Speaker 1: It's another playoff edition of Bills by the Numbers where
Speaker 1: we let the stats tell you where the Bills are at.
Speaker 1: We're presented by fan who will make every moment more
Speaker 1: coming up. Why do the analytics people have this as
Speaker 1: another coin flip game for the Bills despite being on
Speaker 1: the road against the top seed in the AFC. Can
Speaker 1: Buffalo's run game have more success against the league's second
Speaker 1: rank run defense? And we'll have our one burning question.
Speaker 1: Let's kick it off now. Glad you joined us here
Speaker 1: on Bills by the Numbers. He is Bill Ball of
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Speaker 1: and it's another playoff week for the Bills. After their
Speaker 1: narrow victory at Jacksonville last week. Josh Allen was masterful
Speaker 1: and the defense was opportunistic with a pair of takeaways
Speaker 1: off Trevor Lawrence. Things get real now, though, as Buffalo
Speaker 1: travels to face a BRONC team in Denver that has
Speaker 1: been lying in wait on the buy as the top
Speaker 1: seed in the conference. Add in the fact that it's
Speaker 1: a short week with the game on Saturday, and you
Speaker 1: would think Denver would be heavily favored. But as we
Speaker 1: begin these three things. We see that the oddsmakers have
Speaker 1: this as a close game, and even those in the
Speaker 1: analytics world essentially see this as a coin flip game.
Speaker 1: ESPN Analytics projects the Broncos is having a fifty one
Speaker 1: percent chance to win the game and the Bills at
Speaker 1: forty nine percent. So thing number one, do your eyeballs
Speaker 1: tell you that it's a coin flip game, Steve? And
Speaker 1: if so, why yeah, they do. Because you got a
Speaker 1: really good team playing at home. They've got an excellent defense.
Speaker 1: The game is going to be a close game. You
Speaker 1: can just you can feel by the matchup and the
Speaker 1: quality of the players on both sides. They've got a
Speaker 1: bye week, They're going to be healthier and fresher, playing
Speaker 1: at home in a raucous playoff crowd that all goes
Speaker 1: on in their favor. The Bills are coming in on
Speaker 1: a little bit of a roll, coming off a very
Speaker 1: hot win, beating a very hot team in Jacksonville. We've
Speaker 1: got the best player in football on their team, the
Speaker 1: best running attack in the league, and they came through
Speaker 1: a much more difficult schedule than the Broncos had to endure. Now,
Speaker 1: the Broncos won those games and bless their hearts. They
Speaker 1: did good, but the Bills have been tested. They've been
Speaker 1: in a lot of close games and they've gotten hit
Speaker 1: in the mouth a ton. That's why they're a little
Speaker 1: bit battered coming into this game. But they've got experience.
Speaker 1: They're a veteran ball club, particularly on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is big, physical, They're gonna hang in there.
Speaker 1: So that's why it's a coin flip game. And the Broncos,
Speaker 1: even if you don't like their offense, this is the
Speaker 1: kind of team that's built. Like teams this year that
Speaker 1: have given the Bills problems Atlanta, Houston, Denver is the
Speaker 1: exact same. They're carried by a really stout defense. Elite
Speaker 1: talent on the defensive front for sure, as we know,
Speaker 1: sixty eight sacks for the team. Now, this was a
Speaker 1: team that had sixty four sacks a year ago. Granted
Speaker 1: they had to come to Buffalo to play them in
Speaker 1: the playoff game. They got two sacks on Josh in
Speaker 1: the game last season, a game won by the Bills
Speaker 1: thirty one to seven. Buffalo went down seven to nothing
Speaker 1: early and then scored thirty one unanswered points to leave
Speaker 1: him in the dust. I think we all agree this
Speaker 1: will be a much closer game. And look, the Bills,
Speaker 1: I think you can argue, are more battle tested than
Speaker 1: the Broncos. But the Broncos have been in some tight
Speaker 1: spots this season and pulled out victories. They have seven
Speaker 1: comeback wins this season. Thing number two. The calling card
Speaker 1: for the Broncos all season has been their defense, league
Speaker 1: leaders in sacks with sixty eight, eleven clear of the
Speaker 1: second ranked team in the league. What's interesting is, I
Speaker 1: think everyone would agree that since Week ten, Buffalo's defense
Speaker 1: has turned up their level of play, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to pass coverage. How good, well, every bit as
Speaker 1: good as the Broncos passed defense. Buffalo's pass defense ranks
Speaker 1: one spot higher than Denver since Week ten, ranking seventh
Speaker 1: Denver's eighth. Completion percentage against Buffalo third at fifty eight percent,
Speaker 1: Denver fifth at fifty nine percent. Interception since week ten,
Speaker 1: Buffalo sixth in the league with nine, Denver fourteenth with six.
Speaker 1: Passer rating allowed Buffalo seventh at seventy five, Denver eighth
Speaker 1: at seventy seven point six. This despite the fact that
Speaker 1: the Bills have just eleven sacks over that span to
Speaker 1: Denver's twenty eight. What does that tell you about the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of Buffalo's ability to stop the pass down the
Speaker 1: stretch this season? Knowing it's been every good every bit
Speaker 1: is good, if not better than Denver.
Speaker 2: The Bill's secondary has been playing lights out. They're two corners,
Speaker 2: Turdavius White and Christian Benford have been locked down. They've
Speaker 2: been excellent their tiding country you saw it last week.
Speaker 2: Had nine pass breakups last week, nine against a quarterback
Speaker 2: that is a really good threat. So the windows are small,
Speaker 2: they're getting hands on it, they're defending the pass. They're
Speaker 2: not getting very many sacks, as you mentioned, but they're
Speaker 2: defending the pass at both ends. They're batting passes down
Speaker 2: with the line of scrimage. You saw a handful of
Speaker 2: them last week at the line of scrimmage against Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: That's been their calling card as well. So they have
Speaker 2: been really good upfront. Even if they're not getting the
Speaker 2: quarterback on the ground, they're getting in his vision and
Speaker 2: forcing either inaccurate throws or batting down passes. Tipped interceptions
Speaker 2: have been a big thing for this defense, and the
Speaker 2: secondary has been not only covering guys up on the
Speaker 2: edges with Benford and White, But they've also done a
Speaker 2: great job at the safety position when Poyer was in
Speaker 2: there along with Cole bishop As, making the quarterback slow down,
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's going on in the back
Speaker 2: so that gives them an extra time and the pass
Speaker 2: rush it's makes the quarterback hesitant and that has helped
Speaker 2: their pass defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Poyer absence, which is likely this week
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury, may change some things. Very curious
Speaker 1: to see how they choose to fill his role. Do
Speaker 1: they fill it with just one person for continuity's sake,
Speaker 1: or do they rotate guys in differently based on situation,
Speaker 1: down in distance, time in the game. Things like that
Speaker 1: will have to wait and see. But I think your
Speaker 1: point is well taken. The Bills don't get sacks, but
Speaker 1: they still impact the quarterback, either with pressure to hurry
Speaker 1: up passing decisions or by getting their hands up in
Speaker 1: the passing lanes and knocking them down. Greg Russo six
Speaker 1: foot seven, Dion Walker is six foot five. These guys
Speaker 1: put their hands up, it's a problem. It's a problem
Speaker 1: for opposing quarterbacks. I mean, Bonix makes a lot of
Speaker 1: plays outside the pocket. He does and has I think
Speaker 1: He's top five in completions outside the pocket this season.
Speaker 1: The Bills are like second in the league in fewest
Speaker 1: completions allowed from quarterbacks outside the pocket. They hang with
Speaker 1: their people and plaster even when the play breaks down.
Speaker 2: Yeah so, and slowing the quarterback down mentally and keeping
Speaker 2: him in the pocket has been a really good aspect
Speaker 2: of this Bill's defense since Week ten. And that's what
Speaker 2: they do getting their hands up. Rousseau is tall, Epanessa's tall,
Speaker 2: but I think the secondary giving him something post snap
Speaker 2: has made the quarterback haf to go Nope, that's not
Speaker 2: going to do it. That's not what I thought it
Speaker 2: was going to be. I gotta go over here. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's just that extra layer of processing mentally
Speaker 2: has really helped the Bills defense.
Speaker 1: It was fascinating last week against the Jaguars because early
Speaker 1: in the game the Jags try to quick snap to
Speaker 1: get the defense of the Bills to jump into their
Speaker 1: assigned call for the play, and that did not work.
Speaker 1: Later in the game, they tried to run the play
Speaker 1: clock down to force them to jump into what they
Speaker 1: were going to play instead of what they were disguising,
Speaker 1: and that didn't work either. The Bills literally wait until
Speaker 1: the snap and then race to their coverage assignments as
Speaker 1: fast as they can. I don't know how they pull
Speaker 1: it off, but somehow, some way, they do, and they
Speaker 1: do it effectively. Thing number three. The other disparity between
Speaker 1: these two teams shows up in the run game. Since
Speaker 1: week ten, Denver is twelfth in yards per carry allowed
Speaker 1: despite being second in total rushing yards allowed. Buffalo struggles
Speaker 1: in this area, as we know, since week ten, twenty
Speaker 1: fifth in total rushing yards allowed, twenty ninth in yards
Speaker 1: per carry allowed at five point zero, and they weren't
Speaker 1: that great last week against the Jacks. Benefiting Buffalo is
Speaker 1: the fact that Denver has struggled to run the ball effectively.
Speaker 1: Denver twenty seventh in rushing since week ten and their
Speaker 1: twenty seventh in yards per carry average at three point eight.
Speaker 1: Buffalo since week ten second in rushing and fifth in
Speaker 1: yards per carry average at four point nine. So do
Speaker 1: you believe the Bills can gain more traction in the
Speaker 1: run game against Denver than they did last week against Jackson.
Speaker 2: It's trending that way their defense. Yes, as we've heard
Speaker 2: a lot, there's been a lot said about Denver they're
Speaker 2: a little size, they're a fast, athletic front, and you
Speaker 2: kind of get the feeling you can kind of snow
Speaker 2: plow them if you get it a round. But they've
Speaker 2: had that to deal with all season, and they're still
Speaker 2: a really good run defense, so it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: as easy as just pushing them out of the way.
Speaker 2: They they are, they have gap integrity, they set the
Speaker 2: edge of the defense extremely well. They're not just gonna
Speaker 2: you know, they're not too small to play the run,
Speaker 2: even against a big offensive line like Buffalo's. So I
Speaker 2: think the Bills will be more successful than they were
Speaker 2: a week ago. But I don't I don't see the
Speaker 2: Bills replicating what they did a year ago and running
Speaker 2: for two hundred. But if they rent like anything between
Speaker 2: one fifteen and one fifty would be awesome. They got
Speaker 2: to get one hundred out of everybody with Cook, with
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, with all the you know, with an end
Speaker 2: around whatever, they need to get over one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen yards for it to be effective. But
Speaker 2: like I said as well, you think this is going
Speaker 2: to be a close game, and whether they're productive or
Speaker 2: not in the run game, they're still going to be
Speaker 2: handing it off late in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think one addition to the Denver defense
Speaker 1: that was not there last year at this time is
Speaker 1: their leading tackler, linebacker Alex Singleton, who was out last
Speaker 1: year with an ACL injury. He is their leading tackler. Finally,
Speaker 1: the strength on strength matchup in this game is going
Speaker 1: to be in the red zone. The Bills offense ranks
Speaker 1: third in the league in the red zone in terms
Speaker 1: of scoring efficiency. Just over two thirds of their red
Speaker 1: zone possessions have resulted in a touchdown this season, while
Speaker 1: the Denver defense is tops in red zone defense, allowing
Speaker 1: touchdowns at a rate of just over forty two percent.
Speaker 1: Winning down there is likely going to be the main
Speaker 1: factor in determining the outcome of this game. What do
Speaker 1: you like about Buffalo's approach down there that may yield
Speaker 1: success even against a front like this.
Speaker 2: It's their ability to run the ball. When you get
Speaker 2: down close and you can still run the ball and
Speaker 2: are still committed to it, that really puts pressure on
Speaker 2: the front because they're not gonna the dbs and the safeties.
Speaker 2: The corners have to get in on the run game
Speaker 2: down there. If you're running it effectively against a seven
Speaker 2: man or even an eight man front. They've got to
Speaker 2: do something desperate to stop it, because then you feel
Speaker 2: like you're defenseless down there when you can run the
Speaker 2: ball in the red zone. And that's why Buffalo has
Speaker 2: been so effective. James Cook, Josh, we saw it last
Speaker 2: week in Jacksonville. I mean, the quarterback sneak from the
Speaker 2: ten is you know, go down in history as one
Speaker 2: of the all time great ones. So that's a problem
Speaker 2: for defenses and it will be for Denver as well.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to have a plan for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, Denver does come up with answers down there,
Speaker 1: and they force an awful lot of field goals and
Speaker 1: that's how they keep their teams their team in games
Speaker 1: when their offense is sputtering early. So even if the
Speaker 1: Bills get off to a good start, they have to
Speaker 1: keep their foot on the gas because Denver's defense will
Speaker 1: get stops, they will force a lull in your play
Speaker 1: offensively for stretches. So you've got to score whenever you can,
Speaker 1: and ideally in the end zone rather than bringing your
Speaker 1: kicker on the field to kickfield goals. Finally, the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, the league's fourth leading passer in terms of rating,
Speaker 1: second and completion percentage, and second in total touchdowns. Bo
Speaker 1: Nicks had just as many touchdown passes as Allen with
Speaker 1: twenty five, but he's twenty first in passer rating this
Speaker 1: season at just under eighty eight. Both have five fourth
Speaker 1: quarter comebacks this season, but again in fourth quarter. Overall,
Speaker 1: Allen the third highest rated QB, with a completion percentage
Speaker 1: almost ten percent higher than Nicks seventy to sixty one
Speaker 1: and too fewer interceptions. Knicks twenty sixth rated quarterback in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, but he has brought his team back
Speaker 1: and he's often saved his best for last. Seems to
Speaker 1: play better when things are chaotic. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: about this comparison.
Speaker 2: It's gonna get chaotic at some point in a close
Speaker 2: game like this when last team with a boy you
Speaker 2: think is going to have a chance to win it.
Speaker 2: That's why in certain times people have favorably compared Bo
Speaker 2: Knicks to Josh. Same thing with Drake May. They pull
Speaker 2: it down and they get they get some big yards
Speaker 2: and some conversions with their legs. Their ability to make
Speaker 2: that decision to make it happen is huge. Bo Knicks
Speaker 2: outside the pocket is dangerous, really dangerous, and I think
Speaker 2: his team feeds off of that. So, yeah, we've seen
Speaker 2: Josh do it his entire career. Bo Knicks has that
Speaker 2: trait as well. When things are breaking down, He's athlete
Speaker 2: enough with the arm enough to bust loose and make
Speaker 2: a play. You got to have a plan for that.
Speaker 2: Both teams will have to have a plan because both
Speaker 2: these quarterbacks are that kind of guy. Now, you can
Speaker 2: say what you want about how good bo Nicks is
Speaker 2: compared to Josh because we have a longer track record
Speaker 2: with Josh.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's only a second year, right, bow.
Speaker 2: Knicks five fourth quarter comebacks, seven overall seven comeback wins
Speaker 2: is huge for bow Knicks. That speaks a lot to
Speaker 2: what he's capable of doing. So you never feel like
Speaker 2: this game is going to be put away until it's
Speaker 2: double zeros on the Colt.
Speaker 1: There's part of me that feels like the Bills defense
Speaker 1: has had an awful lot of experience with mobile quarterbacks
Speaker 1: Drake May twice, Lamar Jackson this season and several others.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the soup du jour in the league
Speaker 1: these days. Just about seventy five percent of the league
Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback who can get around with his legs.
Speaker 1: The Bills have very effectively employed a cage rush this
Speaker 1: season to hem in these mobile quarterbacks and keep them
Speaker 1: from maximizing yardage with their legs when the play breaks down.
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see what the defensive approach is
Speaker 1: this week because Trevor Lawrence got out a little bit
Speaker 1: on them, and we know he's a mobile quarterback as well,
Speaker 1: but I think he only had thirty three rushing yards
Speaker 1: in the game. If you can keep bo Nicks under
Speaker 1: thirty five rushing yards in this game, i think your
Speaker 1: odds are pretty good that you're gonna come away with
Speaker 1: a positive result defensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's Lawrence had thirty three yards rushing. He
Speaker 2: had eighteen on one play coming out of his own engine,
Speaker 2: but it was a backbreaker. It was a crusher, kept
Speaker 2: all lot a drive alive for them that was crucial
Speaker 2: in the in late in the game. So it's it's
Speaker 2: a huge aspect of the game and that I think
Speaker 2: both these quarterbacks are gonna it's gonna be on their
Speaker 2: plate to have to convert some third downs or some
Speaker 2: first downs on maybe in first and second down as well,
Speaker 2: but they got to do it with their legs. We'll
Speaker 2: see how that how that plays out.
Speaker 1: Time now for the Numbers game, where Steve will be
Speaker 1: quizzed on Bill's divisional playoff history. Let's do it. Question
Speaker 1: number one, what is Buffalo's franchise record and divisional playoff games?
Speaker 1: If you had to guess, and I may even give
Speaker 1: you the number of total divisional games?
Speaker 2: How many numbers? Total?
Speaker 1: Is sixteen divisional playoff games? It Bills history? What is
Speaker 1: their record in set games?
Speaker 2: Sixteen? I'll say twelve and four.
Speaker 1: It's not that good close. They are seven and nine
Speaker 1: in divisional games lifetime. Question number two known that because
Speaker 1: it you go to the division like if you if
Speaker 1: you don't win it, you're out for the year, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Plus, there's only the Bills have been to the
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game. What's seven times? Eight times?
Speaker 1: So let's see the the in the nineties and eighties
Speaker 1: and twice under mcdermy. So yeah, seven. What is question two?
Speaker 1: What is the highest passing yardage total in a Bill's
Speaker 1: divisional playoff game? And I will give you a hint.
Speaker 1: You were there for.
Speaker 2: This one it's got to be between three hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five and three hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 1: It's more really.
Speaker 2: Miami games.
Speaker 1: It is not the Miami game. It was actually a
Speaker 1: game that the Bills lost divisional playoff pits loss at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see, there was Cincinnati. There was two vision
Speaker 2: round of Cincinnati in.
Speaker 1: Twenty two, Baltimore in twenty. I said, it's a game
Speaker 1: you play.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh in ninety five, Raiders in ninety three, Pittsburgh in
Speaker 2: ninety two, kc in ninety one, I'll say Kansas City
Speaker 2: ninety one.
Speaker 1: Nope, it was Cleveland in nineteen eighty nine. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: four hundred and four passing yards from tillim Kelly. That was.
Speaker 2: That's one of the all time great NFL games ever
Speaker 2: and out of the Bills.
Speaker 1: Lost it thirty four to thirty. That was. That was
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: Don Beeby got dumped on his head. So that was
Speaker 2: the Ronnie Harmon drop in the corner of the end
Speaker 2: zone in the in an absolute mud pit dump of
Speaker 2: a stadium, an absolute atrocity of a gathering spot, public
Speaker 2: public gathering spot let alone, a sported venue, absolute dump,
Speaker 2: garbage bin.
Speaker 1: Municipal stadium in Cleveland, dumpster of a stadium.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was a great, fantastic game.
Speaker 1: Fantastic game. Four hundred four passing yards for.
Speaker 2: Jim Jim Kelly against Bernie Cozar, Marty Schottenheimer against Marvel Leavy.
Speaker 2: Fantastic game. And Bill Kauer was on that staffs Shottenheimer's
Speaker 2: staff as a special team. There's a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: on that staff. What a game?
Speaker 1: Question three? What is the highest rushing yardage total for
Speaker 1: the Bills in a divisional playoff? And I will give
Speaker 1: you a hint. This is one of the more recent.
Speaker 2: Games James Cook last year.
Speaker 1: Close It is Bills versus Chiefs January twenty four four
Speaker 1: that they lost twenty seven to twenty four. Here Bills
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and eighty two yards in that game.
Speaker 1: And where what year January twenty four so twenty three season, Yeah,
Speaker 1: January twenty fourth, Kansas City. The drop by digs at
Speaker 1: the end, Who's twenty four? Question for what Bill's player
Speaker 1: has the most receptions in divisional playoff history?
Speaker 2: Tournament?
Speaker 1: You nailed it, buddy. You want to guess how many receptions? Fourteen?
Speaker 1: That's much more than is it?
Speaker 2: He had seventeen against Cleveland. Is that ninety eight eighty
Speaker 2: nine game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is total divisional playoffs. Oh so seven
Speaker 1: career divisional playoffs. Okay, he's got to have.
Speaker 2: Does he have sixty?
Speaker 1: No, not that many. He's got thirty two career receptions
Speaker 1: in seven divisional playoff games for the Bills. He is
Speaker 1: your divisional playoff game leader. Wow, that is the numbers
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Speaker 1: Time now for our one burning question. And we know
Speaker 1: Sean Payton has made jutsy and risky calls in his
Speaker 1: coaching career before, most notably the on side kicking the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl that started the second half against the Colts.
Speaker 1: That is no longer a way to surprise a team,
Speaker 1: as you know, Steve, with the new kickoff rules. But
Speaker 1: how likely is it that Peyton resorts to a high risk,
Speaker 1: high reward play in this game. If it's nip and tuck.
Speaker 2: One fake wow, fake punt, fake field goal one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: a big reverse, a kickoff, reverse, punt return reverse, it will, Yes,
Speaker 2: they or they'll they'll try and go after a punt,
Speaker 2: try and block a punt. They will.
Speaker 1: Part of his nature, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think in this game, I don't think
Speaker 2: he likes this. I think he knows he's against a
Speaker 2: really good team and he's against a really good player
Speaker 2: who can really turn it on. I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: feel like, much like he did against Peyton Manning and
Speaker 2: the Colts in the Super Bowl. With the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 2: he's got to do something and he is nothing if
Speaker 2: not courageous.
Speaker 1: That guy will do it.
Speaker 2: He's got bravado, he has got a big, brassy set
Speaker 2: of courage, and he will do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't care, because I'll tell you that is
Speaker 1: the first thing that came to mind when I thought
Speaker 1: about the coaching matchup, Like Peyton will do a high
Speaker 1: risk thing if he feels it's warranted and he feels
Speaker 1: they've even got a fifty percent chance of pulling it off.
Speaker 2: They Yes, they will spend a lot of time. He'll
Speaker 2: hit part of him. I just say he'll have three
Speaker 2: of his quality control guys or his special team's assistant
Speaker 2: pick of guys that he's got to do this. He'll say, listen,
Speaker 2: comb through their special teams, find me, where they find me,
Speaker 2: where you can do for me. Find a trick play,
Speaker 2: look for it and find it. What are they what's
Speaker 2: to take to get it done? And install it? Let's go.
Speaker 2: He'll do it. And I think it's one hundred percent
Speaker 2: it's gonna.
Speaker 1: Happen, okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I tend to think it's certainly up in the seventy
Speaker 1: five percent range that will get some kind of trickery.
Speaker 2: I think it's because and I'm not saying this where
Speaker 2: he thinks he's overmatched, but I know he sees this
Speaker 2: matchup and the quarterback he's got to play against, and
Speaker 2: the defense the way it's playing, we got to do
Speaker 2: something special.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to try to steal an extra possession too,
Speaker 1: and I think he will.
Speaker 2: I think it's an absolute certainty.
Speaker 1: Okay. Our closing figure examines year over year rematches in
Speaker 1: the postseason. This divisional playoff between the Bills and Broncos
Speaker 1: will be the twentieth playoff rematch since two thousand between
Speaker 1: teams that face each other the previous postseason. The same
Speaker 1: team has won both games in thirteen of the previous
Speaker 1: nineteen instances, and only one team since two thousand has
Speaker 1: been able to win at home the year after losing
Speaker 1: on the road one out of nineteen one.
Speaker 2: That's a crazy stat Brownie had to pull it in
Speaker 2: there for a closing out figure one of nineteen teams
Speaker 2: who has been two One out of the nineteen teams
Speaker 2: that have been in the position of the Denver Broncos
Speaker 2: since two thousand have pulled off a victory in this.
Speaker 1: Spot after losing the first one on the road the
Speaker 1: year before game. Yeah, isn't it amazing?
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: I was stunned.
Speaker 2: There's something in that.
Speaker 1: What's going on? I don't know, but I hope it continues,
Speaker 1: No kidding. That'll do it for this edition. Subscribe on
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Speaker 1: For Steve Tasker, I'm Chris Brown, thanks for listening. We'll
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Speaker 2: Everybody