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Speaker 1: All right, here we are on a Tuesday. Chris Brownson

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Speaker 1: past her with you in two different places today, but

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Speaker 1: on the air nonetheless, as we are gonna try to

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Speaker 1: turn the page today a little bit, Steve as Monday

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Speaker 1: was a difficult one for a lot of Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: do you tell me what you think last night's Monday

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Speaker 1: Night game was something that I thought kind of served

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Speaker 1: notice that really no one is able to escape the

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Speaker 1: law of averages in the NFL. The Eagles, who were

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Speaker 1: like a plus fifteen in the turnover margin at three

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Speaker 1: turnovers all season long in their first day games, had

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Speaker 1: four last night as they were upset by their division

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Speaker 1: rival Washington Commanders. Yeah, I mean that whenever these teams

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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna see in the post game is

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Speaker 1: something and as a reference to turnovers, because that's the

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Speaker 1: way it always happens you take away points from yourself

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Speaker 1: or the opportunity to get points from your self. The

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Speaker 1: Bills did that twice, you know, the other day. And

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Speaker 1: you give your opponent a chance to score at least

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Speaker 1: make you drive the length of the field to go

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Speaker 1: ahead and score, and it's just you know, it's adding

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Speaker 1: to your opponent's scoreboard and taking it away from your

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Speaker 1: own virtually. So yeah, and the Eagles found it out

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Speaker 1: last night. And every team looks beatable when they turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over, every team does. And you know the

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Speaker 1: Bills found that out this last week. And you know

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Speaker 1: the Vikings know it as well. I mean they could

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Speaker 1: out on the right into that game. So it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it is the statistic other than the scoreboard that'll give

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Speaker 1: you an idea of who's winning games. And venture me

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Speaker 1: this Steve. At the beginning of the year, if somebody

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Speaker 1: asked you your level of confidence that all four teams

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Speaker 1: a f C East would be at five hundred or

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Speaker 1: better at the midway pointed at the season, what odds

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Speaker 1: would you have laid on that you get that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Washington got to five and five last night, and New

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Speaker 1: England's five and four. They're the fourth placed teams in

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Speaker 1: the division. Unbelievable, that's unbelievable. Philly, New York, Dallas, and

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Speaker 1: Washington all at five hundred or better, and of course

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Speaker 1: the AFC East also at five hundred or better. Noah, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't remember any two divisions being

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Speaker 1: in that spot. There's always somebody who stinks in a division, right,

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Speaker 1: impression that at best, the NFC East was going to

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Speaker 1: be a two horse race between Dallas and Philly, you know.

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Speaker 1: In the AFC East, you know, while Miami was probably

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Speaker 1: going to gain some ground on Buffalo this year, they

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Speaker 1: certainly were in in Buffalo's class. And yet here right now,

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Speaker 1: as it stands, if the season ended today, seven of

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Speaker 1: those eight teams would be in the in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and Washington's only a half game out. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: it ever happening that one division like the East AFC

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Speaker 1: like they could. It's not gonna happen because I knock

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Speaker 1: each other there's the Bills have four division games, and

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Speaker 1: the other teams in the division also have a ton

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Speaker 1: of those division games too, so they're all gonna get

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Speaker 1: have fun. And even in the morning, they got Howard

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Speaker 1: The Giants are seven and two. The Giants, yeah, help

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Speaker 1: somebody play in the last place, edule, But they've certainly

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Speaker 1: You lose close games all of a sudden, You're like

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Speaker 1: I mean so entertaining. Brian Daboll strolls into a giant's

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Speaker 1: some bills injury news because head coach Sea McDermott spoke

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Speaker 1: the Washington pass rusher Steve and he's a guy who

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Speaker 1: gonna throw the If you want to run the ball

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Speaker 1: instead of throwing it in the NFL, you're gonna lose

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Speaker 1: every game, every single game. I get it. It makes

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Speaker 1: everybody change. It makes everybody feel warm and cozy when

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Speaker 1: they can run the ball at will and they don't

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Speaker 1: have to do anything else, and you feel all superior.

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Speaker 1: That's just not the way it works in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I get it too, and I'll say this, You're right.

435
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: That first half was a dream. Twenty four points on

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Speaker 1: pace to score forty eight for the game. Feel like

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Speaker 1: you left some out there because you threw an interception.

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Speaker 1: You know, you feel like you're just on top of it,

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Speaker 1: and it's all great. The problem is the other team

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Speaker 1: plays football too, and they what are you gonna do

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Speaker 1: if you go first down run stuff, second down run stuff,

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00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: third down run stuff, and it's third, it's fourth and

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Speaker 1: ten and you gotta pun it sixth series in a row,

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Speaker 1: because that's what will happen. Let me let me. Let

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Speaker 1: me throw this at you, Steve, because I found the

446
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Speaker 1: approach of the Washington commander is very interesting. Last night

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Speaker 1: they beat the Eagles because they stayed committed. And look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Bills need to do this as

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Speaker 1: an approach. I was. I was fascinated by the commitment

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Speaker 1: that Washington had to their run game. Now. They got

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Speaker 1: up on the Eagles early, so that certainly helped and

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Speaker 1: afforded them the opportunity to continue running the football. But

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Speaker 1: at a halftime, Washington had twenty nine rush attempts and

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Speaker 1: they finished with forty nine, and they had a time

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Speaker 1: of possession of forty and a half minutes. They never

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Speaker 1: let Jalen Hurts get the football, to drive the field,

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Speaker 1: score quickly, and do all the things that the Eagles

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Speaker 1: have been doing this year. It was a good game

459
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Speaker 1: plan for that opponent, for the Washington Commanders and who

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Speaker 1: they are. I'm not saying the Bills are that, but

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's a way to make the run

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Speaker 1: game more effective while staying true to your identity as

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Speaker 1: a passing team. You have to get there in some way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form, so when you're in a second and two,

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Speaker 1: the opponent genuinely believes this could be a run or

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Speaker 1: a pass. It seems like it's been hard for the

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Speaker 1: Bills to convince opponents we might run here. I totally

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Speaker 1: get it, but here's the problem. That's great. If you

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Speaker 1: hand it off on first down and it's second and two, yeah,

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Speaker 1: keep running it. But if you hand it off and

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Speaker 1: now it's second and eleven, don't do that anymore. That's

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Speaker 1: what happens to the Bills. They don't get to second

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Speaker 1: and two after they hand it off. When they do,

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00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: they keep doing it. But then when they don't, they

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Speaker 1: stop because it brings up a third and fourteen, which

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00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: is what happened in the fourth quarter, and that's why

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Speaker 1: they got away from the running. Yeah, if you want

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Speaker 1: to keep running the ball, get four yards or five

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Speaker 1: yards a pop all the time. Don't get zero zero

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Speaker 1: zero zero twenty then zero zero zero zero. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: so if if that's the problem, if it's the functionality

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Speaker 1: of your run game, do you change the personnel to

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Speaker 1: see if that improves the functionality of your run game.

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Speaker 1: And what I'm getting at there, obviously is more Hines

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Speaker 1: and Cook. Yeah, I'm fine with that. And I'll say

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Speaker 1: this too. You can't win if you turn it over.

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Speaker 1: And Singletary turns it over too much for me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen it very much this year. It's happened

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Speaker 1: a couple of times. It happened in this last game,

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Speaker 1: this game this last week, and it really snuffed out

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Speaker 1: the momentum they had in the first half. And even

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Speaker 1: though it probably wasn't a fumble, he was probably down

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Speaker 1: when it came out, they couldn't review it, and it

494
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: went against you. I'm you know, so, I'm he's not

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Speaker 1: a home run hit. Devin's not a home run hitter.

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Speaker 1: And he coughs it up a little bit too much

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people. He drops passes a little

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Speaker 1: too much. You can think back across that, and he's

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Speaker 1: you know, so you know there's some strikes against him. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And if you want to, if you do want to

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Speaker 1: change it up, and I get it. I'll be the

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Speaker 1: first to admit that change in running backs sometimes can help.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is, once the season starts, you can't

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Speaker 1: change five offensive linemen. To find out if that's the problem,

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00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: You're you're stuck with the best offensive lineman you can

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Speaker 1: get and everybody's looking for him, but you're you know,

507
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: these guys are the guys you're gonna go with. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes to me, it's not about the offensive line. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I'm not saying put Singletary on the bench.

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Speaker 1: I think he's for the most part, a pretty reliable performer,

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Speaker 1: but as you mentioned, he's just not the home run threat,

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Speaker 1: and I think he I think it would behoove them

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00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: to work Hinds and Cook into the scheme and the

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00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: game plan each week a little bit more and you,

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Speaker 1: who knows, you might pop one like the Vikings did

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Speaker 1: on the seventh carry that Dalvin cookhead. I'm all for

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Speaker 1: That's that's what's at work there. For me. I'm all for,

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Speaker 1: you know, rotating guys in, keeping them fresh like they

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00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: do on the defensive line and stuff. And they have

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Speaker 1: shown the propensity with their running back pos They've been

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Speaker 1: very willing to rotate guys in and out or and

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Speaker 1: then not do that when like when Devin's singletary last

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Speaker 1: year at the end of the season, when they started

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Speaker 1: making hay as a running team, they left him in.

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Speaker 1: It was only for a moment. They would bring him

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Speaker 1: out and then put him plug him right back in.

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Speaker 1: They tend to go with the hot hand at that spot,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with that, and until they find somebody

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Speaker 1: who is a hot hand. Like last in the first

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Speaker 1: half Sunday against the Minnesota that was Devin. That was motor.

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Speaker 1: He was on the hoth hand and they gave it

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Speaker 1: to him, Like he said, they gave it to him

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Speaker 1: seventeen times. That's big. But it all went away for

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Speaker 1: some reason. That's a problem. And you know that's what

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Speaker 1: those are the that's the challenge you got to go after,

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Speaker 1: right And I think that's where Bill's fans watching that say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if that's not working, switch it up. Change the personnel dynamic,

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00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: change the play calling dynamic, because when you put Cooker

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00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: Hines on the field, there's there's more that you can

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00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: choose from in terms of getting out on the edges,

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00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: making people missing space, those kinds of things. And I

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00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: think that was the readjustment that some Bills fans we're

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00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: looking for, at least in terms of the feedback. I've

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00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: gotten the last couple. Yeah, we gotta we gotta take

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Speaker 1: a break here. But those of you on hold, we

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00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: are taking more of your phone calls. We are wide

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Speaker 1: open today on today's show, So keep stay right where

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Speaker 1: we are. We'll get to you as we take. As

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00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: we are asking you today, what is your suggestion for

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00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: the approach the Bills need to take, the best approach

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00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: the Bills can take to get back on track this

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Speaker 1: week eight oh three five fifty. We're back in a

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Speaker 1: flash here on One Bill's Live, presented by a lot

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Speaker 1: of health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris brownste You've tasked with you

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Speaker 1: here on a Tuesday, and we want to get right

557
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: back to the phones as we are asking you today

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00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: what's your best approach for the Bills to get back

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00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: on track and in the winning column most importantly, and

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Speaker 1: phone lines eight oh three five fifty one, eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty the number to get on board.

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Speaker 1: We lead off with Gary on a cell what do

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Speaker 1: you got for us? Gary? Or on one Bills Live. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: what are you all doing? Good? Good? Well? I think

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Speaker 1: I picked them. I played smart football the last eight weeks.

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Speaker 1: Can you say I'm eight quarters? I'm sorry the second

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Speaker 1: half Packers and Jets in the Viking game. Can you

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00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: say that smart football? Well, the first half of the

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00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: Viking game looked really good. But you can pick and choose.

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Speaker 1: But I get where you're saying, go ahead, Well, I

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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: mean when I got there and the red zone interception

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Speaker 1: for the third game in a row. Get the vikings.

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Speaker 1: What about first and goal If I'm correct on that time,

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Speaker 1: I drive it was it was second no on the

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Speaker 1: on the last one, I think he did it on

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Speaker 1: a second down and a second and ten. Yeah, from

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Speaker 1: the second down, and then the one earlier was on

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Speaker 1: fourth and two. It's fourth and two. Yeah, but you're

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Speaker 1: right he did it twice. What I'm saying, guys, it's

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00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: not about numbers of how many times you run the ball.

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Speaker 1: Flow it. It's smart football. You run the ball. When

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Speaker 1: you have an advantage, you go the ball. We haven't

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Speaker 1: advantage and I mean fourth down, throw it out of

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Speaker 1: the end zone or kid? What was the score there

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00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: wasn't it like would be the nine point game to

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Speaker 1: kick the field goal. I think if they kicked the

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00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: field goal, they go up by thirteen. But if you

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Speaker 1: get the touchdown, you go up by seventeen. And it's

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Speaker 1: a three score game, not a two score game. That

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Speaker 1: was That was the motivation, right plus plus Gary, the

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00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: deal was too that if and here's the thing, you

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Speaker 1: always it is a gamble, no question to go for

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Speaker 1: it on fourth and two, because it but if you

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Speaker 1: don't get it. It was second and ten on the

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Speaker 1: like ten or twelve yard line. Just outside the line,

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00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: they've got eighty eight or eighty nine yards to go

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Speaker 1: to get a score. The worst catastrophic thing that could

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Speaker 1: happen is if they pick it off and run it back,

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Speaker 1: And they could have run it back for a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: but they got it to the thirty four yard line.

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Speaker 1: Bad enough in and of itself, but they went from

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Speaker 1: being a ninety percent probability to score to like a

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Speaker 1: forty percent or fifty percent probability to get a touch

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Speaker 1: field goal at least out of that drive when they

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Speaker 1: returned it to the thirty four yard line. So the

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Speaker 1: roll of the dice not only did it come up

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00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: snake guys they throw, they shoved the dice down your

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Speaker 1: throat by picking it off. So it was the worst

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Speaker 1: possible scenario to happened to him twice in that succession.

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Speaker 1: Obviously once with that red zone interception that should have

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Speaker 1: been on a fourth and two. They should have turned

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Speaker 1: it over on downs. Even if they turn it over

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Speaker 1: on downs, the Viking's got ninety yards to go to

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Speaker 1: get a touchdown, and they go and they got you know,

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Speaker 1: sixty yards to go to get a field goal. That's

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Speaker 1: low probability. What happened was they picked it off and

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00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: ran it back thirty yards thirty five yards, and then

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Speaker 1: their probabilities are actually pretty good. So the worst possible

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Speaker 1: thing happened. And then fast forward it again. You got

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Speaker 1: the game one. All you gotta do is get a

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Speaker 1: quarterback sneak out of the end zone. The worst possible

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Speaker 1: the complete worst possible thing happens. You fumble it and

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Speaker 1: it gets a touchdown to the other team that gives

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Speaker 1: them the lead with a minute to go. In the

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00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: ball game, two catastrophic plays went completely against you, and

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Speaker 1: then a fourth and eighteen, a third one, a fourth

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Speaker 1: and eighteen. All you gotta do is get the ball

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Speaker 1: on the ground, and because you try and pick it off,

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Speaker 1: a guy wrenches it away and he picks it off.

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Speaker 1: There are three plays in that's right there that I

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Speaker 1: just mentioned that were game stoppers, all of which went

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Speaker 1: against you in the not just a bad way, the

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Speaker 1: worst possible way they could have gone. That's what happened.

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Speaker 1: You can Yeah, he's right. Smart football is one thing,

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Speaker 1: but man, oh man, the Vikings got a horseshoe. They

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00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: got a horseshoe. I had a couple of horseshoes and

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00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: their luck will probably run out in due course as well,

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Speaker 1: much like it did for the Eagles last night on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. But as far as Gary's pointed about

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Speaker 1: playing smart football, I get where he's coming from. You know,

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00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: Josh has made some ill advised decisions. I think he

642
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: would even admit that he has forced the ball at

643
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: times when he had checkdown options available, and he was

644
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: an expert at using those checkdown options earlier in the

645
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: season when this team was not big on explosion plays,

646
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: but they were remarkably efficient in finishing drives with points

647
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: because they were taking the check down stuff and staying

648
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: on schedule because teams were dead set on not giving

649
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: him anything over the top. And somewhere along the Josh

650
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: decided to kind of push the ball down the field

651
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: more of late, and he's fallen victim to a turnover bug.

652
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: And the only way to get past that is, as

653
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: Gary says, with smarter football. But it goes beyond just that. Gary,

654
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of a sweeping generalization to make I know

655
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 1: what you're driving at. But there's more at work there

656
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: than just smart football. Playing Josh making better decisions will

657
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: unquestionably help. He's got the ball in his hands on

658
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: every single play. But I think it goes even further

659
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, I agree with you, and he's Gary's right.

660
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 1: I mean, when you get a team that's that close

661
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: to being razor thin and two really good football teams

662
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: in this last game, and you get on the razor's

663
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: edge of which way this game is gonna go for

664
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: you or against you, you know, you make a mistake

665
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: and it's magnified, and then you start dissecting why the

666
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: guy made the mistake, and you start to see all

667
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: these dark circumstances come in, like like, why is Josh

668
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: all of the sudden turning the ball over in the

669
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: red zone. He's turned it over more in the red

670
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: zone or as much in the red zone in each

671
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: of the last two games as he did his entire

672
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: career before that. Something's up with that. Yeah, you know, right,

673
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: So I don't want to see any dark forces or

674
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: any some sort of conspiracy thing where all of a sudden, Josh,

675
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 1: He's gone off the rails, right, I means, right, listen,

676
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: the guy gotta play, He's got he's got to realize

677
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to do that every just take just

678
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: throw it to Devin. Let him get five yards. Let's

679
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: line up and do it again and take the check.

680
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: It almost seems when Josh drops back and takes the completions.

681
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: I know, it seems almost like cheating. It's too easy

682
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: for him, and he doesn't feel like he's playing as

683
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: well as he can play. When he's just taken the

684
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: easy completions that are so easy for him to take.

685
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: It almost feels him It must feel like it's cheating

686
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: to him because he wants to increase the degree of

687
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: difficult I guess, please don't do that, right. I don't

688
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: need to, right, He's just, you know, take a deep

689
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: breath and dink it down. Because once you do that,

690
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: they start playing defense differently. And all of a sudden,

691
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: you're going ninety eight yards over the top on the

692
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: third play of the game against Pittsburgh. I mean, that's

693
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: really what That's what happens. Oh yeah, And that was

694
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: a byproduct of them being as efficient as they were

695
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 1: through the first four weeks, taking the check down and

696
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: the short stuff. Finally some team kind of decides, oh,

697
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna scrunch down and squat on that stuff and

698
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: then bang over the top for some big plays. Let's

699
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: go back to the phones and we go to Isaac

700
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Next, what do you got for us? Isaac

701
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Lives. Well, first ball, I like

702
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: to say hello Chris, Hello Steve, one of my favorite

703
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: players I was around in the nineties. Better fact, that

704
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: was at that greatest comeback and that was just a

705
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: great game. Thank you. But my comments is, I'm a

706
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: football gun. I love football. I watched so many things

707
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: and people don't realize there's so much more to football,

708
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is mental. And when you

709
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: got all these mental things, and as much as I

710
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: hate to say it, they got to give Belicheck and

711
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: some of these whispering co accuse some credit because they

712
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: know that every team's different, every situation is different. Making

713
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: sure your guys heads are where they need to be

714
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: is probably one of the best things you can do

715
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: when you're running a football team, because who knows the

716
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: team better than you do? Damn youre not the opponent.

717
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: It's the coaches and the staff and the trainers and

718
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: all those guys. So when you're running these competitive teams,

719
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: guys to have a bunch of talent. And god, we

720
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: know that the AFC is loaded with talent this year,

721
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of guys who are playing very

722
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: good football and some better than we even expected. And

723
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 1: these games that we're losing is because, like you said,

724
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: both Brownnie and you, Steve said, some things that are

725
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: just like pinnacles right up there when you're talking about,

726
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, guys making plays, especially our number one, Josh Allen.

727
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: He gets a thrill out of being competitive. He's a

728
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: great competitor, and yet Steve loves it. That's why he

729
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: does it. He loves it. But I've seen some things

730
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: that I don't want to talk too much about it

731
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: because it's sort of like that gag order I'm sure

732
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 1: they had in New England. Sometimes when a guy gets

733
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: a little stinger or something like that, he tries to

734
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: play it off. You've got a lot of things that

735
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: he can do if he's a standing talent, one of

736
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: those outstanding talents like Josh Allen, some of those other

737
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: guys who are out there who can do things that

738
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: he can do. Not very many. A small group of

739
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: company when it comes to that, but they're not going

740
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: to tell you when something's hurting them or bothering them.

741
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: Now in his career, he's got that shoulder injury and

742
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: an elbow injury. So when he's trying to make plays

743
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: in extend plays and you should see him throwing off

744
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: by a couple you know, meters because of one thing

745
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: or another, it's because that accuracy. Yet early on in

746
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: a year when he was feeling close to one hundred percent,

747
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: it drops off as you play the game and having

748
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: those type of injuries, you know, Steve, like anybody, it

749
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: becomes the neck and he comes a point in the

750
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,479
Speaker 1: game where you realize that, you know what, I can't

751
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: do that. But when you're in the midst of a

752
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: play and you're trying to make a play like he

753
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: does all the time, we know that that's what he

754
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: can do and what he does so well and has been,

755
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, the inventure of a lot of whose success

756
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: and popularity. And let us stop in here, Isaac, because

757
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: we're up against the break and we appreciate the call.

758
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, appreciate the call, Isaac. I would say, look,

759
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: I think we need a little more evidence on the

760
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: field to determine whether or not Josh is limited in

761
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: in any way by his elbow injury. We certainly didn't

762
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: it certainly didn't feel like that was an issue in

763
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: last week's game. Otherwise, he's not throwing at forty three

764
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: times from start to finish, right, I mean, if you're

765
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: concerned about wear and tear on the elbow, or you're

766
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: having him throw at forty three times, I don't know

767
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: this you are, so I think we need a little

768
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: more evidence in the coming weeks here. And I don't

769
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: believe he ever had a shoulder injury. He had a

770
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: foot injury in that game against the Bucks. He went

771
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: on a long rundown the left sideline, got attacked from behind,

772
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 1: limp the rest of the game, and then was fine

773
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,439
Speaker 1: the next week. He's a He's a remarkably fast healer, Steve.

774
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna heal up from the

775
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: elbow injury quickly, but I think we need to see

776
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: more games before anybody can pass judgment on whether or

777
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 1: not he's limited by that. Yeah, he gotta. He's gotta

778
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: take him at his word. I mean, you saw him here.

779
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: He made some three he made throws. I mean, he

780
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: looked normal to me. And he's gonna get he'll get

781
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: closer to being on top and it'll be a thing

782
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: of the past. And there'll be a week. He's probably

783
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: still getting treatment on it this week, probably get a

784
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: day off this week, probably in addition to today, which

785
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: they always take off. We'll see, we'll see you. Yeah,

786
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: there's a chance it could have been nagging at him,

787
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: and it might nag him going forward, but that we

788
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: just have to take. You have to take him at

789
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: his word. That's I mean, there's there's a lot of

790
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: layers to this, right, Yeah, So I don't know. I

791
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: think you have to. If he's fine, he's gonna throw

792
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: it and he's gonna be fine, he's you're gonna have

793
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: to make it and he's right. I mean, Josh, maybe

794
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: belittling this injury that may be more serious than he

795
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: wants to let anybody know. I kind of doubt that,

796
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: but it could be. It could be none of this.

797
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: It's just like it's like trying to diagnose somebody with

798
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: a concussion. You got to ask them how they feel,

799
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: and if they tell you they're fine, what are you

800
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: gonna do? Well, then you gotta pull out the testing equipment.

801
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do next, because if they're not

802
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, you gotta let the guy's body tell you.

803
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: What's going on in this right and there are ways

804
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: to do that, all right, we gotta take a break

805
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: here for those of you on hold, stay right where

806
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: you are. We're pounding phone calls today for all two hours.

807
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: So if you have an idea on what you think

808
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: is the best approach to get the Bills back on track,

809
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: let us have it. So those holding on three, five fifty,

810
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,440
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00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: is for the Bills to get back on track after

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00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: their first losing streak of the season. Now dropped two

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Speaker 1: straight to fall to six and three on the season.

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Speaker 1: And we go back to the phones and Mark and

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Speaker 1: West Seneca is going to lead us off here. What

821
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Mark? Here on One Bills Live. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: I haven't called you in a while, but after that

823
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: last game, I'm happy able to call you because I

824
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: almost had a heart at stroke. It was just but anyway,

825
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: just a couple of things. What I called for was

826
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Speaker 1: I have a question and that they do have an

827
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: idea of how they what they need to do. But

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Speaker 1: I also want to make a comment about what Gary

829
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: said about the previous caller, Gary about smart football. If

830
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: you give me that leeway here for a second quickly,

831
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, I haven't heard this that I remember in

832
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: the past, but I heard a few weeks ago and Brownie,

833
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: I think he said it again yesterday sort of in

834
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: the gist of a conversation that he doesn't run the

835
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: full rout tree. And my question is is that because

836
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: of the schemes that they're running and they need him

837
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: to run certain patterns to clear areas and things of

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00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: that nature. Is it because of his skill set or

839
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: or is it just the play calling. I'm just curious

840
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: about that. As far as what they need to do.

841
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: Number one, defensively, just get healthy, get as healthy as possible.

842
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: They'll be fine back there. Secondly, offensively, I think they

843
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: get a little bit myopic. And I don't know if

844
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: this is again play calling or if this is Josh,

845
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: but I think they're passing attack gets a little myopic

846
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: and vertical, too vertical all the time, and they don't

847
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: consistently attack all over the field all areas of the field,

848
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 1: and I think we've had that problem in the past

849
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: in my opinion. And then lastly the comment about smart

850
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: football strip away everything that happened in that game. They

851
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: were roughly forty seconds from winning a game, just getting

852
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: the ball in play in the field of play. And

853
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: our team has shown us all year long the biggest

854
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: weakness we have on offense is short yardage and a

855
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: push between the tackles when we need it, when the

856
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: other team suspects that's where we're going and we try

857
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: to go there. We have shown that all year long,

858
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: and I don't share what anybody says. That call was

859
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: the most horrific call I've ever seen in football. Everybody

860
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: watching that game knew Josh was going to sneak that ball,

861
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: everybody and they could have done one hundred other things

862
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: to get that ball out of the end zone. They

863
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: could have put it in Josh's hand, faked the ball

864
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: into the line, and he could have rolled out and

865
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: if somebody came up on him, throw it out of

866
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: bounds or if it's a little guy, fight them off,

867
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: get outside the goal line, and then the game's over.

868
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: But that call, I mean, the ball was six inches

869
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: from the goal line. If we run into a wall,

870
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: you know, Josh was gonna have everything he could if

871
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: that wall stood up, just to get the ball off

872
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: the goal line. So I just could not believe I

873
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: saw that call. So thanks guys. I appreciate you handle

874
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: all those Mark, Yeah, no problem. Let's start with I

875
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: think Steve and I kind of addressed the goal line

876
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: call yesterday and said a lot of what Mark said,

877
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: So I don't know that we even need to address that,

878
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: but yes, with it being on the six inch line

879
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: as opposed to the one yard line, there is a

880
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: difference in what you should probably call there because there

881
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: is literally zero margin for error. If you're going to

882
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: call a sneak and it's on the six inch line

883
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: as opposed to the one yard line, there is a difference,

884
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: and we can you know, we talked about all the

885
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: different scenarios that you could have done instead of that

886
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: it didn't work. Whatever, I'll address, Gabe Davis. You addressed

887
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: the other point, Steve. I was encouraged that we saw

888
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Gabe Davis running a crossing route I can't remember,

889
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: and he caught the ball. He was throwing the ball

890
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: and he caught it on the crossing route. Also, I

891
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: can't remember outside of a red zone play where he's

892
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: running across the back of the end zone the last

893
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 1: time I saw Gabe Davis running crossing route. So that

894
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: encouraged me. It actually made me think, hey, maybe they

895
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: are diversifying as route tree, trying a few different things,

896
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 1: because a lot of times he's just running routes outside

897
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: the numbers, occasionally a put deep post route, but nothing

898
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: across the middle of the field. And that's where I

899
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: think you could use his physicality and his body to

900
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: his advantage on those plays, especially when opponents are playing

901
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: more man because he's just going to have an advantage

902
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: there because of his size. He's a bigger target for

903
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: Josh to hit in the middle of the field, kind

904
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: of like he does with Dawson Knox. So that encouraged me.

905
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: I hope we see more of that, but yes, we're

906
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: talking about it last week. Diversify game's rout tree so

907
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: he can help you more in the passing game. Yeah,

908
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: And the other thing that Mark was talking about too,

909
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: was the fact that the passing game seems to be

910
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: a little bit single minded, a little too vertical, trying

911
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: to push it down getting bigger chunks of yardage. They

912
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: were really successful early in the season getting rid of

913
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: the ball on time and making the defense play the

914
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: passing game all across the field, from the line of scrimmage,

915
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: all the way off, all the way down to the

916
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: back end line. So I think, and we don't know.

917
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the question. We don't know, Brownie. All

918
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: of us know it. You know, they haven't been successful

919
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: enough throwing the football. Josh didn't throw it well enough

920
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: this last Sunday. Was it because of the plays called

921
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: by Ken Dorsey? Or was it because of the decisions

922
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: that Josh made of where to try and throw the football?

923
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: Was Josh passing up easy completions because he wanted to

924
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: a splash play? Or were the was Ken Dorsey is

925
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: he coaching him to do that? We may never know

926
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: the answer the full answer to that, but I will

927
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: say this, I when you watch him, there are guys

928
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: he can throw to. There are options that are quite

929
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: We've seen examples. There, quick and easy options for him

930
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ball and take the easy completion. Now,

931
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: if he's not doing that, I want Ken Dorsey should

932
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: want to know why, and they, you know, they gotta

933
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: they gotta have a conversation as to why. If there's

934
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: good reasons for it, fine, And I think and I

935
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: don't think there's any simple answer. Some of it's probably

936
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey asking him to do some things and Josh

937
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: not being able to or willing to do it, or

938
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: not seeing it, or the defense getching snaps it off

939
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: before you can do it. And then there's probably times

940
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: when Josh does go to the wrong guy or force

941
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: a play or try to wait a little too long

942
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: to make an easy completion. It's probably a mixture of

943
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. The thing is, you got to

944
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: make more good plays than you have bad plays. And

945
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: I think they're leaving some things on the field, particularly

946
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: in the short passing game, that they're not using. So

947
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: I see what Mark sees. Sometimes it seems like Josh

948
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: is just trying to wait for these guys to get

949
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: open down the field and then gun it in there

950
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: with making a spectacular throw when there is probably two

951
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: other options on a five yard or ten yard route

952
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: that he could let it loose and let him get

953
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: run after the catch, and we'll see. I mean, I

954
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: think there's both of those things going on. I realized

955
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady is not the physical specimen that Josh is.

956
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: But Tom Brady is carved a Hall of Fame career

957
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: out of taking the easy completion. I mean, that's the

958
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: method to his success and seven super Bowl titles is

959
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: taking what the defense gets him every single time. May

960
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: not be spectacular, but man is it effective. And that's

961
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: what's made him so good for so long. We have

962
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: to take a break here. We're up against it. But

963
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: David in Cleveland, Brian in Alabama, and others holding an

964
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: eighth three five fifty, stay right where you are. We

965
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: got warrior phone calls coming up next here on one

966
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: Bill's live pause, everybody call out to help. It's Buffalo

967
00:53:18,239 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. These one Bills Live presented by called Light

968
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: to Health. All right, here we are on a Tuesday

969
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: hour number two. First Brown Steve task here with you

970
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 1: when we're talking about best approach for the Bills to

971
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 1: get back on track. Eight oh three oh five fifty

972
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: the number to jump on board and give us your suggestions.

973
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: And we're going right back to the phones here as

974
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: we got a lot of people that have been waiting patiently,

975
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: and we lead off with David in Cleveland. David, what

976
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: do you got for us? You're on one bills live. Hey, guys,

977
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call to the first of all,

978
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: been listening for a while, Steve if. I was a

979
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: huge fan of yours growing up, so much that I've

980
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: modeled my special Team's game after you. Huh. But I

981
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: just wanted to say, um, you know, in regards to

982
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: what we can do this season, I think that we um,

983
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, we have to. We all have to as fans.

984
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: I gotta take a step back and realize that like

985
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: these injuries are killing us and for some reason, the

986
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: injury bug is in the building. So we just got

987
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: to deal with it. Um. I have got to believe

988
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: that if we do two different things, one an offensive

989
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: and you know, if we had all of our defenders back,

990
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: we'd probably be in better shape. But I think the

991
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: one thing that might be holding us up is Devin Singletary.

992
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: I think he's a great running back. I just don't

993
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: know if he's the answer. I mean, if he was

994
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: the answer, we wouldn't have drafted two backs right after him,

995
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: so I think that that might be the problem offensively.

996
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people are talking about

997
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: with Brian Dable being in Josh's head and Josh's earback

998
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: in the you know, when he was the OC and

999
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: now it's Dorsey, But Dorsey was his quarterbacks coach, So

1000
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: I think Dorsey was in there just as much. And

1001
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: I don't think he's missing him. I think that it's

1002
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: just you know, he's he's learning to do it on

1003
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,399
Speaker 1: his own now. But other than that, I think we're fine.

1004
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: I mean, we're six and three, and anybody that I

1005
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: think was expecting, you know, an undefeated season or I

1006
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: mean even one loss at this point was kind of

1007
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: kidding themselves. But I'd love to hear you guys take

1008
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: on that as far as you know, maybe Devin Singletary

1009
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: is not the answer. And then I did mention the

1010
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: injuries thing, Trey Davis White's acl. I know that when

1011
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: my brother tore his it took him a whole year

1012
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: to get back to it. And you know, I know

1013
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: you guys are both athletes in different sports, so you know,

1014
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: you're again your thoughts on that just maybe a little

1015
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: bit more in depth than what you've done given your

1016
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: athletic background. Thanks again for taking my call and go Bills.

1017
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: Thanks Dave. All right, thanks David, appreciate it. I'll why

1018
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: don't you take the injury on Steve, since you know

1019
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: you've probably had a more storied injury history than I did.

1020
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: I was pretty fortunate. But let's begin with the running

1021
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:44,319
Speaker 1: back situation. He thinks that too much Devin Singletary might

1022
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: be the issue here, And as I said in the

1023
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: first hour, I'm all for diversifying the personnel usage in

1024
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: the running game, namely Hines and Cook, who offer you

1025
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: more speed to the edges. I think they can make

1026
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: people miss in space and then take it for a

1027
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: giant game. Devin's great at making people miss. We saw

1028
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: him do that in last week's game. But what did

1029
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: it turn into? It was a twenty one yard run.

1030
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 1: If you have Cook or Hinds on that play and

1031
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: they make those guys miss, it might be a touchdown.

1032
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: That's the difference for me. And so I'm not saying

1033
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: you sit Devin Singletary on the bench. He's been consistent,

1034
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: he's been a producer. Josh clearly loves having him on

1035
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: the field. So I'm not saying you sit him on

1036
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: the bench, but I think you roll guys through. And

1037
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to argue with me about, oh, well,

1038
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: you need the guy to play most of the snaps

1039
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: so the running back can get into the rhythm. This

1040
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: team doesn't run the football enough for anybody to get

1041
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: into a rhythm. So roll those guys through, try to

1042
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: call plays that are most advantageous and maximize their respective

1043
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: skill sets and see if you can get a little

1044
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: bit more out of it, whether it's a scheme change

1045
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,479
Speaker 1: with the personnel. I was talking yesterday with Eric Wood

1046
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: about more wide zone because we don't seem to be

1047
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: seeing enough of that, and I think that's where those

1048
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: two fast guys would thrive. But that's kind of where

1049
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: I come down on that. Yeah, I'm their propensity has been.

1050
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: It seems like their philosophy to me is that listen,

1051
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a guy in there, and if whoever

1052
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: can get it going is going to get more opportunities.

1053
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't think they're married anyone. Yeah I don't. I

1054
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: am too. They're not married to having any one guy

1055
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: in there. But Devin Singletary has been the guy that

1056
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: has consistently when they've needed it. He's the guy that's

1057
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: gotten them yards. Certainly he gets more opportunities because of

1058
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: that than anybody else. But nobody else has come in

1059
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: and with this offensive line and this offensive coordinator and

1060
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: quarterback note no other running back that they've tried, and they've,

1061
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: let's face it, they've tried a bunch over the last

1062
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: three or four years. Nobody's been able to do as

1063
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: well as Devin Singletary has. Not James Cook, not Duke Johnson.

1064
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: You know, none of these guys, the guys that they

1065
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: had last year, Zach Moss, he couldn't you know. Nobody

1066
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: is as productive or as consistent as Devin Singletary. So

1067
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: and they drafted James Cook this year with a different

1068
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: skill set. They traded for Naheim Hinz with a different

1069
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: skill set. So when those guys start to come in

1070
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: and make a difference for the offense, maybe they'll get

1071
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: more more opportunities. But they're not gonna get it until

1072
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: they make hay because this offense ain't gonna wait on them,

1073
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: and I don't think it should. You get what you

1074
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: get if you're not gonna if you're not gonna make

1075
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,919
Speaker 1: the most of an opportunity, they hand you to hand

1076
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: to you, you're gonna sit. That's the way it is.

1077
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: I do think you got st James Cook has flashed

1078
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: here and there. I mean you remember his run in

1079
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game that went for a touchdown and nothing?

1080
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, Pittsburgh's done. I get it. Um

1081
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: didn't do it in do it against the other? Do

1082
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: it in the other moments you get in there. I mean, well,

1083
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: it was interesting because you know last week they had

1084
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: one play with twenty personnel on the field and it

1085
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: was Hines and Cook in the backfield next to Josh.

1086
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: Cook got the ball went for minus one yards. We

1087
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: never saw it again. Um one snap is I mean,

1088
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: come on, um, how many first intends did we see

1089
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: last week where you know motor got nothing and at

1090
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,919
Speaker 1: second intent? I mean that happened at least three times

1091
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: in the game last week, So it happens. I guess

1092
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, well, right, but and and for

1093
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: Cook and Hines, it's probably not enough. So I just

1094
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: balanced that out a little bit better. Again, I'm not

1095
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: saying put Singletary on the bench. I think he's a productive,

1096
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: reliable player, but he's not a game breaker. And you know,

1097
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: if you're looking to make your life a little bit easier,

1098
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: maybe give those guys a couple more opportunities and they

1099
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: might pleasantly surprise. Well yeah, and I get it. I

1100
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: think there is very little patience on this offense for

1101
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: anything that does not go well, because they do so much,

1102
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: really well. They got a guy on the outside, number

1103
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: fourteen who's really good. No, yeah, that's why he's got

1104
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: three times the number of catches as everybody else. They feed,

1105
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: they feed, they feed, you know that, which gives them

1106
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: a return on that investment. But let's not forget this Steve.

1107
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: Week one against the Rams, nine different guys caught the

1108
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: football and they had four turnovers and one thirty one

1109
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: to ten. I mean, you can spread the ball around

1110
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: and be just as effective because the guy pulling the

1111
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: trigger back there, well, that's the thing that's not that's

1112
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: not Ken Dorsey, that's Josh. That's a decision maker, you know,

1113
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: that's the guy with the ball in his hands, because

1114
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: they're not they're not running plays for these guys not

1115
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: to get open. And you and I have seen it.

1116
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: You watch it on film, you watch the all twenty

1117
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: two little bit. There are guys that Josh could go to.

1118
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: Now they may be the third or fourth option sometimes,

1119
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: but they're there and if Josh wants them, and sometimes

1120
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:13,479
Speaker 1: they're open real quick. So not every play, of course,

1121
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of opportunity to get the ball out

1122
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: of his hand without staring down Steph Diggs. Right, let's

1123
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: get back to the phones. Let's go to Brian and Alabama.

1124
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: Who's been waiting a while. What do you got for us? Brian, Hey,

1125
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: good afternoon, fellas. I hate to sound redundant or a

1126
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: broken record, but just kind of touch on what you

1127
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: guys just spoke about in the last caller. For me,

1128
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: this team is almost loyal to a fault, especially with

1129
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: some of the weapons that they have. And Steve, you

1130
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: mentioned that Devin Singletary he gets his opportunities. But I,

1131
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: like Chris just mentioned, I can count on both hands

1132
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: how many times I've seen Devin Singletary running too a

1133
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: brick wall and get nothing. And so I feel like

1134
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: if you inject more of the talent, more of the

1135
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: speed that you have on your debt, on your roster

1136
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 1: with James Cook and Hines, now I know he had

1137
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: to speed up and catch up on the playbook. I

1138
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: feel like this will help this offense out tremendously going forward.

1139
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: I think I saw stat where Johs sh Allen accounts

1140
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: for over eighty percent of their often to productive production.

1141
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: And to me, if you inject some more of that

1142
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: speed on the field, um, and would love to see Shakuira,

1143
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: uh Shaquira out there more. I don't know what what

1144
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: to hold up with him is, but it just feels

1145
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: like he will do this offense a service if if

1146
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: they add those weapons in because I feel like Dave

1147
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: Davis is almost limited in his route running. I know

1148
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: you guys talked about that earlier, So it would just

1149
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: be refreshing to see some of that offensive talent on

1150
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: the field more. Uh, just to kind of switch things up.

1151
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 1: And so that's that's all I had. Okay, thanks Brian,

1152
01:03:54,800 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Um yeah, he's in my camp. Just try it.

1153
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you might be pleasantly surprised.

1154
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,919
Speaker 1: Just I'm gonna talk. I'm not saying put James Cook

1155
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: in the game and give him twenty carries. I'm not

1156
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: saying that at all. But maybe if you're gonna run

1157
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: the ball, twenty four times in the game total on

1158
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: sixty five seventy plays. Maybe give him made to ten

1159
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: like he hasn't even gotten that. No, he's I can't

1160
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: think of a time when he's got consecutive touches he's

1161
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: gotten fifteen. I think fifteen snaps is his high playtime

1162
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: in a game, aside from the eighteen snaps he got

1163
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. And as you pointed out, that was a

1164
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: blowout game. Did you did fifteen snaps? Have you seen

1165
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: him take have the ball in his hands on consecutive plays?

1166
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: It's hard to think. Maybe one, maybe, maybe, yeah, I

1167
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: guess just a little bit more. I think yeah, I

1168
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: think I think Brian from Alabama was right. They are loyal.

1169
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: I mean Sean McDermott in his code, they are loyal

1170
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: to a fault, and I think it takes a long

1171
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 1: time and a lot of certainty before they trust anybody.

1172
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: Certainly Devin Singletary had to go through that before he

1173
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: was given more reps than you know, Lashawn McCoy was.

1174
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 1: You know, all those guys, it's been a while and

1175
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: they gotta go ahead. I was just gonna say, I

1176
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: got all the respect in the world for coach McDermott's

1177
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: approach of you have to earn everything you get here

1178
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I've got enormous amount of respect for that.

1179
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 1: But by all indications, even from coach McDermott when he's

1180
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: been asked about it, he said he was encouraged by

1181
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: what James Cook has done in the practice setting the

1182
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: last several weeks and that it's kind of clicked in

1183
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: for him as to what the expectations are and how

1184
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: they run daily operations here and what you have to

1185
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: do every day in practice strive to get that one

1186
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: or two percent better than you were the day before.

1187
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: So if he's if he's totally bought in, he's doing

1188
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: all the right things. Give the kid a chance, you

1189
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 1: drove it. You draft them in the second round for

1190
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: a reason. So and again I'm not saying all twenty

1191
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: four carries, James Cook, give them the ball, put everybody

1192
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: else on the bench. I'm not saying that can't we

1193
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: get to like eight to ten carries. I mean, listen

1194
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: to it's easy to talk about this after you have

1195
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: a loss like you did on Sunday, where one play

1196
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: with a difference, and we're just now halfway through James

1197
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: Cook's rookie season. So I'm you know, fine, well give

1198
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: him some time. And it seems like you and it

1199
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: seems a little urgent because they did make a trade

1200
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 1: for Hines. It seems like they want to make a

1201
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: move to try and get better there. And then when

1202
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: they make these moves, they're not using them right away, right,

1203
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: so their second round draft pick and the god they

1204
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: just traded for seemed to be kind of gathering dust

1205
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: on the shelf. And you wonder why that is. M Yeah,

1206
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean because the thing for me, Stephen, We've talked

1207
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: about this the Bills. You know, fans who watch all

1208
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: these games, they say, our running game has got to

1209
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: be more effective than it is. I think we all

1210
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: wholeheartedly agree, and yet they're ranked tenth and rushing because

1211
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: Josh is the running game. Yeah, I mean, it kind

1212
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: of shrouds everything a little bit. And I think if

1213
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: you pivot the other way and maybe diversify the personnel

1214
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: usage there in your run game, you may not have

1215
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: to put as much of that rushing burden on Josh

1216
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: and you may be pleasantly surprised with the results that

1217
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: you get. Well, that's the thing I mean you'd love

1218
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 1: to have somebody else running it than Josh, because right

1219
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: I was shocked the other night when he was running

1220
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, and you remember late in the game during

1221
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,439
Speaker 1: overtime when he takes on that linebacker, when the guy's

1222
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: got his leg up in the air and he's hopping around.

1223
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: I was shocked that four Vikings weren't coming in head

1224
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: first into Josh trying to whack him. I was shocked

1225
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 1: that it took everybody so long to get over there.

1226
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: When you get a quarterback like Josh was hopping on

1227
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 1: one leg, pulling the linebacker down the field. Man, you

1228
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: I mean, guys is sitting duck dying to go get

1229
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: a shot on their quarterback. I mean they they're trying

1230
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: to be that guy to go in there and concuss him.

1231
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 1: I mean, don't. I'm not just sugarcoating it. That's the

1232
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 1: game right there, hopping up on down on one leg,

1233
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: get take a shot at him. He goes down. Three

1234
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: guys kind of just walk up to him and look around.

1235
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: I can't believe they were and taking shots at him.

1236
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 1: And I'm when they see it on film, I'm sure

1237
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: somebody bring it up because when he's running the ball

1238
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: like that. He doesn't get the protection that Taylor Heinik

1239
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,600
Speaker 1: he got last night on the last part of that

1240
01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: game in Philly. He doesn't get any protect him as

1241
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: a runner. He's a running back, a kick returner, He's

1242
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: a target and I can't believe guys didn't take advantage

1243
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: of it in that moment. He got lucky to me.

1244
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: So I'm all with you hand football to somebody who's

1245
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 1: lowered to the ground and doesn't have the weight of

1246
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: the franchise on, you know, resting on his health and

1247
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit faster than Josh who is fast.

1248
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: But those guys might be faster too. Let's get back

1249
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: to the phones and we go to Dave and Amhurst next,

1250
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: What do you got for hold on? What do you

1251
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: got for his? Dave? You're all one Bill's life? Hi? Yeah,

1252
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: you doing? Thanks for taking my call? Good? Sure, Yeah,

1253
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just curious before Scott Allen's first interception,

1254
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 1: didn't they have a second and two, a third and two,

1255
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: and a fourth and two and I'm fourth downie to

1256
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: the interception. I'm just curious why Steve just said the

1257
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: first caller today talking about running the ball, you know

1258
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 1: is you know passing the ball three two things three

1259
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 1: things have happened to are bad, And then Steve says, well, yeah,

1260
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: when you get to a short yard and situation, you

1261
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: should run the ball second and two, third and two,

1262
01:09:55,960 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: fourth and two, and they threw every time. I'm come on,

1263
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: you got If you can't make two yards on a

1264
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: second and two and three plays, you've got a problem.

1265
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 1: Um am I right? If I correct in reviewing this game,

1266
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: is that the situation that happened, I'm pretty sure it did. Yeah,

1267
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: there was a series where that did happen. Yes, And

1268
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 1: on fourth and two there was an interception, so yeah

1269
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:25,559
Speaker 1: in the end zone, Yes, that did that did happen? Yeah.

1270
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,560
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you can't run the ball with

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01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 1: uh in three plays and make two yards? That's all? Yeah? Yeah,

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01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: At times the Bills have not been able to do that.

1273
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: Get it, um, I get it. If you if you

1274
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 1: do something it doesn't work, you should have done the

1275
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: other thing. Okay, you're right. It's frustrating, particularly when you

1276
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: throw a pick on fourth and two instead of just

1277
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: trying to you know, get to the line, screamage you

1278
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: get the ball, you know, run it, tucking under your

1279
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: arm and take it yourself. There's a million things that

1280
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: could have happened and maybe should have happened, would have happened.

1281
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 1: And like I said earlier, the only worst thing that

1282
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: could have happened on that play is if the guy

1283
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: takes at the distance and goes for pick six, because

1284
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: he got it all the way out to the thirty

1285
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: four yard line as it was, That's about the second

1286
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: worst thing that could happen. And there's and the other

1287
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: plays that I recounted earlier about you know, the worst

1288
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: possible scenario happened on three plays in the game. They

1289
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: couldn't have been worse for the Bills. They could not

1290
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 1: have come had a worse outcome, And totally all three

1291
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 1: of them were aberrations, if not completely unexpected so and

1292
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with how well most of them,

1293
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 1: had nothing to do without how well the Vikings played.

1294
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 1: It had to do with just pure dumb luck. There

1295
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:58,560
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, look, I should they be able to

1296
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: get two yards on three plays? Yes, running the even

1297
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: if they run it three times, they should be able

1298
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 1: to get the two yards that they need to get

1299
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: a fresh set of downs. But if I remember right

1300
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: at that point, in the game. They had gotten no

1301
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: yardage on first and ten carries three out of four times,

1302
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 1: and well, I mean they obviously got eight yards just

1303
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: put in a previous play and then they get the

1304
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: second and two put it in the reverse and just

1305
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: in the reverse. What if they'd have handed it off

1306
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: three straight times and not gotten it, Yeah, then then

1307
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: then you'd be getting You'd be like, you got the

1308
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league and you're not. You're taking

1309
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 1: it out of his hands. What are you doing? You know?

1310
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: I mean there's just no winning. Yeah, you got to

1311
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: give the Vikings some credit. They scared the Bills out

1312
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: of it on a second and two, third and two,

1313
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: fourth and two. And I'll say this, on a second

1314
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:53,520
Speaker 1: and two that's a throwing down. That is an absolutely

1315
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: throwing down because because you have if it's four down territory,

1316
01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna go for You can run it on the

1317
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: other two downs, but you got, you know, three chances

1318
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:04,599
Speaker 1: to get it in the end zone. One of them

1319
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna try and throw it. And you know, so

1320
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: they tried it on all three, so I'm yeah, I'm

1321
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:16,720
Speaker 1: not going to run it three times there. But it's

1322
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: like Marv Levy used to say, that's the way it

1323
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,639
Speaker 1: is on Mondays after Sunday games. If you do something

1324
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday and it doesn't work on Monday, you should

1325
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: have done the other thing. Yep, it's no more complicated

1326
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: than that. It is classic armchair quarterbacking and we're all

1327
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:39,200
Speaker 1: guilty of it. When Steve and I come back, we

1328
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 1: have to discuss the upcoming forecast for the Bills Browns

1329
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. There's a storm of coming and it's

1330
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: of the lake effect variety, and the local meteorologists here

1331
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, because we know we have a lot of

1332
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: out of town listeners that may not be up to

1333
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 1: speed on exactly what the forecast holds for this weekend's game.

1334
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,839
Speaker 1: It is not promising. It is a lake effect snow

1335
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: event that is being forecast. I realize we're five days

1336
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: out from the game, but I guess this thing is

1337
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 1: supposed to get here Thursday night and it's not supposed

1338
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: to let up through the weekend. So Steve and I

1339
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 1: will do our best meteorologist impersonations and discuss the possibilities

1340
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 1: of what could happen come Sunday when we return here

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01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one Bills Live.

1343
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,879
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve tasked with you here on a Tuesday,

1344
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: and we wanted to bring you up to speed, especially

1345
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: if you're an out of town listener or viewer of

1346
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: one Bills Live, about the upcoming forecasts for the week

1347
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: eleven game between the Bills and the Browns. Right now,

1348
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: local meteorologists are forecasting a major lake effect snow event

1349
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 1: that is supposed to deposit feet of snow nine inches.

1350
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: They're talking feet up to two feet possible. Is this

1351
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: early forecast, and again we are five days out. We

1352
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: know these things are subject to change, and we also

1353
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: know there have been instances, Steve, where the worst thing

1354
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: imaginable on the face of the earth, who's been forecasted

1355
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,560
Speaker 1: and then we're outside going where's all that stuff we

1356
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: are supposed to get? And it doesn't happen. But as

1357
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:58,640
Speaker 1: of right now, beginning on the overnight hours of Wednesday

1358
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: into Thursday, lake effects snow is supposed to begin. It's

1359
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 1: supposed to be mostly south of the city Thursday, then

1360
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: smacking Buffalo right in the teeth in city proper on

1361
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: Friday as well as Saturday, and then the snow is

1362
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: supposed to shift north to south on Sunday, and our

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01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: broadcast partners at WIVB are forecasting that it could be

1364
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 1: snowing up to two to three inches per hour right

1365
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: at kickoff on Sunday between the Bills and the But

1366
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: here's the good news, Steve, it's supposed to start tapering

1367
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 1: off right after kickoff, if that helps put your mind

1368
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: at ease. But we're already getting tweets at us from

1369
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: Bills fans out of town like, Hey, I'm in North Carolina.

1370
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to go to a game for three years.

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01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: You know. I got a flight into town on Saturday.

1372
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: Like what should I do? And I'm like, hey, you know,

1373
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 1: we gotta wait on the four kas Tuesday. But the

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: airport will be fine. Probably, you'll be fine. If it's

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01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: Lake snow, they'll be Buffalo is getting smacked because I

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01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: was Buffalo. If it swings south, goes to the southtowns,

1377
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 1: the airport will be okay. We've seen that November. The

1378
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:20,519
Speaker 1: airport was on time and sunny. Yeah. I landed on

1379
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: the Tuesday when it was when it was like you

1380
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 1: couldn't even see in Southtowns. We flew right over the

1381
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: top of it. It was in the sunshine, landed in

1382
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: the sunshine on Tuesday of that week's November, and couldn't drive. Affects. Yeah,

1383
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: I couldn't drive. I mean, that's what is being predicted here.

1384
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: And the reason this is predicted to be so significant,

1385
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: at least from what I've heard from the local meteorologists,

1386
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: is the lake is the warmest it has ever been.

1387
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: I've heard in November it's fifty five degree. I've heard

1388
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: this before, and that's rush. You've lived in Buffalo for

1389
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: any period of time, if you don't like a lot

1390
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: of lake effects snow in the winter, what you hope

1391
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: for is some kind of early cold snap in late

1392
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 1: December early January, like a week of ten degrees for

1393
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: the high because what that does is it freezes the

1394
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 1: top of the lake and then the lake effects snow

1395
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: machines off. You can't make snow without any water lake

1396
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: effect wise, and that's what you kind of hope for.

1397
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: But with I mean, it was seventy degrees a week

1398
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: and a half ago. Listen, we all helping us right now, Brownie.

1399
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: It we all know if if the confluence of events

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01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: happens the way it can happen. Here we are, we

1401
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: are in literally over our heads in it, right, and

1402
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: it looks it could be. It could be an absolute

1403
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: epic bad weather, unbelievable atrocity of a weather occurrence for

1404
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: Sunday's game. And that's what we're talking about. And I'm

1405
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: just gonna say that's not good for the Bills, No,

1406
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 1: because this just in the Cleveland Browns have the vastly

1407
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: superior running game. Yes they do, they do. But Buffalo's

1408
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: got a guy that can scoot from the pocket. They

1409
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: can go power run game. It may be a game

1410
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: where Josh has one hundred and ninety yards rushing and

1411
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 1: twenty five yards or one hundred and twenty five yards passing,

1412
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: but they can get that done if they want to

1413
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: in a pinch on a game. Now here's the thing too,

1414
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: I like our quarterback better than their quarterback, and that

1415
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: guy's still gonna make the difference in the game. But

1416
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: you're right, this this could be one of those games

1417
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: that is an absolute throwaway game, like the forty mile

1418
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: hour win game from a year ago. That kind of thing.

1419
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 1: I know, my good friend and our my preseason partner

1420
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:46,679
Speaker 1: in the booth, Andrew Catalan James Lofton are doing They're

1421
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: doing the game for CBS. He's already talking. I've spoken

1422
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,679
Speaker 1: to him. He's he might be coming in town Thursday

1423
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:56,719
Speaker 1: night instead of Friday, just to make sure he gets in. Um. Yeah,

1424
01:19:57,160 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those games they're gonna have.

1425
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna have. It's gonna be. I don't know, Brownie,

1426
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: it maybe nothing, It may be it. Maybe we don't

1427
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 1: want to oversell it now because it's only Tuesday. But still,

1428
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: in all knowing, there is past precedent here in Buffalo,

1429
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: because in twenty fourteen we had a Snowvember snow event.

1430
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: Now that was even that was three times what they're

1431
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: predicting here. Six feet of snow was dropped on the

1432
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: stadium in twenty fourteen and it ran up to Thursday,

1433
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: maybe even stretched into Friday, if I can remember right.

1434
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: And the NFL made a call on Thursday. Now that

1435
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:39,599
Speaker 1: was with already having six feet of snow on the ground.

1436
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: They just had no time to move all that snow

1437
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: in time to stage an NFL football game. This snow

1438
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: is not supposed to start until Thursday, Wednesday night, into Thursday.

1439
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,600
Speaker 1: They can't dodge supposed to go to the well, no

1440
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: you can't. Well, no, you can't avoid it unless you're

1441
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: lucky with the wind I'm talking about. I'm talking about

1442
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 1: the time of the game, because it happens too late

1443
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: to move the game. Like see Detroit's out of town

1444
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:07,600
Speaker 1: this weekend. The Lions aren't using their stadium. That's what

1445
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: they did last time. They just took the game to Detroit.

1446
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 1: And it's easy enough for it's easy enough for the

1447
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: Browns and the Bills. You just to fly across the

1448
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:20,479
Speaker 1: lake and do the thing in bust instead of The

1449
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: timing of this thing is the crusher. It's like the

1450
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: Indianapolis colt came from a few years ago, when you know,

1451
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: it snowed. It started snowing right before kickoff and you

1452
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: couldn't recover. You just had to keep going. So we'll

1453
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:38,640
Speaker 1: have to keep our eye on it and see what

1454
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: comes of it. But yes, I was, I was trying

1455
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: to jog my memory from you know, the s November

1456
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: event in twenty fourteen. There was snow early in the

1457
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 1: week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then by Thursday with six

1458
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 1: feet of snow in the stadium. The league called it.

1459
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, we're not doing the game in Buffalo,

1460
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: We're moving it to Detroit, and we're gonna have it

1461
01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 1: played on Monday night. Right, because the bills couldn't function

1462
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: to prepare for the games. The players couldn't get to

1463
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: the stadium to practice. Well, that's the thing. Nobody could

1464
01:22:08,400 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: get to the stadium. That nobody could get to the

1465
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: stadium to clear the stadium so people could get into

1466
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: the stadium, right, I mean, they couldn't even they could

1467
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: even get workers to fix the stadium. And here's the thing.

1468
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 1: Even though that was six feet of snow, and that's

1469
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: one of the that's really the reason that it happened,

1470
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: because it was six feet of snow and then another

1471
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: two feet of snow or something like that, right, I

1472
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: mean we got well, there was another snow event that

1473
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: was forecast happened after that in the coming day. So

1474
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: they're like, we already got six to remove, we may

1475
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 1: have to remove more after that. It's just it's just

1476
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: not the problem is this, though it doesn't take six

1477
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: feet of snow to shut it off. If if it's

1478
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: two feet of snow at the wrong time, right, it

1479
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 1: could force a movement the game too, Like if they

1480
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: got two feet of snow on Saturday night, they've got

1481
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: real problems, real problems. If they can forecast that it's

1482
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: gonna happen like that, they may consider moving the game.

1483
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 1: Not for six feet of snow, but for two feet

1484
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,280
Speaker 1: of snow that falls at the exact wrong time. Now,

1485
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: if it's gonna fall during the game, they are take

1486
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 1: my word for Brownie as a former anchor, as a

1487
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 1: former NFL analyst for CBS doing games around the league.

1488
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 1: If it happens at game time, the networks love it.

1489
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: They oh yeah, they can't wait for that game to happen.

1490
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: They do not want to move it. They want the

1491
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 1: spectacle of those conditions for TV, and they want they

1492
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: want the snow game big time. I and the Bills

1493
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:38,640
Speaker 1: and Browns are not without pressing in here either. I

1494
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:41,960
Speaker 1: know because back in two thousand and seven, I did

1495
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:45,640
Speaker 1: there in Cleveland. We're in Cleveland, Yeah, you were there

1496
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 1: for that one. I did the game, yeah, me and Gus.

1497
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:51,760
Speaker 1: So it's Bills, it's Bills, Browns. And the wind was

1498
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: horrific too, So it was snowing, but there was also

1499
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: extraordinary wind. And the Browns won the game. Ain't nothing.

1500
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: With a touch down and a safety, I believe if

1501
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: I remember right, and they won the game, ain't nothing.

1502
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 1: The snow continued into the evening to the point where

1503
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: the us who traveled with the team, and the players

1504
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: and the coaches, we all have to stay an extra

1505
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: night in the hotels in Cleveland because we could not

1506
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 1: fly back. And then the next morning we get up

1507
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: we can take the buses to the airport to fly

1508
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo the next day. The pilot of the

1509
01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: airplane cuts the turn on the tarmac too tight. The

1510
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 1: front wheel of the plane goes on the grass partition

1511
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: in between the runways and sinks into the ground, marooning

1512
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: the plane. So we all had to d plane, get

1513
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: back on the buses, and ride three and a half

1514
01:24:45,320 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: hours down the thruway back to ball. I hate t

1515
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: so a loss, an extra night and a bus ride

1516
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 1: back to back back home. That was the last snow

1517
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 1: event between the Bills and the Browns. Yeah, when you

1518
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: do they when you do the hoping it doesn't happen,

1519
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: people should know. I mean, because not every fan goes

1520
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 1: to every game. You as a as a you know

1521
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: you go to every game. You travel with the team

1522
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,519
Speaker 1: you're on the charter. Um. I've done that for CBS,

1523
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: where every game for me, I'd travel here from home

1524
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, and I'd go around the country do

1525
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,320
Speaker 1: different game, never Bills game or rarely a Bills game,

1526
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:25,520
Speaker 1: and I'd hop around. So you, the travel is not glamorous.

1527
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: It is an absolute pain in the backside. It is

1528
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 1: the world. It's so it's more so for you because

1529
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: when you're with CBS, you're flying commercial. Right, Um, it's

1530
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 1: a little bit less Brownie stressful as a charter CBS.

1531
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: CBS is a great company. I was. I flew first class,

1532
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: always had car service at both ends. I mean they

1533
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: picked me up. It was horrible. It was horrible. I

1534
01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: had first class seats and car service at both ends,

1535
01:25:57,320 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: and I hated it. I hate travel right now because

1536
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: of my time as a CBS analyst. It's horror. Don't listen.

1537
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 1: First class, Oh yeah, it must be nice. Yeah cars, No, No,

1538
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:16,480
Speaker 1: it's canceled flights. It's snow storms. It's rain storms. It's delays,

1539
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 1: it's sitting in a term. It's all. It's all the same.

1540
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: It's stinks. Oh that s November week. I've told you

1541
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 1: The story is a gazillion times. I do the game

1542
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday for CBS. I do a Monday night game

1543
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: for radio for Restwood Westwood One, and I'm thinking I

1544
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: can't get home. I'm talking to my wife on the phone.

1545
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: I can't get home. There's no way I'm gonna be

1546
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: able to get home. It's gonna be awful. I fly

1547
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: in we get Land on time. It's sunny and Buffalo.

1548
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: You look south and people know it looked like a

1549
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 1: movie effect, like if you walked into this cloud, you

1550
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: were gonna disappear, like you know, like if you build it.

1551
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: They were like walking into that cornfield, you just kind

1552
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: of go away. Right. So yeah, So I go downtown

1553
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. I scalp a ticket to the Sabers game.

1554
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: I go into the Sabers game because I can't get home.

1555
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:07,839
Speaker 1: I can't get home. I go to the Sabers scans

1556
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: the ticket. He scans the ticket and says, you can

1557
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:16,839
Speaker 1: sit anywhere you want. And I go in. It's empty.

1558
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: You can hear the guy's talking on the eye. Nobody

1559
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 1: can get to the game. I'm just gonna tell you

1560
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: right now, that guy that you scalped the ticket off

1561
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: of had to feel like the luckiest man in Buffalo

1562
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: that got that guy in the middle of a six

1563
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: snow event, somehow Brownie managed to scalp a ticket to

1564
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:40,759
Speaker 1: the Lonely Soul that found his way to the Arounie

1565
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:45,640
Speaker 1: Brownie twenty dollars. Twenty dollars, I could sit anywhere, and

1566
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 1: he was happy that he was, Like who So anyway,

1567
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: so listen. I get up the next day. It's Wednesday

1568
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: by this time, and then there's six inches of snow

1569
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 1: in the city. But it's still sunny day. It's it's

1570
01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: snowed overnight. Still can't get home. I still can't get home.

1571
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: So I call CBS. I go, hey, guys, here's my deal.

1572
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sitting here and you know, what do

1573
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: I what do you think? And they go, hey, we're

1574
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:08,639
Speaker 1: gonna your next games in Atlanta. Go to Atlanta. We're

1575
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: sending you there Wednesday afternoon. So I go to Wednesday afternoon.

1576
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:14,719
Speaker 1: I go to Atlanta for the Atlanta game the next weekend.

1577
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: At this point, you gotta get your laundry done too, right,

1578
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: I'd go buy underwear in socks. Yeah, So I go

1579
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: to that. I go to Atlanta. I'm latching the Weather channel. Who,

1580
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: by the way, Rick Santor is standing on main street

1581
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: in my village that I can't get home to Jim

1582
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: Jim CANTOREI yeah, that guy, Jim Cantore is standing on

1583
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: my street in my town. So I'm watching him get home.

1584
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: I can't get there. So I do the game. Sunday,

1585
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: CBS calls me and says, hey, the Bills game got

1586
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: moved to Detroit. Can you do the sideline reporting for

1587
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: the Bill's jets? Like, yeah, I'm in. I go to Detroit,

1588
01:28:57,320 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 1: do that game on the sideline, and that's the one.

1589
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:00,800
Speaker 1: That's the one. And I knew it was gonna happen.

1590
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: I called it. Bills rolled those guys. Oh yeah, they

1591
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: rolled them. And I and I did that game. Story.

1592
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: I flew home back. I flew home on the charter,

1593
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: like you. I flew home on the plane. And and

1594
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: remember what happened. We got home. Kelso, Mark Kelso gives

1595
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 1: me a ride to my house. If it wasn't so wet,

1596
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 1: I could have mowed my lawn. Yeah, it was gone.

1597
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: It was all gone. The snow, the six feet of snow,

1598
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: everything's all gone. Amazing, amazing story too. Four games in

1599
01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 1: like twelve games. Crazy, all right, we gotta take a break.

1600
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,719
Speaker 1: We're back to close it up next time it feels

1601
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:51,879
Speaker 1: flack all right. The Bills are back on the practice

1602
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 1: field tomorrow. We are at a time. We'll see you

1603
01:29:54,479 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 1: tomorrow at one Zo