1 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: fighter for you. Stately Steve a blimp. We're not even 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: in the stratit here of normalcy. Here, all right, here 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: we are on a Friday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: I am on location in Tampa. Steve is back in 7 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: our one Bill's Drive studios and uh, you're pointing at me, Steve? 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: Why are you pointing at me? What's going on? It's 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:41,959 Speaker 1: nice to be able to point to someone directly right 10 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: all the way from Buffalo to Tampa Bay. I feel 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: very powerful in doing that. Yes, I'm holding you accountable, wizard. 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: I'm holding you accountable from a thousand miles away. Brown. 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: He just know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah so I so, Steve, 14 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: let me begin here. So I flew down here last night. Um, 15 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be at the game on Sunday. Obviously. 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: How if you had to guess the percentage of Bills 17 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: fans on my flight to Tampa, what would your Where 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: would you drop the percentage on a Thursday before a 19 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Bill's game in that city? I would say I'd goes 20 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: high as fifty percent. Plus you're gonna have to bump 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: it up considerably. It was about eighty percent. Really, Oh 22 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: my god, it was it was They had the AAAA 23 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: chant going. It was nuts, and of course the flight 24 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: attendant was totally messing with him. She uh, she was going, 25 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: let's go Bucks. And then there was like a that 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: was roundly booed on the plane and then they just 27 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: started doing their own thing. Bill's Mafia took over after that, 28 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: and then she doubled down Steve. When we landed in 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: Tampa last night, she goes, welcome to Champa Bay. Ooh 30 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: but that was not well received. But that flew over. 31 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: That flew like a lead balloon. Wow. Yeah, they're they're 32 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: all feeling themselves down here, not only after the Bucks won, 33 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: but after the Tampa Bay Lightning won their second consecutive 34 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: Stanley Cup. So they're they're feeling pretty good down here. 35 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: As far as sports fandom goes, I get it. I 36 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: get it. You're down and you're down there, you're getting 37 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: ready for the game, and so this is I knew 38 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a ton of Bills fans down in 39 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: Tampa because this is this is I think this is 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: the only game of the season where I got tapped 41 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: into to get somebody some tickets. Oh yeah, I'm not 42 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: surprised it's a popular ticket. I mean, I know the 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: Tennessee game is always big for Bills fans, right, you 44 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: and I were joking about it last year. Unfortunately fans 45 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: couldn't travel during COVID because you have imagined Bill's at 46 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: Las Vegas last Oh my gosh, that we think about it, 47 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: last year was a truly a huge swing and a 48 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: miss because of COVID. You had the San Francis go 49 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: to the Denver Vegas Tennessee. There was some stellar road. 50 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: It would have been pure hedonism, it was. It might 51 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: be it, it might maybe lives might have been saved. Actually, 52 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: if you think about that, you know, because that would 53 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: have been yeah, you know, first time ever going to 54 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: that place, and oh my god. And with the season 55 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: that the Bills were having, oh yeah, exactly. And there's 56 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: a little bit of that here. The Bills Maffia has 57 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: already begun to descend on this fair city. God help them, um. 58 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, I think they're going to be well represented again. Yeah, 59 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: it's in this particular road venue because I think if 60 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: you looked at the schedule you would have said Tennessee Tampa. 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: And and here's another thing too, Steve, the Bills have 62 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: a full blown State of Florida tour on their schedule. 63 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: They were obviously at Mason, they were at Jacksonville, and 64 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: now they're at Tampa Bay. I actually remember the last 65 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: time that's happen. Yeah, right, And I think too, it's 66 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: interesting too, because people are headed to Tampa. And I 67 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: know you make these plans months in advance. Most people do, 68 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: or at least schedule it if even if you don't 69 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: have the tickets or whatever. But a lot of Bills 70 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: fans are way down. They're they're thinking this is gonna 71 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: be like this really rough game, Bills, Bills are gonna struggle. 72 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: You hear people thinking, I don't know, after the after 73 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: the after the New England game, and we're up and 74 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: down and I don't know if we can beat the 75 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: world chain. You know, there's a lot of pessimism about 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: how the team's playing right now, up and down, and 77 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I guess not. When you get on the plane, 78 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: you're headed down there, even if you don't know it's 79 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: it's gonna be. You're just gonna have fun. You're gonna 80 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: cheer your team, let's go. So I think that that 81 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: kind of overrides the fact that a lot of people 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: who are staying here in Buffalo are like so discouraged 83 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: over the loss they just took. Yeah, and I know 84 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: you and I talked about this. I think it's due 85 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: in large part to the who they lost to more 86 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: than the how they lost. I mean, how every time 87 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: you lose, it's frustrating, right, But I think think the 88 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: team they lost to only exacerbated the frustrations and the 89 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: feelings that fans were having because it was that team. 90 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: It was an important loss, no question, it was an 91 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: important game to try and win. And and losing it 92 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: the way they did, and well, I know about how 93 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: you lose it, Um, it sets them back. And now 94 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: they now they've got to fight out of a little 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: bit of a hole. Um. Certainly they could still win 96 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: the division, but you know, now they've got to win. 97 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 1: They've got one game on their schedule at least remain. 98 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: They gotta win. Um. Yeah, if they and it's it's 99 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: a different road now, right, I mean, you're thinking you're 100 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: the number seven seed in the in the conference right 101 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: now and for the and it's really the lowest you've 102 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 1: been what all season, it's the lowest you've been seated 103 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: all season, um even really kind of even after week one, 104 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: before they even start doing that stuff. So yeah, I'm 105 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that Bills fans were taking advantage of 106 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: the trip to Tampa Bay. You kind of figured they'd 107 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: head down there, a lot of them playing up months 108 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: of advance. But man, oh man, it's it's really a 109 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: wet blanket. The way they lost, or that the team 110 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: they lost to this last you know, Monday night. Um, 111 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: you know, you lose to buy four points to that team. 112 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: That's a rough that's a rough way to go down there. 113 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: But I did figure that thursdays early in the week though, 114 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: don't you think? Yeah, a little bit, But I think 115 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: a lot of these people just build three and four 116 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: day weekends around, yeah, around around the Bills apparently, especially 117 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: when you got a chance to get into some nice weather, 118 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: you know, et cetera, et cetera. It's also it's also 119 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: a four twenty five game. It's not like you can 120 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: go to the game at seven and still kind of 121 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: catch a flight out of there, right. I mean, I'll 122 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: be really hard I got on a six pm direct 123 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: so that was good. Um So if you're doing that 124 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: as a fan, No, I'm talking about No, I'm talking 125 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: about on Sunday when the act for the game. It's 126 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: a four twenty five game, coming home, you're gonna have 127 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: to almost stay there. It's a Monday flight, right, yeah. Yeah, 128 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: there's no way to get out of here that late 129 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: and catch something in time. Yeah, because we all know, 130 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: I mean, anybody who's ever traveled, you know you gotta 131 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: go someplace else to get to Buffalo, right yeah, yeah, 132 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: wherever you fly from, unless it's Atlanta, Chicago, LaGuardia, Detroit. 133 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: Now it's yeah, it's it's a chore. But it doesn't 134 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: seem to bother Reels fans. They're here in droves, uh, 135 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: just walking around the street down town. Wherever they are. 136 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: They are out and about already. And that's not shy 137 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: about wearing their colors. Man. It is like front and center, 138 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: top to bottom, head to toe. They it is just 139 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: out there. But if you're gonna go in a visiting city, 140 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: if you're gonna go, fly to colors, right, I mean 141 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: that's how they're they are not shy. Yeah for sure. 142 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: Well that's good. I'm glad. I'm glad you're gonna be 143 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: down there. You're gonna be doing pregame and stuff on 144 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: the radio, right. Oh yeah, yeah, we'll have the round 145 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: table with Eric and Sal and then Maddie and I 146 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: will be doing field pass on the streaming side of things. 147 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll we'll be locked and loaded for a 148 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: Sunday for sure. Obviously a little bit later than usual, right, 149 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: being a four PM game. So, but we do have 150 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: some news and notes to pass along. The most important 151 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: ones are, for the second time in the last three weeks, 152 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: the Bills are going to be without star Latula. He 153 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: was ruled out by head coach Sean McDermott with a 154 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: toe injury that cropped up coming out of the Patriots 155 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: game Tommy's tween. He's also going to miss the game 156 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: of a hip injury. So I don't know about you, Steve, 157 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: but I am anticipating some reinforcements getting called up via 158 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: the practice squad this weekend. We saw that happen on 159 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving game. Thanksgiving game against the Saints, they called 160 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: up Elianku and Brandon Bryant, and I think they've done 161 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: okay as rotational interior defenders when they have been called up, 162 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: so I would be surprised if we see much of 163 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: the same there. And then, as we talked about earlier 164 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: in the week, Steve, the tight end position is gonna 165 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: need some reinforcements of some kind as well, because now 166 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: you're down to Dawson and Knox as your only true 167 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: tight end. And we also know that, you know, Reggie 168 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: Gilliam has been questionable with an ankle injury this week, 169 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: so you're probably looking at Kahali Warring or Quentin Morris 170 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: as potential call ups for Sunday. It's probably gonna be Yeah, 171 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be Cally Worry, isn't it. Warring, Yeah, 172 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: I would think he's got time in the league. They 173 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: did call Morris up once this year, though, I think 174 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: they had him both up one particular week when they 175 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: were nicked up a little bit, if memory serves. But yeah, 176 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: I would think Warring's the call up. He's been in 177 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: the league a few years and he certainly has been 178 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: here long enough to know the system. So I would hope, 179 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: you know they're good to go there, at least in 180 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: an emergency capacity. Right, Yeah, that's it's gonna be yet again. 181 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: It's gonna be an interesting an interesting shuffle of who's 182 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: there gonna and you know, these guys and you know, 183 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: we we tend to talk about this and even fans 184 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: on our show, we get callers and stuff like that. 185 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: It's interesting because it just occurred to me thinking back 186 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: on my days as a player. Yeah, they the team 187 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: has been up and down lately, and now you've got 188 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: start in and out of the lineup. You've got you know, 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: and we'll get down to Feliciano and these other guys 190 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: about who's gonna be in and who's gonna be out. 191 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: But a guy like like who we're talking about, Kale 192 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: or you know, the other tight end we're talking about. 193 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: Those guys are absolutely on pins and needles this week 194 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: because they don't know if they're they might actually get 195 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: on the field, they might actually have a rep, they 196 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: might actually catch a pass, they might actually get a 197 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: you know, beat on the in the mix. And that's 198 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: huge for these guys. And I just struck me what 199 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: they must be going through. You know, Quentin Morris and 200 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: Khali Warring, those guys have got to be just like man, 201 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: just give me a chance. I would love to play 202 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: against this team, and you forget how these guys are 203 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: sitting there. They don't get a suit up. They practice 204 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: all week, they work out, they go to meetings, they 205 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: do everything, and then on Sunday they sit and watch 206 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: and to get a chance to like, hey, this is 207 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: your chance. You're gonna be in this week. Man. Their 208 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: families are finding out about it. They're calling their moms 209 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: and dads, their parents, they're brothers and sisters. Everybody's finding 210 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: out and they'll be trying to get to the game. 211 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: It's big, It's really big, and it's fun. It's fun 212 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: for me to think about that because I know what 213 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: a difference it makes in these guys lives in a 214 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: long season they finally get a chance to contribute. It's big, 215 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: it's big. It's kind of fun to think about. Absolutely. 216 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: We want to remind everybody that this is tailgate Friday. 217 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 1: So if you have your plans, if you've made the 218 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: trip down here to Tampa where I am, and we've 219 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: got plans to tailgate, let us know what those are 220 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: in terms of recipes, food, drink, etc. Etc. We always 221 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: welcome any and all suggestions there brought to you by 222 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: Hi Mark, So we'll get to that in a little 223 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: while here on the show, and then it's obviously OBL 224 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: fan Friday. So any questions you have on the team 225 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: or the league at large, send him on in on 226 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at one Bills Live, or you can 227 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: give us a call at eight oh three five fifty one. 228 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: Thing I did want to address, Steve were some of 229 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: the comments made by Stefan Diggs, which we're going to 230 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: be passing along to our listening audience in a moment here. 231 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: The thing that struck me the most was he thought 232 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: that to become more consistent as an offensive unit, they 233 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: may need to scale things back a bit. This is 234 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: not an uncommon approach by coaches in the past. I 235 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: was curious for your thoughts on it, specifically to get 236 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: to a more consistent place in terms of their execution. Yeah, 237 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: I think it makes It makes some sense, and we 238 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: can all we can all kind of relate to it. 239 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: Where you know, you evolve away every week, you're putting 240 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: in a little something more and a little something more, 241 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: and you're changing a little something in the past. You're 242 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: one of your core Let's do it this way this week, 243 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: and then the next week you change it a little 244 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: more and change a little more, and you've got all 245 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 1: all those changes are steps. They're all a different play. 246 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: Every wrinkle is you know, you consider it a different play. 247 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: You gotta do it differently this time, and this time 248 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: you do it a little different than that. And then 249 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: you skip back, you go three changes ago. This is 250 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: called we're going to call it a different play. It's 251 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: all these steps, and that gets you to another place 252 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: because teams will start to get a handle on what 253 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: you're doing and you just got to tweak it a 254 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: little bit to make it more difficult or harder for them, 255 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: or to take advantage of their defensive philosophy. So you 256 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: get down that road so far, like the Bills have 257 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: been with Brian Dable over the last three or four 258 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: years of kind of evolving into this and certainly all 259 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: through last year where they evolved into this and this year. 260 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: And then you find you stand up and you look 261 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: at all the stuff you've got on the table. It's like, 262 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, Where's where's the 263 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: stuff that we that got us to this point? You know, 264 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: where's the stuff? So you can get lost a little 265 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: heads gets lost and you go back and say, hey, 266 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: you know what Let's let's forget about out smarting those 267 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: guys here. Let's let's just see if they can compete 268 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: with us in this level. You know, Let's just see 269 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: if we can get back to what we do and 270 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: do really well with people were struggling with. And when 271 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: you skip back and take it and do a little 272 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: bit of a reset like that, the other team is 273 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: watching you as an evolved offense. They're not. They don't 274 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: even care know what got you to that point, and 275 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: your basic stuff comes out and it's a real effect. 276 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: It's effective against them because they're not They don't get 277 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: particularly a team like Tampa, you haven't seen in three years, 278 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: you know. So you go back and look at them. 279 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: You go back and play into some of the stuff 280 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: you've you've done before that you're really familiar with, that 281 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: seems basic to you, and you executed a high level 282 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: and the defense it's out and and it is it's 283 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: like new stuff to them. That's really effective and it 284 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: does elevate your your execution. And we've all seen Sean 285 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: McDermot said it at length today. Execution is at the 286 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: core of whatever issues they have, and there's not very 287 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: many issues, but whatever issues they have that have manifested 288 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: themselves just because of their fact that they they've got 289 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: to execute at a higher level. And I think if 290 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: they do do that, get back and evolve backwards, you know, 291 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: and take a big reset, it'll it'll help them do that. 292 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: And just a microcosm of their execution issues was in 293 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: that second to last series against the Patriots. On offense, 294 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: first down, they block it up right, but the running 295 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: back doesn't read it right. No gain. Second that's an 296 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: execution issue. Second down, Josh takes a sack in an 297 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: area where you really shouldn't. That's a decision making problem. Execution. 298 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: Third down, there's a pre snap penalty problem with execution 299 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: or lack thereof. Then you go into third and long 300 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: receiving target drops the pass execution again, and then fourth 301 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: down you missed the field goal execution again. I mean, 302 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: it was execution on every single play there. Now, that 303 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: doesn't happen all the time, but I think that's a 304 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: microcosm of what's plaguing the team. They just are not 305 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: completing place. You say it's execution, but you you're talking 306 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: about four different things. You know, Um, yeah, guy's taken 307 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: turns and that's you know, that's that's bad. Let's face 308 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: that's bad football, you know. Um yeah, coach called it 309 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: sloppy football. Yeah, as good as you as good as 310 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: they've played at times. During that same drive, I mean 311 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: they went like from their own right from their own 312 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: twenty on the after the long and the last drive 313 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: they went from their own twenty all the way down. 314 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: But in that drive, I think it was a twenty 315 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: five rights after a kickoff after a second field goal 316 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: because they got it for ten to eleven and New 317 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: England kicks the I think this is right. The New 318 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: England kicks the field goal, so it goes fourteen to ten. 319 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: That derive is the second of the last. They take 320 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: it from their own twenty five all the way down 321 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: There's they're playing good throughout out in the middle of 322 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: the field, move the football, did some good things, converted 323 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: on third downs, get it all the way down there, 324 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it all comes apart on 325 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: four different plays for four different reasons. Yeah. So let's 326 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: hear what Stefine Diggs had to say about this specifically. 327 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: Here he is on the offensive inconsistencies and maybe ways 328 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: to correct those going forward. I feel like, you know, everybody, 329 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: no offense, We've we've played extremely well last year. I 330 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: mean credit to everybody involved in this year, I feel 331 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: like we haven't played our best ball for whatever reason. 332 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: You know, we can find a million reasons as to why, 333 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: but it all comes down to execution and executing at 334 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: a high level and getting everybody comfortable, especially seventeen, because 335 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: we have a similar we have damn near the same 336 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: team for the most part. So um as players, you 337 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: want to dive in deep to figure out what's the problem. 338 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: You know, For me, I always try to look at 339 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: the mirror first, is there anything I can do better? 340 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: And then you know, you know, try to lead your 341 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: group the best way you can. So for us, just 342 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: finding that why and finding that finding that in this 343 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: to figure out, okay, while we're not playing our bestball, 344 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: you know, and what can we do? And it's obvious, 345 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, as far as the executing at a high 346 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: level and executing an a raison. You know, last year 347 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: we didn't have too many raison problems. We were scoring 348 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: an a rason and were scoring a lot of points routinely, 349 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: and then you know, things kind of seemed like it 350 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 1: was easy, but it wasn't easy. He was just making 351 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: it happen. So this year, when you hit a little 352 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: bit of a roadblock and you're not executing or you 353 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: having things that happened in the rezon, that's like get 354 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: you off schedule. Um, they'll put a little damper on it. 355 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: But we haven't played our best ball and we you know, 356 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: we're still a good team. Pretty telling there, I mean, 357 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: I think he kind of he nailed it quite frankly. Um, 358 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: they know they're capable. They've done it in the past. 359 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: They could be pretty dang good when they proved them 360 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: sales capable, but we just haven't seen it. And it 361 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: was most noticeable in the red zone in the last 362 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: week's game. Yeah, I agree with you. That was and 363 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: that's been credit to you know, begrudgingly. You got to 364 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: credit to New England Patriots. That's been their personality. They've 365 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: done that for a couple of years now, where they 366 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: and they've give up yards and that doesn't phaze them. 367 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: And they're also the type of franchise that when it's 368 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: a one score game, they don't panic and say, listen, 369 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: we've got to have points on this drive. They've got 370 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: a lot of faith in their defense and have had 371 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: over the years at different times. I think they steadfastly 372 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: didn't want to throw the football the other night because 373 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: that was only only bad things were going to happen. 374 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: I truly believe, you know, they didn't have enough faith 375 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: in mac Jones to complete, particularly going in or with 376 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: or against the wind, knowing that, you know, they could 377 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: just kind of grind it out and trust their defense 378 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: to have more success than their offense was going to 379 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: have trying to throw the football. And they absolutely were 380 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: unflinching in a one score game, not really thinking they 381 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: absolutely had to score on every possession. That's unusual in 382 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: the NFL, but I think that served the Patriots well 383 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: in that game. And you know, you get to a 384 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: point where their defense is really what runs the show 385 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: over there, and they trusted that red zone defense and 386 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: they had every reason too. They Bills missed a short 387 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: field goal really difficult to hit, no question, but man 388 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: oh man, their willingness to be in a one score 389 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: game for the Patriots and a trust their red zone defense. 390 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: They did not care. Not that they didn't care, but 391 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: they were unflinching in the face of a drug And 392 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: yet two late drives by the Buffalo Bills. Either one 393 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: could have won the game, and they didn't flinch, and 394 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: they came out one, two, three and out in the 395 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: middle of them without throwing the ball. That's that's that's 396 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: being confident in your defense. Yeah. Uh. Diggs also addressed, 397 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: while you're simplifying, make sure you don't make too many changes, 398 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: because in trying to scale back and simplify, if you 399 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: change too many things to simplify, you're still changing and 400 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 1: making alterations that you don't want to go too far 401 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: down that pant. So here is Diggs trying to explain 402 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: the delicate balance of trying to fix the issues. When 403 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: you out here searching for so many answers, you'll go 404 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole. Like, for example, I go on 405 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: Twitter and look at one thing, and then twenty minutes 406 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: later I'm down a rabbit hole chasing myself. The same 407 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 1: thing in football, like, you don't want to try to 408 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: add so many things that you're losing yourself. You know, 409 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: get back to being us, playing fast, you know whatever, 410 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: taking shots, getting the ball out of hands, having fun, 411 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: being at offense that we know that we are. You know, 412 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: you got to work with what you got. You can't 413 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: you can't guard that church and for more stuff or 414 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: trying to figure it out or you know, when your athings, 415 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: it makes things more complicated. Like so for us, I 416 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: feel like I'm one hundred percent with that making as 417 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: simple as possible. But at the same time, um, we 418 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: got enough players, We got all the players in the world. 419 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: We got to plays. We just got to execute, you know, execute. 420 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: Execution brings uh energy, that's what we say. So, um, 421 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: just trying to make it all shape, just trying to 422 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: make it all fit. Yeah, you've got You've got to know, 423 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: they've got to have a ton of confidence in their 424 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: ability to play and play well talent wise. The athletes, 425 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: they've got the arm and josh um even even the 426 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: offensive line of the tight end. You know that they 427 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,959 Speaker 1: know offensively they've got talent to spare to be successful 428 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: in the NFL. UM getting everybody on the same page 429 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: and executing at the high level seems to be the 430 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: problem now and that for whatever reason, that has eroded 431 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: over the last you know, this half year to the 432 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: point where it's cost them some games. And I not 433 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: not just that excuse, but at least that's part of 434 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: the problem, and I think trying to address it He's right, 435 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 1: you can simplify it, but is it really making it 436 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: simpler if you got to learn something, you know, all 437 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: this stuff brand new again. So yeah, yeah, it's it 438 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: is a balance. But like I said, I think if 439 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: you cut down on some of this and kind of 440 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: weed out some of the stuff you know you're not 441 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: going to use and alert and tell the player, hey, 442 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: we're not going to use any of this stuff. We're 443 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: gonna stick with this group of plays and these couple 444 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: of things here, that allows them to focus on that 445 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: and perform on in in those areas at a higher 446 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: level because they don't have to get ready to perform 447 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: in all these other places that you're not going to use, 448 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, They can focus more fine 449 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,959 Speaker 1: on the actual plays they know they're going to run, 450 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: or the group of plays, or the philosophy they know 451 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna run, instead of trying to get everything in 452 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: the playbook ready for that specific week. Right and just 453 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: having talked to the players about day Ball's creativity, you know, 454 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: Diggs has said among other players that coach Abel trusts 455 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: us and so sometimes he'll be putting a handful of 456 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: things in at the Saturday night meeting before the game 457 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: that they didn't practice all week because he has that 458 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: level of faith in them, and I wonder if some 459 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: of that is going to be curtailed. And hey, rolling 460 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: in a one run what we repped during the week, 461 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I know that was a play we repped 462 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: like three weeks ago, and I'm confident you guys can 463 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: execute it. But you know what, We're just gonna leave 464 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: that where it is. We're gonna stick with what we 465 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: installed on Wednesday and Thursday because we repped it over 466 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: and over. Here's we feel good about playing it fast 467 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: and executing it quickly. Let's stick with that going forward. 468 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: It's hard, too, for an offensive coordinator because you get 469 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: a handle on what a defense is going to give you, 470 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: and you've got a play or a handful of plays 471 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: that are like perfect this here it comes, but it's 472 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: it's one of those plays that you haven't run for 473 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: a month, or you didn't practice, you didn't rep but 474 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna you want to pull out because it's perfect 475 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: against that defense, so that you anticipate they're gonna get 476 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: It's hard to let that go and say, well, I 477 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: got something's not quite as good, but I know we 478 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: can run it and it'll It'll take Josh an extra 479 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: half second to come back to his second read, but 480 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 1: it'll work. That kind of thing. So it's hard for 481 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator to trust his players enough so that 482 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: even if they're in a play that's not perfect, they 483 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: can execute it at a high level enough to make 484 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: it successful. Anyway, by not giving by a coordinator saying 485 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: keeping himself from formulating the perfect answer to the defense, 486 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: let his players answer it with their talent and their 487 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: execution on a play that's not as perfect because they've 488 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: repped it. That's a hard that's a hard thing to 489 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: do for a coach, and to let it go right 490 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: because hey, well it's the highest level you expect the 491 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: most of your guys. They should be able to do it. 492 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: But if they're not, you got to back it off 493 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: and give them something they can do right. And it's 494 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: not like you're just putting eleven guys out there and saying, hey, 495 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: I have faith in you that you can run it. 496 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: You're also going against eleven players on the other side 497 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: of the ball that could do any number of things 498 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: to disrupt whatever you think is going to work perfectly. 499 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: So those are the risks you take as an offensive 500 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: play caller, you know you have faith in your players, 501 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: and you should because if you coach them up the 502 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: right way, you trust them to execute the right way. 503 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: But at the same time, you got eleven other guys 504 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: over there that have been coached up in much the 505 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: same way that your guys, and that guy, it's got 506 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: just as much faith that they're going to be able 507 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: to foil whatever it is you have dialed up. Yeah, 508 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: you're not playing in a vacuum out there, that's for sure, right. 509 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: And it's interesting too because and there's so many layers. 510 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: This is why this game is so great. There's so 511 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: many layers because think about it. I mean, now, this week, 512 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's got a brand new safety and Richard Sherman, 513 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: what does that change about their defense? When you start 514 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: running plays that he's seen before, recognizes his because of 515 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: his experience playing a different position. You have no film 516 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: on him playing safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers none. 517 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: You have no idea what's going through his mind, how 518 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 1: good he's gonna be, what it's gonna get to him, 519 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: or what he's gonna be out ahead of mentally, because 520 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: there's some places where Richard Sherman's gonna say, I know 521 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: exactly what's coming, but he's playing a different position. How 522 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: do you know if he's gonna be able to adjust 523 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: right and he's he gonna be able to cont to 524 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: communicate that with his teammates. So there's a lot of 525 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: unknowns in a game like this. So even if you 526 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: think you've got to handle on and all of a sudden, 527 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: it's like, what about what about Richard Sherman? You know 528 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: that kind of play And I don't just saying specifically 529 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, but that kind of you know, that kind 530 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: of scenario where you got a guy that you're not 531 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: real sure what he's gonna do. Yeah, And I think 532 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: fans sometimes lose sight of that too because they're so 533 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: focused on their team their players, they're not executing, and 534 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: it's like, well, those other eleven guys had something to 535 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: do with it on the other side of the ball 536 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: as to why they didn't execute. Sometimes that comes into 537 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: play also, And I think because you're so focused on 538 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: your team and your players and what they're doing out 539 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: there on the field, sometimes you lose sight of what 540 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 1: that other teams doing to make life difficult for them. 541 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: But let's go to the phones here on an ob 542 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: L fan mail bag Friday, and we lead off today 543 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: with Earl in Wellsville. Earl, what do you have for us? 544 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: You're all ear Are you with us? Earls? Girls talking 545 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: to somebody else? Get some lunch. So something's going on 546 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: in Earl's world right there. We don't want any part 547 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: of it. I don't know. Somebody's not happy with the 548 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: ham sandwich he made for him. I don't know what's 549 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: going on. I don't know that. Well, yeah, okay, I 550 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: hope he's okay. I'm sure he's fine. Uh, he just 551 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: got a little distracted waiting on hold. I get it. 552 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: You know some of these guys, they wait on hold 553 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: for a long time. You can start doing other things. 554 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: You forget about us. Okay, that's fine. We'll get back 555 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,719 Speaker 1: to you when you're ready. So he'll check back in 556 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: with Earl at a little bit later on in the show. 557 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: One thing we're also going to address at some point here. 558 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: Spencer Brown addressed the media today. This is the first 559 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: time he did so since being out and on the 560 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: COVID reserve list, and I was happy to hear that 561 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: he really didn't suffer any symptoms of any major degree whatsoever. 562 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: So that was good. And he said the only concerning 563 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: d coming back was his wind but he said he 564 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: didn't even really experience a problem with that either. So 565 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: it sounds as though Spencer Brown was one of those 566 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: fortunate cases where he was virtually asymptomatic. Steve Right, Yeah, 567 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: and yeah, that's that's kind of the frustrating part for everybody, 568 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: I mean, even whether you're vaxed or unvaxed or whatever, 569 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: because of the virulent nature of it and that you can, 570 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: you know, people, you know, being contagious. It's frustrating to 571 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: sit at home not feel that bad. Yeah, I mean 572 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: that way it was that that was the weirdest part 573 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, if it was for me too. I 574 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: had it back in sept late September and the symptoms, yeah, 575 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: I mean for me, And I'm sure he felt you 576 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: were vaccinated though, Yes, it feels like you wouldn't even 577 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: call in sick, you know, if they did if right. Right, 578 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: So it's you don't even feel bad enough to take 579 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: a day off, and that's pretty frustrating. Plus all the 580 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: other the quarantining and the separation and then all the 581 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: other stuff that you do while you're while you're positive. 582 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: That's pretty frustrated. I think for him, he think about him. 583 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: He's got to be really frustrated after coming off the 584 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: back injury, getting ready to come back, and then all 585 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: of a sudden being out again. That's that's pretty frustrating 586 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: for a first year player. So yeah, well we'll talk 587 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: a little bit about more son of his comments, because 588 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: found his case pretty interesting. He was checking in with 589 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: Star knowing he was three or four days ahead of 590 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: him in terms of the diagnosis, so he was trying 591 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: to prepare himself for what he might be encountering. But 592 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: it seems like he was one of those largely asymptomatic cases, 593 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: fortunately for him. We do have to take a break 594 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: here because when we come back, we're getting a special 595 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 1: visit from one Kyle Brand. Steve Tasker spoke to him. 596 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: We'll have more on exactly why he has made a 597 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: return engagement this week after his weekly appearance on Tuesday. 598 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: We'll get to that when we return here on One 599 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: Bill's Live Present, Aybody Colli to help, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. 600 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live Keep task or please 601 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: to be joined by a good friend of the show 602 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: Who's you know usually with us on Tuesday's gonna make 603 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: a Friday appearance. We got a lot of stuff going on, 604 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: Kyle Brand, Kyle, what's going on? Man? How you doing? 605 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by Steve twice this week. The natural 606 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: progression to me finally coming in studio one of these years. 607 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: I wanted, Yeah, that's you're You're perfectly welcome. I'm you're 608 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: you have a standing invite to come to Buffalo and 609 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: take in a game. Come in, come in early. You know, 610 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: we'll we'll get you a tailgate spot. Well, you know, 611 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: we'll take your apoc to usuals. It'll be fun. Bring 612 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: the family too. It's a family atmosphere here in Buffalo. 613 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: You got you know, I never talked to you on Friday? 614 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: What And I guess you're take a weekend like the 615 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: rest of What are you gonna do this weekend? Anything 616 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: you got any you are you working at all? By 617 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: the way, I appreciate you asking and I am, in fact, 618 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: um I'm actually working on the NFL today on CBS 619 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: Who's gonna have me on part of their show? And 620 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: the CBS Proper on Sunday morning, And I wanted to 621 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,239 Speaker 1: come in Steve because I have the Bills on my 622 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: mind this week. I'll tell you why they come to me. 623 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: It's the CBS, this is this is the big dogs. 624 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: They come to me and they say, we'd love to 625 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: have you on. What do you want to cover? What 626 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,239 Speaker 1: are you what are you really strong on right now? 627 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: What are you passion about that? I want to talk 628 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: about the Bills? So really, well, you know there, their 629 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: stock is pretty low right now after that Patriots game 630 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: and they're going into Brady's house. I mean, We've got 631 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: a lot of games, a lot of teams. Just me, 632 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: Is you really want to talk about the Bills? I said, 633 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. It's time. It's tough love time. And I 634 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: have a message about everybody said this team was special, 635 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: and everybody said this team was different. Nobody said this 636 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: team was going to be have an easy time. Nobody 637 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: said this was going to be easy. And I've got 638 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: some things to say. They are seven and five, and 639 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: I think it's appropriate that that same organization they played 640 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: this week and the tenth Bay Buccaneers were seven and 641 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: five last year. They were easily beatable, they were weak, 642 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: They were embarrassed on national television by the Nick Foles 643 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: Bears and they got their bleep together and figured it out. 644 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: So I got some things to say on CBS on 645 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: Sunday to the Bills. And it's important to note, Steve, 646 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: you know a lot of Bills fans on Twitter where 647 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, mafia. I'm not saying that. This is 648 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: not to the fan base. The fan base has done 649 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: their job. The fans have been great. This is to 650 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: the team itself. It's time for them to do their jobs. 651 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: And I can feel it in my boy right now. 652 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: It's already going to be very, very passionate. It's tough 653 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: love time, my friend. No, it's interesting because you know, 654 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 1: and I get your problem you have on Good Morning 655 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: Football that you show that you do every year on 656 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: NFL Network with you know, Hey K and Pete and 657 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: all those guys, And it's the same thing I kind 658 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: of face when I'm my Ears with CBS, because you're 659 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,959 Speaker 1: you're responsible to cover and talk about the whole league. 660 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: And I'm like, you've done. You've You've gone gone on 661 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: a diet tribe, a Star Wars diet tribe for the 662 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: Patriots nation as they've surged here in the last month 663 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: and a half. So the NFL the Good Morning Football Show, 664 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: you guys really are I mean, you've got to touch 665 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: on all the bass, not like you can like you 666 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: do here with us. We kind of talk about the 667 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: Bills and we kind of tap into your passion for 668 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: the team we cover. But you're league wide and that's 669 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: kind of your job with CBS with Good Morning Football. Correct. Yeah, 670 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: and Steve, you get that you've done that before. Everyone 671 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: understands that. But it is an interesting insight though, to 672 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: the Bills fans and the Bill's mafia, because come out 673 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: and say, I'm going to have something to say to 674 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 1: the Bills on Sunday, and it's well, you were just 675 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: you were just hyping up the Patriots. You were in 676 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: the Patriots bandwagon. That's so weak, that's so weak. I 677 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 1: disagree with that, because you know what's weak. What's weak 678 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: is if I just blindly said every single week that 679 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: the Bills are great, no one's beating them, everything's fine, 680 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: nobody else is good. I could do that. That's just flimsy, transparent, 681 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: nonsense and completely disingenuous. To your point, my jobs to 682 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: talk about all thirty two teams. Of course, I'm gonna 683 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: hype the Patriots. They've been incredible. They deserve it. It 684 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: doesn't mean I think they're winning the Super Bowl this year. 685 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: The pictures have been great. I cover the Patriots, I 686 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: cover every single team. Call me whatever you want. If 687 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: you're calling me fair weather, believe me for right now. 688 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: For the Bills, the weather's awful. It's a monsoon and 689 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: a tsunami and it's haling and raining fire. And I'm 690 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: still gonna go on on Sunday and say I believe 691 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: in them. And I was just on Good Morning Football 692 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: picking them. I think they're gonna win this game this weekend. 693 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: Understand the difference there. Patriots deserve hype just like the 694 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 1: Packers do, just like the Cardinals do. The Bills don't. 695 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,359 Speaker 1: But I like them and I'm giving it to him anywhere. Yeah, 696 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: it is a tough spot to be and when you're 697 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,399 Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football and he talk about the league 698 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: at large. When I first started with CBS, and I'll 699 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 1: give you a quick a quick story here, Kyle, Gus 700 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: Johnson was my play by play And you know how 701 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: Gus Johnson is. I mean, he's mister. And Gus used 702 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: to get roasted by the by whatever team we were doing. 703 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: One of the two teams. Both teams would roast Gus 704 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,760 Speaker 1: because whoever was playing well, Gus was all about it, passion, 705 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,799 Speaker 1: on the feet, on the game, on the whatever game 706 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,959 Speaker 1: we were doing. He if a team made a great play, 707 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: Gus was all over it passionately. And then five minutes later, 708 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: when the other team makes a great play, he was 709 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 1: all over them as well. He was always a positive 710 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 1: because one of one thing or the other was always 711 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: positive for one of the teams and people. You used 712 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 1: to drive him crazy because he was switching sides of 713 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: the fence constantly, because that's the way it was. If 714 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: you want to stay positive, you got to talk about 715 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,480 Speaker 1: the positive, and your team may not be on the 716 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: positive end of the play. It's a tough line to walk, 717 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: but you just got to think at the bottom line, 718 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: you just gotta be you. And I'll be anxious to 719 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: hear what you have to say on the NFL on 720 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 1: TB and those are all my guys, man. I love 721 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,879 Speaker 1: all those guys on NFL today on CBS. So it'll 722 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: be a fun gig for you. I'm sure, what is 723 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: it you know they reach out to you and ask 724 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: you maybe you know, hey, we want to we'd like 725 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 1: to have you on what do you want to do? What? What? 726 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: How did that work? Same kind of deal. It's they're 727 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,919 Speaker 1: they're incredibly flexible and creative and welcoming. And they come 728 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,719 Speaker 1: to me and they say, just what do you want 729 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: you want to talk about? You know, the Browns this weekend? 730 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: You want to talk about the Cowboys and Washington. There's 731 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: really good games. And I'm not gonna say they tried 732 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: to talk me out of talking about the Bills, but 733 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: we had to make sure and double back to make 734 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: sure that that was exactly the right topic, because you know, 735 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 1: I go on CBS to say the Bills are this 736 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: and the Bills are that, and then the Bills lose 737 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: by thirty points. It comes off really strange. I don't care. 738 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: I'm doubling down. I believe in it could if I 739 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: wanted the front run right now. Believe me, it would 740 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: be all about everything that's going on with these Arizona 741 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: Cardinals are gonna rise up and oh my gosh, the 742 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: Bills are done with. You could come out and say 743 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: it's it's over. You guys are posers and pretend not 744 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 1: doing it. And I think they're gonna win the game. 745 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,760 Speaker 1: I think This game is gonna be Josh Allen unleashed. 746 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: I said it earlier in the week for you. I 747 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,439 Speaker 1: think they're gonna win on a game winning touchdown past 748 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: the Dawson Knox. I think Allen might throw at fifty 749 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: eight times this game running game, be damned. We don't 750 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 1: have the time or the luxury anymore to sit and 751 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: develop this thing. Let's unleash. Hell, let's have Brady make 752 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 1: a few mistakes right now. The longest active streak of 753 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: quarterbacks with consecutive games with an interception is Tom Brady 754 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: with five five games in a row. This guy's messed up. 755 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: I think he will again this week, and I think 756 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: it's gonna be all they need. I think they're gonna win. 757 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: And just remember all the people who are making all 758 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,959 Speaker 1: the memes and all the jokes about how many times 759 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: the Patriots ran and passed and the Bills are done, 760 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: and just remember them on Monday. Win And if the 761 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,919 Speaker 1: Bills go to Tampa and win, which I think they will. Yeah, 762 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 1: And this is one of the few games out an 763 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: outdoor game and an outdoor venue that looks like it's 764 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: not gonna be blowing rain snowing, and they've really been 765 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: a little bit, and I'm not gonna there's no excuse 766 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,600 Speaker 1: for the way they've played up and down this year, 767 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: but they haven't been able to really exploit the wait 768 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,759 Speaker 1: they're built, which is Josh dropping back and throwing to 769 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: all these guys on the outside and forcing the other 770 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: team to do something offensively to keep up. This may 771 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: be the first time to do it, but as you know, 772 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 1: this is a team that can't keep up with him offensively. 773 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the crew he's got down there with 774 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: Gronk and god One and in all these of my havins, 775 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 1: all these guys, I think this might be a really 776 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: really fun game to watch. I did to Steve and listen. 777 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: They were asked straight up, they were asked, are you embarrassed? 778 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: I'm asking what are you gonna do about it? This 779 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 1: is this is the nineties Steve Tasker type game. Here 780 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 1: a passing games shirt. Let's see some hitting, Let's see 781 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 1: some wrapping up. Let's see some bills who are pissed 782 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: off and against this quarterback of all of all players 783 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: who has wrecked the city of Buffalo for twenty years, 784 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: as we know, do it against him, because you know 785 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, well, this is the worst possible matchup 786 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: for Buffalo right now. No, screw that, this is the 787 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,520 Speaker 1: best matchup. You don't want to play the New York 788 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: Giants this week, or Seattle or some team that no 789 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,399 Speaker 1: one cares about right now, play somebody who's gonna send 790 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,160 Speaker 1: a message when you beat them and beat Brady at 791 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,279 Speaker 1: the same time. This is not a nightmare matchup. This 792 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 1: is the best one you could have. We're talking to 793 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,839 Speaker 1: Kyle Brand, good friend of the show from Good Morning 794 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,239 Speaker 1: Football for the NFL Network with Kyle this too. So 795 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: you cover the league, You're you've got a stake kind 796 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,240 Speaker 1: of connected to everything that's going on. What is a Sunday? 797 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I know you guys don't do the Good 798 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,920 Speaker 1: Morning Football thing over the over the weekend and this weekend. 799 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,240 Speaker 1: Now that you're you're gonna go out there and double 800 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: down on the bills. What's your Sunday gonna look like? 801 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,720 Speaker 1: Are you gonna watch it with you know, the wife 802 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: and kids? Are you gonna you know, you're gonna be 803 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,799 Speaker 1: with your feet up and your tube socks on, and 804 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,879 Speaker 1: you know, how are you what's your Sunday gonna look like? Well, 805 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,239 Speaker 1: you know what Steve, you'd relate to this. Um My son, 806 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: Calvin just turned eight and he is just now starting 807 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,240 Speaker 1: to come by the TV and say, oh, who's playing, 808 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: Oh who's winning? And like he starts to know the 809 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 1: teams and know the players. And he's got his first jersey, 810 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: he's got he's got a Prescott jersey, he's got at 811 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 1: Josh Allen jersey. He's starting to put him together. So 812 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: a lot of my Sundays now is answering questions. And unfortunately, 813 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 1: since he's still so cute and so young, a lot 814 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: of the questions, Steve are so if it's the Bengals 815 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,320 Speaker 1: versus the Lions, who would win in a fight between 816 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: a Bengal and a Lion. That's not only what our 817 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 1: football talking is on Sundays. And I'm fine with it. 818 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: Deep stuff, and it's important. Questions have to be answered 819 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 1: in your formative years as you and make sure you 820 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,239 Speaker 1: treasure listen, make sure you raise him right now. And 821 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,760 Speaker 1: if you give him a throw the Josh Allen jersey 822 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: on top of the deck, Prescott jersey when he's trying 823 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 1: to pick one out, that kind of stuff, we will 824 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,239 Speaker 1: throw the Josh Allen jersey on top. We will throw 825 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,880 Speaker 1: the blue cheese and not the ranch on the wings. 826 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,160 Speaker 1: We're trying to classically educate this lad and hopefully we 827 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,440 Speaker 1: can have a few classes in session this weekend. Watching 828 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Steve, I believe it. 829 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I cannot thank you enough and 830 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 1: the inimitable Jay Harris for having me on a second 831 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,759 Speaker 1: time this week. Check it out on Sunday on CBS. 832 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,440 Speaker 1: Meant every single word of it, and I'm gonna try 833 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: to bring the house down. Still believe in this team 834 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,839 Speaker 1: seven and five be damned, I still think they can 835 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,839 Speaker 1: do it. All awesome. It's great to hear from you. 836 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, Kyle. We'll talk to you on Tuesday. 837 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 1: Hopefully it'll be after you've proven to be a little 838 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,919 Speaker 1: bit like Nostra Dominson's and to foretold the future. Thanks 839 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,359 Speaker 1: for being on with us, man, You damn right, Steve. 840 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,240 Speaker 1: Always great to talk to a legend. See you, buddy. 841 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back with Buffalo Bills Radio Network 842 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: and this is presented by Kalidah Hell, Steve Tasker, Chris 843 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: Brown coming back at You're right after the break. All right, 844 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: welcome back, to one Bills Live. The Bills would like 845 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,640 Speaker 1: to thank this week's game spots or Gabe's Collision, the 846 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: official auto collision repair center of the Buffalo Bills. Steve. 847 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,720 Speaker 1: As you know, on this show, we aim to please, Okay, 848 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,239 Speaker 1: in many ways, we serve the fans. That's that's who 849 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 1: we are. We're the conduit. Okay. So I'm sitting here 850 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,440 Speaker 1: in Tampa, as you know, and I have a very 851 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: drab hotel wall painting behind me, which has apparently drawn 852 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,360 Speaker 1: the ire of a couple of fans on Twitter. We 853 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,960 Speaker 1: basically told me it's not cutting it. So I said, okay, 854 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 1: hold on, I said, I brought a Bill's flag with me, 855 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,399 Speaker 1: so I am behind enemy lines and I am now 856 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:34,120 Speaker 1: flying Bill's colors behind me. Is that better? I gotta say. 857 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm I gotta kudos to you, Brownie, from traveling with 858 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:44,600 Speaker 1: a Bill's flag because I don't. Yeah, well, you know, 859 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,000 Speaker 1: I should tip my hat to my wife on this. 860 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,960 Speaker 1: This was her idea. She said, hey, you know, when 861 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,720 Speaker 1: you're broadcasting on Friday, you might want a little Bill's 862 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,480 Speaker 1: colors in the background. I said, you know what, that's 863 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: a good idea. I'm gonna do that. And then in 864 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: my haste and scramble to get on the air today. 865 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,160 Speaker 1: I did not have the flag with me, but when 866 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,239 Speaker 1: you were talking to Kyle Brandt, I ran back up 867 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,279 Speaker 1: to my room. I grabbed the flag. I draped it 868 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,839 Speaker 1: over the Here. We are very nice. We're always doing 869 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: our part here. We're the conduit to the fan base. 870 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,840 Speaker 1: We're serving the fan base. So there it is not 871 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,440 Speaker 1: that are were accessible too. They can talk to us, 872 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,640 Speaker 1: that's right. So we have to get to as we 873 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,360 Speaker 1: usually do every Friday. Here in this portion of the show, 874 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,560 Speaker 1: Tailgate Friday presented by high Mark, Luecross, Blue Shield of 875 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: Western New York, the official health plan of the Buffalo 876 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,480 Speaker 1: Bills and Steve, I'm very interested to see what hits 877 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,040 Speaker 1: the menu missed me among our tailgaters, and we'd have 878 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: some new contributors, so I'm excited to see what they 879 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,319 Speaker 1: have in store for us. And Sandy leads us off 880 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: and says, watching from my couch, stressed out, too stressed 881 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,239 Speaker 1: out to eat? Is that healthy? This is the only 882 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,880 Speaker 1: thing she's going to be chewing on. It sounds like 883 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: her fingernails. Yeah. I can kind of relate to Sandy 884 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 1: because I go through that every once in a while 885 00:44:55,719 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: as well. This last the Monday night game, I had 886 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,960 Speaker 1: a hard time finding time to eat. But yeah, I 887 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 1: know a lot of people are like that. It's they 888 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,320 Speaker 1: just don't feel like eating, and then other people is 889 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,200 Speaker 1: just the opposite. Yeah, I mean you put, yeah, they 890 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,759 Speaker 1: eat because they are nerves exactly. I've been in I've 891 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,960 Speaker 1: been in that situation as well. But I'm kind of 892 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,799 Speaker 1: a non eater when I'm stressed out, so I can 893 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,200 Speaker 1: relate to that a great deal. So you know the 894 00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: comedian Kevin James from the King of Queen's Show, Sure, 895 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:35,239 Speaker 1: So he's got a great bit about watching football and 896 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,480 Speaker 1: completely forgetting what he's doing with his hands, and as 897 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 1: he is mowing down a bag of chips, he goes. 898 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,320 Speaker 1: We get to the commercial break and I catch myself 899 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,640 Speaker 1: in a moment of reality with my finger. I'm driving 900 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,319 Speaker 1: my finger into the bottom corner of the bag for 901 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 1: the last bits of chips left, and I say to myself, 902 00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,880 Speaker 1: what the hell happened in the last twenty minutes. Now, 903 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,360 Speaker 1: he's a Jets fan, so maybe that's why that happens 904 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 1: all too often for him. Well, I hope, I'm go ahead. 905 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: I was just gonna say as Surah. I'm hoping I'm 906 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: pronouncing the name correctly, um Assura says. Currently driving down 907 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay with my friends to watch the game. 908 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:23,840 Speaker 1: Got seats in the one forty section under the pirate ship. Yeah, 909 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,200 Speaker 1: you can hope to be next to the pirate ship. 910 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,960 Speaker 1: You can't really be under the pirate ship is up 911 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,319 Speaker 1: on the pavilion in the state stands come down away 912 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,440 Speaker 1: from it. Yeah, Hopefully he won't give seats. Hopefully he 913 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: won't get blasted by the cannon blast if the pat 914 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,160 Speaker 1: If the Bucks don't score that many touchdowns or any touchdowns, 915 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,160 Speaker 1: he won't have to listen to the pirate ship. That's 916 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: the only drawback. That's the only drawback is the cannon 917 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,880 Speaker 1: fire that that goes off. Yeah, Jack says um, I 918 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,080 Speaker 1: like to make something based on whom we're playing. I 919 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,840 Speaker 1: don't really know what Tampa is known for, so thinking 920 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,479 Speaker 1: a hardy seafood gumbo or stew with shrimp and crab meat. 921 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 1: May also do crawfish at toufe. Wow, that would have 922 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,640 Speaker 1: been great for New Orleans. Good stick to your ribs 923 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,640 Speaker 1: dish for a cold winter's day. A good mac and 924 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,880 Speaker 1: cheese is also in store. I think any kind of 925 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: seafood would work for Tampa. I think so too, Ye right, Yeah, 926 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,359 Speaker 1: I don't think, yeah, I don't think it's not like 927 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,640 Speaker 1: Miami with stone crabs or something like that. I think, 928 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,280 Speaker 1: you know, the crab meat and the the gumbo maybe 929 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:32,680 Speaker 1: like you said, maybe some yeah, some deep seafish something 930 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:38,239 Speaker 1: like that for atfe Is is really good. But I'm 931 00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,360 Speaker 1: very I'm I mean, I I go with a toufe 932 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,440 Speaker 1: more of New Orleans and gumbo's more New Orleans than 933 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,719 Speaker 1: That's what I was saying. Yeah, but although you are 934 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,800 Speaker 1: still on the Gulf here technically, so I guess you could. 935 00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,560 Speaker 1: I guess you could finagle that into your menu choice. 936 00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like a Cuban Cuban sandwich good, 937 00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,879 Speaker 1: like you know, Panini pressed Cuban sandwich. Oh my god. 938 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,919 Speaker 1: But anyway, the last thing he says, they're good mac 939 00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,600 Speaker 1: and cheese. That's that's a that's never a bad fit, 940 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000 Speaker 1: having a good especially when the weather turns. Yeah, stick 941 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,360 Speaker 1: to your ribs kind of food. John says Kubano and 942 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:21,160 Speaker 1: mimosa brunch in Tampa. Hashtag bills MOFFI wice that sounds delicious. Yeah, 943 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,000 Speaker 1: Jeremy says where else is there besides buffalo or what 944 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,520 Speaker 1: else is there besides buffalo wings? Homemade? Now, listen to this. 945 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,359 Speaker 1: A little olive oil, salt, and pepper baking powder, put 946 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,480 Speaker 1: on the smoker until crispy. Sauce includes buffalo sauce, red 947 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:44,600 Speaker 1: chili flakes, everything, bagel seasoning, and butter. Oh my gosh. 948 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: So there's like a pre bake that you put on 949 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: olive oil, salt, and pepper baking powder. Then you smoke 950 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,000 Speaker 1: it until it's crispy. Then you dunk it in a 951 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,360 Speaker 1: sauce that is buffalo sauce, red chili flakes, everything, bagel, seasoning, 952 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,080 Speaker 1: in butter. I don't even know how you taste the 953 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,680 Speaker 1: wing after all of that. Yeah, that's a there's a 954 00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,399 Speaker 1: lot going on there. Yeah, I enjoy Let's Go bills. 955 00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,719 Speaker 1: Josh has four tds. Yeah that interesting too. That and 956 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:17,200 Speaker 1: it's like those cooking shows, um where you listen to 957 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,920 Speaker 1: all cookie shows when they start listing all the ingredients 958 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,560 Speaker 1: and what they do that like to put on the 959 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,400 Speaker 1: smoke until crispy, and they start talking through this. On television, 960 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,200 Speaker 1: you can't taste it, you can't smell it because you're 961 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 1: watching it on TV. But man, oh man, when they 962 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,760 Speaker 1: start listing all those ingredients, this this this wing recipe, 963 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,480 Speaker 1: started to do it to me right now, It's like, Wow, 964 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,000 Speaker 1: that tastes like the most awesome dish I have ever 965 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,960 Speaker 1: even heard about. It's just telling you right sounds so 966 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm telling you when when COVID is over and we 967 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,840 Speaker 1: could be around people again and do a show the 968 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:53,239 Speaker 1: right way. We're taking this on location, like there's got 969 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: we got a benefit from this somehow, And I'm talking 970 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: about tasting and actually eating some of this stuff. That's 971 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 1: where I'm at on this. Yeah, so we got we 972 00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,439 Speaker 1: gotta talk to the producer, the pandemics over. We gotta 973 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:04,680 Speaker 1: get we gotta get on the horn with this. We 974 00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:06,680 Speaker 1: gotta get to work on this project. We got to 975 00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,239 Speaker 1: start the last on ourselves in this exactly the last 976 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,840 Speaker 1: one from Mike making the ninety mile trek down I 977 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,040 Speaker 1: four together with the Mafia planning on Brotz Chicken, drumsticks 978 00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,000 Speaker 1: and tasty libations. We'll have the TV set up for 979 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,480 Speaker 1: Casey Vegas and Washington football team Cowboys will be sweet 980 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,880 Speaker 1: to witness our bills bounce back with the momentous victory. 981 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,680 Speaker 1: Now that is the one edition Steve and I know 982 00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,160 Speaker 1: we're almost out of time here, but that is the 983 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,200 Speaker 1: one edition that we should note. It is a four 984 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,400 Speaker 1: twenty five game. So a lot of these tailgaters bring 985 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: the portable TV sets to watch the one o'clocks while 986 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,280 Speaker 1: they're desolutely absolutely it's a good move. It's a quality 987 00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:45,319 Speaker 1: move by the Yeah, it's a veteran move. Also coming 988 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,399 Speaker 1: down with the brons and the chicken drumsticks, good move. 989 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,920 Speaker 1: I'sord of like that stuff because while you can have 990 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,560 Speaker 1: bowls of soup, jilly chowder and stuff like that, I 991 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,719 Speaker 1: really like utensil free eating at tailgates. I think that's 992 00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:01,080 Speaker 1: a thing of mine. I don't mind thing to bring, right, 993 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,640 Speaker 1: it's it's the best thing I just don't like. I 994 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,640 Speaker 1: think tailgates are all about eating with your hands and 995 00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: not worrying about it. Very good. All right. That is 996 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: Tailgate Friday, presented by high Mark, Lucross Blue Shield of 997 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,960 Speaker 1: Western New York, the official health plan of the Buffalo Bills. 998 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,120 Speaker 1: We have to break here because when we come back, 999 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,480 Speaker 1: it is our weekly visit with Great co Seal, senior 1000 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,440 Speaker 1: producer of NFL Films and co host of ESPN's NFL 1001 00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,279 Speaker 1: Matchup show. We'll dive into the xs and o's with 1002 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,839 Speaker 1: him for Bill's Bucks on Sunday next here on Bunk 1003 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,200 Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health, it's Buffalo Bill's 1004 00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:55,080 Speaker 1: Grace Adam Steve Tasker, who has been all all over 1005 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:56,840 Speaker 1: the fields, kind of unique. He was kind of a 1006 00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:03,480 Speaker 1: dual role player for Glue, Steve a blimp. We're not 1007 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:11,719 Speaker 1: even in the strated here of normalcy here all right here, 1008 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,640 Speaker 1: we are our number two on a Friday, and we 1009 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,640 Speaker 1: know what that means. It means. We're joined by senior 1010 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,880 Speaker 1: producer from NFL Films, Greg co Sell, who's going to 1011 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,759 Speaker 1: dive into the x's and o's with us as we 1012 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,640 Speaker 1: get ready for Bill's Bucks, the featured matchup on CBS 1013 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,960 Speaker 1: in the four o'clock window on Sunday. Greg, how are 1014 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:32,640 Speaker 1: you doing, Chris, I'm doing great. Mister Tasker, how are you? 1015 00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,359 Speaker 1: I'm doing extremely well. Thanks for coming on with us again. 1016 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,240 Speaker 1: I trust you have some overarching thoughts about what happened 1017 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,720 Speaker 1: in the forty mile an hour win game last Monday 1018 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,760 Speaker 1: night and how it and how what kind of arrows 1019 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 1: it points towards what's going to happen in Tampa this weekend. 1020 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,600 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if they're overarching. Maybe it's pointless. 1021 00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:56,239 Speaker 1: But you know, I do have some thoughts. You know, 1022 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,040 Speaker 1: I grew up, you know, and I grew up and 1023 00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,719 Speaker 1: I lived with my wife and two daughters. So my 1024 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:06,839 Speaker 1: thoughts are usually not overarching. They're usually more pointless. So yeah, 1025 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,080 Speaker 1: I'm used to that. Your thoughts about that game on 1026 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,960 Speaker 1: Monday night. Yeah, I kept thinking watching the game and 1027 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,960 Speaker 1: this was live because I ended up watching the whole 1028 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,239 Speaker 1: game live because it went by so quickly. I mean, 1029 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,080 Speaker 1: normally I don't make it through the Monday night game, 1030 00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,560 Speaker 1: but it ended like accorded to eleven because it was 1031 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,560 Speaker 1: so fast. Um, I kept thinking to myself, what was 1032 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,440 Speaker 1: Plan B for Bill Belichick? Because you know, he does 1033 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,800 Speaker 1: not go into a game with one approach. I firmly believe, 1034 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,600 Speaker 1: and I love you your point of view on this. 1035 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,680 Speaker 1: I think that would have been his game plan even 1036 00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,280 Speaker 1: if the weather was sixty and sunny. I think he believed. 1037 00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,680 Speaker 1: This is again my opinion just based on and hey, 1038 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm not in Bill Belichick's head, but I've spoken to 1039 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,399 Speaker 1: a couple of former coaches who are friends of mine. 1040 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,920 Speaker 1: I think he believed that the Bills could not score 1041 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,840 Speaker 1: on his defense meaningfully, because the Bills, as we've discussed, 1042 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,759 Speaker 1: and you know, I can only tell you what the 1043 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,600 Speaker 1: tape shows, and you guys are well aware of this. 1044 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,239 Speaker 1: I think he believed with the Bill's inability to run 1045 00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,319 Speaker 1: the ball, and they try, they came out with six oldlignement, 1046 00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,160 Speaker 1: you know, two tight ends. They tried to run the ball, 1047 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,360 Speaker 1: but they can't and with their old line issues in 1048 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,960 Speaker 1: past protection, I think he believed that the Bills could 1049 00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,680 Speaker 1: not score and that he would play. He would have 1050 00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,239 Speaker 1: played that way regardless of the weather, and he was 1051 00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,840 Speaker 1: helped by the weather. You could argue too with that approach. 1052 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,080 Speaker 1: The question I have for you, though, Greg, is they're 1053 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,719 Speaker 1: twelve games in. By this point in the season, you 1054 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,920 Speaker 1: are what you are identity wise on offense, defense, special teams. 1055 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,680 Speaker 1: You mentioned it, they're having trouble running the football, but 1056 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,759 Speaker 1: there are also times where protection is not holding up 1057 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,560 Speaker 1: for Josh two make plays. So a lot of Bills 1058 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,279 Speaker 1: fans are saying, wow, I just do more of what 1059 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,960 Speaker 1: you did last year. Throw the ball, throw the ball 1060 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: all over the yard and do that and forget about 1061 00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,000 Speaker 1: running the football, because at times last year the run 1062 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:10,480 Speaker 1: game seemed like an afterthought. So there's a danger there though, 1063 00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,600 Speaker 1: in being so one dimensional that you allow teams to 1064 00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,319 Speaker 1: just tee off on Josh and the pass protection, which 1065 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,799 Speaker 1: isn't sound all the time, so you can't just say, 1066 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:22,880 Speaker 1: let's just throw it all over the yard. How do 1067 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,600 Speaker 1: you find a balance there in maybe leaning more heavily 1068 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,080 Speaker 1: on the passing games strength without making it so obvious 1069 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,200 Speaker 1: that opponents just say we're pinning our ears back and 1070 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,080 Speaker 1: we're coming. Well, you know, i'd answer that Chris by 1071 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,640 Speaker 1: saying this. I think they've tried to do that, and 1072 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,399 Speaker 1: that's one reason I think the passing game in many 1073 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:45,680 Speaker 1: respects has been a much more of a sustaining approach. 1074 00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,839 Speaker 1: We've not seen the bigger plays in the pass game 1075 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,120 Speaker 1: this year that we saw a year ago. Now. I 1076 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,440 Speaker 1: think some defenses are playing them differently as well, with 1077 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,280 Speaker 1: more to shell. But I think they've tried to develop 1078 00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,000 Speaker 1: a more quick, rhythm pass game where the ball comes out. 1079 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:04,920 Speaker 1: The problem with that is it's not a problem necessarily, 1080 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,080 Speaker 1: but teams then recognize that and they sometimes sit on it. 1081 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,719 Speaker 1: And at some point you can't let teams sit on 1082 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,200 Speaker 1: your passing game. Steve, you know that's very well, and 1083 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,319 Speaker 1: then you have to try to create through your route 1084 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,000 Speaker 1: concepts and combinations away to get the ball down the field. 1085 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,319 Speaker 1: And that's where the issue of the old line comes 1086 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 1: into play. So it's at times it's been kind of 1087 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,799 Speaker 1: a catch twenty two And just to show you how 1088 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,399 Speaker 1: games and seasons can hinge on one play or two 1089 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,799 Speaker 1: plays or three plays. To think about the different conversation 1090 00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,399 Speaker 1: we might be having right now if Stefan Diggs caught 1091 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,239 Speaker 1: that ball on Monday night, or if Bass did not 1092 00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,840 Speaker 1: miss that field goal by two inches, and then they 1093 00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,360 Speaker 1: could kick a field goal at the end of the 1094 00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,160 Speaker 1: game to win it, you know, And again, I know 1095 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,239 Speaker 1: you can play the what if game all you want, 1096 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,759 Speaker 1: and teams that are Bills are not a losing team, 1097 00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,959 Speaker 1: but losing teams tend to play the what if game. 1098 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,640 Speaker 1: But you know, I think that when you look overview wise, 1099 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,160 Speaker 1: that's the issue with their offense. So here's what happens. 1100 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:12,400 Speaker 1: Every play becomes a referendum on Josh Allen because they 1101 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,400 Speaker 1: can't run it. Their past protection is spotty, which is 1102 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,800 Speaker 1: a great term that you use, Chris, and that's correct, 1103 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,080 Speaker 1: and therefore Josh has to be great every play and 1104 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,120 Speaker 1: that's unrealistic. Yeah, it seems as though that's the conversation 1105 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,840 Speaker 1: you see at point, and you see everything on social media, 1106 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,080 Speaker 1: and the fan base comes from every angle possible, of course, 1107 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,160 Speaker 1: of course, but you do get a sense that there 1108 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:38,840 Speaker 1: is an either an innate desire by Josh at points 1109 00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,240 Speaker 1: or even when you get look at even as a 1110 00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:45,160 Speaker 1: total package, that there really are times stretches in games 1111 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,640 Speaker 1: where that everybody just expects Josh to heft everything onto 1112 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:52,240 Speaker 1: his shoulders and just carry the entire show. You get 1113 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,880 Speaker 1: that both from his actions and his play and also 1114 00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:56,800 Speaker 1: some of the decisions he makes and also some of 1115 00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,600 Speaker 1: the play calling as well, that if Jo can't do it, 1116 00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,520 Speaker 1: it's not gonna get done right. And that's a great point. 1117 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,960 Speaker 1: And you know what, that's really hard, Steve. You know 1118 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,280 Speaker 1: how hard that is for a quarterback. I mean, there's 1119 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,760 Speaker 1: very few quarterbacks probably in the history of the game 1120 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,200 Speaker 1: who you could say could do that week after a 1121 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,880 Speaker 1: week after a week after a week. That's just a 1122 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,760 Speaker 1: really difficult way to play. And you know, I think 1123 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,560 Speaker 1: that Josh, and I think you know, you guys know 1124 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,040 Speaker 1: him on record, is believing that he is, in terms 1125 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,240 Speaker 1: of physical gifts, the most physically gifted in the league, 1126 00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:33,120 Speaker 1: but he does have an aggressive mentality, and the issue 1127 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,280 Speaker 1: you do run into with that is he can become 1128 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,880 Speaker 1: reckless at times if you're always asking him to have 1129 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,400 Speaker 1: to be the one to make plays, and because he 1130 00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,320 Speaker 1: just has the same mentality that allows him to be 1131 00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,320 Speaker 1: the good Josh Allen at times will lead to some 1132 00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,560 Speaker 1: reckless and undisciplined plays and you try to channel that, 1133 00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,640 Speaker 1: but if there's nothing else to your offense, it becomes 1134 00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,000 Speaker 1: hard to channel that because you have to ask him 1135 00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,800 Speaker 1: to do it all. Yeah, well one of the things, right, 1136 00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,200 Speaker 1: so go ahead. Well I was going to say that 1137 00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,720 Speaker 1: with John and we've heard this too. Down in the 1138 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:05,400 Speaker 1: red zone they had first and goal on the six 1139 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,680 Speaker 1: and there's people clamoring, like, one of the things that 1140 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,360 Speaker 1: they're not doing in the red zone this year as 1141 00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,120 Speaker 1: much as they did a year ago or two certainly 1142 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,400 Speaker 1: two years ago, is running him. And I have no 1143 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,360 Speaker 1: problem with that, I get it. But here's the thing. 1144 00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:21,120 Speaker 1: If you want to do that, Josh Allen is quickly 1145 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:26,120 Speaker 1: going to become Cam Newton. And that means also that 1146 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,360 Speaker 1: he's going to be out of the league at the 1147 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:32,720 Speaker 1: end of this contract, right, So that's not something you 1148 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:37,080 Speaker 1: want to have your quarterback do too much. Certainly, occasionally 1149 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:39,640 Speaker 1: it helps to keep the defense honest and that kind 1150 00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,400 Speaker 1: of thing. But if you're gonna rely on your quarterback 1151 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,479 Speaker 1: to be your short yardage goal line back, you're gonna 1152 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,800 Speaker 1: pay a price eventually. I couldn't agree more. No matter 1153 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,920 Speaker 1: how big your quarterback is. You know, there are select 1154 00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,600 Speaker 1: situations and maybe that's what people are responding to. And 1155 00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,040 Speaker 1: as you said, Steve, that's fair. You understand that just 1156 00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,000 Speaker 1: like I do, and I'm sure Chris you do as well. 1157 00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:03,680 Speaker 1: But you can't and build your running game around Josh Allen. Yeah. Right, 1158 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:08,120 Speaker 1: So let's let's look at this game Sunday. Specifically, the Bucks, 1159 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,920 Speaker 1: as we know, have had an injury riddled secondary. I 1160 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:12,960 Speaker 1: got a lot of thoughts on this one too, Chris. Yeah, 1161 01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,560 Speaker 1: their corners, I'm sure you do. The corners. The corners 1162 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:20,560 Speaker 1: are getting healthier, the safeties are not. Jordan Whitehead is 1163 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:23,880 Speaker 1: out for this game. Bruce Arian said that after practice today. 1164 01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:28,840 Speaker 1: So they basically have Antoine Winfield Junior and a couple 1165 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:34,200 Speaker 1: of filling guys like Edwards right and Ross Cockerell has 1166 01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,080 Speaker 1: filled into There was the notion floated that maybe even 1167 01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,600 Speaker 1: Richard Sherman could see some time at safety on Sunday. 1168 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:45,560 Speaker 1: Do you see advantages for the Bills passing game because 1169 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,400 Speaker 1: of the thin nature of those safety positions, or is 1170 01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,520 Speaker 1: their front force so good that you think they'll be 1171 01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,160 Speaker 1: able to cover up those deficients. Well, let's let's be 1172 01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,560 Speaker 1: realistic here. That's all I can do. You know, that's 1173 01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,360 Speaker 1: why you guys bring me on. You know, based on 1174 01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,560 Speaker 1: my CAPE study and what I think put happen. It 1175 01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,680 Speaker 1: all obviously has to start with protection. But I think 1176 01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,440 Speaker 1: what you could see is because there's no other way 1177 01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,240 Speaker 1: they can win other than Josh being the really good Josh. Okay, 1178 01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,760 Speaker 1: there's no other way they can win on offense. So 1179 01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,800 Speaker 1: I think you might see ten personnel four wide for 1180 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,960 Speaker 1: this reason. Two reasons. Number one, you know what you're 1181 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,000 Speaker 1: going to get coverage wise, this is a team that 1182 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,480 Speaker 1: does not play a lot of man coverage, their heavy 1183 01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,160 Speaker 1: zone coverage, so you know what you're going to get 1184 01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,880 Speaker 1: on the back end. Number two, they do not play dime. 1185 01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,920 Speaker 1: They do not play with six defensive backs. They've played 1186 01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,880 Speaker 1: only eleven snaps all season with six defensive backs. So 1187 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,640 Speaker 1: unless Todd balls and you never know this but unless 1188 01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:49,040 Speaker 1: Todd Balls changes, I would love to see how the Bucks, 1189 01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,640 Speaker 1: and maybe Brian Dave and John McDermot would like to 1190 01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,920 Speaker 1: see it as well, how the Bucks will react to 1191 01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,240 Speaker 1: ten personnel. Because if you can pretty much say, hey, 1192 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,400 Speaker 1: where we know we're gonna get zone, we're going to 1193 01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,680 Speaker 1: get specific zone concepts, then you know you can attack 1194 01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:07,240 Speaker 1: them with specific route concepts. So it would not surprise 1195 01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:11,040 Speaker 1: me to see ten personnel four wide. Of course, protection 1196 01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,800 Speaker 1: is always the issue every week, so that's just a given. 1197 01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:16,840 Speaker 1: And then just to follow up on that real quick, Steve, 1198 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,040 Speaker 1: let me let me just follow up real quick here. 1199 01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:21,959 Speaker 1: A lot of people have been pining for more time 1200 01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,480 Speaker 1: on the field for Gabriel Davis. Yeah, we've argued that 1201 01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:29,120 Speaker 1: he's the best blocking receiver on the roster, number one 1202 01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,200 Speaker 1: and then number two. Every time he's on the field, 1203 01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:36,040 Speaker 1: good things seem to happen. What does your film study 1204 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,920 Speaker 1: tell you about Gabriel Davis. I like Gabriel Davis. I 1205 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,000 Speaker 1: really liked him coming out of college. He was a 1206 01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,919 Speaker 1: really interesting evaluation because he literally lined up on every 1207 01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,800 Speaker 1: single snap about two yards from the sideline. But I 1208 01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,880 Speaker 1: think he's long, I think he's athletic. I think he 1209 01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:52,160 Speaker 1: moves well. I think he can make tough catches. We 1210 01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,000 Speaker 1: saw him as a rookie a year ago. He was 1211 01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,480 Speaker 1: I thought he had, you know, a really bright future. 1212 01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,000 Speaker 1: So again, I'm not there every day, so I can't 1213 01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:02,440 Speaker 1: speak to the what goes on in the building. But uh, 1214 01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,680 Speaker 1: you know, I think that he's he's a really solid player. Now, 1215 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,720 Speaker 1: you know, I think that he needs to get snaps 1216 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,080 Speaker 1: this week, so we'll see. I mean, look, you look 1217 01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:13,320 Speaker 1: at the receiving corps and it's a good receiving corps. 1218 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,360 Speaker 1: Uh you know, And I think, to me, they only 1219 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,000 Speaker 1: have really one way they can win on offense. And 1220 01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,080 Speaker 1: by the way, that's never a good thing either. So 1221 01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,880 Speaker 1: it's but that's the reality of life right now. For 1222 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,680 Speaker 1: the Bill's offense. Yeah, and it's it's throwing the football, 1223 01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,560 Speaker 1: am I right? Is that what you're getting at. Yeah, 1224 01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,840 Speaker 1: he's throwing the football. It's not it's not just Josh. 1225 01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it's Josh throwing the football to spread it out. 1226 01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:38,440 Speaker 1: And if they go ten personnel, like we're suggesting they might, 1227 01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,400 Speaker 1: then it does call into question their ability to protect 1228 01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,320 Speaker 1: the The front four for Tampa Bay is very good, 1229 01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,040 Speaker 1: is very good. Give us really on the inside. Yeah, 1230 01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,640 Speaker 1: give us your run down. Yeah, now that you get 1231 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:54,400 Speaker 1: into those inside matchups with dealing with Sue and Veya 1232 01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,320 Speaker 1: and Veya is I mean, he's got feet like a 1233 01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,280 Speaker 1: running back. He is a phenomenal athlete for a man 1234 01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,720 Speaker 1: that size. He looks like a ballet dancer at times. 1235 01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,680 Speaker 1: So no, look, I'm not suggesting what I suggested. I'm 1236 01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:08,800 Speaker 1: not saying that that means they're gonna win thirty to 1237 01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,120 Speaker 1: twenty four. I'm just saying I don't know if they 1238 01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:14,360 Speaker 1: have another real option. I think it's a valid option, 1239 01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:17,480 Speaker 1: but protection becomes the issue. And that's why I think 1240 01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,360 Speaker 1: you've seen them this year in every game do a 1241 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,160 Speaker 1: lot of quick game stuff because they just I don't 1242 01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,439 Speaker 1: think I think they know. Look, you guys know, Steve, 1243 01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,040 Speaker 1: you've been around a long time doing this. You know, 1244 01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:30,120 Speaker 1: playing for a team. Every coach knows the weakness and 1245 01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:34,440 Speaker 1: limitations of specific players and specific units. That's just the 1246 01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,520 Speaker 1: way it is. So when you go into a game, 1247 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,360 Speaker 1: you know you have an understanding of hey, here's how 1248 01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,840 Speaker 1: I think we can win. But I also know that 1249 01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,280 Speaker 1: there will be some issues and we hope we can 1250 01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:47,400 Speaker 1: get through those issues. And you know, we can do 1251 01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,400 Speaker 1: enough of the good things that we can win. We 1252 01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,160 Speaker 1: know they're not going to run the ball because you 1253 01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:52,880 Speaker 1: know what, nobody runs the ball on the Bucks and 1254 01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,040 Speaker 1: the Bills are not going to them. And then let's 1255 01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,960 Speaker 1: flip it around here, Greg, because Leonard Fournette has suddenly 1256 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,600 Speaker 1: become a dual threat back. Yeah, we were. We were 1257 01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,720 Speaker 1: talking to Dave Moore, a former Bills tight end but 1258 01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,720 Speaker 1: predominantly a Tampa Bay Buck tight end, remember who's on 1259 01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,920 Speaker 1: the radio network now, And he was saying that every 1260 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:14,920 Speaker 1: he was a late arrival last year, as you know, 1261 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,800 Speaker 1: and he said every day after practice he would have 1262 01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,480 Speaker 1: a fifteen to twenty minute throwing session with Tom Brady 1263 01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,000 Speaker 1: every single day. And he continued that again this year 1264 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,000 Speaker 1: and lo and behold, this guy is now a dual 1265 01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,640 Speaker 1: threat back and he is a load. I mean, this 1266 01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:35,000 Speaker 1: is a big man. How do you see the Bills 1267 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:39,080 Speaker 1: defending a guy like that? Knowing the physical backs earlier 1268 01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,440 Speaker 1: in the season have had some measure of success against 1269 01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,760 Speaker 1: the Bills, and not to mention the fact they've got 1270 01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,600 Speaker 1: a pretty big offensive line. They've got some big bodies 1271 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:51,640 Speaker 1: up there and a pretty good wide receiving course. Well, yes, 1272 01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,000 Speaker 1: I was going to get to that. But yeah, you know, 1273 01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,360 Speaker 1: and I'll answer that this way. I think much of 1274 01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,400 Speaker 1: what Fornett does is a function of Brady because one 1275 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,640 Speaker 1: of the things Brady has done his entire career, it's 1276 01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,640 Speaker 1: actually the reason he became the starter in two thousand 1277 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,640 Speaker 1: and one over Bloedsow, is because if you give Brady 1278 01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,720 Speaker 1: the six yard checkdown, Brady takes the six yard checkdown. 1279 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,440 Speaker 1: He doesn't sit in the pocket and wait for something 1280 01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,960 Speaker 1: to develop down the field. So four NET catches a 1281 01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:26,920 Speaker 1: ton of quick checkdowns where Brady has eliminated something down 1282 01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:30,040 Speaker 1: the field right away. He's not waiting to see, oh, 1283 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,920 Speaker 1: maybe Evans is going to get there. He doesn't wait 1284 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,520 Speaker 1: for that. He'll throw it to four NET right away, 1285 01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,320 Speaker 1: and if it's six yards, he'll take second and four 1286 01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,320 Speaker 1: every snap. And if you do the same thing the 1287 01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,960 Speaker 1: next snap, he'll get the first down and move on. 1288 01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:46,240 Speaker 1: So four net becomes a big player in their pass game, 1289 01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,400 Speaker 1: not on intermediate or vertical routes. Every once in a 1290 01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,800 Speaker 1: while he might run a wheel or but I mean, 1291 01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,960 Speaker 1: for the most part, he catches short balls where he's 1292 01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,000 Speaker 1: got a little space, and sometimes the six yarder becomes 1293 01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,120 Speaker 1: a twelve yarder and you know, all of a sudden 1294 01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,520 Speaker 1: they move down the field because Brady is a master 1295 01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:07,160 Speaker 1: at that, and Brady is also a master at not 1296 01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,320 Speaker 1: getting hit. He has had the most dropbacks, I believe, 1297 01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,560 Speaker 1: in the NFL this year and has been hit the 1298 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:17,040 Speaker 1: fewest times because number one, he wins before the snap, 1299 01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,360 Speaker 1: so he knows where to go with the ball. And 1300 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,320 Speaker 1: number two, if he really feels like there's nothing on 1301 01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,720 Speaker 1: that play, he will not take a negative play and 1302 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:29,000 Speaker 1: he will live to play the next play. And with 1303 01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,320 Speaker 1: this game on the horizon Bills fans, what gives them 1304 01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:35,200 Speaker 1: the most angst is the fact that they're afraid that 1305 01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,160 Speaker 1: Tom Brady won't throw it twenty times. He'll throw it 1306 01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,680 Speaker 1: four times, or he'll throw it four times and hand 1307 01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:44,000 Speaker 1: it off to four net can does the Bucks running 1308 01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,280 Speaker 1: game get? Given the problems and the reputation of the 1309 01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:51,240 Speaker 1: Bills defense, what chances? What chance is there that the 1310 01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,160 Speaker 1: Bucks just handed off all day? Let's look at it 1311 01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,400 Speaker 1: this way. If you're Bruce Arians and your personal bent 1312 01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,680 Speaker 1: is to throw the ball, and you look at the 1313 01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,680 Speaker 1: Bill d you probably see a couple of things. You 1314 01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,000 Speaker 1: see they don't have a great pass rush. Okay, that's 1315 01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:07,760 Speaker 1: that's what the film shows. You see that they have 1316 01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:11,640 Speaker 1: a backup at corner opposite Levi Wallace. That's what the 1317 01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,240 Speaker 1: film shows. That's who's playing. So you could also look 1318 01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,760 Speaker 1: at this game from the perspective of Bruce Arians and think, 1319 01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,240 Speaker 1: you know what, we're gonna drop back forty five times? 1320 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,879 Speaker 1: I mean, are they going to cover Evans and Godwin? 1321 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,639 Speaker 1: Um Breshad Perriman actually was their number three receiver, which 1322 01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:29,799 Speaker 1: is really interesting, and he played a ton of snaps, 1323 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:32,000 Speaker 1: but he's a big man who can still run a 1324 01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,960 Speaker 1: little bit. So if you look at this defense, I mean, 1325 01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,160 Speaker 1: look what they did against Atlanta last week. You know, 1326 01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,479 Speaker 1: they obviously felt they could line up a team that 1327 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,920 Speaker 1: can't rush the quarterback and a team that you know 1328 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:47,120 Speaker 1: is not great in pass coverage, and they, by choice 1329 01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,519 Speaker 1: had him drop back fifty times. That was by choice, 1330 01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,680 Speaker 1: you know, that's not because they had to. So are 1331 01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:54,719 Speaker 1: they going to drop back fifty times against the Bills? 1332 01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,240 Speaker 1: None of us know that. But you could look at 1333 01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:59,040 Speaker 1: the Bills d and they could think, you know what, 1334 01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,760 Speaker 1: we can drop back forty times, no problem. Yeah. And 1335 01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,440 Speaker 1: speaking of that, you know, I looked back at Brady's 1336 01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,880 Speaker 1: record in the McDermott era against the Bills. Granted it 1337 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,040 Speaker 1: was with the Patriots, and the Bills have done a 1338 01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:17,080 Speaker 1: good job of holding him below what his typical per 1339 01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,679 Speaker 1: game totals are or percentages are. I mean, he even 1340 01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,920 Speaker 1: only in six games in a Patriots uniform in the 1341 01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:28,440 Speaker 1: McDermott era, four touchdowns, five picks, So they've been opportunistic 1342 01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:32,439 Speaker 1: against Brady. But I think the difference here is he's 1343 01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,880 Speaker 1: got wall to wall weapons to the roots, which he 1344 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:39,040 Speaker 1: never really had to that degree in New England. Yeah, 1345 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,640 Speaker 1: I mean he's got he's got receivers who can win 1346 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: one all one. I mean, he's got Evans, who's obviously terrific. 1347 01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:47,800 Speaker 1: Godwin now that Perriman is playing, has gotten back to 1348 01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:51,680 Speaker 1: the slot. So so the question becomes, you know, the 1349 01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:56,080 Speaker 1: Bills will likely I would think, play more zone than man. 1350 01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:58,400 Speaker 1: I just don't think they can match up real well 1351 01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:01,200 Speaker 1: on the perimeter. And one thing about Brady, he does 1352 01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,479 Speaker 1: throw to the one on ones. So if he sees 1353 01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,639 Speaker 1: Evans one on one with either Levi Wallace or Dan Jackson, 1354 01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:10,200 Speaker 1: I assume it'll be correct. Guys. Yeah, Yeah, he's gonna throw. 1355 01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:12,000 Speaker 1: He's gonna throw the Smalls and we haven't even talked 1356 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,800 Speaker 1: about Gronkowski, who in the last couple of weeks has 1357 01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,400 Speaker 1: really become a big factor in their past game now 1358 01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:20,400 Speaker 1: that he's gotten healthy. What do you think. I know, 1359 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,240 Speaker 1: you're not into prognostication or anything like that. These teams 1360 01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:28,360 Speaker 1: play their best into their strengths. What's this game look like? Well, 1361 01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,920 Speaker 1: I think that Josh would have to have a sensational game. 1362 01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:32,760 Speaker 1: I really do it. Again, I'm not saying they're gonna 1363 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:34,439 Speaker 1: get blown at or anything like that. I don't talk 1364 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,640 Speaker 1: like that, you know. I mean, and I think that 1365 01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,000 Speaker 1: I know Sean McDermott and Leslie and I guarantee this 1366 01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:42,200 Speaker 1: was not a fun week in bills Land. And I 1367 01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:45,000 Speaker 1: really don't think they're gonna come out and play badly. 1368 01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:46,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what that means as far 1369 01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,240 Speaker 1: as a score. It's not like the Bills are a 1370 01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:52,479 Speaker 1: bad team. But you know, I think that Josh will 1371 01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,520 Speaker 1: have to play great and is he capable of it? Absolutely? 1372 01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:58,760 Speaker 1: And you know what kind of person he is better 1373 01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,280 Speaker 1: than I do. You're around him, you know, But uh, 1374 01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:06,040 Speaker 1: you know, I think that I think that they're going 1375 01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,639 Speaker 1: to have to in some ways slow down this pass 1376 01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:11,560 Speaker 1: game for the for the Bucks. If they can't do that, 1377 01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:16,439 Speaker 1: it's going to be a tough deal, right Greg. As always, 1378 01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:19,360 Speaker 1: we thank you for the input sir. We'll cross our 1379 01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,680 Speaker 1: fingers and toes that the Bills can get back on 1380 01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:23,880 Speaker 1: the winning track this week. They have traded wins for 1381 01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:26,920 Speaker 1: losses each of the last three weeks, so they're doin. 1382 01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,439 Speaker 1: We need a Bill's win here, Chris, come on, you're 1383 01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,439 Speaker 1: in there, Come on, get them, get them from Maybe 1384 01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,240 Speaker 1: they'll bring you in for the pregame speech. Oh, I 1385 01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:37,320 Speaker 1: don't know if that's a wise I'm sure they've got 1386 01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:40,080 Speaker 1: a better option than that. But thank thanks for thinking 1387 01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,840 Speaker 1: so highly. We'll catch up with your next week. Greg, 1388 01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,880 Speaker 1: Thanks very much. All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks all right. 1389 01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:50,320 Speaker 1: That's a senior producer from NFL Films, Great Cotil joining 1390 01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,479 Speaker 1: us here on One Bills Live. We will step aside, 1391 01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:54,200 Speaker 1: I think a break, but get more of your thoughts 1392 01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,840 Speaker 1: from the obl fan Friday and mail bag. Next on 1393 01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,000 Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Does anybody allow to help? It's buff 1394 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:15,040 Speaker 1: a little Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One 1395 01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,799 Speaker 1: Bill Vibe the Ground Sea cast to review the Friday 1396 01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,200 Speaker 1: injury report is out with the final status and as 1397 01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:25,400 Speaker 1: coach McDermott outlined earlier today, Star Latula and Tommy Sweeney 1398 01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:30,480 Speaker 1: are both out for this game with toe and hip injuries, respectively. 1399 01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:35,719 Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam and fa Obada questionable for the game. So, Steve, 1400 01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,000 Speaker 1: I think it's pretty safe to assume that there are 1401 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,320 Speaker 1: going to be some practice squad call ups for the 1402 01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:44,519 Speaker 1: defensive interior as well as the tight end position, in 1403 01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:48,080 Speaker 1: light of the numbers they have at those two respective positions. Yeah, absolutely, 1404 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,280 Speaker 1: they just gonna need, you know, that kind of those 1405 01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,680 Speaker 1: kind of bodies just to keep up the rotation the 1406 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,560 Speaker 1: Bill's coaching staff likes to do. Fa Obada seems to 1407 01:12:55,640 --> 01:13:00,640 Speaker 1: be he practiced full Friday, which is obviously today, So 1408 01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,160 Speaker 1: we'll see if Faobata is back to being one hundred 1409 01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:06,840 Speaker 1: percent healthy, he'll be back in the mix probably. M Yeah, 1410 01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:09,640 Speaker 1: Gilliam was full also, Yeah, Gilliam could be back on 1411 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:11,800 Speaker 1: the field as well. So yeah, they're you're getting, they're getting. 1412 01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:13,599 Speaker 1: It's like always they get a couple of guys back, 1413 01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:16,280 Speaker 1: but they got a key guy and star out. Um. 1414 01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:20,439 Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how what the designation is 1415 01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:25,559 Speaker 1: for Feliciano it left guard, whether he can go or not. Um, Yeah, 1416 01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:28,760 Speaker 1: still on IR as I now still on IR So yeah, 1417 01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:30,600 Speaker 1: that's a that's a big question mark I think for 1418 01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:34,639 Speaker 1: the Bills. So I, um, yes, Star is the injury 1419 01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:36,320 Speaker 1: that you got to take note of. And and that's 1420 01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,400 Speaker 1: a domino effect, as you said, because there's gonna be 1421 01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,479 Speaker 1: some guys on the D line, they're gonna be moved around. Yeah, 1422 01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:47,519 Speaker 1: they've called up Elian Kou and m Brandon Bryant in 1423 01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:49,760 Speaker 1: past weeks when they have not had Star when he 1424 01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,760 Speaker 1: was out on the COVID reserve list. So we'll see 1425 01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:57,000 Speaker 1: if they take the same approach this week against the Bucks. 1426 01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:00,240 Speaker 1: Time to get to the OBIL Fan Friday mail Bag 1427 01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,719 Speaker 1: and tweet sheet is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, 1428 01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,960 Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and 1429 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:11,360 Speaker 1: in the mail bag from John, with the struggle within 1430 01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:14,200 Speaker 1: the trenches and lack of a running game, how can 1431 01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:17,000 Speaker 1: the Bills change it up to be more competitive to 1432 01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:22,240 Speaker 1: win out with the remaining schedule. I think for me, 1433 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:24,920 Speaker 1: we've been talking about it. For me, I just think 1434 01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:26,760 Speaker 1: they need to do what they do best, stick with it, 1435 01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,160 Speaker 1: let Josh schling it, find ways to protect him and 1436 01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:37,320 Speaker 1: throw it, use the running game and everything else has 1437 01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,960 Speaker 1: a compliment to that, and just ride him. He's your 1438 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,200 Speaker 1: best player. You're gonna have to hope he plays well 1439 01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:47,040 Speaker 1: and sees it and yeah, makes the right decisions, makes 1440 01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:48,920 Speaker 1: the right throws. He's he can get it done, but 1441 01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:52,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna need help, most notably protection and the guys 1442 01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,560 Speaker 1: on the outside. I think that's what you do. I 1443 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:58,439 Speaker 1: don't I get it. The Bills have been had the 1444 01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,080 Speaker 1: ball run at him a lot lately, and they're struggling 1445 01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:04,519 Speaker 1: to stop it. I think the only the best way 1446 01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:06,800 Speaker 1: to go about it is to score points and make 1447 01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:12,240 Speaker 1: them feel some pressure to keep up. Yeah, and while 1448 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:14,479 Speaker 1: you know you may have to ride Josh a little 1449 01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:18,840 Speaker 1: bit more than you already have there. Yeah, there has 1450 01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:23,240 Speaker 1: to be a protection solution there, especially with the front 1451 01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,200 Speaker 1: four they're going against here. I mean, this is a 1452 01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:31,040 Speaker 1: three four front. Vita Vea is literally tossing offensive lineman 1453 01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:34,080 Speaker 1: like you'd throw a box of Girl Scout cookies to 1454 01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:39,040 Speaker 1: the side after you finished it, right, And then Devin 1455 01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,400 Speaker 1: White and Lavante David. I don't need to talk about 1456 01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,799 Speaker 1: the impact those two can make in the coverage element. 1457 01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,160 Speaker 1: And I mean we're talking all about Vita Vea, you know, 1458 01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:50,760 Speaker 1: and Dominican Sue is a pretty big handful also even 1459 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,439 Speaker 1: at his advanced age. And then you have Jason, Pierre 1460 01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:55,599 Speaker 1: Paul and Shack Barrett coming off the edges. I mean, 1461 01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,320 Speaker 1: that is a formidable group. So you have to have 1462 01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:03,680 Speaker 1: solutions in the protections if you're going to ride Josh's arm, 1463 01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,200 Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, as the majority of 1464 01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:10,200 Speaker 1: the game plan, Joe says always wanted to know why 1465 01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:14,439 Speaker 1: aren't all fifty three players allowed to dress on game day? 1466 01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,960 Speaker 1: Because you might this the other team you're playing may 1467 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,160 Speaker 1: not be able to suit up healthy fifty three guys. 1468 01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,960 Speaker 1: So that's simple. That's where it started from. COVID has 1469 01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:27,439 Speaker 1: changed the way they can replace these guys, and that's 1470 01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,280 Speaker 1: made it easier, of course, But the simple fact the 1471 01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:32,960 Speaker 1: matter is what happens if the Buffalo Bills go in 1472 01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,200 Speaker 1: or sitting here at home and they've got fifty three 1473 01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,400 Speaker 1: guys suited up, and some other team comes in and 1474 01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:42,040 Speaker 1: all they've got is forty seven, you know, So it's 1475 01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,280 Speaker 1: an advantage for one of the teams and it's all 1476 01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:47,760 Speaker 1: left left due to chance, if you want to call 1477 01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:54,600 Speaker 1: injuries chance, and that's unfair. So they make it possible 1478 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,240 Speaker 1: for teams to have enough bodies in the building to 1479 01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,800 Speaker 1: get at least forty seven active, and that's what they 1480 01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:02,720 Speaker 1: go with. And they gave the fifty They give you 1481 01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,080 Speaker 1: the fifty three so that you don't have to cut 1482 01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,720 Speaker 1: and resign and cut and resign guys. Plus if they 1483 01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,040 Speaker 1: if they didn't give you the extra bodies to keep 1484 01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,600 Speaker 1: under contract to fifty three, you can imagine what it 1485 01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:15,880 Speaker 1: would be like. You get to the night before a 1486 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,760 Speaker 1: game and you you got a guy who could really 1487 01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,559 Speaker 1: help you win, and the guy says, I'll help you win, 1488 01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:27,120 Speaker 1: but you got to double my salary. Now that puts 1489 01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,439 Speaker 1: the team and you know, because they say, what are 1490 01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:33,040 Speaker 1: we gonna do? Either lose the game or pay the guy, 1491 01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:37,240 Speaker 1: And it gives it would give players an unwelcomed advantage 1492 01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:40,439 Speaker 1: in those negotiations that happened, like you know, so close 1493 01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:43,479 Speaker 1: to game time. It's so they give them. They give 1494 01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,599 Speaker 1: the teams the ability to pay these guys, keep them around, 1495 01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:48,560 Speaker 1: keep them on the roster. But because of injuries and 1496 01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:52,080 Speaker 1: the unavailability that for every reason, they make it a 1497 01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:56,920 Speaker 1: set number. And now they probably could every team probably 1498 01:17:56,960 --> 01:17:59,240 Speaker 1: could get fifty three guys healthy for game day the 1499 01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,960 Speaker 1: way it is because of right, because of COVID and 1500 01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,720 Speaker 1: the extra bodies they have around these days. But back 1501 01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:07,360 Speaker 1: in the day, it was it was the fifty three 1502 01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,400 Speaker 1: players and that was it. Yeah, that was in You 1503 01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:14,679 Speaker 1: could even you could even use the Thanksgiving Night game 1504 01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:18,280 Speaker 1: as an example. I mean New Orleans was decimated by injury. 1505 01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,000 Speaker 1: There's no way in hell they would have been able 1506 01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,679 Speaker 1: to suit up fifty three healthy bodies. And so there's 1507 01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:28,000 Speaker 1: a competitive disadvantage inherently there in the game of football. 1508 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,840 Speaker 1: And that's why the rules are the way they and 1509 01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,120 Speaker 1: it's and it's from you can bet too. It's all 1510 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,320 Speaker 1: rooted in money, how much they're paying. Because now I 1511 01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:39,639 Speaker 1: got a practice squad, they got injured, reserve, the fifty 1512 01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:42,160 Speaker 1: three regular guy, the top fifty three guys or the roster, 1513 01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:47,559 Speaker 1: and then they now they have sixteen other guys. So yeah, now, 1514 01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,800 Speaker 1: under COVID and their new protocols, sure you could make 1515 01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:54,559 Speaker 1: it fifty three, you could make it fifty five sixty, 1516 01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,720 Speaker 1: and you'd haven't probably have enough guys to suit up 1517 01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:01,439 Speaker 1: every day every team. Most teams would. So the reason 1518 01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:03,640 Speaker 1: they don't is they don't want to make a big 1519 01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:05,840 Speaker 1: that drastic of a change to the to the NFL 1520 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:10,439 Speaker 1: rules just for COVID. Wait right, We go to Murk 1521 01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,920 Speaker 1: next and Mark says, how many plays if the Bills 1522 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,800 Speaker 1: running ten personnel, put six linemen and four receivers on 1523 01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:19,680 Speaker 1: the field and go Bills? Miss Lee Smith? Wow? Did 1524 01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,920 Speaker 1: you ever think you were going to hear that the Bills? 1525 01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,400 Speaker 1: Miss Lee Smith? How about that? He's not I don't 1526 01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:29,240 Speaker 1: think he's terribly wrong there because the protection was better 1527 01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:32,920 Speaker 1: when he was here. Well, he's an extra offensive lineman too, 1528 01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:35,040 Speaker 1: I mean he could put Yeah, you could put. You know, 1529 01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:37,000 Speaker 1: you should be better if if you have Bates on 1530 01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:41,800 Speaker 1: the field at tight end too. So yeah, at least 1531 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,920 Speaker 1: missed a good player. Yeah, you're always better with good players, 1532 01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:46,720 Speaker 1: particularly if they've got a skill set that that you 1533 01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:48,400 Speaker 1: could use at any given moment. But I think in 1534 01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,920 Speaker 1: the in the long run, the Bills made a move 1535 01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:52,479 Speaker 1: that they thought was going to help him get better 1536 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,800 Speaker 1: because it made room for a different skill set on 1537 01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,160 Speaker 1: the roster. And I don't think they're looking back at it, 1538 01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:00,960 Speaker 1: but I do I appreciate the sentiment. What do you 1539 01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:04,240 Speaker 1: think about what he said with go four wide and 1540 01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:13,960 Speaker 1: six offensive linemen and go that means no bags right, Um, yeah, Hey, 1541 01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,040 Speaker 1: I'm up for everything. If it works, it works, you know, 1542 01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:19,360 Speaker 1: put put you can put put Ryan Bates back there, 1543 01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:22,880 Speaker 1: tell him to do them. I'm an eligible receiver. Put 1544 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,160 Speaker 1: him at tailback, have him stepped to a side to 1545 01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:30,439 Speaker 1: pick up, to chip off the remaining rusher and go 1546 01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:34,559 Speaker 1: yeah maybe, I mean, I don't care, Fine, go four wide. 1547 01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,720 Speaker 1: Or you are all about putting big guys in the backfield. 1548 01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:39,760 Speaker 1: You are. You can't help yourself. I don't know why 1549 01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:41,360 Speaker 1: they can't. Don't know why they don't. Most of them. 1550 01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:43,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. Half the big guys in the 1551 01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:47,799 Speaker 1: NFL have played tight end, running back, quarterback, wide receiver. 1552 01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,840 Speaker 1: They all did it at some point in they're growing 1553 01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,840 Speaker 1: up in their youth. They all did so. It's not like, 1554 01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:58,160 Speaker 1: you know, it's out of the blue. Most of those guys. 1555 01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:00,920 Speaker 1: Almost every guy in the NFL roster was the best 1556 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:05,240 Speaker 1: guy on the team at some level of football, every 1557 01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,439 Speaker 1: single one of them. I love when Steve defends this position. 1558 01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:13,000 Speaker 1: It's awesome. Put a big guy back there. Let's have 1559 01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:18,960 Speaker 1: a mashion to somebody. You can't justin Zimmer really let 1560 01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:20,640 Speaker 1: me down this year. I'll just go on. I just 1561 01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:23,840 Speaker 1: say that well, yeah, I know you you wanted him 1562 01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,160 Speaker 1: as your fullback and goal line situations. I think it 1563 01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:29,000 Speaker 1: would have been interesting. Have you seen and just say this, 1564 01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:34,280 Speaker 1: have you eighteen miles an hour? Have you seen Baltimore's fullback? Uh? 1565 01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,360 Speaker 1: Used check card? Yeah? Ricard Ricard, That's who it is. Patrick, 1566 01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:45,000 Speaker 1: Patrick Ricard Is it's justin Zimmer. It's the same guy. 1567 01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:50,160 Speaker 1: He's the same size, almost, they're both. I think Ricard 1568 01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,320 Speaker 1: might even be bigger. Ricard might be really okay, yeah, 1569 01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:58,240 Speaker 1: but that's what I'm and I'll say this too. I'm 1570 01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,960 Speaker 1: I've and we were talking about this in the break 1571 01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,559 Speaker 1: over here in the control room, and it's way too 1572 01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:06,680 Speaker 1: early for this because we always do this in reactionary 1573 01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:08,439 Speaker 1: form and at a point in the year wherehere it's 1574 01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:09,960 Speaker 1: the darkest where you think, what are you gonna do 1575 01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,400 Speaker 1: in the draft? Who are gonna how are you gonna 1576 01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,360 Speaker 1: make this team better? Because you know the rosters now 1577 01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:16,080 Speaker 1: is what it is. You're not gonna change it because 1578 01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,000 Speaker 1: you're you're stuck with this, not stuck with it, but 1579 01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:20,840 Speaker 1: you got this roster until until the super Bowl, right 1580 01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:24,719 Speaker 1: until the offseason, until free agency hits. So I'm still 1581 01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:29,920 Speaker 1: thinking the Bills may draft four big bodies first four 1582 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:36,639 Speaker 1: picks up next year's draft, two offensive or defensive line. Yeah, 1583 01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:40,439 Speaker 1: they may do it again. They may do it again. 1584 01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,200 Speaker 1: Trench editions. Yeah, for sure, because you can get I 1585 01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:45,919 Speaker 1: think about it. You got Cole Beasley, you got Emmanuel 1586 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:51,760 Speaker 1: sanders Um. You can get guys on free agency. You know, 1587 01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:55,599 Speaker 1: skill players in free agency, but big guys, don't forget. 1588 01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,840 Speaker 1: You got Gabriel Davis who can slide into a bigger 1589 01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,479 Speaker 1: role next to your Isaiah Hodgins is still sitting on 1590 01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,760 Speaker 1: the practice squad. What's his few Markquis Stevenson might have guys, Yeah, 1591 01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:06,080 Speaker 1: Marcuis Stevenson, you might have people in the pipeline at 1592 01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,800 Speaker 1: the skill position. So yeah, load up on the beef. 1593 01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:13,599 Speaker 1: You can't listen. The beef doesn't move that they don't 1594 01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:15,320 Speaker 1: you don't come. You don't get those guys in free 1595 01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,800 Speaker 1: agency that are big difference makers. That's right, That's what 1596 01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You draft the beef, right, You draft the beef, 1597 01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:26,840 Speaker 1: and I think they don't get away. Now, the guys 1598 01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,000 Speaker 1: we've got, the guys we've gotten in free agency have 1599 01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:32,200 Speaker 1: been depth players, Guys like Mario Addison. Mario has played 1600 01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:34,040 Speaker 1: very well for him, but he's heating now. He's here 1601 01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,360 Speaker 1: in his third or fourth year too, so he's been 1602 01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,200 Speaker 1: around a while. So and so too was. But you 1603 01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:44,080 Speaker 1: know Bryant Vernon Butler who was here for a minute. 1604 01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:46,040 Speaker 1: All these guys, some of them work out, some of 1605 01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:50,400 Speaker 1: them don't. Just not playing much, right, Yeah, so um 1606 01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:54,840 Speaker 1: to answer, get those guys young, Yeah, I hear you. 1607 01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:59,280 Speaker 1: To answer Mark's first question, the Bills have played seventy 1608 01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,960 Speaker 1: six snaps in ten personnel. Now, that may not seem 1609 01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,360 Speaker 1: like much, but it is second most in the league. 1610 01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:08,080 Speaker 1: Now you're ready for this one, Steve. Number one in 1611 01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,320 Speaker 1: the league, just like last year in ten personnel are 1612 01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:17,759 Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and they have run a hundred forty 1613 01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:22,280 Speaker 1: one plays in ten personnel. That is double the next 1614 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:29,479 Speaker 1: closest team, which is the Bills. That's ten plays a game. Virtually, 1615 01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:31,400 Speaker 1: it's ten plays a game a little more, but it's 1616 01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:35,200 Speaker 1: still double the number. Like that's but that's that's first place, 1617 01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:39,120 Speaker 1: is one one. Second most frequent use of ten personnel 1618 01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:45,439 Speaker 1: is the Bills at seventy six plays. Yeah, one of 1619 01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:51,080 Speaker 1: these kids is doing his own thing. The Cardinals don't care, man, 1620 01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:53,640 Speaker 1: not just doing it. And I think I think the 1621 01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:58,840 Speaker 1: Bills are quickly getting to that point. Well, yeah, they 1622 01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:00,960 Speaker 1: may have to. They just gotta hope the protection holds up. 1623 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,720 Speaker 1: That's the great from Micah. Seems like every week we 1624 01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,479 Speaker 1: match up better than our opponent in just about every category. 1625 01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:10,240 Speaker 1: Over the last six weeks, nothing but mediocre results. What 1626 01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:15,519 Speaker 1: gives that much? Lack of execution? Answer? Yes to a 1627 01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:19,400 Speaker 1: great degree. Yes, yeah, and the executions at the top 1628 01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,640 Speaker 1: of the list, isn't it. Yeah, here's the thing, And 1629 01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:24,160 Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to talk out 1630 01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:28,040 Speaker 1: of turn. When you're not executing, you're you're just playing bad. 1631 01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,240 Speaker 1: I mean, it's the same thing. You're playing bad. Yeah, 1632 01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:36,519 Speaker 1: that's what it is. They're playing bad. You're jumping off sides, 1633 01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:40,360 Speaker 1: dropping passes, running the wrong routes, missing blocks, missing tackles. 1634 01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:44,160 Speaker 1: It's bad play, and it's lack of execution. Because you know, 1635 01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:46,120 Speaker 1: you've got guys that are talented enough to do it. 1636 01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,559 Speaker 1: We've seen the same guys do it. What you got 1637 01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,120 Speaker 1: to ask yourself and the coaching staff's got to root 1638 01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:53,360 Speaker 1: around in the you know, in the in the heart 1639 01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,400 Speaker 1: of the locker room, find out what's different, what's going on. 1640 01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,280 Speaker 1: What can we do what buttons can we push, what 1641 01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:01,080 Speaker 1: levers can we pull? What plays can we call, or 1642 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:03,040 Speaker 1: what can we say to these guys to get them 1643 01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:06,040 Speaker 1: back to where they were a year ago. Mentally physically 1644 01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:09,840 Speaker 1: they still seem like they're all there, And I have 1645 01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:14,120 Speaker 1: a hard time believing now that you know, like John 1646 01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,679 Speaker 1: Feliciano getting back in the lineup is going to transform 1647 01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:19,439 Speaker 1: the offensive line, or even Star Lutula getting back in 1648 01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:21,400 Speaker 1: the line is gonna absolutely transform. He was on the 1649 01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:25,920 Speaker 1: field the other night against New England. So maybe more 1650 01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:27,800 Speaker 1: reps will help. They'll get back to where they were 1651 01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:29,640 Speaker 1: earlier in the season or maybe last year, if they 1652 01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:32,200 Speaker 1: can get their offensive and defensive line's healthy and start 1653 01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:34,800 Speaker 1: winning at the line of scrimmage. But all this stuff 1654 01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:39,559 Speaker 1: about lack of execution, it's bad football. It's and that's 1655 01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:41,479 Speaker 1: you know, that's the harsh reality of it. Is hard 1656 01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,360 Speaker 1: to say it, but it's really they're not playing good 1657 01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:45,800 Speaker 1: and that's you know, each guy's got to look in 1658 01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:46,960 Speaker 1: the mirror and say what can I do to do 1659 01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:49,760 Speaker 1: my job better? Because, like we said earlier in the show, 1660 01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:52,640 Speaker 1: they were kind of passing around the short straw to 1661 01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:56,240 Speaker 1: see who made a mistake on one play or another. Yeah, 1662 01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:59,960 Speaker 1: it's it's all rooted in execution. And I know that's 1663 01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:03,800 Speaker 1: seems like an easy answer, because you know, I think 1664 01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:07,479 Speaker 1: fans see that the Bills in a vast majority of 1665 01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:11,439 Speaker 1: their games have superior talent on paper. But you can 1666 01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:13,040 Speaker 1: have the best talent in the world. If you can't 1667 01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:16,840 Speaker 1: execute and make plays, you will not win games. It's 1668 01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:19,600 Speaker 1: some point, too, Brownie. They're not only that they show it. 1669 01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:21,560 Speaker 1: They show that talent once in a while. You know, 1670 01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:25,599 Speaker 1: if they can do that right, makes it even more confound. Yeah, 1671 01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,280 Speaker 1: they'll be fine if they can just do what they 1672 01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,920 Speaker 1: can do and what we've seen them do um on 1673 01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:34,760 Speaker 1: a sporadic occasions. Yeah, break time for us here, thanks 1674 01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,840 Speaker 1: for chipping into the obl fan Friday nailbacks. Even I 1675 01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:40,759 Speaker 1: back to close it up with final thoughts on Bill's 1676 01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:42,720 Speaker 1: Bucks next here on one Bill's Live Present, if I 1677 01:27:42,760 --> 01:28:02,960 Speaker 1: can find to health Buffalo Bills, all right, if you Steve, 1678 01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:04,960 Speaker 1: we know this game for a lot of Bills fans 1679 01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:08,840 Speaker 1: is going to be a Tom Brady Rob Grinkowski reunion 1680 01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:11,479 Speaker 1: that they probably did not want to have. These are 1681 01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:13,240 Speaker 1: like the relatives you don't want to see if at 1682 01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:18,040 Speaker 1: all possible. But they're back, and they're here and they're 1683 01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:21,720 Speaker 1: going to be participating. I thought Micah Hyde had a 1684 01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:26,200 Speaker 1: perfect quote for Rob Grnikowski and why he is such 1685 01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:29,800 Speaker 1: a tough coverage assignment. He said, and I quote big body. 1686 01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:32,360 Speaker 1: I feel like whenever I get put in those situations, 1687 01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,679 Speaker 1: I try to use my quickness, but when those guys 1688 01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:36,519 Speaker 1: are as big as what he is, he kind of 1689 01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,599 Speaker 1: just boxes you out. And whatever Rowdy runs, whether it's 1690 01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:41,800 Speaker 1: an over out across the field or a slant or 1691 01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:43,640 Speaker 1: a ten yard out, he just uses his body. And 1692 01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:46,080 Speaker 1: his frame is so big, Tom puts the ball right 1693 01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:49,080 Speaker 1: on him accurate every time. It's tough to get around him. 1694 01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:54,920 Speaker 1: I grew up as the youngest of four brothers, and 1695 01:28:55,120 --> 01:29:00,160 Speaker 1: I was always little, and so you can imagine. But 1696 01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,439 Speaker 1: I feel for Bike in that situation. You're playing football 1697 01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,599 Speaker 1: in the yard or whatever. You're not big enough, you're 1698 01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,600 Speaker 1: not fast enough, you're not strong enough to keep up 1699 01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:10,200 Speaker 1: with the guy, and it's really frustrating. And he's been 1700 01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,040 Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. When Brady throws it 1701 01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:14,720 Speaker 1: at him, he's tough to defend. So we'll see, but 1702 01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:18,679 Speaker 1: I know this, the Bills will be thirsty for the channel. 1703 01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:20,360 Speaker 1: They want to take it on. They're not gonna shy 1704 01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:23,680 Speaker 1: away from It's gonna be a fun game. Hopefully they do. 1705 01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:27,559 Speaker 1: Bills New Bills by the Numbers podcast episode is out 1706 01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:30,679 Speaker 1: check it on your podcast platform. Steve and I back 1707 01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:33,559 Speaker 1: on Monday to talk about this one. Hopefully it's a win.