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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Friday edition of One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Lives Our MSG viewers are taking a look at

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Speaker 1: It's what do you mean by that? Its Tasker's teammates

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Speaker 1: Greg Cosell's Lorenzo Alexander No Friday jammed. They're jammed. There's

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Speaker 1: as usual. The latest edition of tasker's teammate comes your

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Speaker 1: guess the former teammate we are describing. Probably not John Fena.

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Speaker 1: want to tell him he was best thing because he

426
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Speaker 1: want to take that guy with him, you know, so

427
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 1: say team any of the guy that you mentioned, he

428
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,440
Speaker 1: came with Brian Dable from Alabama. Right, So I think

429
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: the assumption would be if if Brian Dable goes, he's

430
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: going with them maybe maybe, but he and he could too,

431
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: he could get out of whatever contract he has if

432
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: he gets a promotion at the next joint, which is

433
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: usually how it works. Right. So there's a lot of

434
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: there's a lot of layers to this, and certainly the

435
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: Bills don't have to address it directly until after the

436
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: season or whenever, you know, these interview things start to

437
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: pop up. But if you're gonna, you know, talk about

438
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 1: where these jobs are opening, you've got the opening, all right.

439
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 1: These are they opened. The three openings that are open

440
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: right now, Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, they're all open now. The

441
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: other maybe Jacksonville, Jacksonville, the Jets Mattnege Chicago. And there's

442
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 1: two Chargers that might surprise you. The Chargers now with

443
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn and also Vic Fonio in Denver has been

444
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: placed on that. Well, well, that whole organization is a

445
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: mess for a whole other reason. You know, their ownership

446
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: stuff is a little bit Inflama. It's a little combative. Yeah,

447
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: the Bowland daughters are kind of it's hard to kind

448
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: of figure it all out. But suffice to say it's

449
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: a little jumbled out there, right And there may be

450
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: a house cleaning. So, yes, that is a possibility. That

451
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: list is eight deep. And if you don't, if you

452
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: don't think Denver or maybe the Chargers don't make a move,

453
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: that's still six jobs that are up here. Yeah, you know,

454
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: if you put Chicago in, there's certainly the Jets job

455
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: and the Jacksonville job or imminent. Now I will I

456
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: will say on the defensive side of the ball for

457
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,959
Speaker 1: the Bills, if Leslie Frasier gets a head coaching job somewhere,

458
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: I think there is a greater chance the promotion is

459
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: from within. I think it could be John Butler, the

460
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: secondary coach, because he's been a coordinator in this league.

461
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: He was a defensive coordinator for one year in Houston

462
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: for the Texans, and I want to say, did Eric

463
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: Washington call plays for the defense LA I think it

464
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: was a coordinator down in Carolina his last year or

465
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: two there under Ron Rivera. I'll have to double check that,

466
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: but yeah, he was he was a DC down there,

467
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: and so those are two guys that does. How much

468
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 1: of a history does he have with Sean Washington? Yeah,

469
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: I'll have to check, but I want to say it's

470
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: a couple of years. I think he was there two

471
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: maybe three with Sean in Carolina before coming back up here.

472
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, so those are two guys that have filled

473
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: those shoes before, and so just by nature of the

474
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: fact that you have guys with that kind of experience,

475
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: I think they will definitely get consideration for running this system,

476
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: which they've been a part of for several years. Yeah,

477
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: and Sean weighs in on that side of the ball

478
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: probably a little bit more, and so I think he

479
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: would feel more comfortable. You know, I can shepherd whoever

480
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: I promote into this role to a certain extent, so

481
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: they are they have a firm working knowledge of what

482
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: I like and don't like in certain situations, and you know,

483
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: they can work their way through that all through the

484
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: off season if that's what comes to pass. So yeah,

485
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: I think it's more likely that it's a promotion from

486
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: within on that side of the ball than on the

487
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: offensive side, because I think you have in house candidates

488
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: with with coordinator experience. Yeah, and you're listening. Your head

489
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: coach knows what he's looking at and what he wants

490
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,360
Speaker 1: in a defensive coordinator too. So if if there's somebody

491
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: in on that side of the ball that has a

492
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: he'll no, I don't not that he wouldn't know about

493
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: an offensive guy. But still I'm kind of with you

494
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: on that, just because I think that's the way it

495
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: would work in a head coach defensive foreward defensive coordinator

496
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: who's a head coach, I would work in his mind,

497
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: he would know what he was looking at in house

498
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty one eight eight eight

499
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty To get on board with

500
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: us if you have a question about the team, the roster, anything,

501
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: the season, the remaining games on the schedule, tiebreaker procedures,

502
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: the conference race, whatever you have on your mind, it's

503
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: all fair game. Here on a Friday edition of One

504
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: Bills Live, Steve Tasker Chris Brown Back in a moment.

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00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live, presented by Lot of Health,

506
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

507
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: It's the obl Fan mail Bag Edition of the show

508
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: every Friday. Your questions are welcome at eight three five

509
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: fifty fifty two five fifty. But I neglected to mention

510
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: before the break. It is time for the latest installment

511
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: of Tasker's Teammate. How do we miss that? I don't know.

512
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: I'm having a rough morning and mainly because it's already

513
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,399
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514
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515
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Speaker 1: app today, Steve, are you ready to guess your teammates?

516
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 1: So ready? Can't clue number one? Handy dandy, I've got

517
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: like we got like ten or fifteen names a week.

518
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: Try it's none of those guys. Those guys Clue number one.

519
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: I was born in Baltimore, Maryland in nineteen sixty four.

520
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: That is clue number one. That'll give you an idea

521
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: on how close an age is to you. Oh yeah, okay,

522
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: it's two years younger. No guests there, thought, gosh, that's

523
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 1: that's gonna help later. I'm sure, okay, but not now,

524
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: not now. I'm not helping me now. So we'll move

525
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: on to Clue Man. They are quick on the buzz.

526
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: They love hitting it. They I'm telling you, if they

527
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: had one, I'm gonna give them. I'm gonna give him

528
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: a little cupon for Christmas. Buzz me anytime you want.

529
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: Don't be that love it'll buzz buzzer. Uh. Clue number two.

530
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: I was a ninth round draft choice of the Buffalo Bills. Oh,

531
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 1: I was a ninth round draft how about it? Yeah? Um,

532
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: not of the Bills, but ninth round Wow? This okay?

533
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: So he came in in eighty six. So yeah, I

534
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: didn't want to give you the year because I thought

535
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: that might help you, Andre Reid. It is not. Andre

536
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: Andre was a fourth round draft choice. I knew he

537
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: was down the line listening. Fourth, ninth. What's the difference

538
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: you once you get beast the third? Nobody cares to

539
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: take my way? I think it matters that does. Now

540
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: call him a ninth round draft now? Now may he

541
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: may say, yeah, I was a ninth round pick and

542
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: I still made the haul. Yeah, yeah, you know, right exactly.

543
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: Clue number three. I did not become a full time

544
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: starter until my fourth season with the Bills. Wow. Baltimore, Maryland,

545
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: ninth round draft choice of the Bills. Full time starter

546
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: in his fourth season with it been who um, no,

547
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: Steve's spinnings of his cerebral cortex here, I should find

548
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: a website or something. Cheat on the laptop. All right,

549
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: we'll move on. I was a teammate of Steve's for

550
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: five seasons before moving on to an NFC East club. Well,

551
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: he's teammate of yours for five years and then moves

552
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: on to the NFC East to play in that division.

553
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: Who would that have been? Hold on? Hang on, that's

554
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: got a narrow down here. I would think I was

555
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: hoping it would a little bit Philly Giants washing and

556
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: hold on? Washing is going on? Would Washington? And Steve

557
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: puts his arms out and points his fingers. That's when

558
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: he's ready to I've watched this for weeks now, I

559
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: cannot I do not? All right, No, so no, guess there. Wow,

560
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: we've really got him stumped this time. All right. I

561
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: played for a total of three NFL clubs in my

562
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: ten year career. So the Bills. You know, there's another

563
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: team in the NFC East, And I will tell you

564
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: the third team that he played for was also in

565
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: the NFC Carlton Bailey, Steve, look at you Carlton Bailey

566
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: is correct. Wow, I gave you the vaguest of clues

567
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: and you got that was your only guess. You didn't

568
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: even guess yet. Wet's because I you know, you kind

569
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: of chick off things in your mind and some of

570
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the So what trigger we did for you? What made what?

571
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: Because we don't we don't have Carlton on the phone

572
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: yet we're trying to get a hold of. I thought

573
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: about him being him being one of the guys that

574
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: were in that era. And then I know he played

575
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: for Caroline and you say it was for another NFCC teams,

576
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: NFC team as well, three teams, so I knew, and

577
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: he went to the Giants, right, Giants and the Panthers.

578
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: That's played for Pollyon down there. That's what got me

579
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: was that, Yeah, so yeah, you would have got it.

580
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: On the next one because I said, I'm largely known

581
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: in my Bill's career for a pretty famous interception in

582
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: a playoff game. I would have got that. Yeah, you

583
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: would have got that. And then the dead giveaway was

584
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: I have a son who was a professional hockey player,

585
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: so yeah, I got so yeah, it would have been

586
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: easy peasy lemon squeezy on that. But yeah, Carlton Bailey.

587
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: And you know what was interesting. I looked up you know,

588
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: his career stats. Um, you know, how many other receptions

589
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: do you think he or interceptions do you think Carlton

590
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: Bailey had in his ten year career besides the one

591
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: that he made off John Elway in the ninety two

592
00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: AFC title game, which was the only touchdown for the

593
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: Bills in that game they guys wont to ten seven yea.

594
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: So how many other interceptions in his ten year career

595
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: do you think Carlton Bailey had besides that one in

596
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Probably zero? I don't know one or did

597
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: he have another one? He had one in the regular season,

598
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: and so two in his career. That's a pretty big interception, man.

599
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: And it was off a tipped pass right. Jeff Wright

600
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: tipped it. It was a screen pass they had run

601
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: earlier in the game, and Jeff Wright got through and

602
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: Carlton saw it, stopped rushing. Jeff forced the throw from Elway,

603
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: tipped it right off his fingers, right into the arms

604
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: at Carlton and he walked in. It was not it

605
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: was because they were deep in their own deep end. Yeah,

606
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: And they almost came back and beat as that was

607
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: to go to our second Super Bowl. Yeah, that was

608
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: ten seven. That game was and they were I think

609
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: that's right, and I don't think they were driving. I

610
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: don't think anybody took the under in that one after

611
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: the year year offense, because that was the most productive

612
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: of the nineties offenses that you guys had, ninety one.

613
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: And that was also the year when the way teams

614
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: finally started to defend the no huddle was to send

615
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: extra rush and send it fast, and they had we

616
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it fast, and they start

617
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: jumping routes because we had no more bodies to you know,

618
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: we had three wides and a tight end and a

619
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: running back and if they sent one extra guy then

620
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: we had rushing. Uh and they got there fast. Jim

621
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it too fast. And and

622
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: we do have Carlton Bailey on the line right now. Carlton,

623
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: how you doing. Welcome to Tasker's teammate. Steve guessed you

624
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: on the fourth or fifth clue here. He didn't submit

625
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: a guess until he made a guest with your name,

626
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: so you were his first guest. Line is I'm not

627
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: seeing anybody you know what I'm saying. I see man correct. Yeah,

628
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: Hey Carlton, all right, len, Hey Carlton, how are you?

629
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: Man can't here? Oh now you can't here. Well we'll

630
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: we'll try to make Carlton Harrison. Well they're still struggling. Yeah,

631
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: he's he might be on mute or something. This is

632
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: the zoom world we're all living in, I know, right,

633
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: so we are. He might be calling in on the

634
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: phone here, which we'll have to right, Okay, well we'll

635
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: give him. We'll get him one more minute before we

636
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: bring him back. See if we can get a chance

637
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: to actually speak to him. He was anybody, yeah, uh

638
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: and uh uh. Carlton came in. I think it was

639
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman in college and they played in North

640
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: Carolina and the Bills moved him to uh linebacker. Um,

641
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: and he had he had a really very nice career,

642
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: a great career. So hey, ten years in the league.

643
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a that's a big number. And

644
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: I keep telling you this. I've said this a bunch

645
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: on the show too. I mean, the long went on

646
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: this show to repeat myself. But the one thing that

647
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: really causes players to tip their hat to other players

648
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: is longevity and playing ten years in the league as

649
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: a ninth round draft pick, that's a that's a big

650
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: feather in your cat. And uh, you know he he

651
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: was here, as I said with you for five seasons,

652
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: started the last two years, year four and year five,

653
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: and then you know, par laid that into another opportunity

654
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: with the Giants, where he played for two more years,

655
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: and then played for three more seasons in Carolina, which

656
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: was an expansion team, but that was an expansion team

657
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: that got good in a hurry with veteran players. They

658
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs in their second year in ninety six,

659
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: and that had to be a fun ride because Frank

660
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: was down there playing quarterback. So yeah, it was. It

661
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting. One thing that threw me about him

662
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: he didn't get in the league and you say it

663
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: was two years younger than me, and I had a

664
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: five year college. He was an eighty eight draft, eighty

665
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: eight draft choice. He's twenty four, right, he was older

666
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: when he got to the league. He went he played

667
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: for five years for Buffalo and two years for the Giants,

668
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: and then three years for Carolina. And yeah, the Carolina

669
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: team that he went to in ninety five, was the

670
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: first year of their existence. Yeah, and they in ninety

671
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: six they were in the championship game. Just for guys

672
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: like him, Sam Mills. I mean, they had a nice,

673
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: nice defense with you know, veteran players. They built it

674
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: a different way than Jacksonville did, which went with young players.

675
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: Those are the two expansion teams at the time. But

676
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: we've got Carlton on the line now. Carlton, you'll be

677
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: happy to know that Steve got you on his first guests. Well,

678
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Steve and I we have a very

679
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: special relationship going back all of those years. Learned a

680
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: whole lot from him. I think Steve set the standard

681
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: obviously for special teamers and for players all again, it's

682
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: just I'm just really glad to be a part of

683
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: anything that Steve has got going on. Carlton, give us

684
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: a little bit about your memories of being a Buffalo

685
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: bill here. You got drafted in the ninth round. You

686
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: were like, you were twenty four years old when they

687
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: drafted yesterday. You're a little bit older. You had a

688
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: little bit more water under the bridge, a little bit

689
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: more mature than maybe some of the other young guys.

690
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: Even me when I came into the league. Remember about

691
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo and playing for the Bills at that time. Well,

692
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: some of the things I remember. For me, it was

693
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: very difficult, obviously, Steve, you remember, you know, coming out

694
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: of the University of North Carolina. One of the challenges

695
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: was I had never played an inside linebacker position, so

696
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: being a defensive lineman or a nose guard in college,

697
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: making that transition to linebacker and learning all the different

698
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: formations two tight end, one for one tight end, UH

699
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: three wide receivers were very very challenging. And then you

700
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: got Hall of famers like uh Bruce Smith and obviously

701
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: I had Darrel and Canel just and everybody wanting you know,

702
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 1: I'm playing as a signal caller, getting getting the plays

703
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: coming in. It was very challenging altogether, but we had

704
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: a great group of guys that understand what it meant

705
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: to be a professional. You know, you had a chance

706
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: to learn from these older players that have been around

707
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: for a long time. For me, it was it was,

708
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: it was. It was special because of the fact that

709
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: I can remember back in those days, Steve obviously now

710
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: and the guys, I think they come to camp with

711
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: only eighty guys and back in the day. Back in

712
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, they had about one hundred and five

713
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten guys in camp. The competition was

714
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: very furious. We had some of the guys that still

715
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: was left over from the USFL and that you know,

716
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: so you out there competing every day. The rookies and

717
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,479
Speaker 1: free agents came into camps a week and a half

718
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: before the veterans going up to Pittsburgh and obviously having

719
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: a chance to scrimmage against Pittsburgh and Cleveland, an unlimited

720
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: amount of plays and so forth. So a player had

721
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 1: to actually come in and not actually and play his

722
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: off self off the team, because I think the Bills

723
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: had that model where they are. They always knew and

724
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: understood the veterans and what they could contribute. But they

725
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: gave the rookies in the free agents every opportunity to

726
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: go out there and either play themselves on their team

727
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: or play themselves off the team, and obviously have an

728
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: opportunity a chance to play on special teams. Having a

729
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: guy like Steve to be able to set the tempo,

730
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: to set the standard m was obviously a great opportunity

731
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: and chance for all of US guys. Mark Mark Pike

732
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: butch Roll every week. It was a challenge. It was

733
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: a challenge and you know, just being able to step

734
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: up to those expectations to be able to perform at

735
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: that high level. Carlton I was, I was talking to Steve.

736
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: I said, you know, he's Carlton is probably best known

737
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: for the very big interception that he had in the

738
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: AFC title game, you know here off of Elway that

739
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: you run in for the touchdown. And I jokingly asked Steve,

740
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: I said, how many other how many more interceptions do

741
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: you think Carlton had in his ten year career? And

742
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: Steve had no idea, but do you know how many

743
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: other interceptions you had in your career? I think I

744
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: think maybe one other one that's right on one other

745
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: and you remember the quarterback Grogan Okay, yeah, I remember

746
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: that old school guy. What's funny about that interception is

747
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: and Steve probably remembers this while jog his memory just

748
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: a little bit um that particularly year. I think it

749
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: was like my third year, fourth year in the league,

750
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: and you know, sort of battling back and forwards, Ray

751
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: Bentley over the years and so forth, and Shane Collins

752
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: were banged up. I think everybody was a little bit

753
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: banged up. So the defensive coordinator, walk Corey, gave us

754
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: an opportunity, a chance to switch up and call who

755
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: would be the player that would end up running the

756
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: delayed blitz up in the middle. And obviously I had

757
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: to give this tribute to Shane because it actually was

758
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: Shane turned to run the blitz, but he was sort

759
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: of running around on one bad leg, and obviously, and

760
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: at the last minute he bailed out and he said,

761
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it. You take the blitz. And so

762
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: obviously with him turning down the blitz, that just opened

763
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: an opportunity, open an opportunity for myself. I gotta that's right,

764
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: that that kind of stuff happens, and you never know

765
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: how it's going to turn out. When when when players,

766
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, make those kind of decisions. I gotta ask

767
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: you this, though, the one thing about you you came out,

768
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: as you mentioned it earlier, you had a lot to learn,

769
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: coming out as a defensive nose tackle and having to

770
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: change the middle inside linebacker. Did you have to tell

771
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: me a little bit about what you had to do

772
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: physically to get your body ready. Did you have to

773
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: drop weight add weight? I know its a nose tackle,

774
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: you probably had to be a lot heavier than they

775
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: wanted you to play at middle linebacker. Yeah, it was

776
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: kind of well, actually, Steve, I was a little bit

777
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: undersized in one sense, so that sort of helped out

778
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think my first year, everybody was

779
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, being in them in the NFL,

780
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be a little bit bigger, a

781
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: little bit stronger. So I got into sort of eating

782
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: the weights and all of that, But that really wasn't

783
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: the thing that really truly made a difference. Obviously bulking

784
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: up and and sort of maturing your body wise, I

785
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: think for me, the biggest blessing for me was the

786
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: fact that and this guy doesn't get enough credit at all,

787
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: Um I made the sacrifice to come back to Buffalo

788
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: every year during the off season workout training. That's that's

789
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: critical for any younger player. Obviously, Steve, you know this thing,

790
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: the squeaking wheel gets all the grease, and if you're

791
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: not squeaking, you're not getting the grease. And I had

792
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: a obviously everyone knows and walk Corey, phenomenal defensive coordinator

793
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: and so forth. But at the same time I had

794
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: a guy named Chuck Lester. I think when it was

795
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: off Sen and done, I believe he had the defensive

796
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: quality control guy. He probably put about twenty three years,

797
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: and if I'm not mistaken, with the Buffalo Bills, and

798
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: actually every year I had a chance to come back

799
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: to Buffalo and actually in between his meetings with his coach,

800
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: with with the with the with the defensive and so forth,

801
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: he had a chance to come in and actually teach

802
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: me and break down the film because it was all

803
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: foreign language for me. I made the commitment to do

804
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: whatever it took to be able to be a part

805
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: of the team, and obviously playing special teams was my

806
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: way in many times. You gotta be prepared to do

807
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,959
Speaker 1: the thing, the little things, because all the little things

808
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: that up to the big things. So I give kudos

809
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: out to Chuck Lester. I think he may have ended

810
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: up leaving his home there, But it was that commitment.

811
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: It was really just making a commitment to learn and

812
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 1: understand and all the different formations. You know. I remember

813
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: you coming out and rotating in in that line up

814
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: with Andre and James Lofton and all of these guys,

815
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you start on one

816
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: side of the field and then all of a sudden,

817
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: bam is something new. Now there's a motion and having

818
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: to have to understand the change of strength and all

819
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: of those things. So size wise, I kind of fit

820
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: right in. There was just the commitment, more of a

821
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: commitment on my side to try to end up gaining

822
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: gaining some ground on the guys that obviously who had

823
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: played in side linebacker before in college. Yeah, and one

824
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: of the last one for me, Carlton, how's your son doing?

825
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: I know the hockey season was a little wacky, you know,

826
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: with the guys playing in the bubble in the summer

827
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 1: and all. How's how's he looking for to what still

828
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 1: looks like an uncertain twenty twenty one season. Well, he's

829
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: doing pretty good. I mean, he's enjoying himself. Um. You know,

830
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 1: one of the things I say to him is that,

831
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know, Steve, I believe and obviously

832
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: most professional athletes believe that the transition actually from from

833
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: from college to the pros and plan it in any sport,

834
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: it's all about the commitment. It's all about He's got

835
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: the commitment. It's all about doing the little things. I

836
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: know everybody would like to be able to come out

837
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: and actually be an All Star. But many times you've

838
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 1: got to be able to do the small things over

839
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: and over again that's asked of you to do, and

840
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: then you know, your blessings that end up opening up

841
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: a little bit later down the road. But he's enjoying hisself.

842
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: He's looking forward to upcoming season, you know, and and

843
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, we can get all of this

844
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: virus and they can get all of the meds and

845
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: all that stuff out so everybody can get back to

846
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: watching sports like they normally need to. Carlton, it's great

847
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: hearing from you, man, Thanks so much for joining us.

848
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: It's great to remember some things with you, and and

849
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: and hear from you and see you're doing well. Thanks bro.

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00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: Without a doubt, Steve, once again, say hello to your

851
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: wife and your family, to all the guys up there

852
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Buffalo was a very special place for me,

853
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, obviously being drafted, I learned what it meant

854
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: to be a professional, had a great core guy, spend

855
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: time with you with your family, breaking bread at your house,

856
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 1: all the Bible studies that we had over the years,

857
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: as well as you know, just have an opportunity to

858
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: put the winning back in UH in Buffalo, and love

859
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: the opportunity of chance as well to see the team

860
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: back with the head coach, you know, kind of being

861
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: out of Buffalo, sort of a transplant from UH from

862
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,959
Speaker 1: from Philly as well. Just loving to see those guys

863
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: go out there and compete. And this is one thing

864
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: I say I cheer for all three teams that I

865
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: played for. I try to do the best I can

866
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: to be neutral when they play head to head once

867
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: against Steve. Thanks for having me on your show and

868
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: look forward to speaking to you in the future. Carlton Bailey, everybody,

869
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: this week's Taskers teammate, which team got on the first guest?

870
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: Good on you man, Well fifth clue first guests, well right,

871
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: but you didn't guess anybody else, so that counts counts. Yeah,

872
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm just glad when I can get past clue one

873
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: or two and I'm I'm satisfied, so then I'm then

874
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: I'm eager to assist you with hints in any way

875
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 1: that I can, partly because we don't want the teammate

876
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: hanging on the photo right for five minutes so we

877
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: can get to him. But yeah, that was a good one,

878
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: and Carlton was ready to sit down and chat there.

879
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: That was like a fireside session there with Carlton as

880
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: he reminisced a little bit. But yeah, that was a

881
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: giant play that I think any Bills fan that was

882
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: glued to this team in the nineties, if you want

883
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,320
Speaker 1: to list maybe top five playoff moments, you know, aside

884
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: from whatever happened in the Super Bowl's top five playoff

885
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: moments through those nineties years, that's probably on the list.

886
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: I mean that won the game, yeah, ten to seven man. Yeah,

887
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: I mean the field goal was big too, but still,

888
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's the only touchdown a game. I mean,

889
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: that was the ninety one Bills and that offense. I

890
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: think they scored three hundine points or something that year.

891
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the ninety one Bills with that offense

892
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: and they didn't score a touchdown and still won the

893
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: AFC title game. Yeah, that was the We went to

894
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,479
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, who played Super Bowl twenty

895
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: six against the Redskins. Yeah, all right, I think we

896
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: have to I think we have to take a quick

897
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: break here. Um, so we will do that, get back

898
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: briefly and then have more on the other side. At

899
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, So quick break here back

900
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: in a flash here on one Bill's line, presented by

901
00:48:45,719 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: Kalid of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio Steve Tasker Chris

902
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: Brown One Bills Live closing up at our number one

903
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: of a Friday edition of the show, and we did

904
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: want to run through the clinching scenarios playoff berths. It

905
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: has been playoff tickets can be punched this week by

906
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: three NFL teams, namely the Chiefs, the Steelers, and the Saints.

907
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: And basically those three teams all they need to do

908
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: is win. At least the Steelers in Chiefs, all they

909
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: need to do is win, and they have a playoff

910
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: berth solidified. The Saints need to win and then they

911
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: need the Bears to lose or tie. I always love

912
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: when they throw the tie in there in the playoff scenario.

913
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: I used to have a rule with our crew when

914
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: I was with CBS in the booth, don't talk to

915
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: me about ties. Lead the tie scenarios out. Leave them out.

916
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: Just leave them. It just lends confused because if somebody

917
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: does tie, you're gonna have to redo it anyway. So

918
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: just make it simple for the viewer because if you

919
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: start doing ties and it starts to look like the

920
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: phone book on these graphics on screen, right, it's like

921
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: a or tie or I'm like, nah, if they win

922
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: or lose, just just leave it there because that's how

923
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: the games end up anyway, you have. I think the

924
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: league average is one or two ties a year. I

925
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: think the numbers somewhere between one and two. It's one average. Um,

926
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: it's like point, and this year we've had one because

927
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: we're joking about how that Philly's gonna win the division.

928
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: We're gonna win the division at one? Oh boy? Yep. Yeah.

929
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: We were having fun with that one with Peter King

930
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: yesterday because he was running down the schedule for the

931
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: NFC East this week and the week thirteen schedule. Yeah,

932
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: ain't none of them winning, not not one of all

933
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: getting crushed. They all got tough matchups this week, so

934
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: they're all gonna lose. And so going into weeks fourteen,

935
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 1: the division leader is probably only gonna have four wins

936
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: after thirteen NFL weeks of play. That is astonishing to me. Well, yeah,

937
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: the NFC East, the jil this weekend, you've got it's

938
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: kind of funny, really, you've got the Giants that are

939
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: playing the Seahawks eight and three. The Giants ain't beating

940
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, right, Yeah. You got the Eagles playing the Packers.

941
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: They win in and that's in Lambeaux, I think, right, Yes,

942
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: Washington goes to Pittsburgh the food he's taken on the

943
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: undefeated team, and the Cowboys are taking the fresh off

944
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: of COVID list Baltimore Ravens on Tuesday, an ornery bunch

945
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: for with Lamar Jackson presumably yeah, presumably in that defense

946
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Hey, so that that collectively, that entire division

947
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: will go well, let's just see the NFC East will

948
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: go for an eight for an eight three eight and one,

949
00:51:54,160 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: three and eight Saucy and I meant in this on

950
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: yesterday show, Steve, you look at the Giants. They've got

951
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: four wins on the season, three of them are against

952
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: their division opponents, because those are the only teams they

953
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: can beat. I think they swept Washington, and then it's

954
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: it's much the same for Washington three of their four

955
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: wins or against the other lousy teams in their division,

956
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: and the Eagles two of their three wins or against

957
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: the other lousy teams in their division. Yeah, they beat

958
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: Washington twice, and they beat the Eagles once, and they

959
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: beat the Bengals, did the Giants? You look at this.

960
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: The only feather in the Cowboys cap is two of

961
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: their three wins are outside the division. No one else

962
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: can say that, ye killer for the tiebreaker. It's unbelievably bad.

963
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's horrendous. How that. Now here's the question.

964
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: I get it. You can say what you want about

965
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott making a difference than the Cowboys. He probably

966
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,959
Speaker 1: would have, but all four teams at the same time. Yeah,

967
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, what are you doing? Yeah, well

968
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: we should mention this new head coaches for three of

969
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: the four teams this year. So I think you knew

970
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: to a certain extent there was going to be some

971
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,760
Speaker 1: measure of struggle there to get high in the wind column.

972
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very rare that the new coach comes

973
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: in and, you know, catapults the team to a double

974
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: digit win season. I'm blanking. I gotta tell you, I'm

975
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: blanking on who the Washington football team's coach is. Ron Rivera. Oh,

976
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: that's right, I was thinking about Rivera, Joe Judge. So

977
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: you knew with three new coaches in the division to

978
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: begin with, it was going to be an uphill climb

979
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: for that division to do anything special. And it's part

980
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: it's part of the reason why a lot of people

981
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 1: were in favor of Philadelphia winning the division going away

982
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: because just from my continuity standpoint alone, but I don't

983
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: know what the hell's happened to that roster. And now

984
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: you got Carson Wentz who doesn't know which way is

985
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: up because A he doesn't have any protection. B he

986
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: doesn't have any weapons. And see the Sharks are circling

987
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts ready to come off the bench. So

988
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: it's a colossal mess. There could be a could be

989
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: a house cleaning there at the end of the year.

990
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about coaching differences. That could

991
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: be one there, So you think that could be. I've

992
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: heard rumblings about Howie Roseman could be. You know, the

993
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: GM could be in danger of losing his job. Which

994
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: guy's three years removed from a super Bowl, the first

995
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: super Bowl in team history? Yeah, through super Bowl win

996
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: in teamstery. It is a what have you done for

997
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: me lately? League? More? Well, right right where where rational

998
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: thoughts really don't exist? Right? All right? No benefit of

999
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: the doubt there. We got to take a break here

1000
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll get to more of

1001
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,439
Speaker 1: your comments and the obl fan mail bank to see

1002
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: what questions you have for us. And then coming up

1003
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes time will be one Greg Cosell

1004
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: from NFL Films and the ESPN NFL Matchup Show to

1005
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: talk x's and oh's with us on this Niners Bills

1006
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: Monday Night tilt back in a moment here on One

1007
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills were

1008
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: a radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

1009
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: over the fields, kind of unique. He was kind of

1010
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

1011
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strategyre of normalcy, Chris Brown,

1012
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: Steve task your our number two of a Friday edition

1013
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. We'll get to your Obel fan

1014
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: mailbag questions in just a minute again about we'll hear

1015
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes from now, we'll hear from NFL Films, Great

1016
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Speaker 1: co Sale, some xs and o's on Monday Night's Matchup.

1017
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: We do also want to remind you that we have

1018
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: some alternative fresh content for you to chew on each

1019
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: and every week. It is the microwave version of this show,

1020
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. It's called One Bill's Light. So while

1021
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: we do put every episode or every show of One

1022
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: Bills Live up on our streaming platforms for you to

1023
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: digest and in the podcast platforms as well, if you

1024
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: don't have two plus hours available to you to listen

1025
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: to this show, you can get a streamlined version of

1026
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: fresh content from us at One Bill's Light and we'll

1027
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: have a new episode popping up for you later today

1028
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: on all of your podcast platforms. So look for One

1029
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Light out there, and it's not portions of this show,

1030
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: it's brand new content for you to choose from. You

1031
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: got to hear me put Steve through the rigors of

1032
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: the numbers game where I test his mental limits to

1033
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: see how much of Bill's history he can remember. And

1034
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: we also do things like one Burning Question, a lot

1035
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: of fun that we have in those and you can

1036
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: listen start to finish your in and out in about

1037
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: thirty or forty minutes. So we always have during the week.

1038
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 1: We always have a bunch of really good guests. We

1039
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: get the best one and throw it on the on

1040
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 1: the podcast and it's good to go back and touch

1041
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: base with we you know it was, it's always been,

1042
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: particularly during this season, it's been really good quality guests

1043
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: and a lot of times they're from the upcoming opponents,

1044
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: which nice to touch base. Last week we had Chargers

1045
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: jam Tom t LESCo. We put him on the podcast

1046
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: for One Bills Light, and then this week it's going

1047
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: to be San Francisco analyst and former cornerback Eric Davis,

1048
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: who was fantastic this week, so we've got him on

1049
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: the One Bill's Light podcast as well, So make sure

1050
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: you look for that later this afternoon. I think it'll

1051
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: be out about three thirty four o'clock. It should be

1052
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,919
Speaker 1: up on all your podcast platforms, whether it's Spotify, Apple Podcasts,

1053
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Speaker 1: you name it, it's out there. But we'll have it

1054
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: out there, So just keep an eye out for One

1055
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: Bill's Light. But Steve, we do have some obl fan

1056
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: mail bag questions to cover. We began with Tiffany and

1057
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: we didn't get much further than that because we got

1058
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Speaker 1: into this whole conversation about potential coaching losses with the

1059
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Speaker 1: success the team is having this year. The one other

1060
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: thing I will say about that before we get to

1061
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: the next question is I found it interesting this week

1062
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: because we bounced it off of a couple of our

1063
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: guests that we had, Judy Batista. We asked her about

1064
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 1: Dabele and Frasier specifically, she didn't seem too high on

1065
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: them as hot names, shall we say, certainly not as

1066
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: hot as a name like Roberts Allah has been for

1067
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco, their defensive coordinator. So it's gonna be interesting

1068
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: to see if they gain any momentum as the season

1069
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: wears on, because I don't get the sense that they're

1070
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: hearing those names a lot in the circles in which

1071
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: they travel. I'll say this about Brian Dable two words.

1072
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Yeah, Josh Allen comes out of Wyoming three

1073
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: years ago and was a punchline for a lot of

1074
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: people around. A lot of top analysts thought he was

1075
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: going to be an absolute flameout, was never going to

1076
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: be the kind of quarterback that you could win with,

1077
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: was never going to be able to do the things

1078
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: that a franchise quarterback would do. Certainly he had a

1079
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: top end physically, but they thought that the problems were

1080
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: too myriad and they'd never seen anybody do that before.

1081
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: So Brian day Ball has the guy, and now through

1082
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: the first month of this season he was in the

1083
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: MVP race. Now he's doing things. Statistically, they're eight and

1084
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: three and they're hail Mary away from nine and two,

1085
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 1: and statistically, Josh Allen is doing things that those same

1086
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: analysts said he will never this last offseason, after he'd

1087
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: gone made some progress, they said he will never reach

1088
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: this number or these numbers, but he could be maybe

1089
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: pretty good. Well, he is reaching those numbers they thought

1090
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: he couldn't reach, and he's been doing it consistently for

1091
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: an entire year. I did. A lot of the credit

1092
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: is going to be laid at the feet of Brian

1093
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: day Ball. Yeah, and Josh has put the work in

1094
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: also to his credit with his you know, with his

1095
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: mechanics and all the work that he puts in in

1096
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: the off season with Jordan Palmer. You know, I'll put

1097
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: myself in that boat. I did not think he was

1098
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, a high completion percentage quarterback,

1099
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, upper echelon of the leagues, sixty eight seventy percent.

1100
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: I thought he'd be somewhere in the mid sixties. But

1101
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: with all he does with his legs, you could still

1102
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: win football games and go a long way with a

1103
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: quarterback that's like that, right. He proved that completely wrong

1104
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: this year. And I'll be the first to say that

1105
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: I didn't think he'd get to sixty eight seventy percent completion,

1106
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: certainly not this year. Maybe in a couple of years,

1107
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: but not this year. I didn't know if he was

1108
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: ever going to be that kind of quarterback. So, yeah,

1109
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:27,919
Speaker 1: number tip your hat and you still get in the league.

1110
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's number three in the league in passing. He's

1111
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: two sixty seven for three eighty eight. Yeah. In this

1112
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: show Who Lives and Dies with the Buffalo Bills, we

1113
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: never put that as a possibility to the season for Josh.

1114
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: I thought he'd take another step. I just didn't think

1115
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: it was going to be a giant leap, which is

1116
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: what it's been this year. So the matter is that

1117
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: in and of itself, is going to get Brian Dable

1118
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: on the shortlist of every single team on the radar.

1119
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: Any team who's has a young quarterbacker is going to

1120
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: draft a young core back. Brian Dable is the absolute

1121
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: first name. Okay, there it is. You heard it here

1122
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: first from Steve town it's true, right, Yeah, I mean

1123
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: I have to think about other coordinators that have done

1124
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: a nice job this year, and it would take me

1125
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: a minute or certainly there are and Robert Sala I'm

1126
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: thinking offensive coordinator of a lot of praise for what

1127
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: he's done defensively and all that, And it'll come down

1128
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: to what these teams are looking for. And we've been

1129
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: on this list before. It's gonna be. It's gonna be Atlanta,

1130
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: Houston and Detroit at least if it's not. And of

1131
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: course the Jets um aren't gonna be on that road.

1132
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has been mentioned as a team that might make

1133
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: move on Denver, Chicago, the LA Chargers may move on

1134
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: all these teams. Particularly think about the LA Chargers. Arthur Smith,

1135
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: that's the other that's right, offensive coordinator for Tennessee. That's right.

1136
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean what he's done with to resurrect Bryan Tannehills

1137
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: at Ryan Tannehill's career, who that's right and takes him

1138
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: and he's done it the old fashioned way. Yeah, um,

1139
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: with a running game and a and a singular That

1140
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 1: would be the only other guy that I would probably

1141
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: put in that category. Definitively, I'd have to keep taking

1142
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: a look around the rest of the league to see

1143
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: if there was anybody else. Um, those are the two

1144
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: for me, Brian Dable, Arthur Smith. That's think about it.

1145
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: If there is a name that's going to come up again.

1146
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: You know, even though Andy Reid calls, you know, the

1147
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: plays over there, and I think that's the thing working

1148
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: against Eric BI Enemy. Even Andy Reid gets a lot

1149
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: of that credit. Yeah, not Eric B. Enemy. Yeah, I

1150
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: get it. And I know, I know there's a lot

1151
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: of people who love Eric B. Enemy and they and

1152
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: I don't know him never ye, I don't even And

1153
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: I can take their word for it that he's a

1154
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: quality coach. But in Kansas City, Andy Reid gets the credit,

1155
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, for for the ideas, for the concepts, for

1156
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff coming up. Now, maybe Andy Reid will

1157
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: tell you in behind closed doors that did really Eric B. Enemy. Um,

1158
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: I'm not privy to that information, but on the surface,

1159
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: and you know, from a thousand miles away, like some

1160
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: owners are from those other teams, why don't I try

1161
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: and hire Andy Reid not Eric B. Enemy. Yeah? All right,

1162
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 1: let's go back to the obl fan mail bag from

1163
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: Chris how many more games? Do you think it will

1164
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: take for Stefan Diggs to get one hundred catches he

1165
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: currently has eighty? Do you think it's possible that Josh

1166
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: Allen can throw for forty five hundred yards with thirty

1167
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: plus touchdowns to end the regular season If he does,

1168
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: do you think that's enough to make him the league MVP?

1169
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: All right, I'll take the first one, you take the

1170
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: second one. So with Diggs eighty catches right now, I

1171
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: think he's on eight games in a row with at

1172
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: least four receptions. Okay, So you do that math and

1173
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: you say, in all likelihood, it's probably going to take

1174
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: him three to four more games to get to one hundred. Now,

1175
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: one hundred is the record. Eric Moltz holds a single

1176
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: season receptions record for this franchise with a hundred catches.

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01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 1: I want to say it was in two thousand or

1178
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, I can't remember. So I think

1179
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: it takes him about three or four games, But I

1180
01:03:57,600 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: think he gets it, provided he stays healthy, you know,

1181
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: and doesn't have an issue, because there are games where

1182
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: he'll have only four catches, but then there's others where

1183
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: he's got seven or eight and he's clearly the number

1184
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: one target. I mean he's he's second in the league

1185
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: in total targets, so I mean Allan's looking for him

1186
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: every single week, and with John Brown out of the lineup,

1187
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: he's probably even getting a greater share. So yeah, I

1188
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: think that I think it is possible for him to

1189
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 1: get one hundred receptions. I think he'll go over, provided

1190
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: he stays healthy and in the lineup. What about it?

1191
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: What do you say about Josh Allen forty five hundred

1192
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: yards thirty plus touchdowns to end the right five games

1193
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 1: left now, if we're talking now, they say thirty plus touchdowns.

1194
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 1: He's got twenty nine total touchdowns already between the one

1195
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: that he caught in Arizona and the six rushing touchdowns

1196
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:43,919
Speaker 1: that he has. He's thrown for twenty two. So we'd

1197
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: have eight touchdowns in the next five games. That's doable.

1198
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: I think he could probably do that. I don't know

1199
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: that he can throw for forty five hundred yards only

1200
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 1: a three thousand, right need to go five games three

1201
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: hundred yards on average, You don't know, forty five hundred yards.

1202
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's getting there's I think he's

1203
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: gonna get four four thousand, maybe forty two hundred yards.

1204
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: Forty five hundred yards is a stretch. Thirty touchdowns last

1205
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: week heard him he only threw for one one fifty

1206
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: or something thirty touchdowns. Yeah, maybe maybe thirty passing touchdowns.

1207
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: Passing he's got twenty two. Now, if he has eight

1208
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the next five, he can do that. Yes,

1209
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,959
Speaker 1: he could do that. He could do that, and that's

1210
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: that enough to get him League MVP. Though, if he

1211
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: throws zero interceptions and goes and goes to forty five,

1212
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: what else do we want to put on if he

1213
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: goes forty yards? No, no, he doesn't. Josh, this is

1214
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: where we're looking for it. We need you to get

1215
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 1: to thirty passing touchdowns. I know it might be allowed

1216
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: to ask, but if you could throw for three hundred

1217
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: and each of the last five games, so we can

1218
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: get you over forty five. And oh, by the way,

1219
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: if you don't throw any picks, that would be great.

1220
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't. He does not happen. Put on the gap.

1221
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: I'll tell you he doesn't have to do all of that.

1222
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: But if they run the table, he's back in the bush,

1223
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: back in the conversation. And we talked to Peter King

1224
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:57,919
Speaker 1: about that, and that's exactly what he said. He said,

1225
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: if the team runs the table, goes thirteen and three, yes,

1226
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: now he's on. Now he's on because you think by

1227
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: they running the table, he's gonna have the stats that

1228
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: will support you. Will beat in San Francisco, last year's

1229
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: NFC champion, you will living in Pittsburgh the undefeated team

1230
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,959
Speaker 1: and Patriots again, and you win the division, going away

1231
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: with an undefeated record in the division at six and zero,

1232
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: and you're, like, I keep saying, you're a hail Mary

1233
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: away from sweeping the NFC West, best division in football.

1234
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. If they beat the Niners on Monday Night, Steve,

1235
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: two years in a row, the Bills will have gone

1236
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: three and one against NFC opponents two years in a row. Yeah,

1237
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good, especially when NFC West is one

1238
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: of those divisions. All right, break time for us. When

1239
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: we return, we will have one Greg co Cell from

1240
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: NFL Films and the ESPN NFL Matchup Show. So don't

1241
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: go anywhere, come right back here with us, Steve Task

1242
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: or Chris Brown. One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

1243
01:06:51,400 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio First Brown, Steve Tasker one Bills

1244
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: Live Friday Edition, and that can only mean one thing

1245
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: at this time in the show. It means senior producer

1246
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: from NFL Films, Greg co Sell is joining us on

1247
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: the line, which he is. Oh my gosh, look he is,

1248
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: in fact there it's great co sale from NFL Films,

1249
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: right on time here on a Friday. And Greg, we

1250
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. And we're looking at this Monday

1251
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: night game and I don't know, I know Steve's going

1252
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: to ask you about where you think the Bills rank

1253
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: overall in this league. Seeing all the teams that you

1254
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: do on tape. I go into this game with just

1255
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 1: a wee bit of trepidation because I think the Niners

1256
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: might be the best team in the league in terms

1257
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: of navigating their way through a slew of injuries. Have

1258
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 1: you looked at I R for the Niners. It's like

1259
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: an all star team, Greg, I'm very familiar with the Niners.

1260
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: It's like an all star team on IR for them. Yeah,

1261
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: they they're getting some guys back this week, right, I

1262
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: believe he's back. I mean, no, they're getting some guys back.

1263
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: But this game's a fascinating game. Chris, So, you know,

1264
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: hit me with what you want to hit me with it,

1265
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: we'll go into it. I'm a little lot of fascinating

1266
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 1: elements to this. Yeah, I'm nervous about the defense of

1267
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: the Niners being able to at least slow down what

1268
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: the Bills passing game has been thos far this season.

1269
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: I think Varete's had a fantastic season. Finally he has

1270
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: been able to stay healthy and he's become kind of

1271
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: the player that probably the Charges envisioned him being when

1272
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 1: they made him a first round pick all those years ago.

1273
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: Sherman's back off the injured list, so he's back in

1274
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: the fray. I'm wondering how. I mean, they play a

1275
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: good deal his zone, right, So that's where it's funny

1276
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: you say that this year Robert sala has really kind

1277
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: of expanded his coverage concepts. Robert Salad does have the

1278
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: Seattle background, a Houston background. He came to the Niners

1279
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan and he was a cover three guy.

1280
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: This year, you're seeing a ton more of man coverage.

1281
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,600
Speaker 1: You're seeing ton more split safety. This is not you

1282
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: know the old days where you just said, oh, you

1283
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 1: play the Niners. They play cover three. They're doing a

1284
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: lot more defensively, and I think they will try to

1285
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: muddy the looks for Josh Allen quite a bit. But

1286
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: man coverage is a recipe for disaster against this passing game.

1287
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: I mean, at least it has been for the teams

1288
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: that have played a good deal of that, you know,

1289
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: Miami and Week two and the Seattle Seahawks in Week ten.

1290
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't a good look for a lot

1291
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: of defense. They've been victimized. If you're gonna play man,

1292
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: you better be ready to cover because these guys, these

1293
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 1: guys kill you in the passing game when you do that. No,

1294
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: and that's true. The Bills have done very well. So

1295
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,560
Speaker 1: we'll see what Robert Sala decides to do. You know,

1296
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: we don't know the answer to that. Again, I think

1297
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: they'll play man. The question is what's the percentages of

1298
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: the different coverages that they choose to play. They've got

1299
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: two really good linebackers too in their sub nickel package.

1300
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: Fred Warner is arguably one of the top three or

1301
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: four linebackers in the league overall. He is a really

1302
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: good football player, and I think that they got rid

1303
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: of Kwan Alexander because Drey Greenlaw, who is a later

1304
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: round pick from Arkansas, has really shown very well, starting

1305
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: as a rookie last year. He's shown very very well.

1306
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: And he's a good football player too, So they're really

1307
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 1: good when they're in their sub nickel and as we know,

1308
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: when you play the Bills, you're likely to play nickel

1309
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Yeah. One of the things we've seen this,

1310
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: we've heard from the people in San Francisco, we've spoken to.

1311
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: The Niners defense has struggled. Maybe it's because they do

1312
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:41,560
Speaker 1: play man with running quarterbacks, quarterbacks who get out of

1313
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 1: the pocket. They that's where they've really been gashed this season. Well,

1314
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: and they play a lot of them, that's the thing.

1315
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: So this will not be a new experience for them.

1316
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 1: They're in the same division with Kyla Murray. They've played

1317
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson for years, so you know, this is not

1318
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: a new thing for the forty nine ers. So that's

1319
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: why I said it comes down to percentage, is you

1320
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,640
Speaker 1: know how much they might play man. Maybe this is

1321
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: a game they don't play as much man. That's very

1322
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: very possible, So we'll see. But I was just trying

1323
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: to make the point that they're not you know, sort

1324
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers from a few years ago.

1325
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: Everybody just assumed, oh, they play cover of three and

1326
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 1: that's it. How good are you've seen? We talked to

1327
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 1: you every week. You've see a lot of film on

1328
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: a lot of teams around the league, all the teams

1329
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: on the league. Where do the Bill's rank? How high

1330
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: up on this hierarchy are they? Well? I think their

1331
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 1: defense has gotten better, and I think that's an important

1332
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 1: point here. I think a j client has played exceptionally

1333
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: well filling in for Milano. And before we came on,

1334
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: I asked you if Milano would come back this week,

1335
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 1: because when you play the Niners, and again, it's whatever

1336
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: you choose to do. I don't know what Leslie and

1337
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 1: Shaun will choose to do, but the Niners line up

1338
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 1: in bass personnel and awful lot. You know, they play

1339
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: us Check over forty percent of the snaps. He's their

1340
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: full back, Kyle use Check. They play a lot with

1341
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 1: two tight ends, so you know, most teams obviously play

1342
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: in their bass personnel. We'll see what Leslie and Sean

1343
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: decide to do if if Milano was not back, I

1344
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 1: guess it's smith right the line that he's the third

1345
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:10,679
Speaker 1: the next guy up as the linebacker. A J. Klein

1346
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: played under of the snaps last week, right, but he'd

1347
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 1: be the guy who plays with Edmonds anyway, right you're

1348
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: talking about Sorry, it probably would be uh uh Smith? Yeah, yeah. Who.

1349
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,480
Speaker 1: By the way, he's the kid if I'm not mistaken,

1350
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: And and I hate when I can't remember exactly, but

1351
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 1: I think he's the either the North Carolina or North

1352
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: Carolina State kid, right, yes, North Carolina. Yeah. I thought

1353
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: he was a good college player. If I remember he

1354
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: got hurt his last season, Uh, you got hurt one

1355
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: of the seasons. If I remember watching his tape, and

1356
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 1: I thought he you know, obviously he's not an explosive athlete.

1357
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: He's not a guy that you know, is is you know,

1358
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna be out there and nickel all the time and

1359
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: run around. But I thought he was a pretty solid

1360
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: box player. And against the Niners, you might need a

1361
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: solid box player because they're gonna run the ball at

1362
01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: a base personnel, right, And that's the only thing that

1363
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:03,560
Speaker 1: concerns me, Like you get you play a team that

1364
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: plays you know, I mean they play twenty one personnel.

1365
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: I think it's the second most plays in the league.

1366
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: I think New England's the only thing that's play They

1367
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: play twenty one personnel. Yeah, I mean I think only

1368
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 1: New England's run twenty one more than they have this year,

1369
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 1: and that is not something they've seen a ton of.

1370
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: I mean, they played New England, but not something they

1371
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: see a ton of. How much of an adjustment do

1372
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 1: you find it is for teams that don't see a

1373
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff, especially against an opponent they don't

1374
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: see all that often. What what's the what's the challenge there? Well?

1375
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: To me, and again I'm not a coach, so so

1376
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: maybe a coach would explain it totally differently. To me,

1377
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: it simply becomes how you block, you know, how an

1378
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: offense blocks where there's someone lined up in a different spot.

1379
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: Because the Niners will they've run the same runs that

1380
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: everybody does. It's you know, obviously they've got some wrinkles

1381
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: which we can get into in a sack, but I

1382
01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: mean they're base runs or are zone. Everybody run zone.

1383
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: It's just with use checks. So maybe you're running zone

1384
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: with a fullback a zone lead as opposed to everybody

1385
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. So it's just how you

1386
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,640
Speaker 1: block it how you get to the base run. But

1387
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: we know they do an awful lot with Deebo Samuel,

1388
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,640
Speaker 1: and you have to be very very conscious of that

1389
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,720
Speaker 1: because they use him on jet action, they'll use him

1390
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: on orbit reverses. He's really a critical piece to this offense.

1391
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: And by the way, Brandon Ayu can do all those

1392
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: same things as well, and he's back this week. Yeah.

1393
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: The interesting thing there, though, Greg, is I don't think

1394
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: there have been too many games where coach Shanahan had

1395
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 1: both Ayuk and Samuel on the field at the same time.

1396
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: Seemingly all season long, one guy has been injured or

1397
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 1: the other guy. I don't know if you can predict this,

1398
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: but I'm curious how his play calling may or may

1399
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: not change knowing he has both of those players at

1400
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: his disposal that he can deploy on the field at

1401
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: the same time. I mean, I think again, it's it's

1402
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:56,720
Speaker 1: hard to be predictive about it, but I think at

1403
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it just means you'll see

1404
01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:01,920
Speaker 1: different ways they get to the things we just spoke about.

1405
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: Because one thing about the Niners is when they do

1406
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 1: jet action, when they use Samuel as a runner, and

1407
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: now Iuk who can do the same thing. Those are

1408
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: not gimmick plays for them though, that's really kind of

1409
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: part of what they do, so you have to prepare

1410
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: for that, you know. It's it's they're really good at it.

1411
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,559
Speaker 1: And the great the thing about Samuel and Auk who

1412
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 1: were watching now Auk, is they're both really good run

1413
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 1: after catch. And that's the other thing. When you play

1414
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: the Niners, you've got to tackle because both these guys

1415
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,760
Speaker 1: are really good run after catch. And it does bring

1416
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:38,880
Speaker 1: up the huge question that if if the Niners are

1417
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: gonna run with the fullback, they only carry on their

1418
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: active roster four linebackers um and that and it's Edmonds, Klein,

1419
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: Meta Kevic and Andre Smith that's the only guys listed

1420
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: on their on their active rosters. That possible they get

1421
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: Tyrell Dotson back this way, couldn't if they go Melano

1422
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: and dots and that gives them enough bodies to muscle

1423
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,640
Speaker 1: up against a fullback and go heavy. But that's not

1424
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: the defense they have run just about any point this season,

1425
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: I accept in special packages. So if they if they're

1426
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 1: forced to go sixty percent of the plays or half

1427
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: the plays, even in bass personnel with three linebackers on

1428
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: the field. They're trying their niners are going to force

1429
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 1: them to win doing something they don't do very much. Well,

1430
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: I just looked at stats, and that's why I look down.

1431
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: People might have seen me look down. It wasn't as

1432
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: if I wasn't listening, But I have STAPs in front

1433
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: of me. They played the Bills in their nickel, their

1434
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,640
Speaker 1: sub nickel, and almost ninety percent of their snaps this year.

1435
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: So as that plays to the point you just made, Steve,

1436
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: I think they've only played in quote unquote bass, which

1437
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: would be four to three on something like five percent

1438
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 1: of their snaps. So it's in practice this week, I

1439
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: guarantee they've played in bass, unless they don't feel that

1440
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 1: they have to play you know, again, that becomes a

1441
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: coaching philosophy and a coaching decision. Maybe they feel that

1442
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: they want to play big nickel and they is Marlow

1443
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: is he and I are Now Marlow's available, So you

1444
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: have Marlow and Seran Neil who are too You could

1445
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 1: play right, you could play big nickel, and you could

1446
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: instead of a third linebacker, you could put Marlow or Neil,

1447
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: you know, as basically your your third linebacker. Obviously, earlier

1448
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: in the year they were playing a ton of big nickel,

1449
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,720
Speaker 1: and then that gets obviously categorized as nicol and not

1450
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 1: based even though essentially they're using they were using Marlow

1451
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: as a third linebacker. Yeah, you could easily see that, right,

1452
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: And then just give me your assessment of Nick Mullins,

1453
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: because there are some We were talking to Eric Davis,

1454
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: the former forty nine ers corner who's now an analyst

1455
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 1: st out there on the Niners, and he was saying, basically,

1456
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: and being a former dB, I respect his opinion. He said,

1457
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:48,839
Speaker 1: you look at Nick Mullins and you say, okay, Basically,

1458
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 1: their passing game is now in an eighteen yard box.

1459
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: He says, yea. In his opinion, Mullins cannot threaten a

1460
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: defense deep and that allows defenses to play this nine

1461
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 1: offense downhill. What are your thoughts on that? I would

1462
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 1: agree with that. You know, I think Mollins is your

1463
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 1: classic backup. He might even be a number three. He

1464
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: doesn't check a lot of the boxes that you'd like

1465
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: to check. He's smaller, he doesn't move particularly well, and

1466
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:18,599
Speaker 1: he's got a limited arm strength. And their pass game

1467
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: by nature is very rhythmic and timing based, which is

1468
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: why he can have success because Kyle is very very

1469
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: good in terms of designing pass plays that can break

1470
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: down zone. In particular, he's really good at identifying conflict defenders,

1471
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: players who have a run and pass responsibility. He identifies

1472
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 1: those players based on tape study, and he attacks them.

1473
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 1: But Mollins, if you just look at the physical traits,

1474
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: he is not going to drive the ball down the field.

1475
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:51,719
Speaker 1: So I think Eric Davis's point is one hundred percent

1476
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: right now. Having said that, there are certain throws that

1477
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 1: people might think are deep throws which are not arm

1478
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: strained throws. You can still throw a fade ball. I mean,

1479
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: if you're gonna bring you know, let's say LEVI while

1480
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 1: let's up in press man and you're gonna run a

1481
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 1: fade and EU runs by him. A fadeball's not an

1482
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: arm strength throw. Why has the Bill's defense improved so much? Boy,

1483
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 1: that's a great question, you know, I think I think,

1484
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 1: believe it or not, AJ Client has played really really

1485
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,799
Speaker 1: good football. You know, you know how I feel about Milano,

1486
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: But Clients played at a really really high level. I

1487
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 1: think that they've been better upfront. And again, I don't

1488
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 1: have a great reason for that, other than the fact

1489
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: that maybe you know players are playing better when you

1490
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: watch tape. The thing is when you watch tape, which

1491
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: is always hard, you don't know how things are coached,

1492
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,600
Speaker 1: and I don't know the small little tweaks that they

1493
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 1: might make. But I think they've gotten better play overall.

1494
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: They've become a little more aggressive too. I mean to

1495
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: me again, without charting every play, guys, I think they've

1496
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: been a little more aggressive with blitz. I think they've

1497
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 1: been a little more aggressive with man coverage. That just

1498
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, the eyeball test watching the tape, that's what

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01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: I see. And then just with respect to eye discipline

1500
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: for you know, the second level defenders for the Bills

1501
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: this week. You know you mentioned all the jet motion

1502
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 1: that these guys run, and then you add the speed

1503
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: of Raheem Mostard to the corner, like, you can't take

1504
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: a false step with Raheem Mostard or he's up the

1505
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: sideline and headed to the end zone. So can you

1506
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: just maybe speak to the challenge that the Mostard speed

1507
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 1: and then the jet action presents with respect to the

1508
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,680
Speaker 1: eye discipline that linebackers and second level defenders have to

1509
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: have for the Bills this week. That's a great, great point, Chris,

1510
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,839
Speaker 1: because what they do a lot of is base run plays.

1511
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: They add these elements jet motion, orbit mode, things that

1512
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: create problems for second level defenders or set up here.

1513
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: Think of it this way. If you're a defensive end, okay,

1514
01:20:57,439 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden there's jet motion and it's

1515
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: coming toward you, and you just might either pause or

1516
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: you might even take your initial step outside and then

1517
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're in a tough position. You

1518
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: lose leverage on the blocker who's going to block you.

1519
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: They're really really good at that. But your point about

1520
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: eye discipline is absolutely critical because in this league, you

1521
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 1: take one false step, particularly in his own run game,

1522
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: and then you really have a hard time. And if

1523
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 1: moster it's able to outflank your defense, he's got great,

1524
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: great speed. Do you see any probability that if if

1525
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: Matt Milano comes back healthy, which we don't know if

1526
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: he is or not. They're very residents, say reticent to

1527
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:42,640
Speaker 1: say whether he's in the lineup or out of the

1528
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 1: lineup as a day to day injury. If he comes back,

1529
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: do you see a scenario that where Milano and Kleine

1530
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: are both on the field with Edmonds a linebacker. Yes,

1531
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: I mean again, it all depends on Matt's health. But

1532
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: if he's totally cleared and ready to go and let's

1533
01:21:57,400 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: rock and roll, I don't know how they feel, but

1534
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: I would think that a pure four three versus twenty

1535
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 1: one or twenty two personnel gives them their better group

1536
01:22:09,520 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 1: than if they go big nickel. But that's that would

1537
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: be my point of view based on tape study, is

1538
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: that that would all depend on Milano's health and how

1539
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: they ultimately feel that they want to match up. Yeah,

1540
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: and that matchup you're talking about the Niner run game

1541
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: with us checking the back without reback and by the way,

1542
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: the Niners throw the ball very well at a base

1543
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: personnel two my point. That's the point I was making

1544
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,760
Speaker 1: earlier about Kyle being so good identifying conflict players, because

1545
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 1: let's say, let's say you're in a in a strong

1546
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 1: eye or a week guy Steve, and you know all this,

1547
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it looks like it's it's

1548
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: it's an isole lead or his own lead. You know

1549
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: that there's a linebacker that he's thinking run when he

1550
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: sees that action, but he also has a past responsibility. Yeah,

1551
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: a coverage responsibility, and that's where Kyle is so good

1552
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,920
Speaker 1: at identifying those guys and then working off of them

1553
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: in the pass game. Last thing that I have on

1554
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:03,839
Speaker 1: this game specifically, Greg So the forty nine Ers defense

1555
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: has allowed a completion percentage of forty four percent on

1556
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: deep passes. That's the sixth highest in the league. Now,

1557
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 1: that can be for a whole number of reasons, based

1558
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: on game situations and what have you. No, John Brown,

1559
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: who's still on IR, Gabriel Davis has kind of taken

1560
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: on that role. He had a nice play down the

1561
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 1: left sideline on a free play on an off sides

1562
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 1: last week and goes up and makes a spectacular catch.

1563
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: Do you foresee that there could be opportunities in that

1564
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: regard based on what you've seen from this Niners defense,

1565
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, deep passing game specifically. I mean I would

1566
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: think you would take a shot or two. Look, Josh

1567
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: Allenson proved dramatically this year in so many areas. The

1568
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: deep ball, I shall think is something that needs work. Obviously,

1569
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: he gave Gabriel Davis an opportunity was a free play,

1570
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: but he gave him an opportunity to go up and

1571
01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: get it. And Davis is six two, so he's a

1572
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:00,639
Speaker 1: big wide receiver. Yeah. I think you have to take

1573
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 1: your shots. You know. I've always been a believer in that,

1574
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, I learned that from Ryan Jaworski, you know,

1575
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: the old sid Gilman approach, that you've got to take

1576
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: your shots. How much that I can't answer, but without question.

1577
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: Now you know what the forty nine ers are doing

1578
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: now that Sherman is back. He plays left corner. Jason

1579
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: Varette who you mentioned, Chris, he's had a phenomenal year.

1580
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: I think he's played really well. He's the right corner

1581
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: and Mosley now is the slot corner because A. Taylor

1582
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: got hurt last week, so I don't know what his

1583
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: status is, but Mosley came in and played for him. Yeah,

1584
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: Taylor went on i R this week. Actually they put

1585
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 1: him all right, there you go. Yeah, so I didn't

1586
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 1: see that. But so Mosley will be the slot corner

1587
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 1: because I believe Kawan Williams is not available either. Yeah. Great, thanks,

1588
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:47,759
Speaker 1: it's great talking to you. Appreciate it, guys. I always

1589
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,519
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Thank you. All right, we'll shutch up with

1590
01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 1: you on the ESPN NFL Matchup Show. This weekend. We'll

1591
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: be looking for you, all right. That's great Cosal breaking

1592
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: it down for us. And yeah, I mean they're gonna

1593
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: even though they have Sherman back, they're still shuffling people

1594
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: back there because they lost Webster and they lost as

1595
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: we mentioned, Jamar Taylor both and went to ir this week.

1596
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 1: It is a different kind of matchup for the Bills

1597
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: defense as well, because they do throw us Check, who's

1598
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 1: a big fullback out there, Like you know, he's at

1599
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 1: Chris DeMarco Pat Pat DeMarco that the Bills had last year.

1600
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: We didn't use DeMarco nearly as much as they use us.

1601
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: Check is a fixture back there and he and he

1602
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: runs a lot of routes out of that spot as well,

1603
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: got twelve receptions. But he is more than capable. Even

1604
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: though he's a big, husky guy, he can make plays

1605
01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: out of the backfield where he can help you move

1606
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: the sticks. And as I said, twenty one personnel, that's

1607
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: their second most popular formation after eleven, which everybody runs

1608
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: pretty much the most in the league. But twenty one

1609
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: is their next biggest personnel grouping. I mean, the only

1610
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: other team, like I said, that's run more two back

1611
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: personnel out of twenty one this year is the Patriots right.

1612
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:54,720
Speaker 1: One of the things you got to know too is

1613
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 1: I would I would think, although I don't know that

1614
01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: Kittle I'm sorry, kid. Yeah, Kittle probably changed that scenario

1615
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: a little bit when he went down. One tight end

1616
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: out there that you can imagine with with him on

1617
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: the field, the best tight end in the league, along

1618
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: with us checking two backs and your ability to run

1619
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 1: the football with him having it being able to jack him.

1620
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: That's a headache of an offense. I mean that Nick

1621
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: Mullins could win with those guys out there, but having

1622
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:25,200
Speaker 1: Kittle off the field changes that a hair because it's

1623
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: an easier matchup for the defense to go one on

1624
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: one with a tight end, which you couldn't do before,

1625
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: and now you can. You can do what you can

1626
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,839
Speaker 1: want with the rest of that. But you can imagine

1627
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:36,600
Speaker 1: what a load this nine ers is. You get a

1628
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: tight end in there, two backs, five oh lineman, and

1629
01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:44,879
Speaker 1: two wide outs and it's it's a run first offense,

1630
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:50,439
Speaker 1: pounding on the line of scrimmage. And we've seen certain

1631
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 1: games where the Bill's defense has struggled at the line

1632
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, more so earlier in the season. I think

1633
01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 1: they've tried to stem that tide a little bit as

1634
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 1: the season has worn on. But you get like the Raiders,

1635
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 1: for example, big heavy offensive line. Now they didn't let

1636
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs run wild in that game. Still, you know,

1637
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: the Raiders put twenty three points on the board and

1638
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,120
Speaker 1: they're in the game at the end save for four,

1639
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, three fourth quarter stops. So you think about

1640
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 1: the big bodies down inside with a great blocking tight

1641
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: end and a big fullback, and you've got Raheem Mostard

1642
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: who can out run everyone running behind Trent Williams at

1643
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,720
Speaker 1: left tack. I mean, they they're a load of these

1644
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: and the two wide receivers with iu Can Deebo Samuel

1645
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: back in the green, that's that's another that opens up

1646
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:39,560
Speaker 1: another and the last quick thing because I know we

1647
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: got to get to break. But the problems with their

1648
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 1: offensive line, ironically have been some of the same issues

1649
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 1: that people have had with Buffalo's offensive line. They run

1650
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 1: really well to the left behind Trent Williams and Lake

1651
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: and Tomlinson. They've had some deficiencies on the right side

1652
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,639
Speaker 1: of their line. Mike McGlinchey, I think was their former

1653
01:27:56,680 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: first round pick he has not been playing up to

1654
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,920
Speaker 1: the standard. He's a rough go of it. I don't

1655
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: know if he's dealing with an injury or something, but

1656
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: most of the reporters out there think he has not

1657
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: lived up to the billing and has had some good

1658
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,800
Speaker 1: games and some not so good games. And the right guard,

1659
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: Tom Compton, has also had his share of struggles, so

1660
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: that might be where that offensive line can be had,

1661
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 1: you know, if not in the run game, at least

1662
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:20,720
Speaker 1: to get to the passer. So be interesting to see

1663
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 1: what the defensive approach is. Break time for us when

1664
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: we return more of your questions from the obl fan

1665
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:29,080
Speaker 1: mail bag and coming up in about fifteen minutes one

1666
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander with the Lowdown, so stay tuned for that.

1667
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: We'll be back in a minute here on one Bill's

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01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Line presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown,

1669
01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: Steve Caster with you. Closing up. Hour number two will

1670
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 1: have Lorenzo Alexander on the other side of the top

1671
01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: of the hour for the Lowdown, and we'll be talking

1672
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 1: to him abou a number of topics, not just this game.

1673
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: Coming up on Monday night. As an NFLPA rep and

1674
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:08,360
Speaker 1: with all the things that are going on with COVID

1675
01:29:08,439 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 1: and the way it's been moving the schedules around, we've

1676
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 1: got players, well, let's just say, less than happy that

1677
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 1: they're not quite sure what day they're playing, who they're playing.

1678
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 1: We all know the Bills had to deal with that

1679
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. Now the Steelers are grousing about

1680
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,400
Speaker 1: the fact that they've got three games in twelve days,

1681
01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 1: lost their mini by that they were expecting to have

1682
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: after playing on Thanksgiving night. The figure they get a

1683
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:33,879
Speaker 1: little bit of a respite after that Friday, Saturday, Sunday

1684
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: before getting back to work the following Monday. And now

1685
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 1: that all went to hell in a hand basket. So

1686
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,759
Speaker 1: some of those players are like, oh, geez, man alive.

1687
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 1: I didn't get my break. And you know, they also

1688
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 1: got their schedule moved earlier in the season. They were

1689
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: they lost it by the Titans, they lost their by

1690
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 1: completely in the first place, And I get it. Players

1691
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:55,640
Speaker 1: are just gruntled over over what's happened to them and

1692
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 1: what's had to happen to them, and they get you

1693
01:29:57,280 --> 01:30:00,280
Speaker 1: get this mentality everybody done and I've got no I've

1694
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: got no you know, sympathy and love loss for the

1695
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers guys, but I understand where they're coming from.

1696
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:10,599
Speaker 1: You're trying to play this and having it the schedule change, Okay,

1697
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 1: that's one thing, but having it changed three times in

1698
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 1: one week before you so you can't get your mind

1699
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: around what day you're actually going to play on. That's

1700
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:20,720
Speaker 1: a problem. And that's what they I think, really the

1701
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: basis of this comes from everybody understands it's a weird year,

1702
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 1: and you know, it crosses into lunacy when you start

1703
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: going into well, the league's got it in for the

1704
01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:32,759
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, or the league's got it in for the Ravens,

1705
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:34,400
Speaker 1: or the league's got it in for the Bills or

1706
01:30:34,439 --> 01:30:39,720
Speaker 1: the night you name it. Nothing like that's happening, Believe me.

1707
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 1: What is happening is they're changing the schedule and then

1708
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: they're finding something out of the or the tests get

1709
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 1: the test results come back there and they've got to

1710
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 1: delay it again. They're powerless against the courvid virus and

1711
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 1: they have to react to that. More than anything, the

1712
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: fact that the guys who are in power making the

1713
01:30:56,080 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: decisions have to be reactionary just out of common sense. Yeah,

1714
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:04,600
Speaker 1: that leads to all the guys down the line. The

1715
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:08,360
Speaker 1: players have especially going well. Yeah, but they get frustrated.

1716
01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: That's why they said at the beginning of the season,

1717
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be this season is not going to

1718
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 1: be fair for all thirty two teams, and we're just

1719
01:31:15,479 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with it. You may not like it,

1720
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:19,400
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to deal with it. And there

1721
01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:22,640
Speaker 1: are very few teams that have come out of this unscathed.

1722
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: This season with a with a schedule adjustment or a

1723
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 1: player lost and not available for a game, there are

1724
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: very few teams that have escaped this unscathed. I would

1725
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: say the Chargers are one team that I don't think

1726
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:37,280
Speaker 1: has had a major loss in their lineup outside of

1727
01:31:37,320 --> 01:31:40,080
Speaker 1: a medical issue with Tyrane Taylor, but that actually worked

1728
01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: in their favor with Justine in the lineup. One team

1729
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,280
Speaker 1: had five games they didn't affect him the week of

1730
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,799
Speaker 1: Week five, but five of their subsequent games were changed

1731
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:54,120
Speaker 1: because of what happened to Tennessee in Week five. I

1732
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:56,760
Speaker 1: think that was a Charger. It was the Chargers. I

1733
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, nobody's unscathed in this and it's

1734
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:02,800
Speaker 1: not going to be fair, and you can do the aftermath.

1735
01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: You know, you can do the autopsy of this season

1736
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:08,720
Speaker 1: later on and figure out who was really put at

1737
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:10,560
Speaker 1: risk and what story kind of jumps out to you

1738
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:13,560
Speaker 1: in your own mind. But everybody's got is up against this,

1739
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 1: And I know the players are venting and social media

1740
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 1: makes it possible for them to do that. But and

1741
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:23,720
Speaker 1: that's what I think this the frustration stems from. For me,

1742
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: as I'm trying to put myself in their position, what

1743
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:30,599
Speaker 1: I would have been like, make the decision as early

1744
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:32,800
Speaker 1: as you can, let us know when and where we're playing,

1745
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 1: and try your best not to deviate from that. Don't

1746
01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: tell us. And I think one of the things is

1747
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 1: maybe they wait so long before they can make a

1748
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:43,720
Speaker 1: decision that the players get impatient. And during that time

1749
01:32:43,880 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 1: leading up to it, you're in limbo. You can't mentally

1750
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 1: engage with your preparation, you can't get emotionally invested in

1751
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: the game because you don't know if it's going to happen.

1752
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:57,680
Speaker 1: Right But at the same time, I can see it

1753
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:01,560
Speaker 1: from the league office perspective because they're dealing with this

1754
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: in real time. They're learning about new things about the

1755
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:10,479
Speaker 1: virus in real time, so all you can do is

1756
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: make the best possible adjustments you can with the data

1757
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 1: you have available to you at that time. And since

1758
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:22,640
Speaker 1: August it's changed probably half a dozen times, which is

1759
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:24,880
Speaker 1: why people are like, oh my gosh, the league's got

1760
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: another COVID protocol enhancement. Oh they got to do this,

1761
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: they're changing that. Yes, because the data is changing and

1762
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:35,160
Speaker 1: the infection rates are changing, so that prompts the league

1763
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 1: to have to make an adjustment and make changes. Yeah,

1764
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:41,240
Speaker 1: it's simple, it's simple. The facts change. You're at the

1765
01:33:41,360 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 1: mercy of the virus. The virus is running the show. Yes,

1766
01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:48,600
Speaker 1: the virus is running the show, and if you think otherwise,

1767
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 1: you're kidding yourself. And that's why the league has had

1768
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: to respond. As Steve said in a reactionary way, All right,

1769
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:57,680
Speaker 1: break time for us. When we return, it is one

1770
01:33:57,800 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander for his weekly visit as he gives us

1771
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 1: the lowdown. Stay tuned for that. We're back with him

1772
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:06,040
Speaker 1: in a flash here on One Bill's Live, presented by

1773
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills Radio Network

1774
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:25,080
Speaker 1: Sports Date, your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Bills

1775
01:34:25,120 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 1: relatively healthy ahead of their game with the forty nine

1776
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: Ers Monday night. Head coach Sean McDermott said this morning

1777
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 1: he's encouraged by Matt Milano's progress as the linebacker returned

1778
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: to practice this week, but his status for the game

1779
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 1: still up in the air. He remains at this point

1780
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 1: on injury reserve. Changes on the injury report here for Friday,

1781
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones and Reggie Gilliam went from limited to full participants.

1782
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: The final game status will be delivered on Saturday, with

1783
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 1: the game being played on Monday night. For the Niners,

1784
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,800
Speaker 1: wide receiver Deebo Samuel will play Monday against the Bills

1785
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 1: after sitting out Thursday's practice for precautionary reasons as he

1786
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: continued to nurse a hamstring injury. The second year wide

1787
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:04,760
Speaker 1: out had missed three games with a hamstring before his

1788
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: eleven catch one hundred thirty three yard performance last week

1789
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 1: against the Rams, which helped them beat LA twenty three

1790
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 1: to twenty. In Week twelve, with the forty nine Ers

1791
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:18,200
Speaker 1: forced to play home games outside of Santa Clara County

1792
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:21,920
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and they'll be playing their games for

1793
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future in Arizona. The Rams and Chargers have

1794
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:28,600
Speaker 1: begun to prepare for the possibility of not playing in

1795
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:31,920
Speaker 1: the state of California either. The NFL has communicated with

1796
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:36,840
Speaker 1: both teams about a possible forced relocation resulting from the

1797
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 1: ongoing spread of COVID nineteen. It's looking like Colt McCoy

1798
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 1: will be the Giant starting QB on Sunday. Starting quarterback

1799
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones suffered a hamstring injury last week, and he

1800
01:35:47,240 --> 01:35:50,679
Speaker 1: has just been listed on that team's injury report as doubtful.

1801
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: The Gmen are playing the Seahawks this week in Seattle.

1802
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell conditionally reinstated Seahawks wide out Josh

1803
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: Gordon on Thursday. The receiver will be eligible to return

1804
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:03,000
Speaker 1: for the final two games of the twenty twenty season

1805
01:36:03,280 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 1: and can begin attending practice on December twenty. First, and

1806
01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: the Mid American Conference announced that the game between the

1807
01:36:09,360 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: UB Bulls and Ohio University scheduled for tomorrow, has been

1808
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: canceled due to positive COVID tests with the OU football team.

1809
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:21,519
Speaker 1: The game has been declared a no contest by the MAC.

1810
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: The Bulls at four and oh will hold their final

1811
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: regular season game next Saturday against Akron at ub Stadium.

1812
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:29,720
Speaker 1: But the MAC has also announced that the Bulls have

1813
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:33,680
Speaker 1: been declared the winners of the MAC East Division, So

1814
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:37,439
Speaker 1: congrats to them. Only played four games and it's over,

1815
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 1: how about it. I mean, they'll play another one next week,

1816
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: but still and Jared Patterson may still get to a

1817
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards. How about that? He's on them? Yeah

1818
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 1: he will, Yeah, all right, But more important things to

1819
01:36:50,760 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: get to right now, most notably the Lowdown. Lorenzo Alexander

1820
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: might be retired from NFL football, but he's got his

1821
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: hands in all kinds of things, including the Pressure Front podcast,

1822
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:16,520
Speaker 1: so be sure to check that out on Apple Podcasts

1823
01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, because he's

1824
01:37:21,240 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: not only talking here with us once a week, he's

1825
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 1: flapping those gums in a lot of other places. So Lorenzo,

1826
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:31,439
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Yeah, we've got We've got an

1827
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: interesting one here this week that I'm a little concerned about.

1828
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about the forty nine ers.

1829
01:37:36,120 --> 01:37:38,760
Speaker 1: They are injury riddled, their backup quarterback is going to

1830
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 1: be starting, and yet I'm still a little bit nervous

1831
01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:43,799
Speaker 1: about this one. And it's less because of the travel

1832
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 1: I think it's just more because of the gritty way

1833
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 1: that San Francisco can seem to grind out games. What

1834
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 1: do you think about that? Yeah, yeah, I would agree

1835
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:55,000
Speaker 1: with that. I was. I would put them in the

1836
01:37:55,080 --> 01:37:58,080
Speaker 1: same vein as part of the Patriots. They're a whale

1837
01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 1: coach football team, have a great culture. Kyle Shanahan has

1838
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 1: done a great job with really cultivating that ever since

1839
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:06,240
Speaker 1: becoming the head coach several years ago. Obsously a Super

1840
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: Bowl champion, so they knew how to win right in

1841
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:12,240
Speaker 1: So regardless, if you have your talent out there, they're

1842
01:38:12,280 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 1: still going to go out there, be well prepared, are

1843
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: gonna play good sound for the middle football and put

1844
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:20,040
Speaker 1: themselves in a position to compete. Now because they have

1845
01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 1: the injuries, obviously they're no longer elite, you know, competing

1846
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 1: for that division and even being a Super Bowl contender,

1847
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:28,880
Speaker 1: But like most NFL teams, if your coach well and

1848
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: your guys, even your backup guys, are in position to

1849
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: make plays, they could play the high level compete. And

1850
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: you saw that last week with that defense and how

1851
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: they were able to overcome and beat the La Rams,

1852
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 1: who most people would say it is probably one of

1853
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:43,800
Speaker 1: the tops in that NFC West Division. Is this a

1854
01:38:43,880 --> 01:38:46,559
Speaker 1: bad matchup for Buffalo? The way forty nine ers run

1855
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:48,880
Speaker 1: their offense with the fullback a lot of the time,

1856
01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 1: tight end always in there, is this a bad matchup

1857
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:55,160
Speaker 1: for Buffalo? I don't know if it's a bad matchup

1858
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:56,880
Speaker 1: maybe if you if you look at the first half

1859
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: of the season. But we know during the bye week

1860
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 1: that they put an emphasis on the run gang both

1861
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: running and be able to stop it. And so I

1862
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: think it's a great test to see if it during

1863
01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: that bye week, have you shored up some things, you

1864
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 1: know when you look back at last week versus the

1865
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: charges that were maybe one or two runs that spurted out,

1866
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:16,519
Speaker 1: and you know, Kyle Shanahan has probably one of the best,

1867
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: you know minds around being creative when it comes to

1868
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 1: the run game with hawk runs, making the corners tackle,

1869
01:39:22,640 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 1: pulling guards, and making you fit runs properly. And so

1870
01:39:26,120 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a great test from

1871
01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:30,640
Speaker 1: start to finish if the Bills can be physical, have

1872
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: their d line like they did last week, play on

1873
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 1: the offensive side of line scrimmage, and make the running

1874
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:38,439
Speaker 1: back have to make cuts before they want to. But

1875
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:40,200
Speaker 1: it's going to be have to be consistent and for

1876
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 1: four quarters, and they won't have to ever have a

1877
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: chance to really lay back in the game. I think

1878
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 1: versus Kyle Shanahan and what he's able to do in

1879
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:49,560
Speaker 1: that run game. Zoe, I want to talk to you

1880
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:52,840
Speaker 1: about something that Eric Davis brought up to us, the

1881
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: former Niners corner who does a lot of analysis on

1882
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: the Niners. He said, Nick Mullins as a quarterback essentially

1883
01:39:59,600 --> 01:40:02,679
Speaker 1: puts the or passing game in an eighteen yard box.

1884
01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 1: And he said because of that, it allows the defenders

1885
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: to play totally downhill because there isn't this fear of

1886
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:15,400
Speaker 1: getting beat over the top now, even though Buffalo has

1887
01:40:15,439 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: a defense that really guards against that. Do you think

1888
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:22,360
Speaker 1: that applies to the Bills defense this week with Mullins,

1889
01:40:22,400 --> 01:40:25,479
Speaker 1: that they can truly play downhill because I'm thinking, like

1890
01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:27,640
Speaker 1: Steve was just saying, that's something they gotta do this

1891
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:32,679
Speaker 1: week with the way this team runs the ball, right, Yeah,

1892
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's if that's who we showed to be,

1893
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:38,840
Speaker 1: you play like that until he shows you something different. Um,

1894
01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 1: And it's much like some of the guys that we played,

1895
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:44,680
Speaker 1: even like uh quarterbacks that have been known you know

1896
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:46,639
Speaker 1: I've talked to some dvs and say, we weren't even

1897
01:40:46,720 --> 01:40:48,759
Speaker 1: playing like Nate Peterman when when he was a quarterback.

1898
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:50,960
Speaker 1: We weren't even playing the dep ball and so we

1899
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:52,519
Speaker 1: were just playing guys up and we were going to

1900
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:54,880
Speaker 1: force him to try to beat us over the top.

1901
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 1: And so I know, guys take that way. Defensive coordinators

1902
01:40:58,439 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: think that way in the tell tape will tell a story.

1903
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:03,519
Speaker 1: And if he's known for not going deeper, trying to

1904
01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:06,800
Speaker 1: stretch the field, you can stack the box or you

1905
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 1: can be more in that to come up faster when

1906
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:12,840
Speaker 1: you read run knowing that he's really not gonna throw

1907
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 1: a down fitting if he does, he may not be

1908
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:16,639
Speaker 1: as accurate or put the ball in a place where

1909
01:41:17,040 --> 01:41:18,800
Speaker 1: it's going to give his guys a chance to win.

1910
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,040
Speaker 1: And so until he shows you something different, you may

1911
01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: want to stack the box. You may want to be

1912
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive as a safety or even

1913
01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: an underneath defender coming up and playing a run understanding

1914
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 1: that's what's ultimately going to beat you. Because if it

1915
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:33,080
Speaker 1: become a real two dimensional team in the run game,

1916
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:36,240
Speaker 1: then some of that play action stuff and going deeper

1917
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 1: can then open up and then he can become better

1918
01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 1: than what he is because the offense is dimensional because

1919
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: of the way the forty nine ers run their offense

1920
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:46,240
Speaker 1: with a full back and a tight end and they

1921
01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 1: go out you know a lot of twenty one personnel,

1922
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 1: given your experience with this coaching staff in Buffalo, and

1923
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,640
Speaker 1: if Matt Milano's healthy along with aj client, do they

1924
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: go three linebackers instead of they play you know, ninety

1925
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 1: percent of their snaps or nickel, yeah, or do they

1926
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,800
Speaker 1: go big nickel and put a different kind of nickel

1927
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 1: back in there. I see them going base normally, normally

1928
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 1: the big nickel packages when you have maybe two dynamic

1929
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 1: tight ends or you know, at least one prolific tight

1930
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:18,680
Speaker 1: end where you may be worried about whether or not

1931
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,679
Speaker 1: you're a sam or wheel can line up and guard

1932
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: them ifists man or even in some quarters looks and

1933
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:26,640
Speaker 1: so then it's a personnel move. So this is more

1934
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:29,360
Speaker 1: of a true twenty one. And the fullback is not

1935
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:31,599
Speaker 1: really prolific where it's gonna really beat you or really

1936
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:33,920
Speaker 1: dominate you. And even you know, you gotta think about

1937
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:35,479
Speaker 1: George Kittle. So they may be a little bit of

1938
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 1: cat and mouse game there. As far as how they

1939
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:40,080
Speaker 1: go personnel wise, but I can see them definitely going

1940
01:42:40,120 --> 01:42:43,800
Speaker 1: basically twenty one and then maybe eleven because they still

1941
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 1: may like to run the ball. Then that's where you

1942
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 1: may see some of the Buffalo or Big Nickel formations

1943
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:50,360
Speaker 1: come in to where they can still match up in

1944
01:42:50,439 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: the past game, but still have a guy that's a

1945
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:53,400
Speaker 1: little bit bigger. It can hold up in the run

1946
01:42:53,479 --> 01:42:57,040
Speaker 1: game as well. And so you'll see Sean and Leslie Frazier,

1947
01:42:57,120 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, based on what they've seen in the forty

1948
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,280
Speaker 1: nineties tendencies, what they done a certain person nails probably

1949
01:43:02,439 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 1: rotate through base Big Nicol and Nicole given the situation,

1950
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:07,599
Speaker 1: and you know, down to dishes and all those other

1951
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:11,479
Speaker 1: things that tell you a story. Zoe. We also wanted

1952
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: to talk to you a little bit about some of

1953
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: what some of the chirping we've heard out of Pittsburgh.

1954
01:43:16,560 --> 01:43:20,080
Speaker 1: Some of those players are a little sour about, you know,

1955
01:43:20,200 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 1: their game schedule, and Steve and I have been talking

1956
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 1: about this on the show We Get It. You know,

1957
01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 1: they technically lost their bye week because of the Titans outbreak,

1958
01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: and then they're hoping to get this little mini by

1959
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 1: after playing on Thanksgiving night, and we know that went

1960
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:34,599
Speaker 1: to hell in a handbasket, and they didn't play until

1961
01:43:34,640 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: Wednesday this week, and so now they're grousing about having

1962
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:41,840
Speaker 1: to play three games in twelve days. Here, do you

1963
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 1: think that this is just players popping off, because I

1964
01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 1: think if they actually sit down and think about it,

1965
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,599
Speaker 1: they realize that the league, as a matter of course,

1966
01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:54,920
Speaker 1: has to be reactionary to what's going on with this virus,

1967
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: because it's the virus that's running the show, not the league. Right, yeah,

1968
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:02,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that's this guy as being frustrated and have

1969
01:44:02,320 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: an outlet. And obviously social media can be used for

1970
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:06,840
Speaker 1: good or bad, and it's right there in your palm,

1971
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: in your hands, and you can put your thoughts so

1972
01:44:09,200 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 1: everybody can see it. And so if they really thought back,

1973
01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: and if they really looked at it from a practical standpoint,

1974
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 1: they would realize that they rather played the three games

1975
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 1: in twelve days. In the league say well, you know what,

1976
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 1: We're gonna actually canceled one of your games, give you

1977
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 1: a bye week. And by the way, we're not going

1978
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: to pay you for that week either, because you know

1979
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:30,519
Speaker 1: you said you wanted some time off. The pat divic

1980
01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:32,439
Speaker 1: has created and so we'll just cancel one of your games.

1981
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 1: You guys are undefeated, and so my, my, my, you

1982
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:38,760
Speaker 1: know kind of thing is just continue to win out

1983
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:42,400
Speaker 1: and then you will have a boy going into the playoffs. Yeah,

1984
01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:44,400
Speaker 1: because it only obviously one by that first seas. So

1985
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:46,680
Speaker 1: this continue to work, went out and earn earn that

1986
01:44:46,800 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: bye And that's the only way you can kind of

1987
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:50,720
Speaker 1: take care of your body is by continue to doing

1988
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:53,160
Speaker 1: what you've done. Because the league is trying to do

1989
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 1: their best. All this stuff is up in the air,

1990
01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: is very fluid, and they're trying to make sure they

1991
01:44:58,040 --> 01:45:00,120
Speaker 1: can get games in obviously so they can get to

1992
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:03,160
Speaker 1: collect the revenue, but then also so guys can get

1993
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 1: their paychecks one week the week because they cancel games,

1994
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: those guys aren't able to receive obviously they're salarly for

1995
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 1: that give a week, and I know nobody wants that, right,

1996
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, to sit there, be quiet, deal with deal

1997
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:17,560
Speaker 1: with this year and then next year. You know, you

1998
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 1: do you my question that you popped out just for

1999
01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:25,520
Speaker 1: a second, But my question is this does their frustration

2000
01:45:25,640 --> 01:45:27,599
Speaker 1: I get it too, but do you think they're more

2001
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:31,120
Speaker 1: frustrated because they didn't get a bye week or they

2002
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:32,840
Speaker 1: haven't had any time off and it looks like they're

2003
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 1: not gonna get any time off during the regular season.

2004
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: Or is it more about the uncertainty of when and

2005
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:40,680
Speaker 1: where their next game is gonna be and there and

2006
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:42,759
Speaker 1: the league's lack of ability to give them a solid

2007
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:48,519
Speaker 1: answer while they're getting running up to that game. You know, honestly,

2008
01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:50,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I mean, really, it

2009
01:45:50,880 --> 01:45:54,519
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter. Both things are out of everybody's control, right,

2010
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 1: nobody's controlling it and saying, you know what, I actually

2011
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 1: feel that I want the Pistburgh still to play, you know,

2012
01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:03,200
Speaker 1: three games in twelve days, and you know, by the way,

2013
01:46:03,200 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't want them to have a buywy right, Nobody

2014
01:46:05,479 --> 01:46:07,720
Speaker 1: is saying that, you know, nobody, you know I think this.

2015
01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 1: We gotta want the Tennessee Titans to play. The virus

2016
01:46:10,439 --> 01:46:14,400
Speaker 1: is doing that. Nobody can control it. So I think

2017
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:17,160
Speaker 1: once you put things in perspective, then you're not frustrated,

2018
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 1: because it's no who you frustrated that you're mad at

2019
01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: the virus. That doesn't make sense because it can't think,

2020
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't talk back, it's not rational. It

2021
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:27,599
Speaker 1: just does what it does right in impact, It infect people.

2022
01:46:27,680 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 1: So I think guys need to be speak, chill out,

2023
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:33,679
Speaker 1: sit back. But I think again, it's all about social

2024
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:36,160
Speaker 1: media and it being at to tip of your fingers

2025
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 1: and being able just to share whatever comes to your mind,

2026
01:46:38,479 --> 01:46:42,240
Speaker 1: your frustrations, your passions, your love, your wants, all the

2027
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:43,880
Speaker 1: things that it can be. That's what it is. And

2028
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 1: so guys are able to do that in a very casual,

2029
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:50,679
Speaker 1: casual way, not really thinking about what they are putting

2030
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 1: out there into the universe. We got a caller on

2031
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,679
Speaker 1: the line that had a question for Lorenzo, So let's

2032
01:46:55,720 --> 01:46:58,760
Speaker 1: go to Will in Nayack to see what he asks

2033
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: for Lorenzo. Will, you're on One Bill's Live with Lorenzo Alexander.

2034
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing good? Doing good? Good? First,

2035
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 1: real quick, Steve, my dad still wears your jersey every game.

2036
01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:11,880
Speaker 1: I brought him a new one for Christmas last year

2037
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:14,120
Speaker 1: and he refuses to wear and he will only wear yours.

2038
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:18,560
Speaker 1: For Lorenzo, I got a question for you. With the

2039
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:22,000
Speaker 1: Bills playing the Patriots coming up later on in the season,

2040
01:47:22,760 --> 01:47:24,800
Speaker 1: after we beat them once, do you think that if

2041
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 1: we lose to them this time, if we do that,

2042
01:47:27,240 --> 01:47:30,479
Speaker 1: it'll take us back you know, being the younger brother

2043
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 1: in the division. I feel like if the Bills wind

2044
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:36,880
Speaker 1: up losing this game by a few points, everyone's still

2045
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: gonna look at the Patriots as our big brother, and

2046
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:46,000
Speaker 1: we haven't technically dethrown them yet. Um, well, if you

2047
01:47:46,040 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 1: want a division, you have to throw them. It's not

2048
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:50,040
Speaker 1: about you know, whether you're split in the division or

2049
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 1: if you sweep them. It's always good to be able

2050
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,000
Speaker 1: to beat your division opponents, but the ultimate goal is

2051
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:56,240
Speaker 1: to win a division. So if they accomplished that goal

2052
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:59,920
Speaker 1: and happened to split with the Patriots, you've done your jobs.

2053
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 1: That out for for your goal. Because when when coaches

2054
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 1: sit down, they never they never say and you need

2055
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:08,760
Speaker 1: to sweep this team. It's always you need to win

2056
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:12,160
Speaker 1: your division, get a home playoff game, obviously make the

2057
01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 1: playoffs right, and then so you give yourself the best

2058
01:48:14,920 --> 01:48:18,120
Speaker 1: opportunity to win a championship. So I guess what that said.

2059
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:19,519
Speaker 1: You still want to be able to beat him because

2060
01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: you are a better team. Um, even though they always

2061
01:48:22,120 --> 01:48:24,640
Speaker 1: play well and show up and play sound football, you

2062
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:26,840
Speaker 1: should still dominate and beat the teams you should beat.

2063
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:28,720
Speaker 1: And I think that's oh, that's that's more of what

2064
01:48:28,840 --> 01:48:33,120
Speaker 1: it's about than dethrowing the Patriots and and no longer

2065
01:48:33,240 --> 01:48:36,559
Speaker 1: being their little brother. Yeah, if the if the Bills

2066
01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:39,479
Speaker 1: were to take these next five games, if they run

2067
01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:42,439
Speaker 1: the table, does that get Josh back in the in

2068
01:48:42,520 --> 01:48:49,080
Speaker 1: the conversation for MVP at A thirteen and three, you know,

2069
01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm buying, So I'm gonna say I would say yes.

2070
01:48:51,520 --> 01:48:54,720
Speaker 1: But I think because of just the market year in,

2071
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:57,320
Speaker 1: he's always going to probably be a distant third or fourth,

2072
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, behind guys like Pat Mahomes and Russ of

2073
01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:02,599
Speaker 1: Wilson and probably you know, more like a fourth because

2074
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: even you hear Derek every name being thrown into the

2075
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: mix with those guys now based on what he's been

2076
01:49:07,280 --> 01:49:10,280
Speaker 1: able to do. So I think it's great. I think

2077
01:49:10,320 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: people are always gonna, you know, obviously the way he

2078
01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:14,519
Speaker 1: started to see and if he gets finished strong the

2079
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: way he started, his name will be mentioned. But I

2080
01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:19,519
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be like a real like he

2081
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:22,800
Speaker 1: has a real chance of winning of it quite yet,

2082
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: because I think there's still a lot of people who

2083
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:26,439
Speaker 1: aren't quite believers of what he's been able to do

2084
01:49:27,439 --> 01:49:29,880
Speaker 1: this quickly in his career, based on where he started Yeah.

2085
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,720
Speaker 1: We were kicking it around on the show yesterday, Zough

2086
01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:35,280
Speaker 1: and we were saying, well, four of those last five

2087
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:38,080
Speaker 1: games are in prime time, so he shows out and

2088
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:42,400
Speaker 1: has a couple of big performances and they run the table. Well,

2089
01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:44,680
Speaker 1: then yeah, maybe he could get back in the conversation.

2090
01:49:44,720 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: You know, all those eyeballs on you, right, it helps,

2091
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:50,720
Speaker 1: But I still think just because you know, just the

2092
01:49:50,800 --> 01:49:53,560
Speaker 1: national perception Buffalo Josh and where he started, and just

2093
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:55,360
Speaker 1: some people don't want to be able believe it, I

2094
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:56,880
Speaker 1: think that's going to be more of a thing, even

2095
01:49:56,960 --> 01:50:00,559
Speaker 1: because he's shown up on big, big stages, the shows

2096
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 1: out there, So I think he's going to do it.

2097
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 1: But I think just because of the other names and

2098
01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 1: who's in front of him, that he won't have a

2099
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:10,640
Speaker 1: real chance of winning. And even though he will be

2100
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, kind of talked about on the outskirts of possibilities,

2101
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: the last one I had for you, and I'll give

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01:50:17,160 --> 01:50:19,640
Speaker 1: you a chance to pump your teammates tires here. But

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01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:22,639
Speaker 1: the defense the last couple of weeks has really turned

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01:50:22,680 --> 01:50:25,280
Speaker 1: it up. What do you think has been the biggest

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01:50:25,400 --> 01:50:32,800
Speaker 1: difference for their improved performance these last few outings, well,

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Speaker 1: especially last week. I mean, I just really love the

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01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: defensive line play. It really seemed like they're playing on

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01:50:37,240 --> 01:50:39,600
Speaker 1: the other side of the line of scrimmage being penetrated.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ed Oliver really came alive last week. You know,

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01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:47,680
Speaker 1: Butler Zimmer flying around aj Splanessa has made a couple

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01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 1: of big plays, you know, against his own read. You

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Speaker 1: see him starting to flash you really understand his role

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01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 1: as well. And then obviously AJ's really stepped up taking

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01:50:56,240 --> 01:50:58,599
Speaker 1: his game to another level. He had like fourteen tackles,

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01:50:59,120 --> 01:51:01,559
Speaker 1: a sack and a half out and so he's really

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01:51:01,720 --> 01:51:04,599
Speaker 1: starting to find his groove within this defense and his role.

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01:51:05,160 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: And so it's gonna be interesting to see how when

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01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 1: Matt Malanna comes back and how they continue to work

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01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:11,519
Speaker 1: together and continue to allow him to do He's what

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01:51:11,600 --> 01:51:14,599
Speaker 1: he's accomplished over these last couple of games, as well

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01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:17,519
Speaker 1: as getting Matt back involved. But overall, they've they've done

2122
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 1: a really good job. And then last week also they

2123
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:22,880
Speaker 1: didn't give up any really big explosion plays outside of

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01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:25,200
Speaker 1: and I actually can't watch the entire games. I had

2125
01:51:25,240 --> 01:51:27,840
Speaker 1: to watch him back that hell merrit on the game

2126
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:30,920
Speaker 1: that they seem to catch again and don't over score right,

2127
01:51:30,960 --> 01:51:33,000
Speaker 1: So hopefully that hasn't become an issue. And it's like

2128
01:51:33,120 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 1: in our back of our minds, it is one of

2129
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:38,160
Speaker 1: those things that we can't stop for some reason, even

2130
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: though it's a very low percentage play. But they didn't

2131
01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:43,680
Speaker 1: give up, you know, for the game. They didn't give

2132
01:51:43,680 --> 01:51:46,040
Speaker 1: it really any big explosion plays down the field, which

2133
01:51:46,120 --> 01:51:48,840
Speaker 1: always buys good for this type of defense because that's

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01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: one of the core fundamental concepts that Sean preaches every

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01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:55,280
Speaker 1: single day. I'm gonna give you a little AMMO to

2136
01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:57,719
Speaker 1: use the next time you have to text Coach Frazier

2137
01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: because he's on the Monday conference call with media and

2138
01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:04,719
Speaker 1: somebody of course asks him about the second straight, second

2139
01:52:04,760 --> 01:52:08,439
Speaker 1: straight game giving up a hail Mary play and poor

2140
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:12,000
Speaker 1: coaches just looking into the camera and he's like, that's

2141
01:52:12,040 --> 01:52:14,720
Speaker 1: a head scratcher, and he was literally scratching his head

2142
01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 1: as he said it. And I was trying, I was

2143
01:52:17,200 --> 01:52:18,920
Speaker 1: trying to be nice and not to laugh, but just

2144
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:22,000
Speaker 1: seeing him scratch his head as he said it was

2145
01:52:22,080 --> 01:52:25,559
Speaker 1: just hilarious. That's one of his things. If you're ever

2146
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: watching he does that. He does that a lot. Ye

2147
01:52:27,640 --> 01:52:29,120
Speaker 1: something that he does does it it meet when he

2148
01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:32,040
Speaker 1: talks all the time. That's just one of his body

2149
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:35,320
Speaker 1: language movement. I just thought the timing was perfect. He's done,

2150
01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 1: he was because I think he's he's he's probably out

2151
01:52:39,120 --> 01:52:41,400
Speaker 1: of his tree trying to figure out how to fix

2152
01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:44,840
Speaker 1: that after seeing it happen in two straight games. So, Zoe,

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01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:48,320
Speaker 1: we appreciate the time, enjoy the enjoy the long weekend

2154
01:52:48,400 --> 01:52:51,120
Speaker 1: since we don't have a game until Monday, and we'll

2155
01:52:51,160 --> 01:52:54,479
Speaker 1: catch up with you next week. I appreciate you guys.

2156
01:52:54,520 --> 01:52:56,040
Speaker 1: You know, I might have a part in my house.

2157
01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:57,680
Speaker 1: Bill's mofe. If you want to come and check me out,

2158
01:52:57,720 --> 01:53:01,639
Speaker 1: you know, another GAMEZ. That's a tough commute. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

2159
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:06,599
Speaker 1: They couldn't stay away. Social distance, that's right. Social distance absolutely.

2160
01:53:07,160 --> 01:53:11,280
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander giving us the lowdown this week on the

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01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:14,120
Speaker 1: Bills Niners matchup. I thought he also had some good

2162
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:18,400
Speaker 1: answers too with respect to them. You know what the

2163
01:53:18,520 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: Steelers are grousing about right now? I mean, this guy's

2164
01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 1: popping off and frustrated, and yeah, like you said, we

2165
01:53:25,040 --> 01:53:28,599
Speaker 1: understand the frustration. But there it's like we hear these

2166
01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: coaches say all the time, control what you can control. Well,

2167
01:53:31,840 --> 01:53:36,000
Speaker 1: the virus is not It's something that nobody can control. Um,

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01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: even with the best of intentions, with mask wearing and

2169
01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,760
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, you're still got problems here, and

2170
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:47,000
Speaker 1: that that is the thing that is compromising the league's

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01:53:47,040 --> 01:53:50,400
Speaker 1: schedule more than anything else. It's so much easier when

2172
01:53:50,439 --> 01:53:52,400
Speaker 1: you're out here, like Lorenzo did it. I mean, he

2173
01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 1: just said listening. God. You know, it's crazy to think,

2174
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:58,679
Speaker 1: but you really get yourself into these emotional and mental

2175
01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:01,760
Speaker 1: places where you think they are absolutely deliberately doing it

2176
01:54:01,840 --> 01:54:04,559
Speaker 1: to you. You know, you can't get it. You can't

2177
01:54:04,560 --> 01:54:07,000
Speaker 1: get out of that mindset because it's so the game

2178
01:54:07,120 --> 01:54:11,160
Speaker 1: is so hard, the preparations so hard. Everybody seems like

2179
01:54:11,240 --> 01:54:14,040
Speaker 1: they're against you. And when things are rolling and they

2180
01:54:14,120 --> 01:54:16,320
Speaker 1: keep bouncing against you, and that and that, the game

2181
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:18,200
Speaker 1: is delayed and then it's canceled and it's back on.

2182
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:20,080
Speaker 1: Then it's a different opponent and it's back on. Then

2183
01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:23,040
Speaker 1: it's delayed again, and then you're gonna travel and play.

2184
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:29,880
Speaker 1: It's easy. It's easy to conjure up some big, dark

2185
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:33,880
Speaker 1: conspiracy against your team and it's just not true. And

2186
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:36,160
Speaker 1: I think the other part of it is there's a

2187
01:54:36,200 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: lot of people that are experiencing pandemic fatigue, like just

2188
01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm done with it all though, Well, I think we're

2189
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:46,240
Speaker 1: all there to some degree, right, but some evidently some

2190
01:54:46,480 --> 01:54:49,680
Speaker 1: evidently more than others. Um they react to those the

2191
01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:52,600
Speaker 1: act react to that fatigue in a different manner. Yeah, right,

2192
01:54:53,000 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: no question. And you know now with the with the

2193
01:54:55,440 --> 01:54:58,560
Speaker 1: colder weather months coming in for everybody north in the

2194
01:54:58,600 --> 01:55:02,880
Speaker 1: Mason Dixon Line, you know there are you're locked inside

2195
01:55:02,920 --> 01:55:05,320
Speaker 1: with You're like, yeah, you're you're confined even with the

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01:55:05,440 --> 01:55:08,680
Speaker 1: same people you were last time it was cold. That's right,

2197
01:55:09,480 --> 01:55:12,720
Speaker 1: that's right, All right, break time for us. When we return,

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01:55:13,200 --> 01:55:17,160
Speaker 1: we will get another assessment of the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers as its team reporter time. Maddie Glab will

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01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:22,480
Speaker 1: speak with the forty nine ers team reporter when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Line presented by Kalida Health.

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01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:43,000
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio with Brows Fat Chaster One Bills Live.

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01:55:43,120 --> 01:55:46,440
Speaker 1: Time Now for our team reporters segment, here is Maddie

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01:55:46,440 --> 01:55:50,640
Speaker 1: Glab with Keana Martin. Keianna, thanks for taking the time

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01:55:50,720 --> 01:55:52,680
Speaker 1: to be with us today and all the forty nine ers.

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01:55:52,720 --> 01:55:55,560
Speaker 1: They're five and six heading into week thirteen here and

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01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:58,400
Speaker 1: five and six. You know, it's not like you're having

2208
01:55:58,440 --> 01:56:01,680
Speaker 1: an amazing season, but I think with what this team

2209
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: has been able to work with player wise, I think

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01:56:04,680 --> 01:56:07,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible that this team has just been able

2211
01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 1: to field a roster through week thirteen. You look at

2212
01:56:11,120 --> 01:56:13,320
Speaker 1: some of the injuries that have happened, some of the

2213
01:56:13,400 --> 01:56:16,240
Speaker 1: guys out for the season. The current IR, I think

2214
01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:19,080
Speaker 1: it's up to fifteen. I'm sure throughout the season it's

2215
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 1: been in the twenties with guys who are on off.

2216
01:56:21,360 --> 01:56:24,680
Speaker 1: Big name players like Jimmy Garoppolo and George Kittle are

2217
01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:28,080
Speaker 1: on the IR. So with all those names, with the

2218
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:30,520
Speaker 1: amount of people who have been injured this season, for

2219
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 1: you guys, what is the the most impressive part in

2220
01:56:33,520 --> 01:56:36,040
Speaker 1: your eyes about how this team has been able to

2221
01:56:36,240 --> 01:56:40,200
Speaker 1: do it? You said it perfectly. You look at these

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01:56:40,280 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: injuries at the forty nine ers have dealt with literally

2223
01:56:42,920 --> 01:56:46,960
Speaker 1: since the season opener, but still managing to stay afloat

2224
01:56:47,040 --> 01:56:50,120
Speaker 1: at five and six. I think it's a huge kudos

2225
01:56:50,160 --> 01:56:52,440
Speaker 1: and a huge credit not just to the forty nine

2226
01:56:52,480 --> 01:56:55,160
Speaker 1: or scouting department, but also a general manager, John Lynch,

2227
01:56:55,440 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: being able to scout some of that backup talent to

2228
01:56:58,600 --> 01:57:00,960
Speaker 1: be able to fill this ross, and a word that

2229
01:57:01,040 --> 01:57:03,640
Speaker 1: can be used to define some of this talent is

2230
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:07,160
Speaker 1: quality talent, having guys that are able to step up

2231
01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:10,480
Speaker 1: and fill these starting roles that they didn't necessarily believe

2232
01:57:11,040 --> 01:57:13,360
Speaker 1: that they will be filling at this point in the year.

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01:57:13,720 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: But it's obviously been a strange year for the forty Niners.

2234
01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: You're right, They've had the most guys on ir this

2235
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:24,520
Speaker 1: entire season than any team in the NFL, but somehow

2236
01:57:24,720 --> 01:57:27,240
Speaker 1: still managing to stay afloat. So again, it's a huge

2237
01:57:27,360 --> 01:57:30,360
Speaker 1: kudos to the forty Niners scouting team being able to

2238
01:57:30,440 --> 01:57:33,440
Speaker 1: bring in those guys to help this team keep churning.

2239
01:57:34,160 --> 01:57:36,720
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys who have probably not thought they would

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01:57:36,720 --> 01:57:39,480
Speaker 1: play the role they would play this year, Nick Mullins

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01:57:40,000 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 1: is the quarterback right now for the forty Niners. He

2242
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:45,240
Speaker 1: had a pretty good game against the Rams. The forty

2243
01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:47,360
Speaker 1: nine Ers had a big win against the Rams twenty

2244
01:57:47,440 --> 01:57:50,040
Speaker 1: three to twenty. Robbie Gold came in clutch with a

2245
01:57:50,120 --> 01:57:52,840
Speaker 1: game winner in the fourth quarter and also hit a

2246
01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:55,120
Speaker 1: field goal to tie the game in the fourth quarter.

2247
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:57,920
Speaker 1: Nick Mollins was twenty four to thirty five, two hundred

2248
01:57:57,920 --> 01:58:00,640
Speaker 1: and fifty two yards. He did throw an intercept, but

2249
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:03,240
Speaker 1: his stats looked a lot better than they have been

2250
01:58:03,400 --> 01:58:05,680
Speaker 1: as a Blade. So I guess what did you see

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01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:07,600
Speaker 1: from the forty nine Ers in that game that you

2252
01:58:07,720 --> 01:58:12,040
Speaker 1: haven't maybe seen yet this season. I think fight is

2253
01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:14,920
Speaker 1: the perfect word to define what we saw in that

2254
01:58:15,040 --> 01:58:17,960
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers team just a week ago, in Week

2255
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:21,480
Speaker 1: twelve against the Rams. You're coming in shorthanded. That's been

2256
01:58:21,560 --> 01:58:25,400
Speaker 1: the storyline this entire season. You're without your starting tight end,

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01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 1: you're without your starting quarterback, and we can go down

2258
01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 1: the roster. Every single position group on this roster at

2259
01:58:31,640 --> 01:58:34,320
Speaker 1: some point has been hit. But this team still has

2260
01:58:34,360 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 1: continued to rally together and should get that win, especially

2261
01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:41,480
Speaker 1: against the Rams. But looking at a guy like Nick Mullins,

2262
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:43,720
Speaker 1: as the season goes on, you can tell he's getting

2263
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:46,640
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable in the offense. He's now in

2264
01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:49,640
Speaker 1: his fourth season, so there's no excuses. You should know

2265
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:51,960
Speaker 1: this playbook like the back of your hand. But you're

2266
01:58:52,080 --> 01:58:54,280
Speaker 1: going through this carousel of players that are in and

2267
01:58:54,400 --> 01:58:56,920
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. But still with that, this forty

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01:58:57,000 --> 01:59:00,400
Speaker 1: nine Ers team is somehow keeping it together and energy

2269
01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:03,360
Speaker 1: to stay again, like we just said managing to stay

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01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:06,840
Speaker 1: afloat as this season progresses. So if anything surprised me

2271
01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,440
Speaker 1: about this team or what I learned most coming out

2272
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:11,680
Speaker 1: of that win, and it's just the fight of the

2273
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:14,080
Speaker 1: guys in that locker room. And I think one of

2274
01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 1: the themes of that game was also getting some of

2275
01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:20,080
Speaker 1: those key players back. You look at Raheem Mostered, you

2276
01:59:20,080 --> 01:59:23,080
Speaker 1: look at Deebo Samuel and Richard Sherman. Getting guys like

2277
01:59:23,240 --> 01:59:25,680
Speaker 1: that definitely is a boost for the forty nine ers

2278
01:59:25,720 --> 01:59:28,480
Speaker 1: locker room. It was very evident on Sunday. Yeah, those

2279
01:59:28,520 --> 01:59:30,960
Speaker 1: are three big games in the league and for the

2280
01:59:31,040 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Diebo Samuel had a great game against

2281
01:59:33,880 --> 01:59:36,720
Speaker 1: Rams one hundred and thirty three receiving yards. I would

2282
01:59:36,760 --> 01:59:38,680
Speaker 1: expect he's going to try to do much of the

2283
01:59:38,840 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 1: same against the Bills. Hopefully our guys can lock them down,

2284
01:59:42,400 --> 01:59:44,920
Speaker 1: but that remains to be seen. Speaking of the forty

2285
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:48,960
Speaker 1: nine Ers offense, how has this identity changed with the offense?

2286
01:59:49,040 --> 01:59:51,120
Speaker 1: How have they changed as a whole? How are they

2287
01:59:51,200 --> 01:59:55,120
Speaker 1: being called differently without Jimmy Garoppolo and one of the best,

2288
01:59:55,240 --> 01:59:57,200
Speaker 1: if not the best tight end in the league in

2289
01:59:57,280 --> 02:00:00,800
Speaker 1: George Kittle. Yeah, identity is a word, and that was

2290
02:00:00,840 --> 02:00:02,920
Speaker 1: a word that was kind of circling around this locker

2291
02:00:03,040 --> 02:00:06,200
Speaker 1: room earlier in the season. What is this forty nine

2292
02:00:06,280 --> 02:00:09,520
Speaker 1: ers identity? You're missing a number of key players and

2293
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:12,000
Speaker 1: I feel like they're still trying to figure that out.

2294
02:00:12,440 --> 02:00:14,760
Speaker 1: But one thing that we've noticed is that having a

2295
02:00:14,920 --> 02:00:18,560
Speaker 1: guy like Raheem Moosted in the offense, you just see

2296
02:00:18,600 --> 02:00:21,000
Speaker 1: an uptick and play. You look at the forty Niners

2297
02:00:21,040 --> 02:00:23,280
Speaker 1: production with him in and out, there were three straight

2298
02:00:23,320 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 1: games where the forty nine Ers couldn't amass over fifty

2299
02:00:25,720 --> 02:00:28,480
Speaker 1: five yards on the ground. You put Raheem Moosted in

2300
02:00:28,600 --> 02:00:32,600
Speaker 1: the lineup and that drastically changes. Same goals For Deebo Samuel,

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02:00:32,800 --> 02:00:35,120
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan said, he's not a guy that gives a

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02:00:35,200 --> 02:00:37,240
Speaker 1: lot of compliments. If you try to get him to

2303
02:00:37,280 --> 02:00:40,840
Speaker 1: give a guy really really tough, but he just cut it.

2304
02:00:41,120 --> 02:00:44,200
Speaker 1: He had to give in last week having people Samuel

2305
02:00:44,240 --> 02:00:45,880
Speaker 1: out there and he's just like, this kid is good.

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02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:47,440
Speaker 1: He's like he still has a lot to work on.

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02:00:47,720 --> 02:00:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give him all the credit, but

2308
02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:52,520
Speaker 1: just even when Deebo Samuel's out there in practice and

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02:00:52,600 --> 02:00:54,840
Speaker 1: you just see an uptick and energy of all of

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02:00:54,880 --> 02:00:56,680
Speaker 1: the guys on the field, and you also see that

2311
02:00:56,920 --> 02:00:58,680
Speaker 1: in the game what he's able to do. You just

2312
02:00:58,840 --> 02:01:01,080
Speaker 1: gave his stats on than thirty three yards, I was

2313
02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:03,680
Speaker 1: a season high for him. So just having key pieces

2314
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:06,280
Speaker 1: like that being able to step up and also be

2315
02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: healthy and available has certainly a benefit of the forty

2316
02:01:09,920 --> 02:01:12,480
Speaker 1: nine ers, especially in the second half of the season. Yeah,

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02:01:12,600 --> 02:01:15,680
Speaker 1: having guys like that healthy, it seems like the forty

2318
02:01:15,760 --> 02:01:17,000
Speaker 1: nine ers are gonna have a lot more of a

2319
02:01:17,080 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 1: balanced attack maybe than I have had in previous weeks.

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02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:22,080
Speaker 1: I think you guys got that back a little bit

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Speaker 1: more in week twelve with Raheem most Dirt being back in.

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02:01:25,200 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel Brandon IUK will probably play for you guys

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Speaker 1: on Monday, So yeah, it'll be It's not going to

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02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 1: be cake walk for the Bills. It's not going to

2325
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Speaker 1: be a cake walk for the San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers either. I expect this to be a pretty competitive

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02:01:39,880 --> 02:01:42,840
Speaker 1: game between the two teams here, regardless of what the

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02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:45,440
Speaker 1: record is. We hear the players say so many times

2329
02:01:45,600 --> 02:01:48,160
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. It's hard to win in this league,

2330
02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:51,360
Speaker 1: in any game, no matter how many players are injured

2331
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:54,680
Speaker 1: or not. But let's talk about the forty nine ers defense.

2332
02:01:54,840 --> 02:01:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, through this all they have seemed to be

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02:01:57,360 --> 02:02:00,600
Speaker 1: the rock and they've remained strong even through a bevy

2334
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:03,520
Speaker 1: of injuries on that side. You know, two more players

2335
02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:06,160
Speaker 1: were added to the I R two corners this week.

2336
02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:09,120
Speaker 1: But you look at the defense and statistics and you

2337
02:02:09,240 --> 02:02:12,720
Speaker 1: guys are ranked eleventh allowing only twenty three points per game.

2338
02:02:12,760 --> 02:02:15,760
Speaker 1: You have the fourth best passing defense in the league,

2339
02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:18,800
Speaker 1: allowing just over two hundred passing yards a game. So

2340
02:02:19,280 --> 02:02:22,320
Speaker 1: how has the defense been able to be that strong

2341
02:02:22,760 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 1: through this season? This is gonna go back to my

2342
02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:27,640
Speaker 1: very first answer, and it's not to sound like a

2343
02:02:27,720 --> 02:02:30,600
Speaker 1: broken record, but it's just can not be overstated. And

2344
02:02:30,760 --> 02:02:33,040
Speaker 1: that goes to it's one of two things. So it's

2345
02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:35,400
Speaker 1: both of these things. One is the depth. It's the

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02:02:35,480 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: forty nine is able to have that quality and positions,

2347
02:02:38,840 --> 02:02:41,840
Speaker 1: which has really been relied on quite often this year.

2348
02:02:42,120 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 1: And then number two, I've got to give credit to

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers defensive coordinator Robert Salim. I mean, I

2350
02:02:47,320 --> 02:02:50,240
Speaker 1: knew you were gonna say that being able to do

2351
02:02:50,440 --> 02:02:53,520
Speaker 1: what he's done being shorthanded, you don't have your nick boss,

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02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:56,800
Speaker 1: your d Fords, a number of players, you're without Richard

2353
02:02:56,840 --> 02:02:59,760
Speaker 1: Sherman for nine weeks of the season. You get guys

2354
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,680
Speaker 1: like Jason Varette stepping up looking kind of reminiscent of

2355
02:03:02,760 --> 02:03:05,840
Speaker 1: his twenty fifteen Pro Bowls. So him coming in, and

2356
02:03:05,920 --> 02:03:08,520
Speaker 1: we know his name has been floating around this head

2357
02:03:08,600 --> 02:03:11,600
Speaker 1: coaching ranks or whatever might be coming up in the

2358
02:03:11,760 --> 02:03:16,280
Speaker 1: next few weeks. But a lot of credit is rightfully

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02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:19,280
Speaker 1: deserved to Robert sala forty nine ers defense sitting in

2360
02:03:19,440 --> 02:03:22,160
Speaker 1: about the top ten and a number of categories of

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02:03:22,240 --> 02:03:27,280
Speaker 1: spiping without several key players, so depth and Robert Sala,

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02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:29,920
Speaker 1: I think deserve a lot of credit of this defense

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02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:34,320
Speaker 1: continuing to play at a high level. Yeah, Robert sala

2364
02:03:34,680 --> 02:03:38,040
Speaker 1: is one of those coordinators that's well known amongst the league.

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02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:40,520
Speaker 1: And when you look at both of the teams and

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02:03:40,680 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan coming in at the same time as Sean

2367
02:03:43,640 --> 02:03:46,160
Speaker 1: McDermott came in with the Bills, I mean behind them

2368
02:03:46,520 --> 02:03:49,520
Speaker 1: are some awesome coordinators. And that's a big part of

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02:03:49,560 --> 02:03:51,720
Speaker 1: how the Bills have been able to be so good

2370
02:03:51,880 --> 02:03:55,440
Speaker 1: is because of their defensive coordinator offensive coordinator. Much of

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02:03:55,480 --> 02:03:57,440
Speaker 1: the same for the forty nine ers and kind of

2372
02:03:57,480 --> 02:04:00,760
Speaker 1: how the programs the organizations have been put together. It

2373
02:04:00,880 --> 02:04:03,480
Speaker 1: seems like there's a lot of similarities between the two.

2374
02:04:03,920 --> 02:04:06,960
Speaker 1: But we've talked about the big names. We've talked about

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02:04:07,240 --> 02:04:11,440
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins having a better game last week, Deebo being back,

2376
02:04:11,680 --> 02:04:14,360
Speaker 1: Brandon au being backs for this game where he most

2377
02:04:14,400 --> 02:04:16,480
Speaker 1: dirt back in. Who are some of the under the

2378
02:04:16,680 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: radar players that Bill's fans and Bill's players need to

2379
02:04:20,360 --> 02:04:24,040
Speaker 1: look out for come Monday night. Give us the tea here,

2380
02:04:24,440 --> 02:04:26,120
Speaker 1: all right, Gonna give you guys a little bit of

2381
02:04:26,160 --> 02:04:27,840
Speaker 1: the tea. Don't hold this against me, don't use it

2382
02:04:27,880 --> 02:04:30,240
Speaker 1: against us either, all right. So one of the names

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02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:32,920
Speaker 1: that I think is very important and that does not

2384
02:04:33,120 --> 02:04:37,320
Speaker 1: get nearly enough credit then he deserves, and that's defensive

2385
02:04:37,360 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: lineman Carry Hyder Jr. He came from the Dallas Cowboys

2386
02:04:41,560 --> 02:04:44,600
Speaker 1: last season. They grabbed him this offseason, and he is.

2387
02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:47,560
Speaker 1: He currently leads the team with thirty nine quarterback pressures,

2388
02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:49,440
Speaker 1: leads the team with seven and a half sacks. He

2389
02:04:49,640 --> 02:04:52,000
Speaker 1: is when I talk about depth, he's the name that

2390
02:04:52,120 --> 02:04:54,120
Speaker 1: comes to mind. I got a chance to talk to

2391
02:04:54,320 --> 02:04:56,080
Speaker 1: him a little earlier in the season, and I talked

2392
02:04:56,120 --> 02:04:58,960
Speaker 1: about him coming into the forty nine ers organization. He

2393
02:04:59,040 --> 02:05:01,480
Speaker 1: didn't expect to be a starter, and he was fine

2394
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:04,080
Speaker 1: with that. He said, when he signed with this team,

2395
02:05:04,120 --> 02:05:06,920
Speaker 1: he saw who the forty nine ers had and he said, Okay,

2396
02:05:07,000 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm good playing behind these guys. And now

2397
02:05:10,680 --> 02:05:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, after two weeks into the season, you're without

2398
02:05:13,440 --> 02:05:17,120
Speaker 1: your Nick bo So your deft Eric Armstead, he's still there.

2399
02:05:17,400 --> 02:05:20,640
Speaker 1: You have Javon Kinlaw, but there's no Solomon Thomas also.

2400
02:05:20,960 --> 02:05:24,240
Speaker 1: So he's stepping up without so many of the forty

2401
02:05:24,320 --> 02:05:26,680
Speaker 1: nine ers key players and being able to play at

2402
02:05:26,760 --> 02:05:31,600
Speaker 1: a very high level. He cannot be you know, he

2403
02:05:31,680 --> 02:05:34,440
Speaker 1: can't be overstated. What Kerry Hider has brought to the defense.

2404
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:37,360
Speaker 1: In another name, well, I feel like Bills fans might

2405
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:40,480
Speaker 1: know him, but that's Fred Warner, forty nine middle linebacker

2406
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:44,160
Speaker 1: who they have the campaign going all pro Fred is

2407
02:05:44,240 --> 02:05:47,000
Speaker 1: what his teammates call him. He's having a fantastic third

2408
02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: year in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers actually spoke to him

2409
02:05:50,720 --> 02:05:53,320
Speaker 1: after the game. Fred Warner was miked up and he said,

2410
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:55,960
Speaker 1: you know what, the field, the film doesn't lie. You

2411
02:05:56,040 --> 02:05:58,560
Speaker 1: are one of the best linebackers in the game of football,

2412
02:05:58,600 --> 02:06:00,760
Speaker 1: and to get that type of prey from a future

2413
02:06:00,800 --> 02:06:04,560
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer certainly means a lot. So those are

2414
02:06:04,560 --> 02:06:07,280
Speaker 1: two names that I would say Bills fans might want

2415
02:06:07,320 --> 02:06:09,920
Speaker 1: to look out for on defense. And then you name

2416
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:13,280
Speaker 1: some of the others, Deebo, Samuel Brandon, having both of

2417
02:06:13,320 --> 02:06:16,560
Speaker 1: them on the field together, Kyle Shanahan loves make having

2418
02:06:16,640 --> 02:06:18,600
Speaker 1: some of us um, let's see, what do we call

2419
02:06:18,640 --> 02:06:21,800
Speaker 1: it his wizardry, And two of those guys certainly are

2420
02:06:21,880 --> 02:06:25,440
Speaker 1: involved in what Kyle Shanahan likes to do on offense. Yeah,

2421
02:06:25,480 --> 02:06:27,640
Speaker 1: when I was looking up stacks and just players for

2422
02:06:27,760 --> 02:06:30,360
Speaker 1: this game, trying to figure out, Okay, the forty nine

2423
02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:32,240
Speaker 1: ers have so many injuries, who are the guys that

2424
02:06:32,320 --> 02:06:35,040
Speaker 1: are making plays? I looked up Karrie Hider. I'm like, hmm,

2425
02:06:35,440 --> 02:06:38,120
Speaker 1: he's like tied for ninth in the league in sacks

2426
02:06:38,240 --> 02:06:40,600
Speaker 1: right now, A name that I wasn't expecting to see

2427
02:06:40,960 --> 02:06:43,400
Speaker 1: way up there in the stat sheet for the forty

2428
02:06:43,480 --> 02:06:46,160
Speaker 1: nine Ers and the NFL as a whole. But Keana,

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02:06:46,280 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 1: thanks for letting us know a little bit more about

2430
02:06:48,480 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. I'm sure everybody who's listening, whether

2431
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:53,040
Speaker 1: it's there in their living room or in their car.

2432
02:06:53,480 --> 02:06:55,560
Speaker 1: They're doing all the game planning now that they need

2433
02:06:55,640 --> 02:06:57,680
Speaker 1: to be doing in order to be able to call

2434
02:06:57,760 --> 02:07:00,800
Speaker 1: this offense and defense for the Bills from their living

2435
02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:05,280
Speaker 1: room on Monday nights. So appreciate the time, appreciate the insights.

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02:07:05,560 --> 02:07:09,240
Speaker 1: It'll be a good matchup on Monday night. Yeah, can't wait.

2437
02:07:09,400 --> 02:07:14,560
Speaker 1: And for all that's traveling safe travels to Arizona. Yeah, seriously,

2438
02:07:16,240 --> 02:07:19,240
Speaker 1: it'll be a weird one in that you guys are

2439
02:07:19,360 --> 02:07:21,400
Speaker 1: not going to be playing at home. We were, of

2440
02:07:21,520 --> 02:07:24,920
Speaker 1: course expecting to go out to Santa Clara to play

2441
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:27,440
Speaker 1: the game, but yet the Bills are headed back to

2442
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:31,360
Speaker 1: State Farm Stadium for the second straight away game Kiana

2443
02:07:31,520 --> 02:07:36,160
Speaker 1: where they lost in a hail murray is what everybody's

2444
02:07:36,200 --> 02:07:39,320
Speaker 1: calling it. So hopefully they can just exercise those demons

2445
02:07:39,360 --> 02:07:41,720
Speaker 1: and the same thing can't happen. I know, and you're

2446
02:07:41,760 --> 02:07:46,760
Speaker 1: probably wishing otherwise, So Sean McDermott said it best. You know,

2447
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:49,120
Speaker 1: each game is different. You can't go into one game

2448
02:07:49,240 --> 02:07:51,120
Speaker 1: of looking at what happened in the past. So it's

2449
02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:54,080
Speaker 1: a brand new week Bills fans, and I am excited

2450
02:07:54,120 --> 02:07:57,360
Speaker 1: for a really, really good game. So true. Thanks Kianna,

2451
02:07:57,920 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: You're welcome. All right. That's Maddie Glab with Keana Martin

2452
02:08:02,800 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers beat reporter and uh Steve. While

2453
02:08:07,720 --> 02:08:10,040
Speaker 1: that was going on, some other news came down, this

2454
02:08:10,160 --> 02:08:14,160
Speaker 1: one concerning the UB game that we have since learned

2455
02:08:14,240 --> 02:08:17,240
Speaker 1: has been postponed due to COVID positive tests with the

2456
02:08:17,360 --> 02:08:21,360
Speaker 1: OU football team. According to Pete Thammel of Yahoo Sports,

2457
02:08:22,920 --> 02:08:27,400
Speaker 1: the Bulls are halfway into their drive to Athens, Ohio

2458
02:08:27,600 --> 02:08:31,400
Speaker 1: for the game tomorrow, and Ohio University calls him on

2459
02:08:31,440 --> 02:08:34,000
Speaker 1: the phone and says, hey, the game's off. So the

2460
02:08:34,160 --> 02:08:37,640
Speaker 1: UB buses stopped at a rest stop on the ninety

2461
02:08:37,760 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: and Mentor, Ohio between Erie and Cleveland, and turned around

2462
02:08:42,280 --> 02:08:45,360
Speaker 1: and came back. All right, not happening this week. I

2463
02:08:45,360 --> 02:08:48,760
Speaker 1: guess we'll get ready for Acron next week. Afternoon drive. Guys,

2464
02:08:48,920 --> 02:08:51,520
Speaker 1: enjoy it. And that's a haul. I've done that drive.

2465
02:08:52,000 --> 02:08:54,320
Speaker 1: It's about seven almost eight hours because you're going to

2466
02:08:54,400 --> 02:08:58,800
Speaker 1: the bottom momentary. But yeah, but Athens is Athens is

2467
02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:03,240
Speaker 1: but minutes close to the West Virginia Bordo. Yeah, it's

2468
02:09:03,280 --> 02:09:06,400
Speaker 1: a haul. Yeah. They were probably two about two and

2469
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 1: a half hours down into their trip down a Mentor

2470
02:09:08,800 --> 02:09:11,400
Speaker 1: turn around to come on back. Yeah, and we've also

2471
02:09:11,600 --> 02:09:15,840
Speaker 1: learned that the Week thirteen game between the Steelers and

2472
02:09:15,920 --> 02:09:18,840
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, which as we know, was rescheduled

2473
02:09:18,880 --> 02:09:22,360
Speaker 1: to Monday afternoon after the Steelers Ravens game got pushed

2474
02:09:22,400 --> 02:09:24,920
Speaker 1: to Wednesday of this week, that is not going to

2475
02:09:25,040 --> 02:09:28,200
Speaker 1: air nationally on Fox. Even though it's going to be

2476
02:09:28,280 --> 02:09:31,440
Speaker 1: the only game on at five pm on Monday, It's

2477
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:35,120
Speaker 1: only going to air in select markets across the country.

2478
02:09:35,560 --> 02:09:38,840
Speaker 1: Everyone else would need the Sunday ticket to watch the game.

2479
02:09:39,240 --> 02:09:41,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know why that decision was made, but

2480
02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:45,760
Speaker 1: apparently that is the case for the Steelers game coming

2481
02:09:45,840 --> 02:09:49,360
Speaker 1: up on Monday at five. Well, that's okay because we're

2482
02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:51,160
Speaker 1: going to be busy anyway, I know, but I'd like

2483
02:09:51,240 --> 02:09:53,280
Speaker 1: to watch them before the Bills have to play them,

2484
02:09:53,320 --> 02:09:55,480
Speaker 1: don't we know. I hope we get that game. I don't.

2485
02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:58,560
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. When I I don't have the ticket anymore,

2486
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get it. I don't need never

2487
02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:03,080
Speaker 1: had it. I didn't because I'm usually working away exactly,

2488
02:10:03,160 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 1: we're doing stuff, so why spend the money. Um, I'm

2489
02:10:08,400 --> 02:10:10,560
Speaker 1: still not gonna go get it. I'm not for one game.

2490
02:10:12,040 --> 02:10:15,040
Speaker 1: You thought about it. You thought about it for I

2491
02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:17,800
Speaker 1: waited for a minute. Yes, but no, I okay, not

2492
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:20,200
Speaker 1: gonna do it, but I will might. Yeah. And here's

2493
02:10:20,240 --> 02:10:22,240
Speaker 1: the problem. Even I was thinking about this, even with

2494
02:10:22,280 --> 02:10:25,000
Speaker 1: the UB team getting turned around in Mentor, Ohio. Yeah.

2495
02:10:25,520 --> 02:10:27,560
Speaker 1: So it was a college kid. You think, hey, we

2496
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:28,960
Speaker 1: don't have a game this week. We had we get

2497
02:10:28,960 --> 02:10:31,080
Speaker 1: a day after. I'd be awesome, let's go. Then you

2498
02:10:31,200 --> 02:10:35,440
Speaker 1: remember you're driving back. It's the pandemic. You can't do anything. Yeah,

2499
02:10:36,320 --> 02:10:40,920
Speaker 1: it's like for our viewers wondering what games we get

2500
02:10:41,160 --> 02:10:45,240
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo this weekend in the Buffalo market, um,

2501
02:10:46,160 --> 02:10:49,040
Speaker 1: knowing that we don't have a Bills game. The early

2502
02:10:49,200 --> 02:10:52,440
Speaker 1: game on CBS will be the Browns at the Titans

2503
02:10:53,640 --> 02:10:56,080
Speaker 1: with Ian Eagle and Charles Davis on the call, and

2504
02:10:56,200 --> 02:11:00,160
Speaker 1: then the late CBS game will be the Patriots at

2505
02:11:00,200 --> 02:11:04,760
Speaker 1: the Chargers Kevin Harland and Trent Green. The Fox game

2506
02:11:05,680 --> 02:11:13,000
Speaker 1: is Giants Seattle, which is later. Washington at Pittsburgh is

2507
02:11:13,040 --> 02:11:15,960
Speaker 1: the other game on Monday at five. And it looks

2508
02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:17,640
Speaker 1: like we are going to get that game because I'm

2509
02:11:17,640 --> 02:11:19,920
Speaker 1: looking at it right now. It's only going to be

2510
02:11:19,960 --> 02:11:22,160
Speaker 1: in select markets. So yes, it looks like we will

2511
02:11:22,240 --> 02:11:24,680
Speaker 1: get that game, so we're all all is good. All

2512
02:11:24,840 --> 02:11:26,880
Speaker 1: is good. We have to take a break, but when

2513
02:11:26,920 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll find out what we have learned

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Speaker 1: from today's show. Coming up next here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: We Learned brought to you by Skyworks, an official construction

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Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. I think we learned, Steve,

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Speaker 1: not only today, but probably through the course of the week,

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Speaker 1: that this Niners team is going to be a gritty bunch,

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Speaker 1: and that while the Bills may have more talent on

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Speaker 1: the field because of the injury riddled nature of their roster,

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Speaker 1: this is far from a gimme, not only because it's

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Speaker 1: on the road, but just because the way they have

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Speaker 1: this gritty nature about them to grind out games like

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Speaker 1: we saw them do last week against LA I think

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Speaker 1: it's a bad matchup for Buffalo. Yeah, the running exploits.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a bad matchup makes me nervous. Man.

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Speaker 1: I think they got there. They're gonna be a little

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Speaker 1: bit rejuvenated with the two guys that on the outside

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Speaker 1: they're getting back in the in the lineup with Brandon

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Speaker 1: Aiyuk and Robert Mostard and Deebo. Samuel's um, it's a

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Speaker 1: bad matchup and it does scare me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Their defensive backfield's playing really well and we don't have

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Speaker 1: John Brown. So I'm yeah, this is a game that

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Speaker 1: really really is a measuring I think it's a measuring

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Speaker 1: stick for the Bills. How good are they? Yeah? And

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Speaker 1: you know, the line of scrimmage is an area where

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Speaker 1: this Niners team has invested heavily. When the Bills haven't

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Speaker 1: played well and early the defensively they had trouble holding

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage better. Now they are doing better.

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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna have to continue that. If you if

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Speaker 1: you really think that the Bills got their run defense

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Speaker 1: and their run game back on track after the bye week,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be the true test because this

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Speaker 1: team can run the ball in a forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: They can run it and they bring a lot of

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Speaker 1: bodies to the mix doing it. The problem is not

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Speaker 1: only do they run it out of with a fullback

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Speaker 1: and a tight end, they throw it a bunch out

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Speaker 1: of that personnel formation. So you got to do two

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Speaker 1: things at once and that's I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: Bills have shown that they can do that consistently. Bill's

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Speaker 1: defense is trending up, so you hope that trend continues.

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Speaker 1: And as you know, the Monday afternoon game at five

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Speaker 1: will feature the Steelers and that should be on in

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Speaker 1: our area. Although Steve and I will be doing some

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Speaker 1: pregame radio at six on Monday evening, be sure to

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Speaker 1: come back here on Monday, yeah, because we're going to

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Speaker 1: be an extended pregame show starting at noon, and we've

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Speaker 1: got great guests for you as well, including the radio

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Speaker 1: play by play voice than forty nine Ers, Greg Papa,

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Speaker 1: and then Brian Greasy from ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcasting crew.

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Speaker 1: He will join us on the show on Monday as well,

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Speaker 1: So plenty to get to on Monday. Be sure you

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Speaker 1: come back and join us. Then, Steve Tasker, I'm Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: This has been one Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: Have a good weekend, everybody,