,640 --> 02:11:48,680
Speaker 1: think you gotta see what those guys can continue to do.

2428
02:11:49,200 --> 02:11:52,040
Speaker 1: And there may be some looks where maybe this week

2429
02:11:52,120 --> 02:11:54,840
Speaker 1: with Gabe Davis, I believe he'll still be out with

2430
02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:58,360
Speaker 1: the mandatory ten days away, you know, you may see

2431
02:11:58,520 --> 02:12:03,680
Speaker 1: Beasley and Isaiah McKenzie in the slot, and it's always

2432
02:12:03,760 --> 02:12:07,120
Speaker 1: nice to have a bunch of weapons, but keeping those

2433
02:12:07,200 --> 02:12:11,800
Speaker 1: guys healthy or happy, I should say that becomes more difficult.

2434
02:12:12,080 --> 02:12:13,480
Speaker 1: But I don't see how you can have a guy

2435
02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:16,480
Speaker 1: like Isaiah McKenzie step up last week and then say, hey,

2436
02:12:17,120 --> 02:12:19,520
Speaker 1: when Beasley comes back, we're not going to give any

2437
02:12:19,600 --> 02:12:23,280
Speaker 1: of those reps in the slot to Isaiah McKenzie. All right,

2438
02:12:23,440 --> 02:12:25,839
Speaker 1: Eric has always. Thanks for the insight and the input.

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02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:28,840
Speaker 1: We will catch you up with you next week. Yep,

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02:12:29,000 --> 02:12:31,320
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Thanks you guys. Right, that's Eric

2441
02:12:31,440 --> 02:12:34,600
Speaker 1: Wood from the Bills Radio Network. We'll take a break

2442
02:12:34,640 --> 02:12:36,800
Speaker 1: here and close it up on a Buffalo Football Monday

2443
02:12:36,840 --> 02:12:50,600
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, welcome

2444
02:12:50,600 --> 02:12:53,040
Speaker 1: back One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

2445
02:12:53,200 --> 02:12:58,320
Speaker 1: here on this Bills Victory Monday and now with two left,

2446
02:12:59,480 --> 02:13:04,200
Speaker 1: the playoff clinching scenario Steve exists for the Bills in

2447
02:13:04,280 --> 02:13:06,280
Speaker 1: week seventeen, provided to get a little bit of help

2448
02:13:06,840 --> 02:13:10,760
Speaker 1: with a victory. So here are the circumstances. The Bills

2449
02:13:10,800 --> 02:13:15,920
Speaker 1: can clinch a playoff Berth on Sunday if they beat

2450
02:13:15,960 --> 02:13:21,040
Speaker 1: Atlanta and Baltimore loses to the Rams. They can also

2451
02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:24,800
Speaker 1: get a playoff Berth with a win and a Raider's

2452
02:13:24,880 --> 02:13:28,720
Speaker 1: loss at the Colts and a Charger's loss against the

2453
02:13:28,800 --> 02:13:31,640
Speaker 1: Broncos and a Charger's loss Raiders and a Chargers lost

2454
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:34,920
Speaker 1: plus a Chargers Yes, both of those things have to happen. Sorry,

2455
02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:38,600
Speaker 1: So Baltimore loss and a Bills win or a Bills

2456
02:13:38,640 --> 02:13:42,360
Speaker 1: win and a Raiders and Chargers loss would get them

2457
02:13:42,840 --> 02:13:48,200
Speaker 1: a playoff clinch birth, so yeah, not the division yet,

2458
02:13:48,240 --> 02:13:52,520
Speaker 1: but a clinching birth in the playoffs. So it's sitting

2459
02:13:52,560 --> 02:13:54,720
Speaker 1: there in front of them. Just got to take care

2460
02:13:54,720 --> 02:13:56,280
Speaker 1: of their business and hope to get a little help.

2461
02:13:56,320 --> 02:13:58,040
Speaker 1: And that Bravens game got moved up to a one

2462
02:13:58,040 --> 02:14:00,560
Speaker 1: o'clock game. It was a later game, so we might

2463
02:14:00,640 --> 02:14:03,160
Speaker 1: know by four o'clock whether the Bills have clinched a playoff.

2464
02:14:03,200 --> 02:14:05,960
Speaker 1: Berth on Sunday, pretty cool. You just gotta win, bab,

2465
02:14:06,200 --> 02:14:10,240
Speaker 1: just gotta wa win, Just win, baby, Big show tomorrow

2466
02:14:10,400 --> 02:14:13,840
Speaker 1: as always, the weekly visit from Kyle Brandt from Good

2467
02:14:13,920 --> 02:14:17,360
Speaker 1: Morning Football and Isaiah Mackenzie going to join us on Tuesday.

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02:14:17,360 --> 02:14:18,040
Speaker 1: We'll see at one