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Speaker 1: This the one Bill's Live presented by Calida help.

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Speaker 2: Big return.

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Speaker 3: Coming back the other way, spinning away from Fass.

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Speaker 2: In midfield is Jalen Reager.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna know the distance more the touchdown unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Staff. He takes the snap, passes tip and pick off.

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Speaker 2: It's intercepted.

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Speaker 3: It was tipped and Oliver who else comes up with

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Speaker 4: Gess dump He's a running no man suck and crump.

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Speaker 1: People need a feast up.

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Speaker 3: Get back to pass looking over the left side, kicked

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Speaker 3: off by Rasseul Douglas to the fifteen, cuts it back

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Speaker 3: and is down to the fourteen yard line, recording two

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Speaker 3: interceptions on the day. Already for Bailey, Zappy and Rasoul

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Speaker 3: Douglas was.

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Speaker 2: In full fools.

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Speaker 3: Gonna run it over the left side and he flows

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Speaker 3: now yes it is touchdown Buffalo a one yard touchdown

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Speaker 3: run by Josh Allen who fires out into the left

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Speaker 3: flat complete the Pharaoh brown and he's wrapped up by.

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Speaker 2: A horne of Tackler's ball is out.

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Speaker 3: On a buffle and it's recovered by Buffalo cover.

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Speaker 2: The other way is Christian bedfirst.

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Speaker 3: It's another turn over for the Phil's defense.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Nervously up takes the staff looking to.

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Speaker 3: His left, fires quickly and it's picked off. Drasol Douglass

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Speaker 2: To the twenty five, down to the.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen ten five and into the end zone for the touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Bristol Douglas.

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Speaker 6: Again between the loves Go Cats and who.

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Speaker 3: Laps in the pocket put an opening sprouts and Zampy

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Speaker 3: beamed the safety on a post route. Here's the staff

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Speaker 3: up front by Dawson. Knock the tight in as he

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Speaker 3: on a second efforts, a six yard touchdown run by

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Speaker 2: And that will do it as Buffalo will post their

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Speaker 2: tenth win of the season. All right, that is your

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Speaker 2: Toshiba game.

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Speaker 7: Rewind Toshiba, the official copy or company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 7: As the Bills win their fourth straight game, improved to

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Speaker 7: ten and six and set a team record for the

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Speaker 7: most consecutive ten win seasons in team history. It's now

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Speaker 7: five straight seasons with at least ten victories. Welcome to

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Speaker 7: a Buffaloy Monday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 7: Steve Tasker with you. And once again it was not pretty,

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Speaker 7: but style points do not count at this point in

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Speaker 7: the season. Just win, baby, and the Bills did that

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Speaker 7: and they put themselves in a win and in situation.

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Speaker 2: In Week eighteen, which has.

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Speaker 7: Now been scheduled for Sunday Night Football, the last game

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Speaker 7: of the regular season will be for the Division Bills

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Speaker 7: at Miami. The AFC East Crown on the line between

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Speaker 7: the three time defending Division champ Bills and the upstart

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Speaker 7: pressure medication handy for this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. The division title on the line.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have a lot more information when this game

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Speaker 4: But the home games are huge. That's really the only

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Speaker 7: So, as Steve said, could be all or nothing for

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of permutations. But we'll have all this

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Speaker 7: Right because and the reason why is because the Steelers

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Speaker 4: It'll it'll allow both these teams, Dolphins and Bills to

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Speaker 7: The scenarios are pretty cut and dry for the Dolphins

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Speaker 7: So let me pose this to you, Steve. You're the

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Speaker 2: I mean you're hanging right now.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's been a rough season for them.

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Speaker 7: Their injuries came late in the year. A lot of

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Speaker 7: Miami has clinched a playoff berth, how much does it

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Speaker 7: like the defending Super Bowl Champs the last month, no question.

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Speaker 7: But you're on the road at KC.

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing. Here's what Mike, how much does that mean?

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Speaker 4: It's it does matter? You got you want the two

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Speaker 4: They're tough to beat at home. We've all seen it

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Speaker 4: They are different, like Wattle, Like what happens if they

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Speaker 7: So it's a very interesting balancing act. Now, Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 4: I'm talking in extremes. You're not gonna lose all three

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Speaker 4: You're not gonna get a bye. No, that's not up

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Speaker 7: Used to could be the seventh seed, and it could

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Speaker 4: So you get one of those teams at home, and

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Speaker 4: So I'm thinking if I'm Mike McDaniel, and certainly their

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Speaker 4: we've got to win this game. We've got to win

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Speaker 4: this game if we want a chance to go to

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Speaker 4: Like to think about this, my fine fellow Mafia members,

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Speaker 7: Miami is obviously licking their wounds after a fifty six

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Speaker 7: Miami number one offense in football, number five rushing offense

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Speaker 7: Yeah, let's go to the phones at eight oh three,

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Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Johnson. That was an ugly win, but a

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Speaker 7: Now I'm going to respectfully disagree there, Tom. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing, they got it together out in LA.

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Speaker 7: His season is over. And Xavier Howard, one of their

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Speaker 7: starting corners, left with a foot injury and did not

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Speaker 7: return to that game. So those are three starters right there,

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Speaker 7: one of whom is not coming back. After the game,

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Speaker 7: Tuas said his shoulder is sore, but he should be fine.

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Speaker 7: And then Howard, we don't know with the foot injury.

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Speaker 7: We'll have to see what comes of it through the

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Speaker 7: course of this week. Obviously we'll be keeping an eye

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Speaker 7: on Waddle's high ankle sprain and if he'll be kept

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Speaker 7: out of this game. Knowing that the Dolphins are going

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Speaker 7: to the playoffs regardless of how the game turns out,

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Speaker 7: so there are a lot of injury concerns for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 7: Liam Eikenberg, their backup center who is filling in for

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Speaker 7: Connor Williams who's out for the year, got hurt in

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Speaker 7: that game too. I'm trying to find out if he

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Speaker 7: returned or not. I'm guessing that he did, since he's

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Speaker 7: not listed in this write up that I'm looking at

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Speaker 7: here out of Miami. But obviously we'll know more when

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Speaker 7: head coach Mike McDaniel addresses the media later today down

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Speaker 7: in Miami. In the meantime, back to the phones into

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Speaker 7: Cindy and Niagara Falls. What do you got for Cindy? Yes, Hello, Cindy,

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Speaker 7: are you with us?

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Speaker 8: Thanks?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to put Cindy on hold. A little busy

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Speaker 2: right now?

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Speaker 4: She is, by mistake, she's in a conversation.

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Speaker 7: I think she's a little busy right now. We're going

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Speaker 7: to move along to Mick in Bradford, PA. What do

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Speaker 7: you got for us?

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Speaker 9: Mick?

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I love your show. I try to catch it,

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Speaker 10: catch the replay on the Bills app pretty much every

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Speaker 10: day after work. So I appreciate your comments and everything

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Speaker 10: you guys do. I've had actually a comment and then

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Speaker 10: a question then I'll get off. But my comment is

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Speaker 10: it just seems like every every game. And I don't

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Speaker 10: know if it's a scheme issue or just execution or both,

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Speaker 10: but it's so frustrating to watch the slow starts and

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Speaker 10: we you know, it seems to be ourmo this year,

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Speaker 10: and it's just very frustrating. I know they probably have

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Speaker 10: everything scripted, at least the first I don't know what

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Speaker 10: fifteen twenty plays, and it just against a team Lake

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Speaker 10: New England. I know they've got a good defense, but

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Speaker 10: we also know that they can be thrown on. Other

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Speaker 10: teams have and I look at our weapons and it

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Speaker 10: just seems like sometimes they try so hard to get

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Speaker 10: Digs the ball. The whole emphasis is keeping him happy,

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Speaker 10: and I love Diggs, but when they start spreading it

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Speaker 10: around like they did in the second half and didn't

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Speaker 10: make that the emphasis, they have so much more success.

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Speaker 10: Whether it's the tight ends. We've got two really good

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Speaker 10: tight ends, Shakiers having a hell of a year. I mean,

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Speaker 10: the kid really is coming through big on third downs

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Speaker 10: for us. So that I'll stop my comment there and

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Speaker 10: then a question and then I'll listen to you guys.

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Speaker 10: My question is Cleveland is one game ahead of us

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Speaker 10: in a win column. Going into next weekend, So how

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Speaker 10: do we get the second seed? If we went in

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Speaker 10: Cleveland wins next week, how would we be the two seed?

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Speaker 10: Wouldn't they be the two seeds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: From what we've been told, Nick, Cleveland is locked in

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Speaker 7: to the five seed.

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Speaker 2: Now, I haven't done the homework. Heres wind out. Why

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Speaker 2: do you know why?

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Speaker 4: Yes, because it's done by division. The four division winners,

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Speaker 4: no matter what their reverall record, are going the one, two, three, and.

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Speaker 2: Four to Cleveland can't win the division.

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Speaker 4: Cleveland can't win the ANFC North because Baltimore's the one seed,

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Speaker 4: so Cleveland can't get ahead of the other three division winners.

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Speaker 4: They're the better in the five even though they have

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Speaker 4: a better record. That's the reason Baltimore is keeping Cleveland

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Speaker 4: out of the two seed or the three seed or

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Speaker 4: the four seed, because Cleveland would be better than they'd

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Speaker 4: be with Miami, with Kansas ahead of Kansas City and

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Speaker 4: ahead of Jacksonville. But they're in the same division as Baltimore,

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Speaker 4: so they can't get above the force the four seed.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being more awake than me, Steves today, No worries,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: As for Diggs, you know, and forcing the ball to him.

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Speaker 7: I don't feel like they were forcing it to him

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Speaker 7: much at all. I mean he only had four targets

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Speaker 7: in the first half. I mean Kincaid had more targets

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Speaker 7: than him. At halftime he had five, Digs had four,

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Speaker 7: and then at the end of the game he had

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Speaker 7: seven and Kincaid had seven. To lead the team first

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Speaker 7: half of the season, Diggs would have twelve fifteen targets.

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Speaker 7: He only had seven. And not only that, he only

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Speaker 7: played sixty five percent of the snaps. He's missing time

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Speaker 7: on the field. He didn't he wasn't out there for

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Speaker 7: the scoring drive when the start of the second half

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Speaker 7: at all.

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Speaker 4: When you watch the Bills over the last two or

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Speaker 4: three weeks, there's been a couple of times, I think

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Speaker 4: particularly it caught my eye in LA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 4: He took a couple of shots in the LA game

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Speaker 4: and he wasn't right to me. He shook it off

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Speaker 4: and he's a game you know, Well, Steph's a dog.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna play. He's that kind of guy. And I

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Speaker 4: don't think he feels one hundred percent physically. They haven't

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Speaker 4: said anything. He hasn't been on the injury report all

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Speaker 4: of that stuff. He had VET day, vet rest day.

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Speaker 2: On Friday, but I think it's a weird day to

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Speaker 2: have a VET.

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Speaker 4: I think I don't think Steph is one hundred percent physically,

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Speaker 4: And that's the way I feel about it. And I

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Speaker 4: know I'm not alone. People are watching the team, they

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Speaker 4: and nobody's really saying it.

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Speaker 2: He just looks like he's laboring, he's he's hurting.

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Speaker 4: I think he's really hurting, not really hurting, because if

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Speaker 4: he was really hurting, they'd sit him down. I just

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Speaker 4: don't think he's a hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: What a lot of guys.

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Speaker 11: Year.

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Speaker 4: Nobody is. But I think that's more of it than

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Speaker 4: anything else. I don't think Steph Diggs they're being wrong

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Speaker 4: with him. I think he's gutting it out after a

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Speaker 4: long season and I think it's starting to catch up

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Speaker 4: with him. Uh That's what I think. But he's not

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Speaker 4: on the injury report and none of that's going on.

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Speaker 4: But I tell you what, I watch a lot of

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Speaker 4: football and I know it, and I've been that guy,

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Speaker 4: and I've seen a ton of guys like that. And

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Speaker 4: you take a hard shot, you act a certain way

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Speaker 4: trying to shake it off, and that's exactly to me,

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Speaker 4: that's what I saw Steph Diggs in LA and subsequent

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Speaker 4: games before that as well.

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Speaker 7: And here's one thing to keep in mind. The twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty season when the Bills go thirteen to four and

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Speaker 7: get to the playoffs. There were a lot of miles

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Speaker 7: and snaps for Digs and for Beasley that season, and

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Speaker 7: they get to the end of the season, Beasley has

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Speaker 7: a crack bone in his leg and Diggs has an

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Speaker 7: oblique injury, and it affected their ability to execute on

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Speaker 7: offense in the playoffs. And you know, even though they

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Speaker 7: get to the AFC title game that year, they were

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Speaker 7: not the same offense because Digs and Beasley were hobbled.

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Speaker 2: So what do they do the next year?

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Speaker 7: I got Josh Allen to basically admit to me when

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Speaker 7: I asked him a question in twenty twenty one that

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Speaker 7: they were pacing Digs and Beasley through that season. Beasley

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Speaker 7: was a year older Digs. They wanted to kind of

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Speaker 7: preserve him so he'd be at his best in the playoffs,

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Speaker 7: and they successfully achieved that because they were winning games

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Speaker 7: by wide margins in twenty twenty one, and they sat

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Speaker 7: those guys down early in games that they had in hand,

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Speaker 7: and you saw how they played in the playoffs that year.

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Speaker 2: They were a juggernaut.

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Speaker 7: This year, they don't have that luxury. They they were

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Speaker 7: in a lot of tight games number one and number

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Speaker 7: two must win. They needed Digs on the field at

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Speaker 7: all times. They had no chance to rest him here, there,

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Speaker 7: or anywhere. And so I think, and let's not forget this,

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Speaker 7: Diggs is three years older than he was in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 7: and I think that the cumulative effects of playing all

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Speaker 7: those snaps this season has made it harder for Diggs

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Speaker 7: to be his typical, takeover a game dominant self when

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Speaker 7: they need him the most. And it's going to be

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Speaker 7: very telling to see how it looks in the postseason

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Speaker 7: if the Bills can get there, because that's still an if,

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Speaker 7: especially knowing their passing game right now.

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Speaker 2: It's not in great shape right now. It's just not.

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Speaker 7: And I don't think I'm speaking out of school here.

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Speaker 7: It's readily evident to anybody who is watching these games.

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Speaker 7: I mean, Josh throws for one sixty nine, completes fifty

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Speaker 7: percent of his passes, and Josh admitted it wasn't coming

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Speaker 7: out of his hand great. But these receivers are having

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Speaker 7: trouble getting open, especially early in the down to be

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Speaker 7: an answer for Jay in the passing game, and I

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Speaker 7: don't know how you fix that. I don't know if

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Speaker 7: Joe Brady can scheme things for these players, but there's

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Speaker 7: going to be some assistance needed from the coaching staff

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Speaker 7: to create opportunities for the receiving corps and easy button

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Speaker 7: answers for Josh in the passing game going forward, or

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Speaker 7: even if the Bills do make the playoffs, they're not

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Speaker 7: going to be in the postseason for very long.

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Speaker 2: You're playing the best defenses.

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Speaker 7: In the league from here on out and that changes

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Speaker 7: things precipitously, and if you're already tight with the margins,

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Speaker 7: it's going to be even tighter come the postseason. Got

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Speaker 7: to take a break here, but more of your phone

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Speaker 7: calls when we return at eighth three, five point fifty

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Speaker 7: here on a Buffalo victory Monday on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 7: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and got to tell

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Speaker 7: And who else would it be but Rasoul Douglas with

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Speaker 7: two interceptions, one of which he took back forty yards

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Speaker 7: for a touchdown, had three pass breakups, one which resulted

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Speaker 7: in another takeaway, an interception by Ed Oliver when he

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Speaker 7: broke up the pass, and Rasoul Douglas Steve now has

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Speaker 7: six takeaways in seven games in a Bill's uniform, and

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Speaker 7: over that time period since he's joined.

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Speaker 2: The Bills, he leads the league in takeaways.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that yeah, it's hard to do it can takeaways,

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Speaker 4: but for seven games, that's a big number.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly.

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Speaker 4: And the tipped pass for Ed Oliver intercept the first interception.

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Speaker 4: If he cuts to the near side, he could had

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Speaker 4: two pick sixes in the game, although you know, who

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Speaker 4: knows what happened subsequent to that, but man, oh man,

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Speaker 4: what a trade that was for Buffalo and people were

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Speaker 4: asking how could they do it? Out of you know,

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Speaker 4: the only knock on on Rasoul is he doesn't have

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Speaker 4: flat out high end speed. He's not like a super

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Speaker 4: fast guy as a corner, but he's got all the trade.

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Speaker 4: He's big, he's got, he's long, and obviously he's got

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Speaker 4: an enormously high IQ, incredibly prepared, and he's and you

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Speaker 4: know what, the guy's aggressive, you know, I mean he

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Speaker 4: jumps routes. I was telling trust himself.

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Speaker 7: I was telling the guys on the morning show this morning.

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Speaker 7: When I was asked about him. He had some very

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Speaker 7: interesting comments in the postgame media room yesterday.

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Speaker 2: People were asking him like.

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Speaker 7: How do you take such high risks and just don't

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Speaker 7: care about the outcome? And I'm thinking to myself, he

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Speaker 7: mitigates that risk by studying film, and if you listen

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Speaker 7: to his answers, he pretty much explained it like Bailey Zappy.

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Speaker 7: He said, when he's pressured from the weak side, the

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Speaker 7: ball is coming out to the strong side. Well, he

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Speaker 7: was on the strong side on both of those instances,

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Speaker 7: so he knows the ball's coming out on a three

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Speaker 7: step drop. He's jumping the route and he had a

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Speaker 7: miscommunication Zapp.

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Speaker 2: He did with.

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Speaker 7: Parker who ran a stop and go and the ball

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Speaker 7: had to come out on the stop. Douglas stopped, Parker

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Speaker 7: went he wasn't even there on the pick six. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: but my point is Rasseul Douglas, because he doesn't have

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Speaker 7: high end speed, has to make up for that with

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Speaker 7: his film study so that he can be in places sooner,

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Speaker 7: knowing his gift, his God given speed, won't get him there,

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Speaker 7: and he does that with his brain instead of his

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Speaker 7: God given abilities, and film study gets him in places early,

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Speaker 7: and the risks that he is taking are not as

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Speaker 7: risky because he's he's using the probabilities of the opponent

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Speaker 7: to his advantage.

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Speaker 4: That's not and you gotta admit it's not like there's

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Speaker 4: no risk. If Bailey Zapi pulls the ball back and

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Speaker 4: Rasseull Douglas's stand there flat footed with the receiver running

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Speaker 4: down the field. I mean, it's a it's a deep ball.

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Speaker 4: But he trusts that what he knows about the defense

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Speaker 4: that is called and what's gonna happen up front, is

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Speaker 4: going to give him the freedom to take that risk.

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Speaker 4: And if Zappi lets the ball go, you're gonna be

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Speaker 4: able to make a play on it because you're gonna

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Speaker 4: be in the middle of it. And not only were

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Speaker 4: we in the middle of it, the receiver didn't get

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Speaker 4: the memo. He's running off down the field by himself alone.

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Speaker 4: And doesn't even realize the quarterback needed him to break

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Speaker 4: that route off. I mean, Rasseull Douglas knew it better

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Speaker 4: than the receiver did that. You can do that sometimes

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Speaker 4: when you get a guy makes a mental mistake, wasn't aware,

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Speaker 4: wasn't watching and you were. That's it's big. That's that's

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Speaker 4: what a pro does. You know, That's what a pro does.

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Speaker 4: They look for opportunities and they make the most of

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Speaker 4: them when they come.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones.

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Speaker 7: At eight h three oh five, fifty gets your takeaways

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Speaker 7: from yesterday's Bill's win over the Patriots and to Cindy

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Speaker 7: and Niagara Falls.

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Speaker 2: What do you got for Cindy?

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Speaker 12: Hi?

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Speaker 13: First off, happy New Year?

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Speaker 4: People?

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Speaker 14: Do you?

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Speaker 13: I just wondered, is there any way we can get

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Speaker 13: out of a contract with von Miller From the beginning.

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Speaker 13: I didn't think he was a good fit for the Bills,

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Speaker 13: So I'm just wondering that question. Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, no problem soday.

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Speaker 4: Probably not. It's going to cost him a lot to

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Speaker 4: do that. Yeah, recent events notwithstanding, I don't know, you'd

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Speaker 4: be hard pressed to not find yourself a little bit

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Speaker 4: alone in that conversation. Vaughn was really good last year

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Speaker 4: up until the point where he got injured, really good,

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Speaker 4: not only off the field when the leadership in the

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Speaker 4: locker room, but also on it. This knee. At his age,

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Speaker 4: this knee injury is taking it out of him a

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Speaker 4: little bit, no question about it now. But I do

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Speaker 4: not think there's a way out of it without twenty

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Speaker 4: seven or thirty million dollars in the cap hit.

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Speaker 7: The dead cap hit if they released him in twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty four this year would be thirty two and a

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Speaker 7: half million dollars. I don't think that's something they can

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Speaker 7: navigate their way through. It would cripple them in terms

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Speaker 7: of trying to improve the roster. There isn't out in

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Speaker 7: the contract next off season where the cap hit would

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Speaker 7: only be fifteen point four million dollars. That is more likely.

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Speaker 7: So I think you're probably unless both sides come to

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Speaker 7: the table and completely renegotiate the thing, where he would

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Speaker 7: be off the roster after next season. Now he could

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Speaker 7: the Bills could come to Miller and say, hey, look

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Speaker 7: we need to restructure. Can we do a B and

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Speaker 7: C and see how amenable he is to something like that,

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Speaker 7: but off the roster completely based on the current structure

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Speaker 7: of this contract. I would say that is not going

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Speaker 7: to happen this offseason. It would be more likely next

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Speaker 7: season barring a restructure. Let's go back to the phones

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Speaker 7: and to Jay in Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: What do you got for us? Jay?

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Speaker 15: Hey, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 16: You guys have talked about a couple of things have

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Speaker 16: set up a question that's been in my mind for

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Speaker 16: a while now. He talked about Rasseul Douglas now aggressively

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Speaker 16: is and the risks he takes. And then Steve, you

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Speaker 16: mentioned earlier that you know the receivers need to help

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Speaker 16: Josh out a little bit when he's not one hundred

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Speaker 16: percent accurate, but close enough. So Steve, I'd like you

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Speaker 16: to expand on that having been a receiver in the

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Speaker 16: National Football League, because what I see is sometimes I

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Speaker 16: see other teams where the quarterback will throw a deep

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Speaker 16: pass or something like that and their receiver will go

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Speaker 16: up and take the ball. In other words, you know

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Speaker 16: they're yes, it could be intercepted, but at the same time,

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Speaker 16: I just don't feel sometimes that our guys always make

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Speaker 16: the adjustment to help Josh out, not just on some

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Speaker 16: of the short throws, but even the deep ones. And

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Speaker 16: if you can expand on that. I'd appreciate it because

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Speaker 16: it's been in the back of my mind for a

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Speaker 16: while now.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Jay Uh.

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Speaker 4: Josh is his forte is not the deep ball. Never

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Speaker 4: he worked hard on it two years ago. We heard

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Speaker 4: in the offseason, you know, and then we had some

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Speaker 4: stuff when Jordan Palmer was on the show his quarterback

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Speaker 4: coachas in the off season, Josh, Josh is not. His

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Speaker 4: deep ball is not as good as other guys because

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Speaker 4: he has trouble putting air under it. He puts it

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Speaker 4: on the line and it's hard to adjust to that

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Speaker 4: kind of ball. Deep like Russ Wilson is good at

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Speaker 4: it because he he tries. Josh tries to, I think,

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Speaker 4: do too much on his deep ball, tries to put

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Speaker 4: it on the guy and rope it in there. Deep

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Speaker 4: ball is more effective when the quarterback kind of trusts

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Speaker 4: the receiver and throws it up high out to a

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Speaker 4: spot and lets the receiver go get it. Now, it's

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Speaker 4: a different kind of thing than what you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: You're right ball When they say, and I know some

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Speaker 4: people have heard it use the word term used ball skills.

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Speaker 4: Ball skills are the receiver's ability to find the ball

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Speaker 4: in the air and pull it in and go get it.

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Speaker 4: It's easy enough to do when you're out in the

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Speaker 4: backyard and there ain't nobody around. It's not that easy

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Speaker 4: to do when you got an elite athlete and a

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Speaker 4: dB trying to fight you for it, plus use his

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Speaker 4: body to move your body out of the way, and

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Speaker 4: all the stuff that we see going on on the

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Speaker 4: football field. It's harder to do to use ball skills

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Speaker 4: when you got somebody hanging on here when you're fighting

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Speaker 4: another person for it. Some guys are good at it,

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Speaker 4: but one of the things about it is one of

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Speaker 4: the things is like some of the throws that are

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Speaker 4: missed on a deep ball or on Josh because of

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Speaker 4: his style of throwing it. He throws it low arc

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Speaker 4: and puts it out there and gives his and throws

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Speaker 4: it on his guy. Even the throw to ken Kaid

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Speaker 4: yesterday was a low arcing ball. Josh doesn't like putt

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Speaker 4: an air under it for whatever reason, and not doing

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Speaker 4: that when the ball doesn't have an arc on it,

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Speaker 4: that means it's got to have more velocities. You can

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Speaker 4: imagine that velocity means the balls in the air shorter time.

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Speaker 4: And you don't have a chance to adjust to it.

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Speaker 4: You can't like fade away from the dB, you can't

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Speaker 4: like lean into him. You can't you know, you can't

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Speaker 4: get under the ball because the ball is going to

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Speaker 4: get there before you can't. You got it, you know,

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Speaker 4: you don't have a chance to get under it. That's

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Speaker 4: one of the things you see on Josh's deep ball.

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Speaker 4: His arm is so strong and most of these guys

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Speaker 4: can't even get it. They got to put that arc

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Speaker 4: on it because they just got to get it out there.

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Speaker 4: Josh's got the arm for that. You'd have to be

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Speaker 4: ridiculously deep for Josh to feel like he has to

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Speaker 4: put all that air under it to get it out there.

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Speaker 4: So his ball comes out on a lower arc, and

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Speaker 4: that gives you less time to adjust to it. That's

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Speaker 4: one of the things that I see. That's one of

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Speaker 4: the things that I see, and so our receivers Steph Diggs,

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Speaker 4: Gabe Davis, Shakir Kincaid, none of them. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if any of them have ball skills because we never

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Speaker 4: see him have to use it. Because Josh put you know,

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Speaker 4: throws it out there so fast. It's either on you

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Speaker 4: or it's incomplete. That's one of the problems with the

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Speaker 4: Bill's deep ball is Josh's arm is strong enough that

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Speaker 4: he just doesn't have to put arc on it, So

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Speaker 4: the receivers really never get an opportunity to run out

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Speaker 4: underneath a ball that's lofted out into a space. Josh

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Speaker 4: is always thrown it at him. That's sometimes that's a problem.

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Speaker 7: Not always break time for us here, but more of

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Speaker 7: your phone calls when we return here on a Buffalo

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Speaker 7: victory Monday. On one pills Live stay tuned numbers that

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Speaker 7: matter is presented by the New York Lottery. Bill's quarterback

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Speaker 7: Josh Allen became just the fourth NFL quarterback with a

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Speaker 7: rushing touchdown in five straight games. The Patriots four turnovers

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Speaker 7: meanwhile against the Bills, where they're most in a first

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Speaker 7: half in Bill Belichick's head coaching history with the franchise.

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Speaker 7: Four in the first half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, well unfortunately, fortunately for Bills fans, the Bill Belichick

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Speaker 4: regime is seeing a lot of firsts this year for them,

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Speaker 4: This first time they've lost twelve games in a season

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Speaker 4: in thirty years. It's you know, he's one closer. I

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Speaker 4: think He's now one behind the NFL lead in losses

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Speaker 4: for the head coach. It's been rough. It's been rough

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Speaker 4: for those.

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Speaker 15: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Talking to some of the New England reporters yesterday, it

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Speaker 7: is widely believed that this time next week or maybe

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Speaker 7: eight days from now, that the Patriots in Belichick will

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Speaker 7: part ways in some form or fashion. Getting the I

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Speaker 7: mean even us on the outside looking in, it feels

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Speaker 7: like that relationship has kind of run its course. They

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Speaker 7: need fresh blood in there at the coaching spot, new voice,

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Speaker 7: knew everything, new person to go in there.

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Speaker 4: And I get it. I had. I would think that

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Speaker 4: Robert Kraft's reputation as an NFL owner would be pretty good.

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Speaker 4: I mean for guys who are, oh yeah, are going

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Speaker 4: into uh hi mean he supported Bill Belichick through all everything. Course,

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Speaker 4: I mean, what's there to do, said, sit back and

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Speaker 4: you know, collect trophies.

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Speaker 7: But uh, they have been a little stingy with money

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Speaker 7: though sometimes well on second contracts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think I think a lot of the

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Speaker 4: player personnel decisions were probably Bill Belichick, yes, and you know,

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Speaker 4: and they had a reputation when things are going well,

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Speaker 4: you know, they always said, hey, we don't mind letting

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Speaker 4: the guy of a guy, letting go of a guy

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Speaker 4: a year too early, just not a year too late.

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Speaker 4: So they let some guys go who fit that.

869
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 7: Just high law lawyer Malloy drew Bledsoe, I mean run

870
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 7: down there.

871
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot of guys who fit that description.

872
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 4: Plus you know Richard Seymour, who's a Hall of Famer,

873
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 4: didn't get didn't finish his career there, but as an owner,

874
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 4: I would think, you know, got a pretty good reputation.

875
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 4: So I don't know what kind of guy he would

876
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 4: be to work for. Yeah, do you want to be

877
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 4: a first time head coach walking intow England replacing Bill Belichick?

878
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: Well, if I'm getting a quarterback in the draft, I would.

879
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 4: Well, you're gonna be picking what fifth?

880
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,479
Speaker 2: I think they're fourth right now?

881
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 4: Maybe so fourth. You go in there walking too that

882
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: you're following Bill Belichick after you know he's been to

883
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 4: nine Super Bowls or ten.

884
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, he hadn't done anything in the last three years.

885
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 4: Still, I know it's fine.

886
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 7: Let's go back to the phones though, We'll talk Bills

887
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 7: and said, I we got bigger fish.

888
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: Let's go to Bob on a sale next. What you

889
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: got for us? Bob. Hello, Yeah, what's up, Bob?

890
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 17: You're on I call you all the time. Four weeks

891
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 17: ago people were calling for the heads of the coaches

892
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 17: and GM. I think the GM did bring in Douglas, right,

893
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 17: and we uh, we watch your show every day. And

894
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 17: the way some of these people call and cry and

895
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 17: all that they're not true Blue Bills fans. My superstis

896
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 17: is I wear my clothes, same clothes every day, every game.

897
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 17: We're on a winning streak. My friend Dorothy sits over

898
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,479
Speaker 17: here with a free free red bottle, sprays me down.

899
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 17: Let's keep the winning strack going, all.

900
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,959
Speaker 7: Right, tell her to keep spraying. Thanks for the call, Bob,

901
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 7: appreciate that.

902
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 4: Thanks, Thanks for all you do to aid in the wins.

903
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: Right, we go to Jacob in Rochester. Next. What do

904
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 2: you got, Jacob, Jacob? I, I, uh yeah, I'm here.

905
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 2: Happy New Year's h Happy new Year.

906
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 18: Just was hearing you guys talked earlier about Stefon Diggs

907
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 18: and that maybe he's not one hundred percent physically and

908
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 18: that's why he's kind of had a drop off. But

909
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 18: I think the way that I've been looking at it,

910
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 18: as you can see a big drop off when Ken

911
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 18: Dorsey was offensive coordinated versus now with Joe Brady. He's

912
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 18: running a lot of shorter routes, maybe more towards the

913
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Speaker 18: sideline and not like the deep routes and the splash

914
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 18: plays over the middle of the field that we were

915
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 18: seeing earlier in the season. And so I just wanted

916
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Speaker 18: to ask you guys, if you think that it's maybe

917
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 18: a philosophical difference between Dorsey and Brady, and what can

918
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 18: the Bills do to kind of get him more involved,

919
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 18: because I mean, we're gonna need him in the playoffs here.

920
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say this. You're right, there might be a

921
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Speaker 4: different on ran a.

922
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Speaker 2: Deep post Yesterdays just missed him.

923
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 4: There might be a different philosophy about how to use

924
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Speaker 4: him and how many targets. But he is getting a

925
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Speaker 4: ton of He's getting as many targets as anybody in

926
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Speaker 4: the team. So so they're still getting him the ball.

927
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Speaker 4: They're throwing it to him.

928
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Speaker 9: Now.

929
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Speaker 4: You can say what you want about throwing it to

930
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Speaker 4: him behind the line of scrimmage or on hook routes

931
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Speaker 4: and small short routes to the outside, but like Brownie said,

932
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Speaker 4: if you throw in the deep the occasional deep ball,

933
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Speaker 4: I don't you know whatever, But I don't know if

934
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Speaker 4: I can. I can't really at this point cast aspersions

935
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Speaker 4: on how Joe Brady's using him and how the contrast

936
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Speaker 4: is between him and Dorsey because he's still getting a

937
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Speaker 4: ton of targets.

938
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Speaker 2: Same thing happened last year.

939
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Speaker 7: Diggs had an ultra productive first half of the season

940
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Speaker 7: and then his production dropped off in the second half,

941
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Speaker 7: and that was under Dorsey. So the same thing's happening

942
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Speaker 7: this year. Maybe it's not a.

943
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Speaker 2: Coordinator issue, you know.

944
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Speaker 7: Maybe it's a cumulative effect of multiple snaps, tons of

945
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Speaker 7: playing time. Maybe it's a cumulative effect on Stefan Diggs's body.

946
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Speaker 7: I mean, the guy keeps himself in immaculate shape. I'm

947
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Speaker 7: not questioning that for a second. Nobody works harder than Diggs.

948
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Speaker 7: But maybe his own work ethic and the need to

949
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Speaker 7: be out there and rep things is much as he

950
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 7: does might have a cumulative effect on his body and

951
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Speaker 7: make him less effective later in the season. And I

952
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 7: shouldn't put it all on Josh that he missed him

953
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 7: on that post route, because if you watched it on

954
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 7: the replay, Diggs didn't turn his head around and realize

955
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 7: the ball was coming until it was already in the air,

956
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 7: and you saw him try to shift it into a

957
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 7: higher year and he couldn't catch up to the football.

958
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 7: But they are running him on some deep routes here

959
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 7: and there not a ton to your point, Jacob, So

960
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 7: you're I think you're accurate on that. The bottom line

961
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Speaker 7: is they have to find a solution because to your point,

962
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 7: Diggs is going to need to produce more than he

963
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 7: has from a receiving yardage perspective. I mean, he's still

964
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 7: getting four or five catches a game. They need that

965
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,720
Speaker 7: up around seven or eight, and they need the yardage

966
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Speaker 7: up closer to one hundred.

967
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they need to get seven or eight on about

968
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 4: ten targets, or maybe twelve or eight or nine on

969
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 4: twelve targets. When they throw it to him, he needs

970
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 4: it needs to be a completion. That's I think that's

971
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 4: the crucial element. This game turned yesterday. Certainly, it kept

972
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 4: the Bills in it by getting four turnovers in the

973
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 4: first half. Goodness gracious, and they go into they go

974
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 4: into halftime with a lead.

975
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Speaker 2: And they only win by six.

976
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Speaker 7: And let's not forget the Patriots missed a field goal

977
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 7: and botched another one on a delay of game, even

978
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Speaker 7: though the attempt missed right turned into a punt situation

979
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Speaker 7: instead of a field goal attempt situation.

980
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 4: Right. So I think the efficiency of the passing game

981
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 4: is critical and it did turn. The offense did get

982
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 4: better when they stopped dropping balls. They started converting on

983
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,720
Speaker 4: third and sevens, third and nines and third and shorts,

984
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 4: and it made the entire game change. They stayed on

985
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 4: the field and it came out after halftime, put that

986
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 4: drive together and got one explosive which was awesome, but

987
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 4: they powered it in. That's when it changed. When you

988
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 4: get a higher efficiency completion percentage when those guys catch

989
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 4: a little more difficult passes when they're beyond the sticks

990
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 4: and you start converting third downs instead of dropping the pass.

991
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 4: Amazing how things go better.

992
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 7: Break time for us here. But before we do that,

993
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 7: there is an update. NFL Networks in Rapaport is reporting

994
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 7: that it is in fact a torn acl for Dolphins.

995
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 7: Pass rusher Bradley Chubbs suffered in yesterday's loss to the Ravens,

996
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 7: so their last best pass rusher is out for the season,

997
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 7: along with their best pass rusher, Jalen Phillips, who was

998
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 7: lost to a season ending achilles injury a few weeks

999
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 7: ago against the Jets, so the Dolphins will enter the

1000
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 7: week eighteen game without each of their top two pass rushers.

1001
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 7: There are other injuries to sort through on the Dolphins

1002
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 7: side of the ledger as well, But we come back

1003
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 7: in hour number two with what else after a victory?

1004
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 2: The Maddie Awards.

1005
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,439
Speaker 7: They're coming your way next here on One Bill's Live

1006
00:53:46,480 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 7: presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1007
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: The One Bills Live presented by Kaleida Health.

1008
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 7: All right, hour number two on a Buffalo victory Monday,

1009
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 7: Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you, joined in studio here

1010
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 7: by our colleague Maddie glab And why you might ask, Well,

1011
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 7: you haven't been paying attention all season long if you

1012
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 7: don't know why, because after every Bill's victory, we have

1013
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 7: the Maddie Awards, which are presented by Energy Mark, the

1014
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 7: official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills. And this is

1015
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 7: the first twenty twenty.

1016
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 2: Four edition of the Maddies.

1017
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,359
Speaker 7: Now that we are in the new calendar year, and uh,

1018
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 7: Maddie's let's kick it off with the patently obvious Big

1019
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 7: Dog Big Dog Award and we know who that's going.

1020
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 5: To big Dog.

1021
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 19: It's going to rouse Stuel Douglas for what he was

1022
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 19: able to do against the Patriots yesterday.

1023
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 5: Two interceptions. He said he could have had three.

1024
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 19: In the post game, that tipped pass that he said

1025
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 19: he had, he was like, I could have grabbed that,

1026
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 19: but thankfully at Oliver was there for the one handed

1027
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 19: grab for the interception. He also returned one of those

1028
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 19: interceptions where Sewull Douglas did for a touchdown.

1029
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 5: And that's a big dog performance.

1030
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 19: He has six takeaways since coming to the Buffalo Bills,

1031
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 19: that leads the NFL in that span. In the first

1032
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 19: half of this game, according to Next Gen Stats, he

1033
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 19: allowed Bailey Zappi to have a two point one quarterback race.

1034
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 5: That is insane.

1035
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 20: Uh.

1036
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 5: This guy fits in Buffalo's defense.

1037
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 19: He fits what Sean McDermott wants him to do, what

1038
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 19: John Butler wants him to do. He was needed when

1039
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 19: Buffalo traded for him, and he stepped up to the

1040
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 19: challenge when he got here. You know, it's not easy

1041
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 19: to learn a new defense, to come in in the

1042
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 19: middle of the season and to try and be an

1043
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 19: impact player. We knew his track record when he came

1044
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 19: to this team. We knew what he has done in

1045
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 19: his NFL career leading up to becoming a Buffalo Bill,

1046
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 19: and he performed once he got here. You think somebody

1047
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 19: is gonna be you know, good on paper, you look

1048
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 19: good on paper, We know what you can do, and

1049
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 19: he comes to Buffalo and does exactly that and more so,

1050
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 19: he is that trade that the Bills have for him,

1051
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 19: so worth it.

1052
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 5: I hope he's on the team next year, contract under

1053
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 5: contract and extending him.

1054
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's interesting too because we've we talked about how

1055
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 4: the defense, you know, particularly in the middle of the defense.

1056
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 4: You know, you lost Milano, lost Daikwon Jones who came

1057
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 4: back and played well yesterday, and the safety's have been

1058
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 4: in and out of it. But one of the guys

1059
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 4: that's been really great all year is your next award

1060
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 4: winner ten.

1061
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 5: Out of ten, ten out of ten that's going to

1062
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 5: Ed Oliver.

1063
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 19: He gets a ten out of ten for looking like

1064
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 19: a gymnast, looking like an acrobat in terms of grabbing

1065
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 19: the ball. The tipped ball that Rausul Douglass was able

1066
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 19: to get his hands up and tip a Bailey Zappi's

1067
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 19: pass left the ball in the air so what does

1068
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 19: Ed Oliver do. He grabs it with one hand for

1069
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 19: an interception. He's a big guy, and when you're trying

1070
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 19: to make a decision in a split second, you have

1071
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 19: to be light on your feet, you have to get

1072
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 19: your body moving in one direction. You have to have

1073
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 19: some bursts to you and Ed Oliver did exactly that

1074
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 19: had like a little Ballerina performance there. It was his

1075
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 19: first interception since high school, which is amazing for him

1076
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 19: to get back to doing that. Up to nine and

1077
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 19: a half sacks on the season, it's the most since

1078
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 19: Jordan Phillips nine and a half in twenty nineteen. I

1079
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 19: also thought this stat was pretty fun. He leads the

1080
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 19: Bills since being drafted by Buffalo with twenty four sacks.

1081
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 19: We've said it all season long. He is so worth

1082
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 19: the deal he got.

1083
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 5: I love what he's doing on the field, but I

1084
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 5: love his leadership this season.

1085
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 19: There was a miked up piece Josh Allen from last

1086
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 19: week's game that went out on Buffalo bills dot com,

1087
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 19: and throughout that piece you could see at Oliver talking

1088
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 19: to offensive players walking down the sideline, getting guys hyped up.

1089
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 19: I think that's something new that we're seeing from at

1090
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,959
Speaker 19: Oliver this season is the way that he's been able

1091
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 19: to step up in his leadership skills. I just love

1092
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 19: his energy, love the vibes, love his personality, and love

1093
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 19: the nine and a half sacks so far.

1094
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 7: Had two quarterback hits yesterday to go along with that

1095
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 7: interception and a pass breakup. So yeah, he's been putting

1096
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 7: crooked numbers in a lot of defensive columns all season long.

1097
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: We shift gears to the special teams unit, mister precise, that's.

1098
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 19: Going to Sam Martin, and I love that we're giving

1099
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 19: some love to special teams here.

1100
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 5: Because it's been an up and down season for them.

1101
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 19: And you can say that about you know, some facets

1102
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 19: of the Bills game this season, from game to game,

1103
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 19: from week to week, trying to get to playing complimentary football,

1104
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 19: and in a lot of ways, towards the end of

1105
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 19: last last night's game, the Bills were able to kind

1106
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 19: of get into doing that.

1107
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 5: That offense.

1108
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 19: The offense had that eleven play drive at the end

1109
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 19: of the game. But Sam Martin, in terms of what

1110
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 19: he was able to do, he had three punts down

1111
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 19: within the ten. Two of those were within the five.

1112
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 19: The most important one was at New England's three yard

1113
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 19: line at the end of the game and the fourth

1114
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 19: quarter was just over six minutes left on the clock.

1115
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 19: The Bills defense was able to force a three and

1116
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 19: out on that drive, give the ball back to the

1117
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 19: offense to win the game. And kudos to saran Neil

1118
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 19: too for getting down the field in time to help

1119
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 19: down those punts within the ten yard line. It is

1120
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 19: a cheat code when you can play like that, when

1121
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 19: you have special teams, when you have Sam Martin and

1122
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 19: his ability to be able to precision effort get a

1123
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 19: ball within the five yard line and really make it

1124
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 19: hard for the opposing offense to get down the field

1125
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 19: and score. That is what the Bills need going forward.

1126
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 19: That is what they need against Miami Dolphins. Hopefully they're

1127
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 19: going to be in the playoffs with a win over

1128
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 19: the Dolphins. That's what they're gonna need in the postseason.

1129
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 7: Here are the Patriots drive starts real quick steve off

1130
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 7: of Sam Martin punts New England eighteen yard line, New

1131
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 7: England sixteen yard line, New England five yard line, New

1132
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 7: England eight yard line, New England sixteen yard line, New

1133
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 7: England three yard line, Their average drive start in the

1134
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 7: game for the entire game their own seventeen. The Bills,

1135
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 7: by contrast, was their own forty. You talk about the

1136
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 7: hidden yards in a football game. There was a wide

1137
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 7: disparity yesterday, wide disparity.

1138
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 2: And Sam Martin was right in the middle of that.

1139
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I for your third reward win or fourth

1140
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 4: award winner, third award winner, fourth fourth. No, we're going

1141
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 4: back to the defense. We're going back to the defensive

1142
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 4: side and textbook.

1143
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 19: Textbook performance. It's going to Terrell Bernard. Three tackles for loss,

1144
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 19: three quarterback hits, two sacks. It's something that he has

1145
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 19: done consistently this season. It's not like you see the

1146
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 19: stat line you're like, whoa Trell Bernard.

1147
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 5: We haven't seen it yet from him. He's been doing

1148
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 5: this all year.

1149
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 19: He has six and a half sacks now on the season,

1150
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 19: the most by Bill's linebacker since Lorenzo Alexander had six

1151
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 19: and a half.

1152
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 5: In twenty eighteen.

1153
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 19: It's a good company to be in, right. He's doing

1154
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 19: a great job leading the team on the field, leading

1155
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 19: this defense.

1156
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 5: He's a young.

1157
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 19: Player in his first year as a starting middle linebacker.

1158
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 19: That's a lot to take on. He's a textbook type

1159
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 19: of player, and that's because of the homework he does

1160
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 19: outside of the practice field, outside of team meetings.

1161
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 5: If you ask guys.

1162
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 19: In the locker room who watches the most film, a

1163
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 19: lot of players will say Terrell Bernard And you see that.

1164
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 7: On the Yeah, we had the team break a record

1165
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 7: with their fifth straight season of ten wins or at

1166
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 7: least ten wins in a regular season. That was a

1167
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 7: team record set yesterday with the win over the Patriots.

1168
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 7: But there was an individual record breaker as well.

1169
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 19: Yeah, one of our rookies, Dolan Kincaid, broke a record yesterday.

1170
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 19: He's up to sixty six catches on the season, so

1171
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 19: that means he passes Sammy Watkins record for most receptions

1172
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 19: all time by a Bill's rookie in a season. Sammy

1173
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 19: Watkins had sixty five and twenty fourteen, So don't cuk

1174
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 19: just over that now. It'll be fun to see what

1175
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 19: he can do in next week's game against the Dolphins.

1176
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 5: It was also awesome to see him get that fifty

1177
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 5: one yard.

1178
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 19: Grab, longest grab as a Buffalo Bill in his rookie season. Obviously,

1179
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 19: keep it going in Week eighteen. That's what I have

1180
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 19: to say. He's not been on the stat sheet as

1181
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 19: much in the last couple weeks leading into this game.

1182
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 19: He got back to it this game, the leading receiver

1183
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 19: for the Bills four catches for eighty seven receivers even yards.

1184
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 5: I want more of that.

1185
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was big and I think that that explosive

1186
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 4: play that we just saw on the on the screen,

1187
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 4: so yeah, they really needed it. Came at the perfect

1188
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 4: time when the Bills were coming out after halftime. They

1189
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 4: came out and put a nice little statement drive together,

1190
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 4: made some nice adjustments and got him on a zero coverage,

1191
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 4: got their guy loose, and it's the first really deep

1192
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 4: ball he's had all year. And he's he's caught and

1193
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 4: run some. But that ball traveling that far in the

1194
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 4: air was nice to see. And now one of one.

1195
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 19: All right, one of one, let's go into Josh Allen.

1196
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 19: I know, statistically not the best performance out of him,

1197
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 19: But did you guys see that pitch play that Josh

1198
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 19: had as several New England defenders were bringing him down

1199
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,919
Speaker 19: to the ground. I think his body was like horizontal

1200
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,439
Speaker 19: parallel with the ground by that time, by the time

1201
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 19: that he kind of tossed it over to Khalil Shakir

1202
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 19: with one hand. It was a completion and Khalil Shakir

1203
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 19: gets a first down.

1204
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, who can do that?

1205
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 19: That is why he has one have won when you

1206
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 19: think a play is dead, when you think it's over,

1207
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 19: when you think there's no chance, when you think Josh

1208
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 19: Allen is hitting the ground, when you think, uh, he

1209
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 19: rolled out of the pocket, he's gonna go out of bounce. No,

1210
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 19: we'll just throw it off of our back foot, across

1211
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 19: the body and hit somebody down the field. Josh Allen

1212
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 19: the things that he can do, so few in the

1213
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 19: NFL can do, and that is why he's one of them.

1214
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 4: I think that that was a really well designed play

1215
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 4: by Joe Braid, a little creative and it did.

1216
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 2: I'll say this, are you willing to believe that was

1217
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 2: drawn up that way? You think it was?

1218
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 4: Was ready for that?

1219
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 2: Okay?

1220
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shakira was ready for it, and I think Josh,

1221
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 4: you know, he tried to turn it up inside they

1222
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 4: had it. Yeah, I don't think if it.

1223
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 2: Was didn't bite on it, if.

1224
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 4: It wasn't a called play or design play, I guarantee

1225
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 4: you Josh and Shakiv had a conversation about being ready.

1226
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 7: Okay, because because based on they be wrong, but I

1227
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 7: think that is based on how the play unfolded. That

1228
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 7: defensive end never moved, he did not bite on a run.

1229
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 7: I just think josh probably should have given it to

1230
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 7: Cook on the plane instead of keeping it there because

1231
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 7: the area does not move.

1232
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 2: He's waiting for it.

1233
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 4: Well, the backside chases Cook down. So the Patriots were

1234
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 4: kind of ready for it, but they left uh twenty

1235
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 4: seven there. I can't remember.

1236
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 2: I don't know his name, Miles Bryant, Bryant.

1237
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 4: They've left Bryant unblocked, and Bryant got caught late realizing

1238
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 4: that they he was vulnerable, and you know, Joshua's dead

1239
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 4: smack into bar More, you know, and so you know,

1240
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 4: the play was there. I still think. I'm you know, it.

1241
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 2: Went for a first down.

1242
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 4: We may never we may never get a straight answer,

1243
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 4: and you know, it always looks good at the end.

1244
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 4: But I'm telling you, I thought that play was designed

1245
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 4: from the get, from the jump because on the I think,

1246
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,919
Speaker 4: and I didn't Shakir go in motion and then circle back.

1247
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 2: I want to say, yes, I think that's what I think.

1248
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 4: Maybe not, I don't know, but he was. He was

1249
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 4: in motion at the snap, So yeah, I think it

1250
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 4: was an absolutely cold play.

1251
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 7: All right, Our final award winner didn't even take the field,

1252
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 7: and it wasn't a member of the current coaching staff,

1253
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 7: but it was somebody that Bill's fans will know very well.

1254
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 5: Where else would you rather be?

1255
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 19: Marv Levy were shouting you out because of being in

1256
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 19: attendance at yesterday's game.

1257
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 5: It was amazing to see that he's.

1258
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 19: A part of the Leading the Charge chant with Lorenzo Alexander.

1259
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 19: They cut to him in his suite, and you love

1260
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 19: when Marv is at a game. This guy's getting up

1261
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 19: there in his years and he's still traveling, still going

1262
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 19: to games. Steve, you did an interview with him on

1263
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 19: Saturday afternoon.

1264
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 4: I was actually there. I was actually I actually went

1265
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 4: to I want. I didn't get a chance to say,

1266
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 4: you know, I saw him the day before we did

1267
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 4: this interview that you're looking at on the screen and

1268
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 4: then look at that. I was actually in that suite

1269
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 4: when that at the beginning of the game when it

1270
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 4: was happened. Then I came back to my normal spot,

1271
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 4: but I said goodbye to him there. You know, just

1272
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 4: just was good to see him and this his family

1273
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 4: is his wife, his daughter and her family are Marve's great.

1274
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 4: It was tremendous to spend some time with him. He's

1275
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 4: in great spirits. He's ninety eight, ninety eight years young.

1276
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 2: Dude was born in nineteen twenty five.

1277
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, think about that.

1278
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 2: That is ridiculous.

1279
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1280
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 4: So he was at the game yesterday and he was,

1281
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 4: of course as you would imagine, and it was cool

1282
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 4: to see how well he was received by Bill's Mafia

1283
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 4: in the stadium. That it was awesome. Lorenzo Alexander did

1284
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 4: a nice job and I need some help here, and

1285
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 4: they showed him up on the schoolboard. It was it

1286
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 4: was a great moment.

1287
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 19: I got a little teary eyed seeing him on the scoreboard,

1288
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 19: I know, next to each other and like it's over.

1289
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Yeah. He's a Hall of Fame person. He

1290
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 4: really is. Hall of fame football coach and a Hall

1291
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 4: of fame human being. And I think the Bill's Mafia

1292
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 4: appreciates him for both.

1293
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 19: I'm excited to see that piece when it comes out.

1294
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 19: I mean, two greats talking to each other.

1295
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 4: It was great to see him. He was It's wonder.

1296
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 4: It's always great to spend It's always a gift to

1297
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 4: be able to spend.

1298
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 2: We say it all the time. He's an American treasure.

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01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 2: Guy's an American treasure.

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Speaker 7: I mean maybe that's not realized across the country, but

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01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 7: I think it certainly is here in Buffalo, and I

1302
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 7: think in his native Chicago as well.

1303
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I've need after him. I've spent some time

1304
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 4: with him in Chicago. And we went to dinner at

1305
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 4: Harry Carey's and I went in and I'm sitting there

1306
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 4: and Marvin and his wife show up. It was just

1307
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 4: the three of us for dinner and Marv. When Marv

1308
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 4: comes in the door, everything it's Harry Carey. So it's

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01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 4: a big joint and it's busy.

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 7: Uh.

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01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,560
Speaker 4: And they got a desk there, and they got a

1312
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 4: receptionists with like three people behind it at all times,

1313
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 4: and it's, you know, just a busy place. And Marv

1314
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 4: walks in and that busy place goes on fast forward.

1315
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 4: I mean every yes, it is like it is all

1316
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 4: hands on deck. It is. Well, it's listen, it's funny

1317
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 4: you should say that we go to dinner. This is

1318
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 4: in the preseason this year. Yeah, so' Marv has a

1319
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 4: table and they think, you know what, so they take

1320
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 4: his wife. Frian and they walk Franny around the entire

1321
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 4: restaurant and she says, we'll have we'll sit over here.

1322
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 4: She picks They picked the table. It was pretty cool.

1323
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 4: So yeah, Marv is I.

1324
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 2: Think he is called clout with a capital.

1325
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 4: He is an American treasure, no doubt.

1326
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 2: Uh, good stuff, Maddie.

1327
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 7: Here in the Maddie Awards, we are hoping and probably

1328
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 7: in some cases praying, that we see you here in

1329
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 7: your seat next Monday, because that will mean good things

1330
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 7: for the Bills in many many ways. Not only will

1331
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 7: they be in the playoffs, but it will also mean

1332
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 7: they are the number two seeds.

1333
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 5: That sounds one, which.

1334
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:48,759
Speaker 2: Would mean at least two home playoff games for well

1335
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 2: your Buffalo Bills, at least one.

1336
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 7: Well right, one got to win it. But yes, if

1337
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 7: you're the two seed and you win and in the

1338
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 7: wildcard round, you host again the following week, That's what

1339
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 7: I meant, That's right, And then if you can really lucky,

1340
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 7: and then when number one seed gets knocked out over

1341
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 7: the course of that time, you can host all three

1342
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:07,560
Speaker 7: prior to the Super Bowl. But we don't want to

1343
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 7: get ahead of ourselves. Let's just say hope to see

1344
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 7: you here next week.

1345
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 2: Hope.

1346
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 5: I hope to be here. I hope to be working

1347
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 5: on as the season continues.

1348
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 4: That's right, let's go.

1349
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 2: So we will take a break here.

1350
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 7: But for those of you waiting at eight h three

1351
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 7: oh five point fifty and waiting patiently, we appreciate it.

1352
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 7: We will get to you phone calls coming your way.

1353
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 7: Next here on a Buffalo Victory Monday, on One Bill's Live,

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 7: presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right

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01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 7: back here on a Buffalo Victory Monday, Chris Brown, Steve

1356
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 7: Tasker with you and asking you for your takeaways from

1357
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 7: Buffalo's win over the Patriots twenty seven to twenty one

1358
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 7: at high Mark Stadium yesterday, and we go right to

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01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 7: the phone, some people waiting patiently.

1360
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 2: We lead off with Jack and Syracuse. What you got,

1361
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 2: fir Us Jack?

1362
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 21: You know, I love the Bills. I'll always be a

1363
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 21: Bills fan. But I just don't see a scenario where

1364
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 21: they go far in the playoffs at all. I mean,

1365
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 21: when it's mattered most they've really they've not performed. They've

1366
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 21: lost to bad teams, They've beat some good ones, but

1367
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 21: I don't see that the defense and the offense can

1368
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 21: both get hot in the same games, and I don't

1369
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 21: think that they have great chances going beyond the first

1370
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 21: or second round.

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01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to get It's hard for a lot

1372
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 4: of people to have faith. Just like you, it's hard

1373
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 4: for a lot of people have faith in a team

1374
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 4: that's been so inconsistent. You know, they've been They've ridden

1375
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 4: a roller coaster on both sides of the ball. On

1376
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 4: the defensive side, you can say is because of the

1377
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:49,719
Speaker 4: injuries early and they finally kind of got it together

1378
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 4: and maybe this is the defense you've seen but not

1379
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 4: always right. And for the offense, we need to see

1380
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 4: more consistent. You know, they've changed coordinators for goodness sake,

1381
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 4: that's how inconsistent they've been. So yeah, there's listen. I

1382
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 4: only one team's going to be happy when all this

1383
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 4: is said and done. So all these teams have reasons

1384
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 4: to be both optimistic and pessimistic. And Bills fans are

1385
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 4: you know, as entitled as anybody with the season this

1386
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 4: team's put together to feel both those things.

1387
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 7: I would say the last couple of weeks, the defense

1388
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 7: has looked playoff caliber. I don't think the offense has

1389
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 7: looked playoff caliber. And special teams has been a mixed

1390
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 7: bag as well, where I think you could question whether

1391
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 7: or not they are playoff caliber. Their punter was playoff

1392
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:49,759
Speaker 7: caliber yesterday, their kicker was playoff caliber yesterday. The coverage

1393
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 7: unit was not, and the return unit really hasn't done

1394
01:12:55,760 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 7: anything super dynamic most of the season. So you're really

1395
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 7: talking about one phase of your football team with one

1396
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 7: week of the regular season remaining that has looked playoff

1397
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 7: caliber of late.

1398
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 2: That's problematic.

1399
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as pessimistic as you you can be, and

1400
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 4: you're entitled to be, and and like we've just said,

1401
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 4: you have good reason to be, there's also plenty of

1402
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 4: reason and potential that is obvious or at least evident

1403
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,640
Speaker 4: that you can feel the other way. This is a

1404
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 4: team that needed to thring to throw five wins together

1405
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 4: and has done so. And they've done it in a

1406
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 4: lot of different ways. Yeah, and they've done it in

1407
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 4: a lot of different ways.

1408
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 2: I haven't done five.

1409
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 4: Yet, and they've done it a lot of different ways.

1410
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 4: Uh So, they've, like I said earlier in the show,

1411
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 4: they've won games every possible way you can win them

1412
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 4: this year, and they've lost some games that they should

1413
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 4: have won, and they've once maybe a couple of games

1414
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:02,720
Speaker 4: they shouldn't have won, like the Giant Gamer something. So yeah,

1415
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 4: for everything you can throw at him, the Bills still

1416
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 4: seem to be in the mix. Certainly this game this weekend,

1417
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 4: they go down and lose this game, and this is

1418
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 4: going to be a pretty You're going to look back

1419
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 4: on this year and be absolutely disgusted, Yeah, because it

1420
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 4: will be. It'll be wasted.

1421
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:24,520
Speaker 7: You'll be titled as a season of missed opportunities, absolutely

1422
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:29,360
Speaker 7: missed opportunities, squandered opportunities, however you want to characterize it.

1423
01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 2: Opportunities missed for sure. Back to the phones and to

1424
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 2: Mark on a cell. What do you got first? Mark?

1425
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 7: Mark the Yeah, all right, what do you got for us?

1426
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 14: I have.

1427
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 15: A question? First of all, happy New Year, Yeah, Next

1428
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:59,759
Speaker 15: is Mattie will be back next week. And third, mister Brown,

1429
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 15: I didn't play football either, but I have a question

1430
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 15: for you that I'd like a definitive answer on von Miller,

1431
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 15: because I like what the ladies said about getting out

1432
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 15: of the contract. Is he held out by the league

1433
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 15: or did the CoA hold him out? I think a

1434
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 15: lot of people invite to hear that.

1435
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 7: Yeah, no problem, Mark, happy to help you on that,

1436
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 7: and I would say that all indications are it was

1437
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 7: a coaching decision. Von Miller is not on the injury

1438
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 7: report outside of having a veteran rest day this past week,

1439
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:45,640
Speaker 7: so fit to play. But I think coach McDermott determined

1440
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 7: that with Ajpanessa healthy enough to play yesterday, a young

1441
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 7: Kingsley Jonathan fully healthy, that they offered them more from

1442
01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 7: a pass rushing perspective than my von Miller has the

1443
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 7: last several weeks. And I don't think you can blame

1444
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 7: coach McDermott for the decision that he made. In fact,

1445
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 7: I know there's a lot of Bills fans that were

1446
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 7: happy that he sat von Miller down because they have

1447
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 7: been largely unimpressed with what he has been able to

1448
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:21,600
Speaker 7: do out on the football field, and the lack of

1449
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 7: production tends to back that up. I think what the

1450
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 7: Bills were trying to do, and Brandon Bean had spoken

1451
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 7: to this too, when von Miller first came back, they

1452
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 7: had to give him a pretty long on ramp to

1453
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 7: get back up to game shape, game speed, and perform

1454
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 7: the way he has been accustomed to performing in the

1455
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 7: way that most people have become accustomed to see in

1456
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 7: performing in games, which is being a difference maker at

1457
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:55,639
Speaker 7: sometimes the most critical moments in games. But since Week

1458
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 7: six when he returned, there has not been enough ever

1459
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 7: evidence of that. In fact, there's been very little evidence

1460
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 7: that he can be the same player for the team,

1461
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 7: and maybe it takes until next year to see it again.

1462
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 7: I think we all have to remember that even though

1463
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 7: von Miller is a freak athlete and will be a

1464
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 7: Hall of Famer when his career is over, this is

1465
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 7: the second time he is trying to come back from

1466
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 7: an ACL injury in his career. The last time he

1467
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 7: was in his twenties. He's now thirty four, with a

1468
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 7: lot more miles on the tires. It's different, and I

1469
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 7: think anybody who has gone through an injury of this

1470
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 7: magnitude at this age in this league would tell you

1471
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 7: it's a big hill to climb. Not trying to be

1472
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 7: an apologist for von Miller, those are facts. When you're

1473
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 7: trying to come back from an ACL injury at age

1474
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 7: thirty four, it's different than when you're trying to come

1475
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 7: back from that injury at age twenty seven. It so, yeah,

1476
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 7: we haven't seen enough evidence to warrant him playing, and

1477
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 7: coach McDermott made the decision.

1478
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 4: And to get to the other part of your problem, No,

1479
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 4: the NFL didn't sit him down. That was it's it's

1480
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 4: a Buffalo Bill decision. Yeah, nothing like that was because

1481
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,600
Speaker 4: if the NFL does it, that's public knowledge. This is

1482
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 4: a coach's decision. And and Sean was obviously asked about

1483
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 4: a post game last night and he and it gave

1484
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 4: me the impression that Vaughan understood. I mean it was

1485
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 4: he said he was on the he was engaged, he

1486
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 4: stayed engaged, he was on the sideline, still being a

1487
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 4: leader and that kind of guy for his teammates. So

1488
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that this is not a festering wound

1489
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:46,760
Speaker 4: in the roster or anything else.

1490
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 7: And Vaughn finally spoke to the media this past week

1491
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:50,880
Speaker 7: and he was even asked that question about his lack

1492
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 7: of production and he said, hey, man, I'm a team guy.

1493
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 7: So if they feel like somebody else gives us a

1494
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 7: better chance to win, and said to me, I'm all

1495
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 7: for it, right, And that actually came to Fruition this

1496
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 7: week and he accepted it. So he backed up his

1497
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 7: words with his actions. So will it happen again this week.

1498
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1499
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 7: Maybe he looks great in practice this week and they

1500
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 7: decide to dress him and play, and maybe he makes

1501
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 7: a big play in the game this week that helps

1502
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 7: him win the division.

1503
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 2: Who knows.

1504
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 4: Who knows? But yeah, you're right, but.

1505
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 2: The evidence has not been there.

1506
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 7: And it's unfortunate because it's not like he hasn't tried

1507
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 7: to come back and be the player he was.

1508
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll say this too, his contract is prohibitive.

1509
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 4: They're going to have to either restructure or do something

1510
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 4: else because the cap hit is too great for him

1511
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,639
Speaker 4: to release him. So the only what Bills fans need

1512
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 4: to hope for is that he, you know, either finishes

1513
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:42,920
Speaker 4: this year strong or comes back next year strong, because

1514
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:45,719
Speaker 4: he'll be here, I think unless something drastically changes.

1515
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 2: Back to the phones, we go and to Mark in

1516
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 2: Jersey City. What do you got for us? Mark?

1517
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:56,360
Speaker 20: Happy New Year, gentlemen. Yeah, yesterdays was a typical frustrating

1518
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 20: Bills win. You know that they have a team just

1519
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 20: giving him their next and put us out of our

1520
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 20: misery and just and then they have to put us

1521
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 20: through the meat grinder, and you know, thanks for you know,

1522
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 20: segueing with Vaughn because there's guys on this team that

1523
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 20: have done nothing all year, and they've played a whole

1524
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 20: more lot than Vaughn. Trent Sherfield does nothing for them.

1525
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:19,840
Speaker 20: I don't care if he runs down on kicks. I

1526
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 20: haven't noticed him doing anything there. They had a kick returns,

1527
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 20: you know, they've given up returns all year, punt, kickoff,

1528
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 20: and punt, and anytime they thought it, well, nothing good happens.

1529
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:30,720
Speaker 20: He doesn't have a catch over ten yards all year.

1530
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 20: I mean, and he he's their fourth most snapped wide

1531
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 20: receiver on the team, and they're hemorrhaging for playmakers, and

1532
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 20: they get into this wall of trying to force things,

1533
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 20: trying to get guys. They were trying to force Kinkaid

1534
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 20: deep all game early and then they finally got him

1535
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,120
Speaker 20: on that one, the whole shot interception. Josh forced that

1536
01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 20: the second they brought in Dave Edwards and I saw

1537
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 20: where they were at the on the field. I'm like,

1538
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 20: they're going to go deep, and I thought it was

1539
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 20: to Gabe, but it was to Uh. It ended up

1540
01:20:57,680 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 20: being the Kincaid. And in the past, where's the passes

1541
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 20: to the running backs? Something that was working for them.

1542
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 20: They you know, they got the jets on them. They

1543
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 20: just kind of dissolved. They just they have to, you know,

1544
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 20: stop trying to force things early and realize who they

1545
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 20: are and what they're not.

1546
01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 22: I don't know what's up with Diggs. You know, Davis

1547
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 22: did his disappearing act again, and I'm glad Josh admitted

1548
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 22: his feet were all messed up yesterday. They were going

1549
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 22: at his feet, he was throwing backpedal and he was

1550
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 22: just all over the shop yesterday. So they better get

1551
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 22: it rectified this week. But Miami's in a bad spot

1552
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 22: with injuries too, So I don't know what you guys

1553
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,839
Speaker 22: feel about bringing up Shorter, but I see wide receivers

1554
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 22: who don't play all year make plays all over the league.

1555
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 22: I mean I saw the Green Bay wide receivers who

1556
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 22: barely anybody knows except Jalen Reed making plays all game.

1557
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 2: So yeah, I again, Mark, thanks for the call.

1558
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:48,720
Speaker 12: Uh.

1559
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 7: I know Steve wouldn't mind seeing Justin Shorter. Yeah, he

1560
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 7: haven't seen him all year. He hasn't played in an

1561
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 7: NFL game.

1562
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 4: But what you got to lose, well, yeah, you look

1563
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 4: at it's like the Von Miller thing. If if it's

1564
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 4: not there and you got another option. It might be

1565
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 4: you're getting to the point where it's time, but I

1566
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:09,600
Speaker 4: at this late in the season, you know, it's a

1567
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 4: big ask. He's a big Spot's a big ask for

1568
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 4: a young guy to come in and play. Now, he's

1569
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,680
Speaker 4: been in the building, he knows the vibe. It's not

1570
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 4: like he's he's you would walk in there blind.

1571
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:21,719
Speaker 2: And he was a full participant in practice this past week,

1572
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 2: so you know he's healthy.

1573
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:27,760
Speaker 4: Right, and he is I'm not exaggerating. He is a

1574
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 4: giant of a wide receiver. He's big. But it's a

1575
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 4: big ask for the kid. Yeah, to put him in

1576
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 4: that spot. What if he comes in and it doesn't

1577
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 4: go well for him and then he kind of leaves

1578
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 4: and he doesn't get a chance to play again, and

1579
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 4: he leaves this season with a really bad taste in

1580
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:43,680
Speaker 4: his mouth, and you.

1581
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:45,840
Speaker 7: Know, all us everything moves a lot faster in a game.

1582
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 7: He doesn't have a big report with Josh been.

1583
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 4: It's been eons since the preseason when he took some

1584
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,680
Speaker 4: snaps and was practicing hard. But you know, being out

1585
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 4: there and being in the building does help a little

1586
01:22:56,240 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 4: bit with that. But yeah, I you know, certainly there

1587
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 4: are other options on the roster. There always are. That's

1588
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 4: why they have backups and injuries, and I mean the

1589
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 4: ir and the practice squad and all that got They

1590
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 4: got enough bodies to go out there and make some

1591
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 4: changes if they so desire. But you would like to

1592
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 4: see the guys that are actually out there doing better, right,

1593
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 4: And you're looking for all the answers you can when

1594
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,480
Speaker 4: your offense isn't clicking on every cylinder.

1595
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:27,599
Speaker 7: Right, and you know you may have to get super creative.

1596
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 7: I think they did try to throw to the backs

1597
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 7: to some degree to Mark's question. You know they miscook

1598
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:37,639
Speaker 7: on a wheel route. You know he's open down the sideline,

1599
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 7: Josh misses him, and that goes back to Josh's mechanics

1600
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 7: and is throwing a lot of the screen stuff to

1601
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 7: the backs. The Patriots had it sniffed out. It was

1602
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 7: dead from the word go. A couple of tunnel screens

1603
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 7: got sniffed out by the Patriots. Also, that defense was ready.

1604
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 7: They had answers for everything that Joe Brady dialed up,

1605
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 7: and he did try deep shots. I mean, Josh unfortunately

1606
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 7: is under pressure and has to throw off his back foot,

1607
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 7: can't muscle it out to Diggs and it hits Kyle

1608
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 7: Dugger in the helmet because the pass is short, but

1609
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,479
Speaker 7: Diggs has won on that route, can't get it to

1610
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 7: him down the middle of the field, and then later

1611
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 7: in the game he overshoots him because Diggs doesn't get

1612
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 7: a head around fast enough and isn't putting in fifth

1613
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 7: gear in time to run the ball.

1614
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 2: Down when he had him beat. Also, so you tried

1615
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 2: some deep shots.

1616
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,640
Speaker 7: It's not like Joe Brady didn't call him, they just

1617
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 7: didn't connect on them, and the backs didn't manifest things either.

1618
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 7: You got to get creative this week because you need

1619
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 7: early separation en routes to have answers for Josh in

1620
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 7: case's blitzed. And I think you're gonna face a desperate

1621
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 7: Dolphins defense that does not have their two best pass

1622
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 7: rushers up front. They're going to need two blitz to

1623
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:56,679
Speaker 7: help protect an injury riddled secondary. So I would expect

1624
01:24:56,680 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 7: an aggressive Dolphins defense. So knowing that you need to

1625
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 7: have early separation, easy button throws for Josh to go

1626
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,640
Speaker 7: do this week, And if you've got to split cookout

1627
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 7: wide and have him play receiver the whole game, then

1628
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 7: do it because you need better answers than the ones

1629
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,759
Speaker 7: you have right now at the receiver position. Whether it's cook,

1630
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 7: whether it's shorter, whatever, whether it's putting knocks on the

1631
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 7: field as a tight end and making Kincaid more of

1632
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 7: a true receiver, whatever you have to do, that has

1633
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 7: to be done this week because it is all or

1634
01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 7: nothing on Sunday night.

1635
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know nobody wants to hear this, but

1636
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 4: this is the way it kind of falls. When you're

1637
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 4: in a game plan situation and you're watching film together

1638
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 4: and you got all those guys in the room and

1639
01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 4: you've all seen what the game plan was, you've seen

1640
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 4: the play called, you've seen the defense you're running against,

1641
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 4: and you're watching it happen on film in real time.

1642
01:25:55,200 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 4: And the message And I know fans get really disgusted

1643
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:05,920
Speaker 4: with these words, but it's the truth or the guys

1644
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 4: in the room just got to play better. The guys

1645
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 4: in the room who are actually being called on the

1646
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 4: we're all discussed like, you can't catch you can't do this.

1647
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 4: You're not getting separated. You got to tell them listen,

1648
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 4: you gotta play better.

1649
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, but Steve, that might be true, but when

1650
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 7: you see it as often as we have through the

1651
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 7: course of this season.

1652
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:23,640
Speaker 4: That's why then gets illustrated.

1653
01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:26,280
Speaker 2: The uncomfortable truth might be they may just not be

1654
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:26,840
Speaker 2: good enough.

1655
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:28,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what, you may be sitting there

1656
01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 4: every day going you may not be good enough, but

1657
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 4: you're way better than the gather options in our roster.

1658
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 4: So play better. Yeah, that's the only option. That is

1659
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 4: the only option. Sometimes, and we may be sitting here

1660
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 4: and I throw out Shorter and you say, hey, James Cook,

1661
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 4: split out. Why if if you're gonna put somebody in

1662
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 4: the game, somebody has to sit down. And if you're

1663
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 4: and if you cannot convince not just the coaching staff,

1664
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 4: but the players in the room that somebody else needs

1665
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 4: to play. If you can't do that, you ain't making

1666
01:26:58,200 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 4: a change.

1667
01:26:59,439 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 2: Now.

1668
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 4: There may be I don't sense any undercurrent like missing

1669
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 4: Shorter should be playing. You know, these guys should be

1670
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 4: what he knows about him, right, No, you've got to

1671
01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 4: You've got to convince not just your coaching staff and

1672
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,680
Speaker 4: the fans out in the stands, who who's dropped by

1673
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,640
Speaker 4: for three hours on a Sunday afternoon to watch your

1674
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:18,600
Speaker 4: team play. You really have to convince the guys that

1675
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 4: are watching the film with you who are in the

1676
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:22,880
Speaker 4: game plan and on the team that the option you're

1677
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 4: putting in there is better. There has to be a

1678
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:28,000
Speaker 4: real desperation there now that may be present, we don't know,

1679
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 4: but that's what you're looking at. And I'm not saying

1680
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 4: it's not there or is there or whatever, but that's

1681
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 4: what you're talking about. You're talking about the guys in

1682
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 4: the room feeling it together, like you know, like like

1683
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 4: for instance, Trent Sherfield or Shakir or whoever, he's just

1684
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,400
Speaker 4: not good enough. We got I'll bet you know what.

1685
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 4: And I went through this way back in the day.

1686
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 4: And let me throw a couple of names. Flip Johnson

1687
01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:54,599
Speaker 4: just should be playing ahead of Chris Burkett. He really should.

1688
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 4: And they made it happen. And what happens the next

1689
01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:01,000
Speaker 4: day is one guy gets up, clears, walk around, just leaves,

1690
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,559
Speaker 4: just leaves. That's what you're talking about. When the guys

1691
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:09,240
Speaker 4: on the team realize it, that's when it happens, not

1692
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 4: when you and I think about it or any fans.

1693
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:13,599
Speaker 4: And that's why it's frustrating for fans because we don't

1694
01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:15,400
Speaker 4: know all that stuff. Some of it may be there,

1695
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 4: and some of it may not, but that's the depth

1696
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 4: of desperation and knowledge that you have to have to

1697
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:24,719
Speaker 4: make moves. Like we're talking.

1698
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,760
Speaker 7: About break time for us here, Brian and Arcade will

1699
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:29,759
Speaker 7: lead us off when we get back to your phone calls.

1700
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:30,920
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Speaker 7: We go back to the phones and as promised to

1708
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:04,680
Speaker 7: Brian and Arcade to lead us off, what do you

1709
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 7: got Brian?

1710
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, So when we talk about fixing the offense,

1711
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 6: I think you got to apply all the best lessons

1712
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 6: you've learned the entire season. Who are your best players?

1713
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 6: It's Diggs, Davis, Secure, Dalton Kincaid and James Cook. And

1714
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 6: what's the best formation to get those five on the field.

1715
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 6: It's eleven personnel. And so I think you know one

1716
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 6: week you're not going to revamp the entire offense. So

1717
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 6: instead of forcing people like Dolphin Knox on the field,

1718
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 6: Trent shirt Field on the field. Otavious Murray, I get

1719
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 6: that you gotta spell some people, but I'm sorry when

1720
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 6: you look at snap pounds and Cooks at fifty five

1721
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 6: percent and Kaid's at fifty five percent one game to go,

1722
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 6: those guys got all got to be an eighty plus. Dave, sorry,

1723
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 6: you can't sub suit out. You're an eighty plus and

1724
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 6: you got to go. And for the fans who are like, hey,

1725
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 6: we're forcing it to dig too much, frankly, I think

1726
01:29:58,240 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 6: the Giants game.

1727
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 23: Is what it sho look like.

1728
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 24: He got sixteen targets.

1729
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:02,760
Speaker 11: In that game.

1730
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:05,479
Speaker 6: I get that's a little higher than than the norm,

1731
01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 6: but your alpha number one wide receivers are ten to

1732
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:11,679
Speaker 6: twelve targets per game in this season. He got seven yesterday.

1733
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 8: That's not enough.

1734
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:15,640
Speaker 6: So I'd force it to and more your best playmaker

1735
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 6: on the outside. So that's that's my take on the offense. Quickly,

1736
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 6: on the defense, I was just when the All twenty

1737
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 6: two comes out. A couple of fans noted to me

1738
01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 6: that DAYK one was maybe favoring that one arm again,

1739
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 6: And I guess the only thing that I would worry

1740
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 6: about there is a Jordan Phillips type situation where you're

1741
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,120
Speaker 6: literally playing with like an invisible arm brace and the

1742
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 6: arms that are ninety degree angle. As long as he's

1743
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 6: not doing that, he's effective. I'm all for it.

1744
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine, Brat.

1745
01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say this, I think, and I'm not sure.

1746
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,680
Speaker 4: I can't remember. I didn't look. I forgot to look

1747
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 4: because I figured that Dake one would probably have some

1748
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,320
Speaker 4: sort of brace on his arm. He had a harness, right,

1749
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 4: so he's got to harness on to keep him from

1750
01:30:56,240 --> 01:31:01,360
Speaker 4: going over extendending it. So it's gonna look funky when

1751
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 4: he comes off the field. Sometimes you can't swing your

1752
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 4: arm right. I don't know. I will have to wait

1753
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 4: and see if he's on the injury report and some

1754
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 4: feedback from him about how the game went for him.

1755
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 4: And and as for your point about game planning and

1756
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 4: who to use and who should be on the field,

1757
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:22,599
Speaker 4: I yes, I'll take all of that and and nod

1758
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 4: you're right in a lot of ways. But here's the

1759
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:28,679
Speaker 4: thing too, in an NFL game, at this current point

1760
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 4: in history in the NFL, you can't do it like

1761
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:35,160
Speaker 4: the old days where you run the same personnel out

1762
01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 4: there every single snap. You just can't do it. There's

1763
01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 4: matchups that they'll start, they'll start to anticipate it and

1764
01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:46,599
Speaker 4: start to put you in a bind because they're gonna

1765
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 4: have good players too. So now Miami may be different

1766
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 4: because they've got, you know, a bunch of injuries now,

1767
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 4: and it's a different kind of scenario for them. They're

1768
01:31:54,000 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 4: already in. But generally speaking, you've got to switch out

1769
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 4: your personnel because you're going to be able to get

1770
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,639
Speaker 4: some more advantage than disadvantage by leaving the same guys

1771
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 4: on the field, even if it's not your best personnel grouping.

1772
01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 4: So I get all that, and you're right, I'm totally

1773
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 4: with you. Let your best players play, and for the

1774
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 4: most part, they should.

1775
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 7: And I look, I only kept an eye on Dai

1776
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 7: Kwon for so long, you know, because I got to

1777
01:32:23,120 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 7: watch where the ball's going. But there were times where

1778
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 7: I thought Daiquon availed himself quite well in light of

1779
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,040
Speaker 7: the layoff in the run front. I don't know that

1780
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 7: he's at his dominant level just yet, but that's part

1781
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 7: of why they.

1782
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 2: Played him yesterday.

1783
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 7: I think they want him to get his legs back

1784
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 7: underneath him and get ready for the playoffs. And that's

1785
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 7: how these two games can probably serve him best going forward.

1786
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 7: Let's quickly squeeze in Rich and Tanawanda. Hear what you

1787
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:45,679
Speaker 7: got for his Rich?

1788
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 24: Hi, guys, I want to talk about Josh Allen. I

1789
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 24: don't think Josh is a very happy guy at this point.

1790
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 24: If you watch his body language, even when he's on

1791
01:32:57,240 --> 01:33:00,320
Speaker 24: the bench, he just doesn't look like a happy guy.

1792
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 24: And I look back to when just before Dorsey got

1793
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 24: fired and they were having the hard time. I saw

1794
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 24: the same thing out of Josh. He wasn't very happy.

1795
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 24: I don't think he's very happy with Joe Brady's play calling,

1796
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:18,280
Speaker 24: and I know I'm not. And I don't think he's

1797
01:33:18,280 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 24: happy with the coaching. For example, McDermott went too long

1798
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 24: keeping von Miller out on the playing field. He finally

1799
01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 24: smartened up this past week. Well, think about Trent Sherfield

1800
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 24: and Hardy. They're not doing a darn thing out there.

1801
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 24: What do you have to lose to bring Shorter out

1802
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:39,880
Speaker 24: from the practice squad and put him out on the field.

1803
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 24: There's rookies starting all over the league and they're doing great.

1804
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:47,559
Speaker 24: Give these other guys a chance, and maybe that's what

1805
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 24: Josh is looking for.

1806
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're reading in a lot to how

1807
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:58,559
Speaker 7: Josh feels about the offense, the whole operation, etc. Just

1808
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 7: by reading his facial express I think you're taking a

1809
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:02,800
Speaker 7: giant leap the rich.

1810
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 4: I love you, man, but and I don't even know

1811
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:09,880
Speaker 4: as much about how I feel as much as you

1812
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 4: think you know about how Josh feels. So I'm gonna

1813
01:34:13,120 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 4: take I get it. It's easy to project how we

1814
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:18,280
Speaker 4: feel onto the players that we're looking at and all that.

1815
01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 4: I don't know that all of that what you said

1816
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 4: is actually accurate. I don't think Josh as much as

1817
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,280
Speaker 4: you think of it. I don't think Josh gave his

1818
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 4: two cents about whether Vaughan was in or out. That

1819
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with Josh. Josh is out there

1820
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 4: playing off. He's got too much on his plate to

1821
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 4: worry about who's lining up at defensive end for thirty

1822
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 4: five percent of the snaps that's off his radar.

1823
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:44,559
Speaker 7: The only time I can even think about him being

1824
01:34:44,600 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 7: remotely frustrated yesterday was when the call comes in for

1825
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 7: the fourth and short and he knows it's a hard

1826
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 7: count to try to get the defense to jump off

1827
01:34:52,439 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 7: sides instead of letting them go for it, and that's

1828
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 7: more his competitive nature being frustrated with the play call

1829
01:34:58,439 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 7: than anything else.

1830
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 4: I don't Yeah, let's don't read too much into it,

1831
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 4: because we've done. People have been doing this for four

1832
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,639
Speaker 4: years with Steph. They see him yell on the sidelines,

1833
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden he wants to go to

1834
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:09,640
Speaker 4: Dallas to play with his brother. I mean, come on,

1835
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 4: none of that stuff is true when guys yell and

1836
01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 4: scream on the side of You've seen this too. Yesterday

1837
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 4: there was a ton of video coming out of the

1838
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 4: Kansas City game where there were guys getting pulled apart

1839
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:24,120
Speaker 4: on their sidelines. They were unhappy, they were they got

1840
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:29,519
Speaker 4: into shouting matches, and guys stepped between teammates. All that

1841
01:35:29,560 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 4: stuff is in the big pictures meaningless. It's all that's

1842
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 4: all in the moment. And certainly you're right when you're

1843
01:35:36,240 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 4: in a tough game like Josh is. When you're in

1844
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 4: these tight games like the Bills have been for the

1845
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 4: last four games, you don't look happy on the sidelines.

1846
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 4: When you look happy when you're winning by thirty five

1847
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:50,479
Speaker 4: like they were in two three and weeks two three

1848
01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:53,480
Speaker 4: and four, that Josh was all happy, go lucky, then

1849
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,600
Speaker 4: it's funny how that works when you're up three touchdowns

1850
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 4: in the second half and you and you're eating sunflower

1851
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 4: seeds and got a base cap on. Yeah, you do

1852
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:03,879
Speaker 4: look happy when you're in these tight games.

1853
01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:05,920
Speaker 2: Nobody's happy stressful.

1854
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:08,360
Speaker 4: So don't read too much into what you see on

1855
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 4: the broadcast and on the sidelines and all that. That's all.

1856
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 4: That's all trivial. It's irrelevant. When you start hearing about

1857
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 4: it during the week, then maybe it's relevant. But other

1858
01:36:22,439 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 4: than that, don't read too much into what you see

1859
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:28,240
Speaker 4: on these guys' faces. There's a lot going on. It's

1860
01:36:28,280 --> 01:36:32,240
Speaker 4: not necessarily a big picture snapshot of how this guy's

1861
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 4: life is going and his career's going and the whole

1862
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:36,680
Speaker 4: season's going. It might be because they didn't have a

1863
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 4: glass of gatorade ready for him when he came off

1864
01:36:38,520 --> 01:36:41,080
Speaker 4: the field. It might be that wide a range. So

1865
01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:45,920
Speaker 4: just refrain from reading into this stuff.

1866
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, and as much as you'd like to see Shorter

1867
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 7: because you think he might be a better option than

1868
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 7: what you have right now. First of all, it's a

1869
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 7: tough spot to put a rookie in that's never played

1870
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 7: in a regular season game in his life. To put

1871
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 7: him in a do or die game against Miami, a

1872
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:01,679
Speaker 7: division rival, for their playoff because and then on top

1873
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:04,520
Speaker 7: of that, I think we all know that coach McDermott

1874
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:06,519
Speaker 7: is a guy that is loyal to the people that

1875
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 7: perform for him and that he ultimately trusts. There is

1876
01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:13,360
Speaker 7: no trust that has been established with Justin Shorter, a

1877
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:16,640
Speaker 7: rookie fifth round draft choice at the receiver position. So

1878
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 7: I think in all likelihood, you're going to look at

1879
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 7: this coaching staff going with the guys that brought them

1880
01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 7: this far in this game Sunday against the Dolphins and

1881
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 7: hopefully they come through for it.

1882
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:29,599
Speaker 4: And I get it too. It's we're sitting here, man.

1883
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 4: These wins, some of them have been downright ugly. The

1884
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:37,439
Speaker 4: LA game, this game, Patriots game, the Chiefs game was

1885
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,799
Speaker 4: a struggle, although you give it credit because the Chiefs

1886
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:41,840
Speaker 4: game was you know, the Chiefs game is the Chiefs.

1887
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 4: You think on the road, you know all that stuff,

1888
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:46,840
Speaker 4: and then the Philly game, you get in there and

1889
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:48,879
Speaker 4: you lose that one in the last minute and overtime,

1890
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:51,639
Speaker 4: it's like it's just a struggle and all that's going on,

1891
01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 4: and you tend to think you know that, but Listen,

1892
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:57,880
Speaker 4: they've won four straight. And having said all of that,

1893
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 4: it's still tough to start switching up the roster too

1894
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 4: much when you got a four game winning streak. Now,

1895
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:07,400
Speaker 4: they did it with Vaughan, there's no question about it.

1896
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:12,560
Speaker 4: They sat down Vaughan. But you know that that's a

1897
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:14,679
Speaker 4: little different when because Vaughn is kind of out there

1898
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 4: in a team sport. But if you're gonna start switching

1899
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 4: out of quarterbacks receivers start making decisions like that, it's

1900
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 4: a little different on that side of the ball.

1901
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:26,439
Speaker 7: Break time for us here, our number three begins with

1902
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 7: my broadcast partner, Eric Wood. We'll get his thoughts on

1903
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 7: Buffalo's victory over the Patriots next here on One Bill's Live.

1904
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, All right, Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1905
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 7: Our number three Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you on

1906
01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:58,799
Speaker 7: a Buffalo victory Monday after the Bill's twenty.

1907
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:01,800
Speaker 2: Seven to twenty one win over the New England Patriots.

1908
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:04,840
Speaker 7: And joining us now as he does every Monday after

1909
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,680
Speaker 7: Bill's games, is my broadcast partner Eric Wood on the

1910
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:09,960
Speaker 7: Bills Radio Network, also the host of the Centered on

1911
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 7: Buffalo podcast. All Right, Eric, As we assessed at the

1912
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 7: end of it. Yesterday, not the prettiest victory. Defense had

1913
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 7: a large hand in helping Buffalo regain the lead after

1914
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 7: losing it early, instrumental quite frankly, in giving the offense

1915
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:33,479
Speaker 7: the opportunity to score points on short fields. Where do

1916
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 7: you come down on this performance in terms of the

1917
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 7: four game winning streak. Does it fall in line with

1918
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:42,800
Speaker 7: some of the other grinded out victories.

1919
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 2: Where do you come down on that?

1920
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 23: Yeah? I mean, ultimately the key is to get the win.

1921
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 23: I feel like these last couple games could have been

1922
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:53,479
Speaker 23: a lot easier. You have two teams that have already

1923
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 23: been eliminated from the playoffs, and you let them get

1924
01:39:56,400 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 23: up early on you. And we talked in the pregame

1925
01:39:58,800 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 23: the last two weeks that one of the keys, especially

1926
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:04,440
Speaker 23: with the team that's already mathematically eliminated from the playoffs,

1927
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 23: is to jump on them early. And the Bills did

1928
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:08,439
Speaker 23: the opposite. In both weeks. They fall down ten to

1929
01:40:08,520 --> 01:40:10,680
Speaker 23: enough to do the Chargers. They fall down seven to

1930
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:13,840
Speaker 23: nothing really quick yesterday, just a few seconds in the

1931
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 23: game on the kick return for a touchdown by New England,

1932
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 23: and so you know, they made it a lot tougher

1933
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:22,920
Speaker 23: on themselves. Now, they showed some resiliency, some grit. There

1934
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,760
Speaker 23: were a lot of positives that come out of both

1935
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:27,880
Speaker 23: of those games the last two weeks. And you know,

1936
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:30,280
Speaker 23: in a season that you dropped a lot of ugly

1937
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:32,840
Speaker 23: close games, you showed the last couple weeks that you

1938
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:35,679
Speaker 23: can win those games. But they sure could have made

1939
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:38,640
Speaker 23: it easier on themselves. But look, this time of the year, especially,

1940
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 23: there's no style points. It's get the win and move on.

1941
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:44,000
Speaker 23: The Bills needed that win. They had to have it

1942
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:47,599
Speaker 23: yesterday and they got it. And look, do you need

1943
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,679
Speaker 23: to play a cleaner game likely this week down to Miami. Yes,

1944
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 23: but you got out of the game yesterday with the win,

1945
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 23: and that was ultimately what was most important.

1946
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:58,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy too, because it's easy because we sit

1947
01:40:58,080 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 4: here and you know, we all ride the roller the

1948
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:04,760
Speaker 4: emotional roller coaster with this team, and it's been I

1949
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:08,599
Speaker 4: mean it's been like you know, you take me now, lord, right,

1950
01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I can't stand it anymore. Right, So, but

1951
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:14,599
Speaker 4: you think about it. They they're undefeated. Some of we

1952
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 4: were just talking about this in the control room. They're

1953
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:20,360
Speaker 4: undefeated with Joe Brady. They're undefeated in regulation with Joe

1954
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:23,160
Speaker 4: Brady as their offensive coordinator. You've won five out of

1955
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:25,680
Speaker 4: your last six and the only loss was to the

1956
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:30,639
Speaker 4: NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in overtime on the road, and

1957
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 4: at the time they were the one seed in the NFC.

1958
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:40,639
Speaker 4: It's hard to poke holes in the big picture. But man,

1959
01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 4: oh man, when you're sitting down here where the rubber

1960
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:45,800
Speaker 4: meets the road, it's hard to get any traction, right.

1961
01:41:45,880 --> 01:41:49,400
Speaker 4: I mean, you're sitting here going, man, we're like, we're like,

1962
01:41:49,840 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 4: we can't make anything positive out of this. And yet,

1963
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 4: like I said, they're one four in a row against

1964
01:41:57,040 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 4: some Really this stretch was a killer. It was the

1965
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 4: with their defense. It was the Eagles, the Chiefs, the Cowboys,

1966
01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 4: the Chargers, the Patriots, all these teams that have notoriously

1967
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 4: either given the Bills problems or having a great season.

1968
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:15,360
Speaker 23: Right and even with the Chargers game, not that you

1969
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 23: want to justify any of the mistakes they made that game,

1970
01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 23: but you had six days to prepare for a team

1971
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:23,639
Speaker 23: that had nine days to prepare with an interim head coach,

1972
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:25,320
Speaker 23: and you're traveling all the way to the West coast.

1973
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:28,479
Speaker 23: There was some understanding. Yesterday was a little bit more

1974
01:42:28,520 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 23: baffling other than the fact that New England has won

1975
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 23: two out of their last three games and has been

1976
01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:35,360
Speaker 23: playing really well on the defensive side of the football.

1977
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:38,840
Speaker 23: Denver's defense hasn't been awful this year. They come into

1978
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,559
Speaker 23: Buffalo and get a win this year, and New England

1979
01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:45,120
Speaker 23: beats them at Denver to eliminate them last week. And

1980
01:42:45,200 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 23: so that was a Patriots team playing with some pride,

1981
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,519
Speaker 23: and look, they caught some energy early, especially when they

1982
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:53,640
Speaker 23: ran that kickoff return back for a touchdown. And you

1983
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:57,639
Speaker 23: got guys there like Christian Barmore that are playing really

1984
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:00,800
Speaker 23: well up front, that are playing for con tracks. And yes,

1985
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 23: they're mathematically eliminated, but there's a lot of guys within

1986
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 23: that organization that have a ton of pride and they're

1987
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:09,080
Speaker 23: playing for their futures in this league. But yes, to

1988
01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:12,160
Speaker 23: your point, this was not the easiest stretch where there

1989
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 23: was easier stretches of the season when you look at

1990
01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 23: some of the opponents that the Bills played throughout this season.

1991
01:43:17,520 --> 01:43:21,759
Speaker 23: But they've found ways to win, especially here as of late.

1992
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:24,160
Speaker 23: And you know, as we look at this, and I'm

1993
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 23: sure we'll get into it, if the passing game could

1994
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,160
Speaker 23: get going and then look, New England comes in with

1995
01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:31,560
Speaker 23: the number one run defense in the NFL, second in

1996
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:35,320
Speaker 23: yards per game first and yards per carry, and probably

1997
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:37,800
Speaker 23: the best run defense in the NFL. You would have

1998
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 23: loved to see the Bills be able to light them

1999
01:43:39,520 --> 01:43:42,200
Speaker 23: up in the passing game yesterday. And there's a number

2000
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 23: of reasons as I tried to make sense of it

2001
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:48,080
Speaker 23: to myself of why that didn't happen. And look, you

2002
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,719
Speaker 23: missed that one play to digs down the field or else.

2003
01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 23: Josh goes for over two hundred. It doesn't look quite

2004
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:54,960
Speaker 23: as bad. But as you go back and look at

2005
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:57,640
Speaker 23: the film, sure there's plenty of mistakes, but you know,

2006
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:00,559
Speaker 23: Josh Allen starts that game yesterday one for eight, and

2007
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:03,080
Speaker 23: in the passing game they just looked completely out of sync.

2008
01:44:03,160 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 23: They have a sack fumble on the first play of

2009
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 23: the game. The protection struggled early in the game, whether

2010
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:10,519
Speaker 23: it was simply a four man rush and getting beat

2011
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:13,599
Speaker 23: in one on one matchups, or it was unblocked defenders

2012
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:16,839
Speaker 23: where the Bills couldn't identify the blitzes. There was drops

2013
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:19,679
Speaker 23: early in the game. There was you know, whether it's

2014
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 23: misfires by Josh or miscommunication on the outside, it was

2015
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 23: tough to make sense of. And then you know, they

2016
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 23: tried to set up screens that time, and I thought

2017
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:30,600
Speaker 23: the blocking in front of those screens was awful yesterday.

2018
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 23: And whether that was New England recognizing it and you know,

2019
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 23: formation recognization and being prepared for it, but it just

2020
01:44:37,280 --> 01:44:39,800
Speaker 23: wasn't there. And then I'm not sure exactly what's going

2021
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:42,160
Speaker 23: on with Stefan Diggs right now. In his first nine

2022
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:45,040
Speaker 23: games of the season, seven touchdowns, averages ninety two yards

2023
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:47,760
Speaker 23: a game and eleven point nine per catch. The last

2024
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 23: seven games just one touchdown, thirty seven yards per game,

2025
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:54,759
Speaker 23: and eight point seven per catch. Now, was that production

2026
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 23: that he was showing early in the season gonna last

2027
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,360
Speaker 23: the entire season. Likely not. You know, teams were gonna adapt,

2028
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:01,640
Speaker 23: They're gonna put more resources on him and try and

2029
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:03,760
Speaker 23: take him out of the football game each week. But

2030
01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:06,920
Speaker 23: you know, his snap count is just going down. It

2031
01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:09,760
Speaker 23: seems it's going down. I'm not sure if that's you know,

2032
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:12,160
Speaker 23: load management on a veteran receiver at this point of

2033
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 23: the year. But you know, they start that second half

2034
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:15,960
Speaker 23: yesterday and he's not out there at all for their

2035
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,519
Speaker 23: touchdown drive. The next possession, we make note that he's

2036
01:45:19,560 --> 01:45:21,360
Speaker 23: back in the game. They take the shot, he's opened

2037
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:23,920
Speaker 23: down the field, unable to come down with the deep shot,

2038
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:26,759
Speaker 23: and then the next two plays he's out of the game.

2039
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,840
Speaker 23: And so to me, there's something going on there. And

2040
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:33,679
Speaker 23: when you're number one receiver, you know isn't getting that production,

2041
01:45:33,880 --> 01:45:37,840
Speaker 23: whether that's coming from Josh or or Digs or the

2042
01:45:37,880 --> 01:45:40,839
Speaker 23: play calls, that's really affecting this pass game.

2043
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:44,679
Speaker 7: Right, And so as they get said for this week,

2044
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 7: there's a lot of fixing that has to get done there,

2045
01:45:47,160 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 7: and it seems like there may need to be a

2046
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 7: greater emphasis on Joe Brady's part to help scheme guys open,

2047
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,600
Speaker 7: especially if you have a Stefan Diggs who may not

2048
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 7: be for whatever reason one hundred percent. Just to based

2049
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:03,360
Speaker 7: on the cumulative effects of playing all these snaps over

2050
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:07,720
Speaker 7: the course of a seventeen game season, what are we

2051
01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 7: coming up with for solutions that we have to run

2052
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:10,799
Speaker 7: more rub routes?

2053
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:12,440
Speaker 2: Are you stacking receivers?

2054
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:14,760
Speaker 7: Are you lining a receiver up in a backfield to

2055
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 7: create automatic separation? What does Joe Brady have to come

2056
01:46:18,640 --> 01:46:22,640
Speaker 7: up with this week to try to get easier answers

2057
01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:25,640
Speaker 7: for separation? Early in the downs so Josh can get

2058
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 7: rid of the football.

2059
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2060
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:30,600
Speaker 23: I think it's a combination of everything you said. When

2061
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:32,920
Speaker 23: I look at the positive since Joe Brady's taken over

2062
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:35,280
Speaker 23: in the past game, I thought he's done an incredible

2063
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 23: job at times of attacking matchups and man and man defense.

2064
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:41,680
Speaker 23: It's those wheel routes with Cook, it might be Kincaid

2065
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:45,200
Speaker 23: over the middle of the field, whatever those you know,

2066
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:47,519
Speaker 23: whatever those matchups are that he sees each week. He's

2067
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:49,840
Speaker 23: done a great job in attacking those. Versus man coverage.

2068
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:52,519
Speaker 23: I feel like verse zone, he's done a great job

2069
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 23: of sending Cook out wide and getting that four strong

2070
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,080
Speaker 23: look so there's bodies out in front of him that

2071
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:00,120
Speaker 23: they do throw the swing and then it's either in

2072
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:02,920
Speaker 23: Kincaid or it's been Dawson Knox over the middle and

2073
01:47:02,960 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 23: those have been, you know, stealing yards across the middle

2074
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 23: of the field. But beyond those, those outside receivers have

2075
01:47:08,520 --> 01:47:11,879
Speaker 23: really not produced outside of game Davis versus the Chargers

2076
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 23: where he takes the top off the defense one time

2077
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:15,880
Speaker 23: and had a couple of nice catches in that game,

2078
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 23: but the outside production isn't there. So yes, I mean

2079
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 23: it probably could be a combination of all of those.

2080
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:25,720
Speaker 23: And then you know, in this is talking about the

2081
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:27,519
Speaker 23: run game, but I think you could get to some

2082
01:47:27,680 --> 01:47:29,960
Speaker 23: RPOs as this run game is really taken off for

2083
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:32,120
Speaker 23: the Bills. I think they can get back to some

2084
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 23: more of those RPO concepts that we saw more under

2085
01:47:35,080 --> 01:47:37,439
Speaker 23: Brian day ball some more last year. They took some

2086
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 23: of those out to start this season. But you know,

2087
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 23: as teams have to fully respect this Bill's run game,

2088
01:47:43,280 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 23: and as soon as those guys start pulling up front

2089
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:48,880
Speaker 23: these last two weeks, those linebackers are flying downhill and

2090
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:50,519
Speaker 23: so I think you could get back to some of

2091
01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 23: that RPO game to just get Josh in a rhythm early,

2092
01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:57,120
Speaker 23: and then you know it's it's some of it's just

2093
01:47:57,160 --> 01:48:00,439
Speaker 23: simply first down production, not gaining the proper rush yards

2094
01:48:00,479 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 23: on first down, it's a screen that goes for a

2095
01:48:02,160 --> 01:48:04,800
Speaker 23: minus four, it's a sack on first down, and then

2096
01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:08,960
Speaker 23: that forces you into predictable pass situation, which is tough

2097
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:11,400
Speaker 23: on the guys up front, and then it allows a

2098
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 23: defensive coordinator to get really creative against you.

2099
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 4: Give us an insight as to what happens when you start.

2100
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 4: And now you've got Joe Brady, you got like a

2101
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 4: half a dozen games under his belt. You kind of

2102
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 4: teams are getting a feel for what the bills are

2103
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,120
Speaker 4: just like you said, I mean, they're pulling those tackles

2104
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:27,720
Speaker 4: and teams are starting to respond to that. Give us

2105
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,519
Speaker 4: an idea of this week as Joe Brady they approach

2106
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 4: the playoffs. Got to win this to get in for sure,

2107
01:48:33,920 --> 01:48:36,479
Speaker 4: and we'll know more, of course on Sunday night. But

2108
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 4: thinking this is going to be a win and in,

2109
01:48:38,439 --> 01:48:42,760
Speaker 4: got to get their game. What goes into the conversations

2110
01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:45,120
Speaker 4: for the coaching staff and the players when you're in

2111
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 4: these meetings about Okay, guys, listen, we're gonna have to

2112
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:50,719
Speaker 4: make a philosophical shift here. We're going to start putting

2113
01:48:50,760 --> 01:48:53,640
Speaker 4: in these RPOs because here's what we're seeing. Give us

2114
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:56,840
Speaker 4: an idea about the insight into those conversations and getting

2115
01:48:56,840 --> 01:49:00,280
Speaker 4: guys on board with like a different kind of loss

2116
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:02,840
Speaker 4: of you're gonna have to play with now to win games.

2117
01:49:03,880 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 23: Yeah, and I don't think it's got to be a

2118
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 23: major philosophical shift. And look, the RPOs were likely just

2119
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 23: installed in OTA's in training camp. They have a lot

2120
01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:15,000
Speaker 23: of time under task with those. They just haven't got

2121
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 23: to as much of those, especially since Joe Brady has

2122
01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:21,639
Speaker 23: been the offensive coordinator, and so this week I'd imagine

2123
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:23,600
Speaker 23: similar to a bye week where you go back and

2124
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 23: self scout. Well, Joe Brady takes over around that time,

2125
01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:29,559
Speaker 23: so there wasn't a whole lot of self scouting on him.

2126
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:32,240
Speaker 23: But as you look at these last weeks, you look

2127
01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:34,559
Speaker 23: back and say, Okay, what worked, what didn't? Okay, what

2128
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:38,160
Speaker 23: really worked? What are some complimentary concepts that we can

2129
01:49:38,200 --> 01:49:39,720
Speaker 23: throw off of that. I thought they did a nice

2130
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:43,040
Speaker 23: job yesterday of when at times they were predictable that

2131
01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:44,200
Speaker 23: they were going to go up the middle. They had

2132
01:49:44,200 --> 01:49:46,559
Speaker 23: some success with the toss cracks, you know, go hit

2133
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,800
Speaker 23: the edges there, whether it was designed or not. Josh

2134
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,759
Speaker 23: Allen off the replay pitches the ball out to Shakir

2135
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:54,400
Speaker 23: with the option play. I'm not saying we need to

2136
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:57,840
Speaker 23: do that each and every week, but it's it's complimentary

2137
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:01,000
Speaker 23: concepts to what he's shown on film, whether it's that

2138
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:04,120
Speaker 23: four strong look where it's Gilliam or someone out in

2139
01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:06,760
Speaker 23: front of James Cook on a swing route. Okay, maybe

2140
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,639
Speaker 23: it's not just Kincaid up the middle. Maybe there's another

2141
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 23: answer off of that maybe that tackle trap pool play

2142
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:15,640
Speaker 23: that they've had so much success on, Maybe there's some

2143
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:18,960
Speaker 23: different concepts off of that that can still be complimentary.

2144
01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 23: But okay, now teams are really keying in on what

2145
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 23: Joe Brady's had success with. Now what can we do

2146
01:50:24,160 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 23: off of it?

2147
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:27,519
Speaker 2: All? Right, let's take it a step further.

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Speaker 7: Bill's Dolphins Sunday Night, the last regular season game of

2149
01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:36,479
Speaker 7: the year. Both teams will know quite literally what is

2150
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:38,840
Speaker 7: at stake by the time they get there, because all

2151
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:41,519
Speaker 7: of the other teams will have played their games, including

2152
01:50:41,520 --> 01:50:44,479
Speaker 7: the ones that could impact a Buffalo playoff berth with

2153
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:50,040
Speaker 7: a loss. But you're Mike McDaniel, Eric, and you're already

2154
01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 7: in and you're playing for the difference between the two

2155
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,320
Speaker 7: seed and the potential of at least two home playoff

2156
01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:02,800
Speaker 7: games versus seed number six, and going on the road

2157
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 7: to Kansas City. You got to beat up football team

2158
01:51:06,360 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 7: that's licking their wounds after yesterday. How do you handle it?

2159
01:51:11,280 --> 01:51:12,479
Speaker 23: Yeah, you got to go out and try and win

2160
01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 23: this game. Because hosting playoff games is a major deciding factor.

2161
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,320
Speaker 23: It is tough on the road. I only played in

2162
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 23: one playoff game in my career, but I played multiple

2163
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:24,639
Speaker 23: games in Jacksonville throughout my career, and there was nothing

2164
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 23: like the atmosphere that we played in down in Jacksonville

2165
01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:31,200
Speaker 23: in twenty early twenty eighteen after the twenty seventeen season,

2166
01:51:31,479 --> 01:51:33,439
Speaker 23: And so I'd assume that they're going to go all

2167
01:51:33,479 --> 01:51:35,960
Speaker 23: in and try and win that game. They are very

2168
01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:39,519
Speaker 23: beat up. They're I mean, they've been just ravaged by

2169
01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:42,679
Speaker 23: injuries these last few weeks with Tyreek Hill missing Tom

2170
01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:45,280
Speaker 23: and Waddle and most are last week, and then the

2171
01:51:45,320 --> 01:51:48,639
Speaker 23: defensive side of the ball with Phillips and Chubb and Baker,

2172
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 23: I mean, Xavian Howard. I mean, it's unbelievable. Their offensive

2173
01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:54,240
Speaker 23: line is banged up. But you got to go out

2174
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 23: and try and win this football game because it's a

2175
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:58,920
Speaker 23: major difference when you can get that two seed. And

2176
01:51:58,960 --> 01:52:02,759
Speaker 23: so I expect myami Weather. It's you know, no matter

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01:52:02,760 --> 01:52:06,040
Speaker 23: how it shakes out, they're gonna give the Bills all

2178
01:52:06,080 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 23: they can handle and they're gonna come out. And I

2179
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 23: never got to play in the back in the day.

2180
01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:14,559
Speaker 23: The Bills Dolphins rivalry, that's all heard about when I

2181
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:16,479
Speaker 23: got the Buffalo, But by that time New England owned

2182
01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:18,639
Speaker 23: the division, we were all looking up at them. And

2183
01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:20,639
Speaker 23: you know, we were all chasing them at all times

2184
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:23,120
Speaker 23: throughout my career. Tom Brady was in the division every

2185
01:52:23,160 --> 01:52:25,599
Speaker 23: single year of my career and they won it every

2186
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 23: single time, and so that was who we were chasing.

2187
01:52:28,760 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 23: And I'm excited to get back into this Bills Dolphins rivalry.

2188
01:52:33,680 --> 01:52:36,000
Speaker 23: And you know, hard Rock Stadium is going to be

2189
01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:38,879
Speaker 23: lit up this week. I mean it's gonna be absolutely incredible.

2190
01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:42,080
Speaker 23: The first time they played down there this season, I

2191
01:52:42,120 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 23: don't want to say it was a fifty to fifty crowd,

2192
01:52:43,800 --> 01:52:46,639
Speaker 23: but the Bill's mafia was in full force or sorry,

2193
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:50,400
Speaker 23: last year, full force down there. I'm excited to see

2194
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:53,240
Speaker 23: how many tickets they can swipe right now. My buddies

2195
01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:55,640
Speaker 23: were looking at tickets on Ticketmaster last night and the

2196
01:52:55,720 --> 01:52:58,400
Speaker 23: get in price was eight hundred dollars a piece, and

2197
01:52:58,439 --> 01:53:01,519
Speaker 23: so I'd assume that come down a little bit. But

2198
01:53:01,600 --> 01:53:04,479
Speaker 23: I'm interested to see how many fans or how many

2199
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:08,000
Speaker 23: tickets and maybe they've already been bought up by majority

2200
01:53:08,040 --> 01:53:09,080
Speaker 23: of the Bills fans already.

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Speaker 4: One last thing for me, The interesting part about this

2202
01:53:13,240 --> 01:53:15,519
Speaker 4: this end of the season, you always run into this.

2203
01:53:15,640 --> 01:53:17,639
Speaker 4: There's one of these teams like Baltimore, this year who's

2204
01:53:17,720 --> 01:53:19,639
Speaker 4: kind of run off and left it and they've got

2205
01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 4: the one seed sewn up. But they're playing Pittsburgh this week.

2206
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:26,639
Speaker 4: And a lot of people have said, and I kind

2207
01:53:26,640 --> 01:53:29,880
Speaker 4: of disagree with this about giving guys a week off

2208
01:53:29,960 --> 01:53:32,000
Speaker 4: or something and they're gonna get rusty and all that,

2209
01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:35,680
Speaker 4: And I said, at this point, there's no way. I mean,

2210
01:53:35,760 --> 01:53:37,760
Speaker 4: you give the guys the time off and if you

2211
01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:40,479
Speaker 4: can sit down, Lamar Jackson and you sit down all

2212
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:42,200
Speaker 4: your stuff. You only have so many guys you can

2213
01:53:42,240 --> 01:53:44,679
Speaker 4: sit down, right, I mean, because it's a small roster.

2214
01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 4: But I am of the mind you're not gonna get

2215
01:53:48,280 --> 01:53:50,080
Speaker 4: rusty in two weeks. You're not gonna get rusty in

2216
01:53:50,160 --> 01:53:52,880
Speaker 4: three weeks, particularly when you're in the building every day practicing.

2217
01:53:53,880 --> 01:53:57,600
Speaker 4: In my mind, Baltimore needs to get as healthy and

2218
01:53:57,640 --> 01:53:59,960
Speaker 4: as fresh as they can possibly, which means resting is

2219
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,759
Speaker 4: as many guys for as long as they can until

2220
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:05,560
Speaker 4: week one of the regulars, a week run of the playoffs.

2221
01:54:06,160 --> 01:54:08,679
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on what Baltimore is thinking about

2222
01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:11,720
Speaker 4: going into Pittsburgh or having Pittsburgh come to them, or

2223
01:54:11,760 --> 01:54:13,400
Speaker 4: maybe it is in Pittsburgh. I don't know which one,

2224
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:18,160
Speaker 4: but your thoughts about this game Pittsburgh Baltimore and how

2225
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:22,479
Speaker 4: Baltimore should handle it with absolutely nothing on the line.

2226
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,680
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think you rest as many guys as you

2227
01:54:25,720 --> 01:54:29,920
Speaker 23: possibly can. You cannot risk any injury in that game. Now,

2228
01:54:30,320 --> 01:54:32,520
Speaker 23: you know there's gonna be a number of young guys

2229
01:54:32,520 --> 01:54:35,040
Speaker 23: out there for Baltimore that are starters, because you know,

2230
01:54:35,080 --> 01:54:37,440
Speaker 23: the rosters, like you mentioned, just aren't that big in

2231
01:54:37,480 --> 01:54:39,640
Speaker 23: the NFL. You have fifty three guys, forty five active

2232
01:54:39,680 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 23: on game day. But I can't imagine that Lamar Jackson

2233
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:45,800
Speaker 23: will be in uniform on Sunday or a number or

2234
01:54:46,120 --> 01:54:49,160
Speaker 23: a Saturday or a number of their other starters. But

2235
01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:50,800
Speaker 23: there will be some of the starters out there. But

2236
01:54:50,840 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 23: you're trying to avoid risk of injury to as many

2237
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:56,560
Speaker 23: of your star players as you can, and as big

2238
01:54:56,640 --> 01:54:58,640
Speaker 23: as the physical rest at this point of the season,

2239
01:54:58,760 --> 01:55:01,080
Speaker 23: the mental rest as well. Oh, guys that know that

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01:55:01,120 --> 01:55:03,160
Speaker 23: they're not going to be in uniform this week, they

2241
01:55:03,200 --> 01:55:06,360
Speaker 23: don't have to fully mentally prepare and dive into a

2242
01:55:06,400 --> 01:55:09,520
Speaker 23: game plan in the countless hours of film. You know,

2243
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:11,480
Speaker 23: Lamar Jackson, the amount of time that he's putting in

2244
01:55:11,520 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 23: at the facility each week as a starting quarterback in

2245
01:55:13,760 --> 01:55:17,320
Speaker 23: the NFL, especially playing at that level is an absolute

2246
01:55:17,680 --> 01:55:20,160
Speaker 23: astronomical amount of hours and so for him to be

2247
01:55:20,160 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 23: able to pull back on that at least for a week,

2248
01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 23: and then you know, next week they'll have an idea

2249
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:28,280
Speaker 23: of you know, one of two opponents that they'll be

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Speaker 23: facing when they get their first game in the playoffs

2251
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 23: after the bye. So you know, physically, mentally they get

2252
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 23: they've earned it, They've earned the opportunity to recharge. And

2253
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:42,880
Speaker 23: you know, you talk about a complete team, you know, offense, defense,

2254
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:46,560
Speaker 23: special teams. They've played well this entire season, and you

2255
01:55:46,600 --> 01:55:49,240
Speaker 23: know what, I don't think they're head and shoulders above

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01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:51,720
Speaker 23: the rest of the conference. And when I look at

2257
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 23: you know, how could the Bills match up against the Ravens.

2258
01:55:54,640 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 23: That wouldn't be a matchup that I would be in

2259
01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:00,720
Speaker 23: fear of, per se, I think that match up across

2260
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:02,640
Speaker 23: the board. Well with them, the Bills just haven't been

2261
01:56:02,640 --> 01:56:06,080
Speaker 23: able to play complimentary football. You know, it's it's one

2262
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,040
Speaker 23: side of the ball shows up or the special teams

2263
01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 23: lets them down, you know, for a number of weeks,

2264
01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:13,000
Speaker 23: and then you have the games like Dallas in Miami

2265
01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:15,240
Speaker 23: early in the season where they put it together and

2266
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:16,320
Speaker 23: they can blow out teams too.

2267
01:56:16,840 --> 01:56:20,120
Speaker 4: Here's the thing too. Describe the mindset of all those

2268
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 4: young guys on the roster, the backups, all the guys

2269
01:56:22,320 --> 01:56:24,640
Speaker 4: that are getting that all week. No, say, listen, you're

2270
01:56:24,680 --> 01:56:26,960
Speaker 4: going this week in a game we win. It's a

2271
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:31,480
Speaker 4: division game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Describe how motivating it

2272
01:56:31,560 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 4: is for the rest of the Baltimore roster to go

2273
01:56:35,720 --> 01:56:40,000
Speaker 4: into this game knowing that it's a division game and

2274
01:56:40,040 --> 01:56:41,680
Speaker 4: it does mean something to the Steelers.

2275
01:56:42,880 --> 01:56:45,480
Speaker 23: Oh yeah, they'll be fired up. That is as bitter

2276
01:56:45,520 --> 01:56:47,560
Speaker 23: of a rivalry as there is in the NFL. They're

2277
01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:50,560
Speaker 23: not looking to just give the Steelers the game. Now,

2278
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 23: if I'm sitting there and I'm looking at it from

2279
01:56:53,640 --> 01:56:55,520
Speaker 23: Baltimore's front office, you know, the guys in the locker

2280
01:56:55,600 --> 01:56:56,840
Speaker 23: room are going to go out and compete and they

2281
01:56:56,880 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 23: want to go win that game. Same with the coaching staff.

2282
01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:01,080
Speaker 23: I'm in the front office might be thinking to myself,

2283
01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:04,600
Speaker 23: if the Steelers win this game and Buffalo somehow doesn't

2284
01:57:04,640 --> 01:57:07,520
Speaker 23: lose to Miami, I think Buffalo, and I know this

2285
01:57:07,680 --> 01:57:11,120
Speaker 23: is likely a biased opinion, but is the first or

2286
01:57:11,120 --> 01:57:14,440
Speaker 23: second best team in the AFC and you know, if

2287
01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:16,200
Speaker 23: you lose this game to the Steelers, you give them

2288
01:57:16,240 --> 01:57:19,160
Speaker 23: a chance to squeak in and get in front of

2289
01:57:19,200 --> 01:57:21,880
Speaker 23: Buffalo and keep them out of the playoffs. So may

2290
01:57:21,920 --> 01:57:23,880
Speaker 23: there might be people, some people in the organization that

2291
01:57:23,880 --> 01:57:26,200
Speaker 23: wouldn't mind losing this game to the Steelers. But those

2292
01:57:26,240 --> 01:57:28,160
Speaker 23: guys that are getting their opportunity, some of them for

2293
01:57:28,200 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 23: the first time, to get serious action. Like these guys

2294
01:57:30,840 --> 01:57:33,320
Speaker 23: are you know, playing for future contracts. They're playing for

2295
01:57:33,560 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 23: potential starting jobs within the organization as people become free agents.

2296
01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 23: And so these guys, they'll they'll be giving it. They're

2297
01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:43,080
Speaker 23: all out there, and you know it's it's gonna be

2298
01:57:43,120 --> 01:57:46,480
Speaker 23: a road game for Pittsburgh. And look, if Huntley starts

2299
01:57:46,840 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 23: for Baltimore, you're playing. It's two backup quarterbacks out there.

2300
01:57:50,040 --> 01:57:54,560
Speaker 23: It's Mason Rudolph in Huntley. It's not this drastic mismatch,

2301
01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 23: especially at the quarterback position.

2302
01:57:56,480 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 2: Right all right, Eric, thanks very much. As always, We'll

2303
01:57:59,120 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 2: see you down at South Florida this weekend.

2304
01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:03,560
Speaker 23: Sounds good looking forward to it happened to your guys.

2305
01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:04,000
Speaker 2: All right.

2306
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:07,560
Speaker 7: That's Eric Wood joining us Bill's radio color analyst and

2307
01:58:08,120 --> 01:58:11,720
Speaker 7: host of the Centered on Buffalo podcast, Gonna squeeze in

2308
01:58:11,720 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 7: a few phone calls here before the break, we go

2309
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:14,880
Speaker 7: to gym in Florida.

2310
01:58:14,960 --> 01:58:16,160
Speaker 2: Next, what do you got for his Jim.

2311
01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:23,200
Speaker 14: That we talked to Marvel leaving, We talked about Marvel

2312
01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 14: Levy and made me think about Marve used to always

2313
01:58:27,240 --> 01:58:30,240
Speaker 14: say in Jeri epropos for this situation and that is

2314
01:58:30,360 --> 01:58:31,720
Speaker 14: one more river to cross.

2315
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:33,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it definitely is.

2316
01:58:35,200 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 14: He used to say that quite often. And the only

2317
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,640
Speaker 14: other thing I've talked about the game the last game

2318
01:58:41,160 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 14: was that once we got ahead by two touchdowns, we

2319
01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 14: didn't go for a fourth and one, and I thought

2320
01:58:47,640 --> 01:58:51,240
Speaker 14: that might have been something we could have used because

2321
01:58:51,760 --> 01:58:53,320
Speaker 14: when they got the ball they went right down the

2322
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:56,640
Speaker 14: field and it was a six point game. So that

2323
01:58:56,760 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 14: was a smiler rather us be more or more ethics

2324
01:59:03,440 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 14: to be a little more aggressive.

2325
01:59:05,160 --> 01:59:07,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll say this too, you're you're right, thanks Jim.

2326
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:11,440
Speaker 4: And Josh wasn't happy either. He's the one where they

2327
01:59:11,440 --> 01:59:13,520
Speaker 4: went back in tried to and they do this, they

2328
01:59:13,560 --> 01:59:15,120
Speaker 4: do it all the time. Is becoming kind of a

2329
01:59:15,160 --> 01:59:18,440
Speaker 4: running joke where the fans are like, I know, they're

2330
01:59:18,480 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 4: not They're not gonna snap it. They just know they're

2331
01:59:20,480 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 4: not gonna snap it.

2332
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:23,920
Speaker 7: And uh, it's almost at a point where they should now,

2333
01:59:24,240 --> 01:59:27,440
Speaker 7: right because they've set it up for like right behind weeks, like,

2334
01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:30,640
Speaker 7: oh crap, they snapped it six years.

2335
01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 4: They've done this from the beginning. Uh so, yes, and

2336
01:59:35,720 --> 01:59:37,840
Speaker 4: they they let and they brought Dawson Knox and he

2337
01:59:37,920 --> 01:59:41,240
Speaker 4: snapped under center, you know, like that, and it didn't work.

2338
01:59:41,760 --> 01:59:46,560
Speaker 4: But by the same token, you're right. You're not the

2339
01:59:46,600 --> 01:59:48,240
Speaker 4: only one who thought. You know, the players want to

2340
01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 4: go for it all the time, and the analytics will say,

2341
01:59:54,800 --> 01:59:56,360
Speaker 4: and I don't know where the draw the line is.

2342
01:59:56,400 --> 01:59:58,840
Speaker 4: The analytics will say, if you get that fourth and one,

2343
01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:01,520
Speaker 4: your probability of winning goes up by a certain amount

2344
02:00:01,520 --> 02:00:03,360
Speaker 4: of percentage, and if you don't, if you go forward

2345
02:00:03,440 --> 02:00:06,760
Speaker 4: and don't get it, it drops. And when that starts

2346
02:00:06,800 --> 02:00:14,000
Speaker 4: to be really wide, whereas it raises you by four

2347
02:00:14,080 --> 02:00:17,440
Speaker 4: percent or drops you by twenty percent, that's not a

2348
02:00:17,440 --> 02:00:20,240
Speaker 4: great it's not a great thing to do. That's where

2349
02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 4: you kind of get into the analytics of it. And

2350
02:00:21,840 --> 02:00:24,360
Speaker 4: I don't know where those analytics are. I'm sure they're

2351
02:00:24,400 --> 02:00:27,640
Speaker 4: part of that equation, not all of it. That is

2352
02:00:27,680 --> 02:00:30,240
Speaker 4: a total feel thing. And Sean McDermott has taken his

2353
02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:32,440
Speaker 4: share of criticism over the years for doing that and

2354
02:00:32,520 --> 02:00:35,920
Speaker 4: not going forward in the right spot, although he has

2355
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:39,880
Speaker 4: never been really wrong about going for it. He goes

2356
02:00:39,920 --> 02:00:42,760
Speaker 4: forward a significant amount and when he should go ford,

2357
02:00:42,800 --> 02:00:47,920
Speaker 4: he does. So we'll see I get it, though, that

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Speaker 4: was a spot where you knew how important that for

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Speaker 4: We could all feel it. If you get that fourth down,

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Speaker 4: you really felt good about where the team was. You know,

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Speaker 4: all right, we got this, let's go. If you don't

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Speaker 4: get it, short field, short field, and it's like, so yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think the downside was what kept him away from it,

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Speaker 4: rather even as much as the upside was.

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Speaker 7: Break time for us here when we come back, we'll

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Speaker 7: go around the locker room and if we have time,

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Speaker 7: we'll get to more of your phone calls. Here on

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Speaker 7: a Buffalo Victory Monday on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 7: Colt of Health.

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Speaker 12: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 7: Time for us to go around the locker room, presented

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Speaker 7: by Connect Life, your blood and organ donor network, and

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Speaker 7: we begin with head coach Sean McDermott on the resiliency

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Speaker 7: of the Bills and finding ways to win despite not

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Speaker 7: playing an airtight game.

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Speaker 25: Very resilient and just the things that they've learned I

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Speaker 25: think through the journey that have gotten us to hear

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Speaker 25: and then using them week to week to find a

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Speaker 25: way to win games. Today we knew wasn't going to

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Speaker 25: be easy, and I thought their their resilient nature was

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Speaker 25: on display in the second half that first tried by

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Speaker 25: our offense. As I mentioned then that last exchange of

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Speaker 25: the ball the last series or two right there with

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Speaker 25: hey we punt it, they go three and out, we

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Speaker 25: get the ball back, our offense goes on a drive.

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Speaker 25: I mean, I think that that says a lot about

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Speaker 25: who they are in terms of their resiliency there.

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Speaker 7: So, yeah, no surprise that, you know, coach McDermott is

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Speaker 7: you know, promoting the resiliency. They have been resilient. I mean,

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Speaker 7: they may not have been perfect in this four game

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Speaker 7: winning streak, but they have unquestionably been resourceful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they found with resourceful other than what we have

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Speaker 4: seen them win games with in the past. You know,

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Speaker 4: they won games running the ball, throwing. I've said it

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Speaker 4: early in the defense, defense, takeaways. Yeah, they've they've found

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Speaker 4: every different way you can possibly think of to win

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Speaker 4: games and in a spot where they had to win games,

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Speaker 4: and and they're sitting here on the cusp of winning

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Speaker 4: the division again if they can beat the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 4: The consequences are much more dire than they had to

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Speaker 4: be because of the early season struggles. But this is

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Speaker 4: where you want to be a win and in, and

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Speaker 4: not only are you in, you're the two seed in

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Speaker 4: the conference. That's enormous, enormous.

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Speaker 7: In the outcome of Sunday's game was one Raseul Douglas,

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Speaker 7: who had two takeaways and factored into a third of

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Speaker 7: the four takeaways for the Bills. Here is Rasoul on

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Speaker 7: his interception that went back for a touchdown against the Patriots.

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Speaker 26: I usually we sent when we sent a week's side

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Speaker 26: pressure watching on film, he usually throws a quick to

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Speaker 26: the receiver.

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Speaker 8: That's he's X.

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Speaker 26: So I seen a blitz and I was like, you

2414
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Speaker 26: gotta throw a hot or he's gonna get sat.

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Speaker 8: He threw it.

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Speaker 26: I think him and ever he was on the same page.

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Speaker 8: He threw it.

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Speaker 26: So when I got the ball, I'm like, I got

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Speaker 26: to try to score. I had one that I could

2420
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Speaker 26: have got an end zone, but I messed up. So

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Speaker 26: I was like, I try to get it back.

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Speaker 7: So he knew Steve that he did not take the

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Speaker 7: route you were suggesting on his first eye in tea,

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Speaker 7: which could have gone for a touchdown as well.

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Speaker 4: When you see it every night, what happens when you

2426
02:04:26,640 --> 02:04:29,160
Speaker 4: got the ball in your hand, you look around, when

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Speaker 4: you see the other jersey, you tend to know that

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Speaker 4: it's blocked off to you. But when he looked back,

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Speaker 4: and you know, these guys don't carry the ball that much,

2430
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Speaker 4: so they don't get practiced in it. And I think

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Speaker 4: what happened when he saw the guy, but he didn't

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Speaker 4: realize he had enough space to come back, and he

2433
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Speaker 4: had some help over there lockers. Yeah, he had a

2434
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Speaker 4: ton of guys over there. If he just cuts that

2435
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Speaker 4: back to his right, there's nobody that's gonna get him.

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Speaker 4: It's going to walk in. He would have had two

2437
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Speaker 4: if everything played out exactly like that. But he's yeah,

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Speaker 4: you look back, and I was like, oh man, what

2439
02:05:00,200 --> 02:05:02,480
Speaker 4: what were you doing? But hey, you got a second,

2440
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Speaker 4: chick second, and he made the most of it, no question.

2441
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Speaker 2: Bill Safety.

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Speaker 7: Micah Hyde often goes back and forth with Raseul Douglas

2443
02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:14,840
Speaker 7: on who has the better hands and Mike who knows

2444
02:05:14,840 --> 02:05:17,120
Speaker 7: at this point in time, he has to give it

2445
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 7: up to his new teammate, Raseul Douglas.

2446
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Speaker 27: He almost got a phone recovery too, And just not

2447
02:05:24,240 --> 02:05:25,440
Speaker 27: just what he's been able to do on the field,

2448
02:05:25,480 --> 02:05:28,160
Speaker 27: but off the field. Just a competitor, whether if he's

2449
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Speaker 27: playing ping pong and talking junk to j now in

2450
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Speaker 27: the locker room, or you know, playing Uno and you

2451
02:05:34,280 --> 02:05:36,840
Speaker 27: know he's always cheating, So just a constant competitor. And

2452
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Speaker 27: I can't say enough Buzzle.

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Speaker 23: The touchdown, you come, blitzen free off the edge.

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Speaker 27: Obviously.

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Speaker 22: It's kind of like where he ran the receivers ro

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Speaker 22: out for him.

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Speaker 27: You know, film study, baby, film studies a little smart

2458
02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 27: and you know, broke on that play and I was

2459
02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:51,720
Speaker 27: joking around, I ain't a block of soul on that,

2460
02:05:51,880 --> 02:05:54,440
Speaker 27: so you know, but he's able to get the end zone.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and what an acquisition by the Bills. Douglas now

2462
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Speaker 7: with six takeaways in seven games played for Buffalo. We

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Speaker 7: wrap up around the locker room with Bill center Mitch Morse,

2464
02:06:09,200 --> 02:06:12,520
Speaker 7: who was ready and willing to admit that they had

2465
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Speaker 7: some offensive struggles early, but was pretty proud that his

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Speaker 7: team was able to overcome those struggles and still win

2467
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Speaker 7: Sunday's game against the Patriots.

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Speaker 9: One thing you expect is the unexpected, And I also

2469
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:29,360
Speaker 9: think I can speak for myself, it's uncharacteristic mistakes in

2470
02:06:29,400 --> 02:06:32,240
Speaker 9: regards to communications. So I'm just kind of having it

2471
02:06:32,280 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 9: coming to Jesus a mount with the offensive line for

2472
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Speaker 9: me and our coach and just kind of taking a

2473
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Speaker 9: step back and focusing on the thing that was in

2474
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Speaker 9: front of us and the fundamentals and stuff we'd worked

2475
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Speaker 9: on all week. And you know, after we did that

2476
02:06:43,320 --> 02:06:45,040
Speaker 9: and really calmed down and we were just able to

2477
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Speaker 9: kind of matriculate the ball down the field.

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Speaker 4: We got to come to Jesus moment without the sideline

2479
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Speaker 4: in between two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was just one of those my coming Jess

2482
02:06:51,320 --> 02:06:55,040
Speaker 9: might be a little bit, Uh, it was. It was.

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Speaker 9: It was just a conversation we had needed to happen,

2484
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Speaker 9: and it was great. It was very constructive rather than

2485
02:07:00,200 --> 02:07:02,960
Speaker 9: you know those when when stuffs fire, and especially as

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02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:05,000
Speaker 9: a dead in the first quarter, you know, when stuff's

2487
02:07:05,120 --> 02:07:07,320
Speaker 9: not going our way, it's easy to, like I said earlier,

2488
02:07:07,520 --> 02:07:09,680
Speaker 9: for I feel like the world's crashing on you. But

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Speaker 9: we have a good coaches and good guys that really

2490
02:07:11,840 --> 02:07:14,320
Speaker 9: just kind of have each other's back, we talk it

2491
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Speaker 9: out and then we were able to do that. Communication

2492
02:07:16,680 --> 02:07:19,760
Speaker 9: flowed easier, and you know, they're still very multiple, So

2493
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Speaker 9: it was it was one of those days that you're

2494
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:24,000
Speaker 9: glad you want to get to play those guys twice

2495
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:27,000
Speaker 9: because that defense, as a sucker, it.

2496
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Speaker 7: Is a good defensive front, big heavy, strong dudes across.

2497
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Speaker 4: The board they had. That's been the one thing that

2498
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Speaker 4: has been the bright spot for the Patriots all year.

2499
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Speaker 4: Their defense has kept them competitive when their offense was

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Speaker 4: non competitive. And uh, you know, it's not enough. You

2501
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:45,480
Speaker 4: got to score points at some point and their defense

2502
02:07:45,760 --> 02:07:47,680
Speaker 4: wasn't going to do that and their offense couldn't. And

2503
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Speaker 4: that's why they're a four win team at this point.

2504
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Speaker 2: So that is Around the Locker Room presented by connect Life,

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Speaker 2: your blood and organ donor network, and a Squeeze in

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Speaker 2: a Phone Call here as we go to Sandra in

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Speaker 2: Rochester next, what do you got for a Sandra?

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Speaker 11: Oh my god, Hello guys, mister Steve Tasker, I love you,

2509
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:19,080
Speaker 11: I watched you. Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Andre Reid, Darryl Kelly,

2510
02:08:19,360 --> 02:08:23,879
Speaker 11: Kent Haul, Oh my god, Therman Thomas, Oh, the Buffalo

2511
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 11: Bills of yesteryear. I love you guys. Then I still

2512
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:32,920
Speaker 11: love our modern day Buffalo Bills. I called them my nephews.

2513
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:36,560
Speaker 11: I loved the Bills. And let me tell you something

2514
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Speaker 11: I predicted.

2515
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Speaker 24: It was before they.

2516
02:08:40,280 --> 02:08:43,360
Speaker 11: Played the Kansas City Chiefs. I said, you guys did

2517
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Speaker 11: a three sector. Now you gotta do a five sector.

2518
02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:50,360
Speaker 11: So they got one more to go. They're gonna do this.

2519
02:08:50,840 --> 02:08:54,240
Speaker 11: We're all gonna be crying. I've been riding with the

2520
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Speaker 11: Bills for thirty two years. They're gonna do it. This

2521
02:08:57,640 --> 02:09:02,080
Speaker 11: is their time. What did Marvelee? You say, where else

2522
02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:05,560
Speaker 11: would you rather be than right here right now? That's

2523
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Speaker 11: their rallying cry right here, right now, go build. The

2524
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Speaker 11: whole world will root for them.

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Speaker 6: I love them.

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Speaker 1: I love you guys, all right, Sandra.

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Speaker 2: That was a pep talk and a half there and there.

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Speaker 4: That's very nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of bouquets for you and the old

2530
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Speaker 2: they are.

2531
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the old crew it you gotta Yeah. This is

2532
02:09:27,080 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 4: we say it all the time. We've said it last well,

2533
02:09:29,680 --> 02:09:32,000
Speaker 4: last three or four years when the team was close

2534
02:09:32,120 --> 02:09:37,800
Speaker 4: and good, that this is the only chance you get

2535
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Speaker 4: with this team next. Last year's team was a little different.

2536
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Speaker 4: This next year's team is going to be at least

2537
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Speaker 4: a little different. And you know, if you're going to

2538
02:09:45,760 --> 02:09:51,600
Speaker 4: do it, now's the time. Everything they wanted has is

2539
02:09:51,640 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 4: still there and uh, they have shown that everything is

2540
02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,680
Speaker 4: in the is in there someplace. If they can get

2541
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Speaker 4: it out and if they do that for the next

2542
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:07,080
Speaker 4: three or four five games, yeah, there is no stopping them.

2543
02:10:07,080 --> 02:10:09,040
Speaker 4: But it takes a lot. It takes a lot, and

2544
02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 4: they're not once these playoff now they start now, the

2545
02:10:13,760 --> 02:10:16,280
Speaker 4: Dolphins are a playoff team and every team subsequent to

2546
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Speaker 4: that is obviously a playoff team. They're gonna play the

2547
02:10:18,640 --> 02:10:20,840
Speaker 4: best of the best coming up, So we'll see if

2548
02:10:20,880 --> 02:10:21,680
Speaker 4: they can continue.

2549
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Speaker 7: We have to step aside for a break here when

2550
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Speaker 7: we come back, some thoughts on the tweet sheet as

2551
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Speaker 7: we crack that open and wrap up a Buffalo victory

2552
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Speaker 7: Monday here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health,

2553
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Speaker 7: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Ticketmaster is the presenting sponsor the

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Speaker 7: Buffalo Bills twenty twenty three each season. Ticketmaster the official

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Speaker 7: ticket marketplace of the NFL. And we go to the

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Speaker 7: tweet sheet now, which we have yet to crack open.

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Speaker 7: On today's show, tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan

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Speaker 7: Moving Systems, the official equivalent moving company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 7: Your biggest takeaways from the Bills went over the Patriots.

2560
02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:18,960
Speaker 7: Jude says Bill's offense was vanilla not tipping anything to Miami.

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02:11:19,040 --> 02:11:21,960
Speaker 7: Belichick will always put up a good defense. Miami is hurting,

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Speaker 7: the Bills will be ready. I don't know if I'm

2563
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Speaker 7: buying that one, Jude. It's a nice theory, but the

2564
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Speaker 7: Bills needed to win this game against New England. It

2565
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Speaker 7: wasn't a throwaway game in any sense of the words.

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Speaker 7: So to think they vanilla upped their defense or their

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Speaker 7: offense to save all of their stuff in the bag

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Speaker 7: for Miami this.

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Speaker 2: Week, I think is a little misguide.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, it's all hands on deck all the time,

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Speaker 4: every week. It's been for a month and it's got

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02:11:49,880 --> 02:11:53,440
Speaker 4: to continue for another month, so a month and a half.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, no, none of that they And plus there's

2574
02:11:57,600 --> 02:12:01,200
Speaker 4: nothing that's saying that there gonna need the same stuff

2575
02:12:01,400 --> 02:12:04,560
Speaker 4: for miamis they needed for New England's ridiculous. It's two

2576
02:12:04,600 --> 02:12:07,880
Speaker 4: different teams, two different strengths and weaknesses, two different game plans.

2577
02:12:07,920 --> 02:12:11,640
Speaker 4: So they're not holding anything back and certainly, if anybody's

2578
02:12:11,680 --> 02:12:14,360
Speaker 4: healthy enough to play, they're gonna play, and they're gonna

2579
02:12:14,360 --> 02:12:15,840
Speaker 4: play the best guys, the guys that give them the

2580
02:12:15,880 --> 02:12:18,040
Speaker 4: best chance to win, no matter what, no matter who.

2581
02:12:18,160 --> 02:12:21,480
Speaker 4: So yeah, I get the I get the logic, but.

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Speaker 7: No, Emily says, first props to being for making the

2583
02:12:25,120 --> 02:12:28,360
Speaker 7: great deal to get Rasul Douglas. Second, defenses are starting

2584
02:12:28,360 --> 02:12:31,320
Speaker 7: to figure Brady out and adjustments need to be made asap.

2585
02:12:31,920 --> 02:12:34,400
Speaker 7: There is enough of a body of work now with

2586
02:12:34,480 --> 02:12:38,000
Speaker 7: five games coached and game plan for by Joe Brady

2587
02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:40,280
Speaker 7: as OC, so there is more film to work with

2588
02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:42,760
Speaker 7: for opposing defensive coordinators.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: You got to make adjustments, but no philosophical changes, I

2591
02:12:47,400 --> 02:12:48,640
Speaker 7: wouldn't think at this point in.

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Speaker 4: Time, right right, You play your game, You play the

2593
02:12:53,760 --> 02:12:55,720
Speaker 4: best you can, You give yourself a chance to win,

2594
02:12:55,760 --> 02:12:58,480
Speaker 4: and you can't think too much about that other team

2595
02:12:58,520 --> 02:13:01,000
Speaker 4: except where they're weak, where they're trunk, that kind of stuff,

2596
02:13:02,000 --> 02:13:05,400
Speaker 4: what they're playing for, what their ramifications are, their roster,

2597
02:13:05,480 --> 02:13:07,520
Speaker 4: all that, to play your guys and play as best

2598
02:13:07,520 --> 02:13:09,160
Speaker 4: as you can try and win this week.

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02:13:10,440 --> 02:13:14,000
Speaker 7: Madeline on the tweets sheet says, unbelievable. What the Bills

2600
02:13:14,040 --> 02:13:16,200
Speaker 7: defense has been able to pull off this whole season,

2601
02:13:16,320 --> 02:13:19,360
Speaker 7: saved our booties once again. Looking forward to the title

2602
02:13:19,400 --> 02:13:22,280
Speaker 7: game in Miami and praying for the Chiefs to have

2603
02:13:22,520 --> 02:13:26,240
Speaker 7: to leave their playoff comfort zone and come to Buffalo

2604
02:13:26,680 --> 02:13:31,520
Speaker 7: wildest dreams Land, Dave says, offense looks bad. Shakiir is

2605
02:13:31,560 --> 02:13:33,760
Speaker 7: the new Beasley. Ed Oliver is a beast, and I'm

2606
02:13:33,800 --> 02:13:36,840
Speaker 7: formally apologizing to him after thinking the Bills shouldn't resign

2607
02:13:36,920 --> 02:13:39,880
Speaker 7: him last offseason. Well, that's very that's very big of you, Dave.

2608
02:13:39,880 --> 02:13:41,200
Speaker 7: There aren't many people doing that.

2609
02:13:41,640 --> 02:13:44,240
Speaker 4: There are not There are not there. You know, there

2610
02:13:44,280 --> 02:13:45,800
Speaker 4: was a ton of people, said I that had their

2611
02:13:45,840 --> 02:13:50,320
Speaker 4: doubts about Ed, but they didn't realize and we talked

2612
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:52,160
Speaker 4: about a little. He was never one hundred percent, hadn't

2613
02:13:52,160 --> 02:13:55,680
Speaker 4: been hundred percent for parts of two years, and when

2614
02:13:55,680 --> 02:13:58,040
Speaker 4: he was healthy played well, which is why I was

2615
02:13:58,080 --> 02:14:00,320
Speaker 4: a little bit of a roller coaster with Ed early on.

2616
02:14:00,880 --> 02:14:02,320
Speaker 4: Another guy that we're gonna have to have the same

2617
02:14:02,360 --> 02:14:07,160
Speaker 4: conversation about this year is Aj Epanessa played pre will

2618
02:14:07,920 --> 02:14:10,520
Speaker 4: his contract's gonna be up, How are they gonna treat

2619
02:14:10,520 --> 02:14:13,320
Speaker 4: aj and bringing him back? So there's a lot going

2620
02:14:13,320 --> 02:14:16,640
Speaker 4: into this, but that's all off season stuff that's gonna

2621
02:14:16,640 --> 02:14:18,800
Speaker 4: come up soon enough, and hopefully not for the next

2622
02:14:19,040 --> 02:14:19,640
Speaker 4: six weeks.

2623
02:14:20,000 --> 02:14:23,400
Speaker 7: Bill's news consolidated, says Sean McDermott's defensive scheme and player

2624
02:14:23,480 --> 02:14:26,600
Speaker 7: skill sets are dominant against rhythm and timing passers, and

2625
02:14:26,680 --> 02:14:30,160
Speaker 7: Joe Brady's offense maintained urgency with the use of design

2626
02:14:30,240 --> 02:14:34,120
Speaker 7: quarterback runs with Josh Allen and Mike says defense ruled

2627
02:14:34,160 --> 02:14:36,880
Speaker 7: the day and I'll be one happy Bills fan if

2628
02:14:36,920 --> 02:14:41,200
Speaker 7: that's the last time we have to face the Belichick Patriots.

2629
02:14:41,800 --> 02:14:42,960
Speaker 2: And that might be the case.

2630
02:14:42,880 --> 02:14:44,919
Speaker 4: May be the case. That's amazing, right.

2631
02:14:45,040 --> 02:14:47,400
Speaker 7: It is, but I think we're all glad that that

2632
02:14:47,680 --> 02:14:50,560
Speaker 7: chapter's coming to a close. We're done for today, but

2633
02:14:50,640 --> 02:14:53,120
Speaker 7: Dan Orlovsky and Thurman Thomas here on the show tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: We'll see it one