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Speaker 1: have to answer that he'll be over seventy if that's

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Speaker 1: the case. Yeah, he's sixty two now, I believe right,

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Speaker 1: So that's that's a question mark for him. Marv was

427
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: a pretty good coach in his sixties and seventies. Yeah,

428
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Speaker 1: Marv was one of the Marv's second oldest guy to

429
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: ever do it. I think George Hallis was the oldest.

430
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Speaker 1: Um and Sula got up. There's almost Belichick will be

431
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Speaker 1: seventy within a year, I think so, I you know,

432
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Speaker 1: I just think he's got the energy. I think he

433
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Speaker 1: and let's face it, if even if you do hit

434
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Speaker 1: a home run, ten years a long time for any coach, right,

435
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's hard to into the sunset after that, right,

436
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: um and and and the club would be happy they

437
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: did made the move, but you got to be the

438
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: right guy. And I think that's what he's got to

439
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: convince a franchise of right now. If he's the right guy.

440
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: I don't think they would shy away from him because

441
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Speaker 1: of his age. If he was the right guy, I

442
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: hope not. We shall see what do you may? What

443
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: do you make of the Brady stuff? I mean, this

444
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: was what a mess? Just an absolute man. Give a

445
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: synopsis for those who don't know. So it breaks over

446
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: the weekend Saturday. I think it was CHEFTI Schefter, a

447
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: couple of the National reporters, Schefter and Jeff Darlington, who

448
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: and Jeff Darlington who also works for ESPN has been

449
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: very plugged into Brady and his career. He had been

450
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: saying all along that Brady's time in New England was

451
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Speaker 1: done and he was going to move on, and that

452
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: was long before anybody else got on that train, and

453
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: that in fact proved to be the cases. He obviously

454
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Speaker 1: signed with Tampa two years ago. So Jeff Darlington and

455
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: Schefter are reporting Brady is going to retire, calling it

456
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Speaker 1: a career after twenty two seasons. So naturally Twitter blows

457
00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: up and it's going bananas people, no Tom or posting

458
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: Instagram photos Jim even an Instagram photo with him and

459
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: Tom and in the tunnel here at the stadium. Wow,

460
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: congrats on a great career, you know, Jim, here's the news.

461
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's a relationship right. Um. But then

462
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: his agent comes out with, you know, a response that

463
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: says he has not made a decision either way. Then

464
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: another report comes out he has not spoken to bucks

465
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Speaker 1: GM Jason Lte and told him anything about a decision

466
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Speaker 1: on his future. And then our our friend from spot track,

467
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: Mike Janitty, puts out the best tweet of the day,

468
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: which said fifteen million of a twenty million dollar bonus

469
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Speaker 1: is due to be paid to Brady on February fourth,

470
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Speaker 1: So if he retires prior to that, that probably goes

471
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Speaker 1: out the window. I don't I'm not going to pretend

472
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 1: to know the exact contract language, but I think if

473
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: you're getting a fifteen million dollars payout on a twenty

474
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: million dollar bonus on February fourth, you're probably waiting to

475
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: retire unless it's February fifth, right, unless it's a cashlow

476
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: thing and they've already he's already made that and earned

477
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it no matter what. Um, you're right now,

478
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 1: if he's a signing bonus from last year, he'll get

479
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: it anyway when in doubt. But if it's a roster bonus,

480
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: if it's a roster bonus, you know what you know

481
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. So what probably happened, right,

482
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: I mean what probably happened is he told people in

483
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: his inner circle he's made a decision somehow that leaks

484
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: to the wrong people, right, And now you got this,

485
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. That's unfortunate for a career that has

486
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: been what has star studded is that one well you

487
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna I mean, this is like stubbing

488
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: your toe on the bedpost. It's it's hard hard to

489
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: hold that in and keep it a secret because it

490
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: is a big deal, right and you know, so you

491
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: make that decision with your family, and then who do

492
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: you tell? Probably your representation, and you have all that

493
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: in and somebody along the line doesn't let somebody know

494
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: when they when they leak it, they don't let him know.

495
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: The parameters say, hey, listen, he's not gonna do it

496
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: until after the bonus is paid. He's gonna renounce it himself.

497
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: Don't say anything, oh whatever, don't say anything. Whatever. The

498
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: best quarterback in football history is retiring. But don't say anything.

499
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: He says, we'll tell you when you get Yeah, that's

500
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. That's what you gotta do. And

501
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: those guys, even guy like Chefting, those guys who are over,

502
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: they will sit on it. They'll sit on it. Now,

503
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: it's obviously somebody said something and it was either misinterpreted

504
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. But he has not retired, even though he

505
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: may retire in like three days. We think he will though,

506
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 1: right I do? I mean, if I think so, I probably. Yeah.

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00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: He said he's gonna play to till forty five. I

508
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: don't know why he's caught stopping at forty four. Well,

509
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: I think he turns forty five this year. I don't know.

510
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. He thinks, yeah, he'll be forty

511
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: five this next year. He wanted to play till he

512
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: was forty five. Now does he get retire just before

513
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: he's forty five or he's gonna play when he's forty

514
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: because let's face it, the guy had a pretty good year.

515
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: He did, right, But it's not about how he's playing.

516
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: He said he was gonna play until he sucked, right.

517
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: He did not stay. He said something very different though,

518
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: at his last press conference this year, when he started

519
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: talking about family and spending time with them. So we'll see,

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00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, Billy and Toronto,

521
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: Tom and Lanco on a hang tight. You guys will

522
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: be first up after the break, as we have open

523
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Speaker 1: lines for you at eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty What was

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00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: your biggest storyline from the weekend and why was it

526
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: the Bengals beating the Chiefs, any kind of maybe retiring

527
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: Dable to the giants or something else. You let us

528
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: know we're back with your phone calls and tweets. Next

529
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,479
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Line, presented by Kalida Health, It's

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00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back, It's One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Berhaps Steve Passer with you. Got to get right

532
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: to the phones as we're asking you, what was your

533
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: biggest storyline from the weekend and why Bengals beating the Chiefs?

534
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: Brady kind of disorder, maybe retiring Dable to the giants

535
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: or something else. You let us know. At eight three

536
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: fifty we begin today north of the border with Billy

537
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: in Toronto. What do you have for us, Billy? Yeah, hey, guys,

538
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: all of those things, but more so, uh San Francisco

539
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: blowing a late lead. I thought for sure they had

540
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: the Rams beaten and out the door. But uh you

541
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: know that guy dropping that that sure interception office took

542
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: took San fran right out of the playoffs. That my uh,

543
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: I had a Cincinnati San Francisco final, covered both games

544
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: with the with the book, but still I wanted to

545
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: see uh San Fran in here. But here, guys, here's

546
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: my point. And I've been calling him for a while now.

547
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: Thankfully this will be my last call until next next year.

548
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: But I and I know what's gonna sum that I'm

549
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: repeating myself, But I seed in this game totally totally different.

550
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: Forget about what happened at the end of the game.

551
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: Forget about what we should have done and what we

552
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: could have done. You put up thirty six points and

553
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: you got the number one defense in football. How do

554
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: you lose that game? I don't care what happened. I

555
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: just heard the talk about how Leslie Fraser's gonna get

556
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: a job. Not my world. He's not Leslie Fraser was

557
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: never a good coach when he was a coach, and

558
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: and he I put all the blame on the defense.

559
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: There was no adjustments in the second half. Now listening

560
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: to the listening to the South before you guy, a

561
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: caller called him and said the same thing in South said, well,

562
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes said that they didn't do anything different. They

563
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: did the one thing against Patrick Mahomes that you have

564
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: to do to beat him, and that not get caught

565
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: behind him. They kept him the defensive line. Even when

566
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: ma Homes got to the sideline and he did all

567
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: that garbage playground stuff that he does, they kept him

568
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: in front. They didn't try to tackle him until they

569
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: had a second or third guy come and Mahomes couldn't

570
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: get free. Patrick Mahomes, you make him pass the ball

571
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: and you take the runaway. It's like Lamar Jackson, it's

572
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: like Kyle Murray, it's like Hurts. You take the runaway

573
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: from those guys and they are average, average, average quarterbacks.

574
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: And that's what the Bengals done. To end it on

575
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: this note, to me, the Buffetball Bills are the best

576
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: team in football if they play Kansas City again next

577
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: week and make adjustments. They would blow them off the field.

578
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: I personally think they would beat the Bengals and then

579
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: they destroy anybody who came out of the other conference.

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00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: That's all I got. Guys, Thanks all right, appreciate the call.

581
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say this, they had the number one defense.

582
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: They are the number one defense, but as Steve says

583
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: time and time and time again, you have to play

584
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: like the number one defense on game day, that unit

585
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: did not. They were. I mean, you could talk about

586
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: scheme all you want and what the approach was with

587
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. The most prevailing problem from start to finish

588
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: in that game defensively was tackling. They had inconsistent tackling,

589
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: probably their worst tackling game since the Colts game, when

590
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: they couldn't tackle Jonathan Taylor or anybody else run out

591
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: of the gym forty one to fifteen. Tackling was the

592
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: biggest problem on defense. And they are still the number

593
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: one defense in a lot of categories. They were, they

594
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: didn't play like it on game day. Yeah, they I'll

595
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: say this, and this is and I get it. We

596
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: get a lot of calls and we're gonna get a

597
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: lot of calls about day ball and about Leslie Fraser

598
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: in the defense, and how you know the way the

599
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: game ended in Kansas City for the Buffalo Bills, and

600
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: what happened with the Cincinnati Bengals in Kansas City and

601
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: how they beat them in overtime. Here's the thing, and

602
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: this is why you get so many calls on a

603
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: situation like we saw in Bill's Kansas City game. And

604
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: I've got I mean, all my buddies, all the guys

605
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: I text with. I got like four or five loops

606
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: that I text with. It's just on and on and

607
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: on and on. And you should have done this, You

608
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: should have done that, you could have done, you would

609
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: have done, should have could have would have What happens?

610
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: Why didn't they? Why didn't they do this? Why did

611
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: they do that? Why did And here's the And because

612
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: it's such a it's so easy, because anything any of

613
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: us can dream up that they should have done, they

614
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: should have tried. It would have worked better than what

615
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: they did. It could not have gone worse in the

616
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: thirteen second that they gave it up, unless somebody didn't,

617
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: unless Kelsey went to unless one of them with the distance,

618
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: it could not have gone worse. So everything any caller

619
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: wants to call and say and spout off about, there's

620
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: nothing you can say, because they absolutely could not stop

621
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: one single play, you know, at the end of regulation

622
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: in thirteen seconds. They didn't do a nice enough job.

623
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: And whatever tactic or coaching point or whatever you want

624
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: to bring up, yes, you're right they should have done

625
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: that because what they did was totally the wrong thing

626
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: to do. So and you can coaches should have done better,

627
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 1: players should have done better, should have done that. It's whatever,

628
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: you're right. That's why it's so hard to take a

629
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: loss like that. You had it. It was easy to

630
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: close that game out. It should have been simply, not easy,

631
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: but simple to close that game out in regulation with

632
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds left, and they got to get forty yards

633
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: in thirteen seconds with three time out. It should have

634
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: been an easy way to close out the game. The

635
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: Bills couldn't get it done. And every suggestion hair brained wild.

636
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Speaker 1: Blame the coaches, blame the players, blamed the Chiefs, blamed Mahomes,

637
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: blame the Bengals. Whatever you want to do, you are correct,

638
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: and you have absolute justification for being steamed about it.

639
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: And the problem is like he's like like Billy from

640
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: Toronto just said he talked out of both sides of

641
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: his mouth too. The Bills are the best team in football.

642
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: So problem with Frasier, but that you got one of

643
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: the best teams in football. He's a part of that

644
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: part of that. So you gotta live with it. And

645
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: I know we're all mad at this guy and that guy,

646
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: and and every time the Bills lose during the regular

647
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: season and they score six points against Jacksonville, brand Dable

648
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: needs to get kicked to the curb. He's the reason.

649
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: And then the game like this when Leslie Fraser he

650
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't get a job against all of that stuff. Yeah, yeah,

651
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: but you know what, and all of us, you don't

652
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: pick your family. We got to pick football team. You

653
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: don't get pick your family. But in this you gotta

654
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: love those guys anyway, because they got us to this

655
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: point and they're going to continue to help us until

656
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: they can until Brian Daboll goes to another job. They

657
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: are part of the reason the Bills are maybe the

658
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: best team in football. And you got to take a

659
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: mistake now and then, and a missed coaching opportunity as

660
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: a missed assignment, a dropped interception, a mis tackle. It

661
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: all goes in. And as much as we're people are

662
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: mad at Leslie Frazier because they didn't play those last

663
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds correctly, He's part of the reason they had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to be there. The only thing I disagree

665
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: with Billy on is he lum Patrick Mahomes in with

666
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray. He is much better than

667
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: those teams and I'm much better pedestrian, much better than

668
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: ever just an average quarterback. Look at his production in

669
00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: comparison to those two guys, far and away better about

670
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: every statistical category. I will agree with Billy that you

671
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: do make it harder for him when you don't let

672
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: him run around and buy time. But more often than not,

673
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: he's still more productive than those other two guys, and

674
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: the numbers will bear that out if you take the

675
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: time to look at him and see. And the other

676
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: thing too, is you know you're talking about adjustments. What

677
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: Cincinnati did was really smart in the second half. It

678
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: worked well, and they didn't have a third rusher. What

679
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: they had was a spy who only rushed when Mahomes

680
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: decided which side of the field he was running to

681
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: it though a lot of times they were dropping eight,

682
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: dropping seven, and it worked. The adjustment worked. The Chiefs

683
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: never adjusted to that adjustment until the final drive of

684
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: the game. That's what I was gonna say. If you're

685
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna get on the Bills coaching said, you gotta get

686
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs coaching stuff. They could not figure it

687
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: out in the second half against the Bengals. They could not.

688
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: They had no answer for what the Bengals did in

689
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: the second half defensively. And that's on Andy Reid and

690
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: Eric b Enemy and all that crew. So, I mean,

691
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: there's no magic elixir. If if the Bengals do this

692
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: and they're getting you, what do you have to do

693
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: to beat them? And the Chiefs couldn't come up with that.

694
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: There's no magical could because if if that defense worked

695
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: that well against every team, every team would run that

696
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: exact defense all the time. There is an answer for it,

697
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs could not find it, at least couldn't

698
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: find it fast enough. So every coaching staff gets out

699
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: maneuvered once in a while. And plus the Bengals came

700
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: up and they had some guys that could really execute

701
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: that defense at a high level. When they were called

702
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 1: upon in the second half. You gotta have both things going.

703
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: So that's that's the world we live in. In the NFL.

704
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: You gotta if it's good for one side, it's good

705
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: for the other, and if it's not good for one,

706
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: it's not good for the other. A coaching staff can

707
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: make a mistake and it costs them if they do

708
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: it at the wrong time. And if they've got a

709
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: plan for it and the players can't execute it, that

710
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: can cost you two. And the forty nine ers are

711
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: sitting there today looking at each other going, we had

712
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 1: two interceptions right into our chests and we couldn't hold

713
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 1: on to either one of them, and we lose by three.

714
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: What to seal the game? We stink, you know. So

715
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: there you are. That's the world we live in. And

716
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: I'll say this, the margins are thin this and i

717
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: know it didn't go the Bill's way, but I'm telling

718
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: you what, it was one of the great football games

719
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: of all time. In the Division round the NFL Playoffs again,

720
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs Bills, Mahomes and Allen and there were three others

721
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: in that round of eight last weekend that we're all walkoffs.

722
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: Every single game ended in a walk off field goal

723
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: at the last minute or in overtime with a walkoff unbelievable.

724
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones to time and Lackawana

725
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: we go. What do you got first time? A couple

726
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: of things. The whole weekend, you know, it was spread

727
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: out over, everything being good, except that Brady had to

728
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: get his face in there. He had to get his

729
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: Opie Griffiths as shocks. I'm Tommy Brady, I'm just the

730
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: all team guy, and it's the Conference Championships and I

731
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: was gonna shut my mouth and take some time, but

732
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: now I'm instagramming, and now Gaelle is getting into it,

733
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna leak this, and then we're gonna

734
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: say oh no, no and everything else. And he's even

735
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for the Hall of Fame because

736
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna say, hey, I'm forty four. I should be

737
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: able to get in before five years. And then it's

738
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: gonna be the whole thing. Is he gonna go in

739
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 1: as a patriot in a Patriot uniform or a Tampa

740
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: Bay uniform. Neither He's going to go in in a

741
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: TB twelve uniform, which will be a goat holding up

742
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: a goat, the color a rainbow color of a unicorn

743
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: holding up the earth like Tom Brady holds up the

744
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: earth for all of us. And it's just ridiculous. The

745
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: man has nothing about it. You do, get away from football,

746
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: Nobody cares if you retire or not. There's beautiful great quarterbacks, now,

747
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: there's Burrow, all these other guys coming in, and Timmy

748
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: needs to be the story. And so you think so

749
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: you think it's orchestrated. Yes, okay, yeah, I get you,

750
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: all right, and I you and I sat right here

751
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: last week, Brownie and I had this conversation about the

752
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: other quarterback that's the great one is Aaron Rodgers, and

753
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 1: about how maybe he orchestrated h Cket to the recommending

754
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: Nate Hackett in a in a high degree to try

755
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: and get him a head coaching job somewhere so that

756
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: people would connect him with Nate Hackett and get him

757
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: at least one more team, Nate Hackett's team in this case,

758
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: Denver into a trading bidding war with the Green Bay

759
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: Packers if he could get out of Packers, get away

760
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: from the Packers. I'm it's not an I don't know

761
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: that this is what happened with Tom Brady. I kind

762
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: of doubt it, Yeah, but because there's not a lot

763
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: from it. Really, Yeah, you'd have to be an enormous

764
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: media hound the ulterior moti and you can say that

765
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: he is, but I don't think that. Yeah, the ulterior

766
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: motives here are pretty limited for him in that right now,

767
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't gain anything in it. But I'll say this, um,

768
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: I mean he if he if and when he does retire,

769
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot and unlike what Tom said,

770
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who care. Yes, it's

771
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: not like nobody cares. He said nobody cares. I think

772
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: there's a ton of people who care. Not a lot

773
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: of people in Buffalo care. A not of people in

774
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: A lot of people might care from the standpoint of saying,

775
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: oh good, he's just he's finally going away, right. Yeah.

776
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: But other than that, though, we have to take a

777
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: break here, those of you holding an eighth three oh

778
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: five fifty more phone calls coming up, but we have

779
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: to step aside. But back to the phones. When we

780
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: returned here on One Bills Live presented by Collida Health,

781
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live.

782
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: First perhap Steve to ask you with you we'll get

783
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: right back to the phones. Then we got a funny

784
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: thing we gotta mangineer before we go to break. But

785
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: let's go to Kevin in Hamburg. Here, Kevin, you're on

786
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: one bills live. What do you have for us? Sir? Hey,

787
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: how are you doing good? Thanks for taking my call.

788
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: Two things I want to bring up. First of all,

789
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is going to be the next rifle guy

790
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: to worry about in our conference. Yep for the thing.

791
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: And the second thing is a shocker is but I

792
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: really can't believe it. When I turn on the nfhone

793
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: network on Saturday, I think it was to hear about

794
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: the getting ready for those championships and show Jim Harba

795
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: Michigan right next to our biking fans say welcome, welcome here,

796
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: Jim or something like that. And if that happens, that team,

797
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: because then and Rodgers isn't gonna last forever, and he's

798
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: not gonna make it to forty four, whether he goes

799
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: to Denver or Pittsburgh or whatever. Jim Harball, if he

800
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: does what he did in San Francisco, that's gonna be

801
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: the new Kings of the NFC North, the way the

802
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: Packers usually are. It'd be nice to see him because

803
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: I liked Jim Harball. I always did. I liked him

804
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, I like him in Michigan. I liked

805
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: him as an underdog quarterback because you liked the underdog.

806
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: I think it'd be nice to see someone else rule

807
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: that division if he did so. I never thought he

808
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: would be in there because it was always him to

809
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: either readers, maybe the Cowboys ever that fiasco with Mike

810
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: McCarthy or go staying in Harbor. Yeah, well McCarthy's McCarthy

811
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: staying put. As you probably know, Kevin and the Vikings

812
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: are already well into their interview pool. They're doing second

813
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: interviews with the Rams coordinators Kevin O'Connell and Raheem Morris.

814
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: So Harball might be interested, but it might be too

815
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: late for him. I mean, they seem to have zero

816
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: and a couple of finalists. Maybe it depends. And and

817
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: I'll say this, he's Kevin's right. I think the AFC

818
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: the NFC North, with Green Bay, Minnesota, Detroit, and Chicago.

819
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: No wonder Aaron Rodgers has thrived. Oh my gosh, Minnesota

820
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: Detroit and Chicago. Woof wolf is right, it's a dumpster fire.

821
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean they can't. Nobody can put more than one

822
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: season together at a time in that division, and none

823
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,479
Speaker 1: of them do it any more often than once every

824
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: ten years. I mean the Chicago has done for another

825
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: six or seven years. They went twelve and four after

826
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: and then got double doinked on the first round of

827
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Oh my gosh, So don't get me started

828
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: about that division has been It's been atrocious for my

829
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: lifetime and it's going to continue to be so. From

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00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 1: our police Blotterer series, Oh my god, we often Yeah,

831
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Speaker 1: you ever see the show Steve Dumbest Criminals, World's World's

832
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 1: Dumbest Criminals, I believe is the name of the show.

833
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: Is good for a few laughs. The Buffalo News came

834
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: out with a little tweet, have you got it? I

835
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: don't have it? So police arrest a man in search

836
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: for more suspects in an attempt to steal an ATM

837
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: from a CVS. Right, So they have these portable ones that, yeah,

838
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: you know, stand up in the store. They're about the

839
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: size you know, they're about they're like the size of

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00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: a cylindrical garbage can maybe a little taller. Right, they

841
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: stand up so their their chest heights buttons, so they're

842
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: they're portable. They get plugged in there and they're a

843
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: convenience in a convenience store. You know how much those

844
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: things way? Well, apparently this guy didn't think about that,

845
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: so I guess there's more than one. Like even if

846
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Speaker 1: you're a really fast guy, you're not going to be

847
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: fast if you even manage somehow to get that up

848
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: on your back. Like, and the other thing too, is

849
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: these things are supremely steal reinforced, welded shut. Like if

850
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: you think you're just gonna take this to a warehouse

851
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: somewhere and smack it open with a sledge had and

852
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: you don't think this is gonna be at work for

853
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: a while. You don't think the people that have it

854
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: have a security team a service that they just turned

855
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: their phone on and they go, it's right, okay, it's

856
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: around the corner here that yeah, he can get that's

857
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: like a ninety nine cent app right. Unfortunately, the people

858
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: that steal these things probably couldn't even spell atm so

859
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: that's they must. I would love to see their grand plan,

860
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, like right out, what were you playing on

861
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: what were you gonna take it? And we're gonna go around.

862
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: I had a hand truck, we're gonna wheel it down

863
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: to throw it in the back of a pickup. And

864
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: we got a warehouse to abandoned warehouse. We're gonna take

865
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: it out there breaking a sledge pro. I mean, you

866
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: gotta have a like a body shop and a crew

867
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: to get one crack one of those things. Unless you've

868
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: got the code or the key whatever to get in

869
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: to it. You gotta have like it's like blowtorch city

870
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: and not worth it. Like blowtorch, you get a welding torch.

871
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: You gotta have like the jaws of life to get

872
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: into that. Yeah, this Monday morning, nobody will be around.

873
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: We'll do it on Monday morning. I'm to have that

874
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: thing opened by two o'clock on Tuesday. We'll just wheel

875
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: it right out with a hand truck. Well, there's done

876
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: plugging and go I don't know, desperate time. Oh my goshi,

877
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. All right, we h we are up

878
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: against the break again. So those of you hold an

879
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty. We'll get more of your

880
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: phone calls in here second hour of the show. As

881
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: we are asking you for your biggest storyline from the

882
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: weekend and why a lot happened in the world of

883
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: football over the weekend, including Brian Dabele getting hired as

884
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: head coach of the Giants. Let us know what you

885
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: think next here on one Bill's Line presented by a

886
00:49:48,640 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: lot of health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

887
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

888
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

889
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strategyre of

890
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: normalcy here right here, we are our number two on

891
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: a Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with Hugh and we

892
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: want to get right back to the phones as we

893
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: are getting your thoughts on biggest storylines from the weekend

894
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: NFL wise and why so you can let us know

895
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: it a three five fifty. Let's get right to the phones. Though.

896
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: When we go to rich In Tonawanda next, what do

897
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: you got for us? Rich Uh, I'm just calling in

898
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: respect to the Obviously, Kansas City can be defense, and uh,

899
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: I just think that the Bill's defense was, you know,

900
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: to their credit, they did what they had to do

901
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: in a lot of games but when you look at

902
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: who they played this year, and particularly the quarterbacks they faced,

903
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:15,439
Speaker 1: I got other than Mahomes and Brady, I think they

904
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: really it was hard not to be successful. And finally,

905
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: i'd like to I'm just curious if Tom Brady does

906
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 1: retire with the Bills, might try to bring in Rob

907
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: Gunkowski to finish his career in Buffalo. Thank you, all right,

908
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Rich appreciate it. Yeah, I mean

909
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: it's a valid point. The Bills didn't go against juggernauts

910
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: at quarterback this seasons. That's plainly obvious. Now, they can't

911
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: control who they play on their schedule, so that's not

912
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: their fault. They have a chance to be successful against

913
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: lesser quarterbacks, well then you better darn well be successful,

914
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: and they were. So where do you take it from there?

915
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: What does it mean? I don't know. I mean, I

916
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: suppose if you're playing against better quarterbacks, maybe you're not

917
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: finishing first. What are you finishing? Sixth? I don't know,

918
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: all right, seventh, eighth, You're probably still a top ten

919
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: defense in the grand scheme of things, probably, right, I mean,

920
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: they struggled against good teams sometimes Tennessee, Kansas City, the

921
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: Steelers with Ben in the first week's first game, the

922
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: first years first game. You know, there's no excuse for

923
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville loss. The Colts hung forty one on the defense,

924
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: the Bucks hung thirty three on them, Yeah, Tennessee thirty four. Yeah,

925
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: they held people off the board. With the exception of

926
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Indianapolis and Tennessee. They held everybody in twenty

927
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: three points was the highest other than that. So, yeah,

928
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: they played consistently well. Well, certainly they didn't play against

929
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: the top flight, the hardest schedule in the league. It's

930
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: not that's not for them to decide. And maybe they

931
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: did play who like who they were in the Kansas

932
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: City game. Nevertheless, Um, yeah, that the loss that in

933
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: the thirteen seconds is gonna be something they're gonna have

934
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: to live with. They're gonna they're gonna have to learn from.

935
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: And I'll say this if you can say every you

936
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: can make every derogatory comment you want about the Bills

937
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: coaching staff in the last thirteen seconds defensively and all

938
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: that stuff, and yeah, but the simple fact of the

939
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: matter is that what are you gonna do. You're gonna

940
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: kick all those guys to the curb and get another

941
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: staff in here who has different lessons they gotta learn.

942
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to learn game management, They're gonna to

943
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: learn all that stuff. These are hard lessons. Or you

944
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: go through and these, every coach on that staff's gonna

945
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: be better because they went through what they went through

946
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: in Kansas City and in Houston three years ago, all

947
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: of that stuff. They're better because of it. Don't kick

948
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: them to the curb now that you got them, now

949
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: that they've improved to that point, you know what I mean.

950
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: As for the Gronk comment by Rich, I'm not one

951
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: hundred percent sold on Gronk being signed here. I suppose

952
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: it's possible one year deal or whatever, but I don't

953
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: know that I placed too high a likelihood on that happening.

954
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: But I guess stranger things have happened, so you never know.

955
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: You can't say never, But I don't know. It would

956
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: surprise me a little bit because too, I think if

957
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: he's incorporated into the offense now, you're to me, that

958
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: takes away from what Dawson Knox has done for you.

959
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: The better part of the last well became years. He

960
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be tight end one. Now it's a ball share

961
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: deal or it's two tight ends, and it wouldn't be

962
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: if that's the direction you want to go in an

963
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: eleven personnel world in this league, right, he would be

964
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: a guy that played the role of Tommy Sweeney or

965
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: Gilliam or somebody like that. The Bills had one tight end,

966
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: went with one tight end virtually all the time, and

967
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 1: when they needed two tight ends they put a offensive

968
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: lineman in. I don't know, but let's face it, think

969
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: about it. They're gonna evolve. They have to evolve, and

970
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: they want to do something that they think will help

971
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: Josh be better and more productive. Maybe another tight end,

972
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: a quality tight ends, be it. It's something they'll discuss

973
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: and study over the course of the off season and

974
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: they'll try and get out ahead of where the trend

975
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: in the league is going to go. I was surprised

976
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: in a little bit last night when I looked at

977
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. They were a physical

978
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: team and that was their modus operendi. They just pound

979
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: the ball at you. Garoppolo would do just enough in

980
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: the passing game to keep them on the field. They

981
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: just beat you up. So if they if the Bill

982
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: sense that a trend is headed that way or that

983
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Maybe there's room for another tight end.

984
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: Maybe that tight end would end up being a guy

985
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: like Gronkowski or somebody else. But yeah, I think that's

986
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: a slim too. It's a slim operate. It's a slim chance.

987
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,720
Speaker 1: I think that that would happen. Back to the phones

988
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: into Rich in Albany, What do you have for us?

989
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: Richer on one Bill's Live Rich. Hey, what you got

990
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 1: for us? Oh yeah, you're on Rich What do you

991
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: got for us? Yeah? In regards to the defense, uh,

992
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: they I was listening to the previous uh colmans. They

993
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: were losing, about losing teams that had a very bad record.

994
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: You can all boils down to the defense. Frazier is

995
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: a naturally defensive coach, but he wasn't good enough when

996
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: he came to the playing the top teams. That's all

997
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: I have to say. All right, okay, fair enough. I mean, yeah,

998
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,359
Speaker 1: the top teams give everybody the most trouble. That's why

999
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: they're the top teams. I mean, they dropped forty two

1000
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: on the Steelers the week before. It's hard. It's hard

1001
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: to I said this earlier, and we were sitting around

1002
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: to the office, which by the way, we're back in

1003
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: we have we're back in our office since that offices

1004
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: after two years out of them. Of the today. But

1005
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: it's hard to play defense in the NFL. I mean,

1006
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go up against one of these quarterbacks

1007
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: that we're all talking about, Josh Allen, Pat Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers,

1008
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, you go

1009
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: down the list, and soon to be you know, Trevor Lawrence,

1010
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: maybe Deshaun Watson if he ever gets back on the field,

1011
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: all these young quarterbacks. It's hard to play defense against

1012
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: these guys. That's why they're top quarterbacks. They'd light people up.

1013
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: Unless you have a bad offensive line and your opponent

1014
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: has a great pass rush, these guys are gonna light

1015
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: you up. And even if you like Joe Burrow, who

1016
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: has a bad offensive line but has phenomenal receiving corps,

1017
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: they still light you right and you have and you know,

1018
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs got a pretty pass rush. And I will

1019
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: again go to this, Okay, it's Steve's like, I don't

1020
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: know what what do we call that? Your mantra? It's

1021
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: you have to play at your best the day you

1022
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: play the game. The Cincinnati Bengals in the regular season

1023
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: had the twenty sixth ranked pass defense in football twenty sixth. Okay,

1024
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: they played lights out in the second half yesterday, So

1025
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: that ranking of twenty six didn't mean a hill of beans.

1026
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: Why because they played their absolute best pass defense of

1027
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: the entire season in the second half of the AFC

1028
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: Championship game and it was enough to help their team

1029
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: close an eighteen point deficit and win the football game

1030
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl. And I look at

1031
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin. The Bills have the

1032
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: number one passing defense in the National Football League. Have

1033
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: to defend for thirty thirteen seconds, and they give up

1034
00:58:55,640 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: the yardage necessary. They weren't exactly defending the Chiefs. Sup. Well,

1035
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: come the second half of that game, right, so it

1036
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: you got you gotta do it in that game and

1037
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: that day. And you see teams like Cincinnati kind of

1038
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,959
Speaker 1: parachute into the playoffs out of you know, after being

1039
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: down for so many years. They got a good quarterback.

1040
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: He didn't play much last year, he got hurt. They

1041
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: come back, Boom, they're in the Super Bowl now. Same

1042
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: thing with you know, with other teams that you know

1043
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: you like the Bills. Now, there's no question. I mean

1044
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: the Bills head into the offseason, people are gonna start

1045
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: to get their minds around what josh Ada looked like.

1046
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: At the end of this season, they're gonna be like,

1047
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm picking those guys. Yeah. Same thing with Cincinnati, same

1048
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: thing with Kansas City again, same thing with LA the

1049
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: Chargers and Justin Herbert, all of these teams with the quarterback,

1050
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,919
Speaker 1: they're gonna go right back to the favorites. They got

1051
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: to play well, and nobody knows that better than Bills fans.

1052
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: They rode the roller coaster with this offense and this

1053
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: team throughout the season. They were crushing people and then

1054
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: losing by a single, single score, then crushing people they lose.

1055
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: They you know what I mean. So it's it's just

1056
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: gonna be that way. You gotta play well on game day.

1057
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: The Bills are gonna be right there again. Next year.

1058
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, you gotta play good on that

1059
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:19,959
Speaker 1: You gotta play good on that day. You don't play

1060
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: good on that day, it doesn't matter what you're ranking.

1061
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: Is Bills played good. I mean, they pushed that team

1062
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: on the road in the hostile environment best team in

1063
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: the league, the team that is now hosted four straight

1064
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: AFC championship games. They took those guys down to the

1065
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: wire and had him and they let him off the hook. Ye,

1066
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 1: And so they played good. They just gotta finish it

1067
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: on that day. It does not take away the fact

1068
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: that they were a great defense, the best defense in

1069
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: the league in the regular season. They just didn't play

1070
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: that way in a game that counted the most necessary

1071
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: to advance. And I'll say this, Leslie Fraser deserves a

1072
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: lot of credit because you know, you got you're in

1073
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: hide back there, and I get it. They're really good players.

1074
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: But you know, it's hard to be a spectacular at safety, right,

1075
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: It's easy to be spectacular at corner. You just picked

1076
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: the ball off like you know Michael Parsons did. Yeah,

1077
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: but that defense got better even after they lost tradevious white.

1078
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: They weren't ranked first in every category come at Thanksgiving.

1079
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: You know, my point is this, Leslie Fraser's coordinator defense.

1080
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: They don't have no superstars. They don't have any Aaron Donald,

1081
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: they don't have a Ray Lewis, they don't have a

1082
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, they don't have a you know, Dion Sanders

1083
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: at corner. They don't have any of that. They don't

1084
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: have any of that, and they were doing it getting

1085
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: it done. No premiere pass right, they have no premiere

1086
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: pass rushers their corner. Their premiere corner was out at Thanksgiving.

1087
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: They do have two top notch safeties, that's it. Yeah,

1088
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: they were the first number one defense in football to

1089
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: have no Pro Bowlers since the two thousand and twelve Steelers.

1090
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking ten years, Yeah, since a d

1091
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: fence finished the league number one without a Pro ball

1092
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: and all Pro big barrier. But that's what you're looking at.

1093
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: So you can say what you want about how this

1094
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: game this season, and everybody's bitterly disappointed. And I'm telling

1095
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: you this, the coaches and the players feel worse than

1096
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: they feel worse than any of you. And they got

1097
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: to live with it. Yeah, they gotta live with it.

1098
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, to say that Leslie Frasier, you know,

1099
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: just man oh man, he did announce he did a

1100
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: heck of a job with a bunch of guys that

1101
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: and even a lot of bills fans don't like, you know,

1102
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: with some of the players. You know, we get stuff

1103
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: about Jermaine Edmonds all the time and about how we

1104
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: don't have a pass rush and all that. And Leslie

1105
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: Frasher got those guys that people complain about at down

1106
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: the stretch. He got them to the number one ranking

1107
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 1: in the league. So, so, pump the brakes on your

1108
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: on your I would say, pump the brakes a little

1109
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: bit on Leslie very now. Certainly he is it deserves

1110
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: some share of the blame. Obviously, unless his players totally

1111
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: went off the reservation said just back up and let

1112
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: him do it. I don't think that happened. We'll see,

1113
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: but we may never know. Oh but you know, you know,

1114
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: he did a great job with some players who were

1115
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: a lot of young players on the defensive line and

1116
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: that are just finding themselves. Dane Jackson played very well,

1117
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: Yes he did. Let's go back to the phones. We

1118
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: go to Kevin and Virginia. What do you got for us? Kevin? Hi, guys,

1119
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Goody? I just wanted to

1120
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: give you a quick call. And and really, with the

1121
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: arrival of the Bengals and the Rams and the Super Bowl,

1122
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: I just feel that this underscores more than the point

1123
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: to be made that the Bill's time is now. I mean,

1124
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 1: these windows are very very short, and we have an

1125
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: elite quarterback, we have elite talent. I want Brandon Bean

1126
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: to go in and get one of these elite players

1127
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: on defense, maybe a solid edge rusher, maybe a great

1128
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: safety or another cornerback like j C. Jackson. What are

1129
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: your thoughts with trying to go after the big splash

1130
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: and get us over the hump, because we're very very close,

1131
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: if not there, I think it's just finding one of

1132
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: those superstar players or maybe you know, building like the Rams.

1133
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: The Rams haven't had a first round draft pick in years,

1134
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: and somehow they're in the Super Bowl twice in the

1135
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: last five years. So there's got to be something more

1136
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 1: to get us over that hump. And I'm wondering what

1137
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: your thoughts are in making a splash. I just hope

1138
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: that this talent we have can overcome some of our

1139
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: coaching blunders if you will. Yeah, I'll say this, It

1140
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: is an enormous to get us big splashy guy like

1141
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: that in. It's an enormous gamble, no question about it.

1142
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: And you can and the Rams are a perfect scenario.

1143
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: You can say that it's been tried before. What the

1144
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: Rams are doing, and it's blown up every single time.

1145
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: The Rams got to the Super Bowl now and it

1146
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: looks like it's awesome and good for them and all

1147
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: of that, and a lot of fans don't care if

1148
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: it's sustainable, right, you don't care if they can stake

1149
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 1: it again and give me my championship, and then you

1150
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,439
Speaker 1: can blow it up and let's start from scratch again.

1151
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 1: The Bills are in no way, shape or form in

1152
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: a position I think where that would be their philosophy

1153
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: of doing. I don't think they want to do it.

1154
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: They don't think they want to do it that they

1155
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: want to have a shot, like they've had a shot

1156
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: this year every year. Now that being said, Steve, we

1157
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: do have to remember that if Brandon Bean believes there's

1158
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: a free agent out there that will help their team,

1159
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: he will investigate. He may even make an offer and

1160
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: say this is what we think your value is. But

1161
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: he's not getting into a bidding war. I don't know

1162
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: that we can say, maybe outside of the Mitch Moore signing,

1163
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean has ever overpaid to secure the services

1164
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 1: of a free agent. Perfect example last year was the

1165
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: whole JJ Watt thing. Remember that last year, Bills were

1166
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: interested in J. J. Watt, so two, we're a handful

1167
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: of other teams. The Bills set what they believe the

1168
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: proper value was for a thirty two year old pass

1169
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: rusher who has clearly passed his prime and at a

1170
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: lengthy injury history. They put a value on him. Arizona

1171
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 1: outbid everybody. They paid him sixteen and a half million

1172
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: a year for twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.

1173
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: What happened. He played in six games, six games for

1174
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: sixteen and a half million. That is why this front

1175
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: office does not overpay in free agency, because there's a

1176
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: chance they might make you better, it's also a chance

1177
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: it'll blow up in your face. And with a guy

1178
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: with an injury history like that, Brandon Bean's not going

1179
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: to overpay. Bills have two elite in my opinion at

1180
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: this point, two borderline elite players, maybe not even borderline.

1181
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: Josh is an elite player and Diggs is an elite player.

1182
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 1: And other than that, I think they've got a ton

1183
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: of guys that are high quality guys, very good, particularly

1184
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 1: on the offensive side, because that's the most you know

1185
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: they've got, Like Dion Dawkins as a franchise left tackle.

1186
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: He can play there. Dawson Knox has emerged into being

1187
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: one of the upper echelon tight ends in the league.

1188
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: You can say what you want about Cole Beasley, uh

1189
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis Isa all the offensive weapons that are you know,

1190
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: obviously are benefiting from having Josh tossing him the football.

1191
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: But there's that. You've got a Pro Bowl a multiple

1192
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: Pro bowler in Tremaine Edmonds. You got Turdavious White who

1193
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: didn't finish the year, and the two safeties. You've got

1194
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, a core group of guys who

1195
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: you can probably build around if you're gonna throw somebody

1196
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: in the mix of that and say, for instance, and

1197
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm like an Aaron Donald type guy or

1198
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: who you take your pick name the guy, or a J. C.

1199
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: Jackson to come in, and he had two corners like J. C.

1200
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: Jackson and Turdavious White. Although for Bills fans, j C.

1201
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: Jackson has not played really well against US. So I

1202
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: get that. I get the enticement of wanting if thinking

1203
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 1: you're that close and just one more guy is going

1204
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: to be a one more guy, one more guy, That

1205
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: to me is a mirage. It's a constant lure that

1206
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: is not real. One more guy is not the guy. Now,

1207
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: certainly there have been instances where it has happened where

1208
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 1: one guy made a difference, like I've heard today there

1209
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: La rams Odell Beckham, ob J was that guy. He

1210
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: just put him over the edge, gave him that one

1211
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: extra guy there. Listen, all was lost that game last

1212
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 1: night with a pick that was dropped in the two

1213
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: of them that were dropped in the chest to the guy.

1214
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 1: And the only reason he had a role that he

1215
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: has now is because Robert Woods is out for the year.

1216
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 1: He might not even be on the field that much.

1217
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: He's at best a third receiver. It's a mirrage to

1218
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:48,600
Speaker 1: think that there's this one magic guy out there that

1219
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: you can throw all the money at and he's gonna

1220
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: put you over the top. Think about it. I told

1221
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: you last year. I hate to say it like this.

1222
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: I told I said it last year. The Bills were

1223
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: good enough last year in the AFC Championship to the

1224
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 1: Chiefs last year, and they played bad on that game.

1225
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 1: This year they proved how good they were and they

1226
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: still lost. Don't think you got to do something different

1227
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: than what you got you to this point, This has

1228
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: been exactly what you need to do, because in this scenario,

1229
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: you get last year, and you get this year, and

1230
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:20,519
Speaker 1: you're looking at next year and the year after. In

1231
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: your scenario, you're looking at this year and then you're

1232
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: done and it goes away. Don't the way they're doing

1233
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: it now. The Bills are staying at the upper echelon

1234
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: of the AFC for as long as they got that

1235
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: guy pulling the trigger. But because it worked for the Rams,

1236
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: taking one big swing this year to get to the

1237
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and I know they got there a few

1238
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: years ago as well. They've been doing it with big

1239
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: swings and acquiring guys, mortgaging the future. Let's see where

1240
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: they are in twenty twenty four. I want to see

1241
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 1: where they are then. Right, the Bills are still going

1242
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 1: to be a contender in twenty twenty four, I believe,

1243
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: because they got a quarterback. He was twenty five years

1244
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: old and it's one of the three best qbs in

1245
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: football and doesn't figure to be changing that anytime soon.

1246
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

1247
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: Clarence and Buffalo next. We got first Clarence, Good afternoon, gentlemen.

1248
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: First of all, I have a comment about the Twitter.

1249
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: But at the moment, none of anything that happened over

1250
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 1: the weekend really didn't surprise me. I've didn't. I've seen

1251
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: it all. I'm seventy three years old. I've seen everything

1252
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 1: start from the Bills in the sixties so now, so

1253
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:34,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me when any of the things that

1254
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: anything has happened. My other part is, I have a

1255
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: question for both of you, Uh, what do you think,

1256
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 1: in your opinion, what the Bill's coaching staff needs to

1257
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: do philosophy wise to if they have to make any changes,

1258
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 1: or how they're going to go about doing it. From

1259
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 1: that point, what is that they need to do. I

1260
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: like your opinion on that. Yeah, no problem, Clarence, thanks

1261
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: for the call. We kind of touched on this a

1262
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: little bit last week, each of us. I believe. I'm

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Speaker 1: of the belief that they've got to get faster. I

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 1: think their teams speed from top to bottom has to

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01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 1: be better if you're going to keep up with that

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Speaker 1: Chiefs team, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: I think we're in store for a lot of change

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01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. I think they've

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01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 1: got seven players whose contracts are up on the deep

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Speaker 1: Mummy count them one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

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Speaker 1: players on the defensive line whose contracts are up. There's

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Speaker 1: going to be change on the defensive line this offseason.

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01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: That's a given. Either because of age of the player,

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01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: production level of the player, or contract demands of the player,

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01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: They're going to be changes there. So can you get

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01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: faster upfront and get home more often and be a

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01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 1: more effective pass rushing unit? That's number one. On the

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01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 1: back end, I think you've got to get faster too.

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Speaker 1: I love Levi Wallacey's a fundamentally sound player. Against the Chiefs,

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how fundamentally sounds you are. If you

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01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: can't keep up with them, you can't beat them. It's

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01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: as simple as that as I see it. Other people

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01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 1: might have a different philosophy on that. I think it's

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01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a legitimate problem and that has to

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01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: be addressed. So get faster on defense would be my

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01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: biggest thing. And if you can get faster on offense too,

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01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:22,839
Speaker 1: even better. I don't, and I don't know whether Clearance

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01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: was thinking about how the team needs to change, what

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01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: the coaching staff needs to do different. I don't, and

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01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,680
Speaker 1: I know it's boring to say, and I'm not a

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01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: sit tight kind of guy, and I know the team won't.

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01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: I just think they need to do exactly what they

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01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,519
Speaker 1: have been doing for the last five years. Build the team.

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01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: You gotta draft well, you gotta get guys that can

1295
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: step on the fields as much as you can, guys

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 1: that just work there, that are too good not to

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01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 1: put on the field. And I think the coaches, obviously

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01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 1: that everybody needs to learn from the mistakes they had

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01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: this year. And I'm not talking about the last thirteen

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01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 1: seconds against the Chiefs. I'm talking about Opening Day against

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01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm talking about a day they had

1302
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: again in this bill in here in Orchard Park against

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01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts where they gave up forty one points.

1304
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,679
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a day when they only scored six

1305
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: points against Jacksonville Jaguar team that couldn't defend a high

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01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: school team, and you couldn't find a way to get

1307
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: it get in the end zone. I'm talking about just

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01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:24,400
Speaker 1: do what they have been doing for the last five

1309
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 1: years and do it better, and learn from where they

1310
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: have fallen short and why they are doing the right

1311
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 1: stuff all the time, and Certainly it's frustrating when they

1312
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: don't reach the ultimate goal. But when they're playing as

1313
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 1: well as this team was playing at the end of

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01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: the regular season and into the playoffs, you gotta keep

1315
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 1: on keeping on. Now, certainly they've got that growth mindset

1316
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,839
Speaker 1: and they're they're gonna do some things this offseason because

1317
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: of the guys they get and the guys they lose.

1318
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: The sixteen free agents the Bills have, the contracts that

1319
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: are up, there's both a couple of restricted guys and

1320
01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 1: also complete free agents that are coming to the end

1321
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: of their contracts. Just build the team the way you've

1322
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:06,640
Speaker 1: been building it for five years. Certainly this is a

1323
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: crucial year because now you've got an elite quarterback, You've

1324
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: got some things you know you can depend on. You've

1325
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 1: started to resign your own guys like Milano, Josh Dion Dawkins,

1326
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: Tradavious White, Evan Edmonds is gonna come up this year.

1327
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 1: They got to make a decision about Tremaine Edmonds, all

1328
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 1: of that stuff. But there's no reason that anybody has

1329
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: to do like change philosophies at one Bills drive. Come on.

1330
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 1: They are hitting on all cylinders in their scouting department,

1331
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 1: in their coaching room, in their players and their players,

1332
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 1: and certainly it was frustrating into the season when you

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01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: know they had two plays got away from them at

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01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: the end of regulation in thirteen seconds. I get all

1335
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: of that, but man, oh man, don't throw the baby

1336
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:56,759
Speaker 1: out with the bathwater. This is they They are doing

1337
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: things at a high level all over the building here,

1338
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: and they got to learn from the things that go

1339
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: against them, the bad breaks, the bad decisions, the missed opportunities,

1340
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: and that's what you got to live with. And that's

1341
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 1: what you're always going to have lived with until you

1342
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: win the Lombardi. So don't follow some vapor that says

1343
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: one more high quality, one more splashy free agent's gonna

1344
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: put us over the top, or one more draft pick

1345
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: is going to be the difference, or because it's not true,

1346
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: it's not true this team and I don't know, there's

1347
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: not too many Bills fans that aren't thinking this team

1348
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo is good enough to win the Super Bowl,

1349
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: was good enough to win the Super Bowl this year.

1350
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 1: You can regret and bemoan and be frustrated by the

1351
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: by the fact that they didn't get it done, and

1352
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: it didn't happen this year. But what got them here

1353
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:58,719
Speaker 1: will get them there. Yeah, so that's what you gotta remember.

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01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 1: Break time for us here, more of your phone calls

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01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: coming up next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: Kalata Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, we're gonna

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01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: get right back to the phones in just a second. Here.

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01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 1: For those of you that missed it. Over the weekend though,

1359
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: on NFL Network, our good friend Kyle Brandt was in

1360
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: a hype Man competition with Hall of Fame wide receiver

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin, and they were they were hyping up. They

1362
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 1: were hyping up teams that had been summarily bounced from

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01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 1: the playoffs when a lot of people thought they would

1364
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: last longer in the postseason. And so Michael Irvin did

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01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: his stick and then Kyle Brandt followed up with this,

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01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: I got to go first, Rich, actually go first. This

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01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: is novel, nice Buffalo you want to quit? Do you

1368
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: want to give up? Or do you want to get up?

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01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: I already know the answer, So let me give you

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01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: some fuel bills. Fans, this television program is insulting you

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01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: right now by merely suggesting that you are on the

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01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: same boat. As Cowboys fans, you are slapped in the

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01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: face by these proceedings, and in fact, I'm outraged for you.

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01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Yes, I know you, guys.

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01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: I've broken bread and tapped kegs with you. Guys. I

1376
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: love you. Guys. You are not the kind of people

1377
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: looking for overtime to save your bills. Some are you

1378
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: were looking for overtime to pay your bills, and I

1379
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: respect it. You don't want help, But what you need, Buffalo,

1380
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: is to hurt, to take the pain, to embrace the pain. Buffalo,

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, you will watch this

1382
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: title game, you will watch the Super Bowl, and you

1383
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: will remember that thirteen seconds ruined your season. It to

1384
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: not ruin your lives, but now it's gonna run your lives.

1385
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:05,639
Speaker 1: I call upon every member of Bill's mafia. Yes, this

1386
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: is the year you learn to finish thirteen seconds at

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01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: a time, thirteen more seconds on every call at your job,

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01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 1: thirteen more seconds on every lift at the gym, thirteen

1389
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: more seconds on every hunt with your kids, thirteen more

1390
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: seconds and every night with your wife. Hay Been. One

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: year from now, the Cowboys we'll be hiring a coach

1392
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: and you'll be breaking a table. Take the pain and

1393
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: take revenge, Buffalo. Let's gods, We'll time h Kyle Brand.

1394
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:41,639
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. You can tell he was seduced by the Bills.

1395
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 1: He was seduced by the Bill's mafia. He had an

1396
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 1: absolutely phenomenal visit when he came out here on the

1397
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: Saturday playoff game against the Patriots. That went could not

1398
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: have gone better. Um, he has seen and you know,

1399
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 1: he loves Josh on the way Josh received the first

1400
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: or Angry Run Award a couple of years ago. Yeah,

1401
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 1: um yeah, So it was nice to see and he

1402
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 1: was and they couldn't have picked a better guy on

1403
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: the network to give a hype speech than Kyle. So

1404
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: that was I didn't even stay around for Michael Irvans

1405
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: because it wasn't gonna time either, wasn't gonna top that.

1406
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't. I've heard Michael's yell before. Yeah, well yeah,

1407
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 1: he sometimes he yells so much. It's yeah, uh, that's

1408
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: all he does. It's sometimes it seems like everybody in

1409
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 1: the media is a hyper for the Cowboys and right,

1410
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: so you know, but with that, we go back to

1411
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: the phones. Hopefully everybody's fired up there and we lead

1412
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: off here with Jim in Liverpool. What you got for us? Jim, Hi, guys,

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01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 1: great show, Thank you. Um I just had to I

1414
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: disagree with Steve a little bit on the coaching and

1415
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: of the defense. I mean, yesterday Cincinnati, which I can't

1416
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 1: name a guy on the defensive ent at Cincinnati made

1417
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: adjustments at halftime and they shut down Mahomes, you know,

1418
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: rushing three, holding back eight and putting a spy on him. Yea.

1419
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,560
Speaker 1: It seemed to me that we during the season, not

1420
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: just this, not just last week, that we didn't make

1421
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: any defensive adjustments like when we were playing the Colts

1422
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,759
Speaker 1: and they were running all over us, you know, things

1423
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: like that. And you know, I agree with you, Steve,

1424
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: that we not to go out and get the big name.

1425
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,799
Speaker 1: I think that's a mistake and I like how we're

1426
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 1: building the team. But on the other end, man, we said,

1427
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't see it's making adjustments like other teams do.

1428
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean, what are your thoughts? Well, I'll say this,

1429
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: It's been my observation that this staff has always done

1430
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: a really good job of that, particularly last year when

1431
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: I was when I first started noticing it. Teams would

1432
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: come into Buffalo, or we'd watch teams play the Bills

1433
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 1: and they would have some early success, like their first

1434
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: d their first drive would go bing bing bing bing,

1435
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: and then after that the kid you know, you could

1436
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: see Leslie Frazier and all those guys down there talking

1437
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: to each other and they would come up with things

1438
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: that would would stifle those teams. I think the schemes

1439
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: that the Bills ran uh this last year and that

1440
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 1: they run or in are thought out really well and

1441
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: implemented really well. I think this is a staff, particularly

1442
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: under McDermot, on both sides of the ball, that have

1443
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: continued to series by every time they come off the field,

1444
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: they're making adjustments about what they're gonna call and how

1445
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna play it. So they are on it now.

1446
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:27,000
Speaker 1: I'll say this, you can't there's no denying that the

1447
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: Bengals Yesterday's planning in the second half was stellar, and

1448
01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: the execution was too. It was just as important. And

1449
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bills didn't have that on

1450
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:39,800
Speaker 1: their plate or on their menu. But I'll say this,

1451
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: every team that plays they're gonna open up next year

1452
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs is gonna see a ton of what

1453
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: they saw yesterday. In the second half, you're gonna see

1454
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: some stuff in the Chiefs defending them, and kudos to

1455
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: this Bengal staff for doing that and the Bills. The

1456
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: Bills didn't. Um don't know that the Bills would not

1457
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,639
Speaker 1: do that because our personnel's different, or that they don't

1458
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: have a you know, a group of guys that they trust,

1459
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: like the Bengals trust their guys. Who knows, but you

1460
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 1: can bet that the Bills would try would have given

1461
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: that a shot had that been on their menu, because

1462
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:13,880
Speaker 1: they didn't do it. And maybe it's because they'd been burnt,

1463
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: or maybe it was because the Tyreek Hill sixty four

1464
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass caught him in that exact defense. I

1465
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:23,200
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, that's something I wish the Bills

1466
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: would have done. And it's like I said earlier in

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01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: the show, whatever different call could have been made in

1468
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: that thirteen second stretch, they should have made it because

1469
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Speaker 1: it didn't work. Yeah, and we're all correct, and that's

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Speaker 1: why you should. You can all call in with your

1471
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: suggestions and maybe for the one time in your entire fandom,

1472
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 1: this will be the moment. Yeah, you're right, because they

1473
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: should have done something different. They did. The bottom line

1474
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: is this, it was an unfortunate performance at the worst

1475
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: possible time when it meant the most, when it meant

1476
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: the most, that was what That's the unfortunate thing. It

1477
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 1: does not mean that Leslie Frasier is not a good

1478
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: defensive coordinaty I would argue he's a great defensive coordinator.

1479
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: This defense was number one in total defense, third down defense,

1480
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:09,680
Speaker 1: pass defense. They were top five in the red zone. Defensively,

1481
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: they were They led the league in sacks over the

1482
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: last five weeks of the season, including the postseason, and

1483
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: they were first in completion percentage allowed, first in passer

1484
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: rating allowed. I mean they were first across the board.

1485
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: They had a bad day, a bad stretch of play.

1486
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:28,440
Speaker 1: If you want to argue they didn't make adjustments, okay,

1487
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:31,320
Speaker 1: I'll sign up for that. But it doesn't take away

1488
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:34,559
Speaker 1: from them being a quality defense. They were the best

1489
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 1: defense in football. They just weren't on the most important

1490
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 1: game of the year. It's unfortunate, it sucks, we all

1491
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: hate it, but it doesn't change the fact that they

1492
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: were the best defense in football this year. They just

1493
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 1: weren't the best against the Chiefs. Again. Yeah, and that's

1494
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: and maybe that's something. Maybe that's scar tissue. Maybe one

1495
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: of the reasons they weren't successful in that last stretch

1496
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: was because of the scar tissue from a year ago

1497
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: where they got snapped and they just got torched for

1498
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,120
Speaker 1: a sixty four yard touchdown. Maybe it was the scar

1499
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: tissue that wouldn't let them make the adjustments that other

1500
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: teams didn't have. You know, the Bengals don't have any

1501
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,560
Speaker 1: bad memories of going in They beat the Chiefs for

1502
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 1: their building, So the Bengals don't have the lessons learned

1503
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:22,360
Speaker 1: that the Bills did. They didn't have the bad memories

1504
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: or the bad experiences from trying to make some adjustments

1505
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: that didn't work and all of a sudden, it's it's

1506
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 1: in your standing in your end zone because of your adjustments.

1507
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 1: So maybe that was part of the thing that piled

1508
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: on the Bills not making the adjustments that the Bengals

1509
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: were certainly willing to make adjustments arm because when the

1510
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: Bills made those adjustments in games past, they got kicked

1511
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 1: in the teeth. The Bengals don't have any of those

1512
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: lessons to learn. I don't know, but whatever it was,

1513
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 1: you can bet the Bills will try it next time. Yeah,

1514
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:56,679
Speaker 1: and it's unfortunate they had to cost them an opportunity

1515
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: to advance their season one more week by not getting

1516
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 1: being able to do it on those two plays. And

1517
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: with thirteen seconds left, let's go to Edric in New

1518
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:07,599
Speaker 1: Jersey next, what do you got for us? Edric? Hey, guys,

1519
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,280
Speaker 1: how are you? Thanks for having me? And uh howe

1520
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: you know the time, I'm gonna get a little worked

1521
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 1: up because I don't agree with you guys and a

1522
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: lot of things, and I love you guys. I'm gonna

1523
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 1: preface that with that number one. Um. I called you

1524
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 1: in the summer, Steve Um, and I hate to be

1525
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: right about this. It was you and Maddie and I

1526
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,439
Speaker 1: told you we did nothing to close the gap on

1527
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Kansas City playing at their best enough, playing

1528
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:35,679
Speaker 1: at our best, they would win nine times out of ten.

1529
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: They're better coasted us. They have better players than us.

1530
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: They're just better justus. Allen was godlike last week, godlike,

1531
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:47,680
Speaker 1: all right, And we lost because thirteen seconds, because because

1532
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:51,639
Speaker 1: because our defense couldn't just execute at a level, at

1533
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:55,440
Speaker 1: a competent level for thirteen seconds. Should we change philosophy?

1534
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: I think we should. I think we should. I think

1535
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: because you know, the thought of having the defensive line rotation,

1536
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 1: it's awesome. Oh, it's great nine guys, But when eight

1537
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: of those guys are mediocre or seven those guys are mediocre,

1538
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: get out of here, man, get out of here. Give

1539
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: that Oliver sixty Snapps the game and you know what,

1540
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: and if he can't do it, and train him starting

1541
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 1: training camp, give him every Don gosh darn Snapp. I'm

1542
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: off tired of this. You know you. Jerry Hughes is

1543
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 1: the best defensive end Gregor, greg Mass Play those guys

1544
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: all right. Second, we need speed man. I called you

1545
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,760
Speaker 1: after the Tampa Bay game and I said it this

1546
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: team the moment I saw Leonard Fournette. Leonard Fournette, you

1547
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:45,519
Speaker 1: might be in a bad cell. Players. You can find

1548
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: you can you can you can find him, you know,

1549
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: and and and then and then this this last thing.

1550
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: Um gosh, I'm getting still worked up for the defense. Yes, yes,

1551
01:26:56,040 --> 01:27:00,559
Speaker 1: the number one ranked defense. But guys, what guys did stopped?

1552
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: What good offense did we stopped? Off season? This is

1553
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: so overrated. What guy derk Henry ran all over us,

1554
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor ran on all over us Jarich, Hill and

1555
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:15,479
Speaker 1: Kelsey did whatever the heck they wanted last week. Who

1556
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: did we stop? We stopped no one, We stopped mediocre guys.

1557
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: It needs to change. Someone has to pay for the

1558
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 1: thirteen fecist guys. Someone has all right, all right, And

1559
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 1: I don't mind. Yeah, you can call if you disagree

1560
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: with us. That's okay, that's part. And you're right, you're

1561
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: it's a well thought out thing, and it's and I

1562
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:37,720
Speaker 1: know he's with me on the speed train. Yeah. And obviously, um,

1563
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 1: there's not much I can say to to dissuade. I.

1564
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 1: I feel your pain. I know you're how frustrated you are,

1565
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 1: it shows in your voice. But I still think this

1566
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 1: is a team. And I don't know how you watch

1567
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how you watch that game Kansas City

1568
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. And don't think Buffalo is as good as

1569
01:27:55,280 --> 01:28:00,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I really don't. I mean, certainly the quarterback

1570
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:03,799
Speaker 1: is good, and it's really and and Kelsey and Tyree

1571
01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:07,639
Speaker 1: Killer are phenomenal. Yeah, And I will say this, Kansas

1572
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 1: City's offensive staff every week, no matter the circumstance, finds

1573
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:15,040
Speaker 1: a way to utilize Kelsey and Hill. It's very rare

1574
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: when They're completely taken out of any game plan no

1575
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:21,360
Speaker 1: matter what the opposing defense is doing. Stefan Diggs had

1576
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: seven targets, three catches for seven yards. Like that can't

1577
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: happen in a divisional playoff. Can't happen. But here's the thing, though,

1578
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:34,599
Speaker 1: and that's the way I know. You still scored thirty

1579
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: six points and Gabriel Davis still had four tests. That's

1580
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: great and this is and this is one of the

1581
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 1: things that is indicative of Buffalo's offense with with Dabo,

1582
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: and it's it's not a bad thing. I don't think

1583
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 1: when you need some they've got guys they depend on

1584
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: instead of just those two guys. And if you and

1585
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 1: I get it, you can't take those two guys away,

1586
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:55,719
Speaker 1: and they're good at getting them. But in New England,

1587
01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: out of nowhere Isah McKenzie has twelve targets, eleven catches

1588
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 1: out of nowhere in a playoff game in Kansas City,

1589
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis has what eight catches for two twenty two,

1590
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: two oh one and four touchdowns. So they're running their

1591
01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 1: offense with the guys they've got. Now, if you want

1592
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 1: to change those guys, that's great, But that offense is

1593
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 1: going to change too. The philosophy will have to change

1594
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 1: everything I've changed. He said, Well, we should get the

1595
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: ball and digs More. They may be able to force

1596
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 1: the ball to digs More if they want to. But

1597
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 1: in the Bills offense, if you got a Gabe Davis

1598
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:29,679
Speaker 1: and Isaiah McKenzie and Cole Beasley, why change it. You're

1599
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 1: scoring thirty six points in a playoff game and doing

1600
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: it with a one oh two left on the clock

1601
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: when you need a touchdown to win. You get it,

1602
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:41,640
Speaker 1: I mean, and I get Edric he was and he

1603
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 1: thinks the Chiefs are unbeatable by this team. I doubt

1604
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 1: I don't. I thought they were beatable last year, and

1605
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: I think they proved that they were beatable this year.

1606
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 1: They did so, I don't know. I get it. It's frustrating,

1607
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:55,600
Speaker 1: but this is this is the league you play in

1608
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:57,719
Speaker 1: and live in. Yeah, you gotta get better. You gotta

1609
01:29:57,760 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: get I think you have to get faster, and you

1610
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: need better pass right. And they're gonna be consistent and

1611
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:03,639
Speaker 1: they'll address those things in the office. They have no choice.

1612
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to change because they're gonna have different players.

1613
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: We have to take a break more of your phone

1614
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: calls coming up, including a tweet over the weekend from

1615
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: one Josh Allen will tell you what it said when

1616
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:16,320
Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live, presented by Colloid

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01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One

1618
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on Monday,

1619
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:38,639
Speaker 1: and we wanted to pass along a tweet that Josh

1620
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:43,559
Speaker 1: Allen made over the weekend. It was right after the

1621
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: overtime coin flip between the Bengals and the Chiefs. Joe

1622
01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 1: Burrow had the opportunity to call it. He called heads

1623
01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:56,639
Speaker 1: and it came up tails. So, after Joe Burrow lost

1624
01:30:56,640 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: the coin toss once again an overtime coin toss win

1625
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:04,479
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, Josh tweets a one word tweet pain,

1626
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: nothing more. So we can only assume that this is

1627
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: in reference to the coin toss because he had just

1628
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,240
Speaker 1: lost the coin toss the week prior when he called

1629
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,679
Speaker 1: heads or no, he called tails and it came up heads.

1630
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:24,679
Speaker 1: He's one of those tales never fails guys, and did

1631
01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: not win the toss in overtime. The only difference was

1632
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:31,599
Speaker 1: the Bengals defense. Gotta stop. They got they got an

1633
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:38,080
Speaker 1: interception thirteen seconds into overtime, and then the Bengals went

1634
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 1: down and kicked the field goal and won the game.

1635
01:31:40,920 --> 01:31:44,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, tough to see it. It was tough for

1636
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:47,719
Speaker 1: all the Bills fans. I'm sure tough for Josh Allen

1637
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:52,639
Speaker 1: as well, knowing that he's tweeting that one word pain

1638
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:56,479
Speaker 1: watching that coin flip. Don't you think he's just gonna

1639
01:31:56,479 --> 01:32:00,160
Speaker 1: go nuclear on the entire league next year. He's to

1640
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 1: be an Adam bomb next year, hopefully, hopefully the pent

1641
01:32:04,120 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: up frustration. Yeah, oh my gosh, this is gonna be

1642
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: an assassin. You think about what this team's gone through

1643
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:14,680
Speaker 1: a couple of times, I mean it has been You

1644
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 1: think about maybe a pattern. I don't I don't want

1645
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 1: to go. I don't have a tinfoil hat, and I

1646
01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 1: don't have this this nast straight in the office. I do,

1647
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: but I don't have it on. And I don't have

1648
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: this belief that somehow, some way, Karma always stabs all

1649
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 1: of us. Builds people in the back, Roum Buffalo people

1650
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:34,559
Speaker 1: in the back. I just don't believe it. But think

1651
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: about this sixteen and nothing in Houston and then the

1652
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: hail Murray and there's others that I'm forgetting. Um, this

1653
01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay overtime where the egregious non call um, you

1654
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: go down the list of not only that, but slipping

1655
01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, slipping and falling in Tennessee, the you know,

1656
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:05,839
Speaker 1: the coin flip in Kansas City, Um, the thirteen seconds,

1657
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, all this stuff is conspired,

1658
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, all over the last even and this is

1659
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:16,400
Speaker 1: just in Sean mcdermot's tenure to forget about get about

1660
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:23,640
Speaker 1: Rex and Marone and uh Dick geron chan chan Um.

1661
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 1: I mean chance team jumped out three and one, they

1662
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 1: were five and two, and then fred Fred breaks his

1663
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,200
Speaker 1: leg fits gets a cracked rib and they lose nine

1664
01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: in the last ten to finished sixth and so it's it.

1665
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: And I'm not I don't believe. I don't believe that

1666
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:45,519
Speaker 1: the cosmos some kind somehow kind of conspire. But I

1667
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 1: will say this, Um, the stability that the Bills have

1668
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:54,840
Speaker 1: in the organization now and pretty soon you're gonna run

1669
01:33:54,880 --> 01:34:00,760
Speaker 1: out of things that will go wrong. Um. But I

1670
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:04,160
Speaker 1: like the attitude of this, you know, of Sean and

1671
01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: his staff and the players and the leadership of let's

1672
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 1: saying we got to do what we do, and we

1673
01:34:09,960 --> 01:34:16,840
Speaker 1: got to do it better because that keeps them with

1674
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 1: an opportunity every year. They're gonna have an opportunity to

1675
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 1: do this every year. They're gonna be in the mix

1676
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 1: every year. This is not gonna be the two thousand,

1677
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, two thousand and fifteen, Rex, Ryan Bills, you

1678
01:34:29,840 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's not gonna be that.

1679
01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be the two thousand and one or

1680
01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 1: two Uh you know, Greg what Greg the defensive Greg Williams,

1681
01:34:44,920 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be that. That thing we got it

1682
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:51,000
Speaker 1: Gore's too many good players here, So they're gonna be there.

1683
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: And you just have to know that the lessons they

1684
01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 1: learn and the hard lessons they learn are going to

1685
01:34:57,160 --> 01:34:59,479
Speaker 1: be studied and dissected to this offset. I mean, they

1686
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 1: gotta live with these, man, let me tell you something.

1687
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,320
Speaker 1: And those of who don't know, I've lived with a

1688
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:09,559
Speaker 1: few really tough losses. They affect you more so than

1689
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:12,800
Speaker 1: any fan could ever know. I mean, I you know,

1690
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: even to this day, so all this and I get it.

1691
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: It's everything in hindsight is easy, even that, particularly that

1692
01:35:23,479 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds we're talking about. Yeah, but I thought this

1693
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,680
Speaker 1: team in the playoffs this year was way better than

1694
01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:35,280
Speaker 1: the team that won two playoff games last year. I

1695
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 1: just and even though the regular season wasn't as good,

1696
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 1: they crescendoed at the right time and it was even

1697
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:43,479
Speaker 1: better opportunity and it was last year. So going forward,

1698
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: we'll see if this team can be more consistent the

1699
01:35:46,439 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: regular season when the games they're supposed to win. Have

1700
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:51,599
Speaker 1: all these playoff games happen here, including the AFC Championship,

1701
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that goes. Before we go to break,

1702
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: there is news on the coaching front concerning the Bills.

1703
01:35:58,640 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: WMRS Sean's Stepner in Baltimore is reporting that the Bills

1704
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:06,479
Speaker 1: have put in a request to interview Ravens wide receivers

1705
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 1: coach T Martin for their vacant offensive coordinator's job. Martin,

1706
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: a former quarterback at the University of Tennessee, was a

1707
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: backup in the league for a while. So the Bills

1708
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: have reportedly put in a request to interview the Ravens

1709
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 1: wide receivers coach T Martin for their vacant OC job.

1710
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 1: We have to go to break when we come back

1711
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:28,320
Speaker 1: from USA today. Their NFL national reporter, Doug Farrar joins

1712
01:36:28,439 --> 01:36:31,479
Speaker 1: us to put a capper on the conference championship weekend

1713
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,120
Speaker 1: and look ahead to the Super Bowl matchup between the

1714
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: Rams and the Bengals. That's next. Here on one Bill's Line,

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01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, this is Buffalo Bills Radio

1716
01:36:56,840 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: Ada Steve Tasker, who has put all of the field

1717
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1718
01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

1719
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:15,280
Speaker 1: the strated fear of normalcy alright, nour number three here

1720
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:17,840
Speaker 1: on a Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you One

1721
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live and please to be joined now by NFL

1722
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 1: writer an editor for USA Today's Touchdown Wired is Doug

1723
01:37:25,439 --> 01:37:28,840
Speaker 1: Ferrar joining the show. Doug, thanks for giving us some time.

1724
01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: You can probably assume this safely, but after the defensive

1725
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: adjustments made by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second half

1726
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:40,960
Speaker 1: with DC Luana Rumo and their ability to shut down

1727
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense, it is only reignited the frustration of

1728
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans who feel as though they should be the

1729
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 1: ones playing in a couple of weeks as opposed to

1730
01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: any other team in the AFC. You can draw your

1731
01:37:53,479 --> 01:37:56,200
Speaker 1: own conclusions from that, But what did you make of

1732
01:37:56,840 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 1: some of those defensive adjustments made by the Bengals And

1733
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:04,080
Speaker 1: they're execution, they're in Yeah, I imagine there's still some

1734
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: auchies up there, which great game, but yikes if you're

1735
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:13,520
Speaker 1: a Bills fan. The interesting thing about the Week seventeen

1736
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 1: Bengals Chiefs game and then the conference championship game in

1737
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:20,800
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, the Bengals switched to a lot of too

1738
01:38:20,920 --> 01:38:23,280
Speaker 1: high in the second half, and they were they were

1739
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 1: dropping their safeties out to like the parking lot, keeping

1740
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:29,639
Speaker 1: everything underneath, And they ran a lot of too high

1741
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 1: in the first half of the championship game. Then in

1742
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:36,280
Speaker 1: the second half they kind of flip between single high,

1743
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:38,720
Speaker 1: you know, one deep safety and two. And the thing

1744
01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:41,360
Speaker 1: about Mahomes all year has supposedly been, oh, just you know,

1745
01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 1: run two deep safeties and whatever. Yes, and no, that

1746
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: still doesn't account for both Tyreek Kill and Travis Kelcey.

1747
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:51,880
Speaker 1: What the Bengals did in the second half was something

1748
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:55,400
Speaker 1: that Belichick has done. Bill Belichick has done to Mahomes

1749
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 1: in the past, which is rush three, drop eight, drop

1750
01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 1: eight defenders in the cover, except one of the eight

1751
01:39:01,520 --> 01:39:06,120
Speaker 1: defenders is a spy underneath to watch Mahomes and try

1752
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: and make sure he stays in the pocket. This worked

1753
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:12,639
Speaker 1: incredibly well with the Trey hendricks the Trey Hendrickson sack,

1754
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 1: the two Sam Hubbard sacks in a row where Mahomes

1755
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:19,839
Speaker 1: found himself constrained in the pocket trying to make plays

1756
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: and everyone downfield is covered because you know, obviously the

1757
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:26,000
Speaker 1: answer is or the question is do we Brackett Hill,

1758
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 1: do we Brackett Kelsey? Or if you drop eight, the

1759
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:31,160
Speaker 1: answer is both. And I thought the Bengals and Louimru

1760
01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:34,759
Speaker 1: did a brilliant job of flipping the script in game

1761
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 1: and they didn't blitz. And you go back to last

1762
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl, Todd Bowles, who was like the blitz

1763
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: heaviest defensive coordinator in the league, didn't blitz. So with Mahomes,

1764
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: I think the answer to the test is it's not

1765
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,760
Speaker 1: one specific thing like oh, if you blitz in me,

1766
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 1: he'll fold, or if you do too high. It's flipping

1767
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:58,040
Speaker 1: the script in game, and I thought the Bengals really

1768
01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: did a brilliant job of that and that was probably

1769
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: the difference. And as that game unfolded, the Chiefs have

1770
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 1: always been thought of as almost invincible in that building,

1771
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:12,280
Speaker 1: particularly under Mahomes. I mean, and it's probably not going

1772
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 1: to change except for the fact that the last two

1773
01:40:13,960 --> 01:40:16,600
Speaker 1: teams that walked in there both of them feel like

1774
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 1: and the Bills last week and certainly the Bengals who

1775
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:20,840
Speaker 1: walked out of there with a win of got to think,

1776
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: you know what, we can go in there and win.

1777
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 1: What will that say to other teams? And how do

1778
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: you think this long term with the Chiefs? Do they

1779
01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: keep riding this? I mean, is this a team that

1780
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:32,800
Speaker 1: is going to continue to be, you know, in the

1781
01:40:32,880 --> 01:40:35,560
Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game every year? Or does the fact that

1782
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 1: these two teams in the last two weeks in the

1783
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:40,880
Speaker 1: most important games, have taken them to the ropes and

1784
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:44,439
Speaker 1: if not beating them. I think Chiefs are still legitimate

1785
01:40:44,479 --> 01:40:46,080
Speaker 1: contenders to go to the Super Bowl. I mean, you

1786
01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:48,600
Speaker 1: look at the most encouraging thing you need about the

1787
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:51,720
Speaker 1: Chiefs this year, if you're a Chiefs fan, is how

1788
01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:54,160
Speaker 1: much better their defense played in the second half of

1789
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 1: the season, And because in the first half it was

1790
01:40:57,280 --> 01:41:00,559
Speaker 1: terrible and you know, the Chiefs are going around five

1791
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: hundred year starting to think, oh, we've got a problem here,

1792
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:07,200
Speaker 1: and then Steve Spagnolo, their DC turned it around. Guys

1793
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 1: started playing out. You get one thorn Hill back at safety.

1794
01:41:10,560 --> 01:41:12,880
Speaker 1: You moved Daniel Sourson out of the deep safety stuff,

1795
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 1: which is a really good idea. Sorry Daniel, Andy Reid

1796
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: and Eric baim Me if he's still there, because they

1797
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 1: made a head coaching jobs somewhere. They got all season

1798
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:23,599
Speaker 1: to figure that out. They've got all season to talk

1799
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: to Mahomes and you know, say, Okay, they're doing this,

1800
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:29,679
Speaker 1: so now we do that. One thing I think would

1801
01:41:29,680 --> 01:41:32,680
Speaker 1: help the Chiefs is whether it's too high, and you

1802
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:34,680
Speaker 1: guys know this, whether it's too high or you're only

1803
01:41:34,760 --> 01:41:39,040
Speaker 1: rushing three and you're spying. Running the ball is very effective,

1804
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 1: and I think the Chiefs in Week seventeen they did

1805
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:44,559
Speaker 1: that and they got two rushing touchdowns and they did

1806
01:41:44,640 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 1: well with their run game. But they're not always eager

1807
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:49,679
Speaker 1: to run the ball. I think that's been a constant

1808
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:53,120
Speaker 1: critique of Andy Reid's team's fear or unfair throughout his

1809
01:41:53,240 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 1: coaching ten. You're going back to nineteen ninety nine, So

1810
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: I think for the Chiefs to make it back to

1811
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 1: one of these games or another super Bowl, they're gonna

1812
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 1: have to figure some things out of offense, but they

1813
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:07,040
Speaker 1: got the talent to do it. They flip their entire

1814
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:09,519
Speaker 1: offensive line in the off season, so those guys will

1815
01:42:09,600 --> 01:42:12,680
Speaker 1: be playing together for the second straight season next year.

1816
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 1: That'll obviously helped the continuity. I think they're still legit.

1817
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the Super Bowl loss last year, last season,

1818
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: or the AFC Championship loss yesterday the gate that. But

1819
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, you have other teams coming up. The Bengals

1820
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: are there, the Bills are there, the Chargers look really good.

1821
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:35,080
Speaker 1: The AFC is just a factory of quarterbacks right now,

1822
01:42:35,640 --> 01:42:38,120
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be harder than ever and the Chiefs

1823
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 1: will just have to adjust. And then there's been a

1824
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:45,200
Speaker 1: lot of debate about overtime and the rules they are in.

1825
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: I would argue, look at what the Bengals did. They

1826
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 1: got to stop and overtime. Just get a defensive stop

1827
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: and there you go. I guess the question for your

1828
01:42:56,080 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: Doug is do you think the overtime rules should be

1829
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:01,519
Speaker 1: different once you get the postseason and the stakes are

1830
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:06,080
Speaker 1: obviously higher, or do you leave them alone. Well, I

1831
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:08,439
Speaker 1: think it was a reaction to have the current rules.

1832
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: It was a reaction there in the first place, because

1833
01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:12,200
Speaker 1: it happened after the two thousand and nine season where

1834
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:14,080
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Brett fargodn't get to a super Bowl.

1835
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 1: We're got to change the rules. So I think the

1836
01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 1: reasoning was faulty in the first place. To me, if okay,

1837
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 1: let's take that specific example, Chiefs go down to score

1838
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Bills get another chance, I mean to me

1839
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: that you're just you're cheating the fans and cheating the

1840
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: players and cheating the game out of Oh my gosh,

1841
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:36,640
Speaker 1: what could Josh Allen be to counter this? So the

1842
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: first team gets a touchdown, the second team gets a

1843
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,799
Speaker 1: chance to respond. If the second team doesn't score a touchdown,

1844
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,719
Speaker 1: game over. If the second team does score a touchdown,

1845
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: then at sudden death that's how I did. Yeah, and

1846
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 1: then yeah the problem. And I've said this about overtime

1847
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:54,400
Speaker 1: for a long time. The reason everybody wants to change

1848
01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:57,839
Speaker 1: the rules or thinks that it ended unfairly is because

1849
01:43:58,439 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to see that game in It was just

1850
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 1: so fantastic and those quarterbacks were great, and it felt

1851
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,640
Speaker 1: like neither teams should have to lose. Sooner or later,

1852
01:44:07,720 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna do something to lose the game, whether it's

1853
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 1: a coin flip that decides it or whatever, there's still

1854
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 1: football to be played after the coin flip, and you

1855
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:19,040
Speaker 1: do need a defense to get a stop, even though

1856
01:44:19,120 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 1: nobody could stop either one. But they'll never get to

1857
01:44:24,200 --> 01:44:29,439
Speaker 1: a point where the overtime rules are great because nobody

1858
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:31,519
Speaker 1: wants to see those games go away. Those are the game,

1859
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:33,640
Speaker 1: those are the games we tune in to watch. So

1860
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: I as long as as long as both teams get

1861
01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:41,880
Speaker 1: a chance to possess, unless you give up a touchdown. Yeah,

1862
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the way they are now.

1863
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:45,840
Speaker 1: I know it didn't go the way the Bills wanted

1864
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:49,479
Speaker 1: it to, but I still think, you know, defense has

1865
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,880
Speaker 1: got to be left as an important factor in overtime.

1866
01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: And to say that, hey, just if they can't stop him,

1867
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:58,560
Speaker 1: who cares because our offense can't be stopped either, I

1868
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 1: think does an injustice to the game. Well, you go

1869
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,479
Speaker 1: back to the twenty eighteen AFC Championship game, right, Patriots Chiefs.

1870
01:45:06,160 --> 01:45:10,160
Speaker 1: Patriots won the toss. They ran Rex burkhead down the

1871
01:45:10,240 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs throat, they score a touchdown. Patrick Mahomes ever gets

1872
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:16,599
Speaker 1: another chance the Chiefs in the next league year, tried

1873
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: to change the rules of the Competition committee, and the

1874
01:45:19,479 --> 01:45:22,160
Speaker 1: Competition Committee said, well, we'll take a year and figure

1875
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 1: it out, And here we are four years later. You

1876
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 1: know what's going to come up to the league meetings.

1877
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 1: The league tends to move glacially until it's pushed, and

1878
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:32,639
Speaker 1: I think this might be the year words pushed. We'll

1879
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: just have to wait and see. Certainly, if the Chiefs

1880
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: Bengals game had gone differently and one team had not

1881
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 1: had the chance to possess, I think that would have

1882
01:45:41,439 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 1: flipped it. So yeah, we'll see. Now the teams that

1883
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:48,719
Speaker 1: win the toss are ten and two now in the playoffs.

1884
01:45:48,880 --> 01:45:51,720
Speaker 1: In the playoffs, yeah, it's still unbalanced. I still think

1885
01:45:51,720 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: it needs to change. But you know, the NFL, I think,

1886
01:45:56,560 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 1: is grateful that it ended the way it did, as

1887
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:01,320
Speaker 1: opposed to the other way. All Right, So let's take

1888
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:06,599
Speaker 1: a look at the coaching hires. Thus far, You've got Eberflus, Hackett, Dabele,

1889
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:11,080
Speaker 1: and McDaniels, mostly on the offensive side of the ball.

1890
01:46:11,200 --> 01:46:15,439
Speaker 1: I guess that should be not a terrible surprise. Which

1891
01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 1: coach do you think? At least for now, I realize

1892
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:21,360
Speaker 1: we can still have more than half of them still open.

1893
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,519
Speaker 1: Which coach do you think looks like a good fit

1894
01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:30,719
Speaker 1: of this early group that's been installed. I think Dabill

1895
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:33,160
Speaker 1: looks great. And I've heard that he wants to retain

1896
01:46:33,200 --> 01:46:36,120
Speaker 1: Patrick Grahama's as DC, which is a brilliant idea because

1897
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:39,760
Speaker 1: Graham's great. I think he'll do as much to help

1898
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:42,519
Speaker 1: being of Jones as can be done. Jones doesn't have

1899
01:46:42,640 --> 01:46:44,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's physical tools, but I mean, you guys know

1900
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 1: better than I do. You look at the job that

1901
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 1: dab All did with Josh from day one, like, Okay,

1902
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:52,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna install these man beaters and when they play zone,

1903
01:46:52,720 --> 01:46:54,800
Speaker 1: we'll check it down and we'll figure things out and

1904
01:46:54,840 --> 01:46:58,519
Speaker 1: we'll go forward. And you know, Josh Allen doesn't become

1905
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:01,360
Speaker 1: Josh Ellen without without able doing what he did. So

1906
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,960
Speaker 1: I think that's a good fit. Every filos is fascinating

1907
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:09,280
Speaker 1: because the big question is who's his offensive warrior, who's

1908
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:12,600
Speaker 1: his quarterback guy because Justin Fields was in a no

1909
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 1: man's land last year with Matt Nage. So if they

1910
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:18,200
Speaker 1: get that figured out, you know, I think it gives

1911
01:47:18,240 --> 01:47:22,160
Speaker 1: them some consistency they haven't had. I remember talking to

1912
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels in the week leading up to Super Bowl

1913
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:29,960
Speaker 1: forty nine. This was years ago, asking him basically, what

1914
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 1: did you learn from the Denver thing that when you

1915
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 1: get another head coaching job you won't do again. He

1916
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:38,800
Speaker 1: talked about maturity, listening to other people, having everybody in

1917
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:42,960
Speaker 1: the room, valuing the opinions of others. I don't want

1918
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:45,600
Speaker 1: to say humbled, but I think he was kind of

1919
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:50,280
Speaker 1: set right by that negative experience in Denver. The Raiders

1920
01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 1: have a lot of talent, and I think the fact

1921
01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: that he has sort of his GM guy, hopefully he

1922
01:47:55,600 --> 01:47:58,720
Speaker 1: will listen to others in the room. You know, that

1923
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:01,280
Speaker 1: could be really good for a Readers team that I

1924
01:48:01,560 --> 01:48:05,639
Speaker 1: think has more talent than has been represented because the coaching.

1925
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:08,240
Speaker 1: I mean, besides, you did an amazing job after gruten

1926
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: but you know, with rugs and all the stuff that

1927
01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:12,479
Speaker 1: was all the drama that was going on, that was

1928
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 1: just a disaster. But they've got a lot of talent

1929
01:48:14,920 --> 01:48:17,760
Speaker 1: and I think if McDaniels can put his head on

1930
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:19,720
Speaker 1: straight this time around, that could be a really good fit.

1931
01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:23,080
Speaker 1: What do you think is down the road for the

1932
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:28,760
Speaker 1: unfilled vacancies. I mean that you know Minnesota and the rest.

1933
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:30,800
Speaker 1: What do you how do you think the Chips fall

1934
01:48:30,880 --> 01:48:36,240
Speaker 1: there with Minnesota. I'm hearing it's it could be Rahey Morris,

1935
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:39,360
Speaker 1: it could be Denico Ryan, San Francisco defensive creator, who

1936
01:48:39,360 --> 01:48:41,280
Speaker 1: I think could be a surprise head coaching higher if

1937
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:45,560
Speaker 1: you watch San Francico's defensive You don't know why the Texans,

1938
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,639
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're they're really heavy on Josh

1939
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 1: McCown and I've talked to Josh McCown. I think he's

1940
01:48:51,400 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: a great guy. He has no coaching experience. You don't

1941
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:56,840
Speaker 1: know who's in charge down there. I think that's a

1942
01:48:56,920 --> 01:49:00,599
Speaker 1: really you know, it's we want this guy. I think

1943
01:49:00,640 --> 01:49:03,920
Speaker 1: the Texans is the one wild card. They could hire

1944
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:06,439
Speaker 1: Josh McCown, they could hire one of us, They could

1945
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:08,640
Speaker 1: hire the ghost of Vince Lombardi. We just don't know

1946
01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:11,360
Speaker 1: what about What do you think is happening in Miami.

1947
01:49:11,479 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: That's one that kind of is on the front burner

1948
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 1: for Bills fans because they're in the division and we're

1949
01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 1: going to see him twice no matter who they get. Well,

1950
01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:23,679
Speaker 1: I know the Raiders were sniffing around Jim Harbos. Stephen

1951
01:49:23,760 --> 01:49:26,200
Speaker 1: Ross has wanted Harbough for a long time, as you

1952
01:49:26,280 --> 01:49:29,800
Speaker 1: guys know, that could be a wild card there. And

1953
01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:33,719
Speaker 1: if what I've heard and what other people have said

1954
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 1: is that if Harbog gets an NFL job, he wants

1955
01:49:36,040 --> 01:49:39,400
Speaker 1: to Vic Fonjio to be his defensive coordinator again, that

1956
01:49:39,640 --> 01:49:43,120
Speaker 1: could raise the stakes, you know, raise a profile for

1957
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:48,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Now, Harbaugh is he's a great coach. He

1958
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 1: tends to and I mean this with all professional respect,

1959
01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:54,360
Speaker 1: this is well documented. I'm not breaking news here. He

1960
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:56,559
Speaker 1: tends to wear on people. He's a really intense guy.

1961
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:59,280
Speaker 1: So it's like two or three years and then maybe

1962
01:49:59,280 --> 01:50:03,839
Speaker 1: we do something else. But to have harbonn Fondio, certainly

1963
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 1: with two you want someone who can accelerate his development.

1964
01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 1: They had two offensive borders last year didn't really work out.

1965
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 1: I'm still shocked they fired for us. You know, you

1966
01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: go late in one down the stretch. What are you doing?

1967
01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:18,680
Speaker 1: But maybe it was to get that splash year gun.

1968
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Harbaugh. Other than that, who knows. Yeah, last

1969
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:25,240
Speaker 1: one for your Doug, just your early take on this

1970
01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:29,519
Speaker 1: Super Bowl matchup Rams Bengals. Obviously there's a couple of

1971
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:32,640
Speaker 1: guys with some injury issues, but looks like they'll be

1972
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:35,560
Speaker 1: able to work their way back into lineups respectively. So

1973
01:50:36,200 --> 01:50:40,240
Speaker 1: just you your early take on Rams Bengals here. I

1974
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:42,960
Speaker 1: have seen Joe Burrow get sacked nine times against the

1975
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,679
Speaker 1: Titans and beat the Titans. I have seen Joe Burrow

1976
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:48,680
Speaker 1: have people in his face against the Chiefs and beat

1977
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:52,639
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I think there's something about this Bengals team

1978
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:55,240
Speaker 1: that has them winning their first Super Bowl Enfranchise history.

1979
01:50:55,400 --> 01:50:58,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's something is Joe Burrow that we

1980
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: I think we need to you know. I hear people say, well,

1981
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:04,200
Speaker 1: he's accelerating to the top of the quarterbacks here. Now

1982
01:51:04,280 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 1: he's there. He's as good as anyone in the league.

1983
01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:10,880
Speaker 1: And the eerie calm that he shows in his second

1984
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:15,360
Speaker 1: NFL season, it's it's it's highly unusual. It's that sort

1985
01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:18,639
Speaker 1: of Brady Montana, Andrew Luck at it early with the Kolts.

1986
01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:22,960
Speaker 1: He's just he's a special player, and I think maybe

1987
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:26,679
Speaker 1: he's the difference. Doug, thanks, man, appreciate it's great talking

1988
01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: to you. Take care, guys. All right. That's NFL writer

1989
01:51:30,439 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 1: and editor of USA Today's Touchdown Wire, Doug Ferrar joining us.

1990
01:51:34,240 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 1: Hero is good to catch up with him. Give us

1991
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:39,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of a national perspective on things, always

1992
01:51:39,080 --> 01:51:42,599
Speaker 1: has his ear to the ground on the NFL. Yeah,

1993
01:51:42,640 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 1: and you mentioned that stat Steve. There's only three quarterbacks

1994
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:50,600
Speaker 1: in NFL history who have won a National Championship and

1995
01:51:50,840 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, and they're all named Joe. Two of them,

1996
01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:56,960
Speaker 1: oh two of them are sorry, there's only two of them.

1997
01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: It's Joe Namath and Joe Montana and Joe Burrow could

1998
01:51:59,880 --> 01:52:01,640
Speaker 1: be the third. Joe Burrow could be the third. That's right,

1999
01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:06,040
Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow could be the third. So the history

2000
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 1: is right for first name. And I'll say this. You

2001
01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:10,160
Speaker 1: can't help, but just look at him. And I know

2002
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:12,880
Speaker 1: in Buffalo we're not trading Josh Outen for anybody. But

2003
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:16,880
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow has been nothing but impressive in his time

2004
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:19,280
Speaker 1: as a pro. I mean from the word go now.

2005
01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:21,000
Speaker 1: He's got his knee blown out last year and he

2006
01:52:21,040 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 1: couldn't finish the season. I get all that, and then

2007
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 1: he comes back and the Bengals do nothing to fix

2008
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:32,280
Speaker 1: the offensive line and he gets sacked nine times. And

2009
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:36,880
Speaker 1: you know, he is just a different customer. Um, he

2010
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:39,880
Speaker 1: just wills them to win. And what a player he is.

2011
01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:42,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna I think of all the guys

2012
01:52:42,600 --> 01:52:47,880
Speaker 1: in the league, he Burrow, Mahomes, Josh or the guy.

2013
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:49,880
Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying it because it's you know,

2014
01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:53,920
Speaker 1: because they're the last three guys standing or whatever. But

2015
01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:58,880
Speaker 1: those guys are different, and I think they're gonna be

2016
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 1: at the top of it, and you can I don't.

2017
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:04,280
Speaker 1: I think it's I like him over I like him

2018
01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:07,000
Speaker 1: over Lamar Jackson, I like him over to Shaun Watson.

2019
01:53:07,080 --> 01:53:12,760
Speaker 1: I like him over Rogers, I like him over any

2020
01:53:12,760 --> 01:53:16,320
Speaker 1: of the other Joe Justin Herbert, I think Kyler Murray,

2021
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 1: I think these Russ Wilson. You want to know why,

2022
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 1: because these three are all gamers. They are money. Mean.

2023
01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:25,679
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is the most accurate thrower of a football

2024
01:53:25,720 --> 01:53:28,080
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. And it's not even close.

2025
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:33,160
Speaker 1: It's my estimation. There's some games he's quirky. He's just

2026
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:37,040
Speaker 1: he's not a gamer where he's gonna do anything possible

2027
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:40,320
Speaker 1: to win you a football game. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen,

2028
01:53:40,360 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow are all gamers. They will do anything

2029
01:53:43,880 --> 01:53:45,800
Speaker 1: to win a football game. Joe Burrow is the only

2030
01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 1: quarterback in league history would be sacked fifty times in

2031
01:53:48,760 --> 01:53:50,840
Speaker 1: a season, and go to a Super Bowl. Got sacked

2032
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 1: fifty one times in the regular season. I can't believe

2033
01:53:54,120 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 1: he's still alive. That's astounding. Fifty one, that's astounding, and

2034
01:54:01,880 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 1: just stands in there and smokes a cigar on his

2035
01:54:04,160 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 1: way to the podium. I don't know, man, He's a

2036
01:54:10,040 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 1: special cat, and I think you're right. There is something

2037
01:54:13,280 --> 01:54:18,960
Speaker 1: about that. Brady had it for. Brady would do anything

2038
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:20,960
Speaker 1: to win a football game. Jim would do anything to

2039
01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:23,200
Speaker 1: win a football game. Elway would do anything to win

2040
01:54:23,200 --> 01:54:26,040
Speaker 1: the game. Their gamers when those moments come, they don't

2041
01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:29,599
Speaker 1: they don't shy away. They want the ball. And Rogers

2042
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:34,880
Speaker 1: has been just has plowed through a pathetic division year

2043
01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 1: after year, got into the playoffs one one or with

2044
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:44,600
Speaker 1: a this year with a buy got bounced. He's great

2045
01:54:44,640 --> 01:54:46,440
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but man, he's getting the playoffs

2046
01:54:46,480 --> 01:54:50,800
Speaker 1: against some really good teams with some mental toughness. You

2047
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:52,960
Speaker 1: know what what that's gonna be. That's gonna be part

2048
01:54:53,000 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: of his legacy. I just yeah, But he's not a

2049
01:54:55,440 --> 01:54:58,960
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be like fighting through a linebacker's arm

2050
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:00,760
Speaker 1: tackle to get it first, you know what I mean? Like,

2051
01:55:00,840 --> 01:55:02,720
Speaker 1: it's not his thing. I've seen him do some stuff.

2052
01:55:02,760 --> 01:55:05,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you got guys like Joe Burrow,

2053
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: Mahomes and and even you know, Lamar Jackson. All these guys, man,

2054
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:14,680
Speaker 1: they're they're playmakers, and their attitude is a little different

2055
01:55:14,720 --> 01:55:17,000
Speaker 1: than I think Rogers is a little and he's an

2056
01:55:17,000 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: old guy, but he's old school, you know what I mean.

2057
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 1: And I think the league almost commands that you get

2058
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:25,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's going to run for a first down

2059
01:55:25,120 --> 01:55:27,920
Speaker 1: once in a while when it's there, because the defense

2060
01:55:27,960 --> 01:55:30,320
Speaker 1: will give you that if you're not gonna take it.

2061
01:55:30,840 --> 01:55:32,560
Speaker 1: Yesterday he did it. Yet he doesn't have to do

2062
01:55:32,600 --> 01:55:35,280
Speaker 1: it very much, but he did it yesterday. He's got

2063
01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:37,600
Speaker 1: great pocket awareness. He slides away from pressure, and he

2064
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,040
Speaker 1: stepped out of what I thought was a sure sack

2065
01:55:41,560 --> 01:55:47,280
Speaker 1: and completed one to to Chase or to uh number one,

2066
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:52,680
Speaker 1: oh Jamar Chase. So yeah, I think you're right. I

2067
01:55:52,800 --> 01:55:56,320
Speaker 1: think the league has changed. And I said this morning earlier,

2068
01:55:56,920 --> 01:55:59,760
Speaker 1: it's I think it's easier now because the league is

2069
01:55:59,800 --> 01:56:03,480
Speaker 1: differ print it's easier now to play quarterback, particularly for

2070
01:56:03,640 --> 01:56:08,200
Speaker 1: athletes like Josh, Lamar Jackson, Kyler, Murray Mahomes. You go

2071
01:56:08,320 --> 01:56:10,840
Speaker 1: down the list and Joe Burrow to a certain extent,

2072
01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:13,920
Speaker 1: although he's not kind of the runner. Guys like guys

2073
01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:19,760
Speaker 1: like Peyton and Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger's Drew Brees.

2074
01:56:20,840 --> 01:56:23,360
Speaker 1: They're great and they they've been great. But the league,

2075
01:56:23,920 --> 01:56:26,760
Speaker 1: the league has started to ask more of that position

2076
01:56:26,840 --> 01:56:32,440
Speaker 1: in other things. And and we're seeing this whole new

2077
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:35,920
Speaker 1: crop of quarterbacks in a whole new way. And you know,

2078
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo's positioned as good as you could be positioned in

2079
01:56:39,680 --> 01:56:42,280
Speaker 1: that regard. And I think it's it's gonna be interesting

2080
01:56:42,280 --> 01:56:44,160
Speaker 1: to see what happens going forward. I'm you know, as

2081
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:46,280
Speaker 1: you as you spend all this stuff, we've been talking

2082
01:56:46,320 --> 01:56:48,440
Speaker 1: about quarterbacks and all that and what it's gonna look

2083
01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:51,400
Speaker 1: like for this team going forward. We got to get

2084
01:56:51,400 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, Yeah, and I'm really interested to

2085
01:56:55,400 --> 01:56:57,960
Speaker 1: see who that's gonna be. Let's go back to the phones,

2086
01:56:57,960 --> 01:57:00,600
Speaker 1: though some people waiting patiently there to Jim Florida, We go,

2087
01:57:00,640 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Jim? Hello, Hey Jim. Yeah,

2088
01:57:06,280 --> 01:57:11,200
Speaker 1: I've noticed that polling back in the year many years

2089
01:57:11,240 --> 01:57:14,680
Speaker 1: ago would go out and get a player to fill

2090
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:18,320
Speaker 1: in where we hit a weakness. And I remember one

2091
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:22,000
Speaker 1: such instance was Corneo Spennett. I do agree with you

2092
01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:24,960
Speaker 1: people that we do have the quality to win the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We just need some muck. Just like sin

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Speaker 1: Eddie had some luck in the got a reception at

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Speaker 1: the end, right and a huge difference. But I remember

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Speaker 1: polling going out and getting we had a third weekness,

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Speaker 1: keep going get somebody to fill that position. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a yeah, that's a fair take, Jim. I get it.

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Speaker 1: That was a blockbuster ten player, three team trade. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't just going out and getting somebody. Yeah. A special

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Speaker 1: situation too, that doesn't really present itself that much in

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Speaker 1: and it was coming off a strike time. And here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, Cornei has Bennett held out of Indianapolis because

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis was playing hardball with him financially, and he said

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit and if and the league was on strike,

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Speaker 1: so he wasn't losing any money anyway. And he knew

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Speaker 1: he's the first pick of the draft. He could sit

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Speaker 1: for as long as he needed to and not have

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Speaker 1: to worry about anything because he knew as soon as

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Speaker 1: he could play, he was gonna get paid. He was

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Speaker 1: the first pick of the draft and deserved to be

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Speaker 1: Bill Polian took advantage of it because he knew there

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Speaker 1: were some players out there that wanted to move. Most

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Speaker 1: namely it was Eric Dickerson with the Rams. Greg Bell here.

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Speaker 1: Greg had asked, we had Greg on the other day.

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Speaker 1: Greg asked for a trade. He wanted to be traded.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to move, he wanted to go to LA,

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Speaker 1: want to be out there. Eric Dickerson want to leave LA,

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Speaker 1: and he had Corney has been at first pick of

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Speaker 1: the draft, so all he had to do is get

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Speaker 1: those three teams at the table. So that was a

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Speaker 1: situation where he had a stalemate with a with a

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick and a Hall of Fame player

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Speaker 1: and a franchise worthy player and Greg So all right,

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick running back and all. So, let's

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Speaker 1: see if we can figure out how this is gonna work.

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Speaker 1: And he made it happen. So there was a unique

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Speaker 1: situation that Poleon found himself in the middle of and

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Speaker 1: was part of one of the architects that made it happen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yes, that's an interesting scenario. But that's that's not

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Speaker 1: going to be duplicated again, because the rules are different,

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Speaker 1: the league is different, the way they pay rookies is different,

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Speaker 1: so there's no reason for a rookie to hold out

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01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:34,280
Speaker 1: because it's kind of a rubber stamp contract these days,

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Speaker 1: even though it is worth a lot of money. Break

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Speaker 1: time for us here, but more of your phone calls

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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kelli to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. So I'll get

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live, get through the phone calls

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Speaker 1: in just a second. The Bills and Sabers have announced

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Speaker 1: Better Together, a fundraising initiative that will raise money for

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Speaker 1: organizations fighting food insecurity in black communities. Through Better Together,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills Foundation and the Buffalo Sabers Foundation of

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Speaker 1: partner to raise funds for five local organizations that are

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Speaker 1: working to ensure families have access to healthy, nutritious food

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Speaker 1: in Black and African American communities. The Bills and Sabers

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Speaker 1: will be making donations totaling one hundred and twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars throughout the first week of February and are asking

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Speaker 1: the community to participate. Fans are invited to donate at

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Speaker 1: Better Together Buffalo dot org from January thirty first to

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Speaker 1: February fourth. Every donor will receive a Better Together pin,

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Speaker 1: and anyone who donates thirty five dollars or more will

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Speaker 1: receive a tote bag along with the pin. Our MSG

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Speaker 1: viewers are getting a look at the pin and tote

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Speaker 1: bag there, so a very worthy cause during Black History Month,

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Speaker 1: for the start of Black History Months. So nice job

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Speaker 1: there by the Bills and Sabers Foundations. So jump on

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Speaker 1: board and helped participate. Gotta get back to the phones

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Speaker 1: here at eight oh three oh five fifty, got some

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Speaker 1: people waiting for us. There. We lead off with Aaron

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Speaker 1: and Attica. What do you have for us? Aaron, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I had a question for guys. This would be a

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Speaker 1: perfect one maybe for Steve, but everyone hit the arms

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Speaker 1: about the the kickoff and uh and squibbing it to

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Speaker 1: me as a thirty year line. Or if you're Harvard

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Speaker 1: returning and you run up and get it at the

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Speaker 1: fifteen if you're if he doesn't knee it down, they

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Speaker 1: need it. No times off the clock either way, Yes,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? Rules are now right? So hang out a second.

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Speaker 1: I'll have Steve answer that is his earpiece was kicking out,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna tell him what you said. Basically, Aaron

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Speaker 1: and thanks for the call. He was arguing, uh, the

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Speaker 1: merits of a squib kick at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: There he was saying, no time comes off the clock

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Speaker 1: if the guy feels the kick and then just takes

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Speaker 1: a knee. So you're what would you say here, let

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Speaker 1: me let me throw this at you, Steve to be

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Speaker 1: Devil's advocate in this. What if you line drive it

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Speaker 1: through a gap in the first line of you know,

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Speaker 1: return team. You know they have that line up there

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Speaker 1: ten yards from the line of scrimmage. They have you know,

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Speaker 1: four guys maybe five depending on So you go right

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02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:17,680
Speaker 1: or left to them, so you find a gap and

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Speaker 1: you line drive it between them. That makes it difficult

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Speaker 1: to field for whoever's at the second line. So maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't get it clean right on the first touch

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Speaker 1: if they touch at the clock starts. Yeah, here's the Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right. If they line drive it. Here's the thing

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Speaker 1: you gotta be The ball is not round. If you

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Speaker 1: line drive it one direction or the other, either a

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Speaker 1: little off center, right or left, and the thing lands

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Speaker 1: and starts to bounce and bounce and bounce, it goes

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Speaker 1: out of bounce and then you're done. That's and you

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Speaker 1: can't predict it, So that's an unpredictable kick. Line driving it. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna line drive it and get it off

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Speaker 1: the ground at all, it's gonna get down to the

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Speaker 1: kick returner fast. So if if he decides, which means

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Speaker 1: he can either come up on a charge it and

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Speaker 1: ground feel it like a groundball, give himself up and

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Speaker 1: no time rofs or one second goes off whatever it.

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Speaker 1: Either way, line driving it was not really the play

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Speaker 1: or squibbing it was not really the play because the

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Speaker 1: clock doesn't start until the ball is touched by the

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Speaker 1: receiving team. Now, if you squib it and it goes

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Speaker 1: soft down there, what if they jump on it at

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Speaker 1: the thirty five, give themselves up, no time goes off,

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Speaker 1: And now they got the thirty five. They got to

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Speaker 1: the thirty five of the twenty five, and it's and

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Speaker 1: you can't predict how the ball's gonna bounce, especially when

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Speaker 1: you kick it, you top it or line drive it

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Now I think the play the kick they

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Speaker 1: should have made in the Chiefs game. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: anything all of us suggest is better than what happened,

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Speaker 1: So we're all right. So and I think they should

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Speaker 1: have had Bass if he could, and maybe they told

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Speaker 1: him this, and I can see what happened. Get it

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Speaker 1: as hot, kick it as high as you can, but

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Speaker 1: you gotta land it in the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: inside the ten. If it's inside the ten and you

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Speaker 1: kick it as high as you can, it gives your

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Speaker 1: coverage a chance to get down there. And if he

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Speaker 1: fair catches it, no time's off the clock. But the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs got the ball at their ten. Now they got

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Speaker 1: to go fifty five yards instead of forty, right, so

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Speaker 1: you gain that. If he catches it and starts to run,

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Speaker 1: however far he runs, means there's that much time off

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Speaker 1: the clock, and you go down cover the kick. Now,

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Speaker 1: if he tries to run it back or they try

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Speaker 1: a home run throwbacks, certainly you gotta be ready for that,

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Speaker 1: no question. And Bill, that's one of the other things

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Speaker 1: that have happened to Bill's fans. So, but I think

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Speaker 1: that's the play. What I think. Mind if they did

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Speaker 1: say they were gonna do that, if they were gonna

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Speaker 1: kick it high, and they told Bass, hey, kick it

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Speaker 1: as high as you can inside the ten, we want

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Speaker 1: this guy to return it. He says, I got you. Well,

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Speaker 1: everybody in the whole play, every fan, every coach, every

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Speaker 1: player's adrenaline was off the charts. And if bass kick

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Speaker 1: that which he did, the thing went sky high. He

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Speaker 1: got too much of it. The darn thing goes six

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Speaker 1: yards deep, and now we're back to the twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So he might have tried to kick it down the

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Speaker 1: left center inside the numbers, outside the hat, between the

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Speaker 1: hash and the numbers and kick it as high as

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Speaker 1: he can and have it dropped there, and he just

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Speaker 1: got too much of it. Yeah, you know, I think

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02:05:25,840 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 1: he hit it too hard. He wanted to make sure

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02:05:27,560 --> 02:05:30,080
Speaker 1: he had left. He wanted to get it he could,

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02:05:30,120 --> 02:05:31,600
Speaker 1: so he hit as hard as he could. But he

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Speaker 1: got a little high on the ball and the equator

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Speaker 1: of the ball and it went through the end zone.

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Speaker 1: So unfortunate. I think that wasn't the most catastrophic thing

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Speaker 1: that happened in the last thirteen No, but that if

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Speaker 1: you think think about it doesn't help think about what happened, though.

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Speaker 1: If the guy catches it, returns it five or six

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Speaker 1: yards or whatever, boom, Now it's ten seconds left in

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Speaker 1: the game and they got the ball to twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: They don't have enough time to run the two plays

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Speaker 1: they did. Yeah, that's that's the idea. Right back to

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Speaker 1: the phones here and we go to Frank on a sale. Next, Frank,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, Steves,

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02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,000
Speaker 1: I memory failing me? Or did you did I remember

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Speaker 1: seeing you run one of those line drive kickoffs back

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Speaker 1: were a touchdown? Do you ever run a line drive

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown? Steve? No, came close to remember? Came close?

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Speaker 1: Oh you're thinking of the Raiders game. Yeah? Yeah, he

2267
02:06:21,160 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 1: got knocked out at like the three yard line by

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Speaker 1: Willie Golf. Okay, it's the Hey, longest kickoff return in

2269
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Speaker 1: playoff history of the franchise and didn't go for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: There you go, which is the story of my career.

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Speaker 1: All right. So, so do we know what it takes

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Speaker 1: to be the chiefs? Now? I'm wondering. I can't Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: yesterday and it seems like they played a tougher, more

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Speaker 1: physical games. I mean, there's finest teams and physical teams.

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Speaker 1: And I mean that we lost the Super Bowl to

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Speaker 1: the Giants because we were finess and they out physical

2277
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Speaker 1: to us. And I'm thinking the same thing about Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: You just got to play them more physical than than

2279
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Speaker 1: because there's that, and yeah, there there's you make a point, Frank,

2280
02:06:59,720 --> 02:07:02,280
Speaker 1: and and it's valid one. I would argue that in

2281
02:07:02,360 --> 02:07:05,160
Speaker 1: the first game between the Bills and the Chiefs this season,

2282
02:07:05,240 --> 02:07:08,520
Speaker 1: in Week five, the Bills played a physical brand of

2283
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:12,880
Speaker 1: football defensively. They knocked the tar at a Travis Kelsey

2284
02:07:12,920 --> 02:07:14,760
Speaker 1: every time he came across the middle, anytime he was

2285
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:18,320
Speaker 1: anywhere between the numbers. They were very physical with him.

2286
02:07:18,360 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: It was the most exasperated I have ever seen him

2287
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:25,040
Speaker 1: after a football game. And the Bills won that handily

2288
02:07:25,120 --> 02:07:27,160
Speaker 1: thirty eight twenty. They did get turnovers in the game.

2289
02:07:27,200 --> 02:07:29,800
Speaker 1: The Chiefs had four of them that certainly helped, including

2290
02:07:29,840 --> 02:07:33,560
Speaker 1: an interception return for a touchdown by Micah Hyde. The

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Speaker 1: Bengals did play a physical brand of football up front,

2292
02:07:36,880 --> 02:07:39,400
Speaker 1: but I think their defensive adjustments in the second half,

2293
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:41,680
Speaker 1: whereas you heard our guest Doug for our point out,

2294
02:07:41,720 --> 02:07:43,440
Speaker 1: and we pointed out earlier in the show, they played

2295
02:07:43,480 --> 02:07:46,440
Speaker 1: more single safety, hide dropped eight into coverage three on

2296
02:07:46,520 --> 02:07:49,680
Speaker 1: the line, had a spy at the linebacker level who

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02:07:49,880 --> 02:07:53,360
Speaker 1: rushed at Patrick Mahomes every time he declared one side

2298
02:07:53,400 --> 02:07:54,960
Speaker 1: of the field that he was running two or the other.

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Speaker 1: He came late, and the coverage was good on the

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Speaker 1: back end, so again good adjustment, better execution, and they

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Speaker 1: slowed down that Chief's offense where they managed only three

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Speaker 1: points in the second half and Patrick Mahomes only through

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02:08:08,440 --> 02:08:12,080
Speaker 1: for fifty five yards. That's kind of the grand scheme

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Speaker 1: of things. As far as I saw the second half

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Speaker 1: of that football game, I don't. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: what it was. Let's go to Bill next. I believe

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Speaker 1: he's in penfield, but I could be wrong. I'm not

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02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:26,440
Speaker 1: sure the town is right, but Bill, you're up next.

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02:08:26,440 --> 02:08:29,840
Speaker 1: Told okay, thank you what you got for us, Bill,

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02:08:30,800 --> 02:08:33,240
Speaker 1: So I was wary. Now, so well, I see it.

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02:08:34,280 --> 02:08:37,440
Speaker 1: The defense was number one in the league, right, But

2312
02:08:39,280 --> 02:08:42,240
Speaker 1: the best defense is offense, right, So our offense was

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02:08:42,280 --> 02:08:45,680
Speaker 1: burying everybody alive, and then defense just had to come

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02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:48,800
Speaker 1: stopped down the dirt. But every time we had to

2315
02:08:48,840 --> 02:08:52,880
Speaker 1: rely on the defense this year to bail us out,

2316
02:08:53,040 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: they couldn't do it. And then we had more than

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02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:57,760
Speaker 1: one team come up from behind and beat us the

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02:08:57,880 --> 02:09:02,520
Speaker 1: same way. Yeah, so I don't so, I don't see

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Speaker 1: how we could be number one in stats maybe, but

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Speaker 1: not number one in only because of the offense. I

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Speaker 1: guess they should say, yeah, I mean, you could argue

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02:09:10,720 --> 02:09:13,839
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game. I mean, they hold Jacksonville to nine points,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I mean they did what they could there.

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02:09:19,280 --> 02:09:22,280
Speaker 1: There are a couple of examples where you know, they

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02:09:22,320 --> 02:09:23,760
Speaker 1: had to go back out on the field at the

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Speaker 1: end because there was a stretch during the middle of

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02:09:25,640 --> 02:09:30,160
Speaker 1: the season where Buffalo's offense was sputtering and the defense

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02:09:30,280 --> 02:09:33,160
Speaker 1: held it down to help them win football games. The

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02:09:33,560 --> 02:09:37,040
Speaker 1: defense gave up thirty or more points three times in

2330
02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:42,280
Speaker 1: the regular season over seventeen games. That's that's pretty good.

2331
02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:45,200
Speaker 1: And the highest one after that was twenty three points

2332
02:09:45,240 --> 02:09:50,760
Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh Steelers on opening Day. They had two

2333
02:09:50,840 --> 02:09:52,960
Speaker 1: shutouts in the first five weeks of the season. They

2334
02:09:53,040 --> 02:09:55,520
Speaker 1: held you know, Jacksonville to nine. They held New Orleans

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02:09:55,600 --> 02:09:59,560
Speaker 1: to six, the Panthers to fourteen, the Patriots to fourteen,

2336
02:10:00,160 --> 02:10:04,360
Speaker 1: the Falcons to fifteen, the Jets to ten, the Dolphins

2337
02:10:04,400 --> 02:10:09,400
Speaker 1: to eleven eleven total two games season. So, I mean

2338
02:10:09,840 --> 02:10:14,360
Speaker 1: they held teams off the scoreboard a ton in this season. Now,

2339
02:10:14,880 --> 02:10:19,760
Speaker 1: certainly their their schedule was soft. They didn't play you know,

2340
02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:22,760
Speaker 1: they played the Chiefs and played well against them. The

2341
02:10:22,880 --> 02:10:26,840
Speaker 1: Titans hung thirty four on them, The Colts hung forty

2342
02:10:26,920 --> 02:10:30,280
Speaker 1: one on them, and the team what was the other

2343
02:10:30,360 --> 02:10:32,440
Speaker 1: team at the end of the season that got them, Yeah,

2344
02:10:32,520 --> 02:10:35,760
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay hung thirty three on them. I'll submit I'll

2345
02:10:35,800 --> 02:10:39,480
Speaker 1: submit to you they should have beaten Tennessee and Tampa Bay.

2346
02:10:40,720 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: And they had a great second half against Tampa Bay.

2347
02:10:43,240 --> 02:10:46,560
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay had three points in the second half, helping

2348
02:10:46,640 --> 02:10:50,160
Speaker 1: them come back from twenty something points down. What was it,

2349
02:10:50,240 --> 02:10:51,960
Speaker 1: twenty seven to three and a half time twenty four

2350
02:10:51,960 --> 02:10:54,400
Speaker 1: to three and a half. They held them to three

2351
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:56,600
Speaker 1: points in the second half before giving up the touchdown

2352
02:10:56,640 --> 02:10:59,560
Speaker 1: and overtime. So they have had good second halfs of

2353
02:10:59,680 --> 02:11:03,520
Speaker 1: games as well, making adjustments, the very adjustments that you're

2354
02:11:03,520 --> 02:11:07,120
Speaker 1: talking about. It's it's a it's hardly to win in

2355
02:11:07,200 --> 02:11:11,240
Speaker 1: no question about it. Certainly the coaching staff will willingly

2356
02:11:11,360 --> 02:11:14,040
Speaker 1: say accept their share the responsibility for not being able

2357
02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:17,280
Speaker 1: to finish it off in Kansas City. Um, but you're

2358
02:11:17,320 --> 02:11:19,360
Speaker 1: looking at a guy who I mean, I'm an old

2359
02:11:19,400 --> 02:11:23,800
Speaker 1: guy and I'm an old player, and I I put

2360
02:11:23,880 --> 02:11:25,360
Speaker 1: as much of it on the players as I do

2361
02:11:25,440 --> 02:11:29,720
Speaker 1: anybody else. Um, So I it's a it's a team game.

2362
02:11:29,800 --> 02:11:31,360
Speaker 1: They all they're all in together. They all have to

2363
02:11:31,400 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 1: live with the results, and all of us, you know,

2364
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:35,800
Speaker 1: have to live with it as well. But um, they're

2365
02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:38,320
Speaker 1: gonna learn from it and try and be better. That's

2366
02:11:38,320 --> 02:11:41,680
Speaker 1: all they can do. It's, uh, what a what a

2367
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:46,480
Speaker 1: horrible way to end your season, Um, particularly when you

2368
02:11:46,520 --> 02:11:48,120
Speaker 1: had so much hope in your and your offense is

2369
02:11:48,120 --> 02:11:50,320
Speaker 1: playing as well as it did. So it's it's something

2370
02:11:50,320 --> 02:11:52,600
Speaker 1: we're all gonna have to get over. Uh, it's gonna

2371
02:11:52,640 --> 02:11:54,400
Speaker 1: take a lot of time to get there. I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: break time for us here Steve and Ivack for one

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Speaker 1: more segment to close things up. Next on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Lives about allot of health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All

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02:12:14,960 --> 02:12:18,160
Speaker 1: right back here on One Bills Live. The season has

2376
02:12:18,200 --> 02:12:23,440
Speaker 1: just ended, but the draft season is just beginning. They're

2377
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Speaker 1: already measuring people down at the Senior Bowl today. I

2378
02:12:26,120 --> 02:12:31,320
Speaker 1: got one of our loyal listeners, hey, because this is strikes.

2379
02:12:31,360 --> 02:12:33,440
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like fantasy football right here, but

2380
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:36,000
Speaker 1: we gotta with this is off the charts. So they're

2381
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Speaker 1: measuring guys down at the Senior Bowl today, and there

2382
02:12:39,800 --> 02:12:45,960
Speaker 1: is a right tackle from Minnesota named Daniel fa and

2383
02:12:46,680 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: he measured today at six eight and one quarter or

2384
02:12:51,320 --> 02:12:56,400
Speaker 1: six eight and eighth three hundred eighty seven pounds. His

2385
02:12:56,640 --> 02:13:02,560
Speaker 1: hands size is eleven You could almost put a ruler

2386
02:13:03,440 --> 02:13:06,160
Speaker 1: from his thumb to his pinky, from the pinky to

2387
02:13:06,240 --> 02:13:10,760
Speaker 1: the tip of his thumb. His arm length is thirty

2388
02:13:10,840 --> 02:13:14,920
Speaker 1: five and three eighths and his wingspan is eighty six

2389
02:13:15,080 --> 02:13:19,000
Speaker 1: and a quarter eighty six and that's seven feet. It's

2390
02:13:19,040 --> 02:13:23,360
Speaker 1: over seven feet. We got some highlights of Daniel. Uh,

2391
02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:27,440
Speaker 1: I gotta say for I mean, he played last year

2392
02:13:27,440 --> 02:13:30,160
Speaker 1: at four hundred pounds, so he's dropped a deck chair

2393
02:13:30,240 --> 02:13:33,320
Speaker 1: off the Titanic. He's down to three eighty seven. But

2394
02:13:33,520 --> 02:13:37,320
Speaker 1: for a guy that's that pig, he's not bad. He's

2395
02:13:37,400 --> 02:13:40,960
Speaker 1: on his toes, you know, he and they use him

2396
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:42,960
Speaker 1: and they like they're handing in the ball in short

2397
02:13:43,040 --> 02:13:45,400
Speaker 1: yardage and goal line too. I mean he's and I

2398
02:13:45,480 --> 02:13:53,120
Speaker 1: mean he's trucking guys in the sad unbelievable. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: he's just uh. I'll tell you football is better than

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02:13:57,640 --> 02:14:01,520
Speaker 1: anybody at finding the giant humans. I tell you, I

2401
02:14:01,600 --> 02:14:03,840
Speaker 1: mean he is a mutant. I tell you that it's

2402
02:14:03,920 --> 02:14:05,960
Speaker 1: it's not it's only gonna get worse, folks. We're gonna

2403
02:14:06,000 --> 02:14:09,520
Speaker 1: have people that we're never gonna see him, But yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're fun. I mean, oh, well, Solomon Wilcot's coming your

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Speaker 1: way tomorrow, Steve, and I'll see at one o'clock