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Speaker 1: played pretty right of this season, Morse is the guy

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Speaker 1: that Morrison Feliciano are not. Morse and H. Dawkins are

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Speaker 1: the only two guys that have taken played every game

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Speaker 1: in that spot. I mean they've they've been pretty solid

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Speaker 1: and the only guys that have not moved were played

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Speaker 1: a different spot. So there is that. And I do

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Speaker 1: think I agree with you. I think more I think

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Speaker 1: Morris has played had to maybe his best. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the phones and we go to Mark

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Speaker 1: on a cell, Mark, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, good afternoon, A new

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Speaker 1: and gentleman. I got a question. I believe the Bills

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Speaker 1: defensively have to make some adjustments and show some some

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Speaker 1: things they typically never do. Uh. And I just wonder

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Speaker 1: if you guys think this is possible, even fees winding

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Speaker 1: up in a three flour, especially though Tulaa coming back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they were doing on the ends,

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Speaker 1: if they would just go with the biggest people, or

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Speaker 1: if they would go with pass rushers, or what they

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Speaker 1: would do there, But I believe I would like to

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Speaker 1: see Edmunds and Milano on the ends, right in the

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Speaker 1: face of those two tight ends and put Davis incline

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Speaker 1: in the middle and go from there, and I think

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Speaker 1: that might even free up the safeties to help the

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Speaker 1: corners a little bit more. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: a possibility, if you think we have the personnel to

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Speaker 1: do something like that, but I think we need to

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Speaker 1: come out And I'm not saying play that as a

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Speaker 1: base defense all night long. I'm saying certain situations or whatever,

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Speaker 1: throw something like that at them, because I really get

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Speaker 1: frustrated when I watched tight ends get free releases off

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Speaker 1: the lines of scrimmage, which they do all the time

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Speaker 1: against the Bill's defense. I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a complaint of Bill's fans all over

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Speaker 1: the place that why do we always let tight ends

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Speaker 1: kill us? And even if they are killing us, why

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Speaker 1: don't we do something different put a linebacker in one

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Speaker 1: of these guys faces and disrupt them. So. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you guys think that's feasible or not, but

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Speaker 1: it's just a thought I had. Okay, thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Mark will address that. I think it's a big ask,

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Speaker 1: even with the benefit of a few extra days to prepare,

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Speaker 1: to ask this defense to suddenly do something they haven't

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Speaker 1: done for the better part of the last five seasons. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't go throw it out the baby with the bathwater.

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Speaker 1: When what are you on the season the number one

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Speaker 1: defense in football. That's not the time to change your spots.

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Speaker 1: You want to throw a couple of curveballs within the

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Speaker 1: scope of your scheme, I'm all for that, But coming

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Speaker 1: out and playing a three four, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: that seems Yeah, I don't think that doesn't. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a little If you want to disrupt the tight end

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Speaker 1: off the ball, you can do that without going all

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Speaker 1: the way to a three four defense. Rack them at

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Speaker 1: the line. Yeah, you just got to get the either

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Speaker 1: the defensive ends or linebacker or safeties or whatever to

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Speaker 1: bang those guys as they release. Just like a defensive

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Speaker 1: end coming up the field and the running back coming

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Speaker 1: out of the backfield chips the defensive end to help

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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle block that defensive end. Conversely, the defensive

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Speaker 1: end can chip the tight end as he rushes the

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Speaker 1: passer on his way to the quarterback and is waited

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Speaker 1: through the offensive tackle. You can do it the same

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Speaker 1: both ways, I don't think And plus, you know you're

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Speaker 1: asking Milano and Edmonds to play a completely different position

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Speaker 1: than where they've been playing for five years. It's a

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Speaker 1: big ass and those guys are up on the line

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Speaker 1: a lot anyway. Now they don't always rush, but those

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Speaker 1: double a gap looks that they have, you know, when

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00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: they look like they're coming or who's coming, who's dropping out,

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Speaker 1: they do that a lot. They're up there. I know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know a lot of people have talked

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Speaker 1: about trying to get Romaine Edmund's length on the edge.

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00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: He did some of that in Virginia tack and was successful,

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Speaker 1: So I understand the premise. And who knows. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: do line them up outside times to rush on an

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Speaker 1: overload or something like that, but you're not changing your

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Speaker 1: entire defensive scheme to accommodate. They're one of the top

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Speaker 1: defenses in the league. So the question is more so

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00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: than hey, should we throw this is what are the

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Speaker 1: Patriots think about it? What are they gonna do? That's

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Speaker 1: the big question. What are the Patriots going to do

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Speaker 1: against this Bill's defense. Not that I don't think they'll

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Speaker 1: be successful or have a plan, but that's what you

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Speaker 1: really want to know as a Bill's player, as a

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00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: Bill's fan, as a Bill's coach, because then you can

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Speaker 1: have answers for it. What you want to know what

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Speaker 1: the Patriots think about the way you run your four

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Speaker 1: three with Taryn Johnson on the field all the time

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Speaker 1: and only two linebackers. How are they going to attack

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Speaker 1: it with? You know, with those two, you know, Janue

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00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: Smith and Hunter Henry two tight ends. What are the

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Speaker 1: Bills going to do against that? And what are the

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00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: Patriots going to do to counter it? That's what you

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00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: want to know. It's not so much that coming out

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Speaker 1: out of the blue with some align that the Patriots

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00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: have never seen. All you really need to new is

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Speaker 1: figure out real quick what the Patriots think about your

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Speaker 1: defense and how they're going to attack it. Which returning

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Speaker 1: player expected to be in the lineup Monday night against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots? Do you think we'll have the greatest impact?

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Speaker 1: Choices are there for you on Twitter at one Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to vote in the poll. Richard and Rochester,

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Speaker 1: Patrick and Rochester, hang tight. We got to go to

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Speaker 1: a break here, but we'll get to you when we return.

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Speaker 1: We'll also be hearing from defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier and

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Brian Dable as both of them address the

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Speaker 1: media late yesterday. All that coming your way. Next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Buffalo Bills would like to thank this

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Speaker 1: week's game sponsor, ECMC, bringing hope and healing to Western

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Speaker 1: New York. Well back to One Bills Live, Chris Brown,

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00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. I'm going to go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones here as we have been discussing with you

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Speaker 1: which returning player expected to be in the lineup Monday

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Speaker 1: night against the Patriots. Do you think we'll have the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact this on the heels of the news that

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Speaker 1: Spencer Brown and Star Latoulay have been removed from the

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Speaker 1: COVID reserve list and John Feliciano is back practicing, though

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00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: he is still on injured reserve. As off right now,

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Speaker 1: your choices are there add one Bills Live on Twitter,

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00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: So vote on the poll, let us know where you stand,

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00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: or give us a call at eight oh three five fifty,

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00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: which is where we go now to Richard and Rochester.

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00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Richard? Hey, guys, I

553
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you that I'm pretty much house bound

554
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: and I'd love you guys in the afternoon. You really

555
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: brighten my day, even when your obsessions with ham has

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00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: just talked about. I'm still right there, which is that

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00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm not so happy that you guys lost an hour,

558
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: but two hours is better than none. Yeah, agreed. Thanks

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00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: very nice of you to say, Richard, glad we can

560
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: brighten your day. Steve. I wanted to talk to you

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00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: about your health condition there. We're praying for you. I

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: hope you're able to overcome your inability to speak without

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00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: wearing your glasses. Oh wow, yeah, good call, Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. One more thing I've noticed on kickoffs,

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Speaker 1: the kicking team, even if the balls kicked out of

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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, the kicking team runs

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00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: to the end zone. And I wondered if that was

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00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: superstition or they have bets on the side about who

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Speaker 1: can get there first. But for no reason, they just

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00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: keep running through the end zone. They do it just

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Speaker 1: for kicks and giggles. And they may have, you know,

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Speaker 1: they may have something that they study the film. They

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Speaker 1: may say, all right, who who you know? Who's the

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00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: guy that finished the play? You know? And you know

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00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: they got it. They run until the play, until the

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Speaker 1: whistle's blown. Yeah, if you got if you got an

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Speaker 1: old school coach, they want you running through on every play,

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Speaker 1: you better put that on film when they were reviewing

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Speaker 1: it on Monday. Yeah, you're right, there's absolutely no reason

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Speaker 1: for it. And I and I think back now that

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that, Richard, let me take my glasses off

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Speaker 1: so I can speak. I when we played, there was

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Speaker 1: a few times when you know, I wasn't feeling my best,

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Speaker 1: or I was dragging something, you know, an injury or

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00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: my ankle was hurting or whatever, and the they we

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Speaker 1: kicked it out of the end zone and I stopped.

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Speaker 1: I just stopped running immediately, so I didn't have to run.

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Speaker 1: You know. Uh, that happened few and far between, but

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Speaker 1: I can I know that's the case for some guys,

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Speaker 1: and and you know, when you're trying to drag something through,

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00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: I remember thinking that. I think maybe there's one or

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Speaker 1: one time during my career when I did that and

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Speaker 1: I stopped running because I just didn't want to push

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Speaker 1: it down the field. But most of those guys are

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Speaker 1: running because man, it's fun. It's fun to be in

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Speaker 1: the game and run down the field, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you look around, you know, who kept up with me?

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Speaker 1: Or who who am I keeping up with? Or who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be ahead of me? I would kind of liking

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Speaker 1: it to your baseball players running the first base even

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Speaker 1: though they're gonna ground out for sure, Like even if

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Speaker 1: the play beats him to the base, they'll still run

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Speaker 1: to the base, tap it, then go to the dugout,

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Speaker 1: even though they've been out for like seven steps, right,

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Speaker 1: So all of that, and I think also, I think

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Speaker 1: it's even more so than that. It's more like after

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Speaker 1: you make that if you get that third out, running

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Speaker 1: into the into the dugout, you know, because you're either

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Speaker 1: up next or whatever, and it's looking around and you'll

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Speaker 1: see this too. The goal line is the thing. When

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Speaker 1: they get out there, watch for this. Sometimes they do

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Speaker 1: this when they get to the goal line. That's the

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Speaker 1: finish line, and that's you know, so when you see him,

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Speaker 1: like they'll even lean for the tape sometimes. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, they keep running they don't really have to

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Speaker 1: and keep running. Interesting observation. And it's one way too

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Speaker 1: stay warm, stay supple, and you know se because you don't,

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Speaker 1: you're standing over on the sidelines for a long series

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Speaker 1: words to live by, stay supple. Yeah, so that one

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Speaker 1: to the bank. It's very It's a great way to

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Speaker 1: just stay loose and stay ready to come back in

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Speaker 1: for either the punt team or the punt coverage team

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Speaker 1: or the punt return tow So yeah, yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: way for those guys to get out and get active

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Speaker 1: with because they stand on the sideline between series. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go back to the phones here at eight oh three,

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Speaker 1: five fifty one, eight five fifty two, five fifty I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say a load of Judy and Buffalo Judy, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing today? Good? Thank you? Um. In response

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Speaker 1: to your question, I think that if Starr is healthy,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's in the lineup could mean that

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Speaker 1: our pass rush will be much improved, because I really

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Speaker 1: think that the only way we're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: handle New England is to threaten their quarterback. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think we know Star draws that attention, and I

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Speaker 1: you know, Steve mentioned this. I want to say it

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Speaker 1: was either earlier this week or late last week that

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Speaker 1: Star has been a bigger factor in the pass rush himself,

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Speaker 1: not just you know, holding up people or tying up blockers.

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Speaker 1: He's factored into the pass Rush as well this season.

641
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think your point is well taken, Judy.

642
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: He is important and I was arguing on his behalf

643
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: as well at the outset of the show. So I'm

644
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: in the boat with you on that, just based maybe

645
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: more on the opponent they're facing this week than anything else.

646
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: I mean, look, all these guys that are hopefully coming

647
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: back and in the lineup Monday night are going to help.

648
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not kidding ourselves, We're What we're arguing

649
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: here is degrees of help at this point. And I

650
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: just think with this opponent and the type of offensive

651
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: front that they have, if you can have your most physical,

652
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman the field, that's gonna help you a lot,

653
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: gonna help you a lot. Yeah, it's just one more

654
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: one more guy that's really effective against the run as

655
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: well for both Star, for all three of those guys,

656
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: Star Lotu La, John Feliciano, and Spencer Brown. It's adding

657
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: guys to your depth chart, but at the top of

658
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: your depth chart. That's a big difference from losing depth

659
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: from behind. Like like Tommy Doyle, certainly you'd like to

660
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: have him available. He's you know, he's the best option

661
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: he's there for a reason, but he's not supposed to

662
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 1: take any snaps. In a perfect world, Star Lotula, Spencer Brown,

663
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, those guys should be taken maybe one hundred

664
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps. Star probably not. He'll probably take

665
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: fifty percent because of the rotation of the of the

666
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: defensive line. But for those offensive linemen, that's forty percent

667
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: of your offensive line that gets added right to the top.

668
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: And that's a big difference. In a one hundred and

669
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: fifty play game or maybe an eight five play game

670
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: for your offense, those those guys may take eighty five snaps. Yeah,

671
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: so that's big. Yeah, they'll be on the field for sure.

672
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: And you know, as we've talked about Feliciano, when Brown

673
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: are kind of the attitude guys, the energy guys on

674
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: that offensive line, they're they're tone setters. Back to the

675
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: phones though, and to Patrick in Rochester, we go from

676
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: Richard to Patrick Patrick. What do you have? Patrick? Are

677
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: you there? Sir? All right? What do you got for us? Yes?

678
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yes, you're on, go ahead. The Bills don't

679
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: need to change their defense, Okay, I think if anything,

680
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: the safeties, maybe extra safety. I've maybe got a third

681
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: down here and there. Okay, all right, Patrick, you have

682
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: to turn down your radio. I'm sorry, we gotta let

683
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: you go here. Um. Yeah, when we call or we

684
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: pick up the line, that's the time for you to

685
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: turn down the radio because the radio is on delay

686
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get the echo effect five to seven

687
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: second delay, and if you're listening with one ear to

688
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: the radio while trying to make your point, you're not

689
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: going to be super effective. But in essence, Patrick was saying,

690
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: don't change the defense. Throw in a few little wrinkles

691
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: if you want. But he's responding to a caller we

692
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: had earlier on the show who was saying, let's see

693
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: if we can play all three to four, throw them

694
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: a real curveball. I think the only curveball you'll be

695
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: thrown is that your own players on defense. Yeah, that

696
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: brings into question their ability to execute it at a

697
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: high level. And yeah, that's and for whatever benefit you

698
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: get from the Patriots, you know, being surprised by the

699
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: fact that you're running it, it's gonna be counteracted by

700
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: your inability to perform. So yeah, let's move along. We

701
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: go to Scott and Jamestown. Next, Scott what do you

702
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's life. Yeah, I

703
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: hope the Bill's win. I like Josh Allen and I

704
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: went there a couple of times and I just want

705
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: to wish you guys Christmas, and they all right, Merry

706
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Christmas to you too, Thanks Scott. Yeah, I think we're

707
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: all hoping they win. That's pretty safe to say. And

708
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: you know we've talked about the magnitude of this game already, Steve.

709
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: Just from the standpoint of the division, forget about playoff

710
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: seating right now, I think the division has to be

711
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: priority number one. And that was the mantra last year.

712
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: We gotta win our division, secure a home playoff berth

713
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: and go that way. I don't think it's changed this year.

714
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: You got to get the division to get the inside

715
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: track on the division title. You got to win this game.

716
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: You win this game, the most important thing you do

717
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: is you hand New England their second loss in the division.

718
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: More importantly, you make yourself four and oh in the division,

719
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: and division record after head to head is the next

720
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: tiebreaker if you happen to be tied with a team

721
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: within your division. So it's a pivotal swing that you

722
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: can enact. With a victory on Monday night, you go

723
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: to four and o in the division, you drop the

724
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: Patriots to two and two in the division, and it

725
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: becomes very very hard for them to catch you in

726
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: the division tiebreaker rights. I'll say this, though, neither one

727
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: of these teams is gonna be crippled by a loss,

728
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be hard to win the division because

729
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: there's it's gonna be. They're still gonna be right in

730
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: the thick of the wild card, but you're gonna have

731
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: to win games down the stretch. And this is one

732
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: of the two of these teams is gonna be, you know,

733
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: nicked by a loss here. But even so, with the

734
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 1: schedule remaining for them, I still think both these two teams,

735
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Builds, they're both playoff teams. They

736
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: are both playoffs tables. Yeah, you would expect both of them.

737
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: I expect play laden gam Yes, I expect both of

738
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: them to be playing into week nineteen. You know what

739
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: their seating is, I don't know, but they're just both

740
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: of them are just too good to get shut out

741
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: like that. We'll just have to wait and see how

742
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: this game goes. But man, oh Man the road becomes

743
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: clear if you win this game. Yeah, Dan and Grand Island,

744
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: David Amhurst, Jimmy and Casey. Hang tight, We will get

745
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: to you in the next segment. We have to break here,

746
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: but more of your phone calls coming up next. Here

747
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Collat of Health, It's

748
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Berry's ice Cream has launched a new

749
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: flavor this week. Hey, Sunday, go get ice cream with

750
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: salty caramel swirls and brownie deal pieces. Man, that sounds good.

751
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: It's available in stores now. I am a big fan

752
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: of the new game. I'm just gonna say that I

753
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: have people not putting nugget in ice cream sooner than this.

754
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: Let me just ask what is nugat? It's the good

755
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: stuff that's in a milky Way or a Three Musketeers.

756
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: Although a three Musketeers is essentially a milky Way light

757
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: because they rob you of the caramel experience. It's basically

758
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: a milky Way minus the caramel. So right, it's like

759
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: it's like the Milky Way took a day off and

760
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: substandar because the Snickers adds peanuts at the top. And

761
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a big day My candy bar guy. Yeah,

762
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: well you're but I am a big nugget in my

763
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: ice cream guy, so I'll be in line for a Sunday.

764
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: You must have been raised by wolves. Um. I'm also

765
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: a little partial to the Brownie Blitz flavor as well

766
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: as you might imagine. So yeah, um, but there's Brownie

767
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: doe pieces in this as well. Let me just ask you.

768
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: This ice cream as a winter treat. I'm just gonna

769
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: tell you. Any Oh, that is a year round attraction.

770
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Anytime Brownie is involved in an

771
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: ice cream flavor, I am on board. It's a good thing.

772
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: It's a good thing. Do you are you a brownie?

773
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: Brownie guy? Brownie? Um? Come again, just a plain but

774
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 1: like a cut it out of it, like the little

775
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: squares out of the baking pan. Oh yeah. My wife

776
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 1: is a giant Brownie fan, so she will make them freak.

777
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: So she got the recipe of all recipes. Well, no,

778
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: but she's she's well, she's big on sticking some peanut

779
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: butter in the brownie in the bad sea. That's a

780
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: little unnecessary for well, he's a brownie. Chocolate and peanut

781
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: butter a favorite combination of hers. She's this is how

782
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: far in we are. She got that. Have you ever

783
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: seen that brownie pan that has the dividers? So every

784
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: piece is a corner. Yes, God blessed the person that

785
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: invented that. I mean, honest to Pete, that is just

786
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: pure American ingenuity at its best. That is you know

787
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: what I mean, Nobody when we're ending on the shoulders

788
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: of our forefathers and you know, people of great sound

789
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: mind and ingenuity, it's the person that made the brownie divider.

790
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: So every piece is a corner because those are the

791
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: first pieces that go. You know it. Nobody can maximize

792
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: junk food like the United States of America. God bless it.

793
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: You know, the brownie divider that goes in the tray,

794
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: best best thing that was ever given to a brownie.

795
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: There you go, recipe. It's fantastic. I've always because when

796
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: you don't have that, everybody's stealing the corners first. And

797
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: don't you like that little Christmas center. I'm oh, you're

798
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: a gooey guy. I'm a gooey guy. I am absolutely

799
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: a gooey guy. I am not even in my cookies.

800
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit of that crunch on the outside.

801
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: I get that, I'd not listen. There's no bad brownies.

802
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: That are just something you may like better than others.

803
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: So let's get that out of the way. And then

804
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. Right, So I'm with you on

805
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: the divide. If that's your thing, you got the divider

806
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: thing is a like that's got to be a stoking stuff. Absolutely, absolutely,

807
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: it's a game changer. It's an absolute game changer. Now

808
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: have you tried the brownie brittle? Have you seen that?

809
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: The brownie brittle? No? Oh, that is foreign to me. Yeah,

810
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: and I don't think you, being a gooey guy, I

811
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: don't think you would like it because it's obviously very crispy,

812
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: like peanut brittle. So is it is that what it is?

813
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: Or you got to get your hands on something that's

814
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: brownie brittle. It's basically crispy, a crispy, thin brownie. And

815
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: they'll even throw chocolate chips into the hard bake, so

816
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: it's almost like chocolate chips replaced the peanuts in peanut brittle,

817
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: except it's brownie batter. Like is this a home in

818
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: a resealable bag grocery store? Yeah? All right, Oh, you

819
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: gotta try that. I'm surprised you haven't found that you

820
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: have been given nevery. I don't think I've even seen it.

821
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: You've been given an assignment. Now is this I need

822
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: you to come through? What is this new technology? Is

823
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: it brand news? It's been around. I mean we've had

824
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: it in our house for years. So really, well, I

825
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: just told you there must be the Brownie aficionados that

826
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: live in the brown household, so I can see that

827
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: you would be ahead of the game compared to us. Yeah,

828
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: we do have to get back to the phones. There

829
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: is a show to run here. Sorry to get off

830
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: on the brownie tangent. We just got all excited about

831
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: the Hey a Sunday flavor. But we go back to

832
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: the phones and we lead off here with Dan and

833
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: Grand Island. Dan, what do you have for us? You're

834
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: all one Bill's lives. Set the show straight, will you please? Yeah?

835
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, guys. I agree with that riddle. Isn't it awesome? Steve?

836
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: You gotta get some I guess I do. Well. I'd

837
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: like to ask Steve is when a player like from

838
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: gets traded or claimed in this in this instance, who

839
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: takes care of the house he's leaving it? Who gets

840
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: him a new place to sleep in the place he's

841
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: going to. Now, there is a good question. You don't

842
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: hear that one often, but it's a good one. Thanks

843
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: for the call, Dan, appreciate it. Well. Unfortunately for some

844
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: of the young players, you're in an adult world. Now.

845
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: You take care of you carry your own water. You

846
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: get that done. Yeah, that's the way it goes when

847
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: you've got to do it. When you're drafted by a

848
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: team or don't even get him, and they have player

849
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: development people that help you find a house when you

850
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: come here to Buffalo. Yeah. Plus, I mean when you

851
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: first get here, it's customary to put you in a

852
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 1: hotel for a minute. Yes, right, so you do that

853
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: and then you know you depending on like from going

854
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 1: to the Giants, they got him in an hotel, yeah

855
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: he I mean it might be crazy talk for him

856
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: to even think about getting an apartment. He may be

857
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: out of there in a week. Yeah, I mean, there's

858
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: just it's he's living out of a bag. Yeah, he's

859
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: living out of his Duffel bag and he's in a hotel. Um.

860
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,720
Speaker 1: And that's the same for me. I mean, I didn't

861
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: even look for a play my rookie season. I didn't

862
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: even look for a place to live until I saw

863
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: my name on the roster list and we had a

864
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: game the next week. You know what I mean, I

865
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: mean you're renting. Yeah, I was in a hotel. Oh

866
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: you're an hotel Okay. And you know then that kind

867
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: of the team says, okay, training camps over you. The

868
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: cleaning were throws you out of the hotel, right, I mean,

869
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 1: so you got to go find a place, so I

870
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: you know, you do that, but yeah, it's it's up

871
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: to you. You're an adult. Now. That's why in a

872
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: lot of ways, college is easier than the pros. You

873
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 1: don't have you got food, you got close, you got

874
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: to close mostly, and you got a place to eat,

875
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: place to sleep, place to live, housing and as a

876
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: pro player, and I remember we used to laugh back

877
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: in the day when I came out as a rookie.

878
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: There were guys on my team that were like rookie

879
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: free agents from big time school like Oklahoma, right, like

880
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: these big time schools, they were literally their life was

881
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: worse as a pro athlete than it was as a

882
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: college kid because they had like they had to get

883
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: their own car, they had to get a place to live,

884
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: had to pay for their own food, had to pay

885
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: rent all that, you know, got buy groceries they had,

886
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: They were lost. They were Yeah, it was like a

887
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: full time job being an adult and they had to

888
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: play pro football so and you know, and it was

889
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: costing them money and they weren't making as much money

890
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: as a pro as it cost the school to give

891
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: him exactly all that stuff. Yeah, right, so you know

892
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: they you know, they have like ten extra bucks out

893
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: of because no way, we were mean, you're making it

894
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: back then, they're making fifty grand, which was good money

895
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighties. Whatever, fifty grand, but that's it. Make

896
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: it last. They were, you know, they were like and

897
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: then they only got paid during season. Yeah, crazy, So yeah,

898
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: they took a paid cut to come to the pros

899
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 1: back in the day. Let's go back to the phones.

900
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: We go to David Amhurst. Dave, what do you have

901
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: for us? You're on one Bill's life. Oh yeah, thanks

902
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: for taking my call. Guys. Sure, um, yeah, with Matt

903
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: jos being not too mobile in back to probably not

904
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: mobile at all, and he doesn't have the best long ball. Okay,

905
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: I've seen him overthrow a lot of them. Deep do

906
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: you think the Bills can blitz a little more than

907
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: they have been doing and can the safety come down

908
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: a little. All his pathes seemed to be in the

909
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: short game, which works for them. But I'm just war

910
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: if we can blitz a little more with mac Jones

911
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,959
Speaker 1: or is he too smart to figure that out? And well, yeah,

912
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: that's the problem. The problem is he does get the

913
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: ball out quickly. I believe he's got the fifth fastest

914
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: snap to release time two point seven one seconds, which

915
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: for a rookie is outstanding, especially a rookie that has

916
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: a completion percentage of over seventy percent. Steve and I

917
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: were talking about this earlier in the week. What is

918
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: the approach for this Bill's defense now that you do

919
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: not have Tredavious White? How much help do you feel

920
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: you need to give the back end and the guys

921
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: with the coverage assignments by helping them with the guys

922
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: up front. Is there an end game in that or

923
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: does mac Jones get the ball out so quickly that

924
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: it renders that approach moot? The stats to this point

925
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: would say it's gonna be kind of tough to get

926
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: to him with as quickly as he gets the ball out,

927
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: So yeah. Plus they can use play action as well,

928
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: really effectively, because they do have a run game that

929
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,760
Speaker 1: they're committed to and all of that stuff together, Brownie

930
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: and I've been talking like you got to think too.

931
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: At some point, it's gonna be a game about getting

932
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: a batted pass by that defensive line. That's gonna be

933
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: as good as you know, as a maybe not as

934
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: good as a sack, but it's certainly going to be

935
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: as an incomplete pass and a down given up. It's

936
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: hard to get there on mac Jones when the ball

937
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: comes out so quick. And I wouldn't you know, I

938
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised that the Patriots know this is a

939
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: really good defense they're facing. They're gonna have a plan

940
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: on either a getting the ball out of there quick

941
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 1: or play action and giving him some time, or maybe

942
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: they'll do something they don't think the Bills expect him

943
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: to do. Drop him back and let go the long ball.

944
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: And he can make all the throws. Certainly, maybe not

945
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: with the velocity the Josh Allen can, but he can

946
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field. And here's the thing

947
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: that that Mac Jones is gonna do that they didn't

948
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: do a year ago. They're not gonna miss open throws.

949
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: Cam Newton last year was throwing the ball in the

950
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: dirt to open receivers. He was overthrown or missing guys

951
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,439
Speaker 1: when they were running through the Bills defense open. They're

952
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 1: not gonna miss those throws this year. And that's this.

953
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: This offensive for the Patriots is going to be a real,

954
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 1: a real handful for the Bills to stop because of Jones'

955
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: ability to get the ball out and get it out

956
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: accurately and make the right decisions quick. Yeah. So it's

957
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna be up to the Bills to either back the

958
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: balls down or defend them in the back end quick.

959
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: You can certainly say they're gonna maybe squat on the

960
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: routes because the ball does come out quick. They can't

961
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: go that deep, but there's nothing that says he can't

962
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: lob it out long and let him run under it.

963
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: That means the ball comes out just as quick. Yeah,

964
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: And I sold Mac Jones short. He actually averages two

965
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: points six one seconds from snap to release. So they're

966
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: doing everything rightaster than everything right with him, because that's

967
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: what he's good at. He can deliver the short intermediate

968
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: ball very quickly, makes quick easy, quick reads to the

969
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: and picks the right guy to go to. So he's

970
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: thrown it to open guys. And the thing the Patriots

971
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: has set them apart in these last six game winning

972
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: streak is run after catch. Their guys catch it short,

973
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: run long. They're good at it, and they're afore they

974
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: are a formidable offense. All right, we gotta take a

975
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back, Mark and West Seneca,

976
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: we gotta still get to Jimmy and Casey. Jimmy, you'll

977
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: be leading us off. You've been holding the longest. Ben

978
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: and Amhurst. Hang tight. We'll get back to all of

979
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: you in the next segment. More of your phone calls

980
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: next here on one Bill's line, presented by Collid to health,

981
00:53:42,360 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

982
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

983
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve a blimp.

984
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated beer of normalcy. Here

985
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: rocketing into our number two on a Wednesday, Chris Brown,

986
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, one Bills Live as the show. The Bills

987
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: are the subject. As you might have guessed, Big Monday

988
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: Night Tilt Bills Patriots AFC East clash, and we're here

989
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: to discuss it with you, along with the added notes

990
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: from yesterday's press conferences, chiefly from head coach Sean McDermott

991
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: with the news that Star Latoula and Spencer Brown are

992
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: no longer on the COVID reserve list. John Feliciano back practicing,

993
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: though still on IR provided things go well, the assumption

994
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: is he would come off, and does Isaiah McKenzie make

995
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: a return to the lineup after being a healthy scratch

996
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: last week. All of these players could be returning to

997
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: the lineup Monday against the Patriots, who might have the

998
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: biggest impact. Let us know at eight three fifty one

999
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,280
Speaker 1: two five fifty back to the phones we go and

1000
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy in CAC has been waiting patiently. What do you

1001
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: have for us? Jimmy, Hey guys, how are you guys

1002
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: doing today? Good? Hey? So, Um, you know, I know

1003
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: the last few weeks everybody's been kind of, you know,

1004
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: dogging on our running game, which is deserve league correct. Um.

1005
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: You know one thing I like them to be is

1006
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: I don't need our team to be a great running team.

1007
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: We just need to be a little more efficient and

1008
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: I would like for us to kind of steal some plays,

1009
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 1: you know, some running plays from other teams that run

1010
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: the ball better. Um. But last night I came across

1011
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: a stat that I was not aware of. Um, I

1012
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: saw it, and you guys might be able to double check.

1013
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: But Josh Allen is like leading league in passing yards

1014
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: that are without the yak and our team is like

1015
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: ranked twenty six and run after catches. And I was

1016
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: really surprised about that. And I think that could be

1017
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: an issue that, you know, that we need to address,

1018
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: is trying to how we try to get those yacht

1019
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: yardiers that we were getting last year. So, yeah, that's

1020
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: that's what I have for you guys today. But I

1021
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: was kind of shocked to see that. Yeah, I don't

1022
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't know that they ranked super high in that

1023
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: category last year if memory serves, so, I don't know

1024
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: that it's necessarily a new issue, but I will say this,

1025
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: it does make me wonder if you know, you saw

1026
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: Marquez Stevenson get on the field last year, made his

1027
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: NFL debut as a returner for the Bills. Mackenzie was

1028
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: a healthy scratch, but Brita has been added and has

1029
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: seen more playing time of late. You wonder if the

1030
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:48,399
Speaker 1: yards after the catch statistic is something they're aware of

1031
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: and prompting them to say, we need to get more

1032
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: speed on the field. So maybe with the with the

1033
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 1: thought of by doing that, we enhance our chances to

1034
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: get more yards after the catch, and then that means

1035
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: instead of an eleven play seventy eight yard drive, it's

1036
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: a six play ninety yard drive, and we're in the

1037
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: end zone, right, and you're right, and it is. I

1038
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a little bit of philosophy or what.

1039
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: I don't think it speaks to the wide receivers or

1040
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: you know, their abilities. I think it speaks to the

1041
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: scheme and the things that Josh throws. I think they

1042
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: throw routes that you know, and you can see in

1043
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: picture two. You know, guys going out of bounds on

1044
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: the sidelines, hook routes to Cole Beasley where he falls

1045
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: forward for the first down. We don't see many passes

1046
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: completed for the Bills that end up with long runs.

1047
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen that way for the Bills. And

1048
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: the last time you can never think about scene was

1049
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: in the Monday Night game in New England last year

1050
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: where Steph Diggs catches the crossing route late, turns it

1051
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: up and that's when Steve Leevey was like, yeah, it's

1052
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: tail light's time right when Diggs, when Diggs runs into

1053
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: the end zone. It just doesn't happen in our offense

1054
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: A lot. Don't know why that is, except that I

1055
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: think it probably has to do with what Josh does

1056
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: and what he does well, and that put the ball

1057
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: on somebody. He doesn't lead guys very much and he

1058
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: doesn't throw him open. I think that's one of the

1059
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: reasons his long ball isn't as prevalent as as it

1060
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: might be for some other guys is because he has

1061
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: a hard time throwing it to an area and letting

1062
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: the guy run in under it. He needs to throw

1063
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: it on him and put it on him. Now, he

1064
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: can do that with timing and catch the guy in stride,

1065
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: but he doesn't really throw guys open like that. And

1066
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that you know,

1067
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: you can see in statistics like the ones you're talking about.

1068
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: You know, he'll put the ball on the guy and

1069
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: it'll be a completion, but the guy's like, you know,

1070
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: catching it with his body standing there instead of moving

1071
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: and running. So I think that's a nod to what

1072
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: Josh does well and what he doesn't, not so much

1073
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: with the wide receivers or anything like that. And I

1074
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: think it also, I think it has to do with

1075
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: Brian Dayball's ability to see that and maximize it, and

1076
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: by maximizing that, and you know, you minimize some other

1077
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: things like yards after catch. Yeah, I'll see if I

1078
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: can pull up where they currently rank right now. I

1079
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: believe I saw it a week or two ago. They

1080
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: were down in the teams, the high teams. So I'll

1081
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: see if they've improved or if they've still kind of

1082
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: stayed where they were the last time I checked. Mark,

1083
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: and West Seneca is next. What do you have for us? Mark?

1084
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: I guess thanks for taking on the call. Observation I

1085
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: had from last Thursday's game was Tyler basque kick with

1086
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: his kickoffs, dropping the ball between the goal line and

1087
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: the five yard line on kickoffs, and the coverage teams

1088
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: coming down and swarming the receivers. I don't think they

1089
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: had a good start drive start from anything better than

1090
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:52,479
Speaker 1: their own nineteen yard line. I'm just Steve's observation because

1091
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: he played special teams. Do you think that the Bulls

1092
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,959
Speaker 1: was by design because I think Tyler Bass, I'm shirt,

1093
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: can kick the ball trev end zone, especially in a

1094
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: dome stadium, anytime he wants to that. So it was

1095
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: this by design and just Bill saw something the coverage

1096
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: of Saints. Yeah, it is by design. You saw later

1097
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: when the game was out of reach, Bass just booted

1098
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: it through the back of the end zone. And I

1099
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: have said, and I think it was probably a matchup

1100
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: thing that the Bills thought they could get away with.

1101
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: Kick the ball high outside the numbers, between the five

1102
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: and the five yard line and the goal line, and

1103
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:37,439
Speaker 1: get down there and covered and it worked very well.

1104
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: They kept the paid the Saints pinned down deep. And

1105
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: I've said, and I'll say this mostly probably the ability

1106
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: to do that was given confidence to try because they

1107
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: were indoors. When you try and kick the ball outside

1108
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: the numbers and you're out in the elements, sometimes it

1109
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: ends up going out of bounds and then you you

1110
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: know you're it's a bad thing. They get the ball

1111
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: in the forty So when it's unpredictable like it is

1112
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: when you're out in the elements with the win whipping

1113
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 1: around in Highmark Stadium or any other outdoor stadium, you're

1114
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: very reticent to try and do something like that because

1115
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: of the elements pushing the ball out of bounds or

1116
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: maybe back to the middle of the field or whatever.

1117
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: But when you're indoors and the conditions are perfect, you

1118
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: can do things like they did against the Saints. And

1119
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: I think there's no question it was a game plan

1120
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: thing because later on all basted when the game was

1121
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: out of Reachon's back up and booted out of the

1122
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: end zone. The thought being, you're willing to do that

1123
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: when the game's in doubt, going in there and try

1124
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: and get the fuel position advantage. And the reason you

1125
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: don't do it later in the game after you got

1126
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: the game in hand is because you have no chance

1127
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: of giving up a long return when the ball is

1128
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: not being returned. So that's the strategy behind it. During

1129
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: the game, when it's in doubt, you want to you

1130
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: want to play the fuel position battle. You'll take the

1131
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: chance on a long return by giving your guys a

1132
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: chance to go down and kick it, cover it, and

1133
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,439
Speaker 1: as the game wears on, just booted out and don't

1134
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: take the risk. I looked up yards after the catch

1135
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: for the Bills. They are twenty fifth in the league

1136
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 1: right now, with total yards after the catch nine hundred

1137
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards after the catch thus far this season,

1138
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: that ranks twenty fifth in the league yards after the

1139
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: catch per reception. The Bills are last in the league

1140
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 1: nine yards after the catch per reception on average. So

1141
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: that's why they are down. And I think Steve's comment

1142
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: about ball location throwing receivers open, that's really not a

1143
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: major part of Josh's game. He puts it on them

1144
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: and then whatever they get after that is usually gravy.

1145
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: Unless we're talking about a now route to the flat

1146
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: or something like that. Right that's different. But when he's

1147
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: in the intermediate areas, yards after the catch are not plentiful.

1148
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: They're not unless somebody's behind the defense and they beat him.

1149
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: You know, Kansas City game, we saw some of that.

1150
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox gets behind Sorenson goes another ten eleven, but

1151
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: even then he's only going another twelve yards into the ends. Yea.

1152
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: And even the Saints game when Dawson Knox caught the

1153
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: fourth and two for the touchdown, you know, he catches it,

1154
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: you know, the dB falls down and he goes for

1155
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: all those yards Gabe Davis here. We're seeing a highlight

1156
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 1: here that Gabe Davis twelve yards after the catch third

1157
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: and two, he catches it and runs. Most of the

1158
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: yards are air yards right right, So and you can

1159
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: do that when your quarterback's got an arm like Josh

1160
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: too exactly, you know you can put on them. So

1161
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: it's not a catastrophic thing that they don't rank high

1162
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: in this category because they have a quarterback who can

1163
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: cover most of the yards with his arm. The guys,

1164
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, they're the yards after the catch aren't as

1165
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: important as they are, say in New England, where a

1166
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: lot of the completions are of the shorter variety and

1167
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: they need their receiving targets two gate yards after the

1168
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 1: catch to increase the games. So very very different in

1169
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: that way in terms of passing game approach between the

1170
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots. Back to the phones into Kevin

1171
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: and Rochester. What do you have for U is Kevin,

1172
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's life. I think that yesterday you

1173
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: talked about players who were, you know, maybe not a

1174
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: factor in other games. And I think that the punter

1175
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 1: and place kicker will playing an important part, especially because

1176
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: it's it's a home game, and so they understand how

1177
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 1: to deal with the wind. And and yesterday you had

1178
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 1: somebody asked about why some players some teams line it

1179
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: up straight left or right. I think that's going to

1180
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: be an important factor in Monday Nights game. What I

1181
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: wasn't sure about the last part there, um, I think

1182
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 1: he meant lining up on the hash for kicks. There

1183
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: is going to be wind in the forecast ten to

1184
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: twenty miles per hour out of the west southwest for

1185
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: Monday Night's game. That's the early forecast. Anyway, snow on Monday,

1186
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: but early in the day, not supposed to be snow

1187
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 1: at night. But you know, with the Lake Effects snowmachine,

1188
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: you just never know, especially when the wind's blowing. So

1189
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: we'll see what Monday night brings. The kicking game I

1190
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 1: think is going to be of paramount importance here the Patriots.

1191
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: And we talked to Matt Chatham yesterday, former Patriots linebacker

1192
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: and current analysts of the Patriots for New England Sports Network,

1193
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: and he said that they if you look at all

1194
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: of the hidden yardage that exists on special teams, the

1195
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: Patriots have advantages in almost every game they've played in

1196
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 1: spades if you look at the opponent's average drive start,

1197
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots are near the top of the league in

1198
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: terms of that. They go well, they got great coverage guys.

1199
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: It's not just Matt Slater Gunner on punt team. It's

1200
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: a lot of They got a lot of quality guys

1201
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: out there covering kicks. They're pondering, kicker are always and

1202
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: Gunnar Olshefsky is he's the league and punt return average.

1203
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: Right old Chefsky can he gets what every yard that's

1204
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 1: coming to him and makes good decisions. Yeah, they hit

1205
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. And I think that's one of the

1206
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: things that special teams is these days, you know, even

1207
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: compared to the days when I played. Special teams is

1208
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: a team these days. And it's been this way since

1209
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: the early eighties when the rosters got to like forty two,

1210
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: forty three, forty six players, forty five players, forty seven

1211
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: players on game day. Once it got to that level,

1212
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: they're a new position group was formulated. And that position

1213
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: group of special teams core players, guys who are linebackers,

1214
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: DB's tight ends, wide receivers, running backs, guys who can

1215
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: play special teams. There's you know, a handful or more,

1216
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: he's like eight guys that are your hard core special

1217
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: teams participants. And Patriots have got a bunch of quality

1218
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: guys there, and they hit on a lot on a

1219
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 1: lot of cylinders and are able to execute a lot

1220
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: of things. Don't forget that, you know they're this is

1221
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: a team that has pulled some special teams stunts on

1222
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,959
Speaker 1: the Bills in the past and gotten and gotten good

1223
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 1: production out of it. But they ratchet up the pressure

1224
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: with every little bit. If you can think about it,

1225
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: over the course of if both teams punt four times

1226
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: in a game, and your gain in ten yards of

1227
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: better fuel position than your opponent is that's eight It's

1228
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: like eighty yards of difference ten yards every one of

1229
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: those kicking plays that you get that your opponent doesn't,

1230
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: or you take from your opponent and you get from

1231
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: your opponent when they you know, so it's eighty yards

1232
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: of hidden yardage. It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot.

1233
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: Bills and Patriots have both been good in this category.

1234
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,919
Speaker 1: I still remember coach McDermot was praising the kickoff team

1235
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: from Thursday night's game. He was really happy with their performance. Yea,

1236
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: they had a really good day of special teams against

1237
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: the Saints and right now looking at it, the Bills

1238
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 1: currently as a receiving team third in the league in

1239
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 1: average drive start, first in the AFC behind only Minnesota

1240
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: and Seattle. New England seventh in the league in average

1241
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: drive start. So the Bills average drive start is their

1242
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: twenty six and a half yard line. For New England

1243
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: it's their twenty five point eight yard line, and then

1244
01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:21,560
Speaker 1: flipping it around their coverage teams. Buffalo fifth in the

1245
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: league in average drive start for their opponent the twenty

1246
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: three and a half yard line. New England eighth in

1247
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: the league at the twenty four yard line, So they're

1248
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: pretty comparable, but the Bills have been better in that area.

1249
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: One issue that gives me pause and makes me worry

1250
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: is that I think Matt Hawk slow get off time,

1251
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 1: and the Patriot's gonna know that they've played against him

1252
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: when he was Miami last year, as did the Bills.

1253
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: The Bills have got to have a plan for Matt

1254
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: Hawk to be protected in his punts and he's got

1255
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: to know he's gonna have to get it off because

1256
01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: I would say it is for shoe or that the

1257
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: Patriots are going to attempt to block at least one,

1258
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 1: if not more than that. They may have it on

1259
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: their ross on their docket to go for every single

1260
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: punt time the Bills punt, they're gonna try for a block.

1261
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 1: With old Chefsky in the back, he's gonna make good decisions,

1262
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:14,839
Speaker 1: they'll feel the ball. They won't lose anything that way.

1263
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: It would not surprise me. Yeah, we do want to

1264
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: get some comments passed along to you from the coaching

1265
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: staff who addressed the media late yesterday, and we want

1266
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: to begin with head coach, head coach, defensive coordinator, and

1267
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: assistant head coach Leslie Fraser, who, for the first time

1268
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,879
Speaker 1: since the injury was announced, address the loss of cornerback

1269
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: Tradavias White from the defensive lineup. Obviously a big part

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Speaker 1: of what we do on defense. He allows us to

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Speaker 1: do so many things because of this talent, how smart

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Speaker 1: he is, how hard he works, and just it's how

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01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 1: talented he is. A he's a matchup guys. It's hard

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01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,719
Speaker 1: to find those guys in our league. But he's allowed

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01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:02,640
Speaker 1: us to do some things on defense because of visibility

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01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:06,680
Speaker 1: to eliminate other people's number one receivers. So there's some

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01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: big shoes to feel I think Dane Jackson is one

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01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: of those guys who will step up and he's the

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01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: next man up, and he'll do a good job for us.

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Speaker 1: But to say that he will play at the level

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01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: of Tredevis that would be you know, misleading, sure, and

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01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: that's going to change how they play defense, as we

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01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show, because Dane, despite all his

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01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: credentials and some of his promising ability, he's just not

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01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: the same caliber, doesn't have the same experience, doesn't have

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Speaker 1: all of the accolades, and you know, hasn't started against

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01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots receiving Corps. Quite frankly, I don't know that

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: anybody on the roster has in later who they put

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01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 1: on the field this year compared to last year. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Dane's just not gonna be able to do

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: the varied amount of things that Trudevius can do to

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01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: help this defense. And he gives him Trevis gives him

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01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: a lot more latitude with the play call. Even if

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01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: he could. Coaches don't know if he believe. He's got

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01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: to make him believe that he can. You know it,

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01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time for him to prove that. Now,

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01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: they certainly have things they're confident in him doing because

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01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 1: they've had him in the building for two seasons, I

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01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: better part of two years now, so they know what

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01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,839
Speaker 1: he's capable of. And Dane Jackson, and we said this yesterday,

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01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: I like the way he plays with confidence. You know. Yeah,

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01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 1: he's got a little grit. I love that about him.

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01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's it's gonna serve him that well

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01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 1: against the Patriots this week or whatever. But I think

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01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: the guy does do some things well. Um, they came

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01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: out right at him with a double move in the

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01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: Saints game and he almost got beat except Simeon threw

1308
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: it out of bounds, and you could tell by his

1309
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: body language he was like he frustrated himself by getting

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01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: beat like that. He's got some things he's got to learn.

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01:11:57,080 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 1: But I do like this, I do know this. He's

1312
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: not going to back off. I mean, I think he's

1313
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: got that about him that he's gonna like if they

1314
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: beat him once, he's gonna come up, line up again,

1315
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: say let's go. Yeah. He doesn't get intimidated. He know

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01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: it's full well, there's gonna be a bull's eye on

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,599
Speaker 1: his back in this game Monday night. But that doesn't

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01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,720
Speaker 1: intimidate him at all, knowing the kind of kid he is.

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01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: And here is Coach Fraser on the confidence he has

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01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: in putting Dane Jackson out there on Monday Night. I

1321
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 1: think it has a lot to do with the composure

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01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: day he plays with. You know, things don't get too

1323
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: big for him. We started in his rookie year when

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01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: he had to step in and play in some tough

1325
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: situations at times, and even this year when he's had

1326
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 1: to come in the ball game, even the game on

1327
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: Thursday night when he stepped in. I mean, he's he

1328
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 1: has real good pores and a good feel for the game,

1329
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: and I think that helps him not to get overly

1330
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: concerned or to stress himself where he's not even play

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01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: up to the level that we expect him to. So

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Speaker 1: just that that overall composure and that confidence that he has,

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,560
Speaker 1: and he's a talented guy as well. And see, I

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01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: know you've mentioned this on this show that you know

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01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 1: the Bills defensive philosophy is rooted in a lot of

1336
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: zone type scheme, but they have played more man this season.

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01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: The question is does that continue now that Trudevious White

1338
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:18,840
Speaker 1: is no longer a part of the equation. Well, I

1339
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to transform fast. I think they'll

1340
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: work into it. I think they'll still ask Dane Jackson

1341
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: to hang in there. Particularly, I think against the Patriots wideouts,

1342
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 1: this isn't like playing the Tennessee Titans with with you know,

1343
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: a J. Brown and Julio Jones. Although the receiving core

1344
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 1: of the Patriots' is quality, that they also depend on

1345
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: their tight ends a little more than other teams do,

1346
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: and they and they use the running game a little

1347
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,160
Speaker 1: more so I think I don't know that there's a

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01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: true number one right exactly. So I think that makes

1349
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: it a little bit of a different animal. So the

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01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: zone man mix may be different with the Patriots than

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01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: it will be next week with the Bucks or you know,

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01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: going forward. That'll be a test next week. So in

1353
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 1: this game though, might be all right, maybe, but I

1354
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: think this is still I think this is still with

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01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: Mac Jones throwing the football the way he is, sometimes

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01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:15,800
Speaker 1: you want to go man, just to have somebody there

1357
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: when he's you know, trying to fit it in a

1358
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: window rather than just throw into an area on time.

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01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 1: Almost almost like the approach they had with Tua in

1360
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: Week two. Shut off the first read and see how

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01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 1: he reacts, right, is he patting the ball? Is he

1362
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: chucking it away? You can get at him and make

1363
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: him pull it down and look to his second read

1364
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: and have to hold the ball a little bit, maybe

1365
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 1: get into him a little bit. Maybe it starts to

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01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: rattle him a bit, but to this point he's been

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01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: pretty cool about it. You know, he's thrown sixteen tds

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01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: nine interceptions. You gotta I think you've got to get

1369
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: in his vision and make him come off his first

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01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: read and give your pass rush a chance. And I

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01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: think that starts at the back end, and without Tradavious White,

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen how well the Bills cann

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01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: You can do that. All right, We're gonna take a

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01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back, we'll get to

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01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. As we're asking you of

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01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: the players anticipated to return to the lineup Monday night,

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01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:12,799
Speaker 1: who do you think is going to have the biggest

1378
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,600
Speaker 1: impact in the game of those returners. Can let us

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01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: know at E three five fifty, or you can hit

1380
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet, which we'll get to

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01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:21,719
Speaker 1: as well when we come back here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back. One Bills Live is the show. Chris Brown,

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01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, your hosts here until three and taking phone

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01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: calls at five fifty, which is where we return at

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01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 1: this juncture, and we go to Jeff and Jamestown next. Jeff,

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01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bills Live. Okay.

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: I got two points of eight to make one offense,

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01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 1: one defense, okay, and then in the evaluation I may

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01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:06,480
Speaker 1: have or may not have noticed about Josh the shotgun

1391
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: first off offense. Um, I think our lineman comeback and fortifying,

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01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 1: you know, the five linemen. I think that will be

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01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: huge because the guy that put the pictures played last week,

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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:25,200
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, but he he just ran

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01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,719
Speaker 1: them up and down. Then they had like two running

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01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: backs and running for harn Jarrett's pace they did. They

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01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: had two sixty four total, I believe, and the bad

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01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 1: guy hadn't fumbled, who knows what would have happened, right,

1399
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: So I think with you know that, with our running backs,

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, especially the new guy there, Matt Breed speed Breed. Yeah. Well,

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01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 1: and on defense, UM, I think star will be huge

1402
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: because Oliver has already been playing out of his mind.

1403
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, because they're running backs are running

1404
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:03,679
Speaker 1: by committee as well for the Patriots, so they don't

1405
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: run laterally as well, they do between the tackles, so

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01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: well Oliver and Lutumua in there. I think that'll be

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01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: really good. And my final point I noticed in the

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: games where Josh is in the shot done, hills Canes

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01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: will be like hut hutt hut. But then when he

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01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: says set hut is one and the ball snapped. If

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01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 1: you guys notice that, uh no, because you know, when

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01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: when we're you know, when we're watching the game, we're

1413
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: not always privy to TV audio, especially the home games.

1414
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: I have no access to television audio whatsoever. Um, So

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01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: it's not something that I'm readily that's readily available to me. Um.

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01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: That's interesting that you say that. But the cadence will

1417
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: usually change week to week. Um. And that's done for

1418
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: obvious reasons because if opponents can pull that off a tape,

1419
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:00,200
Speaker 1: it's on you to change it so they don't don't

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01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 1: get a beat on you. So I would trust that

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01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,560
Speaker 1: they would be doing that. Um, if you're noticing it,

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01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: somebody on the bills staff's noticed it. Yeah. Uh and

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01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: if yeah, so appreciate the scout. I'm confident and ladies

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01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: they grind through the tape and pick stuff like that

1425
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: to fine tooth comb. Oh, you can't hide anything and don't. Yeah.

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01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: So if there is a tell, it's probably there, and

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01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: not only do the Bills should be aware of it,

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01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots are definitely aware of it. Yeah. So yeah,

1429
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: and if there's one the other way, the Bills are

1430
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: aware of it and the Patriots are probably aware of it.

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01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: Back to the phones and to Dave down in Florida, Dave,

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01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? How are you doing today? Guys? Good?

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01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: All right, listen, I'm I'm very curious about this COVID

1434
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 1: outbreak Again. Who tells the U? Is it the union

1435
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:05,639
Speaker 1: that everybody they don't have to get vaccinations? Well, it

1436
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: was collectively bargained between the union and the league. Yeah,

1437
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: the COVID protocols for the regular season, we're collectively bargained

1438
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: between the league and the players Association. Yeah. Well, I

1439
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: think that allows you one, because I think somebody's spreading it.

1440
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 1: And my second thing is I'm not too worried about

1441
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots quarterback and I think Jackson is

1442
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 1: going to take care of the Whites position, and their

1443
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: quarterback can't. He can't throw twenty yards or more if

1444
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: you watch all his passes. That's all I got, guys, Right,

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01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: Nice Chris, and Merry Christmas and see you in the playoffs.

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01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:43,600
Speaker 1: Yeah to you too, Dave, Thanks for the call. I

1447
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: respectfully disagree. Probably a little bit more wary of the

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01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: Patriots than Dave obviously. Yeah, Dave, games in a row,

1449
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 1: they're playing really good, and it's they're playing better or

1450
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: as well as the Colts were playing. They're playing more

1451
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: con sistant football. Then the Bills are playing right their

1452
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: weekend week out. They're playing better right now, right now,

1453
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: or as good as you know the Bills are playing,

1454
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: and where the Bills have been up and down a

1455
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: little bit so now, granted, both teams have had issues

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01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: with player availability, so I get that, but yeah, the

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01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: Patriots have been more consistent over the past six weeks

1458
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: than the Bills have. And you know, you say there

1459
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: are reasons for all of it. I will say, you know,

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01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 1: I like the law of averages that often comes into

1461
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: play with NFL games. Teams are on a hot streak

1462
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: for a while, the law of averages in this league

1463
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:49,560
Speaker 1: eventually wins the day. And I like that. The Patriots

1464
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 1: have won six in a row playing supremely efficient football,

1465
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: because the law of averages says that they are due

1466
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:00,680
Speaker 1: for a little bit of a downturn in the efficiency,

1467
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,599
Speaker 1: a little slip up, if you will, and I am

1468
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: ready to buy. The Bills finished the season last year

1469
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 1: with eight wins, two playoff wins and six regular season wins,

1470
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: and the law of averages caught up with them. They

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01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: did not play their best game against the Chiefs. Right. Um,

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01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: that's the law of averages is coming home to roost

1473
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: very soon for the Patriots. And actually, I don't think

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01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: they can keep this up. Yeah that you may hope

1475
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: they can't, but you know, we'll see. They don't make

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Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes. They don't say that. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: And that's the frustrating part about it. The Bills cannot

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01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: give plays or breaks or advantages to the Patriots with

1479
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: mistakes and bad play. You can't. You can't. You can't

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01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: live survive in the NFL that way. If throwing ball

1481
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: away and punting the ball away is better than taking

1482
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: a bad sack, they put you out of field goal range,

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01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 1: or fumbling the ball on a sack strip or thrown

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01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: half sion or whatever. So as long as you keep

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01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 1: it within the lines, don't turn it over and give

1486
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: your your defense a chance to you know, stop him

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01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: with a long field. You know you got a better

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01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: chance of hanging in there with him. But as soon

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01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: as you start turning it over, fumbling in a way,

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01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: giving up a long kick return, giving up a block kick,

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01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: giving up a surprise on side kick to the Patriots,

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01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna it's gonna be a close enough game where

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01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in striking striking distance, but you can't

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01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: turn it over and make mistakes. Noah, let's go back

1495
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: to the phones. I believe we've got. Let me see

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01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:46,640
Speaker 1: who we have here, Clarence in Buffalo. Clarence, what do

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01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:49,200
Speaker 1: you got for us? You're on one Bill's Live. How

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01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:52,799
Speaker 1: are you doing to thanks good? I have a question

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01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:57,560
Speaker 1: in this regarding something that Steve mentioned earlier in the

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01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: week in regards to win the Josh Allen was hit

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01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: will hit below and those nell And my question is

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01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 1: what is the responsibility of the of the general managers

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01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: to put this before the league and let them know

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01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: what transpired? Is there any repercussions done to the referees

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01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: behind that? Yeah? So here here's how it goes. Clarence

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01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 1: First and foremost, each team each week submits a review

1507
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: card for that officiating crew. They send it into the league.

1508
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: If they have issues with calls that they thought were

1509
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: either a not made or officiated inappropriately, they can file

1510
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: what amounts to a complaint to the league's officiating office.

1511
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: The league will review those and what are the repercussions.

1512
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: The repercussions are they call back and say, yeah, we're sorry,

1513
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 1: we got that wrong. Um, now there are a fit

1514
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: when if if officials receive poor enough grades over the

1515
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: course of their assignments in a given season, there can

1516
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: be demotions that has happened. They can be reassigned to

1517
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: a lesser you know, assistant referee role. Maybe they go

1518
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 1: from an umpire to a back judge if they really

1519
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: struggle and have problems. M Phil Luckett is the guy

1520
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: that stands out to me. He couldn't even get the

1521
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,599
Speaker 1: coin toss right. The next year he went from being

1522
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:38,040
Speaker 1: a head official to a back judge. So it does happen.

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01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: He asked for it though, well, because he was you know,

1524
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: so much for me. Yeah, he's like that coin flips tough.

1525
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 1: Plus he got so from messip up. He's like, I

1526
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't need that headache. Just put

1527
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 1: me back in them, you know, so put me in

1528
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: deep center field. Yeah, as there's that. But yes, there

1529
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: is a protocol for getting the officials to call, you know,

1530
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 1: like you can say what this play, this play, this play,

1531
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: this play, and this play. Usually some teams have a

1532
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: dozen or more plays in a given week every game.

1533
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: Some teams have like five plays, but every team has

1534
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: some that they send to the league and say, what

1535
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: about this? Why was this not called? Why was this call?

1536
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,719
Speaker 1: Or what happened here? Will explained this to me. Why

1537
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: is it called here against this guy and not over

1538
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: here against this guy? Why did you say that was

1539
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: a good call and this one wasn't a good call?

1540
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: What's going on? So they get clarification, and if the

1541
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: officials are found to be inconsistent or one way or

1542
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: the other, they're downgraded. And that you know that. And

1543
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how egregious the downgrades are, but they

1544
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:50,839
Speaker 1: certainly pick the guys to do Super Bowl and playoff games.

1545
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 1: They pick those guys on the fact that they've done

1546
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: better than other guys during the regular season is in

1547
01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl typically the highest rated officials and they're all

1548
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:02,759
Speaker 1: mashed together. Right. Yeah, they have done that in the past.

1549
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: Now what they'll do is instead of doing strictly by that,

1550
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: they'll take the top group and they'll they'll put to

1551
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 1: the crew top, the top UM like top, top line judge,

1552
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: top umpire top, all those guys. They'll be a handful

1553
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,720
Speaker 1: of guys at the top of the lists. They'll take

1554
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,680
Speaker 1: the top three or four and they'll mesh together the

1555
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: ones who have worked together before the most for the

1556
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So you won't have guys I've never worked

1557
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: with this guy, but you know what, I worked for

1558
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: four years together with you, and now we can. We'll

1559
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: recapture some of that and we'll do our thing. There's

1560
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of that going on as well. That

1561
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: was when Mike Pereira did it and Dean Blandino did it.

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01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how I did it with with Alberto

1563
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: Riveron UM. Now it's a new guy. I'm not even

1564
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:48,560
Speaker 1: familiar with who the new guy is, right, you know

1565
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: that's right? So UM they've got UM protocols in place

1566
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: and they you know, let's face it, the head coaches

1567
01:26:58,479 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: are the guys that pick the play. Now, they they

1568
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: may delegate the authority to say, hey, pick out some

1569
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:08,440
Speaker 1: plays or they and you see coaches on the sidelines,

1570
01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: every last one of them picks out the little card

1571
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: and they write something on the card and they put

1572
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 1: it back in their pocket. They need to see over

1573
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,920
Speaker 1: there they're writing on a little card. And that's some

1574
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 1: of the stuff they're writing down. Ask the officials are

1575
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 1: about to explain this to me? What about this? What

1576
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: about that? And that's some of the things they write

1577
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: down on the sidelines. That plus a million other thoughts

1578
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 1: that crossed their mind on the sidelines that they got

1579
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:35,759
Speaker 1: to keep track of. So there is an enormous amount

1580
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: of effort put in by the football side of the

1581
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:42,600
Speaker 1: NFL to get the off officiating exactly where everybody wants it.

1582
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 1: And it all has to do with what I've been

1583
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: saying constantly consistency. Walter Anderson is the Senior Vice President

1584
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: of Officiating Training and Development. Perry Fuel, former Bills defensive

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01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: coordinator and interim head coach after Dictura got fired, Senior

1586
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 1: vice President of Officiating Administration. So those are the guys

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01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 1: that were appointed this year. When we come back, I'm

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01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: going to pose a question to Steve and see if

1589
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: he knows the answer. How many games have Spencer Brown

1590
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: and John Feliciano both played together in Buffalo's lineup this season?

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Speaker 1: The number may surprise you will have it next year

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live presented by Callida Health. It's Buffalo

1593
01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, So the question posed to Steve

1594
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 1: here is how many games has Spencer Brown and John

1595
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 1: Feliciano both started together on Buffalo's offensive line through their

1596
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: first eleven games this season? What say you, Steve Tasker

1597
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 1: two games and change like Felicio, I'll say three games.

1598
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 1: It is two. They started two games together. As we know,

1599
01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:58,840
Speaker 1: Brown was you did have it. Brown was not in

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01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: the starting lineup the first three weeks. Comes in in

1601
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,800
Speaker 1: week four, but ike Butcker started at left guard in

1602
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: that game. Then yeah, he I can't remember what it

1603
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: was now, But then Feliciano started against Kansas City and

1604
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 1: Tennessee with Brown at right tackle. Those are the only

1605
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:18,600
Speaker 1: two games where they have both been on the field simultaneously.

1606
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: Thirty eight points and thirty one points scored in the

1607
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: game Tennessee thirty eight and thirty one point scored. I

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01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: like the sound of that. More to talk about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Join us at one. We'll see that