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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the strated here of normalcy. All right, let's tune

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Speaker 1: it up here on a Thursday, Chris Brown Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: in our one Bill's Drive studios in Balmy, Western New York.

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Speaker 1: It is a sixty degrees here on December sixteenth. What

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Speaker 1: for a white Christmas in Buffalo, which is inside though

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Speaker 1: it's more a rarity than anything. Yes, practice is outside

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Speaker 1: and participating in some capacity. Practice really didn't get rolling

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days will be important in terms

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Speaker 1: If it's not him, we know it'll be Mitchell Trubisky,

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Speaker 1: You're a better team with him on the field. But

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Speaker 1: Will you play for Marv Leaves? Did he not call

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Speaker 1: don't think you're giving him enough credit. I know that

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Speaker 1: they're not as good as they were a year ago,

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Speaker 1: but they have more red zone opportunities to anybody in

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Speaker 1: the league. And I would put their issues more on

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Speaker 1: the players than I would on play selection myself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's an execution issue at the root of it.

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Speaker 1: More than anything else. But I heard, I hear your herm. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones. We go to Alex on a

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Speaker 1: seale Next, Alex, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's life any guys? Thanks? Yes, And I'm

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Speaker 1: usually no one to talk about officiating, right, I think

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Speaker 1: play the game, you know, just just just move on.

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Speaker 1: You can't control that, right. And I heard the caller

437
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Speaker 1: talking about apology from the league. But the stat that

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Speaker 1: Howard and Jeremy brought up the other morning is still

439
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Speaker 1: just haunting me. Two holding defensive holding penalties against the

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Speaker 1: Bills this whole season and it's against the same player

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Speaker 1: two different games like that. That that's something that the

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Speaker 1: league should acknowledge as this is just a this is

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Speaker 1: just a bias against the against or or we're not

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Speaker 1: taking enough shots. I mean, you guys tell me. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, Alex. Here's the thing. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: that's the k Alex. You've got a We've got a

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Speaker 1: podcast this week call Bills by the Numbers. It's going

448
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Speaker 1: to be out I think this afternoon where we touch

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Speaker 1: on some of this and this. And while those statistics

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Speaker 1: look look critical and damning in in that context, there's

451
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Speaker 1: some things that will give you pause about why what

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Speaker 1: happens and what kind of situation and teams are getting

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Speaker 1: called a lot of defensive pass interferences and which ones

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Speaker 1: are not, and it's pretty enlightening as to who gets

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Speaker 1: those calls and who doesn't. I'll tell you this, the

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Speaker 1: one that they got against Levi Wallace against Mike Evans

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Speaker 1: in this last Tampa Bay Buffalo game. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think there's no question it was a deliberate underthrow by

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and you know they were fishing for it

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Speaker 1: and they got it. Bad call are not which you'll

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Speaker 1: hear people say, yeah, it was a bad call, because

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Speaker 1: I mean even because Mike Evans stops and goes back

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Speaker 1: into him and actually reaches and pulls him away. So

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Speaker 1: whatever it's, you know, and I it's a bad call.

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Speaker 1: And if you're gonna make that call, well you know

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Speaker 1: you gotta make it both ways. And that's the thing

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Speaker 1: that's egregious about this. But there's some statistics that are

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Speaker 1: in our podcast bills by the Numbers that will tell

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Speaker 1: you it's not all exactly cut and dried it and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily mean a bias. And I've got more

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Speaker 1: statistics for you to kind of shed some more light

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Speaker 1: on this. Yes, Howard and Jerryman are accurate in saying

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Speaker 1: that the Bills have only gotten two defensive holding calls

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Speaker 1: all season long. They've also gotten defensive pass interference calls,

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Speaker 1: which is in line with some of the highest throwing

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Speaker 1: teams in the league. So Pro Football Talk their television show,

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Speaker 1: they put a list together of penalties called against opponents

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Speaker 1: and they listed the teams that have thrown the football

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Speaker 1: more than any other teams in football. So the teams

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Speaker 1: that have thrown the ball the most, Bucks, Chief Steelers, Chargers, Jets, Bills, Cowboys, Dolphins. Okay, now,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have had two defensive pass interference calls called

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Speaker 1: on their team all year. They've thrown the football second

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Speaker 1: most in the league, two dpi's all season, but they've

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Speaker 1: also had fifteen defensive holding calls. The Bills, it's a

485
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Speaker 1: little flipped. They've only had two defensive holding calls but

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Speaker 1: nine defensive pass interference calls. The Cowboys have only had

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Speaker 1: three defensive holding calls but twelve pass interference calls for

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Speaker 1: their for their offense. And you know, you can go

489
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Speaker 1: on down the line. Now, the Bucks are pretty high

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Speaker 1: on both. They have eight defensive holding calls and eleven

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Speaker 1: pass interference calls for their offense, so you know, but

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Speaker 1: that's a total of nineteen. The Chiefs have a total

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Speaker 1: of seventeen. The Steelers have a total of nineteen, Chargers eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Jets seventeen. Now the Bills are a little lower. They

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Speaker 1: have eleven, but it's not like it's a minuscule amount

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Speaker 1: of penalties called against them. Cowboys have fifteen and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins have thirteen, So they're in the ballpark, I guess,

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Speaker 1: is my point here. For the teams that throw the

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Speaker 1: football more than anybody else, you want to argue that

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Speaker 1: the Bucks may get a little bit more of the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, I'll sign up for that, But

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Speaker 1: you can't say the Bills don't get any calls. It's

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Speaker 1: low on defensive holding but respectable for defensive pass interference.

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Speaker 1: So that's just kind of where I see it, and

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Speaker 1: seeing a team like the Chiefs in a similar boat

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Speaker 1: to the Bills, it's hard to justify that people are

507
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Speaker 1: out to get the Bills offense this year. We gotta

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Speaker 1: take a break here because coming up next we've got

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Speaker 1: the ultimate Fantasy lineup from ESPN NFL insider and fantasy

510
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Speaker 1: football expert Field Yates. He joins us next, You're on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalata Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as always, and time to be

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Speaker 1: joined now by ESPN NFL Insider Fantasy football analyst Field

515
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: Yates with his ultimate fantasy lineup presented by fan Duel.

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00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: Make every moment more all right, Field, you had some

517
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: good picks last week. Rashad Penny did made you look

518
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: good man. I gotta tell you that was a good,

519
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: good pick there out of the weeds. It's kind of

520
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: the essence of daily fantasy, and good to be on

521
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Speaker 1: with you, guys. But daily fantasy, it's not about the

522
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Speaker 1: players that you're arting every week in your line. If

523
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is to Fond Eggs or Josh Allen, right,

524
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Speaker 1: this is about guys that you have an inkling on

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Speaker 1: and you like the price on. And Rashad Penny was

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Speaker 1: way undervalued last week. Now, can't say I was going

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Speaker 1: to promise you the best game of his career last week,

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Speaker 1: but certainly thrilled with the result. I think Rashaud Penny

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Speaker 1: made a bunch of people a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: Daily Fantasy this past weekend. All right, so let's begin

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Speaker 1: this week because well, we'll get to it in a second.

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Speaker 1: He'll be making a reprise role this week. But we'll

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Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Where are we going

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Speaker 1: at quarterback here in week fifteen? Yeah, we're going to

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Speaker 1: tap into the Monday night slate with Justin Fields facing

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Speaker 1: off against the Vikings. And you know, if you look

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback pricing, Justin Fields in that bottom third

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Speaker 1: maybe even lower than that in terms of quarterback salaries

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Speaker 1: for the week, and they play against the Minnesota defense.

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Speaker 1: I think we all know can be up and also

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Speaker 1: down sort of depends on the week. Last week they

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Speaker 1: were good for the first half and then not so

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00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: good in the second half. The encouraging parper Justin Fields

544
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: this past week really wasn't those two passing touchdowns he had.

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Speaker 1: Sure you guys saw that game against Chicago where against

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Speaker 1: Green Bay where it was like two passes or one

547
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards and it was like ten air

548
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Speaker 1: yards total. It was basically his receivers doing the work

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Speaker 1: after the catch, but Justin did have nine rushes for

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Speaker 1: seventy four yards. As far as quarterbacks are concerned, guys,

551
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, there's no better way to establish a floor

552
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: in fantasy football that having rushing upside. And they get

553
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Speaker 1: that with or the Bears get that with Justin Fields.

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Speaker 1: We get that for Justin Fields or with Justin Fields

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Speaker 1: in our daily fantasy lineup. And then as you move

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Speaker 1: over to the two running backs, Rashad Penny, you think

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Speaker 1: that wasn't just a one hit wonder. You think that

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00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: he's got some staying power now. Yeah, well, Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: is going to talk about how other guys are going

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Speaker 1: to get touches, and they will, and it's tough matchup

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Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams, but the price

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Speaker 1: is still really good. I mean, you can pay three

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars more for guys who might have just five

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Speaker 1: or more total touches than Rashad Penny. I think Seattle's,

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Speaker 1: y'all know, wants to be a running the football team,

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Speaker 1: perhaps at times to their detriment, but I think Rashot

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Speaker 1: Penny is in line for maybe fifteen, maybe twenty, maybe

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Speaker 1: even twenty five total touches so get rashot Penny into

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Speaker 1: your lineup one more time. It's won't be the last

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Speaker 1: time to do it at this price point. Won't be

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Speaker 1: a twenty seven or twenty eight point fantasy point effort.

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Speaker 1: But again, the metric we're sort of trying to assess

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Speaker 1: here is three times the price and eighteen fantasy points

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Speaker 1: is pretty reasonable for rashot Penny, right. Yeah. And then

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Speaker 1: another plug in guy is Jeff Wilson, who's just part

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Speaker 1: of that San Francisco rushing machine. It it doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: to matter who they plug in there, they're productive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was Elijah Mitchell and then he went down with injury.

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Speaker 1: He had some other guys there even before those two.

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Speaker 1: Now it's Jeff Wilson getting a crack. Yeah, And as

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Speaker 1: always I mentioned the possibility of a pivot. We're having

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Speaker 1: this conversation on Thursday, so we don't know what's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen by Sunday. But it looks like Elijah Mitchell's got

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Speaker 1: an uphill battle to play again this week for the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. If he does, he's the guy you

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Speaker 1: want to go too. Now, you guys are well aware

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Speaker 1: of the debo Stamles were one of the best players

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Speaker 1: in the NFL this year, and he had eight rushing

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Speaker 1: attempts this past week. But if you're just looking at

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Speaker 1: the running backs guys who are purely running backs from

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers roster, only one of them, Jeff Wilson,

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Speaker 1: had a single carry. Last week. He had all thirteen

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Speaker 1: of the running back rushing attempts, so the volume should

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Speaker 1: be steady if he starts again. Let's call it thirteen

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Speaker 1: to fifteen rushing attempts, and the matchup is much better

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Speaker 1: last week with a more difficult matchup against an improving

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Speaker 1: since defense. This against an Atlanta defense that has a

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Speaker 1: few really good players on it, great jar Aj Terrell

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Speaker 1: being the best. But I don't think this is a

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Speaker 1: defense that scares me. I think if Jeff Wilson gets

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Speaker 1: that same amount of touches, he could be in line

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Speaker 1: for a bigger day. And of course, as we moved

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Speaker 1: down to the wide through the wide receivers, this is

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Speaker 1: really has always been every week. It's the meat and

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00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: potatoes that your lineup. You're not afraid to spend money

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Speaker 1: on these guys, and you really usually at least two

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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 1: out of the three wide receivers you grab or name guys.

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Speaker 1: Maybe once in a while you'll you'll sprinkle the guy in.

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00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: But this week is you got three guys that are

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Speaker 1: really going to go, Yeah a fourth and reflect that.

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Speaker 1: I'll mention in just a few moments here, but let's

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Speaker 1: start with a wide receivers. How about Chris Godwin to

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00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: begin price at eight thousand dollars and that's a heavy

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Speaker 1: price for anybody. But Chris Godwin has the Saints on

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, and you're probably saying to yourself, well, the

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Speaker 1: Saints are good on defense, aren't they. Well, Mike Evans

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Speaker 1: is likely to draw a Marshaw Lattimore shadow, where Lattimore

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Speaker 1: more comparable size to Mike Evans who's six foot three

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Speaker 1: or six foot four. So I think you'll see a

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Speaker 1: marsha On Lattimore shadow once again of Mike Evans. He's

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Speaker 1: really done a good job of keeping Mike Evans in

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Speaker 1: check throughout their matchups over the years. Chris Godwin plays

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Speaker 1: in the slot, especially with Antonio Brown still serving US suspension,

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Speaker 1: so Godwin should be busy. The last time these two

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Speaker 1: teams played, he was exceptional earlier on this year, so

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Speaker 1: it would not surprise me if that keeps up with

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Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, we go from one really good receiver to

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Speaker 1: the next. Justin Jefferson, I mean the really no words

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Speaker 1: needed here, one of the best receivers in the NF

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Speaker 1: Valley's price that eight thousand and six hundred dollars against Deep.

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Speaker 1: But you're talking about out a player who pretty soon

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Speaker 1: is going to set the record for most receiving yards

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Speaker 1: before the age of twenty three in NFL history. He's

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Speaker 1: just that good of a player, is Justin Jefferson. And

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Speaker 1: you guys probably also aware this Bears secondary has been

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Speaker 1: so thinned out this year. It is not a particularly

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Speaker 1: experienced or talented group. Monday Night football, the weather looks fine.

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00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to talk about Monday night

639
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: football weather when they're not playing in the Dome anymore

640
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: because of games like we saw just a couple of

641
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: weeks ago in beautiful Orchard Park, New York. No weather

642
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: concerns on Monday Night for the Chicago Bears. In the

643
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings game could be a big day for Justin Jefferson.

644
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: And I'll roll that right into one more NFC North receiver,

645
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: and that's DeVante Adams for the Green Bay Packers, which

646
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm not really shart, I need to dive into the

647
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: explanation at all. But remember this team is playing the

648
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: Ravens on Saturday, guys. Sunday guys, the Ravens. Oh my goodness.

649
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: The injuries that have piled up there, right, Marlon Humphy

650
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: and Marcus Peters both out for the year. Sean Elliott

651
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: the safety, out for the year. It feels like every

652
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: day I wake up, I hear a new Raven's injury.

653
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: They could be about Lamar Jackson on Sunday as well.

654
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: If there's no Lamar, could this be a boat race

655
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: by Green Bay? The game is in Baltimore, where Ravens

656
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: typically play a little bit tougher. But Davante Adams, who

657
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: was magnificent this past Sunday night, I think is in

658
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: for another big Sunday night effort as well. All right,

659
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 1: so tight end and flex you know matchups as well.

660
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: You know, Deebo Samuel is probably the most interesting guy

661
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: here because while he vultures carries away from his from

662
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: his fellow running back teammates. You got this guy on

663
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: your roster, you are pumped because it's like double value here.

664
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: He's been unbelievable all year, right so we've got him

665
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: at the flax again, high price player north of eight

666
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for Deebo Samuel and he's a really talented

667
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: guy as a running back and a tight end and

668
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: part of the reason why they're able to get some

669
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: value in Ricky Seals Jones at the tight end spot

670
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: at forty five hundred dollars. And as we all know,

671
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: the Washington football team is dealing with all sorts of

672
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: injuries right now and COVID situations as well. They've got

673
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 1: twenty one players in the COVID nineteen list right now

674
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: in DC. Well, one player who is expected to be

675
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: available for them on Sunday is rookie Steals Jones, and

676
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: the price tag portafounder Bucks is notable because he plays

677
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, who, whether it's scheme, whether it's bad luck,

678
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: whether it's personnel, they have not been able to slow

679
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: down tight ends at all this year. It's one of

680
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: the most weird, one of the weirdest unique stats in

681
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: the league right now, is there by far the worsest

682
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: defending of posing tight ends in terms of fantasy production.

683
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: They play Washington two of the next three weeks. So

684
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: perhaps rookie Steals Jones makes a name for himself in

685
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: those two occasions, and then we can bring it right

686
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: home with the defense. And that's the Cincinnati Bengals, and

687
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: same strategy applies I always talk about, which is that

688
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: you can consider punting on your defense. But they play

689
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: up Broncos guys, and you know, the wide receivers in

690
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: Denver are outstanding. Courtland Sutton, Jerry Judy, Tim Patrick. You

691
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: know these are guys. They're like young young Steve Paskers

692
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: out there, and yet they never throw the the ball.

693
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: They don't throw these guys the ball anymore. It's absurd. Now.

694
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: Part of it's because they got two really good running

695
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: backs in Javanti Williams and Melvin Gordon, but they just

696
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: do not push the football down the field anymore. Courtland

697
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: Sutton has been a ghost since signing an extension worth

698
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: sixty one million dollars. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

699
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: But I don't think this is going to be a

700
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: high scoring game. So for fantasy purposes, I'm happy to

701
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: put the Bengals into my defense. It's just thirty four

702
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: hundred bucks good stuff, and it's with one hundred bucks

703
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: left over, but you got yeah, the sit for you guys,

704
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: they sent. We talk. We talk a lot about the

705
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: defenses and how they're they're a little bit of a

706
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: you know, take what's kind of left over there, the

707
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: last thing you throw in on the top of your

708
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: your fantasy budget. And it does strike me as the

709
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: position where it's more about the matchup than anything else.

710
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: I always got the matchup on defense, and I'm with you, Steve.

711
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: It's either the last thing I do or the first

712
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: thing I do. I get out of the way early

713
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: and just say, all right, who's the cheapest one that

714
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: I like? Or I save it for the very end.

715
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: And if I've got thirty five hundred bucks, I scurry

716
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: through the options. I got forty five hundred bucks, I

717
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: scurry through the options. But I always try not to

718
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: overthink the defense too much because so much of fantasy

719
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: scoring is predicated upon things like pick sixes and you know,

720
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: sack fumbles and return touchdowns, which you know, especially those

721
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: for turn touchdowns and pick sixes like those are really

722
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: hard to predict weekend and week out. All right. So

723
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: that's fields ultimate Fantasy lineup presented by fan Duel Make

724
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: every moment more field. We're having a hard time putting

725
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 1: a little spice in sizzle on Bill's Panthers for Sunday,

726
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: as you might imagine, because they've dropped data their last ten,

727
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: Bills have now lost four of their last six. Is

728
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: there anything remotely redeeming that you think fans can keep

729
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: an eye on in this game to maybe maintain their interest.

730
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: We know Josh Allen's a little bit of a question mark,

731
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: which has got people, Bills fans anyway, biting their fingernails here. Yeah.

732
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: I think the big thing is just that if you

733
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: take a big step back, and I'm sure Bills fans

734
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: are having a hard time doing this, and I get

735
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: it right now, is that this team, with three of

736
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: its last four games played at home, still very much

737
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: in position to the playoffs. And I know that Sunday

738
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: was stinging loss in overtime, but the Bills were the

739
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: better team for about thirty five of the for about

740
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: half that game, right, I mean, they were the better

741
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: team a lot of ways. They showed some grits, some guts,

742
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: some resolve. So specific to this Sunday, I think what

743
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: you're focusing, you know, it's saying, all right, you know what,

744
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: staying it's not fun. But let's use the good vibes

745
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: curried late Sunday afternoon and think about those and focus

746
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: those on Sunday. But this Carolina team, guys, is very

747
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: interesting right now. There's a ton of ties obviously between

748
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Panthers organization. And you've got everybody knows,

749
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: you know, the variety of players that have either gone

750
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: north or south. We've got executives that have changed, you know,

751
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: Brandon being beat up Buffalo and Dan Morgan being down

752
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: in Carolina. Now, it's basically the two organizations that tie together.

753
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: But Carolina is in a tough spot right now. They've

754
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: got quarterback issues. Their running back is obviously out for

755
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: the year and Christian McCaffrey. Their defense has been pretty

756
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: gritty and pretty fun. It's a good test for the

757
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. But Caroline is a long ways away on

758
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: offense right now, which is part of the reason why,

759
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: as you see in the bottom thirty year screen, they're

760
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: nearly an eleven point underdog. Yeah, I was gonna ask

761
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: two that aside from either defense, that you might want

762
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: to take because this may be a low scoring game.

763
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: If Josh Allen doesn't play, it may go that direction

764
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: or whatever. Is there any offensive player on either side

765
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: that would be a fantasy play? Yeah, I think Dave

766
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: Davis is probably the interesting one for daily fantasy, and

767
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo scored him back to back games and has been

768
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: a good player for Buffalo, and he's gotten chances. Obviously

769
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: with all their great depth this year, it's hard for

770
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: him to find that many snaps on the field. And

771
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: for Caroline, of the daily fantasy play would be Robbie Anderson,

772
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: who's just been buried this year until last week where

773
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 1: he had seven catches for eighty four yards and a touchdown.

774
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: And you're thinking to yourself, is that the aberration or

775
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: at the start of a late season surge for Robbie Anderson?

776
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: If it's the ladder, well, then he's still priced at

777
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: a point where you're paying for the guy that for

778
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: like twelve straight weeks was a complete non factor for Carolina.

779
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: So that could be the interesting daily fantasy play. But

780
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills, you know, assuming Josh plays, it's the

781
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: three usual stars. It's Josh, it's Stefon Diggs, it's Dawson Knox.

782
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: Those are your three lineup locks and long fantasy Yeah.

783
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: Davis though, could be a good pickup because Emmanuel Sanders

784
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: is week to week with that knee injury, figures to

785
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 1: be out of the lineup, so it could be a

786
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: heavy personnel usage day for Gabe Davis, much like it

787
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: was last week after Sanders went down with the injury.

788
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 1: Field Thanks as always, We'll catch up with you next week,

789
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: all right, guys, look forward to a duck to you then.

790
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: All right. That's Field Yates, NFL insider for ESPN and

791
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: Fantasy football analyst, giving us his ultimate fantasy lineup, presented

792
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: by fan duel Steve and I take a break here.

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00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:29,880
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00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,520
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Speaker 1: lifetime experience. Man. Interesting. Speaking of tickets, the missus and

804
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: I went to Hamilton last night. Okay, yeah, it's pretty

805
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: cool yea. And Chaise is phenomenal, right, I mean it's

806
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: just awesome. Win this beautiful and it was you know,

807
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: you gotta the whole thing. It's like kind of like

808
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: a little bit even worse than the Sabers. You gotta

809
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: show your VAX card and mask in all the time,

810
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: like in an airport. So I'm for it, right, So

811
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: they did that and we wore masks all the time

812
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: every so we're gonna go. But we got the tickets through,

813
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: like and you've done this, everybody's done this. You go

814
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,959
Speaker 1: to an event and they have this patter charity event

815
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: and they have a they call it a Chinese auction

816
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: where you write down your bid and you know whatever.

817
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: So we get to Hamilton tickets. So you won the

818
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: Chinese auction bid for the Hamlet. And we did this,

819
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: oh months six months and months ago, right, so it's tonight.

820
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: Last night was the night, so we can night right there.

821
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: We got dinner, had a nice Dinner's great. It went

822
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: to a little restaurant right across the way, and yeah,

823
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: it's great, awesome. We go in. So we're getting in,

824
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: we ear massed atmosphere and we go in. We go

825
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: down and sit down, and you know, we're pretty good seats.

826
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: It was off to the as you're looking at the stage,

827
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: we were off to the right, but we were right

828
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: down front on you know, really close to the front.

829
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 1: It was. It was great. We had really nice seats.

830
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: Is good, and except that when I went down I

831
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: got to my seat, the other of our two seats

832
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: was a row ahead of me and off set over.

833
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: We weren't sitting down and over weren't sitting together. So

834
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: we got to Hamilton and we didn't get a sit together.

835
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: Great seats. I was just in one spot like my

836
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: wife was in the other. Thanks for the donation, appreciate

837
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: the support. And who cares, I mean, we went's not

838
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: it's not it's not right. It's not right. But you know,

839
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: it was about the donation anyway. But we how about it. Man.

840
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: I was looking at my wife like, man, I'll talk

841
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: to you at intermission, right, I was like, Okay, our

842
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: tickets weren't together. We bought them at a charity auction

843
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: and they went together. There you go eight oh three

844
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: oh five fifteen the number to get on board here

845
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: because we're gonna go back to the phones and talk

846
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: to some people. We go to Bob and cheek to Wogan, X,

847
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Bobby? Are on one

848
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: Bill's life? Hey guys, you know I was doing something

849
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: today this morning at work. The guys were talking about

850
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: the Bills and there they're not that good and all that.

851
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: You know, when I'm stopping being a season ticket holder,

852
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: I look at what the Bills did last year, and

853
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: you're not going to repeat that. I mean, come on, Steven,

854
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: my right, like it's hard to do. Okay, it's true.

855
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: But the whole point that I have is we're a

856
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: good team. And I don't care what anybody says. When

857
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 1: you look at the Tampa game, they found something there

858
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: in that second half. They stopped the run. I know

859
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: they're hurting, and people say like, well, you know, without

860
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: whiting this, I'm telling you, guys, remember this. This team's

861
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: gonna be there because I'll tell you what, getting the playoffs,

862
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to play Buffalo. I'll tell you that.

863
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: You I might be optimistic and people might say that,

864
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: but this is a damn good team and what I

865
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: saw in the second half. You played part of that

866
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: against your four remainder games and you win them all.

867
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, guys, I'm just tired of hearing

868
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying, Oh, we're seven to say that,

869
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: look at the whole AFC. Why don't Yeah, that's why.

870
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: And I just feel, guys, I really mean it. I

871
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to play Buffalo And I know, youse guys

872
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: write that down that Bob said, I'm telling you this

873
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: team is gonna be dangerous in the playoffs, And you're right, Bob,

874
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: there there is a chance or you could certainly doesn't

875
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: take that much to imagine them saying in the second

876
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: half of that Tampa game, and we heard it after.

877
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: I was I was a little shocked at the rhetoric

878
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott and Josh Allen had after the game,

879
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: and even some of them they really felt good about

880
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: the way that game was played in that second half.

881
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: It was a completely different game, and they really felt

882
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: you can almost feel like like what you said, Bob,

883
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: They were like, hey, wait a minute, this is where

884
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: we should have been playing. I know we lost this game,

885
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: but this is you know, they almost because there was

886
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: almost no disgust that they lost that game. It was

887
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: more like, hey, we found something, and I see what

888
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: Bob's saying. I was kind of looking sideways at at

889
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: the postgame comments after the Tampa Bay game, because you know,

890
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: the moral victory crowd and the hey we found something,

891
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: this is the you know, that second half team is

892
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 1: the one I like, and I get all of that,

893
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: but I think there was something behind that I and

894
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: I remember saying, and I actually brought this up to you.

895
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: We've been talking about that nineteen eighty nine team in

896
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: the Bills where we struggled. Lawyer, you're kind of gotten

897
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: that we snuck into the playoffs after going to the

898
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: championship game. The year before we snuck into the playoffs

899
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: it was the Ronnie Harmon game, and where we got

900
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland and we had played extremely well over

901
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: those last three is a different atmosphere. It kind of

902
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: feels like that to me, where that game against Tampa

903
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, here's where we're at. Now let's go,

904
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 1: you know, and where they found a little something inside

905
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: him or some vibe or whatever you want to call it,

906
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: and I don't. It's an easy thing to say, but

907
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see more evidence of it than

908
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: we did, you know, just in one half of football.

909
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: But I know that that happens. It happened to me, right.

910
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,479
Speaker 1: A lot of people just look at the one loss

911
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: record and say we're seven and six. Last year at

912
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: this time we were ten and three. You know, we're

913
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: not as good as we were last year. But as

914
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: coach McDermott says, every year, every year is different, and

915
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: this year is very different because you don't have a

916
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: runaway favorite in the AFC this year. I mean, what's

917
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: the best record in the AFC right now? Nine and four?

918
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: You know, you've got a bunch of teams with six

919
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: and seven wins and it is so tightly packed. It's

920
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: because everybody's got wartz. Every team in this conference has warts,

921
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: and that's why it's so tightly packed, because no one

922
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: can consistently keep winning week after week after week after week.

923
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: I realized New England's won six in a row now,

924
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: so or seven in a row, So I get that,

925
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: but everybody else has got warts right now, and so

926
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: that means to me anyway that even at seven and six,

927
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 1: there is still time to save the season. And get

928
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: to the postseason. May not be as a division winner,

929
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: but you go ten and seven or eleven and six,

930
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: provided you win the right games AFC conference games, they

931
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: should be okay. But they got to get it together now.

932
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: There's no more dawdling, there's no more sleep walking for

933
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: a half. You have to play consistent football start to finish.

934
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: The stark reality of it is this, even if they're

935
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: good enough to win the super Bowl, in the tight

936
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: race that they find themselves in the AFC, they may

937
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: not even make the playoffs. Whether they're good enough to

938
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: make the super Bowl or not is irrelevant. You gotta

939
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs, and you gotta play well. You

940
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: gotta play well when you needed to play well. We've

941
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, I've been saying that the entire season about

942
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: last year's AFC Championship game. They were good enough to

943
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: beat that team last year. They didn't have to wait

944
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: till Monday night early in the season this year to

945
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: do it. They were good enough last year. They just

946
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: had to play well on that day. If you don't

947
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: play well when you need to, you're gonna get shut out.

948
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: And whether you're talented enough to win the super Bowl

949
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: or not or get to the AFC Championship Game or not.

950
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: You won't get the chance unless you play well in

951
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: the game's leading up to it. And they've been a

952
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: roller coaster so far. So as talented as they are,

953
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: unless they put it together on a week to week basis,

954
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: we may never get it. They may never get a

955
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: chance to prove it. Let's quickly go to Jimmy and

956
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo here before the break. Jimmy, what do you have

957
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: for us here on One Bill's Live. Oh this is Julian.

958
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: Oh Judy, I'm sorry they said they write Jimmy on

959
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: the screen. I'm just reading what I'm sent here. Sorry,

960
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: I understand, I understand. I think the key to the

961
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: game Sunday is the Bill's defense. They've got to play

962
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: in takeaway mode because they're going to have to shorten

963
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: the field for Mitch Drubisky. I really think that he

964
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: is going to start the game. I don't think we

965
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: can afford to risk Josh Allen ankles. Ankles are a

966
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: serious business. So if the Bills defense can take over

967
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: the game, shorten the field for Mitch Rubisky, we can

968
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: win just as well without bailing. Okay, that's fair, Judy

969
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: and I'll take that to the bank. And I do

970
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: think the takeaways, which have kind of dried up the

971
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, will resurface this week because the

972
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: quarterback situation for the Panthers is a mess. Cam Newton,

973
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: after a decent first start, has thrown three interceptions in

974
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: his last two starts, so he and he's got a

975
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 1: fumble lost as well, so his play has kind of

976
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: taken a precipitous drop the last couple of weeks, and

977
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: it has necessitated Matt Rule to sub in j Walker

978
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: just to try to give the offense a spark of

979
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: some kind. So I think there will be opportunities for

980
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: takeaways in this game. Interesting though, that Judy thinks right

981
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: off the bat Trubisky is going to be starting. He might.

982
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: I'm not. It's not out of the realm of possibility.

983
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here and think and I know something.

984
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: That's because I know what it's like to be a

985
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 1: player who's not quite on a hundred percent and still

986
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: want to go. And if you know, if Josh tells

987
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: him I want to give it a shot, then there's

988
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: only there's only one place they go. They go to

989
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: the doctors and then and the trainers say, okay, what

990
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: about it? What's it? What's what are the risks here? Um?

991
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 1: And if they hear the right things, then they'll say okay, Josh,

992
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: you can go, or they'll say, you know what, We're

993
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: gonna shut you down for a week. Mitch, get in there.

994
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: You got that super important game next week against New England.

995
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not saying you don't need this one.

996
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: You do. You got to get an eighth win here.

997
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: But that game next week is basically divisions still a

998
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: division race still alive or division race dead. That's that's

999
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: what next week's games. So it's gonna be interesting to

1000
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: see how they strike a balance between playing Josh this

1001
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: week or not. We have to take a break because

1002
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: coming up next, we've got the Hall of Famer Thurman

1003
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: Thomas joining us. He's coming up next here on One

1004
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio

1005
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

1006
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1007
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

1008
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: in the stragedyre of normalcy here. Yeah, we don't strive

1009
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: to be normal here on this show. Welcome to a

1010
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: Thursday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1011
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,879
Speaker 1: with you, and joined as we are on Thursdays by

1012
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Thurman. Thomas THURMM. Glad to hear

1013
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: you're doing better. You were a little under the weather

1014
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: last week. So I don't know if you're wearing the

1015
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: same sweatshirt. I hope you did the laundry. My god. Um,

1016
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: but but you look you sound better, You sound better,

1017
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: so that's good. Um, I'm just busting. I'm just a yeah,

1018
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: oh god, I tell you different color. Yeah, I think

1019
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: I had on white last week. Okay, yeah, I'll tell

1020
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: you right now. I couldn't have gotten away with that

1021
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: as a young reporter when Thurman was still in the

1022
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 1: locker room. UM so I figured. I figured I tossed

1023
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: it out now before running for cover out of the tunnel.

1024
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: Um So I want to start here, Thurm, because a

1025
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: lot of fans, you know, last year at this time

1026
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: this team was ten and three. This year they are

1027
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,919
Speaker 1: seven and six after thirteen games played, and people are like, ah,

1028
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: we're not as good as we wear it last year.

1029
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: But I think the landscape of the conference is completely

1030
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: different to what it was last year. You got all

1031
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: these teams mashed together, just about every last one of

1032
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: them has warts, and so while the record may not

1033
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: look as good, I think you can argue the opportunity

1034
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: is almost as good as it was last year. I

1035
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: think that's a great argument too. I can tell you

1036
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: one thing right now. Yes, you know, with Cleveland, with Baltimore,

1037
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh still in and the Bengals are still in I

1038
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: mean Chicago, I mean Sandy, the LA Chargers in the

1039
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: Chiefs they played tonight, So yeah, I think the Bills

1040
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: are still right in it. And I can tell you

1041
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: one thing right now. If the Buffalo Bills give that

1042
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: second half performance like they did against Tampa Bay Sunday

1043
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year, these last four games, yeah,

1044
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: I think you will see a team that could make

1045
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: it to the AFC Championship Game again the coming up

1046
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: year and maybe possibly to the Super Bowl. That's the

1047
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: way that they need to play from here on out

1048
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: here on that. We've been saying it about everything. You know,

1049
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 1: if you want to throw Josh and at him out

1050
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: there and throw the ball fifty sixty times, you know what,

1051
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: let him do it. Let him do it. But one

1052
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: more thing to make sure Gabe Davis is on the

1053
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: football field. Please do that. I'm kind of injury was

1054
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: an injury with Emanuel Sanders, but just from the stats

1055
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: from last year, Gabe should be on the field a

1056
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: little bit more than what he has been. And I

1057
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: take that it takes an injury to Emmanuel to get

1058
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: this out there, to get Gabe out there now, but

1059
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: I think he proved himself last year that he deserves

1060
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: to be on the field a little bit more, even

1061
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: after the signing of Emanuel Sanders. Get this guy on

1062
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: the football field every single play. Obviously there's gonna be

1063
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 1: some times where he's got to come out like Steff

1064
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: Diggs and Cole Beasley do throughout the entire football game.

1065
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: But get this guy on the football field and let's go.

1066
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah the time, let's go the time for experimentations over right.

1067
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: I mean they've they've they've tried with the run game,

1068
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: They've tried to combinations and stuff that if they found

1069
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: what they can do well, which is Josh and throwing

1070
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: the football, they kind of need to stick with that

1071
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the seas. And it's interesting that

1072
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: you are campaigning for more playing time for Gabe Davis.

1073
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: Because of all people, we are bringing Gabe Davison, now

1074
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: fresh off the practice field, to join us here with

1075
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: Thurman and fresh off the field. Interviews are brought to

1076
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: you by Austin Air, the official clean air provider of

1077
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And you know, Thurm, we try to

1078
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: make you look good. I mean, that's really what we're

1079
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: here for. So we've got Gabe with us, I believe now,

1080
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: is that correct? All right? They're bringing them up right now,

1081
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: and Gabe expected obviously to play significantly more with Emmanuel

1082
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: Sanders status in doubt, and I think Gabe essentially showed

1083
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 1: you what he can offer when given more opportunities. Gabe,

1084
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 1: how are you doing? It's Chris Brown and Steve Tasker.

1085
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: We also have the Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas on

1086
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: with you. He was just campaigning for more playing time

1087
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: for you. So you've got you've got a Hall of

1088
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: Fame advocate. Does that feel It feels great? You know,

1089
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: just happy to get some opportunity to go out there

1090
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: and make some plays and I was able to do

1091
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: that last week. So hopefully we can just keep doing

1092
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: that and keep them forward, and it looks as though

1093
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is gonna be week to week, and I

1094
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: mean you're the next man up. You were the next

1095
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: man up in the Tampa Bay game. Does it give

1096
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: you a different sense of preparedness or a sense of,

1097
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of nerves that, yeah, this

1098
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be your week and it's gonna be your

1099
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: chance to get a lot more snaps than you have

1100
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: in the past a couple of months. Yeah. No, I

1101
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: prepare every single week as if I'm gonna be out

1102
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: there for dent of the plays, just to be ready

1103
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: just in case something like this does happen. So you know,

1104
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: preparing and everything else is all the same. But um,

1105
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, just ready to start this week strong and

1106
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: at the end of the week hopefully come out with

1107
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: a women Thurman, you got a question for Gabe you

1108
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: want to fire at him from either last week's game

1109
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: or going forward here. Yeah, I was just saying how

1110
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: it is remarkable to see a young man come out

1111
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: in a second year, but also how do you go

1112
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: about winning the game? Because we say that last week

1113
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: that you're one of the most physical wide receivers on

1114
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: this Book football team, probably the most physical, are they?

1115
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: Brian Day will love having you in those situations where

1116
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: you're right there in the middle of the having the

1117
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: block maybe a lineback or safety. How do you enjoy that? So?

1118
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 1: I enjoy, you know. I try to do with whatever

1119
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: I can for the team. When I was younger, I

1120
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: always understood how important blocking was, and I always trying

1121
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: to bring that to my game because I'm a bigger, physical,

1122
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: more receiver. I'm not a you know, one of these smaller, quicker,

1123
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: faster guys. I'm more after bring my strong attributes to

1124
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: the game, which is being strong, being physical, doing the

1125
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: dirty words sometimes and just keep trying to take pride

1126
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: in that stuff to know that I'm a team player.

1127
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: I can't do whatever it is to win. So, Gabe,

1128
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: how do you look at you know, this matchup with

1129
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: the Panther is because they do have a pretty accomplished

1130
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: pass defenses. I'm sure you already know through your film

1131
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: study through the course of the week. And yet their

1132
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: run defense, you know, has had its share of problems,

1133
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: particularly of late. They give up one hundred and ninety

1134
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 1: yards on the ground to Washington a couple of weeks ago.

1135
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta, who doesn't even run the ball well

1136
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: put up one hundred and twenty eight on him last week.

1137
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: It kind of makes us wonder what Brian Dable might

1138
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: be thinking going into this game. I mean, I know

1139
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: you're a pretty dang good run blocker as a receiver yourself.

1140
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: It kind of be nice to get some of those

1141
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: guys going on Sunday. Oh, of course when everybody eat

1142
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: when it comes to these games. But again, watching Carolina

1143
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: on tape, you know they're really fast defense. They move

1144
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: around that you can tell they love to play football.

1145
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: They love the physicality, love to hit. They want to

1146
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: go out there and win every single play. And that's

1147
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: what we're ready for. These guys are this is a

1148
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: great team, are about to go agains, a great defense

1149
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: about to go against got a lot of respects especially,

1150
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: you know for all eleven outs there. So we're just

1151
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: ready to go out there and come compet. Don't send

1152
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: this What do you think about how difficult it's going

1153
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: to be to prepare for this when Josh is probably

1154
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent doesn't take the reps. You maybe

1155
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: switching back and forth and back and forth between taking

1156
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: reps with Mitch and with Josh. What kind of atmosphere

1157
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: does it, What kind of problems does it present when

1158
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: you're starting quarterback? May not be one hundred percent. Um,

1159
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, I got faith in all my guys, whether

1160
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: it's Josh back there, whether it's Mensa, I never gonna

1161
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: go out there. We're gonna execute. He prepared as well. Um,

1162
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: he watches you know, seventeen from as well when it

1163
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: comes to the practice lefts and I feel like he'll

1164
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: be ready to go out there and make some play.

1165
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: So whoever's out there on Sunday and whoever plays, I

1166
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: know they'll go out there to execute everything, to play

1167
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: as best as they can and it'll be great to watch.

1168
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Derman, you got another one for Gabe? Or yeah, Gabe,

1169
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,919
Speaker 1: now that you know that you're probably gonna be starting here,

1170
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: you know this week, probably the following week. Or were

1171
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: you do anything different when your schedule knowing that you're

1172
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: going to be out there with the first team all

1173
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: the time and not coming up on the sideline. Um,

1174
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: Like I like I said before, UM, you know, I

1175
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: prepare the same as if I'm always going to be

1176
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: in that game one hundred percent of the time. Um,

1177
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: I can feeling for any single spot, whether if it

1178
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: was that X, Y Z or F. So I try

1179
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: to make sure I'm always ready because I got a

1180
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: lot of guys that have to back up and have

1181
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: to know everything that goes out out there on the field.

1182
01:00:58,240 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: So each week is always the same when it comes

1183
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: to ration, you know, just always staying dialed in that

1184
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: playbook and knowing what's going on, just to be able

1185
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: to remember everything. And then Gabe, just in the event

1186
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: that Mitch is out there with you guys on Sunday

1187
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, maybe just share with

1188
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: the fans in your time around him. You know what

1189
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: he's like on the field, what he's like in the huddle,

1190
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: just in the times that you've been around him here

1191
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: through the course of this season, so they kind of

1192
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: know what to expect from him. Yeah, I mean, Mitch

1193
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: has no nerves. I mean we've seen that when it

1194
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: came to us playing Chicago in the preseason game, when

1195
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: he got a lot of his opportunities to go out

1196
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: there and play. You know, he's real calm. He seems

1197
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: composed when he's in the huddle, when he's in the pocket,

1198
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: he's ready to throw the ball. You know, he's ready again,

1199
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: he's ready to execute, and I feel like this guy's

1200
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: gonna be great if fans up stepping out on that

1201
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: field and happy to be playing aside of him. What

1202
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: was the difference in the second half of the Tampa

1203
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: Bay game. I just think we had a great We

1204
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: had a great talk at halftime, you know, and we

1205
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: kind of pulled together realize what kind of team we were,

1206
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: and we just went out there next. Um, not really

1207
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: much to it. You know, there's sometimes we have your

1208
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: hiccups in the first half, and we realized that and

1209
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: we owned it and we came out and we just

1210
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: started playing our ball. Came out there and I wanted

1211
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: to win, and we saw that driving that fight in

1212
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: this team. I'm proud of the guys and this is

1213
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: definitely a team I want to be a part of

1214
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: because that showed, you know, we can handle adversity and again,

1215
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: you know, just have to be part of a team

1216
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:26,919
Speaker 1: and no, we can continue to grow. Has there still

1217
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: been some excitement around knowing that you guys are still

1218
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: in it, you guys are in the seventh seat right now.

1219
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: How has practice been the past two days? Because I mean,

1220
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: obviously coming off a deva stating loss like against Sampa Bay.

1221
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: But how do you continue that trend that you had

1222
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: in the second half being aggressive? You know, how are

1223
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: the players in the first couple of practice this week.

1224
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: How have they been? Is it like, hey, this is

1225
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 1: we're still in this and this is still in our

1226
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: time exactly. I mean you set a standard, right, We

1227
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: set a standard that second half and that's how we

1228
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: played football and that's what we plan on bringing in

1229
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. You know, when you

1230
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: do something that big and such a little time like

1231
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: we did, um, you understand that you can do it.

1232
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: You just have to put it all together, come together

1233
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: and keep executing. And that's our biggest thing is this execution.

1234
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: So we go out here every single day, focus on

1235
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: our details, execute those details at a high level, and

1236
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: be ready to go out there and compete. You know,

1237
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: we play this game for a long time. We love

1238
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: this game. We love being around the guys, and I

1239
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: love the players on what I want to fight for

1240
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: them and know that they can depend on me when

1241
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:24,479
Speaker 1: it comes to those hard times and I can depend

1242
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: on them. Jordan Poyter said the same thing, So just

1243
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that we can lean on each other

1244
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: to be successful this year. Gabe, thanks very much for

1245
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: the time. Good luck you got thermin all fired up.

1246
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: Look at this. Thanks for the time, Gabe. Good luck

1247
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: showing up and showing out on Sunday. And you're my

1248
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: wife's favorite player, so keep scoring touchdowns, all right, Yes, sir, Hey,

1249
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for having me on the show.

1250
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: All right, that's Gabe Davids joining us here, a fresh

1251
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: off the field, brought to you by Austin Air, the

1252
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: official clean air provider of the Buffalo Bills. Therm he's got.

1253
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: He put a charge in your therm. He put a

1254
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: charge into me. Man. I'm ready to go. I mean

1255
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: the game is not until Sunday. I might now, I'll

1256
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: just wait until Sunday. No, I just think that. You know,

1257
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: you see a guy right there, a young guy who

1258
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: is in his second year that obviously believes in his teammates.

1259
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: And you know hear him said something about Jordan pol

1260
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, being a pro and saying the right things.

1261
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said earlier, you know these

1262
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: guys are still in it. They're at the number seven seed.

1263
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: But where things happened the way they have this year,

1264
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: I mean they can bounce up the number five seed

1265
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: or number four seeds, So it's still out there for

1266
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: the guys, and I'm glad Gabe came on and had

1267
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show, you know, the joy and how

1268
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: these guys are taking this game coming up against Carolina,

1269
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: because it's definitely important. Thurm. We were talking a little earlier,

1270
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty nine when this team. The year

1271
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: after this team went to its first AFC Championship game,

1272
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: we came out, we struggled and flopped around a little bit.

1273
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: In eighty nine, got into the playoffs, and the last

1274
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: month of that eighty nine season before we went into

1275
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety season and some things changed for that team.

1276
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: We lost in the first round of the Cleveland Browns

1277
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: and we were talking about, you know, Ronnie Harmon dropping

1278
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: that corner route and the game got away from us.

1279
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: A fantastic game, But something happened at the end of

1280
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine that were some sort of light switch

1281
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 1: went off for that team, and we carried it over

1282
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: into nineteen ninety. You were there and I talked about it,

1283
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: tried to articulate, you know, there was a change in

1284
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: that team from the bickering Bills to the four Super

1285
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: Bowl AFC champion Buffalo Bills. How do you articulate that

1286
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: and what happened during the eighty nine At the end

1287
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: of that eighty nine season, Well, I think as a team,

1288
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of looked at each other and

1289
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: we're like, you know what, we got superstars on offense,

1290
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: we got superstars on defense, we got superstars that are

1291
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: special teamers, and we all put this together. How great

1292
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: can we be? And I think after that game, when

1293
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: I look back at the highlights of that Cleveland game,

1294
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: you know, the last way of the game, you know,

1295
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 1: they showed the guys holding hands on the sideline. I

1296
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 1: vividly remember that, and it was something that I always

1297
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: had a fresh memory in my mind that, you know what,

1298
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: this team needs to be better, this team can be better.

1299
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: And I think definitely going into that offseason and coming

1300
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: into training camp, I think guys were determined, you know what,

1301
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: we do have a good football team. We have a

1302
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 1: good football team, but we can have a great football

1303
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: team if we just go out and play. And I

1304
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: think throughout that entire year, man, what did we go

1305
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: thirteen and three something like that, And it was just

1306
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: a coming together for a lot of guys that guys

1307
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: were happy, Guys were happy to come to practice, guys

1308
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: were happy. I was happy to go against Corneia's been

1309
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: and then Daryl tally And and Shane Colin, you know,

1310
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: through training camp because I wanted to be a better player,

1311
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: and that happened, man, and you saw we were thirteen

1312
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: and three. Obviously got to the super Bowl and lost.

1313
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:01,439
Speaker 1: But you know, I think at that point in time,

1314
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: you know, we had to say, you know what, let's

1315
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: stop the bickering. We know Jim Kelly as a quarterback,

1316
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: He's going to get every single endorsement deal that's going

1317
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: to come this way. He's gonna go to Jim Kelly first.

1318
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: You know what if I would be the third or

1319
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: the fourth person to get a deal, fine, whatever, We're

1320
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: still a team. And we went out and we proved

1321
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: him on a much lower and less overarching level. This

1322
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: offense has come out and sputtered early in games the

1323
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: last few weeks. What in your guys experience when you

1324
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: went through those kinds of weeks, moments, games, how did

1325
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:42,919
Speaker 1: you guys kind of shake out of those kinds of things.

1326
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs mentioned last week, maybe simplifying things a little bit.

1327
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: That didn't seem to do the trick last week. So

1328
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: how do you kind of shake out of that stuff

1329
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 1: so instead of just playing a half of really good football,

1330
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: you can play sixty minutes. Well, I think it was

1331
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: much easy for us because we didn't really have an

1332
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: extensive um offensive setting like they have today with all

1333
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: emotion and everything, and we just basically got back to basics. Man.

1334
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: You know, people we always you know, you can probably

1335
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 1: have fifty players going into a football game. We might

1336
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 1: only run ten to fifteen of them throughout an entire

1337
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: football game. But we did what we did best, and

1338
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: that would be kind of fifty one pass forty nine rushing.

1339
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:32,760
Speaker 1: But even if you took away some of all of that,

1340
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 1: you know what, we still had the capabilities of running

1341
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 1: the football and passing the football with Jim Kelly being

1342
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: our quarterback. So you know what, there were just the

1343
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 1: time of mixtures of where you know, things weren't going

1344
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,759
Speaker 1: well for us, but we were such a talented football

1345
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: team and we were we were driven to be great

1346
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: that it really didn't matter what the situation was. If

1347
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, there were some hard fart games against New

1348
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: England Patriots up in Sullivan Old Sullivan Stadium. You know,

1349
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: fourteen thirty team game, seventeen thirteen game when we were

1350
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 1: probably should have beat him by at least twenty thirty points.

1351
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 1: So as as an offense, yes, we struggled at times,

1352
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: but we always know that we were capable of breaking

1353
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: out of a software soon. All Right, I gotta ask

1354
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: you this too, and this will be a further illustration

1355
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 1: of what we're talking about. How the you know, the

1356
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: emotional and the team consciousness kind of can carry him

1357
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 1: through some tough times. Let's think today we just found

1358
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: out Urban Meyer down in Jacksonville got fired. Right, So

1359
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: I've said this a couple of times on this show.

1360
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter about Urban now he's out of the picture.

1361
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, think about this them. How

1362
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 1: different is that locker room this morning than it was

1363
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,560
Speaker 1: yesterday morning? And how is that going to affect the

1364
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: way that Jacksonville Jaguars take the field on Sunday this

1365
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 1: week with all of this in their rear view mirror?

1366
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: What do you And that's how much it's gonna be

1367
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 1: different for this team and how it can be eight

1368
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: for everyday. Right, let me explain what I'm talking about,

1369
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: all right, I guarantee Trevor Lawrence pilot throw for five

1370
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Yeah, and they'll probably I don't even know

1371
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: who they play, but I guarantee you will see a

1372
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: different atmosphere, you're a different seal, difference in their body

1373
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: language when they're out on the football field. It'll start

1374
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: in warmups. It probably has already started in practice today

1375
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: because I think that's how much of a weight that's

1376
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: been lifted off that organization and that players From the

1377
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: day that Urban Myers signed with the Jacksonville Jaguar. It's

1378
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:25,719
Speaker 1: been constant, constant chaos all the way up until this point.

1379
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: And I guarantee that the players were sick of it,

1380
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: sick of hearing about it. They wanted to go out

1381
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: and play football. They wanted to go out and see

1382
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, hey, look, we're preparing for next year. You

1383
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: know what do we need to make Trevor Lawrence a

1384
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: better quarterback? What do we need to have our defense

1385
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: play better? Do we have the right defensive coordinator? Who's

1386
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: gonna be our next head coach? Well, you know what,

1387
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,600
Speaker 1: whatever head coach it is that they're gonna hire for

1388
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 1: next year, these players are thinking right now where you

1389
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 1: know what, these last four games, I'm gonna be on

1390
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: film and I'm gonna get myself noticed as an individual.

1391
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 1: You don't like to say everything about individual, but this team,

1392
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: I guarantee you this team is thinking about playing better

1393
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: from here on out. Because the next coach that comes in,

1394
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,799
Speaker 1: he's gonna look at that film. He's gonna see who's

1395
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: playing and who's happening, who's having fun. So I can

1396
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: guarantee you can see a different Jacksonville Jaguar team the

1397
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: last side for the season. Yeah, the Jags are playing

1398
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: in the Houston Texans, so they got a good shot

1399
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: this week. They got a great shot at that. You know,

1400
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because urban Meyer was fired there and everybody,

1401
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: and as it gets further into the rearview mirror, it'll

1402
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: be well, he was two and eleven. He was fired

1403
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 1: at He didn't get fired because they're two and eleven.

1404
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: They weren't supposed to be that much better. He got

1405
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: fired because he was a jerk. Because yeah, because there

1406
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 1: was a toxic work atmosphere, because he was doing stuff

1407
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: that was off the wall that he was Stories were

1408
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: coming out coming out about him that were unacceptable. Two

1409
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: and eleven didn't get him fired. All the other stuff

1410
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: got him fired. All the off the field stuff got

1411
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 1: him fired. And reading about the kicker who's eddy kicked

1412
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: them the other when they were in training camp or whatever.

1413
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it just sometimes bugs me that, you know,

1414
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: you have a guy who has done well in college

1415
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: and you think that he can translate that and bring

1416
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: it to the National Football League. Saban tried to do it,

1417
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: couldn't do it, couldn't do it, and to go back

1418
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: to college. Yeah, this is kind of a black eye

1419
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars to do this because you got

1420
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 1: a great coach and a lot of people have mentioned

1421
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,560
Speaker 1: his name is Jim Cardwell still out there, still a

1422
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: great hip football coach and deserves another opportunity. I'm just

1423
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: throwing that name out there because that's what I've been

1424
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:40,560
Speaker 1: reading since urban been fired. So yeah, but I do

1425
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:43,639
Speaker 1: expect the players to, you know, play these last four

1426
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: games and not have that cloud over the head. Yeah.

1427
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: I also heard Brian Dable's name mentioned in throwing it

1428
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:50,760
Speaker 1: in there for the Jacksonville job, because I got a

1429
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 1: young quarterback down there. Brian Dabole has done wonders with

1430
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and he's worked with you know, Bill Belichick,

1431
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, all the you know, he's got to read

1432
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: high level resume for the people he's worked for and

1433
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: done extremely had some a lot of success with. So yeah, well,

1434
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:08,680
Speaker 1: let's see that resume get a little bit better for

1435
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 1: the last four games. Yeah, I'm not even Yeah, let's

1436
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: see that resume come through gun to light. He's lads

1437
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: four games and into the playoffs. That's a good one.

1438
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: I love when I love when Thurman gets all selfish

1439
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,639
Speaker 1: with that, with Bill's stuff. That's great, Thurman, thanks as

1440
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 1: always for the time. Glad you're feeling better. Hopefully we're

1441
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: all feeling better on Monday after a victory. We'll catch

1442
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 1: up with you next week. All right, guys, that's Hall

1443
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: of Famer Thurman Thomas joining us here on one Bill's Live,

1444
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: and it's funny. He's right, You're right. We hope, Brian

1445
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: dab I love when the fan comes out of them.

1446
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: Love it. Bill's finished this season strong. You hope. They

1447
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: can't wait. People can't wait to get their hands on

1448
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: day Ball. And there was that interesting memo given to

1449
01:13:55,320 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: the owners about proposed changes in the hiring process where

1450
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:04,919
Speaker 1: you could interview people before the playoffs even begin, provided

1451
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:09,839
Speaker 1: you have a vacancy number one, and then you interview

1452
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: a sufficient number of outside minority candidates in addition to

1453
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: whoever else might be on your proposed candidate list. So

1454
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: they're supposed to vote on that at the owner's meetings.

1455
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: We'll have to see. I didn't check to see if

1456
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 1: there are any reports out on that as to whether

1457
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: it was approved, So be interesting to see where that

1458
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: goes and how it impacts the offseason hiring process. Knowing

1459
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 1: that both Leslie Fraser and Brian Dabe will figure to

1460
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: be in some candidate pools, I already saw Leslie Frasier's

1461
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: name raised as a possible replacement for Matt Naggie, who

1462
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: a lot of Chicago reporters believe is going to get

1463
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: the axe after this season. Leslie. That makes a lot

1464
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:47,760
Speaker 1: of sense for Leslie Fraser because he was an eighty

1465
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: member of the eighty five Bears, that great defense. He's

1466
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: had stints as a head coach before with the Minnesota Vikings,

1467
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: and although it was short lived and then he's had

1468
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: he's garnered nothing but respect around the National Football League.

1469
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: Even before he became the defensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills,

1470
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, I could see that for the Chicago Bears.

1471
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: Interesting the Dabel's names coming up in Jacksonville as well,

1472
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: So it's something that we're gonna have to keep an

1473
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 1: eye on once Buffalo season is over. For sure. I

1474
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: think most of us are surprised these guys are still

1475
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 1: coaching on the Buffalo sidelines. The Bills this year are

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01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: essentially playing with house money with those two guys still

1477
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 1: on the staff. We have to take a break, but

1478
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll try to get to some

1479
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: of your phone calls, your thoughts on the tweet sheet

1480
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: as well. Here on one Bill's line, presented by Kalida Health,

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01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Buffalo Bills would like to thank

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01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: this week's game sponsor, Independent Health. You deserve the red

1483
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: shirt treatment not wearing a red shirt today, and neither

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Speaker 1: is Steve. But you don't work for Independent Health, so

1485
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: I guess that's okay. We wanted to get back to

1486
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: the phones. They had a couple of people waiting patiently

1487
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: there and we begin with Tom and north Tonawanda. What

1488
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Tom? Yes, I like to

1489
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: shure I thought I had thanks for taking my call, gentlemen.

1490
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 1: During the Super Bowl years of the nineties, I believe

1491
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 1: one of those years we made the Big Dance by

1492
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: what being a wildcard team, And like Thurvan just said,

1493
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the eighty nine season, the guys

1494
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 1: put everything together and they went into the nineties. Was

1495
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: a lot of talents and with a great coaching staff,

1496
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: and I can foresee that happening this year. Just like

1497
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: to get your thought on it. Yeah, yeah, maybe one

1498
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: or two of the Super Bowls we had home field

1499
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 1: throughout and had a bye week. I don't think we

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01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: did play. I think we played in wildcard round at

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01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: least one of them, maybe two. Well, the year you

1502
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 1: beat the Oilers in the comeback game, you were that

1503
01:16:57,160 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 1: was a wild right, And I think the year we

1504
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: went to Miami for the champion Ship Game, we were

1505
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,679
Speaker 1: also in the first round of the playoffs. Yeah, whether

1506
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: we were, we weren't. The division were, so yeah, that

1507
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: would have been a while to go down there and

1508
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:09,639
Speaker 1: beat the fourth year. So the third and fourth years

1509
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: we were not, didn't have home field and didn't have

1510
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: a buy so yeah, it's yeah, it's certainly possible. Yeah,

1511
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: and that may very well be the route they have

1512
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: to travel, especially if they're not fortunate enough to beat

1513
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots and split with them. Because you don't beat

1514
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 1: the Patriots a week from Sunday, the division is out

1515
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: of the picture. Now you're just competing for a wildcard

1516
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,480
Speaker 1: spot and that could get tricky with all the tiebreakers

1517
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: tied to that and all the teams you could be

1518
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 1: in a pool with it. It's a dangerous game you'll

1519
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 1: be playing at that point in time. That's what makes

1520
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: the game next week in New England so important because

1521
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: it at least leaves the door open to the division title,

1522
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 1: although it's even after that not a certainty by any means.

1523
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: We go to the tweet sheet, now brought to you

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01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:57,800
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

1525
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. What will be a key to a

1526
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: Bill's victory over the Panthers? Nick says, the defense needs

1527
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: to shut down Carolina's offense like they have all year

1528
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: when playing backup quarterbacks. If we can do that, we

1529
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 1: won't need to rely on Josh playing an elite physical game,

1530
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: which yeah, I can buy, and the and the Bill's

1531
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: defense has feasted on Subpark quarterbacks. Davis Mills. I think

1532
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,759
Speaker 1: it was making a second career start here in Buffalo

1533
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: in week four. Taylor Heineke is another. So I mean

1534
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: you can run down the list of quarterbacks that they've

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01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: been able to face. They basically knocked two out of

1536
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,799
Speaker 1: the game in week two and played a backup quarterback

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01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: in Jacoby Brissette for more than three quarters of that

1538
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 1: game back in week two. So yeah, they've had their

1539
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: success and feasted. And even the game they lost Jacksonville,

1540
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:49,599
Speaker 1: I mean they got nine points out of that game.

1541
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's we'll see Jack on the tweet sheets says,

1542
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: who's the quarterback of the Saints. It was Trevor Simeon. Yeah,

1543
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:04,560
Speaker 1: that's another one, so six points there. Yeah, Jack on

1544
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, let Josh Cook get Davis and

1545
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: Diggs involved early and often, and don't let Newton get comfy.

1546
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: If they can contain Hubbard and confuse Newton, I'm confident

1547
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:17,680
Speaker 1: our decon get the job done. But they just need

1548
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: to stay aggressive on offense, block and Chip Burns. He's

1549
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 1: talking about Brian Burns, the pass rusher, to allow Alan

1550
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 1: time to find his weapons. The real concern is a

1551
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: son Reddick ten and a half sacks for him, he's

1552
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:31,800
Speaker 1: the guy off the edge you gotta worry about. And

1553
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: this is a fast defense. I mean, Gabriel Davis is correct.

1554
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: They put speed all over the field. Actually, Matt Rule,

1555
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: just the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, just had

1556
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:47,720
Speaker 1: a conference call with the Buffalo media earlier today and

1557
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 1: he kind of explained what they want their build to

1558
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:54,519
Speaker 1: be like there in Carolina, and he said, we're trying

1559
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: to build a big, fast, athletic, tough defense. We're in

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01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: our second year. We're in the top five of most

1561
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: categories defensively. We got here and there weren't many guys left.

1562
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,680
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, Vernon Butler had left, a lot of guys

1563
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 1: had left the defense, so we started over. We have

1564
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 1: a template in our mind of the athleticism and size

1565
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 1: we want. All that being said, there's always room for

1566
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: great football players. So you know, if there's a great

1567
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: football player on the board staring them in the face,

1568
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,519
Speaker 1: then he's not maybe as athletic as they would like.

1569
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 1: They'll make an exception or probably the size a little

1570
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: bit like the Ed Oliver comparison, where he doesn't have

1571
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: all the physical size traits, but the explosion, explosion and

1572
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 1: the athleticism is off the charts where his size is

1573
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 1: not always room for good football players. Now, sometimes it works,

1574
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't, but that's what he's talking about. When

1575
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: there's always room for good football players, that means they're

1576
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:55,599
Speaker 1: willing to go outside those parameters for a special guy, right.

1577
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: But when it's built on speed, it means they probably

1578
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: want to take a similar approach to what they've done

1579
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, which is stop the pass, and they've

1580
01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: been successful doing that. They are number one in the

1581
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 1: league in pass defense. The Bills are number two, And

1582
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: they are two defenses that to a great degree, especially

1583
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: in the back seven, that are predicated on speed, getting

1584
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,479
Speaker 1: speed athletes on the field so they can cover ground

1585
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 1: and you know, knock passes down, pick them off whatever. Yeah,

1586
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: that's almost universal though. Speed is day and age, and

1587
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: this speed is the one ticket that will buy you

1588
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: another opportunity if indeed it doesn't work out with whatever

1589
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 1: team you're on. It gets you in the door and

1590
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,639
Speaker 1: it keeps you round. Buddy on the tweet sheet says,

1591
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 1: a consistent effort should get the job done. But for

1592
01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the coaching staff can't seem to get that

1593
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: out of this team. A sixty minute game has been

1594
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: hard to nail down for this team this season, and

1595
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a big reason why they have a

1596
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:03,519
Speaker 1: seven and six record. I really wonder, too, if there's

1597
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: an underlying current of we like where the Chiefs were

1598
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 1: a year ago. They didn't even shift gears through the

1599
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 1: regular season differences they kept winning though they kept that's

1600
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 1: the difference. Oh, that's yeah, there's yes, that's a that's true.

1601
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:18,800
Speaker 1: But I still don't think this is a team that

1602
01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 1: believes it's going to be out of the playoffs, particularly

1603
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: with seven teams in, except when you look around, there's

1604
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: just too many teams that are also winning games. So yeah,

1605
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: it's not like you got a three game lead on

1606
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: the rest of its exactly got people breathing down your neck,

1607
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: It's exactly right. And the and the Chiefs last year

1608
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: they weren't even They didn't break a sweat on the

1609
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 1: way to the playoffs. Now this but I get the

1610
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: sense that's kind of where this Bills team finds itself.

1611
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: Say listen, we're better than all these teams. Let's just

1612
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 1: get this thing started, and we want to go to

1613
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now, if they can flip the switch and

1614
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:47,600
Speaker 1: start playing like they did in the second half of

1615
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: that Tampa game, because that game looked like it was

1616
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: going embarrassingly bad. Yeah, I'm just hoping that that's not

1617
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: fools Gold, you know what I mean. I really hope

1618
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: they can get it together here because they're run out

1619
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: of time and there's too many other teams in the pool.

1620
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm worried. I'm a little worried, like they should handle

1621
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 1: this game no problem. Obviously, next week is gigantic day

1622
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: after Christmas. But we have not seen how many times,

1623
01:23:15,479 --> 01:23:17,560
Speaker 1: Steve do we come on this show and say we

1624
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: still haven't seen the Bills play their best game of

1625
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 1: the season yet. I mean it's thirteen games in. We're

1626
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:24,240
Speaker 1: still saying that. Yeah. They That troubles me. They've never

1627
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: looked in they stretch, well, they looked like that in

1628
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: the second half of the Tampa game. It's still not

1629
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 1: a whole game, right, they look like that. That's the

1630
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of the first you've seen of it. But yeah,

1631
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: they they have not looked as good or sharp as that.

1632
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that sits in the back of

1633
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 1: my head. But I do think it's most of the

1634
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 1: problem is between their ears. Josh's foot aside and tradevious

1635
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 1: White's knee aside. Most of the problem is between their ears.

1636
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: Edward on the tweet sheet says, offensive line has to

1637
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: show up, get some nasty going on. I don't care

1638
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: if the line coach has to walk by and slap

1639
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: them all in the mouth. I have to stop playing soft,

1640
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: says Edward, tired of the week O line play get

1641
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 1: it together boys. Wow, that's some tough love there. Don't

1642
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: sugarcoat it. Ed he he didn't tell us how. He

1643
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: really did not at all, but taking the urban Meyer approach,

1644
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: apparently circling the West. Still circling the wagons, says Bills

1645
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: need to convert on third down. In their seven wins.

1646
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:27,600
Speaker 1: The Bills have converted fifty two point four percent in

1647
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: their six losses thirty nine percent. I'm gonna tell still

1648
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: circling the wagons. Listen to our podcast this week called

1649
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:37,679
Speaker 1: on Bills by the Numbers. It'll be out later today.

1650
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: We cover this exact subject on there in these three things,

1651
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: I was told there'd be no math. Fifty two point

1652
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: four percent in their wins, thirty nine percent in their losses.

1653
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: Yea and in their last two games on third down,

1654
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: the Bills are six for twenty six. Yeah, and it's

1655
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 1: due in large part to the fact that they've put

1656
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 1: themselves in third and long situations. We took a deeper

1657
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 1: dive into that in our Bills by the Numbers podcast.

1658
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 1: Will be sure to check that out because it is very,

1659
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:09,040
Speaker 1: very telling. JT on the tweet sheet says, let Josh

1660
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: Allen do his thing, flying it all over the yard.

1661
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: We need to get off to a quick start and

1662
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: keep the tempo going for four quarters. Also send the

1663
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: blitz and get Cam confused early in four's turnovers? Do

1664
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:22,960
Speaker 1: we rest Josh for the Pats game though? Instead? Either

1665
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: way it's a must win, it's get That is the

1666
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 1: sixty four million dollar question this week? Is it not?

1667
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 1: The only way these games, none of these games are

1668
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: must wins, is if if something happens to the Patriots

1669
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: and that's not gonna We've seen that too many times.

1670
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: That's got a big game against the Colts Saturday night.

1671
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: We'll all be able to watch that one on NFL Network.

1672
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 1: They could, I mean, they could go in Indianapolis and

1673
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: struggle wouldn't mind stub That'd be huge, But you can't

1674
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: count on that all these games are must win. You

1675
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: got to take care of your own business instead of

1676
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: help hoping for help and have other people will take

1677
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: care of your business for you. And you're running out

1678
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,160
Speaker 1: of opportunities to do that. So it starts on Sunday.

1679
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here. When we come back,

1680
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 1: Steve and I will close up the shop in preparation

1681
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: for Friday show. We'll get back in a second here

1682
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with you, just

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Speaker 1: about ready to close it up for a Thursday edition.

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01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:40,879
Speaker 1: And it continues for the Cleveland Browns Ronnie Harrison Junior.

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01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:45,519
Speaker 1: Their safety now going on COVID reserve list. I believe

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01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: they're in the high teens for a number of players

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01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: on the COVID reserve list. Whether they can get them

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01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: out of that designation and available and on the field

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01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,639
Speaker 1: is going to be predicated on back to back negative

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01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:02,639
Speaker 1: COVID tests in a twenty hour period. And it's already Thursday.

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01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 1: Time is running out. This is I think it's maybe

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01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. I mean, right that they get down

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01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: to a level where the league doesn't want to postpone

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01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Well, they're

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01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: already talking about changing the rules where asymptomatic players can play,

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01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: because a lot of these guys apparently are asymptomatic from

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01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: the reports we've heard. Seahawks just put Tyler Lockett and

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01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 1: Alex Collins on the COVID reserve list today their chances

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01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: are playing remote. Bengals just put cornerback Chadobeo Woozy on reserve.

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01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: Not that it matters at all, because it doesn't. But

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01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: why do you think all of a sudden this week

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01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 1: all over the league? What happened? It's hard to say,

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01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:51,639
Speaker 1: but I think the Omicron variant went from not being

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01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: in this country two weeks ago to now being in

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01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: thirty three states. It's twice as transmissible as the Delta variant,

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01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: which was running rough shots through this country. So now

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01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 1: O Macron is suddenly in thirty three states. The infection

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01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: rate in New York is thirteen and a half percent.

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01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: I mean New York was New York City was doing great.

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01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: Like with the Delta variant, they were unaffected. They had

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01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: strict rules in place down there. You got to show

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01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 1: your VAX card to get in a restaurant wearing masks

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01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: indoors a month ago. I mean, it was fantastic down there.

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01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:23,839
Speaker 1: They were doing a great job, and then this omicron

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01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:27,600
Speaker 1: variant comes through their airports. Look out thirteen and a

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01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 1: half percent infection rate with people doing the right thing

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01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: in New York City for the most part, So you

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01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: know that it's so the rest of the country good luck.

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01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the Browns just signed quarterback quarterback Nick Mullins

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01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 1: to the active roster because Baker Mayfield's on the COVID list,

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01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 1: like they need quarterbacks, they don't have a head coach,

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01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 1: and it's the last month of the season win and

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01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 1: they're in a playoff race. You know, think about, how

1725
01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 1: do you say we talk about these games being must wins.

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01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: If it comes, if it sweeps through your locker room,

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01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 1: you're done because you got to win this game. Got

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01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,920
Speaker 1: nobody to play. The other news, Lamar Jackson did not

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01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 1: practice today. Not looking good for him to play on Sunday.

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01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes. Some interesting developments around the league,

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01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: not just with COVID reserve but injuries as well, including

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01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 1: the quarterback in the Baltimore, in Baltimore, and the quarterback

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Speaker 1: right here, we'll obviously know a lot more. Tomorrow, we'll

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Speaker 1: see you, then join us at one