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Speaker 1: Zach Moss is at. I actually think he's going to

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Speaker 1: probably be up this week. If I had to guess,

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Speaker 1: I would think he'd be up this week. It was

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Speaker 1: interesting to hear McDermott talk about him because he said, basically,

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Speaker 1: Lee wasn't healthy enough through training camp to give us

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Speaker 1: a you know, to get a chance to prove himself

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Speaker 1: to be worthy of being up. That was interesting to

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Speaker 1: me because it once again it's a nod too. You

433
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Speaker 1: got to earn it every every day out there. This

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Speaker 1: you know, Moss had a nice season as a rookie

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Speaker 1: last year. Was a part of what they were doing

436
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Speaker 1: was getting more and more carries at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season before he got nicked in the championship game.

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Speaker 1: And then he comes back, you know, he stumbles out

439
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Speaker 1: of the gate because he's hurt and he can't get

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Speaker 1: on the fields. He's an active I think that was

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Speaker 1: interesting to me, the fact that his health kept him

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Speaker 1: from being able to show him where he was at physically,

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Speaker 1: you know, conditioning, assignment wise, all of the stuff that

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Speaker 1: they would look at during the preseason, and they start

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Speaker 1: from scratch with all these guys, it seems like, and

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Speaker 1: just to briefly rewind and revisit all the holding penalty stuff,

447
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Speaker 1: we were just talking about Dion Dawkins, who just addressed

448
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: the media after practice today said, yeah, the ref's called

449
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Speaker 1: holding penalties more than I expected them to on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So now it's up to him to adjust, and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do that in a road environment down

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Speaker 1: in Miami this week. So it should be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see where it goes from here and how well Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: lineman and everybody else on offense can work around holding

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Speaker 1: calls and try to avoid them, because I'm telling you, man,

456
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: those things are drive killers ten yards and now you're

457
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Speaker 1: behind the sticks, your playbooks smaller. I remember in one

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Speaker 1: drive they got one overcame it, got the first down,

459
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Speaker 1: then got another one in this later on and that

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Speaker 1: killed it, you know. So they got two in one drive.

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Speaker 1: One of them they overcame and got a first down

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Speaker 1: out of the first and twenty the second one killed

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Speaker 1: the drive their only touchdown drive of the game. Last

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Speaker 1: week they only had one penalty. Yeah, all the other

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Speaker 1: ones I believe they had multiple. It's hard enough the

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Speaker 1: first half. It's hard enough to beat the Steelers or

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Speaker 1: in this the Dolphins when you also have to beat yourself.

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Speaker 1: Now we also have the addition of tailgate Friday here,

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Speaker 1: so we'll get to that in the next segment as

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Speaker 1: well as here from Coach McDermott on Zach Moss, and

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Speaker 1: we'll also hear from Greg Rousseau, who was returning to

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Speaker 1: play on the field where he played his college ball,

473
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Speaker 1: just twenty four miles from where he grew up in

474
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Speaker 1: what is a coconut creek. I believe that's where he

475
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Speaker 1: grew up. So it's gonna have some family in attendance

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Speaker 1: at the game, a lot with a host of other

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Speaker 1: players on the roster. Zach Moss is a South Florida guy,

478
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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, bunch of dudes, Gabe Davis, his families from Sandford.

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00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 1: They'll make to drive down from the Orlando area for

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Speaker 1: the game. So a lot of Florida natives with a

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Speaker 1: family that's going to be in attendance at this one

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. So we'll hear from Greg Russo on that.

483
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Speaker 1: So send in your questions for the OBL Friday fan

484
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Speaker 1: mail bag. We'll get to answer them a little bit

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Speaker 1: later on in the show. Steve and I will take

486
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Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, we hear

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Speaker 1: from coach McDermott and Greg Rousseau and do a little

488
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Speaker 1: tailgate Friday with you. That's all next here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line presented by Kalata Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right back here on a Friday at Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and we wanted to get some

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Speaker 1: comments from coach McDermott along to you today, chiefly dealing

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Speaker 1: with running back Zach Moss inactive in Week one. Coach

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Speaker 1: after the game, when asked about it, said he got

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Speaker 1: caught up in It was basically a numbers game where

496
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: you know you have time On Jones active at the

497
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Speaker 1: running back position to play on special teams, and then

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Speaker 1: you have Reggie Gillingham active to serve as a fullback

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00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: slash tight end move guy, and that leaves you with

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Speaker 1: basically in most cases two spots for true running back position.

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Speaker 1: And that was Matt Breed and Devin Singletary last week.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward to this week, coaches again asked about Zack Moss,

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Speaker 1: his status, how he's coming along, and here was coach

504
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: on Zack Moss and how he's doing. He's a bigger back,

505
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Speaker 1: um breaks tackles. You know, he's dangerous with the ball

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Speaker 1: in his hands in terms of power and speed. Um,

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Speaker 1: So you know, he's a guy we have a lot

508
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Speaker 1: of confidence. In part of the challenge that Zach had

509
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: was he wasn't as healthy as we needed him to

510
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Speaker 1: be through training camp at times. So, um, that factored

511
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Speaker 1: into it as well, and so we made the decision

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Speaker 1: we made and we stick with it right now. With

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Speaker 1: his health, yeah, I feel like he's in a pretty

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Speaker 1: good spot. You know, he looks healthy. Um, he ran

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Speaker 1: well yesterday, looked good out there. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a I think there's a good chance he's up

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. I'm just guessing here, but I think there's

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Speaker 1: an element that he brings to the offense that you

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Speaker 1: did not see last week, and that's you know, yards

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Speaker 1: after initial contact. He's he's the guy that's going to

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Speaker 1: do that for you. He's got two things to prove.

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Speaker 1: One he's healthy and two he's a better option. Hard

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Speaker 1: to do that when you're trying to get ready for

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Speaker 1: a game, but you know he's That's where that's where

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Speaker 1: it's at right now. He's got to prove that he's

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Speaker 1: a better option to help them beat the Dolphins than

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Speaker 1: Brita or Singletary or whoever. The other options are he

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Speaker 1: gives them something that nobody else does, or he's a

529
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Speaker 1: better combination with the guys on the roster than one

530
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Speaker 1: of the other guys is. So it's hard. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to jump in there can get climbed back into the

532
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Speaker 1: lineup when you got guys in. Now, I'll say this,

533
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Speaker 1: anytime you lose a game, everything kind of gets shaken

534
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Speaker 1: up a little bit. There's there's no fewer questions are

535
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Speaker 1: raised when you make a lineup change after a loss

536
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Speaker 1: than there are when you do because for obvious reasons,

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Speaker 1: I think Devin's Singletary earned the right to play this

538
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Speaker 1: week based on his performance last week. Obviously that has

539
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Speaker 1: to continue through the course of the practice week two

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Speaker 1: to show your state of readiness for this Sunday. But

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Speaker 1: I would anticipate he's up. I think Breeda could be

542
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: the odd man out this week. I think it's a

543
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: it's a Zach Moss Matt Breed A question here seems

544
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: like it from the outside, right, Yeah, And I don't

545
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Speaker 1: anticipate all of a sudden Zach Moss taking a special

546
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Speaker 1: team's role for Taiwan Jones or anything like that. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's what it comes down to. Or it

548
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Speaker 1: could be Breeda Moss, single Tarry and Reggie Gilliams sits

549
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Speaker 1: down because they don't need a fullback. It's possible that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing, something unexpected like that. Although that is

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Speaker 1: a little bit I gotta be honest, that's a little

552
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Speaker 1: off my radarists to see that happen. Now, keep in mind,

553
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: gilliam does play on special teams also, much like Taiwan

554
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Speaker 1: Jones does. However, here's the other thing to consider at

555
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: the running back position. Maybe it would be more of

556
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Speaker 1: a consideration if this team actually ran the ball more,

557
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: and because they don't. I don't know that it's a

558
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: giant factor, but it could be a factor. Warm weather,

559
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: high humidity. Do you maybe want to have that extra

560
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: back in case, you know, heat gets to somebody and

561
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: now you're down a man. I don't know that the

562
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: Bills need to do that based on what their offensive

563
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: identity is, but if you're talking about a Tennessee Titans

564
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: team or somebody like that Baltimore, you might carry an

565
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Speaker 1: extra back. Week two in Miami with the heat, do

566
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Speaker 1: you carry an extra back to Carr? An extra wide receiver. Yeah,

567
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Speaker 1: because those guys are running you know what I mean,

568
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Speaker 1: or another you know, an extra dB. Yeah, so all

569
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Speaker 1: the guys that really cover ground out there at a

570
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Speaker 1: high at high speed and high intensity, those are the

571
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Speaker 1: guys you gotta watch, you know. Those are the guys

572
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: that you gotta keep an eye on and say, listen,

573
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Speaker 1: have an IV ready for that guy. So yeah, there's

574
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Speaker 1: some question marks about about how this is going to

575
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Speaker 1: work out and play out, but it's the heat is

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Speaker 1: going to be a factor though, even here in Western

577
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Speaker 1: New York at this time of year. These guys are

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Speaker 1: coming out of training camp. I mean this is where

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Speaker 1: they live, right. Yeah, it'll be maybe a little hotter,

580
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: a little more humid in Miami down there, but not

581
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Speaker 1: light years different like it would be in November. So

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Speaker 1: they're up to it that in that regard, and I've

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Speaker 1: said a ton it never it was more of a

584
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Speaker 1: factor going down there when it was really like really hot,

585
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Speaker 1: like this time of year. It's harder to go to

586
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Speaker 1: Miami than it was for us to go to Miami

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Speaker 1: out of the cold weather into the hot weather, you know,

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Speaker 1: in December, November, December, January, much easier to go down

589
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Speaker 1: there in that time of year than it is this

590
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Speaker 1: time of year. Greg Rousseau, as we mentioned before the break,

591
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Speaker 1: is going to be playing on the same field where

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Speaker 1: he played his college ball at the University of Miami

593
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and he was asked about matching up against

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen in regular season games as to the preseason

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Speaker 1: after making his debut that last week. Here is what

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Speaker 1: he thought about his first regular season action and the preseason.

597
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: It's more of just you versus you. You know, just practicing,

598
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: practicing against the Bills every single day and going out

599
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 1: there and it's playing against whoever because you really don't

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00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: know who's gonna be in there because there's so many

601
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: like just moving dudes moving around different spots and stuff

602
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: like that. So, yeah, a regular season definitely way more planning.

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Speaker 1: You know, everything's a lot more specific game, playing different runs, passes,

604
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: your one on one matchup, all that. So basically Rousseau

605
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: is a sponge from here on out, just picking up

606
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: stuff week after week after week and hopefully incorporating it,

607
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: incorporating it into his personal game. So he's a more

608
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Speaker 1: effective player as he moves through the course of his

609
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Speaker 1: rookie season. Yeah, he's yeah, I like where the defensive

610
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Speaker 1: front is headed. I like the way they looked against

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger on Sunday. I think the Bills are going to

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Speaker 1: con tendue to force quarterbacks to get the ball out

613
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Speaker 1: right now, and if they don't, they're going down. And

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Speaker 1: I just I like where the defense sits, Milano and

615
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: Edmonds remaining healthy, the defensive backfield ready for that. I

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Speaker 1: just this defense, I think is going to be markedly

617
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Speaker 1: better than it was a year ago, more like where

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Speaker 1: it was two years ago. I don't know if there'll

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Speaker 1: be a top two, top three defense like they were

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Speaker 1: two years ago, but I certainly think they're gonna better

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Speaker 1: than the number sixteen defense or number fifteen defense they

622
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Speaker 1: were last year. And not for nothing, Steve. They are

623
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Speaker 1: playing a quarterback who's barely six feet tall. I think,

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Speaker 1: even if you don't get to to somebody like Greg

625
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: Russell putting his arms up as he's trying to close

626
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: the space, he can alter some throwing angles with this quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, you and I we live our

628
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: lives as short guys, right so, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: any different, and I I kind of got immune to

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Speaker 1: it as I played and I'm sure too feels the

631
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: same way too. When you when you spend a lot

632
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: of time in the locker room and all your buddies

633
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: are six five plus, you kind of get immune to

634
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: the difference and you just realize you got to play

635
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: the game like that, you got to play. So I

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00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 1: think Ta probably doesn't give that too much thought, extra

637
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 1: thought that he's because he's he's played quarterback out and listen,

638
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Speaker 1: just just in Alabama's got some big guys too, right,

639
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: I mean there he played against guys like that. He's

640
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: been doing it his whole career, so for him, it

641
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: won't be that big a difference. But I think you've

642
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: still got to have that in your hip pocket. If

643
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: you're a Bill's defender too, if you can keep your

644
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: eye on two, if he's throwing it in your direction,

645
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: get up in there and get high because the balls,

646
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: he's got to throw it around you or between your

647
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: arms or stuff like that, if he's going to get

648
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: it out, and if if you force him to do that,

649
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't always have the option of putting it right

650
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: where he wants it because he's got to get it

651
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: around you first. Rousseau is also one of a handful

652
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: of Bills players who are returning to their native South Florida.

653
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: Here is Rousseau on going to play again where he

654
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: played his college ball. Yeah, it's super exciting, you know,

655
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: being back into hard rock. It's gonna be a lot

656
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: of fun. My family, all my family is gonna be

657
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: able to come, So I'm looking forward to it for sure.

658
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: Obviously from there, you said all your families coming in,

659
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: how many tickets would you say, uh not, honestly, not

660
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: too many because my family's not like huge, So I'd

661
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: say probably like right now, probably like twelve thirteen. That's

662
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: not terrible. No, I've heard worse. Oh yeah, I had

663
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: worse experiences than that. Um yeah, the most I ever

664
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: had to get well, I had to get one hundred

665
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: and eighty six tickets one time. One hundred and eighty six. Yeah,

666
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: that's not the worst part though. It was in Denver, Mike.

667
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: I grew up in western Kansas and it was much

668
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: closer to Denver than it was Kansas City, so it

669
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: was a lot of Denver Bronco fans. And I grew

670
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: up in a small town and you know how it

671
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: is a small small town people everybody knows yet Yeah,

672
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: So the schedule comes out. And as soon as the

673
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: schedule comes out, I get the call and say, everybody

674
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: wants to go Dad. So I say, hey, let him

675
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: let me know now because I got him. I gotta

676
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: get to work. Yeah, and people think you free. I

677
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: don't get you don't get free tickets. You gotta pay

678
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: for these things, right, So one hundred and eighty six tickets.

679
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: And it's Denver. They sell out every game. I don't

680
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: even know if I'm gonna be able to get one

681
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: hundred eighty six. So I call this ticket office and

682
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: they're going, oh, man, I don't know. So you know

683
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: who the guy is out in in uh Denver? Denver?

684
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: Was Bob Ferguson, right. So he's a former bill guy.

685
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: I called. I called him to right straight to his desk,

686
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: and he picked up. I go, fur I go, say, hey,

687
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And you know I'm still a

688
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo bill a player and I'm talking to I call

689
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: the general manager of another team, right, because you know

690
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: it's Bullion's guy. Anyway, I go, Furgie, I go, you

691
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: gotta help. He goes, what's going on? I go, here's

692
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: the deal, and I tell him the whole story, I

693
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: got one hundred eight game. He goes, what, I go, bro,

694
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: the whole town is coming. I go, one hundred nies.

695
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: So he goes, he goes, all right, I got you.

696
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: I get you the ticket. So I got the tickets? Right?

697
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: So cool, awesome, Great, It's like opening weekend or something

698
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: to say. It's like week two of the season, opening weekend. Right,

699
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be us and right, So what do I do?

700
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: I pop a hamstring Wednesday before the game. I can't play.

701
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: Oh so that's hope they enjoyed it. Yeah they did.

702
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: I was there. I just couldn't play. So there you go.

703
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: Those that's the right that right there is a is

704
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: a little microcose him of my career. Okay, oh come on,

705
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: it was better than that. Uh time now though, Steve

706
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: for Tailgate Friday presented by high Mark, Blue Cross, Blue

707
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: Shield of Western New York, and we begin with Ethan,

708
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: who says, bummer of all bummers, I have to work

709
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. Not to worry, I'll be listening to John

710
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: and Eric layout the game on the Rue D so

711
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: an old school baby. That's good stuff, Dinah says, watching

712
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: from home and again calling my mom to sing the

713
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: shout song together. Do you guys know when they first

714
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: started using the shout song? I know it was after

715
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: the Talking Proud Song died, but can't remember if it

716
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: was the eighties or the nineties. Not sure what's on

717
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: the menu for during my career. It was the eighties,

718
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: right late eighties. Maybe it was the eighty eight season eight.

719
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was in the nineties when I

720
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: when it became a thing. I couldn't tell you what

721
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 1: year it was, but it was during my time with

722
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: the Bills. I think it was in the nineties, early nineties.

723
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: I think it was in the early nineties. Really, I do,

724
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: I do? Uh eighty seven is what I'm reading here,

725
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,919
Speaker 1: if you can believe the internet. Really, that's my first

726
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: full sea that's my first Pro Bowl year. Well, apparently

727
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: you weren't paying very close attention. What do I know?

728
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: It was a strike season two, so you know, they

729
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: probably used it for the strike guy, the scabs, and

730
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: then they just let us use it customized into the Bills,

731
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: customized into the Bills fight song in nineteen eighty seven. Okay,

732
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: contract for the song expired in ninety three. Oh my gosh,

733
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: Polaroid corporation purchased the rights of the song. They were

734
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: going to charge the bills more to use it. Um.

735
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: That's when they tried to change the song to something

736
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: else and everybody revolted. Do you remember that right? So

737
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: they had to pay to pay the rice fees of us.

738
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: Everybody's got their hand up. Oh boy, eighty seven is

739
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: your answer? Dinah? So I think that's where we're at

740
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: with that happy we could help. So she calls her

741
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: mom to sing it. Aron. Mom's like an octogenarian, I think,

742
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: and she's belting out the shout song every time they score.

743
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: She calls her up. Scott says, here in Kate Coral,

744
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: driving over on Sunday with my best friend, my two

745
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: sons seven year olds first game, and two other buddies

746
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: planning on hitting up the lots around eleven Ish, can't

747
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: frecking wait? And then Mark says, wonderbread, Velvita cheese, processed

748
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: lunch meat, and tab Steve Tab. When the hell is

749
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: the last time you even saw a can of tab?

750
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: We had anybody on anybody on the radio, listening or

751
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: out there watching on MSG. There is no one under

752
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: the age of thirty five who even knows what we're

753
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: talking about right now. Tab that had it has to

754
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: be the mid nineteen seventies. Since I've seen a canna

755
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: tap that long. Really, I haven't seen a canna tab

756
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: since then. You know. I remember my mom used to

757
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: drink it a little bit when I was a kid.

758
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: That in Royal Crown Cola Arc Arcy Cola. Yeah, that

759
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: was it never made it out West where I grew up,

760
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: and it was there. Marcy was big in New York. Yeah,

761
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: it wasn't that big out west. And then what is

762
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: some other Shasta shit there? You go? That is exactly

763
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: Fresca Shasta was the one Shasta. It wasn't Shasta the

764
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: one where it was a lion or was that Fresca.

765
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to remember that one. I

766
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: remember the tag phrases, I want to pop, I want

767
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: a Shasta remember that song. I think I think it

768
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: was Fresca. That Fresca had this this safari and this

769
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: mean like a real lion in the wy The hell

770
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: was a Fresca gonna help you in that situation? I

771
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: don't know, but it was like the it was like

772
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: the manly kind of lion drink. You know. I'm going

773
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: to sell it to them. I was unaware of it.

774
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: Sell it to the advantage. Fresca doesn't sound very manly.

775
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: Forgive me no shasta. I think, no fresca. Yeah, you

776
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: were just saying fresca with the lion. Yeah, I don't know,

777
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: was it. I haven't seen a can of tab anywhere.

778
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're getting their hands up. Well

779
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: maybe down in Florida where they've Aians running around. Who remember,

780
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: I just want to say this, and I'm not saying

781
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: anything about anybody, and there's you know, they're wonderful people.

782
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: Um wonderbread, velveta cheese, processed lunch meat, and tabbed drink.

783
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: That's what you take. Please. I hope that's a tradition

784
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: and not Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah you gotta, yeah, you know,

785
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: I just wish that. I hope that's not. First of all,

786
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: invest a little more in your tailgate, right. Second of all,

787
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: invest a little bit more in your personal health. Right.

788
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: I just hope it's a I hope it's a good

789
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: and I hope on the side he's got big greasy

790
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: cheeseburger's wings and you know whatever all the other stuff.

791
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: I hope that's just a token. All right, that is

792
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: a tailgate Friday, as we said, brought to you by

793
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: high Mark Blue Cross, Blue Shield to West in New York.

794
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: Break time for Steve and I. When we come back,

795
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: we'll see if we can pop off a couple of

796
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: questions from the fan Friday mail bag and get to

797
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: those and don't forget coming up at the top of

798
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: the hour. It is one Greg Cosell from NFL Film.

799
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: Stay tuned plenty more here on one Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by a Colloid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, the

801
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: Next Life and the Buffalo Bill. They're putting out the

802
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: call for blood donors. All presenting donors at a Connect

803
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804
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805
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: autographed by a Bill's player, in addition to receiving a

806
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810
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: also welcome. Bill's Friday Injury report has been released three

811
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: players are questionable. Gabriel Davis, who was limited again in

812
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: practice today with his ankle injury questionable. Star Latoulay was

813
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 1: a full practice participant today for the first time this week,

814
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: but he too listed as questionable, but that's certainly an

815
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: encouraging sign and added to the injury report just today

816
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: and now questionable for the game. Fa Obada, with a

817
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: calf injury, was limited in practice today, so presumably that

818
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: cropped up today at practice and he is now questionable

819
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: for Sunday's game. So you are up to date on

820
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: the injuries. Think about it if fa Obata, if they

821
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: keep him out of the lineup, because you know, it's

822
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: easy to read, it's easy to repull a calf, muscle

823
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. Boogie boogie bashing might get up. Boogie's up,

824
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Boogie down, Down to book,

825
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: get down to the sidelines. You're in, you're in. Let's

826
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: get to the Fan Friday mail Bag, the Obil Fan

827
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: Friday mail Bag, and we're going to open it up

828
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: here with question number one from Nick. Do you think

829
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: other teams can replicate what Pittsburgh did to slow down

830
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: our offense or were they only able to do that

831
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: because they have a uniquely good defense. I think it

832
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: was a combination steve of quality players up front and

833
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: scheme that it made the Bills ineffective. The Dolphins can

834
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: be effective against the Bills offense for different reasons than

835
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was, But you're talking about replicating it. I don't

836
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins defense is built like the Steeler defense,

837
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: so it probably won't look like that. But Washington, however,

838
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: Washington could do that. We've we've had these conversations. Washington

839
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: might do that. San Francisco might be able to do that.

840
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: Some other teams around the league might be able to

841
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: do that. Cleveland might be able to do that because

842
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: of the quality their players upfront, because they're more like

843
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh defense. But that doesn't mean Miami can't look

844
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: good against the Bills offense. They're built differently, It'll look differently.

845
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: Other teams might look a lot like Pittsburgh did against

846
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: the Bills. I don't think Miami will, not that they

847
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: won't be effective or hold the Bills down or anything

848
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: like that. It'll just look different when they do. You know,

849
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: it won't be sacks and pass pressure and holding penalties

850
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. It'll be other stuff, you know, defended passes,

851
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, stuffed running game more that that kind of thing. So, yeah,

852
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: for the for your question, the answers, no, there are,

853
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: but there are teams who could replicate what Pittsburgh did.

854
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: And then for this defense. That doesn't mean that the

855
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: Dolphin defense couldn't be successful against Buffalo, just it'll look different.

856
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: Chris asks fingers Cross that it doesn't happen. But if

857
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: the Bills lose this game, do we go into panic

858
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: mode and our chances to make the playoffs decreases to

859
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: eleven percent. Almost any team that starts owen two misses

860
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Since two thousand and seven, one hundred and

861
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: seven teams started the season O and two, only twelve

862
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. You are correct, those numbers are accurate.

863
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: If you start the season O and two, your chances

864
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: of making the playoffs are eleven percent based on the

865
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: records of teams since nineteen ninety. I will caution you, though,

866
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: that those percentages might be off a little bit, because

867
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: you do have the benefit of one extra game number one,

868
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: and you have the benefit of one extra playoff position.

869
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: With seven seeds now in the AFC. In the NFC, right.

870
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that percent number is wholly

871
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: accurate as it pertains to football in the here and now.

872
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: With seventeen games and seven playoff berths for your comp

873
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: that's a great call. You get an extra playoff team

874
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: and an extra game to overcome it. So yeah, so

875
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: it's probably a little higher than eleven percent, but it's

876
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: not a good situation. Yeah. Here's the thing too, why

877
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: are you oh and two? Did you not play well

878
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: or were you not good enough? Whatever that? Can you

879
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: play better or will you play better? And do you

880
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: begin to play better? I think this is a Bills

881
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: team that has played better and better throughout the season

882
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: almost all consistently in every year that Sean mcdermo has

883
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: been the head coach, So I would anticipate them playing

884
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: better and better as the year rolls on. I'll go

885
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: out on a big limb and say the Bills are

886
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: not going to go oh and seventeen. Yeah, oh and two.

887
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: It's not the end of the world. I don't care

888
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: what they say. It's not the end of the world

889
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: because this is a division game and they're tough to win. Yeah,

890
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: they're tough to win, but they're gonna I'd like to

891
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: see him play better even if they lose. You know,

892
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: they just didn't look like the same team that I

893
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: watched play for sixteen games last year, eighteen nineteen games

894
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: last year. They were, in a word, inefficient. Yeah, that's

895
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: what they were. If they played more like they did

896
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: last year and they lose, I'll be like, okay, But

897
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: if they continue to play poorly, they got that's something

898
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: you can't you can't out talent. We'll play. You know,

899
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: you gotta fix that on your own. You gotta fix

900
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: it house. Yeah, that being said, I do like the

901
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: matchup this week. I think they will win the game.

902
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: We will take a break here when we come back.

903
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: Senior producer from NFL Films, Greg Cosell joins us to

904
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: dive in to some of the more intriguing matchups personnel

905
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: usage that we could see on Sunday. That's next here

906
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's

907
00:50:47,120 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has been

908
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: all over the fields, kind of unique. He was kind

909
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you state Steve a blimp.

910
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated here of normalcy here

911
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: here we are our number two on a Friday. Chris Brown,

912
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and join now by the senior

913
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 1: producer from NFL Films, co host of ESPN's NFL Matchup Show.

914
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: It's one great co sell who is still trying to

915
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: pour over Week one tape from the entire league. I

916
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: was joking with him, he's got to clone himself, Steve.

917
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: He's going to find all the time to be able

918
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: to do that. But let's jump right in, Greg and

919
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: first revisit Week one for the Bills against the Steelers.

920
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know,

921
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: but forty four percent of their offensive play calls come

922
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: out of four or five wide. They're even more spread

923
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: out than they ever were last year in Week one. Yeah,

924
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: wasn't terribly successful due more, I think too some self

925
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds that anything else, be it holding penalties or

926
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: just missing on some throws. Yeah. I mean they had

927
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: twenty four snaps in this game and ten personnel with

928
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: four wide. They were an empty on twenty four snaps,

929
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: I believe. So clearly we know what the Bills are

930
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: and that's the way they wanted to play. And it

931
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: was interesting that the Steelers played the exact opposite defensively

932
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: from the way in which they played Week fourteen a

933
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: year ago. A year ago, the Steelers were strong blitz

934
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: a lot of man coverage. This game, the Steelers were

935
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: almost no blitz. I think they blitzed on one snap.

936
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: They played zone coverage. They were very multiple in how

937
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: they went about their their front looks, even though they

938
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: always ended up rushing work, and they did a lot

939
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: in the secondary. I mean to me, guys, I thought

940
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 1: their game plan approach was high percentage own through disguise

941
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: and late movement behind multiple front and four man rush looks.

942
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: They featured a lot of stunts. Their goal was to

943
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: take away the explosive pass play, make Allen be patient

944
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: and precise in the short passing game. And of course

945
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: the Bills don't really have any commitment to the run game.

946
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: So it worked. It worked for the Steelers now because

947
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: the Bills defense played so well. This was a very,

948
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: very winnable game. But you have to if you're talking

949
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: solely about the Bills offense, that's what happened. Yeah, and

950
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: what about the aside from holing penalties out, what did

951
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: you see from Josh Allen that was different than the

952
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: step he made forward in twenty twenty. Yeah, this obviously

953
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 1: was not a great game for Josh. I don't think

954
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: he ever got truly comfortable in this game. He was

955
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: a little unsettled, He was overly reacted. He got stuck

956
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: in the pocket a lot without a throw, and only

957
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: he could tell you why. We know that his ball

958
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: placement in this game was a little erratic. He missed

959
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: some throws, the biggest of course being the overthrow to

960
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: Sanders that would have been a touchdown. His trajectory was

961
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: too flat. He needed to put a little more air

962
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: under that throw. Overall, for a team that throws it

963
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: so much, there was really no rhythm to their passing game.

964
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: So it was not a good performance by Alan. But

965
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: you have to keep one thing in mind when you

966
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: want to throw that much, particularly if you're going to

967
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: be an empty sets, particularly if you're gonna play with

968
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: four wide receivers, there's a major burden on your offensive

969
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: line as well. It's easy to say the quarterback did

970
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: not have a great game, and the tape tells you

971
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: that Josh did not have a great game, But you've

972
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: got to be able to protect with five for the

973
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: most part if you choose to play that way, and

974
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: they struggled in pass protection. Josh did say this week,

975
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: you know, when kind of asked about his performance, he

976
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: admitted to being overaggressive, particularly early in the game where

977
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: he was hanging in the pocket looking for the giant

978
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: chunk play on almost every dropback instead of taking some

979
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: of the short underneath stuff what the defense was giving him.

980
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: And he said going into this week, he has to

981
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 1: be more conscious of maybe reading the play bottom to

982
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: top rather than top to bottom. Maybe just explain for

983
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: our listeners what he's getting at with that. Yeah. And

984
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: of course, as you guys know, that always depends on

985
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: the play call, but very often play calls that have

986
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: a vertical route, the design asked the quarterback to read

987
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: deep to short, and what happens often when you're reading

988
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: deep to short, particularly with aggressive quarterbacks with big arms,

989
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: is they wait for that deep throw a beat or

990
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: two beats too long, and then what happens is the

991
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: whole timing of the route concept gets disrupted and it's

992
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: very difficult for them to come short, but they might.

993
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: It depends on how, of course Miami chooses to play.

994
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: But if you're playing a team that's going to play

995
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: a lot of zone. As it became clear that Pittsburgh's

996
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: game plan was, then what you want to do is

997
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: instead of waiting for those deeper throws which are not

998
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: going to be there, you want to get rid of

999
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: the ball quickly and take the underneath throws that are

1000
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: there for you. So that's essentially what happened in that

1001
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: game is he kept waiting for the deeper routes to

1002
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 1: develop and they weren't there, and then you get stuck

1003
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: because then it becomes too late. What given the fact

1004
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: that Miami's defense is not pittsburgh defense and vice versa,

1005
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: can Miami duplicate what Pittsburgh did well? They can? We

1006
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: started again for what's ever it's worth see we have

1007
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: a template from last year Week two. We know that

1008
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: Miami played a ton of man and Josh and the

1009
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: Bills ate them up. Then they played them in the

1010
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: final game. Wasn't last year? Yeah? Yeah? And then in

1011
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: that game Miami played a lot more zone and Josh

1012
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: and the and the Bill still ate them up. But

1013
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: Miami is a difficult defense to play against. They're another

1014
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: team that does a lot of disguise, a lot of

1015
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: late movement, a lot of multiple front looks at times,

1016
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: what we call Amiba fronts, where no one has their

1017
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: hand on the ground, with a lot of movement before

1018
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: the snap of the ball. So this is a difficult

1019
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: defense to play against. I think when all said and done,

1020
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the offense has to be better, the

1021
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: past protection has to be better, and Josh has to

1022
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: be better. Look, we spoke about the fact that if

1023
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: there were some throws that he didn't miss, particularly the

1024
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: Sanders won, we'd be having a different conversation. But that's

1025
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: one player, two plays, and yes they can often be

1026
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: the difference between winning and losing. But when you're coaching someone,

1027
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: you're coaching them to do it right every single time,

1028
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: and that's you know, Josh has to play better and

1029
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: he I'm sure he knows that. One thing that Miami

1030
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: maintained as part of their defense here in Week one,

1031
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: anyway against New England was their propensity to blitz. They

1032
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: blitzed almost half the time last week, which maybe to

1033
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: some extent you would expect against a rookie quarterback making

1034
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: his first career start in mac Jones. But they blitzed

1035
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean they did it a lot last year. Yeah.

1036
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: The other thing too, though, Greg, is I remember there

1037
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: were times against the Bills last year where Flores put six,

1038
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: sometimes seven defensive backs on the field defensively against the Bills.

1039
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: Do we believe there's a chance that that could happen again? Well,

1040
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: it's funny you say that, because there were three three

1041
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: or four snaps against Justin Herbert and the Chargers last

1042
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: year in which Miami had eight defensive backs on the field.

1043
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: So yes, that could well happen. I think if the

1044
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: Bills stick to plan what we think their plan is,

1045
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: and of course that can change, you never know. But

1046
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: if the Bills stick to plan and play meaningful percentage

1047
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: snaps with four wide continue to play a lot of

1048
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: empty you could well see that. And I think that

1049
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: with those players on the field, they have speed, so

1050
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: you can blitch from that as well. And that makes

1051
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: it particularly difficult for offensive lineman because now you're getting

1052
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: players who are far more athletic with speed involved as

1053
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: pass rushers. So if keep continuing with the trajectory of

1054
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: this game and what's gonna happen, what about on the

1055
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: other side of the football with Tua offense and the

1056
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: offense and those step it took forward for Miami when

1057
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: they start when it and it looks like two is

1058
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: better than he was a year ago. He seems better physically.

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00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:57,919
Speaker 1: They're they're saying he's throwing the ball better. He looks

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Speaker 1: like he's more willing to push it down the field

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Speaker 1: then he was a year ago. What does Miami's offense

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01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: look like compared to where it was a year ago.

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Speaker 1: I would say that Miami's offense is very condensed. Ta

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01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: is to me. I don't think he's an overly talented

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01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: thrower the football. I think you have to understand what

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01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: he is, and I think the previous coaching staff knew that,

1067
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: and I think this coaching staff is essentially finding out

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01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: the same things. He's purely a timing, rhythm passer. He

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01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: works the quick game, the five step drop game, the

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Speaker 1: bang play action pass game, the RPO game. He needs

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Speaker 1: the throw to be to be defined at the top

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Speaker 1: of his drop so he can deliver within the timing

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Speaker 1: and structure of the play design. He's not really a

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Speaker 1: second reaction player. He's got a very quick drop, really

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Speaker 1: quick feet on his drop, but not very quick feet

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Speaker 1: when he moves. He's really kind of a pocket player

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01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: and it has to be defined and it has to

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01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: happen within structure. That's what two essentially is now. The

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Speaker 1: key player, I think, well as time develops, and it

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Speaker 1: started Week one, will be Jail and Waddle. He's their

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01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: movement player. He's the motion player. The movement player, I

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01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: think they're going to continue to find ways to get

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01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: him the ball. They're going to have to be a

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01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: run after the catch pass team for the most part.

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Speaker 1: Now having said that, can you throw fades? Of course,

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Speaker 1: fades not an arm strain throw, Steve, you know that

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Speaker 1: there are certain throws you can make that are deeper

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Speaker 1: down the field that are not arm strain throws. But

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a quick passing game and

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Speaker 1: to get the ball in the hands of playmakers. Now

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Speaker 1: we know Will Fullers out again, but Parker's a big

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Speaker 1: body who can run after catch, and Waddle obviously can

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Speaker 1: run after catch. So looking at that, because I was

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Speaker 1: watching some of the game last week between the Dolphins

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01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, there were times where when the route

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01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: wasn't clearly defined. As you said, Greg, he'd hang in

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01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,919
Speaker 1: the pocket and some of his decisions weren't the best.

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01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: He had one late over the middle that should have

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Speaker 1: been picked off and wasn't, fortunately for him and the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: So how do the Bills what's the best recipe for

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01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: putting him in those kinds of situations? Is it basically

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01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: overplaying his first read and shutting that off? Like, what

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01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: do you do defensively there? Well, I think you have

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01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: to understand what their pass game is. Take away those throws.

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01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: See that started to happen last year, Chris. It's funny

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that because two I got off to a

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01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: pretty good start last year. Everything was quick game, rhythmic,

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01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: and then defenses started to take that away, and then

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01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: that's when Two would start to struggle, which is why

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Speaker 1: essentially I would assume he got benched. So you've got

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01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: in some ways, it starts with your coverage. You've got

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01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: to take away a lot of those quick games throws

1113
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: because those throws don't get taken away with pressure, Chris.

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01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: Those throws get taken away with coverage because you're not

1115
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: going to get there on a three step or a

1116
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: quick five step drop unless you force him to have

1117
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,919
Speaker 1: to sit there. So that happens with coverage. But it's

1118
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: funny what you mentioned about when he moved around, because

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01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: he's got some reckless, undisciplined tended he's when he's forced

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Speaker 1: to move out of the pocket, the contrary to or

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought coming out of Alabama, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that this was the case at all

1123
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Speaker 1: watching his college tape. Second reaction playmaking is not his game.

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Speaker 1: He's a pocket rhythmic player. So that's what you have

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01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: to take away, and that really in some ways starts

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01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: with understanding the routes and the route concepts based on

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01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: personnel formation and receiver splits. So just to be clear,

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01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: the best way to defend two is to take away

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01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 1: the initial read and make him an improvisational quarterback where

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01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: he is not as strong, or make him have to

1131
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: sit in the pocket. Yes one or the other. Yes,

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01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: when the ball comes out on time. Certainly that's one

1133
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: way to negate a really good pass rush, even a

1134
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Speaker 1: great pass rush. Last week it seemed like ed Oliver

1135
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: showed up in a big way for the Bills. Devens.

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01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: What do you think about And people have been asking

1137
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: about how good ed Oliver could be. Can he be

1138
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: one of those defensive tackles that helps in the pass rush.

1139
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: What do you think about Ed Oliver in the game

1140
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: he played last week against Pittsburgh and going forward. Yeah,

1141
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, at Oliver just looks like a

1142
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: bigger man now. He looked like he gained some weight

1143
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: since he came out. I think he's pretty powerful now.

1144
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: He's pretty explosive. He's a good athlete and because of that,

1145
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: he's got some natural explosiveness to him. But they played

1146
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: nine defensive linemen last week, of which Obada played the

1147
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 1: fewest snaps fifteen. So they really play a lot of people,

1148
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: which obviously they want to do. And I was I

1149
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: saw that Basham was inactive, which kind of surprised me.

1150
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: He's he I guess he was a healthy and active

1151
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,760
Speaker 1: He's not hurt, right, No, not hurt. Yeah, So I

1152
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: mean that was interesting. But no, they played a lot

1153
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: of people. They get bodies in and out of there. Look,

1154
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: their defense played very very well. I mean they really

1155
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: the defense was not the issue last week at all.

1156
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: Their defense played extremely well. I thought Oliver played well.

1157
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: I thought the entire front group played well. You know,

1158
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: some of the plays late in the game became magnified

1159
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: simply because of the nature of the game. When the

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01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: you know, when Big Ben had a couple of passes

1161
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter went to Smith's Schuster sort

1162
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: of on the slot fade, and the other I guess

1163
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: to Claypool on the crosser, both versus Johnson. But for

1164
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: the most part, this defense played extremely well. Looking at

1165
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: the other half of the division, they play each other

1166
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: as well. Patriots Jets, Mac Jones Zach Wilson two rookie

1167
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks making their second career starts. What did you pull

1168
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: from each of their debuts last week, you know, and

1169
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: how do you think that could play into this week? Well,

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01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: I thought mac Jones actually played extremely well. There's not

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01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: there's no mystery really to what he is, and I

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01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: think he plays really well within what he is. There's

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01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: a natural poise and calmness to the way in which

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01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: he plays. He looks comfortable, he trusts his protection, which

1175
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,479
Speaker 1: is in some way surprising to me because he didn't

1176
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: face a lot of pressure at Alabama, and when he

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01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: does face some pressure, he doesn't speed up his mechanics.

1178
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Speaker 1: And the other point I'd make, which I think is

1179
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,760
Speaker 1: a really important point about mac Jones, he has an

1180
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: innate feel for what's pressure and what's not pressure in

1181
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, because just having bodies around you in the

1182
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: NFL is not necessarily pressure. And you know, we have

1183
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: all these analytics now that talk about that that say, well,

1184
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: if there's a defender within two yards of you, you're

1185
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: under pressure. That's not necessarily true. You know, it depends

1186
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: where they are and when you're delivering the ball. I

1187
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: think he manages the pocket extremely well. He's I was

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01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: impressed with his performance against a very difficult defense. As

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Speaker 1: we know, we just spoke about Miami's defense, Zach Wilson.

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Speaker 1: I was impressed with him as well. He was under major,

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01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: major drest for a good part of that game, and

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Speaker 1: I thought that he shung in there. He played with

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01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: great mental toughness, physical toughness. He was resilient. There were

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01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: certain throws in which you saw nuanced play from the

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Speaker 1: pocket and understanding of how to manipulate defenders. He's got

1196
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: clearly has a live, loose arm. He's got really light feet.

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Speaker 1: So I thought, you know, both quarterbacks actually played very

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Speaker 1: well in my view. And one other matchup I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you about was Mahomes and the Chiefs. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if escaped is the right word, but they

1201
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: had a really good game against the Cleveland Browns. Baker

1202
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: Mayfield given the Browns a chance to win it late

1203
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: before he tried to throw it away and gave up

1204
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: the interception. Of course, Baltimore's Monday night game against Las Vegas.

1205
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Speaker 1: What do you see in this matchup is can the

1206
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: Ravens defense caused problems for Mahomes like no other defense

1207
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,919
Speaker 1: has been able to thus far in his career. Well,

1208
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: they didn't last year and they had all their people.

1209
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: They're they're down players in the secondary, Steve. And last

1210
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: year they played Week three and they had everybody and

1211
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes through for three eighty five and four touchdowns and

1212
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: that was the most passing yards that the Ravens gave

1213
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: up a year ago. And last year in that Week

1214
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: three game, they were heavy man coverage and heavy blitz

1215
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: and Mahomes ate them up. Now they're down people, So

1216
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Speaker 1: I don't know what their approach is going to be.

1217
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,719
Speaker 1: I don't know what Wink Martindale thinks this week, given

1218
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have the players. Keep in mind, last

1219
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:43,560
Speaker 1: year in that game, Jimmy Smith was the matchup on

1220
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: Kelsey and obviously that means you have to have other

1221
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: corners to play their wide receivers, and I don't even

1222
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: know what Jimmy Smith's status is this week because he

1223
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: didn't play this past week and I don't know if

1224
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,560
Speaker 1: he practiced this week, so I don't know. We know

1225
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: Pete Years is out. Westrey, who played meaningful snaps this

1226
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: past week Week one, he's out, so they may have

1227
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: to change their approach. I don't know if they can

1228
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: truly try to match up as they did a year ago,

1229
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: and as I said, they didn't do it very well.

1230
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: Not to mention the fact that their offense is still

1231
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 1: reeled with injuries. They're short at running back. Bateman's still

1232
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: been out back from injury, and Mark he's brown, I

1233
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: think god dinged. So yeah, he even minded in that

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01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: Week three game last year, Lamar Jackson through for ninety

1235
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: seven yards. He might throw for that much again because

1236
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: he's got nobody left to throw to except Mark Andrews

1237
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,640
Speaker 1: and Sammy Watkins. It's crazy, Yeah, And we'll see what

1238
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,839
Speaker 1: their plan is. You know. Obviously they're a running football

1239
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,920
Speaker 1: team and it's built on Lamar. It starts there, so

1240
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Speaker 1: we'll see what. You know. I'm just I don't have

1241
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: a great sense of how Baltimore is going to come

1242
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: out in this game given all their injuries. Yeah right,

1243
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 1: it's not it's not looking good. Greg. As always, we

1244
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Speaker 1: thank you for the time and the insight. Enjoy the

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01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: games this weekend. We'll catch up with you next week.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks so much. As right,

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Speaker 1: that's great. Co Sale, senior producer from NFL Films, also

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Speaker 1: co host of the ESPN NFL Matchup Show. We will

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Speaker 1: take a break here because when we come back, it's

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Speaker 1: the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate and we'll also hear

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Speaker 1: from Bill's left tackle Dion Dawkins as he gets set

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Speaker 1: for Sunday's game in Miami. That's coming your way next

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back. It's a Friday

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Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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Speaker 1: Download the Wegman's app today. Steve clewe number one right

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Speaker 1: out of the shoot alright. Born in Camden, New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: I was a star football and basketball player in high

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Speaker 1: school at Mount Holly's in a large part to my

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Speaker 1: six seven height art still one clue, and he nailed

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Speaker 1: it six seven sixty seven, kind of narrowed it down.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know they would narrow it down that much,

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Speaker 1: my words, good one though. He played his college ball

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Speaker 1: at Do you remember Kentucky? Yes, that's right. He won

1267
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: an SEC title at Kentucky in the seventies. That's back

1268
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: when Kentucky was actually good at football. So I got

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01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: saying something, here's the thing, So I come out of

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01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: Hi Hi High School. It's a long story. I'll try.

1271
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: I'll try to make a come out of high school.

1272
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 1: One of my assistant coaches at Dodge City Community College

1273
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 1: my sophomore year was a guy named Greg Spainey. His brother,

1274
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,839
Speaker 1: Gary Spainey, was a Kansas City chief of the legendary

1275
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,679
Speaker 1: Kents City Chief is where it still started his NFL. Right, Okay,

1276
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: so you see where I'm going with this. So Greg

1277
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 1: knew his brother Gary, and so we and a couple

1278
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: of us with Greg went to a Chiefs game, had

1279
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: good seats and all that, you know, because Gary took

1280
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: care of us and after the game we go out

1281
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: to meet Greg's brother Gary for the first time. You know,

1282
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 1: we just just you know, and we're standing around. We're

1283
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: like twenty years old, right, we're freshman sophomores in out

1284
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 1: of college and the players are coming up. They played

1285
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: in Chicago Bears, Walter Peyton, the Bears. All those guys

1286
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: come strolling out and outcomes Art Still six seven and

1287
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 1: I think he had an ear ring right. He It

1288
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: was like, who's that dude? Dude, who is that right?

1289
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: And it's like Greg Rousseau coming out right, It's like same. Hi.

1290
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh. And so it's like, wow,

1291
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: look at that guy. And he couldn't have been you know,

1292
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 1: we didn't say hi to these guys. Really we're kind

1293
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: of standing off to the side, but you know, they

1294
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: were nice, signing autographs on the way to the you

1295
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 1: know or whatever and stuff. But I saw him are still.

1296
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 1: So I was a kid, I kind of a kid

1297
01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: twenty years old. So then fast forward, I'm coming back

1298
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: from a trip and I don't know where. There's an

1299
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: offseason trip. I can't remember what time of year it was,

1300
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: and I'm walking the airport and the guy who Joe

1301
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: Niland who is in this Buffalo Greater Buffalo Sports Hall

1302
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: of Fame. Joe I went to I went to the

1303
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame with him, Joe Niland. He was the

1304
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 1: guy that worked for the Bills that drove all the

1305
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: guys from the airport. And I going and I'm were

1306
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: My wife and I were walking off and maybe a

1307
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: couple of kids were walking through the airport and there's

1308
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: Joe standing there. Hey, Joe, how you good? Good? He's

1309
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: 'm here and picking him under the player and sure

1310
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 1: enough it's Art still traded for him. Yeah, I'm going, hey, man,

1311
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: And I said, and I said, I I go. I

1312
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 1: grew up watching it like I grew up watching him, right.

1313
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 1: I was like, it was like six years before this, right,

1314
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: And he goes, Oh, he goes, you're killing me. And

1315
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 1: he grew turned out to be a great teammate. You

1316
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 1: so yeah, unique dude, six three or six seven, two

1317
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three pounds SEC Player of the Year

1318
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: as a senior. That's hard to do on that count,

1319
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: especially as a defensive consensus All American UM second pick

1320
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: in the seventy eight draft, second overall. Whose first do

1321
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,799
Speaker 1: you know? We gotta go? I would guess it's a quarterback.

1322
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:22,000
Speaker 1: Four Pro Bowls, a couple of second team All Pros.

1323
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,679
Speaker 1: He was also named the Chiefs Most Valuable Player twice

1324
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:28,640
Speaker 1: in his career. And they say, well, where did the

1325
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 1: trade come from? Well, when Marv was coaching the Chiefs,

1326
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 1: he had Art Still as a young player. So that

1327
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: was the familiarity that Marv had with Art. And you know,

1328
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: bring a veteran player in. He comes here, had six

1329
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: sacks for the Bills in eighty eight, played for him

1330
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: again in eighty nine, you know, rotational role, and then

1331
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,679
Speaker 1: that was it. Called it a career. After the eighty

1332
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 1: nine season, seventy eight number one overall Earl Campbell. Earl Campbell,

1333
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 1: all right, I would I would accept being the second

1334
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,720
Speaker 1: pick overall if it was Earl Campbell first, Earl Yeah,

1335
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:06,759
Speaker 1: Tyler Rose, Yeah, I would say yes, yes. Heisman Trophy

1336
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: winner in seventy seven, went to one, two, three, four, five,

1337
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 1: five Pro Bowls, NFL MVP in the next year's second year,

1338
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: seventy nine offensive rookie the year and seventy eight when

1339
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: he got drafted, Still was on the NFL All Rookie Team,

1340
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: went to four Pro Bowls and is also Pro Football

1341
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Earl Campbell. But yeah, Art was a

1342
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: great teammate and he's had this era at that point.

1343
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: Obviously he'd played a long time, well over a decade.

1344
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: We traded for him, and so we were like and

1345
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: he was just those lighthearted and easy going to guys

1346
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: you'll ever come across. So guys are always trying to

1347
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 1: get him, say, hey, how did you play so long?

1348
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: And you know, what's that that? You know? He said,

1349
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: you know, just how long do you play? He goes,

1350
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: His great line was you play as long as you

1351
01:15:55,400 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 1: possibly can, and then you play one more year. So

1352
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: that was his line, and uh, it took us a

1353
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: long time to get out and get that out of him.

1354
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: He says, I'll tell you. He goes, how long are

1355
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 1: you gonna play? And he finally goes, here's how it goes,

1356
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 1: and we're on a plane home from a from a win.

1357
01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: He said how long? He goes, here's how long you play?

1358
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: And everybody got quiet because you're gonna tell us and

1359
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 1: he said, you play as long as you can and

1360
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: play one more year. That was his advice. So there's

1361
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: one place where he has you beat by a mile.

1362
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: Steve and it's not just in height. Do you know

1363
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: he and his wife had eleven kids. Yes, they adopted

1364
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 1: a number of them as well. Okay they adopted. Well

1365
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: still that's admirable. But my god, eleven seven when he

1366
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 1: was here, six or seven eleven kids, Yes, a huge family,

1367
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: huge family, man, huge family. That's a lot. There's a

1368
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: lot of work. That's a lot of work. Yeah, that's

1369
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,640
Speaker 1: so many kids that the older one just have to

1370
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: start taking care. Help you to take care of the

1371
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: younger ones. It just yeah, they start getting Yeah, yeah,

1372
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:07,679
Speaker 1: they started becoming parents to any age. You're right, that's

1373
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: good for him. He was tremendous. That's a good guy. Yeah,

1374
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 1: Art's still your latest Tasker's teammate. We wanted to pass

1375
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: along to you some comments from Dion Dawkins. After practice today,

1376
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: Dion addressed the media. He was asked first about the

1377
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: holding calls that were charged to him. He had three

1378
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: in the game out of the six for the team,

1379
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of had a little bit of

1380
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: rough day. So here was his take on the holding

1381
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: calls from Sunday, Just thinking about it, like that's that's

1382
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 1: all a part of like football, like like, uh, penalties

1383
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: before and after and a play like that's all a

1384
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 1: part of ball and honestly, in the first couple of

1385
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: weeks of actual live bullets, like guys are not nervous,

1386
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 1: but guys are like all over in a place, like

1387
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:59,600
Speaker 1: we're pros, but we're still human. Like stuff happens. But

1388
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: I guess feet and hands can definitely save us from penalties.

1389
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it all comes like it comes,

1390
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:08,640
Speaker 1: it goes. You have a good game, you have a

1391
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: bad game. It's all a part of being a pro.

1392
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: But the good thing about it is, uh, we have

1393
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,679
Speaker 1: the opportunity to to to reset and we have another

1394
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 1: opportunity to I guess move our hands and our feet

1395
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: like and McDermot says, the first play of in the

1396
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 1: game and before and the ball was even snapped like

1397
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 1: they were talking about hands, hands, hands inside, hands inside,

1398
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:31,720
Speaker 1: So like we knew going into it that that was

1399
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: a point of emphasis that they were harping on and

1400
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: cool like that just teaches us that we just got

1401
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: to be on our game, and specifically me, like we

1402
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 1: have to be on our game just and just that

1403
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: much more tighter and shoot it is and what it

1404
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: is like those those penalties, it hurt us, but another week,

1405
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: Dolphins is where our mind is. He also said they

1406
01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 1: called holding a lot more than he anticipated the ref's

1407
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: calling it. But now he's got to adjust. That's the

1408
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: task going forward now. Yeah, and he obviously, And that'll

1409
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: give you some insights what happens the pre game and

1410
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: he pre game and in the days leading up to it,

1411
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: they said, you know, keep your hands inside. Tell him,

1412
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: and the officials are talking to him on the field.

1413
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 1: It sounded like, as well, just keep him so, you

1414
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: know they so as you start grabbing shoulder, pair has

1415
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: no excuses. I mean, you got to you gotta stop

1416
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: doing them when you got to do it. But I

1417
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: think a couple of times, and we've all seen this

1418
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: as well, there are good there are penalties, and there

1419
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: are really good penalties. So if you if you guy

1420
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: beat you clean, he's gonna whack your quarterback who just

1421
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: signed the big contract and you can't win without him.

1422
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: Tackle the guy, hold him, take the penalty, and that

1423
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: I thought a couple of times Dion did that. No.

1424
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: Deon also commented on his continuing recovery from his battle

1425
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: with COVID, which, for those that don't remember, left him

1426
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: hospitalized for four days, and he lost fifteen to sixteen

1427
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: pounds in the few weeks that it took him to

1428
01:19:57,280 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: recover from COVID after being hospit for the lie. So

1429
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: here is his description of his current status. I mean

1430
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: up and down, you know, like, uh, my body like

1431
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 1: went through a drastic tragedy. How I would say, like

1432
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: every part of my body was and was battling. So

1433
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: from being down at my lowest point in trying to

1434
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 1: be at my highest point in three weeks, I mean,

1435
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: I try at my best, you know. Uh, like I said,

1436
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:28,560
Speaker 1: like being in being a pro, like your clock just

1437
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: has to be faster. But you know, I'm I'm grinding

1438
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: at it every day, like I'm not fully fully, fully

1439
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 1: fully fully me, but I'm still me. But it's just

1440
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:41,799
Speaker 1: the conditioning part of it. And that's not an excuse,

1441
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: but it's just saying that it's a it's a it'll

1442
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,560
Speaker 1: be an entire season thing to just keep growing and

1443
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: just keep chopping away at my and my downfall, which

1444
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 1: I'll be on the uprise. It's definitely hard because you're

1445
01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:00,640
Speaker 1: hit with mental bullets that I've never expected, like like

1446
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,839
Speaker 1: man like I used to think that the best athlete

1447
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: on the field, and then when you have less conditioning

1448
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: because of COVID and your body's not like fully there

1449
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:11,799
Speaker 1: like that, and that set you back for a second

1450
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: or whatever that might be. But the mental part, it's

1451
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: an up and down battle. But we have great people

1452
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 1: here and doctor Daz like, they all do a great

1453
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: job of keeping us on the right path. But it's

1454
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:27,280
Speaker 1: definitely a roller coaster. Like Shoot, I'm gonna tell you

1455
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: the truth. I'm far from perfect and I'm not the

1456
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 1: like perfect, So you know, it's an up and down

1457
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: battle and I'm gonna just keep chopping away at it.

1458
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: And whether I need help here or today or tomorrow

1459
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: or in a week, I mean I'm gonna go ahead

1460
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:45,719
Speaker 1: and seek it for whatever strikes next, because the bullets

1461
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 1: fly all day every day, all right. I mean, Steve,

1462
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but like as hard as

1463
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 1: he has worked to get back to quote unquote playing shape,

1464
01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's there yet. Like, I don't

1465
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 1: know if there's enough time. He's put in extra time

1466
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 1: every single day with the strength and conditioning staff to

1467
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 1: try to get his conditioning level back up. Let's not

1468
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:14,719
Speaker 1: forget COVID is a respiratory disease. It's a respiratory virus

1469
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: and it doesn't number on your lungs. So even the

1470
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: most highly conditioned athletes need time to get back to

1471
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: where they were. And I don't know if three weeks

1472
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: is enough time. And now, Steve, they're gonna go play

1473
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Speaker 1: in Miami high humidity, and you've played in high humidity.

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Speaker 1: You know what that does? You? Hear athletes say it's

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01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: not good air. You know what I mean? You play

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01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: here in October on a sixty degree day. You feel

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01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: like you can run for days because the air is crisp,

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01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: it's clean, it's dry, it's cool. You're playing in eighty

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01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: percent humidity ninety four degrees on the field. That's a

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01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: completely different animal. And for a guy coming off a

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01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: respiratory virus, I think that's something they better keep an

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01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 1: eye one. On days like that, you feel like a

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01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: fish out of water. You can't get enough air, right,

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01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: And it's it's air that's like thick um. It's not

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01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 1: a question of how much work he's gonna put in,

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01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:10,640
Speaker 1: it's also a question of time you can put it.

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01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: He'll these players will put in as much effort as

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01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:15,880
Speaker 1: it will take. Absolutely to a man do you tell

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01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: him to go out and do ABC D and E.

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01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: They'll do ABC D and E and F and G.

1491
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: If it's out there, they'll continue to do. What the

1492
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: problem is, then you gotta rip, You gotta recoup and

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01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: get ready and do it again and be able to

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01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 1: do it again. Um. It takes time because your body

1495
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: has to recover so it's ready to be stressed out again.

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01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,560
Speaker 1: With a workout and a game is a is a

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01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: huge Um. It's a huge amount of physical exertion that

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01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: you've got to have enough stores and you gotta be

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01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:47,519
Speaker 1: ready to handle. But now you can't build up to

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01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 1: that because you have to rest up to go through

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01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 1: enough workouts to get there, and there hasn't been enough

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01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: time for that, you know. I mean the guy was

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01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: in the hospital and he had not only he's trying

1504
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: to gain weight, he's burning calories like a blast furnace.

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01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:04,640
Speaker 1: That used to be the issue that not only me,

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01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: but a lot of players go through. You're trying to

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01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 1: put on weight or at least maintain weight while you're

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01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:12,719
Speaker 1: going out and practicing for two and a half hours

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01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: in the morning and then for two hours in the

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01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 1: morning and an hour and a half in the afternoon

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01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: and you're running the whole time. Then he when he lift,

1512
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,679
Speaker 1: you're trying to put weight on with that it's impossible. Yeah,

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01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's up against it, and you know, as

1514
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: we know, the league doesn't wait for anybody, and he's

1515
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: still playing catchup. I think that's safe to say based

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01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: on I don't think he said. And I'm reminded of

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01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,720
Speaker 1: von Miller and the battle he had with COVID when

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01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 1: he had it last year. He said it took me

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01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: a month just to get over the virus. He said

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01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 1: it took him another four to eight weeks before he

1521
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: said he felt like his old self again on a

1522
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 1: football field in terms of going snap after snap after snap.

1523
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: So I think the Bills are really gonna have to

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01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: keep an eye on him in this heat and humidity

1525
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and if it affects his performance, they may

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01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: need Spencer Brown to smell for a snap or two

1527
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,040
Speaker 1: here or there through the course of this game. Yeah,

1528
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 1: and you can see it. They may do that. They

1529
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: may pick their spots for that, or they may not.

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01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: Who knows. They may let him go the entire way

1531
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: depending on how the game's going. If if the offense

1532
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: and here's thinking about this. So you had this game

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01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,719
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh and everything goes and it's you never feel

1534
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,439
Speaker 1: like you're in it. You know, you're it's not run

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01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: on the way you want it to run. And then

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01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: you get out there in Miami, Josh makes a little

1537
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: course correction. All of a sudden, he's completing seventy seventy

1538
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: five percent of his passes and you're staying on the field. Well,

1539
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: they don't rotate offensive linemen, you know, and all of

1540
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 1: a sudden, this game takes a turn like wow, this

1541
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: is they may they may keeps them off. We're talking

1542
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: about what running backs are keeping active. It's the same

1543
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: thing for offensive lineman. They get down there and the

1544
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: offense plays well. And they have seventy five plays of

1545
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: offense in Miami, I mean, like they did against Pittsburgh.

1546
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:05,560
Speaker 1: Deon Donkin's away one hundred and ninety pounds, you know.

1547
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys will drop fifteen pounds in a game.

1548
01:26:11,479 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a that's an issue. That's a real issue.

1549
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 1: I just think it's something we should all keep an

1550
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: eye on. I mean, believe me, I'm hoping, like heck

1551
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,600
Speaker 1: Dion comes through the game. Fine, start to finish, But

1552
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 1: that heat and humidity, it's gonna play a role. I think,

1553
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: I think it will. Hopefully he's fine and can get

1554
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,160
Speaker 1: through the game. Hopefully the Bills are scoring on four

1555
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:36,719
Speaker 1: and five play scoring drives, not eleven and thirteen plays.

1556
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: For his sake, let's quickly try to fit in a couple.

1557
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: One last question in the mail bag. Do you think

1558
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 1: the coaching staff will reshuffle the old line if they

1559
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 1: struggle on Sunday? That's from Tiffany. We just talked about

1560
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: the possibility of Dion if you know, fatigue sits in

1561
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:57,720
Speaker 1: based on his COVID recovery. I don't think they messed

1562
01:26:57,760 --> 01:26:59,640
Speaker 1: with the line all that much. Sounded like they were

1563
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: pretty happy with what Cody Ford did in the second

1564
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 1: half last week. Yeah, I couldn't anticipate that. Certainly, Spencer

1565
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,000
Speaker 1: Brown came in for one play when Dion blew a

1566
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: shoe out, but other than Cody Ford, like Butker, there

1567
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,919
Speaker 1: was nothing there. They brought in some short yardage packages

1568
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 1: with Spencer Brown a tight end and all that heavy

1569
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 1: pat you know, for short yardage and goal on which

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01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: is different. I would say probably not. Yeah, if they

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01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: struggle and things go, hey, wire. Yeah maybe okay, but

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01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: until that happens, I don't think so. And even then

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01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 1: they probably just bring a tight end in and help

1574
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: there do it that way with an extra guy in

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01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: for protection. Break time for us, Steven I close it

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Speaker 1: up next here on One Pills Live, presented by Colli

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Speaker 1: to help. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, Chris Brown's

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Speaker 1: the attast with you. One final segment and what did

1579
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: we learn today? We learned that Will Fuller is not

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01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 1: going to be part of the equation on Sunday for

1581
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: the Dolphins due to personal reasons. Miss practice yesterday for

1582
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: that same designation and is not going to play or

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01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 1: be available on Sunday for the Dolphins. They played without

1584
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 1: him last week, got a one point victory in New England,

1585
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:21,240
Speaker 1: and that place will be pretty hyped for the home

1586
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: opener um as the Dolphins are trying to go to

1587
01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: an oh and get an early lead in the division. Yeah,

1588
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: and because everybody else lost last night, I know this, uh,

1589
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: And there's a ton of stuff on, you know, amongst

1590
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans on social media. There's a ton of people

1591
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: headed down Oh yeah, a ton of people headed down

1592
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: there for to Miami and that's kind of been always

1593
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 1: been the case for a couple of three or three

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01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: decades at least, that Miami's kind of one of the

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01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: destinations you can always count on a lot of Bills

1596
01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:49,719
Speaker 1: fans shown up. Um depend doesn't It depends on doesn't

1597
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:51,680
Speaker 1: even depend on when the game is earlier late in

1598
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: the season. Bills fans like to go to South Beach

1599
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: and see the Bills play. It'll it'll be a good game,

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01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 1: I think, so that atmosphere will be We'll split, I

1601
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 1: would think. Just a reminder, Gabriel Davis, Star Latoula, and

1602
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: fa Obata questionable for the game on Sunday, be sure

1603
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: to stay close to Buffalo Bills dot com for all

1604
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,600
Speaker 1: your updates, including Bills Field Pass, our pregame show to

1605
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,840
Speaker 1: be streaming on all the Bills streaming channels, and then

1606
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 1: we'll break it down after with Bills Tonight with Steve

1607
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 1: and Maddie, and then we recap it all here on Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you that