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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by called Light to

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Speaker 1: Help all Right. Welcome to a Friday edition of One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker joining us shortly as

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Speaker 1: he is connecting from his home. I am coming to

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Speaker 1: you via zoom on Chicago and weather update from the

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Speaker 1: Windy City winter storm warning and effect here where at

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Speaker 1: the hour of noon Central time, it is minus two

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Speaker 1: with a wind chill of about minus ten. And I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, our hotel here in Chicago is right

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Speaker 1: downtown and there aren't a lot of people on the streets.

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Speaker 1: It looks like people took a long holiday weekend, and

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Speaker 1: with the weather the way it is here, I don't

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Speaker 1: blame them. I have been updated on the weather back home,

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Speaker 1: which Steve will provide an update on in just a second.

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Speaker 1: You guys are honkering down there in western New York,

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Speaker 1: and I've been given FaceTime views of what is going

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Speaker 1: on there, and it looks like you guys are living

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Speaker 1: in a snow globe. So batting down the hatches, Do

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Speaker 1: not go outside, do not drive anywhere, because it is

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Speaker 1: not great back in Buffalo either, with blowing and drifting snow,

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Speaker 1: high winds and all that good stuff. So make it

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Speaker 1: a long holiday weekend, and we're happy to be here

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Speaker 1: to kind of entertain you for the next couple of

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Speaker 1: hours as we get ready for the bills bears tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one. And I gotta tell you, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving the hotel today. I am gonna stay indoors

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Speaker 1: this entire will not set foot outside. We got in

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Speaker 1: last night, probably probably around I'm because I'm getting messed

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Speaker 1: up with the times here in my head. We probably

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Speaker 1: landed here at about seven thirty Central times, so about

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Speaker 1: and we're out on the tarmac because we walk to

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Speaker 1: the buses that then take us to the hotel. They

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Speaker 1: as they could to the airplane on the tarmac because

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Speaker 1: at that time it was minus two as well, and

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Speaker 1: the wind was whipping last night a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: this is the first time I have done a road

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Speaker 1: trip with a scarf. I'm usually not outside long enough.

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Speaker 1: I just have the two cat on super layered up

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Speaker 1: coat gloves. I said, the heck with this, I am

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Speaker 1: not exposing my face to the ferocity of cold that

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Speaker 1: I am going to experience in about ten minutes. As

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Speaker 1: I was walking off the plane. That proved to be

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Speaker 1: a good decision because half my face wrapped in a scarf,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad I had it. Fortunately for those of

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Speaker 1: us that cover the team, most of us will be

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Speaker 1: up in the press box, the broadcast booth, etc. So

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Speaker 1: we won't have to deal with the elements. But you know,

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Speaker 1: talking to our team photographer Bill Whippert this morning at breakfast,

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Speaker 1: I was asking him about his plans because even though

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Speaker 1: you know, he's all layered up in everything, he has

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Speaker 1: to keep his fingertips free so he can take pictures.

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Speaker 1: The dexterity or fingers is compromised by heavy gloves and stuff,

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Speaker 1: so he's got to have a plan. So he's got

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Speaker 1: to have those handwarmer things in his pockets to keep

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Speaker 1: his hands warm. And you know, over a period of hours,

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Speaker 1: even with handwarmers and stuff, you just can't keep them

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Speaker 1: warm enough. So it's tough. So he tries to sneak over.

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Speaker 1: He told me, he tries to sneak over by those

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Speaker 1: heat blowers that you see on the sidelines on either

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Speaker 1: have to have a plan tomorrow. Found it interesting that

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Speaker 1: the Bears actually sent out a notice to all of

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Speaker 1: storms can bring unpredictable factors and make sure that you're

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Speaker 1: at Soldier Field tomorrow. So essentially what the Bears are

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Speaker 1: trying to do to help their fans in the stadium

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Speaker 1: and at their concession stands. There's also going to be

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Speaker 1: warming stations for fans. So if you're a Bills fan

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Speaker 1: coming to the game at Soldier Field tomorrow, Gate thirty one,

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Speaker 1: They're battery power to keep your coat or your vest

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Speaker 1: So some interesting precautions that they're taking knowing what the

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Speaker 1: weather is expected to be like tomorrow. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a whole ten degrees warmer tomorrow than it is

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Speaker 1: the worst of this winter storm is supposed to blow through,

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Speaker 1: and I say warmer in quotation marks if it's going

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Speaker 1: from minus two to twelve, so actually be fourteen degrees colder. Chris,

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Speaker 1: fourteen degrees warmer? Forecast tomorrow. But with the wind, it's

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Speaker 1: certainly not going to feel like that. But that's the

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Speaker 1: state of affairs UH for Chicago tomorrow. Steve Tasker has

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Speaker 1: now jumped on board. What is the latest forecast from

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Speaker 1: your neck of the woods in Western New York, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Now that I filled everybody in on Chicago, it's so

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Speaker 1: bad out here, Broce Leeve, it's really bad. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the reason I'm and the reason I'm late to get

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Speaker 1: on UM has nothing to do with the weather. It's

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Speaker 1: I have an inordinate amount of user air on my

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Speaker 1: zoom app. So that's why I'm I'm a little late.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for holding it down. It's cold in Chicago though

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Speaker 1: it's minus two here. That's that's that's that's without the wind,

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Speaker 1: that's not It's not that bad here. It's UM. I

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Speaker 1: was out will be. Yeah, it's bad. It's don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong. It's bad here. It's not as snowy as

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Speaker 1: it is windy, and the visibility is really what's killing it.

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Speaker 1: and it was the visibility that was the problem. Very

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Speaker 1: lovely wife FaceTime me about an hour ago, just to

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Speaker 1: I was telling before he came on, Steve, I was

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Speaker 1: telling fans, if there's some of the people that have

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Speaker 1: actually setting up a couple of warming stations in the

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Speaker 1: jokes about I've been telling you all week how it

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Speaker 1: gets dangerous cold in Chicago, and you you know, Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: you don't get as cold as you do in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: That's true, and it's it's serious. Chicago. You know, people

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Speaker 1: mean it's serious. But here in Buffalo, you know, you

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Speaker 1: snow or anything. Are you sup? There's only about two

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Speaker 1: from the practice squad if they feel they need any.

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Speaker 1: We know already they're down a defensive end with Boogie

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Speaker 1: Crowd are still on injured reserve. The last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: it's been either John Brown or Cole Beasley called up,

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Speaker 1: so we would anticipate another receiver call up to give

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Speaker 1: we'll wait on those again. Bills have until four o'clock

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Speaker 1: Eastern time to address their roster accordingly with practice squad elevations.

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Speaker 1: about that. I would agree with that only because Steve,

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Speaker 1: Lamar is a different cat, I think. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: playing the way Lamar does. So I you know, Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields isn't in that. Now. I'll say this too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: team totally sold out and tried to and just totally

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Speaker 1: transformed their roster to be a kind of a team

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Speaker 1: that's going to run all from the quarterback position and

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Speaker 1: do it big time. Greg Roman. You know, the whole

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Speaker 1: offense is about Lamar's ability to run and ball handle

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So Chicago's not even in that

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Speaker 1: neighborhood this year with their roster and the way their

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Speaker 1: their offensive philosophy. So you know, while even if Lamar

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Speaker 1: and Justin Field switched places, you know, the Bears would

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Speaker 1: be struggling. I think, yeah, obil Fan Friday mailbag is open.

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Speaker 1: Any questions you have on the bills of the league

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Speaker 1: at large. We are here to answer those so that

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Speaker 1: we will get to at some point in the show

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Speaker 1: when we have an open segment. But next segment we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be joined by a hall of famer NFL Network

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Speaker 1: analyst Kurt Warner is going to be joining us. So

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Speaker 1: we will take a break here and ben joined by

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Speaker 1: Kurt when we return here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh the

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Speaker 1: weather outside. Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Friday, just a

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Speaker 1: day before Bills bears at one o'clock on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: Please to be joined now by hall of famer an

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Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner. And Kurt first, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Merry Christmas, and you've been hard at work

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Speaker 1: in the film room. I was just joking with you

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Speaker 1: before the break. I was trying to do a quick

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Speaker 1: crash course know when you were coming on here to

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Speaker 1: see if I could pick up anything off of your

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Speaker 1: one hour plus breakdown of Josh Allen. I guess we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to leave you to provide all the answers

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Speaker 1: because there just wasn't enough time in a four minut

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Speaker 1: a commercial break. Now, definitely, well, I'm always in the

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Speaker 1: film room. I mean it's kind of what I do.

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Speaker 1: It's it's really the prep I do every single week

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Speaker 1: is I watch every game, you know, because I mean

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Speaker 1: there's so many narratives out there, and there's so many

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Speaker 1: people that want to jump on what somebody else says.

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Speaker 1: And to me, I always feel like the best thing

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Speaker 1: I can do is watch every game and really know

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Speaker 1: what's going on. No one what's happening, know what you

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Speaker 1: know offenses and defenses are doing. And so that's my

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Speaker 1: prep every week. And then every week I pull out

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Speaker 1: a couple of guys for my QB confidential work and

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Speaker 1: do some film studies and so, you know, had some

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Speaker 1: people recently that, you know, as I picked some other quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess second tier quarterbacks, they're like, wew come,

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Speaker 1: you don't ever break down, you know, Josh and Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes and show us, you know, the things that they

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Speaker 1: don't do well, because you know, everybody wants to know

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Speaker 1: what somebody doesn't do well. So this week I pulled

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Speaker 1: out Patrick and Josh and you know, obviously they both

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Speaker 1: do a lot of really good things, um and they

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Speaker 1: both have some things that I think they can continue

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Speaker 1: to work on. But that's that's the nature of the business.

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Speaker 1: You guys know, you don't ever play I've played this

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Speaker 1: game a long time and I tell all the guys

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Speaker 1: I coach, I've never played the perfect game. You know,

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Speaker 1: There's always gonna be things that we can learn from.

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Speaker 1: And that's always my help with these videos is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, more than anything, they somehow find themselves back

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Speaker 1: to to the Bills or to Josh and maybe there's

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Speaker 1: some nugget in there that they can take and apply

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Speaker 1: to their game and help them to be even better.

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Speaker 1: So you get these guys and it seems like Mahomes

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Speaker 1: got Josh, Now you've got Lamar Jackson, You've got Herbie

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Speaker 1: the you know, justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, the guys that

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Speaker 1: and Lamar, Lamar who's been an MVP like you have been.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen a major and maybe permanent shift and

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Speaker 1: was expected from that because it was you know, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a game when when I played back in the

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Speaker 1: early late eighties early nineties. Ultimately you had to have

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Speaker 1: a guy like you could in the pocket and beat you.

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Speaker 1: Has that changed. I don't think it has changed when

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously and I talk about it in my

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Speaker 1: video a little bit. I mean, the beautiful thing to

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Speaker 1: be an athletic quarterback is that as you're learning and

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe if you if you don't see everything,

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Speaker 1: because to me, I couldn't do that. So my superpower

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Speaker 1: had to be seeing, processing and getting the ball out

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Speaker 1: and I had to do that. Guys that are more

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Speaker 1: athletic don't have to do that every time, but the

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Speaker 1: and then when they don't see it or when when

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Speaker 1: they miss something, they can make up for that with

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Speaker 1: that incredible athleticism. But I do not believe it's changed

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Speaker 1: from the standpoint that we still haven't seen a guy

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Speaker 1: that we consider, you know, more of an athletic quarterback

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Speaker 1: get to that place over and over again because you

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Speaker 1: still have to win that way, you know. I just

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Speaker 1: I just affirm believer, no matter how talented you are,

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Speaker 1: that it's hard to live in a world where they're

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Speaker 1: where you have to make fifteen to twenty special plays

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Speaker 1: every game. These are the best players in the world

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Speaker 1: that are going to take it away, especially playoff time.

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Speaker 1: The better defenses that you better be able to make

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Speaker 1: the layoups, You better be able to see it and

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Speaker 1: make the plays you're supposed to make in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: and then give me four or five of those special plays,

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Speaker 1: and now we're talking about something that can win championship.

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Speaker 1: So yes, you know, we're seeing more athletic quarterbacks do

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Speaker 1: more special things. But I still believe, you know, the

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Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league and the teams that continually

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Speaker 1: get to that point where they're competing, you know, for

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Speaker 1: pocket and make more of those throws than other guys.

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Speaker 1: And Kurt, it's interesting that you mentioned that taking the

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Speaker 1: layups because there was a stretch probably between weeks seven

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Speaker 1: and ten, where Josh in the opinion of many, was

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Speaker 1: pushing the ball down the field unnecessarily and fell victim

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Speaker 1: to a spate of turnovers. He had a stretch where

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Speaker 1: seven of his nine turnovers were in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: and they he eventually pulled himself out of that partially

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Speaker 1: through more conservative offensive play that I think the offensive

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Speaker 1: staff took upon themselves to try to ease him through

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Speaker 1: that situation. And last week against the Dolphins, which I

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Speaker 1: know you went into heavily, was probably the first time

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Speaker 1: since earlier in the season where we really saw him

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Speaker 1: kind of making decisions, making plays and spreading the ball

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Speaker 1: to a bunch of different targets. How much how important

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Speaker 1: is it to kind of see the offense get back

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Speaker 1: to that where it's not just hey, Stefan Diggs, here's

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Speaker 1: fourteen targets. You know, you get they got the tight

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Speaker 1: ends involved. Last week, Naheim Hein scores a touchdown. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just kind of explain the value in that if you could. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, first thing is it won't take you four

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Speaker 1: minutes in a break to realize I threw a lot

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Speaker 1: of interceptions too. And so the reason I say that

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Speaker 1: is because I don't care about a quarterback being aggressive

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Speaker 1: and having some interceptions that come with that. I've always

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Speaker 1: believed if you're that guy and you press the ball

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Speaker 1: down the field, and you attack a defense and you

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Speaker 1: threaten them throughout the course of every game, that is

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Speaker 1: going to lead to more big plays and a better

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Speaker 1: offense at the end of the day, even if it

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Speaker 1: leads to more turnovers. So I don't worry about that

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Speaker 1: quite as much. I mean, you still want to make

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Speaker 1: quality decisions. You still don't want to force, you know,

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Speaker 1: throw down the field when there's something open underneath. But

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Speaker 1: I don't worry about that as much, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think the biggest thing for me with Josh during that

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Speaker 1: stretch where he was throwing interceptions is I want to

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Speaker 1: see him settle in a little bit more in the

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Speaker 1: red zone. I feel like he gets into this mode

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Speaker 1: to be a creative play, and so he almost drops

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Speaker 1: back and kind of bounces for a second to just

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Speaker 1: round and then I'm gonna run around and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make a play. And he makes a lot of those plays.

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Speaker 1: But that's where he made a lot of those mistakes

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Speaker 1: as well. I think sometimes down in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: you have to just be really efficient. You've got to

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Speaker 1: know what you're gonna see. You gotta get set as

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, and you gotta be ready to throw on

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Speaker 1: time and you know, and that to me. I think

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Speaker 1: was the biggest thing is he was running around making

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Speaker 1: plays because his automatic mindset wants to run around is

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Speaker 1: I can make every play, and that's what leads to

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Speaker 1: maybe those negative plays. When you're playing on schedule, I

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Speaker 1: think it's easier to go, oh, that's there, that's not there, Okay,

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Speaker 1: throw the ball away, take three points. And so it's

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Speaker 1: it's finding that balance. I think more in the red

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Speaker 1: zone than anything. I mean, you talk about the balance

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Speaker 1: of a team. I mean that's always key. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you believe you've got a bunch of guys that

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Speaker 1: can win, and you can truly allow a defense to

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Speaker 1: dictate where you throw the football, you're always going to

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Speaker 1: be better as a quarterback to just say I have

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Speaker 1: to try to force it to this guy or that guy.

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Speaker 1: Let the offense work for me. And I think every

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Speaker 1: quarterback when they're in a good system, which I believe

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Speaker 1: they have a good, solid system, a lot of good

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Speaker 1: concepts in Buffalo, you allow the offense to play for you,

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Speaker 1: and you're going to be more successful than feeling like

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Speaker 1: you've got to do everything on your own. But you know,

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Speaker 1: as I said before, I wasn't one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that could do all the special stuff that Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: can do. So I don't understand that mentality of how

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Speaker 1: do you balance that out right? I mean, how do

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Speaker 1: you say, oh, it's okay now to make a play,

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Speaker 1: but on the last play you shouldn't have when you're

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Speaker 1: a tough balance, and I think it's It's one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons why, again I look at Patrick Mahomes, I

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Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen, and why they're so special is

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Speaker 1: because they can do both things and they don't always

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Speaker 1: fall back on their athleticism. They play the quarterback position

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Speaker 1: as well. But I see them both at times get into,

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Speaker 1: you know, have problems because they want to be more

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Speaker 1: creative and they want to try to make the big play.

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Speaker 1: But I just think it's got to be a really,

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Speaker 1: of those things and you're used to making so many

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Speaker 1: big plays. Yeah, we've we've had this conversation Brownie and

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Speaker 1: I on our show Bills. Fans have had the conversation.

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Speaker 1: The coaches have been asked about that balance that you

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Speaker 1: talk about. When do you know to pull him back

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Speaker 1: the play last week against the Miami Dolphins, he's running

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Speaker 1: out of balance, runs all the play clock, runs, the

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Speaker 1: game clock out. At halftime, it's either it's either a

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Speaker 1: touchdown or it's or it's an incredibly missed, huge missed opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Of course he makes the touchdown, Fine, we'll balance that,

640
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: but right so, it's it's something they constantly work at.

641
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: One of the things that and you made. I don't

642
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: know if you can talk to them about this except

643
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: for your experience as an analyst too. You I mean,

644
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: you played in a dome with the Ramsey, won your championships.

645
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: As we get deeper into the season, whether it's particularly

646
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: in a weekend that we're all sitting here and we're

647
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,959
Speaker 1: all like it's subs zero outside everywhere in the United States,

648
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: it seems like, how you know what changes for a quarterback,

649
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: offensive play caller, how do you handle your receivers, the

650
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: depth of targets in games like this? And I know

651
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: all the conditions are wind is different than snow, Snow

652
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: is different than just bitter cold, all of that stuff.

653
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on as you get deeper into

654
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: the season, how you've got to be able to just

655
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: have a different mindset. Yeah, I mean you just realize

656
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: every aspect is different. You know, the ball is a

657
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: little slicker, so it's a little bit harder to control

658
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: no matter who you are, you know. I mean, I'm

659
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: sure Josh probably has a bigger benefit. Two hundred and

660
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: forty pound guy with big hands, you know, can control it.

661
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: But the balls get slicker, you know. Receivers, you know,

662
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: it's harder for them to get in and out and

663
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: be as fluid with their routes, and so timing is

664
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: a little bit different, you know. So all of those elements,

665
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: and you know, talk about wind. I mean, you know

666
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: it's harder to control of football in the wind, you

667
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: know whatever that means. You know, you have to throw

668
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: it a little bit harder, and now it's cold and

669
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: it's harder to catch, you know, or you can't control it.

670
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: You can't throw some of those touch balls that you throw.

671
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: So elements are are a huge factor, you know, when

672
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: it comes time to play. Now, obviously it's a huge

673
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: benefit for a team that plays in those elements every day,

674
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: so you get a feel for what that's like. But

675
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, Steve is that you know, you can practice

676
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: in something all week and then you get to the

677
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: game and it can be completely different. You know, there

678
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: can be a different element that plays into it. And

679
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: it's why we've always said, you know, running game and

680
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: defense travels because you know the elements, the wind and

681
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. Timing doesn't you know, isn't affected

682
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: quite as much. But the teams that can throw in

683
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: the cold, I think they can gain an advantage, a

684
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: huge advantage over teams that aren't used to it by

685
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: learning some of those nuances. But I just think it's

686
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: always going to be harder. It's always going to be

687
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: harder when when we talk about it and every you know,

688
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: whether I'm playing in a dome or not, you put

689
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: the ball into the air, there's more bad things that

690
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: can happen. And so put the ball into the air

691
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: when there's elements and there's wind and there's snow, and

692
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, guys can slip and all those things. You know,

693
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: there's more bad things that can happen. Um, you know,

694
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: But but again, you know, I always you know, and

695
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: again I always have fun with it. But I always

696
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: say every every playoff game should be played in a

697
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: dome so you know, best team can win. Because I've

698
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: always said that. You know, when I played in Arizona,

699
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 1: there was no way for me to prepare for the weather.

700
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: I mean, even if we came out two days ahead

701
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, we're not getting acclimated to the weather.

702
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: I'm not getting used to the elements that I could face.

703
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: And so it's it's such a huge disadvantage for teams

704
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: that don't play in it on a normal basis. Um,

705
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, to come to to those places, so, um,

706
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, elements are going to be an issue. You know,

707
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: as you guys, I'm fascinated to watch I'm calling the

708
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: game in Pittsburgh. You know, Pittsburgh in Las Vegas. Las

709
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: Vegas is a dome team, a warm weather team, you know,

710
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: coming to the cold. I'm interested to see how that

711
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,479
Speaker 1: plays out this weekend because it is a real thing,

712
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: physical as well as mental. I mean, we know mental

713
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: it's probably the bigger factor, but physically it is a

714
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: different deal. I mean, you know, I think it's funny

715
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: as we interview a lot of these guys and you know,

716
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: these guys that play in Buffalo and playing you know, Pittsburgh,

717
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: and you ask them about the weather, and you kind

718
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: of assume that they're gonna be like, oh, yeah, I

719
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: love playing in the cold, and it's every one of

720
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: them hates it. Like every one of them's like, I

721
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: don't like it. You know. The hands are hard, you know,

722
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: there's times I don't want anybody to talk to me

723
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: because my hands are hurting and I just need to

724
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: get my hands back. So nobody likes it, you know,

725
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 1: But but there is you know, there is ways that obviously,

726
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: if you practice it in every day, you can learn

727
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: some tricks of the trade that make it a little

728
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: bit more tolerable and make you a little bit more

729
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: successful in it. Last one for your Kurt, and again

730
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: we appreciate the time. Just quickly getting back to what

731
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: you were saying about Josh and the decision making in

732
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: the Red Zone. This is just a theory on my

733
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: part and it could be completely off the mark. Do

734
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: you think he feels, you know, to your point about, oh,

735
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: I've got to make a play and a big play

736
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: at that if I can that he knows he demands

737
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: so much attention when he's on the move. In terms

738
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: of spies in the Red Zoe, because I mean we

739
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: saw it last week. Javon Holland is spying him that's

740
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: their best cover safety. They're using him to account for

741
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: Josh in case he takes off and runs, so they

742
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: have to pull a guy like Justin Bethel off the

743
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: bench to cover Dawson Knox. He can't cover him. It

744
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: gets separation, it's a touchdown. Do you think he feels, well,

745
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: if I'm on the move, I'm pulling somebody out of

746
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: the coverage anyway, so advantage us. Well, I mean yeah,

747
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure that's part of it, you know,

748
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: is that, Yeah, he understands that, you know, on the move,

749
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, people have to keep eyes on him because

750
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: he can run and he can do those things. I

751
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: just think it makes the game, you know, incrementally harder. Yeah,

752
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: you know, when it's when it's all scattered and it's

753
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: all trying to create. And again there's guys that that

754
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: play that to their advantage, and Josh is one of

755
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: those that make more plays than they make mistakes there.

756
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: But I just think, you know, the biggest thing for

757
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: Josh is he's still learning the game and I think

758
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: still getting comfortable. Like the red zone is hard, Like

759
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: everything's quick. You know, you've got to be on time,

760
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: you've got to be set you gotta know where your

761
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: eyes need to be, you know, down in the red zone.

762
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: And so what I think happens, and you know with

763
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: these athletic quarterbacks is that you know, you see them

764
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: wanting to get out of the pocket because the game

765
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: kind of becomes easier because now it's just street ball

766
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: and let's just play and I only have to see

767
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: what's in front of me. I don't have to read anything,

768
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't have to be on time. I just have

769
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: to see what's in front of me. And so I

770
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: remember Steve mary Ugi always used to tell a story

771
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: about Brett Farve, you know, where he'd be in the

772
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: pocket and then all of a sudden he'd run out

773
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: of the pocket and Mooch would run over to him

774
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 1: and go, why there's a good pocket. Why are you

775
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: running out of the pocket, And he's like, I like

776
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: it out there, Like m I feel more comfortable out

777
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: there then I do sometimes in the pocket. And so

778
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: I think younger quarterbacks and athletic quarterbacks they've always played

779
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: in that world, and so they do feel better out there.

780
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's easier out in the field.

781
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: When you get down into the tight red zone, you

782
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: understand like, man, if I'm a little bit late, that's

783
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: an interception. So maybe I'll just bounce and then run

784
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: outside and be where I'm comfortable. So I think that's

785
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: a part of it more than anything. Is I'm just

786
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: more comfortable out there. You know, I'm sure what I'm

787
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: seeing and everything's moving really fast in the red zone.

788
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: Let me go out where I'm comfortable and where I

789
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: know I can make plays, and as you said, maybe

790
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: where I feel like we're an advantage because they got

791
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: to run up and stop me, and when they get

792
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: their eyes on me, it helps me with other guys.

793
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 1: But I think that's more of the element than anything.

794
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: And I think as Josh grows and gets better and

795
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: more comfortable with seeing things and the speed down there,

796
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: he'll probably stay in the pocket and be better down

797
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: there moving forward. It's just now I think it's comfort

798
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: zone in the red zone with as with a lot

799
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: of guys, is get out in space and just be creative. Yeah,

800
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: it's it's hard in the red zone because it happens

801
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: so fast. The windows are small. You gotta read it

802
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: right away because you got to. You gotta look right away.

803
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: You can't you don't look Safeties off in the red

804
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: zone and if it's there, you gotta take it. And Steve, Yeah,

805
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing, is like if if you're not

806
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: set and ready to throw on top of that, like

807
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: you can see it, but if if you're not set,

808
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: it's like, oh shoot, I saw it, but I missed it.

809
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: And so there's so many elements that go into it. Sorry,

810
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to cut you off. No, it's true.

811
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: But it's instant failure too. Those guys, you know, nobody

812
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 1: wants to fail down there, and you throw it quick

813
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: on something you see you might not trust, and you know,

814
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning told me, and I'm sure you've had the

815
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: same conversation. Every interception's got a story and nobody wants

816
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: to hear it. So you Eric, thanks for coming on, man,

817
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: it's great seeing you. Merry Christmas to you guys, and

818
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the way and hopefully we'll

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00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,000
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820
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,719
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849
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Speaker 1: do that snack tray? Maybe he has tam on the

850
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: snack tray? There's there better be some pig on that

851
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: snack tray. That's all I'm Mickey the Ham. M william says.

852
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: I'm in California. The coldest it's likely to get where

853
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: I live is maybe the upper thirties. No storms, just

854
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: gray skies and fog in some areas. That's about it.

855
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: I'll be watching the Bills game using my projector on

856
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: a one twenty inch screen in my garage. Maybe drink

857
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: a few beers. Man, that sounds a lot easier than

858
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: what we're all dealing with. Right, Oh my gosh, I'll

859
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: take thirties in the wink of an eye. Uh swing

860
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: Sloth says, while the football weather is frightful here in Brisbane, Australia,

861
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: I'll be eating a breakfast of King prawns on the

862
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: couch in my boxers in seventy seven degrees fahrenheit at

863
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: three am Christmas morning, go Bill, Yeah, it's summer down there. Yeah,

864
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: it's also three am, So you take the good with

865
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 1: the bed. True. I might. I might take that trade though,

866
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: have you looked outside? Yeah, I'll take it. I'll get

867
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: up at three am. Yeah, not have to deal with

868
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: storm Elliott. Yeah, Adam says, stacking firewood and fuel in

869
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: case the power goes down. Got a beef tenderloin and

870
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: some cold beer. Time to hunker down. Bills by a billion, Yeah,

871
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: there's I like it. Yeah. Hunkered down is the is

872
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: the phrase of the day everywhere. Jack throws this one

873
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: in what's the coldest game that Steve Tasker has ever

874
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: played in? Is it the Raiders game? Yeah? Division Round

875
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: of the play Raiders game. This was two years after

876
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: the I think it was two years after the fifty

877
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: one to three game game. It was sunny, bright, sunny,

878
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: like you say, it's clear there in Chicago. It was

879
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: bright and sunny, and it was zero or a little

880
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: below zero, with you know, five to ten mile prior

881
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 1: winds that took it down to I guess twenty below.

882
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 1: It was. It was cold, but it's bright and sunny,

883
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: and sunshine always makes everything better. But it was it

884
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: was really cool. I had a kick return kickoff return

885
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: that still stands as the longest kick return in playoff

886
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: history for the Bills, and I didn't did not score. Um.

887
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the coldest one. The gatorade on the side.

888
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: This was before they had the smarts to use, you know,

889
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: chicken broth on the sidelines. They had gatorade back then, right,

890
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: Gatorade was freezing in the up and uh, you know,

891
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: you go over and it's like Thurman said, it's really

892
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: it's really astute you go over. You can stay warm,

893
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: but you can't stay loose. That's the issue. Yeah, because

894
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: you're standing still in front of the thing. Yeah, you're

895
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: standing still. We're sitting on the bench. You can't get

896
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: up and stretch or anything is otherwise you because you're freezing.

897
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a it's a hard thing to walk.

898
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: But that was the coldest game I played in. It

899
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: was there in what was then the ralph And and

900
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: it was twenty I think they said it was twenty below.

901
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:14,919
Speaker 1: With Winchell Carly on the tailgate. Friday tweet sheet says

902
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: game day, I'm making a meat Lover's pizza if I

903
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: still have power for Christmas, homemade maniguct. I actually recently

904
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: learned this, Steve a lot of there's a lot of

905
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: dialects in Italy, and I have found that people of

906
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: Sicilian descent often cut off the last syllable of words.

907
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: So a person from mainland Italy might stay manicotti, but

908
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: a Sicilian would just say manigut. They just take the

909
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: last syllable and chop it off everything. Yeah, all right,

910
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: like ricotta cheese. I'm a big fan of the meat

911
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: Lover's pizza though, Yeah, Bay, I'd be all over that.

912
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: I want to know from Carly if it's multiple Yeah,

913
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, are we going? Is there sausage on there? Pepperoni? Like?

914
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: What else are we? Are we rolling with? Same game day? Yeah?

915
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: See game day Saturday, Christmas Eve. I mean that, you know,

916
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: there's no I don't know if there's I don't think so.

917
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: Probably people do have it in their own family, their

918
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: own household, some tradition for Christmas Eve ward, but there's

919
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: no like widespread tradition. You gotta have this on Christmas

920
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: Eve or so, and for a game you can just

921
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: revert back to you know, here in Buffalo, it's pizza

922
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: and wings and beer and the same old, same old.

923
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: I do know Italians have fish on Christmas Eve. That's

924
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: a big thing. Oh is that right? Yeah? And my

925
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: mom always made fish on Christmas Eve, big Italian thing,

926
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: so oh nice. Yeah, so that's a yeah, breaded fish

927
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: in the pan. It's good stuff. You skipped Jack W

928
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: on the tweech I did. I'll squeeze him in real

929
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: quick here because we're up against the break. I'll find

930
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: a way. Jack W says, I'll find a way to

931
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: watch this game Saturday, hoping to not lose power so

932
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: it can stay warm and watch at home with a pie,

933
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: then go to brun Laws for Christmas Eve feast and libations.

934
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: If powers out there, I'm gonna have to find an

935
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: open place to watch the game. I can't miss our

936
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 1: beloved Bills. Go bear hunting Steve with Christmas the next day.

937
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: You can have probably have an extra one or two

938
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: because you're probably not going anywhere tomorrow anyway. Yeah, and

939
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: I'll say this, if the power goes out of my house,

940
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: I'm leaving you go watch the game. You're gonna be

941
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: trudging somewhere. Yeah, here's a blanket, baby, make it make

942
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: your way all right. That that is Tailgate Friday, which

943
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: as always is brought to you by high Mark Blue Cross,

944
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: Blue Shield to Western New York, the official healthcare plan

945
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. We take a break here and

946
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: return with senior producer from NFL Films, Great Cosell, to

947
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: chop up the xs and o's on the Bears. Next

948
00:52:46,360 --> 00:53:23,919
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live. The suis one Bills Live

949
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: presented by Call to Health our number two here on

950
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: a Friday, Chris Brown's Steve Tasker, and joined as we

951
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: are every week by senior producer from NFL Films, Greg

952
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 1: co Sell, also co host of the ESPN NFL Matchup Show. Greg,

953
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about after last week's

954
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: game against the Dolphins, and I want our jumping off

955
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: point to be this for the first time in a

956
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: long time, a lot of different targets getting involved producing

957
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: for this passing game for the Bills. Two tight ends

958
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. Niheim Heinz scores a touchdown and finally gets involved.

959
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: What will that do do you think for the passing

960
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: game going forward? When they can diversify it like that. Well,

961
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's always a positive because I

962
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: think one of the things we spent a lot of

963
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: time Brownie talking about was that Diggs has been the

964
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: main guy, and if it really hasn't been Diggs, they've

965
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: had moments where they've struggled a bit. And I think

966
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: it's really really important for there there to be more

967
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: to the pass game than just Diggs. I think every

968
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: team needs more than one guy. Obviously, as great as

969
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: Diggs is, and I'm sure he'd prefer to get one

970
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: hundred yards every week, but I think when you can

971
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: do what they're doing, I think that's a really positive sign,

972
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: you know. And I think the other thing, too, is

973
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: it's the way it came about, Like that forty five

974
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: yard or to Knox, which I believe was on the

975
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 1: second possession if I'm not mistaken, or the third possession

976
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: it was early in the earlier in the game. That

977
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: was a really well designed play. You know. It's a

978
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: flood concept that every team has in their playbook, three

979
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: level stretch type concept, and normally you do throw it

980
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: to the inter receiver on that because you're calling it

981
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: based on your anticipation of a certain kind of defense,

982
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: and so Knox was probably the primary read on that play.

983
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: You know, I also thought that Josh in this game

984
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: showed more patience. He showed a willingness to take sustaining

985
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: throws when the picture wasn't really that clear. You know.

986
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: I thought there was a great example of that. I

987
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: think it was on the first possession of the third quarter.

988
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it was the first play where they called

989
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: that bang play action with a slanted Davis throw was

990
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: a little money and he checked it down to a

991
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: singletary for nine yards. Those plays matter in games. You know,

992
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: as great as Josh is with the big play capability,

993
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: you can't just live on big plays. You have to

994
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: sustain offense. And there's multiple ways to do that. And

995
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: we'll get to the run game element here in a moment. Yeah,

996
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, we'll never know how

997
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: how bad or or not the arm injury was to

998
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 1: Josh over the course of the last six weeks. We'll

999
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: probably never find that out totally. What does this offense

1000
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: look like now against Miami and the Jets and the

1001
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 1: last few games in comparison, now that we've got a

1002
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: bigger body of work, what's this offense looked like compared

1003
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: to work was at high flying offense last year at

1004
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: this time. You know, how have you seen now now

1005
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: that you've got a handle on how it has changed?

1006
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two, Verses twenty twenty one. What are your thoughts? Well,

1007
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: And again I don't know, as you've said, Steve, there's

1008
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: no way to know if it's a function of the

1009
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: injury because they're not going to say anything, nor as

1010
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: Josh because he's such a competitor. But you don't see

1011
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: as many deep balls since I mean you go back

1012
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: to let's say the Steelers game, which was obviously before

1013
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 1: the injury, and you know you see more deep throws.

1014
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: I don't think you see quite as many now as

1015
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: you did. You know back before the injury that maybe

1016
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 1: he just can't do that. We don't know the answer

1017
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: to that. So the point is is their offense to me,

1018
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: has more of a sustaining feel to it. You look

1019
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: what happened against Detroit on Things Giving Day when they

1020
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: had to score a touchdown in the fourth quarter and

1021
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: they went on a long drive, a sustaining drive, a

1022
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: methodical drive, and efficient drive. Same thing against Miami. I

1023
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: mean they got the ball with what I think it

1024
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: was close to six minutes to go? Was it not

1025
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: somewhere around there? And you know they did not There

1026
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: were no really big pass plays. You know, they weren't

1027
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: trying to push it down the field vertically. So you know,

1028
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: I think that you're seeing them be a little more patient,

1029
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: a little more methodical in how they're playing. And you know,

1030
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know,

1031
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: by the way, there's nothing wrong. And Steve you know this,

1032
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: you know from from your year's playing, there's nothing wrong

1033
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: with getting completions, you know, I mean, it's really I

1034
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: don't think any offensive coach is going to say a

1035
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: completion is a bad thing. Sure, you'd like everyone's wrong,

1036
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: you'd like to have a big play, But you know,

1037
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: those seven eight yard completions those matter in games because

1038
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: they allow you to be proactive defensively and they limit

1039
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: what the defense can do because it's when you get

1040
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: into long yardage situations that the defense can be far

1041
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: less predictable, far more multiple. They are proactive, you're more reactive,

1042
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: and that methodical approach might might play right into the

1043
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: conditions that are expected to borrow here in Chicago, because

1044
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: the wind as you know, is going to probably you know,

1045
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: sway offensive play callers away from anything that's more than

1046
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: fifteen yards down the field. So maybe that methodical approach

1047
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: that they've become accustomed to the last several weeks, this

1048
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: weather situation may play right into the hands of that.

1049
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: We don't know if Beasley is going to be a

1050
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: practice squad elevation yet, we are anticipating he will be,

1051
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: but he could factor very large in a game like this, right, yes,

1052
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: Because you know when we were discussing this before we

1053
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: came on and Steve, you made a great point. You know,

1054
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: Beasley is a perfect example of a guy that knows

1055
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: how to sit down in an open space. And you know,

1056
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: this is the kind of game, as you said, where

1057
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: you're not really looking to make a lot of throws

1058
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: to guys on the move, where you have to lay

1059
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: it out and throw it to air, so to speak,

1060
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: because that air may swirl the ball and prevent a completion.

1061
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: So now you want guys that know how to find

1062
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: a void against a team that plays a lot of

1063
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: his own and find avoid and sit down. So Josh

1064
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: can theoretically stick it right between the numbers and Brownie

1065
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: just to play off. A point you made about the

1066
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: methodical approach. You want to be in really favorable down

1067
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,959
Speaker 1: in distant situations in this game for this reason, who

1068
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: knows what the field goal situation is going to be.

1069
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: You don't want to start throwing vertical throws and then

1070
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,959
Speaker 1: you're second and ten, and then you're third and eight,

1071
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: and you think, oh, well, who knows. As good as

1072
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: Bass has been, and he's been phenomenal, I would bet

1073
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: you're not playing tomorrow to kick fifty one yard field goals.

1074
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: That's right on frozen ground, right, So you know you

1075
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: don't want to take those shots. I'm not saying they

1076
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: won't take any shots. You know, we don't know they

1077
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: might on a second and one, not a second and ten, right, Correct.

1078
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: That's a great point, Steve. You're one hundred percent right,

1079
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: because then you know you can still do something on

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01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: third and one that doesn't involve throwing the football. Yeah.

1081
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about this matchup. The

1082
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: Bills walk into Chicago. You've got this quarterback that's a

1083
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: little bit in his style, particularly now, and I've been

1084
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: making this comparison during the show today about him and

1085
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson justin fields Lamar Jackson. Now, certainly Lamar's got

1086
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: a better roster and a better philosophy around him for

1087
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: a guy who runs it. But Justin Fields has been

1088
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: giving Chicago. Now. They've only won three games all year

1089
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: and they're on a like a seven game losing street

1090
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: gut So I know it hasn't been great for them

1091
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: in the one lost column, but he's been giving them

1092
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: a chance with his ability to outrun people get to

1093
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: the end zone himself. He's getting a little better, trying

1094
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: to get better passing it. But if they're gonna have

1095
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: a chance, it's gonna be Justin Fields making some plays

1096
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: with his legs. I think, how do you see the

1097
01:00:56,120 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: Bills and what have other team's done to combat that flaw? Well,

1098
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of teams try to spy him,

1099
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: and they try to do it in multiple ways. The

1100
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: Eagles had a really cool play last week where they

1101
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: showed man coverage. They had Avante Mannox run across the

1102
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: formation with a slot receiver and then Maddox all of

1103
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: a sudden became the spy. It was a really cool thing.

1104
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: They ended up getting a sack on a stunt, so

1105
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: the spy element didn't play out on that given play.

1106
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: But you know, I think teams have tried to spy him.

1107
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm you know again that to me, that's a philosophy.

1108
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: You know, Fields is so fast, and again I don't

1109
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: know how the weather impacts pure speed, but Fields is

1110
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: so fast that to me, even a really good athlete

1111
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: like a Milano, you know, I don't know, I think

1112
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: he can run by players. So that to me is

1113
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: the key tomorrow. I don't know how the weather will

1114
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: impact the Bill's ability to throw and score. So you know,

1115
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,919
Speaker 1: you don't want to get stuck in a thirteen ten

1116
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter and Fields breaks a sixty

1117
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run, which he can do, by the way,

1118
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: any time, and that you have to be really concerned about.

1119
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the fact they've only won three games.

1120
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: You know, their offensive line isn't very good. They're down receivers.

1121
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: They're playing with guys at receiver that they probably didn't

1122
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: think they'd be playing with when the season started. You know,

1123
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 1: I think Montgomery's a nice back. I don't know did

1124
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 1: they activate Herbert Brownie. He's off injured reserve. He's not

1125
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: a lock to play, but yeah, he would diversify their

1126
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: run game for sure, because I liked him coming out

1127
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: of Virginia Tech a lot. I mean, to me, he

1128
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: was a classic zone runner that had some juice. So

1129
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: we'll see if he goes. But but Steve, you're right,

1130
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean Fields can can break one both by design

1131
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: because they have a design run game, and his bigger

1132
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: runs do tend to come off scrambles and second reaction plays,

1133
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: so you have to be really really conscious of that.

1134
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: And you know, I know every coach has a belief

1135
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: and how to go about slowing that down, and the

1136
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: spy is a philosophy thing. I don't know what Leslie

1137
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: and Sean feel about that. But as much as I

1138
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: love Matt Milano, when you know, I've been talking about

1139
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: Milano about him for three or four years before other

1140
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: people started to based on film, he can't run with

1141
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: with Fields, so you're wasting a player. To me, that's

1142
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: just my personal belief. So here's the question, though, Greg,

1143
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: So I'm you know, I'm watching some tape of their

1144
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: game against the Packers. I was telling Steve about this

1145
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. And he comes out to the

1146
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: right side off the snap and the corner forces him

1147
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: back inside to his help doesn't give him the corner right,

1148
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: and Fields kind of gives him a jab step like

1149
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: he is going to try to beat him to the corner.

1150
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: He freezes the corner and then cuts it up inside

1151
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: and basically outruns every angle that six other players have on.

1152
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: Are you talking about like that fifty yard touchdown run?

1153
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: Whether the flock owner blitched, the flock owner bledched and

1154
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: took away the outside and Fields cut it up. But

1155
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: he cut it up like eight yards behind the line

1156
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and still nobody could get an angle on it.

1157
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 1: And I ran six guys. So what's what's the technique?

1158
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: What's the defense to do? Right? So, I mean that's

1159
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: that's my point, you know. So again I'm not saying

1160
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 1: you take your ball and go home. I don't think

1161
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: the Bills will do that, but but you know, I'm

1162
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: not sure, you know, I think you know, Look, Leslie

1163
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: Frasier has been doing this a long time. He's seen

1164
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: a lot in his day, and Leslie is incredibly smart. Um.

1165
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: But that can happen anytime, you know, And that's the

1166
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: danger of a game like this, particularly if weather prevents

1167
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: you from putting up twenty five or thirty or thirty five.

1168
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: You know that one or two plays. I mean even

1169
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: last week against the Eagles, they didn't really put that

1170
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: game away until the end, you know, because Fields made

1171
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: one of his plays towards the end to make a

1172
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty Whereas if they their defense could have

1173
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: stopped the Eagles, they would have gotten the ball with

1174
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: a chance to win the game ground as you know,

1175
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: with meaning enough meaningful time left. So right, you know,

1176
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 1: that's that's the Fields factor, per se. Even though there's

1177
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: not a lot of consistency to their past game and

1178
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: he has you know, a number of balls that are inact.

1179
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: You're right. But by the way, he does have a

1180
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: big arm. I mean, this kid can throw the football.

1181
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: Now we're not talking about a guy that can't throw it.

1182
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: He just needs some you know, some fine tuning in

1183
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: a number of areas. But um, you know, you just

1184
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 1: this is a game. You gotta be careful. This is

1185
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 1: I don't want I'm not gonna call it a trap game.

1186
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: That's not the right word. But you just gotta be

1187
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: careful in this game because it's you know, one play

1188
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: could be the difference given what the weather conditions are.

1189
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: All right, So let's flip it around to the other side.

1190
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: The Bill's offensive line. Mitch Morris is not going to

1191
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: play in this game. I think that's a big miss

1192
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 1: it probably, I'm I don't know what they'll do. I

1193
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: would anticipate Bates would step in and then they would

1194
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 1: do what they had to do to get you know,

1195
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: either Van Rotten in a guard or even Mike Butker

1196
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: may come back in and play guard. He's he's elevated

1197
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: now to the roster. So um. But other than that,

1198
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like they are have any injury concerns

1199
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: except maybe outside of Josh's arm, which he said felt

1200
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: great a week. So how do you think this offense

1201
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: of the Bills stacks up against the defense of the Bears. Yeah,

1202
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: I mean the Bears defense is you know, has been.

1203
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: They've had injuries as well. They've got a big d line.

1204
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: You know, they play you know a number of different people.

1205
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: You know. I think that Sandborne is a big loss

1206
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: for them. You know, it's interesting how I remember watching

1207
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: Sandborn on tape coming out of Wisconsin, and because he

1208
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: didn't fit all the measurables, you know, people, he wasn't drafted.

1209
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: I don't believe, but I came away watching his tape saying,

1210
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: this guy's an NFL starting linebacker, and then he ended

1211
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: up being one. He ended up getting more tackles I

1212
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 1: think from Roquan Smith when you know when he started playing.

1213
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: But now he's out, and so I assume it'll be

1214
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 1: Thomas and Morrow and linebacker. And you know, obviously they've

1215
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: got people back in the secondary because Gordon played last week. Brisker,

1216
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: who I think is going to be a really good

1217
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 1: player the Penn State. In fact, I thought Brisker when

1218
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: I watched his tape in college, the players he reminded

1219
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: me of where were player in high because Risker is

1220
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: not a sensational athlete, but he's just a really smart,

1221
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: savvy player, and I think he's going to be that

1222
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: kind of player. But you know, I think this defense

1223
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 1: is it's a four man D line for the most part.

1224
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 1: That's their their front. You know, they don't really play

1225
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: the five man front. They're a four man D line front.

1226
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: They play. It's Matt Eberflus, so he has a everybody

1227
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: knows what he does. They play a lot of zone

1228
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 1: on first and second down. On third down, their cover

1229
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: one percentage increases. That has been Ebrafluos's m O since

1230
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: he was the DC in Indianapolis, so it's pretty there's

1231
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,479
Speaker 1: not a lot of mystery to what he does, so

1232
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 1: you kind of know going into the game. So you know,

1233
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: you made the point Brownie about you know, guys sitting

1234
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: down in his zone. That may be a way to

1235
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: attack on first down. You're going to get a lot

1236
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: of zone on first down and second down, you know,

1237
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: assuming it's not second and fifteen, right. And the other

1238
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: thing is they have an enormous amount of trouble getting

1239
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. Correct What other options does that

1240
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: afford Ken Dorsey knowing he doesn't have to put Reggie

1241
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: Gilliam on the field maybe as much to protect, or

1242
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to leave Dawson Knox in the formation

1243
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: to chip before he leaves. Well, that gets down to

1244
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: what the weather presents. Because if they believe they can

1245
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: throw the football, like if this was a normal game,

1246
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,679
Speaker 1: I'd say that they'd drop back Josh forty five times

1247
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 1: because I think they can throw the football against this

1248
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,719
Speaker 1: defense without I don't want to say without a problem.

1249
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: Nothing in the NFL, as you know, Steve is without

1250
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: a problem, but I would I would believe that they

1251
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 1: would think that, hey, we could drop back, that they

1252
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: would believe they could protect well enough. You know, they

1253
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: occasionally have pass protection issues, as they did in the

1254
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: third quarter this past week when Josh was forced to

1255
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 1: make a lot of second reaction movement. But I think

1256
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: they would believe they could protect well enough that they

1257
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 1: could attack this defense knowing what they're going to get

1258
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:59,799
Speaker 1: coverage wise, and you know, and just with the receivers.

1259
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: So we don't know what that can play out because

1260
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: of the weather until they sort of you know, it's

1261
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:06,560
Speaker 1: one thing to talk about the weather as an abstraction

1262
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: until you're on the field. And then and I'm curious

1263
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:11,720
Speaker 1: to see who the idiots Kamara will be that are

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01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 1: going to walk out with no shirt on before the game.

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Speaker 1: There's always gonna be a few of those plays, right Brownie,

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Speaker 1: There's always They had one last week. I know. What

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Speaker 1: about the secondary of the Bears, Um Kyler, Gordon, Jalen Johnson,

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Speaker 1: those guys seem to be playing at a higher level

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Speaker 1: than their defensive front. Yeah. Well, Johnson's a good corner.

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Speaker 1: Um normally doesn't travel, but has so he could travel

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Speaker 1: with Diggs, you know, and I think he will because

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Speaker 1: the other corner they played last week was Jones. Now

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01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: Gordon plays in bass on the outside, but when they

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Speaker 1: go to nickel, it's been Jones. Now Vildore was the guy,

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01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know. He may be active this week.

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01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,799
Speaker 1: If he's active, it could be Vildoor at the outside

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Speaker 1: corner with Gordon and the slot because Gordon is their

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01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: slot corner. When they play nickel, they do not play die. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And speaking of corners, Greg kyer Elam gets back on

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01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: the field last he platoons with Dane Jackson. I thought

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01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: he had a really good game. I mean, but he

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01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 1: was on his p's and q's after you know, not

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01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: being in the lineup all that much the last few weeks.

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01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: In this game, knowing his man cover skills and tradevious

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01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: whites man cover skills, do you think they could play

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01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 1: a little more single safety high knowing the concerns for

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01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 1: the Bears run game and get more people in the box. Well,

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01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: then your concern is fields, because if you're gonna play man,

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01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: you know, how are you going to handle fields? Because

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01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 1: again this is cliched but true is you don't want

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 1: people turning their back to the quarterbacks, so you have

1292
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: to have some way. It doesn't mean you can't play

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01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: man Brownie. There's ways to do that, you know, but

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Speaker 1: you you you don't want to do that without having

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01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: some way to respond to feel because it would not

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Speaker 1: surprise me. And I don't know this for a fact.

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Speaker 1: I'm not in their meetings, but it would not surprise

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Speaker 1: me if they tell Fields at this point in his

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Speaker 1: career that if you see green grass goal, even if

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01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: he's got to play call, even if you drop back

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01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: and you see the red sea part, go, well, yeah,

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01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:20,719
Speaker 1: you have to have a way to handle that. That's

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01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: important because you know that when they've got two backup

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: wide receivers starting for them, and it's like, you know,

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01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 1: they may not be able to win or he may

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: not have you know, yeah, the offensive coordinage probably just

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01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,719
Speaker 1: tell them, hey, get what you can get and slide

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01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: at the end of it. And the other factor too

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01:11:36,479 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 1: is I know Fields played at Ohio State, but I

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01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: don't know if he ever played in a game like this. Weatherwise,

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01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: I have no idea how he throws the ball in

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Speaker 1: cold weather. Some quarterbacks can throw in cold weather, you know,

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01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: And I don't know what his situation is, but you know,

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01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:52,759
Speaker 1: if maybe he doesn't throw it well, but you always

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01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: have to have a way on every down, not just

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01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: third Brownie, of making sure that fields you're not giving

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01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: him lanes to run through, because if he sees a lane,

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01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: he's going. Yeah. And I would say the best thing

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01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 1: that the Bills did when they played Lamar back in

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01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 1: Week four was their open field tackling was outstanding. Um.

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01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: The longest run that Jackson had in that game was

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01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: eighteen yards and Milano got him, and it was him

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01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,600
Speaker 1: and Milano in a wide swath of open field. If

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Speaker 1: he didn't get him, he would he might still be

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01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: running now, right, Um, but they were very sound in

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01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: their open field tackling. I'm guessing that's that's gotta happen tomorrow. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And and I wish I had gone back and looked

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01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 1: at my notes. But even in the playoff game when

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Speaker 1: they beat the uh uh, when um Toron Johnson had

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01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 1: what the ninety nine yards interception returned in the playoffs, right, yeah,

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01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean what the Ravens only scored three I believe

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01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: in that game was that's right, concussion too, right, But

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01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 1: I mean but still they they basically shut him down. Um.

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01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: So the point is is Um. You know, they've played

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01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: against Lamar, they've played against that's the style of quarterback

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01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: that has burst and speed and can take it to

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: the house. And they've not been burned by it. So

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01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's the key tomorrow because look, teams are

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01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: never gonna say what they're going to do, nor say

1340
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that they say in meeting rooms.

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: And you know, as you know, Steve, but um, you

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01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: know that that that's they're saying, Hey, let's make this

1343
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: guy have to throw the football, because if we make

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01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: fields throw the football, there's no way he's beating us,

1345
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: you know exactly. Yeah, that's the way they're thinking. So

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01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: it's really all about making sure this run game, which

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01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: is a lot of fields. He's got a thousand yards

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: rushing and he missed it, and he missed a couple

1349
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:45,759
Speaker 1: of games. So yeah, there's so there's there's no way

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Speaker 1: that you want this guy running the football to beat you.

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01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 1: Thanks Greg. All right, guys, hey brownie, stay warm now. Yeah, Oh,

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01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 1: don't worry, I got the long. John's here. I'm ready

1353
01:13:57,439 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: to wall. I hope you make it home. I hope

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01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: you make it home. Well that's yeah, that's that's the

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01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,599
Speaker 1: next thing you know before the game. You know, no

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01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: question about it. I have a great holiday weekend and

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Speaker 1: we'll catch up with you next week. You two guys,

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01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, appreciate it. As always all right that

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Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films, Great co Sell joining us.

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Speaker 1: We will take a break here and be back with more,

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Speaker 1: including your thoughts from the OBIL fan Friday mail Bag

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Speaker 1: time to peek into the OBIL than Friday mail Bag.

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Speaker 1: Before we do that, we want to remind you, though,

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Speaker 1: that this week's game sponsor, Hold on, where did it go?

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Speaker 1: I just lost it? Now, Steve Well, why are you doing?

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Speaker 1: It's well now the official urgent care partner of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Thank goodness, I found it. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: the OBL Friday mail Bag and leading us off today

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Speaker 1: is Michael, who says, have y'all noticed our defense has

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01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,799
Speaker 1: gotten less interceptions this year as we have in years past.

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01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: Our defense is still amazing, but why aren't we taking

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: it away as much this year? Interceptions are down everywhere.

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01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: They are down everywhere very much. As we pointed out

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Speaker 1: in this week's Bills by the Numbers podcast that Steve

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01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: and I do on a weekly basis. Check it out

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01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:52,599
Speaker 1: on any of your podcast platform. We discussed that very topic.

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01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: The games are closer than ever this season. One of

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Speaker 1: the by products is that shorter passing has led to

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01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:06,559
Speaker 1: fewer interceptions league wide. It's the lowest number of interceptions

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01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: since nineteen thirty. So if you want more on that.

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Speaker 1: So Michael saw it but himself and his commenting, and

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01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,440
Speaker 1: he thought it was just the Bills. It's not. It's everybody.

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Speaker 1: And even so, the Bills have twenty one total takeaways

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Speaker 1: this season, which is still in the top third of

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01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 1: the league. So it's league wide. Interceptions are down, It's

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: not just Buffalo, as Steve said. And then secondarily, the

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01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,719
Speaker 1: Bills at least in terms of takeaway rankings this year

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01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: still ranked pretty highly. But yes, your observation is an

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01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:42,800
Speaker 1: accurate one. The interceptions are down. It's just the Bills

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01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: are not alone in that statistic. Justin in the mail

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01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: bag asks can Beasley and Brown step up our red

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01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: zone game versus zone defense and boost us over forty

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Speaker 1: points per game again, makes those quick five yard adjustments

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Speaker 1: to give Josh Allen that window sooner and avoid ten

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01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: yards scrambles like we saw last week. Steve, While I

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01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: understand the guy's point ten seconds scrambles, he says the

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01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: Bills are eleven to thirteen in the red zone and

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01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 1: their last fourteen games. It's not like they're struggling down there.

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01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: They're they're not doing too bad in the red zone

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01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: at the moment. And it goes back to the same things, certainly,

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01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: Josh helps and the ten second scramble, aside having a

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01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: strong arm quarterback. Yeah, it's all well and good. A

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01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: guy that can make all the throws, and guys got

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01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: weapons and everything. The thing that threatens defenses the most

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01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: in the red zone is the run game. If you

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01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: could run the football down there, they still have to

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01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: spread very thin in the back end because they're packed

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01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: around the line of scrimmage. Play action becomes an issue.

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01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: A quarterback run. Having a quarterback who can jump over

1416
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: everybody and get the two point conversion is in an

1417
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:56,679
Speaker 1: enormous advantage. That's why Josh is the reason they're good

1418
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 1: in the red zone. His ability to run it, power

1419
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,720
Speaker 1: it in, hand it off, and throw it. It's just

1420
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: too much for defenses to keep a lid on all

1421
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: the time. So the Bills are pretty successful at it. Yeah,

1422
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 1: every time they're sacrificing an extra person in coverage. Right,

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01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,599
Speaker 1: they got somebody spying him. I mean I was when

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Speaker 1: I was getting ready for this second Dolphins game last week.

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Speaker 1: I watched the last Dolphins game in Week three. I

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01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: saw a play where they had like two spies on

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01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: the edge of each side of the formation on the

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Speaker 1: two yard line because they're worried about Josh, you know,

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01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 1: read optioning it and taking off around the edge. Well,

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01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: think about it. The guy, the guy, I mean, he crushes.

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01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: He's gotten We were laughing. It's it's a real stat.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen has gotten Offensive Player of the Week at

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Speaker 1: a higher rate than he has thrown in completions against

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. He's thirty six percent in completion rate.

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Speaker 1: He wins Offensive Player of the week forty percent of

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01:18:55,800 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 1: the time when he plays the Dolphins. So yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna put two spies on him. They're gonna put two

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Speaker 1: spies on him. Yeah, and they had one on him

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01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 1: again last week. So yeah, it's it's he's just a

1440
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: different breed acat. That's all there is to it. But yeah, Beasley,

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01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 1: I think, as we were saying with Great Cosell, could

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01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 1: could help a lot if he's a practice squad elevation.

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: We're estimating he or Brown will be the elevation again

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01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: this week, knowing they only have four receivers on the

1445
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: active roster who are healthy and playing, and he could

1446
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: he could really chop up zone defenses because he knows,

1447
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:38,879
Speaker 1: as Great Cosell pointed out, and as we've all probably

1448
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: seen enough to know ourselves, he knows where to sit

1449
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: down and Josh just puts it on his chest and

1450
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,799
Speaker 1: it's a free four to seven eight nine yards almost

1451
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: every single time. I mean, we've seen it over the

1452
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: glass three years with Beasley. He just goes out, turns

1453
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: around in the dead area of the zone and Josh

1454
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: throws a gun right at it, you know, throws a

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01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: hard ball right Amy catches it, turns around, runs a

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01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,720
Speaker 1: couple of yards, falls forward, and you know, and it's

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01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:06,639
Speaker 1: a second and one or it's a first and ten.

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01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 1: And it looks for a defense, it looks maddeningly easy

1459
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: for the Bills to be able to do that. Just

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01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,799
Speaker 1: go out and take the snap. Josh drops back and wham,

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Speaker 1: it's gone, burst down, whistle blows and nobody, nobody, None

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01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: of the defenders even touched a Buffalo Bill, right. I mean,

1463
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: Beasley goes down, gives himself up, they blow the whistle,

1464
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: he gets up. They don't even get to hit anybody.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty frustrating for a defense to have a

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Speaker 1: guy like Beasley and John Brown. Brown, on the other hand,

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01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: you know, gets behind people. So yeah, I'm looking at Beasley,

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Speaker 1: who had eleven snaps last week. It'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see the number of snaps and how that changes this week.

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Speaker 1: He had eleven, Shakier had twenty twenty two, something like

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Speaker 1: twenty one. It'll be interesting how that balance is out

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Speaker 1: and where they're going to do that. What are they

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Speaker 1: going to do with those guys? Right, and again for

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Speaker 1: those that are just joining us now, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: until four o'clock Eastern time to make practice squad elevations.

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned at the top of the show, they

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Speaker 1: only have four receivers, so you figure they would elevate

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Speaker 1: one of their receivers on the practice squad four Tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: game and they're down to defensive end with Carlos bash

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01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 1: him out for this game with an injury, you would

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01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: anticipate that's a consideration. Maybe they elevate a pass rusher

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Speaker 1: to put into the rotation. Next up on the OBL

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Speaker 1: Friday fan mail Bag is Tim says. This question is

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Speaker 1: for Steve Tasker. How did you get your start in football? First,

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01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: I played my first down of competitive football organized football

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Speaker 1: when I was in the seventh grade. That was the

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Speaker 1: first time we could do it where I lived. You

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Speaker 1: did it through your school. They didn't have we didn't

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Speaker 1: have enough people. It wasn't a populated area. It was rural.

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Speaker 1: So your school played against other schools which were in

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Speaker 1: other towns, and that the only the first year they

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Speaker 1: let you do that was in the seventh grade, and

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Speaker 1: that's when I began. Of course, I'm and I played,

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01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: and I followed. I got into it because I had

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Speaker 1: three older brothers and they all played, so I did too.

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Speaker 1: Did you have enough for eleven on eleven or was it? Yes?

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Speaker 1: We did? We always I always played eleven I never

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Speaker 1: played eight man football, although my high school, I'll just

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Speaker 1: say it again, we said it earlier in my high school,

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Speaker 1: Wichita County High School in leo To, Kansas won the

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Speaker 1: state championship in eight man football this year, so I

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01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: was that's a big deal. So they have a chance

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01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: though they might get back into eleven man because their

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01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: enrollment may in large. I grew up in a place

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Speaker 1: that was very rural. The opportunities to play different sports

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01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: were non existent, absolutely non existent. Was summer baseball, football

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01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: in the fall, basketball in the winters, or wrestling and

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01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: then track and field in the summer. There was no

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01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: baseball program at the school. Um, no soccer you know,

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01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 1: and that and at the school was the only out

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01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: avenue for organized sports at all. There was no host.

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Speaker 1: There was no hockey rink in the entire state of

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01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: Kansas when I grew up. Or a swimming pool maybe

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01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 1: at a school either public school, yeah, but not public pool.

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01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: But no, no, Yes, there was no high school pool

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01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 1: at all. Uh ed in the fan mail bag asks

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01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: does Ryan Bates take over at center against the Bear

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01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: Steve touched on this earlier with Greg Cosell, and I

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01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,760
Speaker 1: think there's a distinct chance that Bates could be the

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Speaker 1: starting center this week. He wasn't last week because he

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01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: wasn't an option, so Greg Van wrote and filled in

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01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: for Morse. Right, we're guessing Bates will do it. He's

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01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: coming back off the ankle. I don't practiced, so yeah,

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01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: they'll have a plan for it, but you know, like always,

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01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: they'll have like three guys in line to snap if

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Speaker 1: the worst comes to worst. But I would say it's

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01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: best guest, and it makes a lot of the logical sense.

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01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: The Bates would just step in there, and then then

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01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: right guard becomes a little bit of a question mark,

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01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: whether it's Van Roten or Butcker or maybe Psson Berry,

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. Can you see, I can't see them

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01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: put in a game. This is an athletic training staff

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: and their strength and conditioning. I realize he's been practicing

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01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: for three weeks while still on IR, so they've had

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01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: somewhat of a ramp up period. I can't see them

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01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,639
Speaker 1: putting him in a starting lineup. No, but I'll bet

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01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:41,680
Speaker 1: the gate they could roll him through and get him

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01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: some reps you know, they'll give him a series, know

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01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: what I mean, Well, that's exactly what they did with

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01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: That's exactly what they did with Tradevious White. That's what

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01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:55,680
Speaker 1: they did with uh Cole Beasley, with John Brown. They

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Speaker 1: sprinkled him in the first game. Or you could on

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01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: field goal too, That's right, you can put him on

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01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: field goal use it as a body there. But they'll

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01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 1: give him a chance to get out and compete a

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01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe put him in at some heavy package

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01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: where they got a lineman eligible or whatever on a

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01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,040
Speaker 1: goal line stand or something. Give them put him in

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01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 1: that package as well. But I'm with you, I think

1550
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: but Ker gets at best sprinkled in throughout the game

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01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: to give him some live reps and get his feet

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01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 1: under him. And then the next week, if they so desire,

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01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: they'll up that number. But this will be the first

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01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:31,919
Speaker 1: week he's able to all right. That is the obl

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Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail back. Thanks for all your questions, happy

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01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 1: to answer those each and every Friday. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a break here. When we return, it is time

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Speaker 1: for building a game plan. We'll have that for you

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Speaker 1: next here on one Bill's Live Stay tune. Time for

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Speaker 1: building a game plan presented by United Rentals. United Rentals

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01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,799
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Steve I will start with the offense,

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01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: and I think if weather forces this, I think Buffalo

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01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:08,680
Speaker 1: can still use a short to intermediate passing game to

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01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: couple with a running game. I really expect the Bills

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01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: to move the ball without a whole lot of stress

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01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: or problems because this defensive line defensive front for the

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01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:23,400
Speaker 1: Bears really has trouble controlling the line of scrimmage. A

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01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 1: lot of the tackles that I've seen them make defensively

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01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: are usually five and six yards down the field. They

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Speaker 1: do not make tackles for loss very often. They can't

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01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:35,640
Speaker 1: get pressure on the quarterback on a consistent basis. To me,

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01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 1: I think the Bills should be able to function just

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01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: fine more often than not. Offensively. The only thing that

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01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 1: gets stripped from them might be the deep passing game

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01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: if it's really windy. Yeah. I think defensively, I think

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01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: you can count on. With the emergence and the really

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01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: nice play of kier Edam last week, I don't think

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01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:56,840
Speaker 1: the Bills will have any problem manning up on the

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01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 1: receivers of the Bears. I think they'll do that a

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01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: little more, although I don't think they'll do it exclusively.

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01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:03,840
Speaker 1: I think what they'll do is put a lot of

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01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 1: guys in the box, dare the Chicago Bears to beat

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01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:09,519
Speaker 1: them through the air and play hit and miss with

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01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,240
Speaker 1: zone drops. Zone blitz is sending extra pressure, with the

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01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: key being keeping justin fields in the pocket, don't do

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01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:23,519
Speaker 1: any stunts up front, don't leave guys around why you know,

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01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,839
Speaker 1: don't give him gaps to run out of their particularly

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01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,680
Speaker 1: in man coverage. So I think he's the key to

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01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 1: the game. Keep him in the pocket. If he can

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01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:34,559
Speaker 1: beat you from the pocket, bless his heart. I don't

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01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 1: think he can. All right, that's building a game plan

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01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:40,799
Speaker 1: presented by United Rentals. We want to remind you that

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01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: we will have pregame radio coverage. I'll beyond eleven to

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01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 1: noon Eastern time, and then Steve and I will be

1596
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: back the day after Christmas on Monday to chop this

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01:27:50,320 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: whole game up. And if you want to get away

1598
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: from the uncle that's prattling on at Christmas about inflation,

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01:27:57,160 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 1: pull up bills by the numbers on your favorite podcast

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Speaker 1: plat form. Go hide in the closet. For half an

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01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 1: hour and listen to Steve and I tell you why

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01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 1: there are closer games than ever. Merry Christmas everybody, and

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Speaker 1: stay safe. We'll see you on Monday.