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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you on another Bills victory Monday, in

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Speaker 1: a game that was another beat down, the third straight

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Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good, really good. Actually, the Bills with

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Speaker 1: Malik Boyd has been linked has been the director of

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Speaker 1: Pro personnel. Of course. Eric Bienimy, the offensive coordinator for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, has been linked to the Jets as well

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Speaker 1: as uh Brian Dayble. He was a final two years

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Speaker 1: ago when they hired Adam Gasee and they said then

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Speaker 1: that Eric Bienemy didn't have enough experience as a play

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Speaker 1: caller for them at that time. Now he's back. He's

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Speaker 1: also on the list to be interviewed by Detroit and Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: As you just mentioned, Robert Sala is up for the

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Speaker 1: Detroit job, obviously because he's a Detroit guy. Dan Campbell,

437
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Speaker 1: former tight end former interim head coach of the Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: is also on the list for Detroit, and Arthur Smith,

439
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Speaker 1: the play caller for Tennessee, the offensive coordinator at Tennessee

440
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Speaker 1: is on the Detroit list as well Nick Cassario, who

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Speaker 1: is a New England executive. He's also in the Houston

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Speaker 1: mix down south. So it's that time of year. It's

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Speaker 1: that time of year. And not for nothing, haven't heard

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier's name, which is a good thing for Bill's

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Speaker 1: fans and a little bit surprised. Although every guy I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at here, except for Robert Salah, every one of

447
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Speaker 1: them is an offensive guy. Yeah, everyone, because because the

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Speaker 1: number one quality that owners around the league are looking

449
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Speaker 1: for now is an offensive football mind that can develop

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. I mean, Sean McVeigh set that standard by

451
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Speaker 1: coming in and basically resuscitating Jared Goff's career and going

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Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl with a guy who, I am

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Speaker 1: still of the opinion is slightly above average as a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in this league. Slightly above average. Um so that

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Speaker 1: I think has convinced a lot of NFL. Dalton to me, yeah,

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Speaker 1: slightly above average. Yeah, I mean Dalton got him, got him,

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Speaker 1: got the Bengals to the playoffs four years in a row,

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Speaker 1: one and done all four years. That's kind of what

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Speaker 1: Goff is to me. Now that Rams defense can be

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Speaker 1: special At times when they play their best football, they

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Speaker 1: can they can hold a team down. And you know

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Speaker 1: that the Rams are to get twenty four points every

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Speaker 1: week just about unless they're completely stymied and their running

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Speaker 1: game provided their backs are healthy, which is a whole

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Speaker 1: nother story. But they have that committee backfield that can

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Speaker 1: run the football. I mean, it's one of the better

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Speaker 1: running games in the league, and that all of that

468
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Speaker 1: supports golf where it's not all on him. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's going to get you to the Promised Land,

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Speaker 1: but it at least puts them in the mix in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But what Brian Dable has done here in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is going to make him an extremely hot commodity.

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Speaker 1: You know, when we've already discussed, you know, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are now looking for a head coach after firing Anthony Lynn.

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Speaker 1: By now, just about everybody knows that the Chargers GM.

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Speaker 1: Tom Talesco is a Hamburg, New York native, went to

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Speaker 1: Saint Francis High School. I think he's two years younger

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Speaker 1: than Brian Dable, So Dabele I think was a ninety

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Speaker 1: one grad at Saint Francis. Talsco a ninety three grad

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Speaker 1: they know each other and have for a long time.

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Speaker 1: They both interned here together under Bill Polian, who whose

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Speaker 1: son went to school with those guys. So there's there's

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Speaker 1: just ways their neck deep in I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: mean the opportunity is very attractive. I mean, they don't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of salary commitments out there. One hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty one million on one hundred and seventy five

487
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Speaker 1: million dollar projected cap that maybe even higher than that,

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Speaker 1: and a rookie quarterback that just threw thirty one touchdowns

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Speaker 1: this year and didn't even start the first game, and

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Speaker 1: it's you put put an emphasis on it. Anthony Lynn

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Speaker 1: was out there and one of the reasons heat there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Obviously one of their record this year,

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Speaker 1: although they ended the season with the three four straight wins,

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Speaker 1: did San Diego or La Anthony Lynn went with Tyrod

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Speaker 1: Taylor early in the year, and Tyrod was going to

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Speaker 1: be the guy going forward, and it was only a

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Speaker 1: medical accident, remember when Tyrod got his lung punctured accidentally

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Speaker 1: by the doctor trying to numb his ribs so he

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Speaker 1: could play. Only then did Justin Herbert see the field,

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Speaker 1: And the question was incredibly painful to ask, but you

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Speaker 1: gotta ask, what was Anthony lynn looking at that he

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Speaker 1: thought Tyrod was a better option than that guy. That

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Speaker 1: guy's rookie offensive rookie of the year, Like with no

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Speaker 1: other chance for anybody else to get there, that guy

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Speaker 1: was it. Joe Burrow may have gotten there, feed to

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Speaker 1: stayed healthy. You got justin Herbert was awesome. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he was gonna be on the front drop from from

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Speaker 1: from five seconds before he took the field. First start

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Speaker 1: against the defending Super Bowl champs. He throws for over

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Speaker 1: three hundred yards and loses on a fifty eight yard

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Speaker 1: field goal. He took him to overtime. Yeah, it's his

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Speaker 1: first career start, that to me. And then when the

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Speaker 1: when the Chargers were here, and in subsequent weeks surrounding

514
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Speaker 1: that game, Anthony Lynne made some really egregious clock management mistakes,

515
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Speaker 1: wasting time out? Did it here? He did? Yes, he

516
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Speaker 1: did here, and the week after and the week before

517
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Speaker 1: just chronic problems with when to take a time out

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Speaker 1: and when not to take a time out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's for someone at the NFL head coaching level. That's

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Speaker 1: elementary stuff. I'm sorry, that is elementary stuff that's got

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Speaker 1: to be buttoned up. There's just no two ways about that.

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Speaker 1: That is just unacceptable at this level. You do that

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Speaker 1: at high school. Oh you could see that, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Like that that just cannot happen at

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Speaker 1: the NFL level, just cannot. All right, We do want

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Speaker 1: to hear from you today, whether on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: or at eight oh three oh five fifty Twitter poll today.

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Speaker 1: What are your Bills playoff expectations after a third straight

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Speaker 1: beat down. We mentioned they've won by twenty nine, twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: and thirty points each of the last three weeks. Has

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Speaker 1: that ratcheted up your playoff expectations for these twenty twenty bills.

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Speaker 1: You can let us know. We got an open line

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Speaker 1: for you at eight oh three oh five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty or on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet at one Bills Live. Steve and I gotta

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Speaker 1: take a break, but we'll back to your phone calls

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Speaker 1: when we return. You're on one Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kaloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker on another Bills

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Speaker 1: victory Monday, is our first playoff edition. However, as we

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Speaker 1: get you ready for what is going to be another

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Speaker 1: short week for this Bills team. They came off that

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Speaker 1: Monday night, went over the Patriots and we're able to

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Speaker 1: hang a fifty burger as Steve put it, on the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins to clinch the number two seed. And now

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Speaker 1: they turn around they have to play Saturday at one

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Speaker 1: oh five pm against the Colts on another short week.

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Speaker 1: As we understand it, the Bills will adopt the same

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Speaker 1: schedule they employed last week again this week in preparation

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Speaker 1: for a game that comes up in six days time

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Speaker 1: or five days time, not six, So there it is.

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Speaker 1: We do want to go to the phones, though, as

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Speaker 1: we are asking you at eight oh three oh five fifty,

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Speaker 1: what are your Bills playoff expectations after a third straight

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Speaker 1: beatdown of an opponent. I have to imagine they have

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Speaker 1: been elevated. We want to know how high your expectations

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Speaker 1: have gone over the course of the last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: So we go to the phones and leading us off

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Speaker 1: today Larry and Buffalo Larry, what do you have for

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Speaker 1: us here on One Bill's Live Brownie, Steve, how you

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Speaker 1: doing games good? This is Barry and Larry, remember me,

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Speaker 1: Barry and Larry. Okay, I'd like to build the buried people. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are gonna go far in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But I'm calling him. There two players that stood out

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Speaker 1: to me yesterday. The one was Mackenzie's second touchdown paths

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Speaker 1: but Stefan did was on about the seven yard line

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Speaker 1: and he's pointing to toward Mackenzie. You're looking at Alan

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Speaker 1: saying thought to him, thought to him, and he did. Larry.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's what happened. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people thought that. Um, that's not what I saw,

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Speaker 1: and that's not the way I interpreted what Diggs didn't.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he said he did that. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't hear any postgame, But what I saw was this.

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Speaker 1: Diggs was about to break to the back of the

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Speaker 1: end zone and he was pulling for Josh to throw

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Speaker 1: it there. He wanted Josh to put it up for

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Speaker 1: grabs so he could go get it. He was telling

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Speaker 1: Josh where he wanted Josh to put the ball for him.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't pointing at at Keckenzie because shooting across the Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what I saw. Now he might have been,

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Speaker 1: but I when I saw it, I saw the exact

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Speaker 1: same thing on the right when the play happened, or

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Speaker 1: at least on a replay, and I saw Diggs he

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Speaker 1: pointed deep. See, he kind of put his hand up

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Speaker 1: and went towards the back. He was gonna go to

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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone and he saw Josh. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, but he was trying to give Josh an outlet,

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Speaker 1: So I don't think he was pointing to Dick. Now

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Speaker 1: he's done that. I saw him do that earlier this

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Speaker 1: year when he pointed at at Dawson Knox in the

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Speaker 1: back of the end zone, right on this side of

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Speaker 1: the same end zone on the near side. Diggs was

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Speaker 1: in the front. He was pointing back at Dawson Knox

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Speaker 1: and certainly Josh threw it. That's one of the ones

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Speaker 1: where Josh was rolling to his left and threw it

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Speaker 1: over the top of him and missed it right. And

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Speaker 1: that's when and that's why that played last week when

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Speaker 1: he rolled to his right and hit Diggs. Was so

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Speaker 1: sweet because he improved it. That's why I said that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: another another play, Tyler med Kevitch. I think his name is. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he buried a guy at the fifty yard line, ran

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Speaker 1: downfield and whacked another guy at the third Well that's

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Speaker 1: why they call him crazy Red. So yeah, well that's

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Speaker 1: you know, I would like that guy all year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah he was. I mean, he got some playing time

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Speaker 1: at the mic linebacker in the second half and he

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Speaker 1: was laying the wood to people in there too in

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Speaker 1: the second half. It was tackles yesterday, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a really good game by Meta Keevich. He

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Speaker 1: has played outstanding leon special teams. Um even I'll give

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Speaker 1: you a play two weeks ago, three weeks ago in

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game opening kickoff. Go back and look at

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Speaker 1: that play on the opening kickoff of that Pittsburgh game.

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Speaker 1: He tackles the guy on the on the ten on

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Speaker 1: the opening kickoffs two hundred pounds. Well, he was juiced

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Speaker 1: up to play his old team, no question. But that's

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Speaker 1: the kind of play you need, and that those are

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Speaker 1: kind of plays the great and yesterday, late in that

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Speaker 1: game in the second half, it was all good for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. The Dolphins knew their offense was not going

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Speaker 1: to score twenty two points to get back in that

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Speaker 1: and their defense played like they were hopeless. Yeah, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, Larry, We appreciate it. We got to

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Speaker 1: move along, get to some other people. We got to

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Speaker 1: go to Justin in Depew next, Justin, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? Yeah? How would you do it? Chicks? Good?

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make two points. The first point I

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Speaker 1: wanted to make was I'd love to return by McKenzie

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Speaker 1: return from Mtenzie. I thought that was like one of

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Speaker 1: the best plays I see in a long time to

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Speaker 1: start a specialties. I know, I J Roberts is great too,

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Speaker 1: but I just loved it. I thought I was how

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Speaker 1: he deep doubt the kicker to get into I just

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Speaker 1: I would think about it was just great and I

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00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: was very happy for him. The second point I wanted

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Speaker 1: to make was I don't feel like we still get

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Speaker 1: the respect that we deserve in the national media. I

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00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: watch Nan and all that, and they like hot streat

639
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Speaker 1: a few minutes on us and them vote to like

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Speaker 1: other people, and I just just make see angry. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the players would prefer to have it that way.

642
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: They don't mind sitting in the weeds and uh letting

643
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: other people get talked about more. Uh, they'd rather get

644
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: passed over. And the players have been asked about that too.

645
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: They honestly they don't care. Um. I know, Micah Hyde

646
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: has even said they use it as fuel. Oh, you

647
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: keep not talking about us. I mean I saw him

648
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: after one win in the locker room. He's, uh, you

649
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: know one of the locker room cams. He's like, yeah,

650
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: I keep not talking about us. We love it, you know,

651
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: because it's motivation for them. So I think the less

652
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: they're talked out the better. Yeah, and don't forget too.

653
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: This is a little bit of a strange year as well.

654
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: There are thirteen teams in the league that have double

655
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: digit wins. Yeah, it's unprecedented, thirteen teams, and it's you

656
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: know because of that that you know, as a crowded field.

657
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: There's a team that got fourteen, there's two that have thirteen,

658
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 1: Bills being one of them. There's three that have twelve,

659
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: there's four five that have eleven, and there's two more

660
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: that have ten. I mean, there's a ton of teams

661
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,959
Speaker 1: winning a lot of games this year, so it's easy.

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00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: You know, if the Bills were thirteen and three and

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00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: everybody else was eleven and five, you would be hearing

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Speaker 1: more about it. But because of the Chiefs, they're fourteen

665
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: and two again, you know, and because the Packers have

666
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: very rogers and they you know, basically pulled the ripcord

667
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: on week seventeen, right and Pittsburgh's twelve and four after

668
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: going eleven and oz to start the season and tying

669
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: things up a month ago. So there's you know, there's

670
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 1: a little reason. You can see how the stars aligned

671
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: to keep the Bills very low key and under the radar.

672
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: And you got a teams like Tennessee, Baltimore, Cleveland and

673
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: end all those four teams they got eleven wins. That's

674
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: a really nice season. It's a really nice season. And

675
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a twelve and four and New Orleans is completely

676
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: under the radar to me, and so Seattle they're both

677
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: twelve and win teams. Has the best defense in the NFC.

678
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so that you know, it's I get it.

679
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 1: But for right now, as good as this team's playing

680
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: and they're blowing people, and there's no question there as

681
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: hot as anybody in the league, they really are not

682
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: one of the hottest teams. They are the hottest team.

683
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: You can say what you want about Baltimore, the Bills

684
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,959
Speaker 1: are better right now, They're they're hotter. I think there's

685
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: just a lot going on in the league, particularly the

686
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: last two weeks for people to get all, you know,

687
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: in over their heads over the Bills, and I get it,

688
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: but that's I think that's what they're up against as

689
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: well as you know the history that goes behind it.

690
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones to Nick and Amherst. Nick,

691
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. Hey, I wanted to talk

692
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: about people like day Ball and the Enemy. What is

693
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: the main drive for them? I guess I know they're

694
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: a couple from a different cloth than people like me.

695
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: But if they are in a good situation, which both

696
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: day Ball and the Enemy are, and they have the

697
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: opportunity to be a head coach, is that if that

698
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: just this they want to be do better, they want

699
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: that job that well, theach that comes up being a

700
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: head coach just funny. Yeah. I mean, just think about

701
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: what your dream job is, like, your personal dream job, Nick, Like,

702
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: this is their dream job. This is the top of

703
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: the pyramid in their profession. There's only thirty two of

704
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: these jobs in the world, you know, at the NFL level.

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00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: And if it speaks to them and looks like the

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00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: right fit. They're gonna take the job. And like we

707
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: were just laying out the La Chargers, you got a

708
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: dynamic young quarterback who's a lot like Josh Let's I mean,

709
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: let's be honest from a physical skill set standpoint, and

710
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: he's very similar and only going into his second year,

711
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: and he's got a boatload of talent around him on

712
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Really, all the Charges have

713
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: to do is fix their offensive line, maybe get another

714
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: good corner. They're gonna be right there nipping at Kansas

715
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: City's heels. Even the Jets job, you have Darnald there,

716
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: you have some building to do, but they have extra

717
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: draft choices this year. Even the Jacksonville job, you got

718
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft. They have eleven total

719
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: draft picks, and they're a cap healthy team with a

720
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: decent defense. Those are attractive jobs in the NFL. It's

721
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: just a fact. And you can it's hard too as well,

722
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: Nick to generalize. Eric b Enemy may feel about his

723
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: opportunity way differently than Brian Dabo feels about his opportunity.

724
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Speaker 1: And there are guys out there every so long, you'll

725
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: get a guy that is happy in what he's his spot.

726
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: You get a guy like Dante Scarnekia, who's been in

727
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: New England for three decades. He didn't want to leave.

728
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: He just retired this last year. He's an offensive line coach.

729
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: He's been as high as a defensive coordinator for him,

730
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: he's been under Bill Chelse. Some guys found their spot. Um,

731
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Speaker 1: you can go to the college ranks and say that

732
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 1: a guy like Pat Fitzgerald, Milo Lamater at Northwestern. He's

733
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: been bandied about as an NFL prospect, but you know what,

734
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Speaker 1: he's got a great job at Northwestern. There's there's no

735
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: national championship aspirations. You get a coach really smart kids

736
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: who were good in school, and you've got maybe the

737
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: best facilities in the country right on Lake Michigan, and

738
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: you're living in Chicago, which is a great city. There's

739
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: a lot about that to be happy, and he can

740
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: end the stability there. So the expectations are reasonable there.

741
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: So you get guys in the coaching ranks, it's it's

742
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: all individual. Brian Daybole May you know he's he was

743
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: a finalist for the Cleveland job before they hired uh Stefanski,

744
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: so he knows what it is. And what he's looking at,

745
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see, I would be I

746
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: would be surprised if day Ball is not viewed as

747
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: a better candidate than the Enemy because of the development

748
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen and the similarities between Josh Allen and

749
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert to me, and I think to some people

750
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: generally speaking, and it comes down to owners in this case,

751
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: the Spanos family, how do they view what that coordinator

752
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: has accomplished and what he's good at and what kind

753
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: of guy they want? Eric bi Enemy strikes me as

754
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: a rock solid Mike Tomlin type leader. He's a quality guy.

755
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: He's going to be a great high I don't know

756
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: that either one of those guys couldn't win a Super Bowl.

757
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: There I'm saying this, the Enemy gets credit for what

758
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes did, Probably not, because Pat Mahomes kind of

759
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: looks like a unicorn to me, like Pat Mahomes could

760
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: have been. He was good. He was good from the

761
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: time he went in the lineup, so you might ask

762
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 1: questions like, well, was he really developed there or There's

763
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: no question that Brian Dabele played a major role in

764
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: helping Josh Allen become an MVP level quarterback in this league.

765
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen started from a floor that Pat Mahomes never

766
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: was at, right, or if he was, nobody ever saw

767
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: it because he wasn't on the fields rookie here right,

768
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, it was still Alex Smith, right, and he

769
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: came in a second year. So if you're looking at

770
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: an ownership group and you're looking at what you want

771
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: your head coach to be, and that's and that's basically

772
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: you'll here. And I was surprised at this. But what

773
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: they say is, you know, they asked the owner. It

774
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: comes down from the owner and the GM and all

775
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: and the guys, what kind of guy do we need

776
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: for our team or what kind of coach do you

777
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: want to deal with as an owner? Yeah, what do

778
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: you want? And they got to find a guy that

779
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: fits that. It doesn't It might not be Brian Dabele

780
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: or Eric Bienemy or Robert Sala or any of these guys.

781
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: It might be somebody outside the box so we don't

782
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: even know about. It might be it like well maybe

783
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: not size, like an Arthur Smith who comes from you know, well,

784
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: he's another guy that has been mentioned. It may come

785
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: from a guy coordinator come out Baltimore Ravens. They're going,

786
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: you're hiring a special teams coordinator. The Giants, You're hired

787
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: Joe Judge. You was a special teams coordinator. It might

788
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: be one of those guys. So it comes down to

789
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: what the team is looking for in a head coach,

790
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: and it has because listen, you don't turn down a

791
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: head coaching job in the NFL unless you're Josh McDaniels well,

792
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: and or if you don't think it's the right fit,

793
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: you say, look, I appreciate the time and everything, but

794
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: it's just not a fit for me. And there's some

795
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: times too where I've heard candidates go in and say,

796
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: if you're going to win, here's how you're gonna do it,

797
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: and the ownership group's like, ah, I'm not. I'm not

798
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: doubling the size of my medical staff. I'm not doubling

799
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: the size of my sports science. I'm not giving you

800
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: twenty five assistant coaches. I'm giving you twelve. I'm giving

801
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: you fifteen. And the guy's like, listen, that's not an

802
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: NFL staff and I'm not taking that job because you're

803
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: not gonna give me. I'm not gonna take the job.

804
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: So I can fail right, so you get some of

805
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: that as well. Break time for us, but Bob and

806
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: Orchard Park will lead us off when we get back

807
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: to your phone calls here as we're asking you, what

808
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: are the what are your Bills playoff expectations and how

809
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: have they changed after a third straight beatdown of an

810
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Speaker 1: opponent back in a flash Here on one Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Touchdown, and Tonio Williams just became a

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Speaker 1: Buffalo fill yesterday officially. And he proves then the end

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Speaker 1: he's a Bill for about three days and he's got

819
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Not bad. It took me like literally get

820
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: two touchdown. It took me like three years, almost four

821
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: years to get two touchdowns. See that. I played in

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Speaker 1: every game running backs. As soon as you get in tight,

823
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: you know what's coming. They were, Yeah, he played really well,

824
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: ran hard, He ran really hard, and that's and this

825
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: game to me, is a real indication of how much,

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Speaker 1: you know, how much emotion plays a part in this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Bills right here with with Matt Barkley in and

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Speaker 1: the backup lineman in, you know, the backup tight ends

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Speaker 1: and the backup running running back, all these you know,

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Speaker 1: they got they're like playing man, they cannot wait. This

831
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: is their opportunity. It is a real emotional lift for them.

832
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 1: They got something to play for. And the Dolphins cannot

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00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: get out of there fast enough. Yeah, and that's the

834
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: You got the number one scoring defense in the league

835
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: getting carved up by the second time up finishing sixth

836
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: and points allowed. Yeah, they were first in the league

837
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,280
Speaker 1: and now they're out of the top five because sixth.

838
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: They and it was just it was and it was

839
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: that's what happens when a team takes its foot off

840
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: the gas, when a when a defense is playing without

841
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: a lot of hope that their offense can help them,

842
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: and the Bills just run it up, ran it up

843
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: on them. And you know, and I and I said

844
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: this on the broadcast and I'll say it again today.

845
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Speaker 1: If you've got your if you got your backup quarterback

846
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: in there, your backup running back, your backup off everybody's

847
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: a backup on your side of the ball. Why And

848
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: they've earned the right to be out there for them,

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Speaker 1: it's part of the career. Yeah, And Sean McDermott is

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Speaker 1: the mind, and I agree with it. They earned the

851
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: right to get that we got we got. And Tonio

852
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: William do you think he's this isn't a huge moment

853
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: for him, and you're just gonna like let him go

854
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: out there and stand there, pass protect, give him a

855
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: chance to play. There's no reason for a coaching staff

856
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: not to let their backups play with all the weapons

857
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: that their first teamers played and the Dolphins they got

858
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: to match it and they didn't. And if you're gonna

859
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: get twenty one fourth quarters points scored on you buy

860
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: the backups of the Buffalo Bills. That's on you. There

861
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 1: was a son the Bills. It was a brief second

862
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: yesterday where I looked at that game and I said, wow, Well,

863
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: now Dolphins fans know how Bills fans felt in two

864
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: thousand and four when the last week of the season

865
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: they were in a win and in scenario had to

866
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: play the Steelers backups and couldn't get it done. And well,

867
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: is that is that the uh that's Bledsoe's team, and

868
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 1: oh four won six in a row down the stretch

869
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: to move to nine and six, winning in against the

870
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: Steelers in week seventeen, who were playing their backups because

871
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: they didn't need the game. That's Steve Willison catch No,

872
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: that's before that's before CV. It's two thousand and four.

873
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: That's the Willie Parker game. Willie Parker ran wild on

874
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: right six round draft choice. And that's there's no reason

875
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: why any coaching staff would not let the players that

876
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: are on the field play. You can. You know you're

877
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: not gonna call a kneel down play early in the

878
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. When these guys get in, they've been playing hard,

879
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 1: practicing hard for your team, helping your starters get ready,

880
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 1: keeping them sharp, doing all the same sacrifices as guys

881
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: that get on the field every week. If they get

882
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: a chance to play, you're not gonna let them kneel down. Yeah,

883
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, give them a chance to play. What are

884
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: your Bills playoff expectations after a third straight beat down

885
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: of their latest opponent. That is your Twitter poll. We

886
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: go to Bob in Orchard Park. Bob, what do you

887
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: have for us. You're on one bills live. Yeah, guys,

888
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for taking my call. Sure,

889
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: and I'll give you what I got on my expectations.

890
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 1: It's a little jingle, the bills are going to Kansas City.

891
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City, here we come. Do you do? All right?

892
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: All right? Do do do? Do? We got a really

893
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: good football team and we're gonna kick some butt. Okay,

894
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 1: look at that? And you where'd you whip that one up? Bob?

895
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: Just don your right on your notepad there. Yeah, I

896
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: did well. Actually I was already singing that last week. Okay,

897
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: and I've already I've already got my hotel booked and

898
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: if I can get tickets, I'm gonna be there. Yeah. Well,

899
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: Kansas City does have fans. I don't know how. What

900
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: is it about eleven thousand. I want to say they

901
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: were hosting for their stadium out there. Um. Yeah, we'll

902
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: see what happens. Got to get step one first, But

903
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: thanks for the phone call. We appreciate it. Um. I'm

904
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: just I just really thought that all those people with

905
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: the scar tissue that we talk about all the time,

906
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: from all the disappointments since you know, the calendar turned

907
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: to two thousand, shall all we say, I really thought

908
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: that these last three weeks did a lot of convincing, like,

909
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: scratch the scar tissue away. This team is damn good.

910
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: This is enjoy it. Be ready for some fun in

911
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: the postseason, because this team is ready to do it.

912
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: We're all light that you gotta remember that people remember,

913
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: have memories, and they and we run into the thing.

914
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: And I said this in a little bit in the

915
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: pregame show about what you can expect next week from

916
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. But you have this as fans, we somehow

917
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: think that what has happened in the past two teams,

918
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 1: like in oh four, in twenty twelve, in twenty seventeen,

919
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: and even in twenty nineteen, that somehow that's going to

920
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: affect what happens this coming week and here in Buffalo,

921
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis comes in town, and I mean to say

922
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It has zero effect. There were some lessons

923
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: maybe learned, but even those lesson that you learn in

924
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: a game like that, you remember they've been reinforced one

925
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: hundred times since then in every game and every practice

926
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: and every time you work out, every time you think

927
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: about it. So all that scar tissue that we have

928
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: from the drought and from the nineties and all of

929
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: that stuff. None of it affects this game, including how

930
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: much Josh Allen played yesterday and all that. Now. Certainly

931
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: their health if they come out, but if everybody come

932
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: out healthy, it does This game against the Dolphins doesn't

933
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: affect this Indianapolis game. What affects the Indianapolis game is

934
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: what happens today through game time on Saturday. That's it.

935
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: It's not about last year when they finished and stumbled

936
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: to the finish. They were one and four in their

937
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: last five games, or one and three in their last

938
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: four games, and they came in and they blew a

939
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: first half lead in the first round of the playoffs

940
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and that has nothing to do

941
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: with what's going to happen on Saturday. Nothing. Break Times

942
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: all about this team. Break Time for US Cody and California.

943
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: Will lead us off as we're taking more of your

944
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: phone calls an hour number two of the program. Break

945
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: Time now, but back in a minute. Here on One

946
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio,

947
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: Hellow Bills Radio Network Sports your sports update from One

948
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills Wildcard playoff matchup is set. The

949
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: team will welcome Frank Reich, Philip Rivers, and Jonathan Taylor

950
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: along with sixty seven hundred fans next Saturday here at

951
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: Bills Stadium. Kickoff is set for one pm. This follows

952
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: the Bills clinching the number two seed in the AFC

953
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 1: following a whooping of the Dolphins by account of fifty

954
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: six to twenty six. In the win, Josh Allen's to

955
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,439
Speaker 1: pass drew Bledsoe's two thousand and two season and set

956
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: the team's all time record in passing yards with forty

957
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: five hundred forty four, along with the franchise record in

958
00:52:55,840 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: completion percentage and passer rating. NFL Network's time I Pelacero

959
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: reporting that the Jets have asked formal permission to interview

960
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: Bill's offensive coordinator Brian Dable for their now vacant head

961
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: coaching position after the firing of Adam gas Day. Ball

962
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: served as quarterbacks coach with the Jets from two thousand

963
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: and seven to two thousand and eight under Eric Mangini.

964
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,479
Speaker 1: By rule, the Jets have to wait to interview Dable

965
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: until after the Bill's wildcard game this week. Bill's assistant

966
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: GM Joe Shane could be on the move as well.

967
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: On Sunday, reports surface connecting him to three different GM

968
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: openings around the league. The Carolina Panthers reportedly have requested

969
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: permission to interview Shane for their GM vacancy. The Falcons,

970
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: Washington football team in the Houston Texans, have also reportedly

971
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: expressed interest around the rest of the NFL. The Jacksonville

972
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: Jaguars now searching for a new GM and a head coach.

973
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: This following the one win twenty twenty campaign of Doug Morone,

974
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,760
Speaker 1: which earned him his pink slip as Jaguars head coach.

975
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn has been fired after

976
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: four seasons on the job. Signed a one year extension

977
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: in the off season, but win seven and nine with

978
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: the Chargers this season and had several snaffoos involving clock

979
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: management that costs them a number of close games this season.

980
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive Chris

981
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker our number two of A Bill's Victory

982
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,959
Speaker 1: Monday edition, and we're getting back to your phone calls

983
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty one eighty eight, five

984
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty after the third straight beatdown by

985
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: the Bills of an opponent. You'd like saying beatdown? Have

986
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: your bills playoff expectations changed for the better? Are they

987
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: even higher after three straight beatdowns of opponents? Steve's ditty

988
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: over here, I love it. I love it when you

989
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: say beat down. Yeah, Well, you gotta say it with

990
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: using that word last three weeks a lot. I gotta

991
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,240
Speaker 1: say it. Well, when you win by twenty nine, twenty

992
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: nine and thirty, I think you've earned the right, as

993
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: coach says, choosers that phrase, so they're it is um wow.

994
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phones at eight o three,

995
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: five fifty and we lead off with Cody in California. Cody,

996
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,760
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Gentlemen.

997
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: First off, Happy New Year, first time caller. Your show

998
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: was awesome. So I have two things. First, the expectations.

999
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: I think if if we play our game, I don't

1000
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: think there's anybody in the league that can that can

1001
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: beat us. If we're playing on all cylinders, we should

1002
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: handle the Colts. Make it make it our way up

1003
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship game. That should be an awesome game.

1004
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: One game at a time, of course, but on all cylinders,

1005
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone can beat us. Second thing is,

1006
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: I really think one place sticks out to me in

1007
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: the game, and that's when we started off pretty slow.

1008
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: But when Diggs took that hit in the back and

1009
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: to the back of the head when he slid down,

1010
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: it really seemed like the whole everything changed. Um, we

1011
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: started firing on all cylinders playing our game, and I

1012
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: was just wondering, were you surprised he wasn't taken out

1013
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: for concussion protocol because I was, And I was terrified

1014
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: because I was figuring if he was going to go out,

1015
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: there was a chance that we were gonna miss him

1016
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: for the next game. He was gonna have to come out,

1017
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: except that the hit happened because of a foul and

1018
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, and Murph and I talked about

1019
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: it on the broadcast. He didn't know it either. Yeah,

1020
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: if if a player is injured or shaken up because

1021
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: of a play that is penalized because of a hit

1022
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 1: that is penalized, that player, if he's able and desires,

1023
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: can stay in the game. He doesn't have to come out,

1024
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: even if he is attended to buy trainers. Doesn't that

1025
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: sound counterintuitive though, I mean interesting it is. And also

1026
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: and all of this, with all of this, you know,

1027
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: approach to player's safety that seems like a misguided The

1028
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 1: reason they do it is to de incentivize a player

1029
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: taking a cheap shot. You got two plays left in

1030
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: the game. On the first play, you take their quarterback out.

1031
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: He has to stay down for a minute, whether he's

1032
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: good or not. You got to take out. Okay, all right,

1033
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: I see that kind of thing. It de incentivizes, de incentivizes.

1034
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: I guess it takes the fun out of a cheap shot.

1035
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: You went the porky pigure out. You just changed the

1036
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,399
Speaker 1: whole phrasing of the sentence because you knew you weren't

1037
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: gonna get it. I was, I was, I was in

1038
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: a hole, and I just I just stopped digging. I

1039
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: just stopped digging. I found myself in a hole. But

1040
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: that's it. They you know, they took the incentive out

1041
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: of taking a cheap shot on a game like, for instance,

1042
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: you put Charlie bag of donuts, some player you don't

1043
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: want to play. You put him on the field and

1044
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: you'd have him go smack somebody illegally. You don't care

1045
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: if he gets tossed or anything, if that guy has

1046
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: to come out for the next play, which is a

1047
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: crucial play, and there you go. And you know the

1048
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: other thing too, is Christian Wilkins was the guy that

1049
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: was pursuing him from behind. And I mean he could

1050
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: have knocked his head right off his shoulders if he

1051
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: hit him clean. Fortunately he only grazed him. M It's

1052
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: a different world out there than it used to be.

1053
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: And I will say Christian Wilkins by nature is not

1054
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: a dirty player, um not known as that, known as

1055
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: a pretty upstanding professional. I think he's just trying to

1056
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: make an effort play. I don't think he's trying to

1057
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: hurt didn't and he's certainly probably he's certainly well. I

1058
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,439
Speaker 1: shouldn't say certainly. I don't know what he was thinking,

1059
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: but he's probably not expecting Diggs to slide this right,

1060
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: Diggs doesn't quarterback you'd expect to slide, but not a receiver.

1061
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: And I said this during the broadcast yesterday or Saturday.

1062
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: It was obvious to me. I haven't talked to chat

1063
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: Chad Hall at all, the receivers coach, or Brian day

1064
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: Bole or Sean McDermott or any of them, but it

1065
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: seemed to me that the wide receiving corps of the

1066
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills had orders make the catch, get what you

1067
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: can get, and go down. Yeah, Mackenzie just plopped down

1068
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: on thee. Diggs did it a number of times. Of course,

1069
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: Cool Beasley wasn't even in the game unless they were

1070
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: behind the defense really hunting for extra yards. Do not

1071
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: hunt for extra yards. Get what you can get, and

1072
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: then just give yourself up. Diggs did it, like on

1073
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: this play right here. He did it, and you know,

1074
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: you almost could have gotten a call right there on

1075
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: the defender. But I saw it all day and I

1076
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: noticed it, and it's a smart way to coach your guys. Listen,

1077
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: just get what you can get, go down, don't take

1078
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: any hits. Guys, Let's just make the catches, go down,

1079
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: take the yards, and we'll live with that result. We

1080
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: don't need you fighting for extra yards and coughing it

1081
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: up or worse yet, getting injured. So let's play it

1082
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: close to the best, vest play it conservative. And I

1083
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: not say this too, and I said it riches a

1084
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: moment ago. It's a different world out there than it

1085
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: was back in the nineties, and certainly the eighties and

1086
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: seventies where it was a free for all and unless

1087
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: you were on the ground and starting to get up,

1088
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: you were going to get another hit, you know. And

1089
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: a quarterback, I didn't matter if he's slid or ran

1090
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: out of bounds. They were giving him an extra one.

1091
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: So it's a different world now that that kind of

1092
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: play is perfectly acceptable, and it seems and it's smart.

1093
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: The league has learned a lot about that. Player safety

1094
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: hasn't been this totally, you know, taking out the fun

1095
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: of the game for the fan, arbitrary right. One thing

1096
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: it has done is make sure that players like Stefon Diggs,

1097
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, you go down the

1098
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: list stay on. They stay on the field, which makes

1099
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: it a more entertaining It's a better product with those

1100
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: guys playing. And evidence of that is the highest scoring

1101
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: season in league history with more guys staying healthy. This

1102
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: The Bill scored five hundred and one points this year, folks,

1103
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: five hundred and one. The top in the league is

1104
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: Green Bay they scored five h nine. Yeah, the Bills

1105
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: are two. I mean, that's that's a big year, a

1106
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: big year. Let's go back to the phones. We go

1107
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: to Tom in Virginia. Tom, what do you have for us?

1108
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: You're on one bills live. Hey, Steve kind of just

1109
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: thought my thunder I was gonna say the Bill's crack

1110
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: five hundred points this year. Somebody would have told me

1111
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: to make that bet early on, and you know, August

1112
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: I ran from that. Just want to say, guys, love

1113
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: the show. I want to give you guys someday. I

1114
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: met the call in last week after the Monday night

1115
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: game to hear Brian Greasy sing Josh Allens or sing

1116
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allens praises. I think back to the conversation and

1117
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: just laugh every time, because I mean he pretty much

1118
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: laughed you out of the building when you said, hey, yep,

1119
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: I was on this run. What he did is he

1120
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: in the MVP conversation and he kind of chuckled it off.

1121
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: So how quickly they jumped on the bandwagon. Yeah, he

1122
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: hopped on pretty quick. Yeah. He did. Also want to

1123
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: give credit to the friend of the show. I was

1124
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: on the golf course Josh's rookie season. After week two.

1125
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: It was like Whenesday or Thursday after we got blown

1126
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: out by the Ravens and Chargers. Two guys pull up

1127
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: to me, and the passenger asked, hayde or ten t Is,

1128
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: and I about passed out. I'm a forty one year

1129
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: old and about passed out. It was Bruce Smith, and

1130
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: I said, mister Smith, I'll take you over there if

1131
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: you come back and play for my build this year.

1132
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: And he kind of laughed and said, oh, this dog

1133
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: don't hunt anymore. But he said, hey, you guys were

1134
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: set up for good. I like the young quarterback we got,

1135
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: and I like this coaching staff. This organization's going in

1136
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: the right direction. Again. That was kind of at the

1137
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: low of the low, you know, Josh's rookie season, and

1138
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: then the next week we went on and beat Minnesota.

1139
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: So credit to Bruce Smith, he kind of saw it

1140
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: there from the bottom. As far as expectations for the playoffs,

1141
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the ride. They've

1142
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: already kind of exceeded my expectations. I'm forty one. You know,

1143
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: the Bills kind of spoiled me going into playoffs and

1144
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: others in middle school, in high school, I took it

1145
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: for granted. I think we're set up for a nice

1146
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: ten twelve year run here and just gonna sit back

1147
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: and enjoy the ride. Go Bills. All right, sounds good, Tom,

1148
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. We appreciate it. Yeah, I mean

1149
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 1: I think the Bills had to make believers out of people.

1150
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: That's just the way it was, you know, I mean

1151
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't They weren't going to get any automatic credit

1152
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: handed to them because you know, this is not a

1153
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: familiar place where people are used to seeing the Bills. Yeah,

1154
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: I mean, win team, double digit win team. I'm a

1155
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: little surprised because of the fact they won ten games

1156
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: last year. Two years ago they were you know, three

1157
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: years ago they were nine to seven, got in the playoffs,

1158
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: So they've been in the playoffs now in the last

1159
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: four years, they've been in the playoffs way more than

1160
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: they have not been in the playoffs. And they are

1161
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: a tough team to beat. And this year the lid

1162
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: absolutely came off this team. I mean, there there's no

1163
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 1: excuse for anybody not to think this is a really,

1164
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: really good football team that's hitting on all cylinders and

1165
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: is going to be the favorite in just about every

1166
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: game they play. Um, if the Bills were to go

1167
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: into Kansas City and beat those guys in the AFC

1168
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: Championship Game, I'll bet you, no matter who it would be,

1169
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: I'll bet you they're gonna be favorite in the Super Bowl. Um,

1170
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: there's nobody from the NFC that can hang with this crew.

1171
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: Um Green Bay. No, you know I think so? Nope, Nope.

1172
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: Now tell me why they don't have enough weapons. They

1173
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: don't have enough enough. It takes Adams and it falls apart.

1174
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: It could be Tray and Hide, Tray and Poorer. It

1175
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: could be Um, you know anybody. You just pick the guys,

1176
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: you double team that guy, and you make an effort

1177
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: to take him away. Let's see him beat you some

1178
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: some other guys. If they can do it, God bless him.

1179
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, they're not gonna they can't

1180
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: miss a beat and beat the Bills. They won't be

1181
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: able to miss a beat and beat the bill If

1182
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: you take Davante Adams off their off their radar, and

1183
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:24,479
Speaker 1: off Aaron Rodgers' menu, and he can't score thirty points

1184
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: a game like he did during the radar season, they're

1185
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: gonna lose. Because this team will this team will this

1186
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: team is. They're gonna light it up on the scoreboard.

1187
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 1: That's it. That's they're gonna light it up. You gotta

1188
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: keep up with him. Just say it. It's true. I

1189
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: don't disagree. It is true. I don't disagree. There's only

1190
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: one team in this conference that can can score with

1191
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: these guys, and that's Kansas City. Yeah, which will be

1192
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: interesting to see. I know they have the bye week

1193
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: this week, but you know, come this time next week,

1194
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: what's the condition of Clyde Edwards a laire who had

1195
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: an high ankle spring just last week. That can be

1196
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: a four to six week injury. Yeah, Levy on Bell

1197
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: back there, So I think you gotta think they're gonna

1198
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: be healthy and ready to go. I mean with all

1199
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: the time off, he didn't play this week, right, and

1200
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: he's not gonna he's not gonna play next week. I

1201
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: mean that's he'll be. He'll be back in the saddle.

1202
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 1: I would think. I'm but having said that, that's what

1203
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: that game is gonna look like, let's get back to

1204
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,439
Speaker 1: the phones. We go to Jim on a seale. Jim,

1205
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills live.

1206
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: Hey guys, good afternoon for stime caller. Thanks for doing it,

1207
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: Thank you. I just wanted to make a point to

1208
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: say that, uh, you know, growing up the Bills. You know,

1209
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: I thirties, the Bills really weren't that great and it's

1210
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: kind of tough time. You know. I have a daughter

1211
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: eight now, and I've been taking her to the games

1212
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: and uh, I took her to the airport when they

1213
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: when they clinched and stuff like that. And I think

1214
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: it's just a really different time now for them to

1215
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: grow up. And it's nice to see um that they're

1216
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: gonna grow up, you know, with the legitimate winning football team. Yeah,

1217
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, just in general that you know, things have

1218
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: changed as far as that goes. And I think how

1219
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: winning the playoffs would definitely legitimize what everybody else here

1220
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: at Buffalo sees. You know, a decisive win I think

1221
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: would really you know, give that feather in the cap

1222
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: that we need to everybody else what we really are about. Yeah,

1223
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: no question, and we appreciate the calle Jim, thanks for

1224
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: making it. I think that what you have here now

1225
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: are ratcheted up expectations locally, without question. I mean, you're

1226
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: annihilating people even though the level of competition is going

1227
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: to go up in the playoffs, because every team is

1228
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: good that gets to the postseason, they may not be

1229
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: necessarily as complete a team as some others that are

1230
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: in the playoff field, but they're all good teams with

1231
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: some major asset that works in their favor. For the Colts,

1232
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: it's probably Jonathan Taylor and that offensive line because that

1233
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: guard to guard. I don't know if you can do

1234
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: much better than what the Colts line up every week.

1235
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: They're tack situations a little messy right now with Costanzo

1236
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: out for the year. Say this though, from what I've

1237
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: heard so far, I didn't watch much of the I

1238
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: didn't watch any of the cold game yet, but I've

1239
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: heard guys talk about Veldeer, who was their left tackle,

1240
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: who was a guy who just signed him off the street.

1241
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: They said he played way above expectations. Yeah, way above expectations.

1242
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 1: They got a really good game out of their left

1243
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: tackle that they couldn't count on, and that helped them

1244
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, so you know, they they're trying to

1245
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: patch it back together. But it's a good group. And

1246
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: is that enough to beat the Bills. I don't think

1247
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: it is, And I don't think their defense is good

1248
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: enough to slow this offense down. So that'll should prob

1249
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: be it shouldn't be. Well, I mean, it's Like Steve

1250
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: and I were talking before we came on for the

1251
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: second hour of the show. Here we were saying, the

1252
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: only thing that really is the biggest deterrent to the

1253
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 1: Bills advancing and going far in the playoffs is them

1254
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: beating themselves or COVID. Those are the two biggest adversaries

1255
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: for this Bill's team in the playoffs right now, at

1256
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: least in round one or two. Yeah, And they kind

1257
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 1: of boils down to the same thing. If you get

1258
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: one of your guys infective with COVID because he's not careful,

1259
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: or because somebody in his support group, is his family

1260
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: unit or whatever is not careful, you know, that's the

1261
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: same thing. You're your own worst enemy. You got to

1262
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: take precautions and make sure your family takes precautions to

1263
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: stay healthy. And even having done that, we've seen other

1264
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: teams get outbreaks, so like Cleveland, like Baltimore, all these teams,

1265
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: so it hasn't really happened like Tyler Croft. I mean,

1266
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: I think one thing that has helped the Bills have

1267
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: had occasional outbreaks, you know, t J Yelden and then

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Speaker 1: Tyler Croft and these guys to get them singles out.

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01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 1: They have done a really great job. McDermott and this

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01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 1: staff and the leadership have been adamant about keeping these

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Speaker 1: guys distant from each other. And that's why you don't

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Speaker 1: have five or six close contacts also on the COVID reserve.

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01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: That's why you haven't heavy couple. You know, one guy

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Speaker 1: tests positive and two close contacts, but even those guys

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01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:58,560
Speaker 1: were you know, have thus far been negative. But that

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01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: they've kept a lid on those brush fires of the

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01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 1: virus better than a lot of teams have been able

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01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: to do. And that's helped there's no question that's helped him.

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01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: And now headed into the playoffs a couple of weeks

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01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 1: left in the season, well hopefully like five, they gotta

1281
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: keep it going and they got to get tightened down.

1282
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 1: But that's that kind of stems from the same thing

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01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: you said. It's they're their own worst enemies, and COVID

1284
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: counts as you being your own worst enemy, and of course,

1285
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: playing poorly or turning the ball over or coming out

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01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: flat or all that stuff is also a part of

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01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 1: your own in your own control as well. So I

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01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 1: just can't it's hard for me to envision a team

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01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: playing well enough for four quarters to keep this team

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01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 1: off the off the scoreboard in a big way. It's

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01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Back to the phones to Chrish, Chris, Chrish,

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: Chris in Ashwood. I'm trying to combine his name and

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01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: where he's from, Chris and Ashwood. You are up? What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us here on One Bill's Live Afternoon. Gentlemen,

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01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I just wanted to

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01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: say that the discipline on this team is excellent and

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01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 1: it really shows up in the return game. Special teams

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01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: sometimes can be a problem because you get the penalties

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01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: on the returns they're coming out of the end zone

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01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 1: too too often on the returns. This team has been

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01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: very discipline. The returners have been disciplined. They take their shots,

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01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: which means that if they're not coming out, they're not

1303
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 1: getting holding penalties. And also they're running out every single player.

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01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: When you see someone taking a knee in the end

1305
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: zone on the other team, our guys are running out

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01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: the play every time. And I just thought that Steve,

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01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: you're the probably the pre eminent guy to talk to

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,600
Speaker 1: you about that, but I just thought i'd say that

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01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 1: you're right. Their kick coverage has been great this year.

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01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 1: There's been a couple of times where they had a

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01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: guy down and they just they miss a tackle and

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01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: gave up a return. It happened in the game just

1313
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: before this last one. I can't remember who a Denver

1314
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: game where they've had guys, you know, slip away at times.

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01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:11,839
Speaker 1: But for the most part this they've got a bunch

1316
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 1: of really good kick covers on this team. Taiwan Jones,

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01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: metakevic serand Neil Bam Johnson to name just four guys.

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01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 1: They've got some guys that can really go. Aj Klein

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: is a good kick cover, but they've got some really

1320
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 1: good coverage teams. Number one in the league and kick

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01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: return average, and I know Andre Roberts also finished first

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01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 1: individually in kick return average, and then they are number

1323
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: one in gross punting average. Corey Bojorquez has reached a

1324
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: level of consistency in the second half of the season

1325
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: that I think has put him in the upper echelon

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01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:50,240
Speaker 1: of the punters in the league. He is fifth and

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01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: he was fourteenth in the league in net punting average

1328
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: eight weeks ago. He finished the regular season fifth in

1329
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: the league in net punting and he had forty four yards.

1330
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: He had a tough break yesterday, he kicked one too

1331
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: far and went through the end zone and ended up

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01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: being a thirty seven yard kick instead of like a

1333
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: fifty six yard kick. About that then the coffin corner.

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01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:12,600
Speaker 1: That was as perfect a punt as you'll see executed

1335
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, in in any era. Any you pick

1336
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: a punt, this one was better. It was he bounced

1337
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: it out at the half yard line outside the pylon.

1338
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: It could not and it happened right in front of

1339
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: the official. He was right on it. It was absolute perfection.

1340
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: I gotta tip my hat to him. And he had

1341
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 1: another rocket of a kick later in the game from

1342
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:37,640
Speaker 1: the Bills. It wasn't their end zone, it was, you know,

1343
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 1: maybe the twenty or thirty yard line, and he pounded

1344
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: it all the way back inside the twenty and of

1345
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,560
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and even Tyler Bass proved his medal this

1346
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: year too, because had some shaky moments earlier in the season,

1347
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,679
Speaker 1: very early in the season. End of the year, he's

1348
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: an eighty two percent kicker. And I think if if

1349
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: you told the Bills coaching staff, hey, this guy might

1350
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: be shakier, but for the season he's going to be

1351
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: an eighty two percent kicker, they would have taken that

1352
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:07,479
Speaker 1: in space immediately he's done. And on top of that,

1353
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: fourth in the league in total touchbacks. Now, that's due

1354
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: in part to the fact that the Bills have scored

1355
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 1: so much and they were kicking off a lot. But

1356
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: all that kicking, it's a lot of touchbacks and a

1357
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: lot of kick returns that are not coming back the

1358
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: other way. Here's the thing that's and that's a little

1359
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: bit of a misleading stat because I get touchbacks, and

1360
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: everybody likes the touchbacks, and you don't give it. But

1361
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: there have been a multitude of times, multiple times, and

1362
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: sometimes multiple times in multiple in the same game, where

1363
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:36,560
Speaker 1: the Bills deliberately did not kick it out of the

1364
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:39,839
Speaker 1: end zone. They deliberately kicked it short because they trusted

1365
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: their cover, because they trusted their coverage and either didn't

1366
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 1: respect the guy carrying the ball or didn't think the

1367
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: guys in front of him were good enough to protect him,

1368
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: so they kicked it short and asked the guy to

1369
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 1: return it. And I mentioned already the fact that in

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01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,919
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game and this game yesterday and on Saturday

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,639
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, a little by even when the Bills

1372
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: offense wasn't moving it. Little by little, the special teams

1373
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:08,799
Speaker 1: ratcheted the field position further and further and further towards

1374
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,360
Speaker 1: Miami's end. Finally Miami punts it out of there and

1375
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: it lands a couple of plays. It almost wound up

1376
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: being a safety for the defense, and the Bills end

1377
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: up with the ball first and ten at midfield or

1378
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: close to it because the guy's punting out of his

1379
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: own end so deep. That was after the Borchs kick.

1380
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: So the first three or four series of that game

1381
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 1: was about field position, and every time the ball switched

1382
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:37,719
Speaker 1: the Bills gained about ten, maybe fifteen yards of field position,

1383
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: then another ten yards, and another ten yards, and finally

1384
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: the whole game, you know, for the back and forth

1385
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:45,479
Speaker 1: between one or two punts between each teams, we're all

1386
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: in the Miami end of the field, and that's special

1387
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 1: teams so playing well. So as much credit as Brian

1388
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: Dable and Leslie Frazier have gotten this year, and deservedly so,

1389
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: Heath Farwell has done a heck of a job as

1390
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: a second year of special teams coordinator. Here I mean

1391
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 1: third in the league, and kick coverage first in the league,

1392
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: and kick return average first in gross punting average, fourth

1393
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: in net punting average, and I mean you can go

1394
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: down the list. Even their average drive start was second

1395
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: best in the league. I mean, a lot of numbers

1396
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 1: in the top five in the league this season. And

1397
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: for that group, it takes a lot of confidence in

1398
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: your guys to call a fake punt on fourth and

1399
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: five at your own thirty five on the road in

1400
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: New England and have a backup safety throwing to a

1401
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: backup corner. Yeah, they pulled it off. It kept him

1402
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: alive and it led to points on the drive. So

1403
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 1: it was they Not only did Heath farwell vast and

1404
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: he said it at the post last at the end

1405
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:44,559
Speaker 1: of last season, goes, I gotta get better, he goes,

1406
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: And it was his first year as a coordinator, so

1407
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 1: he had some things probably had to teach himself about

1408
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: how to handle meetings and how to handle the delegation.

1409
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 1: He's got an assistant as well. But this year he

1410
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:56,719
Speaker 1: took an enormous step forward and so did his teams.

1411
01:15:57,680 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: We want to remind you to gear up for the

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01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:03,639
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1416
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 1: Break time for us, but when we return, it is

1417
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:24,719
Speaker 1: time for the Mattie Awards. Every victory Monday, Maddie glab

1418
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:29,800
Speaker 1: our colleague hands out her awards for stellar performances in

1419
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: the latest Bill's victory. She joins us next here on

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01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Live. Second half of the show underway,

1422
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: and is that time in the show after a Bill's

1423
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 1: victory for the Maddie Awards and the Maddie Awards are

1424
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: brought to you by enter Mark, the official energy supplier

1425
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills and Mattie Welcome in. We're not

1426
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: going to get into the particulars here, We're gonna get

1427
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: just we're gonna write to it because we want to

1428
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: get through all these awards. We know we ran out

1429
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 1: of time last week. So as exciting as the game was,

1430
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,799
Speaker 1: there were I have to imagine a plethora of awards

1431
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: to go around in a thirty point beat down cornucopia. Yes,

1432
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: there are plenty awards to go around, So we'll start

1433
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: off with our offensive MVP. And people may think, you know,

1434
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: Josh did a good job in the first half of

1435
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: the game, you know, fifty six points on the scoreboard.

1436
01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: John Brown came back, but of course it's got to

1437
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: be Isaiah McKenzie. Three total touchdowns, two receiving touchdowns, a

1438
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: punt return touchdown which he returned for more than eighty yards.

1439
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,400
Speaker 1: He's the first player to have two receiving touchdowns and

1440
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 1: a punt returned touchdown since tygreek Kill did it in

1441
01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. And his performance in that game just further

1442
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: solidified why he is a necessary piece to the Buffalo

1443
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: Bills offense. He can do so many things that your

1444
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: regular or wide receiver can't. You can put him in

1445
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: different types of situations, different types of rules. And he

1446
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: did a great job filling in for Cole Beasley yesterday.

1447
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 1: Yes he did. He certainly did. And that you know,

1448
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: with a punt return and the two touchdowns in the

1449
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: back of the end and the eleven minutes a game.

1450
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: Client No, that game, he exploded in a big hurry,

1451
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: twenty eight second quarter points for the Buffalo Bills, and

1452
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: it was over. It was absolutely over all, right, So

1453
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: let's flip it over to the other side. Defensive MVP

1454
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 1: Honorable Mention, Defensive or Offensive MVP Honorable mentioned quick, don

1455
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: Antonio Williams, No, you're to skip ahead. Antonio Williams, what

1456
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: a game. He is someone who's been on and off

1457
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: the practice squad as we have seen throughout the regular season.

1458
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a span of a couple

1459
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 1: of weeks where it was like, we're releasing Into Williams,

1460
01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:02,600
Speaker 1: will we bring him back to the practice squot So

1461
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 1: somebody who's been on and off this roster in his

1462
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,560
Speaker 1: first season in the NFL, and he's someone who, like

1463
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 1: a lot of the rookies, just work their butts off.

1464
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: So it was good to see him get a little

1465
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:16,480
Speaker 1: bit of love in the game, scoring two rushing touchdownes

1466
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,839
Speaker 1: twelve carries for sixty three rushing yards. Someone who proved

1467
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: like maybe he can be used if need be, if

1468
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: somebody gets injured. Definitely a great backup to Devin Singletary

1469
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 1: and Zach Moss. So proud of Antonio for using his

1470
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: moment to shine and put something on getting film there. Okay,

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01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: So now Defensive MVP and honorable mention both defensive backs

1472
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: in both categories here. Yeah, our secondary balled out yesterday.

1473
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: The amount of interceptions that our guys had was amazing.

1474
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm giving our defensive MVP two. Dean Marlowe, somebody who

1475
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 1: had two interceptions yesterday. Was awesome to see him get

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01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: his hands on the football. I'm know, like Josh Norman did,

1477
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 1: he really wanted to house one of those interceptions but

1478
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: wasn't able to. As you're watching right now, got that

1479
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: first interception off the tipped pass, being in the right

1480
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:12,720
Speaker 1: place at the right time. And we've heard so many

1481
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:16,599
Speaker 1: of our defensive place players say turnovers come in bunches,

1482
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: and they surely did yesterday, forcing four turnovers. So good

1483
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 1: to see Dean marlow get some action in the game.

1484
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: He's someone who is not necessarily a starter, but is

1485
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 1: used quite a bit in this defense throughout a game. Yeah,

1486
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: and so who is the runner up defensive player of

1487
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: the game. Runner up has got to go to Josh Norman,

1488
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: the guy who had a pick six and when he

1489
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: returned it for a touchdown. I was looking at his

1490
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: stats and I thought it was his third pick six

1491
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: of his career. That's something that doesn't come often, something

1492
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:53,680
Speaker 1: that probably a lot of defensive players don't even have

1493
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: on their stat line if you look at their careers.

1494
01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: But Josh Norman wanted this well. When he got the interception,

1495
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: thankfully wasn't too far away from the end zone got in.

1496
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:08,559
Speaker 1: They're good to see our defense score and get six points.

1497
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: Always good to see that energy that they bring. And

1498
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: also Josh Norman, someone who being who has been on

1499
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: and off the injury list had COVID, got a chance

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01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: to play in the game yesterday, so nice to see

1501
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: him make some plays on defense. Yeah, and something we

1502
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: didn't even note Steve thus far in the show, every

1503
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 1: phase of his team scored points. I mean pun return touchdown,

1504
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: defensive touchdown, and obviously the offense taking care of the rest.

1505
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: But every phase of the football team put points on

1506
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: the board yesterday. It's pretty crazy. Dominant rusher as we

1507
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: go around the league here, Maddie, all right, guys, dominant rusher.

1508
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: I don't want to give an award to somebody that

1509
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: we're going to play next week, but I have to

1510
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 1: do it because Jonathan Taylor from the Colts had a

1511
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: very impressive performance against the Jacksonville Jaguars. You know, the

1512
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: Colts won twenty eight to fourteen, helping them get into

1513
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He had two hundred and fifty three rushing

1514
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: yards off thirty carries, had two rushing touchdowns. This is

1515
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: someone who has really come on strong late in the season.

1516
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: In his last four of six games, he's had at

1517
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: least ninety rushing yards. He has seven rushing touchdowns in

1518
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: the last four games, had eleven touchdowns for his first

1519
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 1: year in the NFL, and over a thousand rushing yards

1520
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 1: in his first season. So this is someone that the

1521
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 1: Bills defense is going to have to look out for,

1522
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 1: someone they're going to have to scheme against in this

1523
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:36,639
Speaker 1: Saturday game. But he's someone who had a really impressive

1524
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: performance helping the Colts seal their victory and the path

1525
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I mean, he gets to that second level.

1526
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: If you don't have somebody there, it's over. I mean

1527
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: that kid's like two hundred and thirty pounds and he

1528
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: runs a four three nine. I mean, once he gets going,

1529
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: best of luck catching him, and Hines is a good

1530
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: complimentary back to him. They have a nice one two

1531
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: punch there. That's got to be priority number one for

1532
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: the Bills. Two thirty. You know, if you're small enough

1533
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: and fast enough to catch him, you're not big enough

1534
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: to tackle him right And if you're big enough to

1535
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: tackle him, you can't run it, you can't catch him.

1536
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: So that's a tough matchup. It is. It's a tough matchup.

1537
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,679
Speaker 1: The we know how you feel award And something tells

1538
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: me this is going back to the old haunts of

1539
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo fans. Oh yes, this is going back to the

1540
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:27,479
Speaker 1: old haunts of Buffalo fans because Browns fans and Bills

1541
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: fans can relate in one way. You know, the Browns

1542
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: made the playoffs for the first time since two thousand

1543
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: and two, beating the Steelers yesterday twenty four to twenty two.

1544
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: They had an eleven and five regular season record in

1545
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and I think back to the playoff drought

1546
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,560
Speaker 1: that the Bills had and how they were able to

1547
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: break that in the twenty seventeen season. The Browns were

1548
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: able to break their playoff drought, which is the longest

1549
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:59,600
Speaker 1: active drought in the NFL, this season by making the

1550
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: playoff for the first time since two thousand and two.

1551
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: So good on the Browns. I know we lost them

1552
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,560
Speaker 1: last year. I kind of wanted to face them in

1553
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs here, but the Colts

1554
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: will do and you deserve it, Award. See, now, this

1555
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: is where Maddie always has that soft spot. Maddie's a

1556
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: big softie sometimes like you, well cynical hard you know, well,

1557
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,680
Speaker 1: I am the little cynical I will admit that. But

1558
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 1: this is this is the soft spot that Maddie has

1559
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:32,879
Speaker 1: for players like this. But yes, go ahead, yes, Tasker,

1560
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:38,080
Speaker 1: you're softy too, So Browny, I don't know if I

1561
01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 1: can fit you into that con I'm not quite good.

1562
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 1: I'm working on it, but you deserve it. Award goes

1563
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: to Alex Smith and the Washington football team. They had

1564
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: to win and get into the playoffs. They did that,

1565
01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 1: beating the Eagles twenty to fourteen. And just how about

1566
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: Alex Smith this season that he's had, how he was

1567
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: able to work his way back onto the football field.

1568
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: He was someone who injured that lag and was told

1569
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:06,040
Speaker 1: you may not live. We're going to have to amputate

1570
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 1: your leg. We'll look at him now back on the

1571
01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: football field helping this team win the game. He went

1572
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: twenty two thirty two for one hundred and sixty two

1573
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 1: passing yards, two touchdowns. Something other cool that happened was

1574
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: his wife made his leg cast, the metal parts of

1575
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 1: his cast that he was in, into a Lombardi trophy.

1576
01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: So good on him for getting through the season, for

1577
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,719
Speaker 1: being able to play when a lot of people said

1578
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: that you were never going to play another down in

1579
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:38,759
Speaker 1: the NFL. And also great to see the Washington football

1580
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: team get into the playoffs with what they went through.

1581
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 1: They did have a seven and nine record. You know,

1582
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: the nfcast not the best conference to be in this

1583
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 1: year they had, they finished with the most wins, so hey,

1584
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: they deserved being in the playoffs this season. Also good

1585
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: for Ron Rivera. Yeah, you're absolutely right there. If you

1586
01:25:57,280 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 1: get a chance to go on social media, look at

1587
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: Alex Smith's wife's Twitter, and she's got a picture of

1588
01:26:03,360 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: his what used to hold his leg in one piece,

1589
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:08,680
Speaker 1: or at least stabilize. It's a huge metal frame that

1590
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: he wore around his right leg for months and months

1591
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: seventeen surgery, right, and then they took it apart and

1592
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: formed it into a work of art that is a

1593
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: mock up of that's amazing. A rough Lombardi trophy and

1594
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: he deserves it and a What a way to commemorate

1595
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: what he overcame. And you're right, Maddie, we have we

1596
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 1: have one more to get to. Clutch performer, performer, go

1597
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:38,639
Speaker 1: ahead latch performance. How about the Tennessee Titans. The AFC

1598
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: South was up for grabs yesterday. They were able to

1599
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: beat the Texans in a last couple of final seconds

1600
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,120
Speaker 1: of the game, having that game go into overtime. It

1601
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: was tied thirty eight to thirty eight in the fourth quarter,

1602
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: and there were a couple of clutch performances that I

1603
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 1: want to point out in this one. One of them

1604
01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 1: was a last second really a throw from Ryan Tannehill

1605
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: till A J. Brown. It was a fifty four yard catch.

1606
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: A J. Brown has had a great season for the Titans,

1607
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: eleven targets, ten catches for one hundred and fifty one

1608
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 1: receiving yards, one touchdown in that game yesterday. How about

1609
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 1: Sam Sloman also ticking the game winning field goal from

1610
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards out to win the game and the

1611
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: AFC South and also Derreck Henry becoming a part of

1612
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: the two K club yesterday after rushing for two hundred

1613
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 1: and fifty yards also scored two rushing touchdowns. This is

1614
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: a very talented team, a team that I did not

1615
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:40,400
Speaker 1: want to face in the first round the playoffs. So

1616
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:43,599
Speaker 1: thank you Titans for winning that game. Again. The Tech

1617
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Baltimore beat up on each other this week

1618
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,800
Speaker 1: and soften each other up for the next next round.

1619
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: Go ahead and go ahead block yourselves out quite literally.

1620
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:55,799
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Maddie, that's great. We appreciate you chiming

1621
01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 1: in here. We hope to see you again next Monday

1622
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: for another edition of the mat the Awards, because that

1623
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 1: will mean the Bills are advancing in the playoffs. We

1624
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: will see you then. Good stuff, mad girl, all right,

1625
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 1: see you guys have a good week. All right. So

1626
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: that's Maddie Glab joining us with the Maddie Awards, brought

1627
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: to you by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier of

1628
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Break time for us, but when we

1629
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get to more of your phone calls.

1630
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,600
Speaker 1: As we are asking you, after three straight beatdowns of

1631
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: their opponents, have your expectations for the Bills in the

1632
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:30,639
Speaker 1: playoffs changed at all? Let us know eight oh three,

1633
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:33,080
Speaker 1: five fifty back in a minute Here on one Bills Live,

1634
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid of Health it's Buffalo Bills. Radio Buffalo

1635
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: Bills and MT Bank are encouraging fans to submit physical

1636
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,440
Speaker 1: and digital postcards to wish their team luck in the postseason.

1637
01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: Postcards will then be on display here at one Bill's

1638
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 1: Drive for players to see. Postcards are available starting today

1639
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: through the end of the playoff run or when postcards

1640
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: are gone, whichever comes first. We remind you sooner the

1641
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: postcards are mailed, the better. Well you're asking, where can

1642
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: you get them, Well, they're being distributed to all eighty

1643
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:19,680
Speaker 1: nine M ANDT Bank branches and Buffalo area. Postcards are

1644
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 1: going to be on site effective today. Outside of Buffalo,

1645
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 1: like Rochester, Lockport, Fredonia, Olyan, they'll be delivered later in

1646
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:28,880
Speaker 1: the day, so you may want to look for those

1647
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 1: Tuesday at your local M ANDT branch if you're outside

1648
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 1: the Buffalo area. Each of the eighty nine M ANDT

1649
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:37,719
Speaker 1: Bank branches will receive approximately one hundred and sixty five

1650
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: of these postcards, so get in early, get them out

1651
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:44,559
Speaker 1: early to wish your team good luck for their upcoming

1652
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: playoff game against the Colts on Saturday. If you can't

1653
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 1: get to an M ANDT Bank branch, you can also

1654
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:54,439
Speaker 1: use the digital option to submit postcards on Buffalo bills

1655
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:58,679
Speaker 1: dot com slash postcard. So do your best to wish

1656
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,519
Speaker 1: the Bills well and wish him good luck in the

1657
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:04,519
Speaker 1: postseason with a postcard. We know we're trying to find

1658
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: different ways for fans to you know, have touch points

1659
01:30:08,439 --> 01:30:10,680
Speaker 1: and engage with the players, let them know you're behind them.

1660
01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 1: So this is one way for you to do that.

1661
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: Thanks to M ANDT Bank. Let's just getting rolled into this.

1662
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:20,479
Speaker 1: This it's it's so different and I can't people know,

1663
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: but I guess you're at the at the game yet

1664
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,559
Speaker 1: you say, watch the game, right, I mean, how different

1665
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: is it that? And we noticed on the broadcast in

1666
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 1: the radio booth too. You hear guys scream on the

1667
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:34,519
Speaker 1: floor on the field all the time. Somebody does somebody

1668
01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 1: hear one guy somewhere going ah, you know, like that,

1669
01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:42,679
Speaker 1: and like like it's with joy or or despair whatever

1670
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 1: the atmosphere in the stadium. It's almost if it'll be

1671
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:51,639
Speaker 1: different this way. It's really going to be a little

1672
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:54,640
Speaker 1: different this week. And to say that it's different than

1673
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 1: it has been in the past, you can't even articulate

1674
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: how different because it's it's it's you have to experience it.

1675
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 1: We all know how visceral it is. You get in

1676
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:09,599
Speaker 1: there and there's eighty thousand people on opening days, sunny

1677
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:12,639
Speaker 1: September Day, and the places you can't even hear yourself thinking,

1678
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: that's before the games even started, when you can't start

1679
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: rolling right like yesterday's game, the way that thing was rolling,

1680
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 1: there would have been time. It would have been a

1681
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:23,479
Speaker 1: cascade of no first half when the Bills started to

1682
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:27,000
Speaker 1: get up on top of them and Josh was throwing it,

1683
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 1: and then on that punt return that Oja McKenzie got

1684
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:32,439
Speaker 1: the you would have been shaken. You would have had

1685
01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:35,640
Speaker 1: to put your hands over your It's just an it's tangible,

1686
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:38,720
Speaker 1: the emotion in it. And to do it like and

1687
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 1: just to see the players do it themselves, it's a

1688
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 1: real testament. Two players all over the league, and certainly

1689
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 1: to their coaching staff and I know the Bill's coaching staff.

1690
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 1: Here these guys, and of course they're playing great, which

1691
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 1: is the first thing you gotta do with man, oh man,

1692
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 1: this team's energized. They manufacture it yourself. Yeah, they have

1693
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 1: become an electric, an electric generator. Man. They bring in

1694
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 1: the juice themselves. They are really really doing well and

1695
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 1: they and they do it for each other. You should

1696
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 1: have seen, I said, I said it on the broadcast

1697
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 1: yesterday because I noticed it. Mackenzie goes into the end

1698
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 1: zone with a punt return. The entire bench area it's

1699
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:18,720
Speaker 1: just vacated. Yeah, I mean they were all down there

1700
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:20,840
Speaker 1: just because there's no you know, I don't care, there's

1701
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:24,280
Speaker 1: nobody there when you get plays everybody. I mean like

1702
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: you could see the coaches like like start and then

1703
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 1: they were like yeah, it was like what do you

1704
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:32,040
Speaker 1: It was like they won the It was like they

1705
01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:34,639
Speaker 1: you know, a college team won the Sugar Bowl, right,

1706
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 1: I mean like it's like a Big ten team going

1707
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:40,560
Speaker 1: down the in the end zone of the of the

1708
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. You know, to win the national championship is unbelievable.

1709
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 1: And that's that's a real testament to the culture that's

1710
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 1: been built here. How fun these guys are, how much

1711
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: fun these guys are having playing together, and how well

1712
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:55,680
Speaker 1: they're playing together. It's just a lot of fun. And

1713
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:57,800
Speaker 1: to see, you know, get to know that sixty seven

1714
01:32:57,880 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: hundred fans are gonna be in there. And you know,

1715
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 1: you read that thing about the giveaways and a visual

1716
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:06,200
Speaker 1: or the virtual postcards. You know, there's it's just I mean,

1717
01:33:07,479 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 1: that's that's stinks for the fans not to be a

1718
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 1: bigger part of this would be a part of it

1719
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: this week at least in some respects. And I know

1720
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:15,559
Speaker 1: you can see it on TV and you can kind

1721
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 1: of experience it a man to be in here and

1722
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 1: to have everybody and you know, the Bills mafia here

1723
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:24,519
Speaker 1: experiencing it together at the same time. Yeah, it's a miss.

1724
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: It's a it's a missed opportunities. Too bad. Let's get

1725
01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 1: back to the phones, Burke and Jamestown. You're on one,

1726
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: Bills Live. What do you have for us? Burke? How

1727
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: you doing, guys? Good? Get my call. Hey. I'm really

1728
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,800
Speaker 1: excited for this playoff run. And I think what's got

1729
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 1: me most excited is I came into this season thinking

1730
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:46,599
Speaker 1: and knowing that this is a playoff team, and even

1731
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:48,479
Speaker 1: through the first few weeks, I felt like kind of

1732
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 1: we were letting other teams dictate what we were doing.

1733
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 1: Not the first few weeks, I mean, our first couple

1734
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: of losses with Tennessee and Casey, but I just feel

1735
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 1: like this team, starting with probably after the first New

1736
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:03,120
Speaker 1: England started telling other people that listen, I don't care

1737
01:34:03,160 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 1: where you're going to do on defense. This is our offense.

1738
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna do. And I think like

1739
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 1: even you look at the second New England game we

1740
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:11,679
Speaker 1: went into, you know, they didn't play that much difference

1741
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:13,600
Speaker 1: of a defense where we just said, hey, you know,

1742
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 1: this is who we are and we're going to pick

1743
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:17,599
Speaker 1: you apart with what we got. And I just wanted

1744
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: to get your guys as thoughts on that. And maybe

1745
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,800
Speaker 1: it's because the defense is playing so much better that

1746
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:24,680
Speaker 1: we feel we can go into the games, you know,

1747
01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 1: with that kind of attitude. But I just think it's

1748
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 1: an amazing attitude to go into the playoffs knowing that

1749
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: this is your game and we're gonna do exactly what

1750
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,639
Speaker 1: we want to do. Well, I would say, I would say,

1751
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, Burke, we're a little short on time,

1752
01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 1: so I had to let you go there. I will

1753
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:45,719
Speaker 1: say this, I cannot recall a Bill's offense. Maybe since

1754
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:50,320
Speaker 1: you guys were running no huddle that can take over

1755
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:53,479
Speaker 1: a game where they're imposing their will on the opponent.

1756
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: The way this offense is doing it right now. It's

1757
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:59,200
Speaker 1: just like, this is what's going to happen and there's

1758
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. It's it's rare that

1759
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:04,560
Speaker 1: a team like and it's and it's this is what

1760
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I feel like with Buffalo. They're gonna run their offense

1761
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 1: and and they're gonna do their thing. Yeah, they're not something.

1762
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: They're not gonna come out like. And maybe they will,

1763
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:16,360
Speaker 1: but they're not gonna come out and say, Okay, you

1764
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:18,760
Speaker 1: know today, these guys are gonna force us to hand

1765
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:21,120
Speaker 1: the ball off thirty five or forty times. They ain't

1766
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: gonna do it. They don't have to do that. If

1767
01:35:23,479 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 1: they they want to throw it, they're gonna throw it.

1768
01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is good enough. They protect Josh good enough. Uh.

1769
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,400
Speaker 1: He can read when there's extra pressure coming, and he's

1770
01:35:32,439 --> 01:35:34,040
Speaker 1: got options to get rid of it. He knows where

1771
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:35,680
Speaker 1: those options are. He gets rid of the ball on

1772
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: time and accurately. And they can they can combat it.

1773
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:41,120
Speaker 1: They can make you pay for what you do defensively.

1774
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 1: It's rare that you've got a team that doesn't care

1775
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:47,720
Speaker 1: whether you're man or his own, doesn't care if you're

1776
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: gonna try and stop the run, doesn't care if you're

1777
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:51,800
Speaker 1: gonna invite him to pass. They're gonna run their play,

1778
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 1: whatever play they want. And they got a quarterback that

1779
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:58,200
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get on the ground fast enough, uh,

1780
01:35:58,640 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 1: in order to keep him from his target and hitting him.

1781
01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: It's Burke is right. They don't care. They're gonna run there.

1782
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:10,439
Speaker 1: They're gonna do their thing. And if that's not enough,

1783
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: we learned yesterday. Oh by the way, they've got people

1784
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:18,640
Speaker 1: in reserve that they can deploy. They're deep and at

1785
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 1: a number of positions you know, they take. They take

1786
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: Dawkins off the field and Feliciano off the field. They

1787
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 1: plug in Ryan Bates, they plug in Brian Winners, and

1788
01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:29,800
Speaker 1: they just keep on rolling. I know this too. This

1789
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: you know it's easy to talk like this today. But

1790
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 1: let me just tell you this. They hung fifty six

1791
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:36,719
Speaker 1: points on the number one scoring defense in the National

1792
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: footh the game that needed the game, and that was

1793
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:41,519
Speaker 1: after a full It wasn't like they were number one

1794
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:44,880
Speaker 1: after two weeks. And they played the Jacksonville Jaguars and

1795
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:49,560
Speaker 1: the Jets. No, it was a sixteen game season. It

1796
01:36:49,720 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: was a sixteenth game of a sixteen game season, and

1797
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: they were number one at being most difficult to score on,

1798
01:36:56,520 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: and the Bills lit them up for fifty six, thirty

1799
01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:05,000
Speaker 1: eight points above their average. The Bill scored not thirty

1800
01:37:05,040 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: eight points, thirty eight above the eighteen that they give up. Yeah, Miami, right.

1801
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean that's why we called it a beatdowns. It

1802
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 1: is a saying again, it's a beatdown. It is an

1803
01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 1: absolute beatdown. All right, break time for us, But when

1804
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:22,080
Speaker 1: we return, it is time for us to check in

1805
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 1: with one former Bill center Eric Wood to get his thoughts.

1806
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 1: He was tweeting a little maniacally yesterday with the way

1807
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 1: the game was going, and we'll check in with him

1808
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 1: to see if he's come down off that high of

1809
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:40,599
Speaker 1: yesterday's thirty point beat down of the Dolphins. Eric Wood

1810
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:42,600
Speaker 1: joins us next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

1811
01:37:42,680 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

1812
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

1813
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you.

1814
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:14,679
Speaker 1: See Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straged

1815
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:21,800
Speaker 1: bear of normalcy. Uh see, Brownie's microphones not working, so

1816
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:23,519
Speaker 1: I'll bring us back. We're about ready to start talking

1817
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: to our good friend Eric Wood. Brownies Mike is not

1818
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:28,560
Speaker 1: working for some reason. Eric, Why don't you come on

1819
01:38:28,640 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: in with as Eric Wood, former center. Dude, what do

1820
01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 1: you think of the Miami Dolphins. Buffalo a number one

1821
01:38:35,200 --> 01:38:38,200
Speaker 1: scoring defense in the National Football League, one number one

1822
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:40,599
Speaker 1: at being hard to score points on. They were averaging

1823
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:45,400
Speaker 1: like eighteen and change eighteen points something and change allowed

1824
01:38:45,479 --> 01:38:47,760
Speaker 1: per game, and the Bills hung fifty six on him.

1825
01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable display by the Buffalo Bills, the entire

1826
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 1: roster of the Buffalo Bills. Oh, it definitely was. And

1827
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,719
Speaker 1: this wasn't early twenty twenty one. Right on the heels

1828
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty I'd say you and Chris should be

1829
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:04,200
Speaker 1: sharing a microphone right now, and i'd get you all

1830
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,680
Speaker 1: nice and cozen, But I understand you got to keep

1831
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 1: your distance in that studio now. But no, I thought

1832
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 1: it was an awesome performance by the Buffalo Bills. We

1833
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 1: talked about this the last few weeks. We're just waiting

1834
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:20,479
Speaker 1: for the Bills to have a letdown performance the last

1835
01:39:20,600 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 1: three weeks. Was every excuse in the books. Three weeks ago,

1836
01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: it was right off the heels of that Pittsburgh when

1837
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: they're going to Denver on a short week, they beat

1838
01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:34,680
Speaker 1: them by twenty nine points. That's the Patriots and the

1839
01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 1: Bills have already clinched the AFC East, and the Patriots

1840
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,280
Speaker 1: are gonna be They're on their home field. We've always

1841
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 1: played bad there and maybe these guys have just put

1842
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:49,800
Speaker 1: too much in lately in this nine of ten win streak,

1843
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,640
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And they beat the breaks off of

1844
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:54,639
Speaker 1: them by twenty nine points. And then they go out

1845
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 1: yesterday and they have starters out, they have game planning

1846
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,600
Speaker 1: where you don't want to show them too much, but

1847
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:04,600
Speaker 1: maybe you want to give someone in the playoffs a

1848
01:40:04,600 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 1: little wrinkle. Oh while, the very first play of the

1849
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,200
Speaker 1: game yesterday with the wildcat, which is almost like Dave

1850
01:40:10,200 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: Ball tipping his cap, like good luck whoever our next

1851
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 1: opponent is have fun prepping on this one. I'm gonna

1852
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: show you a wildcat for the first time all season.

1853
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 1: And then they beat them by thirty. This Buffalo Bills

1854
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 1: team is just playing confident, they're having fun, and they're

1855
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 1: the most enjoyable team in the NFL to watch. And

1856
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that from my perspective, that's from

1857
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:35,720
Speaker 1: the text message I get from coast to coast of

1858
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 1: guys watching this team. Yeah, and I would agree with you,

1859
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 1: it is a lot of fun to watch him and

1860
01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:42,640
Speaker 1: I And what do you think happened to that? My

1861
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:45,040
Speaker 1: theory about the Dolphins is this, they came in, they

1862
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: were playing well, and it was a tight game through

1863
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:49,120
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the Bills didn't start scoring until

1864
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,560
Speaker 1: the second quarter, at least, I believe that's what the

1865
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 1: stats said. And you get Yeah, it was zero zero

1866
01:40:56,080 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: through the first quarter, so it was a close game.

1867
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:06,680
Speaker 1: And then Bill starts quarter and it was almost like

1868
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,080
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense just kind of threw their hands up

1869
01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:11,599
Speaker 1: because they thought, man, no matter now, if they've got

1870
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:14,040
Speaker 1: the lead, there's no way our offense can come back

1871
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 1: and beat these guys. They can't come from behind, even

1872
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:18,559
Speaker 1: if it's one score. And certainly, when the Bills got

1873
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 1: up by two scores, you could really see the air

1874
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:24,720
Speaker 1: go away from the Dolphins defense, and I think that

1875
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 1: was a surprise for me. Yeah, I don't want to

1876
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:29,840
Speaker 1: speculate too much into something that I don't know the

1877
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: truans and outs on, but to me to your points, Steve,

1878
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 1: the Bills they were actually down three nothing after the

1879
01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: first quarter, but that was only because Josh Allen threw

1880
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:41,200
Speaker 1: the interception on the second play of the game in

1881
01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:43,920
Speaker 1: their own territory. The Dolphins didn't have to move the

1882
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 1: ball to do it. As soon as the Bills started

1883
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:51,280
Speaker 1: getting some drives together and they saw Tuah couldn't get

1884
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:54,120
Speaker 1: anything going and Ryan Fitzpatrick was not coming in this

1885
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:56,680
Speaker 1: game to save the day. I think it was deflating

1886
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,599
Speaker 1: for them as a team. I've played Miami so many

1887
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:01,640
Speaker 1: times in December and we always said the same thing.

1888
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:06,120
Speaker 1: You get up on a team of Miami early in December, sorry,

1889
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 1: early in the game, in a game in December, it's

1890
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: tough for them. These are tough elements. I mean it

1891
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:13,639
Speaker 1: would be vice versa. Playing down there in the heat.

1892
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:17,720
Speaker 1: It's it's tough conditions and with no fans in the

1893
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: stands and you're playing a team that is so hot.

1894
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 1: It was just deflating for them. But it is surprising

1895
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 1: to me the way that it got out of hand,

1896
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:29,479
Speaker 1: knowing that it was a win and in situation for Miami.

1897
01:42:29,920 --> 01:42:32,400
Speaker 1: To me that that was alarming. That's the thing that

1898
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: got me as well. You got a guy like Brian

1899
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: Flores who we've seen and from a distance, how good

1900
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 1: they play and how hard they play under him. He's

1901
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:44,000
Speaker 1: a he's an inspirational coach. They like playing for him.

1902
01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:47,000
Speaker 1: He's got him there, ten win team for goodness sakes,

1903
01:42:47,640 --> 01:42:51,320
Speaker 1: and he's played the quarterback contrat well with color controversy,

1904
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:55,400
Speaker 1: but between Fits and TWA he's played that masterfully. And

1905
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 1: maybe he got a break against Vegas a week ago

1906
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:00,320
Speaker 1: where they gave him the tenth win. Whatever, it worked.

1907
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 1: So you'd think that with a coach like that, with

1908
01:43:03,520 --> 01:43:06,479
Speaker 1: a situation like that, an opportunity like that, the Dolphins

1909
01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: would show up on fire. And to have them go

1910
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 1: away in the manner that they did was surprising to me. Yeah,

1911
01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:18,559
Speaker 1: it was absolutely to me too. I mean, Brian Flores

1912
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: in many circles was talked about for a Coach of

1913
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:24,720
Speaker 1: the Year candidate up until yesterday, and then today we

1914
01:43:24,840 --> 01:43:27,000
Speaker 1: find out that chan Gailey is going to be let go,

1915
01:43:27,280 --> 01:43:31,639
Speaker 1: and I guess they want to find the next Brian

1916
01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:33,680
Speaker 1: dave Ball call it the guy who can come in

1917
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 1: and develop a tuah and take maybe a little bit

1918
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 1: of the development pressure off of Fits. Who knows if

1919
01:43:40,120 --> 01:43:43,120
Speaker 1: they're able to bring back Fits this offseason. He'll be

1920
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 1: a free agent again this offseason, so and I as

1921
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:47,560
Speaker 1: well as he played this year, who knows if he

1922
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:49,400
Speaker 1: wants to go back to Miami and be a backup.

1923
01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: So all those things considered, I think they want to

1924
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 1: find someone who they can have nurture Tua. That's if

1925
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,360
Speaker 1: they don't take a quarterback in this next draft, assuming

1926
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,320
Speaker 1: because I think they get the fourth pick in the draft.

1927
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: Third right now? Yeah? Third? Sorry, Yeah, I'm back. So yes,

1928
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 1: we figured. But I think the place where we should

1929
01:44:14,320 --> 01:44:16,280
Speaker 1: go now is to take a phone call or two.

1930
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: Here we got some people waiting patiently looking to get

1931
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:21,280
Speaker 1: Eric's take on the game. So we go to Joe

1932
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:23,800
Speaker 1: in North Collins. Joe, what do you have? You're on

1933
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:27,519
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live with Eric Wood. Yeah, hey, Eric, a

1934
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: great player. I loved watching you guys play. I appreciate

1935
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:32,639
Speaker 1: you guys taking my call. I thought the Bills had

1936
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 1: one of the toughest schedules this year, so I am

1937
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:37,000
Speaker 1: surprised we're at thirteen to three, but I'm loving every

1938
01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:40,880
Speaker 1: minute of it. My expectations for this year are I

1939
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: want to see a rematch with Kansas City. I think

1940
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 1: it's I think we can get there, and I think

1941
01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:48,439
Speaker 1: the Bills will be so pumped for that. I think

1942
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:51,600
Speaker 1: it's awesome. The other thing I'd like to say congratulations

1943
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 1: to the Bills. They're first team in NFL history to

1944
01:44:54,360 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: have twenty first sounds in every game in a season.

1945
01:44:57,720 --> 01:45:00,120
Speaker 1: I think for all the great teams out there over

1946
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:02,720
Speaker 1: the years, for the Bills to have that, that's one

1947
01:45:02,800 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 1: heck of an accomplishment and the only one last thing

1948
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:09,760
Speaker 1: for you guys to chew on speculation. Let's have some

1949
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: fun speculating New England Carson Wentz. They've got the cat money,

1950
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: Do they take him. I'm gonna hang up and listen

1951
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,760
Speaker 1: to your answer. Thanks. You guys are great. Yeah. Thanks,

1952
01:45:21,040 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 1: there's gonna be this. This environment in the NFL is

1953
01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 1: different than any environment we've seen in recent history. Do

1954
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:31,639
Speaker 1: you remember this last year? How many quarterbacks were available, right,

1955
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Philip Rivers, Andy Dalton, uh Teddy Bridgewater, starting Calibra. Yeah,

1956
01:45:41,840 --> 01:45:44,600
Speaker 1: there was a ton of guys available who had significance

1957
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: experience in the National Footballage. I think it's going to

1958
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:48,080
Speaker 1: be the same this year. I just saw a thing.

1959
01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:50,800
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott as of now, will be a free agent

1960
01:45:50,880 --> 01:45:54,960
Speaker 1: unless the Dallas Cowboys tag him again. He's going to

1961
01:45:55,000 --> 01:45:59,400
Speaker 1: be a free agent. Carson Wentz might be available, although

1962
01:45:59,439 --> 01:46:03,600
Speaker 1: I think his contract almost he'd have to go to

1963
01:46:03,680 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 1: the Eagles and say, hey, tear this up and throw

1964
01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:08,679
Speaker 1: away twenty million dollars. I don't know if he's ready

1965
01:46:08,720 --> 01:46:11,680
Speaker 1: to do that, even as bad as it is there.

1966
01:46:11,960 --> 01:46:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd be betting on yourself. And I would

1967
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: like to think for a twenty six year old guy

1968
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 1: who was playing at an MVP level just two years

1969
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:22,600
Speaker 1: ago would believe in himself to do that. But he

1970
01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:24,479
Speaker 1: does he pull the trigger on something like that to

1971
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:26,960
Speaker 1: find a new home, I don't know. Eric. My question

1972
01:46:27,040 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 1: to you is, we heard Joe talk about how he

1973
01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 1: wants to see that Kansas City rematch. How much better

1974
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:36,639
Speaker 1: a football team do you think the Bills are now

1975
01:46:37,160 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 1: to the Bills team that played that Chiefs team in

1976
01:46:39,280 --> 01:46:43,120
Speaker 1: Week six? I think they're a lot better, and I

1977
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:46,639
Speaker 1: think they're defensive numbers these last five, six, seven weeks

1978
01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: prove it. I mean, this is a defense that has

1979
01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 1: climbed back into the top fifteen, top ten in a

1980
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:55,680
Speaker 1: lot of statistical categories after at the point when they

1981
01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:58,479
Speaker 1: played Kansas City, most of them in the twenties. And

1982
01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:00,960
Speaker 1: so this is a defense that's a lot better. Ball

1983
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,680
Speaker 1: that was an offense that wasn't nearly as confident as

1984
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 1: they are right now, they weren't nearly as experienced as

1985
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 1: playing together. This Stefan Diggs connection was. It was fine

1986
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,800
Speaker 1: then it was showing up, but that wasn't showing up

1987
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:16,960
Speaker 1: like it is now. I think this Bills team is

1988
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:19,320
Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders right now, so you're a lot

1989
01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 1: more prepared to play this Kansas City team. Kansas City

1990
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 1: has not won in the fashion that the Buffalo Bills had,

1991
01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:28,880
Speaker 1: but they are, you know, obviously the number one seed

1992
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:32,599
Speaker 1: heading into the best record in the league, defending Super

1993
01:47:32,640 --> 01:47:34,559
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. They were the top dogs at this point.

1994
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,560
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're super excited about playing the

1995
01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:41,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. No disrespect when I ask you this, because

1996
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:44,000
Speaker 1: the teams that you played on here in Buffalo won

1997
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:47,640
Speaker 1: games in this fashion to a great degree. But the

1998
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 1: Colts are a running football team first, and they've got

1999
01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:56,960
Speaker 1: two really good runners in Hines and Jonathan Taylor. I

2000
01:47:57,120 --> 01:47:59,880
Speaker 1: just don't know if that's a good formula against this

2001
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 1: Bills team, because I don't see how, even if you

2002
01:48:03,040 --> 01:48:06,479
Speaker 1: are successful running the football, how you keep pace with

2003
01:48:06,640 --> 01:48:09,040
Speaker 1: this Bill's offense. How do you see it? At least

2004
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: at first blush here on a Monday before a Saturday

2005
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:19,560
Speaker 1: wildcard game. Yeah. The thing to me is if you

2006
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:23,080
Speaker 1: can get stops on defense early and run the football,

2007
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:26,639
Speaker 1: then it becomes deflating for a team. If the Bills

2008
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:29,920
Speaker 1: score a quick touchdown and the Colts drive it down

2009
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 1: and take their time and the Bills can continue to

2010
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 1: answer offensively. You know, you got to think that if

2011
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,920
Speaker 1: the Colts are going to rely on their rush offense,

2012
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: you're going to get a holding call, You're going to

2013
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:43,639
Speaker 1: get something to delay a drive, you're going to get

2014
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:46,639
Speaker 1: off schedule, and at that point you have them beat.

2015
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:49,560
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers has played pretty well when I you know,

2016
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:53,719
Speaker 1: in the past playing in Orchard Park with the Chargers.

2017
01:48:53,840 --> 01:48:56,360
Speaker 1: Obviously we haven't seen him play in Orchard Park with

2018
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:59,479
Speaker 1: the Colts, but their rush offense is good. That where

2019
01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:02,439
Speaker 1: you become I'm concerned is if they can get stops

2020
01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: early and then you limit the amount of possessions in

2021
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 1: the game. And that's when Frank Wright, being an experienced

2022
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:11,840
Speaker 1: play caller, would say, hey, let's keep this ball on

2023
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 1: the ground. Let's suck the life out of this game,

2024
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:15,800
Speaker 1: because this is not a game that the Bills have

2025
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:19,519
Speaker 1: been used to playing. When they're riding this this streaked.

2026
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:22,320
Speaker 1: They're on of nine of ten victories and a hail

2027
01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:25,920
Speaker 1: Mary away from ten in a row. They've been flying high. Yeah,

2028
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: it comes down to possessions and how many possessions you

2029
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 1: can score on and how many touchdowns versus field goals

2030
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:33,800
Speaker 1: as opposed to what your defense does, and if they

2031
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:38,080
Speaker 1: can get them off the field, if they skip two

2032
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: possessions in a row, if they go three and out

2033
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: or even have a five play drive and get a

2034
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:44,280
Speaker 1: first down and change the field position, put it back

2035
01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:47,000
Speaker 1: into your end if you answer that, this Bills team

2036
01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 1: is really difficult to get off the field, particularly on

2037
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:52,360
Speaker 1: third down because a lot of things third down team

2038
01:49:52,400 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 1: in football. They're the best their down team in football,

2039
01:49:54,280 --> 01:49:56,719
Speaker 1: and they have the best percentage on first down throws

2040
01:49:56,760 --> 01:50:00,200
Speaker 1: in football. They average the average almost seven year as

2041
01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:03,639
Speaker 1: a play on first down. Yeah, I mean they're they're

2042
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:06,080
Speaker 1: they're the only team in NFL history with twenty first

2043
01:50:06,160 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: downs in every game they've played this year, and they're

2044
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 1: killing it. So it comes down to try and I

2045
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:16,120
Speaker 1: think it comes down to this. You got to play

2046
01:50:16,240 --> 01:50:18,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. When you talk playing the Buffalo Bills, you

2047
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:20,879
Speaker 1: gotta do something to get him to throw the football

2048
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:22,479
Speaker 1: where he doesn't want to throw it or get him

2049
01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:25,200
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's been a real problem for most teams.

2050
01:50:25,240 --> 01:50:28,760
Speaker 1: He's got his offensive line's playing great, and everybody around

2051
01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:31,880
Speaker 1: him is playing better too. But what is your thought

2052
01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:35,000
Speaker 1: about what you think a team has to do to

2053
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:39,960
Speaker 1: get the bills off this forty point a week offensive?

2054
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:45,120
Speaker 1: You know, EXPI explosion there on. You know, I think

2055
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: at some point you have to go to a bend,

2056
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:50,439
Speaker 1: but don't break mentality. Now you're gonna go down in

2057
01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:52,680
Speaker 1: flames with a fan base if you just let a

2058
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:56,280
Speaker 1: team Nicolin dime you down the field for three or

2059
01:50:56,320 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: four consecutive ten play drives to start a game, because

2060
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,960
Speaker 1: giving up too much underneath stuff, you're giving them free

2061
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 1: access on the outside. And Josh Allen has become very

2062
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:10,240
Speaker 1: good at taking those free plays outside. And Stefan Diggs

2063
01:51:10,280 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: and a number of those guys can make plays with

2064
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands after they catch the ball.

2065
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:16,439
Speaker 1: And so I don't know that that's an exact recipe.

2066
01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 1: I think on third down, if you sit back one,

2067
01:51:19,479 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: if you're in man coverage, Josh is always liable to

2068
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:24,479
Speaker 1: rip off thirty with his legs. You always have to

2069
01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:28,320
Speaker 1: be careful playing that, plus Cole Beasley and Digs in

2070
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 1: particular matchup Nightmares and man. Then when you get to

2071
01:51:31,960 --> 01:51:34,000
Speaker 1: zone you can keep everything more in front of you.

2072
01:51:35,080 --> 01:51:39,120
Speaker 1: But to me, those guys have become so good and

2073
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: so comfortable at moving in that zone, and then as

2074
01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:43,960
Speaker 1: soon as Josh scrambles the pocket and you're not matched

2075
01:51:44,040 --> 01:51:45,960
Speaker 1: up with a guy, that's when you've seen those huge

2076
01:51:46,080 --> 01:51:50,439
Speaker 1: plays down the field when Josh changes that angle of attack,

2077
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:53,639
Speaker 1: angle of pass, and those guys have become so good

2078
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:56,600
Speaker 1: at the scramble drill that they punish zone defense. But

2079
01:51:56,880 --> 01:51:59,000
Speaker 1: I think the rest is so I think you come

2080
01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:01,040
Speaker 1: after him a little bit on third down, make him

2081
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:04,320
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball, play the assumed that the

2082
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 1: ball's got to come out of his hands if you

2083
01:52:06,040 --> 01:52:10,040
Speaker 1: pressure him. Maybe use some of the tactics of Baltimore

2084
01:52:10,080 --> 01:52:13,280
Speaker 1: in New England last year and just try and get

2085
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:15,840
Speaker 1: some stops that way on third down and try and

2086
01:52:16,040 --> 01:52:18,439
Speaker 1: ben but try and get the Bills to go to

2087
01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:22,479
Speaker 1: the run game, which if the forecast says stays where

2088
01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 1: it is right now, if it's twenty nine and Sonny,

2089
01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 1: that's perfect weather for Josh to rip the ball around

2090
01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:30,840
Speaker 1: the yard again. Yeah, it most certainly is. I had

2091
01:52:30,840 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 1: an interesting question for you, Eric, because I gotta We

2092
01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:36,719
Speaker 1: were talking to Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer who sat

2093
01:52:36,760 --> 01:52:40,200
Speaker 1: together on the post game Zoom call after the game yesterday,

2094
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 1: and they were asked about what has happened to this

2095
01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:48,000
Speaker 1: team since the bye week? Because since the bye I

2096
01:52:48,080 --> 01:52:50,639
Speaker 1: mean this team went from being on a slow ascent

2097
01:52:51,040 --> 01:52:53,960
Speaker 1: to like a rocket ship going into orbit here in

2098
01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:57,280
Speaker 1: all three phases, and I thought it was very interesting

2099
01:52:57,760 --> 01:53:00,800
Speaker 1: that both Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer said that that

2100
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:05,680
Speaker 1: Hail Mary taught them something, which was we never want

2101
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:08,400
Speaker 1: to put ourselves in a position in a game ever

2102
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:13,519
Speaker 1: again where one outstanding play can beat us. And what's

2103
01:53:13,560 --> 01:53:17,360
Speaker 1: been the result of that blowout victories? Like they went

2104
01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:22,880
Speaker 1: from being a confident team winning games to utter annihilation

2105
01:53:23,360 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: of everybody that has stood in their way since could

2106
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Speaker 1: in a weird way, Eric, that Hail Mary defeat maybe

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01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:35,160
Speaker 1: serve as the best tonic for this team the rest

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01:53:35,240 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: of the way. Absolutely, And I think honestly the Kansas

2109
01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: City and Tennessee games before that, after a really hot

2110
01:53:44,160 --> 01:53:49,480
Speaker 1: start or humbling for this team, it made them refocus, recalibrate,

2111
01:53:49,840 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 1: focus on their technique a little bit more. And we

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01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:56,000
Speaker 1: heard it a lot after the Kansas City in Tennessee

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01:53:56,120 --> 01:53:57,960
Speaker 1: games that it's it's a lot of technique. And we

2114
01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:00,479
Speaker 1: heard that from Sean McDermott and Sean mcder I mean,

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01:54:00,560 --> 01:54:03,360
Speaker 1: even through the bye week, was messing with offensive lineman

2116
01:54:03,439 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 1: up front, seeing what his best five combination we're going

2117
01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:09,240
Speaker 1: to be, even when guys got healthy, with Mitch Morris

2118
01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:12,200
Speaker 1: being on the sideline for a game, and look how

2119
01:54:12,240 --> 01:54:14,559
Speaker 1: well he's playing now. And I'm not saying I would

2120
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:16,679
Speaker 1: have liked that to happen to me in my career,

2121
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:19,719
Speaker 1: but he lit a fire under a number of guys

2122
01:54:20,040 --> 01:54:22,519
Speaker 1: through those couple of weeks with the Kansas City and

2123
01:54:22,560 --> 01:54:24,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee game. And then when you get to drive the

2124
01:54:24,880 --> 01:54:27,599
Speaker 1: lesson home, that guy's And this is something we saw

2125
01:54:28,040 --> 01:54:30,519
Speaker 1: in the media constantly ask Sean about, Hey, you're building

2126
01:54:30,640 --> 01:54:34,120
Speaker 1: these leads and you're hanging on at the end, or

2127
01:54:34,160 --> 01:54:37,560
Speaker 1: you're coming back at the end, but these third quarters

2128
01:54:37,920 --> 01:54:42,080
Speaker 1: that you're getting crushed in, how does that? How do

2129
01:54:42,120 --> 01:54:44,280
Speaker 1: you put an end to that? And I think the

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01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 1: Hail Mary, I mean, you could go back and stat

2131
01:54:46,440 --> 01:54:49,640
Speaker 1: check that, but ever since that Hail Mary game, it

2132
01:54:49,920 --> 01:54:52,280
Speaker 1: wasn't hey, let's hold on in the second half, Let's

2133
01:54:52,280 --> 01:54:55,080
Speaker 1: play conservative, Let's not make that big mistake on offense,

2134
01:54:55,200 --> 01:54:58,960
Speaker 1: Let's not throw a pick. It became guys, keep making place,

2135
01:54:59,240 --> 01:55:02,200
Speaker 1: keep firing on the field, to the point where even

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01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:03,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the game yesterday, and I know

2137
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:06,720
Speaker 1: this was getting your back up some reps and getting

2138
01:55:06,760 --> 01:55:09,320
Speaker 1: Barkley some action in case you need them, but they

2139
01:55:09,360 --> 01:55:12,440
Speaker 1: were throwing bombs in the fourth quarter up twenty something

2140
01:55:12,520 --> 01:55:15,320
Speaker 1: points on Miami because they're not letting up the gas

2141
01:55:15,520 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 1: for anybody now and it's become their new mentality. They

2142
01:55:18,680 --> 01:55:21,240
Speaker 1: have ten They have won by at least ten points

2143
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:24,880
Speaker 1: in every game since that bye week. How much of

2144
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:28,200
Speaker 1: that is the coaching staff and not the players though,

2145
01:55:28,360 --> 01:55:30,840
Speaker 1: calling those plays, going after it sending, you know, being

2146
01:55:30,920 --> 01:55:33,720
Speaker 1: aggressive coaching wise, And was that a lesson that the

2147
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 1: coaching staff had to learn as well? Yeah, I would

2148
01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:39,000
Speaker 1: assume so, without being in the meetings, I would assume

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01:55:39,040 --> 01:55:41,600
Speaker 1: that's the case, because Steve, you know, as a player,

2150
01:55:42,720 --> 01:55:44,720
Speaker 1: you know you're going out and approaching each play to

2151
01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:47,840
Speaker 1: do your job. And yes, there's more emotional times of

2152
01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: the game than others, but for an offensive lineman, you're

2153
01:55:50,160 --> 01:55:52,080
Speaker 1: trying to do your job every play as a quarterback,

2154
01:55:52,240 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: you're trying to execute every play. You're just you're trying

2155
01:55:54,840 --> 01:55:58,360
Speaker 1: to Maybe I would say kind of the emotion runs

2156
01:55:58,440 --> 01:56:00,680
Speaker 1: higher on the defensive side of the foot ball as

2157
01:56:00,720 --> 01:56:04,360
Speaker 1: a game kind of goes into bigger stages offensively, you know,

2158
01:56:04,480 --> 01:56:07,280
Speaker 1: you're you're executing what's at hand each and every play.

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01:56:07,360 --> 01:56:08,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I think a lot of it

2160
01:56:09,320 --> 01:56:11,720
Speaker 1: was the coaching staff, And you know, I don't I

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01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:14,920
Speaker 1: don't fault them this. This is a coaching staff that

2162
01:56:15,120 --> 01:56:18,640
Speaker 1: is learning their group. You know, this team was not

2163
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:21,880
Speaker 1: suited to run the ball through the third quarter and

2164
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:24,560
Speaker 1: to grind out games. Now they've gotten better at that.

2165
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Speaker 1: Their four minuted offense has been great when they've needed

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01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:31,240
Speaker 1: it in the past month or so, but they didn't

2167
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:33,760
Speaker 1: have that earlier in the year when they tried to

2168
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,720
Speaker 1: grind out games on the ground. It allowed the other

2169
01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 1: team to have more possessions in the second half, and

2170
01:56:39,120 --> 01:56:41,600
Speaker 1: that's where you saw some comebacks. What I know that

2171
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:43,680
Speaker 1: it worked out wonderfully for the Bills, But what did

2172
01:56:43,720 --> 01:56:46,640
Speaker 1: you think about the decision to play starters like Josh

2173
01:56:46,720 --> 01:56:49,440
Speaker 1: and those guys, Digs and the guys they said, how

2174
01:56:49,520 --> 01:56:52,280
Speaker 1: did What did you think about their personnel plan of,

2175
01:56:53,360 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, saving their starters from injury, but yet letting

2176
01:56:56,080 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: them play an entire half. I know it worked out perfect,

2177
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:00,440
Speaker 1: but a lot of people are like, wow, they let

2178
01:57:00,520 --> 01:57:02,160
Speaker 1: him play a lot longer than they thought they would.

2179
01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,680
Speaker 1: I'll admit I was nervous. I'm not gonna lie, I'm

2180
01:57:06,680 --> 01:57:08,840
Speaker 1: not gonna sugarcoat it. I was nervous when they did

2181
01:57:08,880 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 1: it in the extent to which they did it. Now,

2182
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:14,840
Speaker 1: you can only rest so many guys on a game day.

2183
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:19,040
Speaker 1: You cannot hide defensive players. So they could have gone

2184
01:57:19,080 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: at Tredavious White, Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison. Those guys couldn't

2185
01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:25,960
Speaker 1: cut block. You can get rid of the ball at

2186
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:28,120
Speaker 1: quarterback and say I'm not gonna take any shots to

2187
01:57:28,200 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: stay healthy through this game. You can tell Stefon Diggs

2188
01:57:31,280 --> 01:57:33,440
Speaker 1: to slide, even though I didn't think he slid fast

2189
01:57:33,520 --> 01:57:35,600
Speaker 1: enough at times, and I thought he looked awkward sliding

2190
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:38,520
Speaker 1: other times. And anytime you're playing not to get hurt,

2191
01:57:38,600 --> 01:57:40,480
Speaker 1: which it looked like he was at times. Now he's

2192
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:45,400
Speaker 1: still racked up yards and catches. He looked awkward sliding

2193
01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:48,800
Speaker 1: at times, which scared me to death. Honestly, I thought, man,

2194
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:51,360
Speaker 1: this is a recipe to get injured, because he took

2195
01:57:51,360 --> 01:57:53,440
Speaker 1: a couple of shots while he was sliding and then

2196
01:57:53,480 --> 01:57:55,760
Speaker 1: one time his leg kind of crossed under him. But

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01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:59,240
Speaker 1: it all worked out. And if you're Sean McDermott, you

2198
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,040
Speaker 1: rested your starters besides the first series of the game.

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01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:05,080
Speaker 1: Last year in a meaningless game in Week seventeen, you

2200
01:58:05,200 --> 01:58:08,160
Speaker 1: got smoked at home, and you know what, that's fine,

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01:58:08,160 --> 01:58:10,400
Speaker 1: everyone stayed healthy. But then you went and lost your

2202
01:58:10,440 --> 01:58:13,440
Speaker 1: first playoff game. If I'm Sean McDermott, I'm saying, what

2203
01:58:13,640 --> 01:58:17,160
Speaker 1: are we doing differently to prevent a lackluster performance a

2204
01:58:17,240 --> 01:58:19,720
Speaker 1: week one of the laffs? And you know what, for him,

2205
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:23,440
Speaker 1: that was staying in a rhythm offensively, And like I said,

2206
01:58:23,560 --> 01:58:26,480
Speaker 1: maybe he just felt like defensibly he couldn't hide a

2207
01:58:26,520 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 1: few of those guys, like maybe he could tell Josh

2208
01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:33,240
Speaker 1: quick throws and all that, and you get you. Now

2209
01:58:33,280 --> 01:58:36,080
Speaker 1: you're heading into the playoffs, your offense is still confident,

2210
01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:39,520
Speaker 1: and you did something different than last year, and maybe

2211
01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:41,760
Speaker 1: that's all he wanted. And I thought Mitch Morris made

2212
01:58:41,760 --> 01:58:43,560
Speaker 1: a good point after the game too. He said, you know,

2213
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:47,000
Speaker 1: late in the year. Practice doesn't involve a lot of

2214
01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:49,280
Speaker 1: work with pads this time of the year, So to

2215
01:58:49,400 --> 01:58:53,600
Speaker 1: get week seventeen game reps in pads in the game

2216
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:57,960
Speaker 1: situation is valuable for the starters if even for a half,

2217
01:58:58,040 --> 01:58:59,880
Speaker 1: I want to get to one phone call real quicker,

2218
01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:02,120
Speaker 1: because I think you could we could tap into your

2219
01:59:02,160 --> 01:59:05,080
Speaker 1: expertise with an answer. We've got Jack and Buffalo, who's

2220
01:59:05,080 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 1: got a question about the Bills run defense against the

2221
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:11,440
Speaker 1: Colts rushing offense. What do you have for us? Jack, Eric,

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01:59:12,400 --> 01:59:16,280
Speaker 1: thank you very much for your observations earlier. Clearly the

2223
01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 1: health of our linebackers and the dominance of our offense

2224
01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:23,520
Speaker 1: has helped the chemistry of the defense as well. But

2225
01:59:23,640 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 1: earlier in the year we had some concerns about our

2226
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:30,080
Speaker 1: defense against the running game, and particularly backs like Taylor

2227
01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:34,200
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry can give team sits. Any thoughts you

2228
01:59:34,400 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 1: have on the strategy of dominance on defense against the

2229
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:42,200
Speaker 1: running game. Certainly, Indy has a very strong offensive line.

2230
01:59:44,680 --> 01:59:47,760
Speaker 1: Indy does have a great offensive line, and you know what,

2231
01:59:47,960 --> 01:59:49,640
Speaker 1: midway through the season, I would have been a lot

2232
01:59:49,800 --> 01:59:52,080
Speaker 1: more concerned about their run game than I am. Now.

2233
01:59:52,280 --> 01:59:54,800
Speaker 1: You brought up a great point about the linebackers. Milano

2234
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:58,200
Speaker 1: and Edmonds both being healthy right now makes a huge difference,

2235
01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 1: makes a huge difference that they've found the right combinations

2236
02:00:01,800 --> 02:00:05,960
Speaker 1: up front to play those guys on rundowns. Harrison Phillips,

2237
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Speaker 1: I've mentioned it before. It took me eighteen months after

2238
02:00:08,360 --> 02:00:11,960
Speaker 1: an ACL surgery to feel myself again. I think we

2239
02:00:12,080 --> 02:00:14,520
Speaker 1: put a little too much stock heading into the season

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Speaker 1: that Harrison Phillips was just going to replace your veteran

2241
02:00:18,280 --> 02:00:22,920
Speaker 1: highest paid defensive lineman when he was signed in starltul Like, hey,

2242
02:00:23,640 --> 02:00:25,560
Speaker 1: just plug Harrison backing, and well, he's coming off a

2243
02:00:25,640 --> 02:00:28,360
Speaker 1: torn ACL. That's tougher to do that, it seems, especially

2244
02:00:28,400 --> 02:00:31,360
Speaker 1: without any preseason work. So you signed three free agent

2245
02:00:31,440 --> 02:00:35,360
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, you got Harrison Phillips coming off a torn ACL,

2246
02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:38,240
Speaker 1: you got both your linebackers dinged up, and you know what,

2247
02:00:38,680 --> 02:00:41,320
Speaker 1: Holy smokes, we gave up a bunch of rushing yards

2248
02:00:41,360 --> 02:00:43,880
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, and you know, the Rams were able

2249
02:00:43,920 --> 02:00:47,240
Speaker 1: to run the ball effectively. I read this yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was a really good point when the Bills

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02:00:49,280 --> 02:00:51,520
Speaker 1: really wanted to hunker down. And this is even before

2252
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: the resurgence of this run defense late in the year

2253
02:00:54,280 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 1: when they really wanted to stop a running back, it

2254
02:00:56,280 --> 02:00:58,240
Speaker 1: was Derrick Henry and they held him to his lowest

2255
02:00:58,440 --> 02:01:01,920
Speaker 1: yards per carry and or rushing yards in a game

2256
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:04,640
Speaker 1: of the entire season a two thousand yard run. Are

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02:01:04,680 --> 02:01:06,560
Speaker 1: only eight in the history of the NFL have done it.

2258
02:01:07,080 --> 02:01:09,640
Speaker 1: So they were able to do it then, I'm confident

2259
02:01:09,760 --> 02:01:13,880
Speaker 1: if the Bills put their right emphasis on stopping the

2260
02:01:13,960 --> 02:01:16,200
Speaker 1: run game this week that they will. I just don't

2261
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:19,320
Speaker 1: want them to go overboard, because you can give up

2262
02:01:19,640 --> 02:01:22,160
Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing to the Colts one hundred and

2263
02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:25,320
Speaker 1: fifty yards rushing still clamp Philip Rivers in the receiving

2264
02:01:25,360 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 1: corpsdown like you've done with your past defense recently, and

2265
02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:32,640
Speaker 1: get out there with maybe a double digit win. All right, Eric,

2266
02:01:32,760 --> 02:01:34,600
Speaker 1: we are at a time, but thanks for the insight

2267
02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:36,480
Speaker 1: on that. I'm glad I squeezed that phone call in

2268
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: because I figured Eric could answer it a lot better

2269
02:01:38,240 --> 02:01:40,360
Speaker 1: than we could. When you get into that run game stuff,

2270
02:01:40,400 --> 02:01:42,760
Speaker 1: that's his bread and butter. All right, Eric, thanks for

2271
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:45,200
Speaker 1: the time. As always, we'll look for you on Chopping

2272
02:01:45,240 --> 02:01:48,040
Speaker 1: Wood on the Sean McDermott Show, and hopefully we're talking

2273
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 1: about good things next Monday when we catch up with

2274
02:01:50,440 --> 02:01:54,960
Speaker 1: you again. Absolutely, go Bills, have a go with week guys.

2275
02:01:55,160 --> 02:01:58,320
Speaker 1: Thanks Eric would joining us here on One Bill's Live.

2276
02:01:58,440 --> 02:02:01,120
Speaker 1: Break time for us, but we'll be back more, including

2277
02:02:01,160 --> 02:02:03,000
Speaker 1: a phone call or two. And we got to still

2278
02:02:03,080 --> 02:02:05,760
Speaker 1: check the tweet sheets Steve to see how the expectations

2279
02:02:06,040 --> 02:02:09,760
Speaker 1: of you the fan have changed after three consecutive dominant

2280
02:02:09,840 --> 02:02:12,680
Speaker 1: victories by the Bills. Back in a flash. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Ground. Steve cast there One Bills Live. It's times

2283
02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:34,720
Speaker 1: to go around the locker room thanks to connect Life,

2284
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: your blood and organ donor network, and we begin with

2285
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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde, who was asked about the defensive resurgence since

2286
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Speaker 1: the bye week. We've been rolling as I'm sure we

2287
02:02:48,720 --> 02:02:52,240
Speaker 1: got confidence, you know, wonder football few I think speaking defensively,

2288
02:02:52,360 --> 02:02:54,800
Speaker 1: all eleven guys are confidence and got next to um.

2289
02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:57,080
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's when we're planning. Good bought us.

2290
02:02:57,440 --> 02:02:59,080
Speaker 1: That's when you have a good team. And so we

2291
02:02:59,200 --> 02:03:02,080
Speaker 1: felt that and obviously before the ball had a hearton

2292
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:04,200
Speaker 1: a game and when you lost that and I think

2293
02:03:04,360 --> 02:03:06,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change for the world. I don't regret losing

2294
02:03:06,440 --> 02:03:09,000
Speaker 1: that game at all because, um, it made it made

2295
02:03:09,080 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: us a bit of defense and made it's a bit

2296
02:03:10,400 --> 02:03:12,760
Speaker 1: of team. And understand we should have won that game.

2297
02:03:13,120 --> 02:03:15,920
Speaker 1: Obviously shooting would have don't don't do anything, but um

2298
02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he were just rolling after that.

2299
02:03:18,320 --> 02:03:20,040
Speaker 1: You know, we knew that we get that game away.

2300
02:03:20,120 --> 02:03:22,400
Speaker 1: We had to keep going. Good football teams don't give

2301
02:03:22,400 --> 02:03:25,840
Speaker 1: away those games that we've just been rolling and uh.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer addressed that very same subject. He commented on

2303
02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:32,920
Speaker 1: how the Cardinals lost in Week ten on the Hail

2304
02:03:33,000 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: Mary had a major impact on their current level of play.

2305
02:03:39,200 --> 02:03:41,600
Speaker 1: You're kind of able to look back and reflect. Obviously,

2306
02:03:41,680 --> 02:03:43,880
Speaker 1: we feel like we shouldn't have lost that game. Um

2307
02:03:44,200 --> 02:03:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, three of you know, three of our defenders

2308
02:03:46,840 --> 02:03:48,440
Speaker 1: in a position to make the play. Even like to

2309
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:50,320
Speaker 1: think that, you know, we're able to make that play.

2310
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I've played as

2311
02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: a game long enough that you're gonna be on the

2312
02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:58,520
Speaker 1: bad end some players in order to you know, one

2313
02:03:58,560 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: player is not gonna define me as a player or

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Speaker 1: no life as a player. You know, we're damn good

2315
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Speaker 1: players and so to be able to move on and

2316
02:04:06,400 --> 02:04:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, compartmentalize what that right now, you know that

2317
02:04:10,200 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: that play happened, you learn from it, and you move on.

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Speaker 1: And I definitely think it made us stronger um as

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Speaker 1: a unit, as a core group, and I mean you

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Speaker 1: can go back from twenty seventeen the things that we've

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Speaker 1: gone through to continue to make us who we are

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Speaker 1: right now, and uh, you know we're just able to

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02:04:24,280 --> 02:04:30,680
Speaker 1: controls and closed that season the game. So there it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, two of your most veteran players on the

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Speaker 1: defensive units saying, were it not for that Haile Murray,

2326
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:40,520
Speaker 1: we might not be playing the level of defensive football

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02:04:40,520 --> 02:04:43,560
Speaker 1: you're seeing from us now and the step on the

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02:04:43,720 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: throat mentality that this team has adopted since that one

2329
02:04:48,200 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 1: play beat them in that game, that killer instinct came about.

2330
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Speaker 1: You think about the way they were before that play

2331
02:04:54,560 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: in Miami Dolphins or no, maybe it's a Jet game.

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02:04:58,480 --> 02:05:01,200
Speaker 1: The Jet game opening Seaton. Didn't they have to defend

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02:05:01,280 --> 02:05:03,760
Speaker 1: an onside kick. They had to defend an onside kick

2334
02:05:03,800 --> 02:05:05,440
Speaker 1: in the Miami Dolphins game, they had to defend an

2335
02:05:05,480 --> 02:05:07,560
Speaker 1: onside kick in the Rams game. All these teams come

2336
02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:10,440
Speaker 1: back and they're all hanging in all these teams are

2337
02:05:10,480 --> 02:05:14,680
Speaker 1: hanging in now, nobody's kicking on side kicks down thirty

2338
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Speaker 1: twenty nine, twenty nine. They're not down, they're not kicking,

2339
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Speaker 1: they're not defending those. They haven't defended one of those

2340
02:05:21,200 --> 02:05:22,880
Speaker 1: in two and a half months. Well, I mean, I

2341
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:26,919
Speaker 1: think they saw that even though they have an offense

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02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:29,920
Speaker 1: that can hang with anybody, if the defense doesn't bring

2343
02:05:29,960 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 1: their lunch pail every single week, they leave themselves vulnerable

2344
02:05:35,880 --> 02:05:39,360
Speaker 1: to an unfortunate set of circumstances. Right, So, I think

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02:05:39,440 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 1: collectively and probably not just the defensive unit, collectively as

2346
02:05:43,440 --> 02:05:47,440
Speaker 1: a team, they sat down and said, look, we're good

2347
02:05:47,560 --> 02:05:50,600
Speaker 1: enough to lay waste to the rest of this league.

2348
02:05:50,840 --> 02:05:54,520
Speaker 1: We're that good, so we are going to annihilate anyone

2349
02:05:54,560 --> 02:05:58,280
Speaker 1: in our path so something like this does not happen

2350
02:05:58,320 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 1: again and ruin our Season's exactly right, then that's where

2351
02:06:01,760 --> 02:06:03,760
Speaker 1: you have to be. That's exactly where you need to be.

2352
02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:07,400
Speaker 1: You need to put people away and because in the

2353
02:06:07,760 --> 02:06:11,800
Speaker 1: playoffs it doesn't matter. And you ask the Minnesota Vikings

2354
02:06:11,840 --> 02:06:14,880
Speaker 1: and in the New Orleans Saints about the miracle in

2355
02:06:14,960 --> 02:06:18,160
Speaker 1: Minneapolis where Steph Diggs catches that ball when in a

2356
02:06:18,320 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 1: lost cause, two guys misplay it boom, touchdown, Saints go home,

2357
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:27,720
Speaker 1: Vikings move on. You go into a play down in

2358
02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:33,600
Speaker 1: New Orleans. When the Rams defender Nickel Roby Coleman knows

2359
02:06:33,720 --> 02:06:35,640
Speaker 1: he's beat he's gonna give up a touchdown, he just

2360
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:38,160
Speaker 1: flat out and whacks the guys him out and there's

2361
02:06:38,200 --> 02:06:40,680
Speaker 1: no call. He just they get lucky. That kind of

2362
02:06:40,720 --> 02:06:43,200
Speaker 1: thing happens in tight games. You can go down, go

2363
02:06:43,320 --> 02:06:46,480
Speaker 1: down the list in Minneapolis, miracle by Diggs, that's right,

2364
02:06:47,080 --> 02:06:50,520
Speaker 1: that's yeah, in one score game, that's it. That's how

2365
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:52,120
Speaker 1: close it has. That's all the closer. You have to

2366
02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:54,760
Speaker 1: be the home run throwback way back in the day,

2367
02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:58,959
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Um, you gotta have the ability

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02:06:59,040 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 1: to put teams away and continue to make plays and

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02:07:03,480 --> 02:07:05,760
Speaker 1: keep the game one when the game seems like you've

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02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:08,760
Speaker 1: already won it. Yeah, and you just got to keep

2371
02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:12,640
Speaker 1: pushing through that. Yeah. And that'll be even harder to

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02:07:12,840 --> 02:07:15,760
Speaker 1: do in the playoffs where you're playing better competition. But

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02:07:16,600 --> 02:07:19,720
Speaker 1: I think the momentum that they've generated and the reward

2374
02:07:19,880 --> 02:07:23,120
Speaker 1: that they have gotten, I'm not saying they're breathing easy

2375
02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:25,520
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, but they're not worried about getting

2376
02:07:25,520 --> 02:07:27,640
Speaker 1: beat on. One play and that changing the course of

2377
02:07:27,680 --> 02:07:30,600
Speaker 1: the game. I think it's given them a tremendous piece

2378
02:07:30,640 --> 02:07:34,400
Speaker 1: of mind and taught them a valuable lesson and they've

2379
02:07:34,440 --> 02:07:37,640
Speaker 1: been the beneficiaries of it. Now, go do it in

2380
02:07:37,680 --> 02:07:39,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You got to put your foot down on

2381
02:07:39,680 --> 02:07:42,080
Speaker 1: the pedal even harder now because you got teams are

2382
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,200
Speaker 1: gonna be able to hang in with you all the better.

2383
02:07:44,320 --> 02:07:48,840
Speaker 1: And being able as a group in a room. When

2384
02:07:48,840 --> 02:07:52,920
Speaker 1: you're head coach and when you publicly and collectively acknowledge

2385
02:07:53,360 --> 02:07:58,760
Speaker 1: that that's the idea, it brings it to the forefront.

2386
02:07:58,800 --> 02:08:01,000
Speaker 1: When you're on the sidelines in your you're in the

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02:08:01,200 --> 02:08:05,240
Speaker 1: game with the Miami Dolphins and you're up forty you're

2388
02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:09,480
Speaker 1: up forty nine to thirteen. That mentality then does not

2389
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:12,280
Speaker 1: go away. It's like, it doesn't matter. We're not giving

2390
02:08:12,360 --> 02:08:14,400
Speaker 1: up another Hail May. We're not gonna give these guys anything.

2391
02:08:14,520 --> 02:08:17,200
Speaker 1: Let's go. That's not the way we operate anymore. This

2392
02:08:17,360 --> 02:08:20,040
Speaker 1: isn't like it was when we played Arizona. We're gonna

2393
02:08:20,160 --> 02:08:22,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna crush these guys, So let's go. And that

2394
02:08:23,120 --> 02:08:26,200
Speaker 1: and that's what gets you from forty nine to fifty

2395
02:08:26,280 --> 02:08:31,560
Speaker 1: six or even thirty two, which they have Arizone. It

2396
02:08:31,640 --> 02:08:33,160
Speaker 1: gets you thirty five to thirteen, and then you go

2397
02:08:33,240 --> 02:08:35,160
Speaker 1: forty two to thirteen. That's what gets you to forty

2398
02:08:35,240 --> 02:08:37,440
Speaker 1: nine to thirteen. That's what gets you to forty nine

2399
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:41,200
Speaker 1: nineteen and then fifty six nineteen. You know, that's what

2400
02:08:41,400 --> 02:08:43,840
Speaker 1: gets you there. And because think about it, if you

2401
02:08:43,960 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 1: let up, if you think, wow, we're done, it's it's

2402
02:08:46,480 --> 02:08:50,120
Speaker 1: twenty eight thirteen. We're done. They are up twenty six. Yeah,

2403
02:08:50,160 --> 02:08:52,800
Speaker 1: they're on a seeking destroy mission every single week. And

2404
02:08:53,680 --> 02:08:56,160
Speaker 1: I think it's due in large part to what happened

2405
02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:58,040
Speaker 1: in that Arizona game. I don't think there's any question

2406
02:08:58,120 --> 02:09:00,240
Speaker 1: about it. Let's go to the tweet sheet, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

2408
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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. What are your Blue's playoff expectations

2409
02:09:07,080 --> 02:09:10,240
Speaker 1: after a third straight beat down of an opponent, Bryan says,

2410
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:13,720
Speaker 1: I expect two playoff wins. Four wins is the ceiling,

2411
02:09:14,000 --> 02:09:16,280
Speaker 1: and there's not a team other than the Titans that

2412
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:20,240
Speaker 1: scares me. A lot of people still a little frightened

2413
02:09:20,280 --> 02:09:24,200
Speaker 1: by the Titans. I don't think their defense is going

2414
02:09:24,240 --> 02:09:25,800
Speaker 1: to help them. They had to win a game forty

2415
02:09:25,840 --> 02:09:29,120
Speaker 1: one thirty eight. Yesterday, Derrick Henry ran for two fifty.

2416
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:31,440
Speaker 1: They needed a last second field goal to beat a

2417
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:34,400
Speaker 1: four and ten Texans ten and a blown coverage on

2418
02:09:34,440 --> 02:09:37,360
Speaker 1: a fifty yard completion. Yeah, gave him the game. Gave

2419
02:09:37,440 --> 02:09:41,280
Speaker 1: him the game from Max. Awesome win, great first round matchup.

2420
02:09:41,360 --> 02:09:43,880
Speaker 1: Good lord, Please don't let something happen to key players

2421
02:09:43,960 --> 02:09:47,280
Speaker 1: getting COVID. Please let Josh stay healthy. The stars are

2422
02:09:47,280 --> 02:09:52,160
Speaker 1: aligning for us, Chris and Steve, and it's glorious. Yeah,

2423
02:09:53,000 --> 02:09:57,640
Speaker 1: that's you're right, there is it's it's it's been good.

2424
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:01,080
Speaker 1: And the way they're winning these games games, I don't

2425
02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:04,080
Speaker 1: know how optimistic you can possibly be. Yeah, well, I'll

2426
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:06,360
Speaker 1: give you a hint because Nate says we're super Bowl

2427
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:11,520
Speaker 1: pound son. Yeah, that's that's that's about as high as

2428
02:10:11,600 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 1: they can go. Um. Eric says, I feel really good

2429
02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:19,240
Speaker 1: about Saturday's game against the Colds, but I always remember,

2430
02:10:19,320 --> 02:10:22,560
Speaker 1: on any given day, any team can beat any other team.

2431
02:10:23,080 --> 02:10:27,000
Speaker 1: That is true. Yeah, that's true. But and and I

2432
02:10:27,120 --> 02:10:28,960
Speaker 1: think these all these people are kind of right in

2433
02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:30,840
Speaker 1: the wheelhouse of everybody. From the next one from Lean,

2434
02:10:30,920 --> 02:10:33,640
Speaker 1: I expect a three score win over the Colts thirty

2435
02:10:33,680 --> 02:10:36,360
Speaker 1: seven twenty. This team's on fire. Nothing will stop us. Well,

2436
02:10:37,160 --> 02:10:39,480
Speaker 1: you stay on fire until somebody throws a bucket of

2437
02:10:39,520 --> 02:10:42,680
Speaker 1: water on you, and any team you play can do it. Um.

2438
02:10:42,840 --> 02:10:45,800
Speaker 1: I get all that. I take great comfort in the

2439
02:10:45,920 --> 02:10:49,360
Speaker 1: fact that this team's been here before, and just twelve

2440
02:10:49,440 --> 02:10:51,840
Speaker 1: months ago and they got sent home when it looked

2441
02:10:51,880 --> 02:10:53,680
Speaker 1: really good for them at halftime of their first game.

2442
02:10:53,720 --> 02:10:55,960
Speaker 1: And they haven't forgotten about that either. Dan Dalking I

2443
02:10:56,120 --> 02:10:58,840
Speaker 1: was talking about that after the game yesterday. That's a

2444
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:01,000
Speaker 1: that's a that's a less and you don't barely on

2445
02:11:01,080 --> 02:11:03,360
Speaker 1: their radar. So that's that's a good place to be

2446
02:11:03,400 --> 02:11:05,240
Speaker 1: as well. All right, break time for us, But when

2447
02:11:05,280 --> 02:11:07,480
Speaker 1: we return, it will be what have we learned from

2448
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Speaker 1: today's show? As we close up a Monday Bills Victory

2449
02:11:12,360 --> 02:11:14,960
Speaker 1: edition of One Bill's Live presented by Collid to Health,

2450
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Speaker 1: saw those Skyworks guys today when I was coming into work.

2454
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Speaker 1: They were driving out with a lot of the spotlights

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Speaker 1: that they have in a parking lot, and they'll probably

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Speaker 1: be out here again setting up testing for those sixty

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Speaker 1: seven hundred fans for bio references. That will be interesting.

2458
02:11:55,080 --> 02:11:56,920
Speaker 1: But I think the number one thing I learned from

2459
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Speaker 1: yesterday's game, Steve, was I figured it out a couple

2460
02:12:01,160 --> 02:12:02,640
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. This team was saying that we can

2461
02:12:02,720 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 1: destroy miss yesterday. Yeah, so you can destroy mission kind

2462
02:12:05,440 --> 02:12:08,280
Speaker 1: of thing. But the thing I learned yesterday, and I

2463
02:12:08,360 --> 02:12:10,280
Speaker 1: think we kind of knew this on the surface, that

2464
02:12:10,400 --> 02:12:13,120
Speaker 1: this was a team that had roster depth, but I

2465
02:12:13,160 --> 02:12:16,040
Speaker 1: don't think we realized, or at least I didn't, the

2466
02:12:16,280 --> 02:12:22,520
Speaker 1: playmaking ability of that depth. It was on full display yesterday. Yeah,

2467
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Speaker 1: particularly in the second half. And the thing I learned

2468
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Speaker 1: mostly from yesterday's game is how much you love to

2469
02:12:28,160 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 1: say the word beat down. The next day on the radio,

2470
02:12:31,200 --> 02:12:34,080
Speaker 1: the Bills totally dismantled them, and so did their backups.

2471
02:12:34,440 --> 02:12:36,680
Speaker 1: There's a lot in there. The Dolphins are not that bad.

2472
02:12:36,720 --> 02:12:39,280
Speaker 1: They're not fifty six to twenty six bad. But when

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02:12:39,280 --> 02:12:41,120
Speaker 1: they don't show up and they have no hope about

2474
02:12:41,160 --> 02:12:44,200
Speaker 1: winning that game, as they didn't halfway through the third

2475
02:12:44,280 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 1: quarter or just after halftime, they do get beat like that,

2476
02:12:47,880 --> 02:12:49,880
Speaker 1: and thewenty eight points on him in the first half,

2477
02:12:50,000 --> 02:12:52,160
Speaker 1: twenty eight points on him in the second half. That's

2478
02:12:52,600 --> 02:12:55,440
Speaker 1: a testament to how much hope they lost in the

2479
02:12:55,520 --> 02:12:56,800
Speaker 1: fact that they were going to be able to catch

2480
02:12:56,880 --> 02:12:58,960
Speaker 1: up with the Buffalo Bills and it cost them a playoff.

2481
02:12:59,000 --> 02:13:01,440
Speaker 1: Ber certainly did. They are sitting at home today or

2482
02:13:01,520 --> 02:13:04,200
Speaker 1: heading out to a go. They are not playing football.

2483
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Speaker 1: They're in the off season. Tomorrow's show, Good Morning Football's

2484
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Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt and the QB Summit Leader Jordan Palmer, the

2485
02:13:11,960 --> 02:13:15,240
Speaker 1: guy that works with Josh Allen every offseason. We'll have

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Speaker 1: him on the show tomorrow. Join us for a Tuesday edition.