Speaker 1: After a brief holiday hiatus, we are back here on
Speaker 1: Bills by the Numbers, where we let the stats tell
Speaker 1: you where the Bills are at. We're presented by Fan
Speaker 1: Duel Make every moment more coming up? How well positioned
Speaker 1: are the Bills in the AFC Conference playoff race? Is
Speaker 1: the division title even a remote possibility? And what opponents
Speaker 1: could be a bad postseason matchup for Buffalo? Steve is
Speaker 1: quizzed on Bill's December history, and we'll have our one
Speaker 1: burning question. Somebody get the shovel. We got to move
Speaker 1: some snow. Oh, it's good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: Steve Bill's Ball of Famous, Steve's Master on Bill's played
Speaker 1: by playman Chris Brown, and we've made it to December.
Speaker 1: Here in the twenty twenty five season, the Bills, heading
Speaker 1: into Week fourteen, are in the seventh and final playoff
Speaker 1: position at eight and four as the lowest seated wild
Speaker 1: card team. That is, of course subject to change, as
Speaker 1: eight teams are separated by three games in the lost
Speaker 1: column with five to play in the AFC. Right now,
Speaker 1: the New York Times playoff simulator projects the Bills to
Speaker 1: finish eleven and six and be the five seed in
Speaker 1: the afcmen the season is over. They have the Colts
Speaker 1: and Jaguars as the six and seven seeds with ten
Speaker 1: and seven records. Their division champions are New England, Denver, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and Baltimore, which would mean the Bills would face the
Speaker 1: Ravens in Baltimore in a rematch of last year's divisional playoffs.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on that, Steve Tasker, that is juicy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not happy thoughts about that. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: face it, though, when you get in them, nobody knows
Speaker 2: better than the Buffalo Bills. When you get into the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you're going to start meeting some really quality teams who
Speaker 2: are really playing well and have figured some things out.
Speaker 2: Whether they've been injured in the regular season or not,
Speaker 2: they're overcoming it and they figured out how their best
Speaker 2: way to win and they're very good at it. So
Speaker 2: you're gonna it's not gonna be any cakewalk no matter
Speaker 2: which of the division winners you get as a wild card.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be an uphill battle. And so I'm I.
Speaker 2: You know, the theme of this pod is, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of this post game tournament, postseason tournament that.
Speaker 1: We're talking about, and how it's shaping up.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there is a favorable path to
Speaker 2: get to the super Bowl for this team coming out
Speaker 2: of the wildcard because they're all all the teams that
Speaker 2: are division winners that seem like rough matchups right now.
Speaker 1: Well right, but I think if you if you get
Speaker 1: the top wild card seed, you're playing the conceivably weakest
Speaker 1: division winner, and the Ravens are beat up. They're a
Speaker 1: beat up crew. Derrick Henry does not look the same
Speaker 1: as he did in September. Maybe those thirty one year
Speaker 1: old legs are finally slowing down. I'm not dismissing Baltimore
Speaker 1: as a walk don't get me wrong. Right, Plus, you're
Speaker 1: in their building, and we know how when that crowd
Speaker 1: gets behind them, if they go to a fast start,
Speaker 1: they're a front running team.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have a chip on their shoulder from what
Speaker 2: happened in Week one. They'll remember that. They'll remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm I get you, and you're right. But I'll say this,
Speaker 2: just because Baltimore has the worst record doesn't mean in
Speaker 2: a month and a half we got five weeks. Yes,
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that in five weeks they're not gonna
Speaker 2: be the team you don't want to play. That's true,
Speaker 2: a lot like the Cincinnati Bengals have been in years
Speaker 2: past when they just missed the playoffs, where it's like, man,
Speaker 2: I hope they don't get in. Yeah, right, So it
Speaker 2: could be like that for any one of these division winners.
Speaker 2: Although you know New England looks like that, has looked
Speaker 2: like that for ten weeks, right, And best to luck.
Speaker 1: As to who the AFC South Champs gonna be. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's would be the Colts, it could be the Texas,
Speaker 1: it could be the Jaguars. You don't know.
Speaker 2: That may be the division champion that I might relish
Speaker 2: playing the most.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean you don't know who the AFC
Speaker 1: North champs gonna be.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: I mean, to your point on the Bengals, there are
Speaker 1: two games out on the lost column at four and
Speaker 1: eight with five to play. They could get in.
Speaker 2: I could get in.
Speaker 1: They could get in. They could win the division. The
Speaker 1: division championship is the best route to the place.
Speaker 2: Nobody has iced the division yet. Uh. Certainly, the New
Speaker 2: England Patriots look far and away like they're gonna run
Speaker 2: off with the East. They still haven't mathematically.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Ravens, Steelers, Bengals. Steelers out to a
Speaker 2: fast start. Now they're stumbling. Year they're in flames. Ravens
Speaker 2: just the opposite, stumbled out of the gates. Now they're cooking.
Speaker 2: But they look hamstrung, no pun intended, look the same.
Speaker 1: He's injured, clearly.
Speaker 2: The Bengals, Joe Burrow's back in the saddle, and they
Speaker 2: look they looked like grease lightning last week against the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens, SO and Cleveland. They may have the best
Speaker 2: defense in the division right So, not that they're going anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna go anywhere, but they are they can
Speaker 2: be a huge spoiler for any of these teams. So
Speaker 2: I'm I'm with you. I'm you don't know who it's
Speaker 2: going to be. It's a wide open race. There are
Speaker 2: conceived within reason two and a half teams, the Steelers, Ravens,
Speaker 2: and Bengals. And I like the Bengals better than Steelers
Speaker 2: right now. Steelers are in flames.
Speaker 1: Bengals can't stop anybody. But if they could score thirty
Speaker 1: five every week, I'll win more than they love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in the long term, when you live like that,
Speaker 2: it's not sustainable. It's not sustainable because you know, somebody
Speaker 2: drops a pass and you lose.
Speaker 1: The Bills currently have a ninety one percent chance to
Speaker 1: reach the postseason, sitting at eight and four, but just
Speaker 1: an eight percent chance to win the division. New England,
Speaker 1: as we know, has the division league by three games
Speaker 1: over Buffalo with five to play. They also have a
Speaker 1: superior division record, three and oh to Buffalo's two and
Speaker 1: two mark. What's interesting is the Patriots are five and
Speaker 1: two at home and a perfect six and oh on
Speaker 1: the road. Buffalo faces them coming off of theirby in
Speaker 1: week fifteen. If the Bills beat Cincinnati in Week fourteen,
Speaker 1: their chances of win the division improved slightly to eleven percent.
Speaker 1: If they follow that with a win in New England,
Speaker 1: those chances improve to twenty four percent. The division is
Speaker 1: a long shot at best, because they would also need
Speaker 1: New England to fall off a cliff. But how likely
Speaker 1: do you see the Bills running off a string of
Speaker 1: wins in December? Let's start there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I certainly think they're going to have
Speaker 2: a winning record for the rest of the way. From Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: New England, Cleveland, Philly and the Jets they're going to
Speaker 2: win more than they lose. I don't know that they're
Speaker 2: going to go four and one. They might, they might.
Speaker 2: I don't know that you can go five and oh.
Speaker 2: I don't know they're going to go five and oh
Speaker 2: finish the season six and oh. Coming off the Pittsburgh game,
Speaker 2: although it's going to be a tussle every game, I
Speaker 2: think the Bills are going to play well enough to
Speaker 2: do that. They've got Philly at home, They've got the
Speaker 2: Jets at home. They've got Cincinnati at home. The New
Speaker 2: England and Philly game are the ones that kind of
Speaker 2: stand out as real issues. Philly, It'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see the kind of shape therein emotionally when they get here.
Speaker 2: They are getting run through.
Speaker 1: The Ringer and Dallas is super hot right now and
Speaker 1: in their division.
Speaker 2: Yes, their fans are unhappy, their team is unhappy. They're
Speaker 2: getting picked apart in the media. They have all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff going on that they have to deal with.
Speaker 2: Forget about the team they're playing. It's like putting fires out.
Speaker 2: There's a good chance to go to need that game though.
Speaker 2: In Week seventeen, absolutely so. The New England and Philly
Speaker 2: games are the ones that you kind of look at
Speaker 2: and go, man, here we go. But the other three
Speaker 2: you're gonna be favored in, and you should be. And
Speaker 2: they get a break with having the ones at home.
Speaker 2: They've got at home. So yeah, the Bills could. The
Speaker 2: Bills are always gonna have a winning record coming down.
Speaker 2: They've played very well at this time of year in
Speaker 2: years past. Their coaching staff and McDermott have done a
Speaker 2: very nice job of finding like I said in the
Speaker 2: beginning of the podcast this segment, they're good at figuring
Speaker 2: out their best way to win, even after all the
Speaker 2: injuries and after the turnovers and all the things that
Speaker 2: have happened to them in years past. And they have
Speaker 2: figured it out. And so I would imagine going to
Speaker 2: continue to do that, and so they'll play some of
Speaker 2: their best football coming down the stretch.
Speaker 1: They typically have under Sean McDermott. And so I'm bullish
Speaker 1: on the Bills finishing strong here again. And I think
Speaker 1: for some reason, with this group, when the picture of
Speaker 1: what needs to happen for them to get where they
Speaker 1: want to go comes clearer into focus here at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, they're they're really good about kind
Speaker 1: of honing in and going want to know every.
Speaker 2: Single that comes from the that comes from Josh. We've
Speaker 2: seen it with just casual observance of watching him play
Speaker 2: in big moments, and you go into the analytics, it's
Speaker 2: the same thing. He he's got an extra gear and
Speaker 2: he seems to find it in this time of season.
Speaker 1: Now, if Buffalo is able to win four of their
Speaker 1: last five and their only loss is to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: which would not be a conference loss, they would finish
Speaker 1: twelve five and would have the top wild card seed
Speaker 1: locked up. The only way that would be good enough
Speaker 1: to win the division, though, is if the Patriots lose
Speaker 1: three of their last four, with two of the three
Speaker 1: being division losses, one obviously to Buffalo and head to head,
Speaker 1: and then they'd have to lose to the Jets or Miami.
Speaker 1: As we said at the top of this podcast, Buffalo
Speaker 1: is projected to face the Ravens in Baltimore according to
Speaker 1: the New York Times Playoff Machine, knowing the other projected
Speaker 1: options would be Denver or Jacksonville in the wild card round.
Speaker 1: Is there an opponent you would prefer over the Ravens
Speaker 1: in that group?
Speaker 2: Yes, well Jacksonville, Yeah, I would not.
Speaker 1: That going to Jacksonville has yielded fruitful results of this
Speaker 1: team under McDermott.
Speaker 2: Either I would take. I would take any team in
Speaker 2: the South except Houston. I don't want to go down
Speaker 2: there either. Yeah, we had, we've seen that. But Indianapolis
Speaker 2: or Jacksonville. I would take any either one of.
Speaker 1: Those teams, not over though, with that No, not with.
Speaker 2: That defense, and going up there in the altitude late
Speaker 2: in the year, it'll be bitter cold, dry, It'll be dry,
Speaker 2: but it'll be bitter cold. Now, Buffalo's played well up there,
Speaker 2: not that they've won every game up there, but Josh's
Speaker 2: played well up there. Remember they had the nice game nineteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but twenty twenty, those would be the ones that either
Speaker 2: Jacksonville or Indianapolis coming out of the South would be
Speaker 2: a more favorable matchup in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: play Houston. That might be one of Houston or Denver.
Speaker 1: They're not good matchups for Buffalo. I They're both very
Speaker 1: good at stopping the pass because of their pass rushes,
Speaker 1: so yeah, and.
Speaker 2: There's no way going to play them here, and.
Speaker 1: Their run defenses are strong enough to slow down what
Speaker 1: you do on the ground, even a league leading rushing attack.
Speaker 1: So I don't think those are good matches for Buffalo
Speaker 1: at all. You want to give me Jacksonville, I'll take
Speaker 1: it in a second. You want to give me Indianapolis
Speaker 1: talented team, a lot of highly skilled players. I just
Speaker 1: think they're new to the postseason. I think you slow
Speaker 1: down Jonathan Taylor, put the game in Daniel Jones hands,
Speaker 1: and you probably have them Ravens tough in their building,
Speaker 1: playoff tested, battle tested, is Lamar healthy though. That's that's
Speaker 1: the big thing. I was watching those options.
Speaker 2: I was watching last week's game Cincinnati against Baltimore, where
Speaker 2: Cincinnati lumped him up pretty good. Baltimore was all over
Speaker 2: him in the early going. They had I say, a
Speaker 2: likely muff a touchdown, Yeah, that he had. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Then they had another touchdown called back and that so
Speaker 2: that game changed dramatically, and you would expect. I was
Speaker 2: shocked when I saw the final score of that game.
Speaker 2: When when you look back at it and Baltimore bolt
Speaker 2: Baltimore loses only scores fourteen points against Cincinnatis defense, Well,
Speaker 2: you see the reason. They had two touchdowns taken back
Speaker 2: and so that's and that not only takes it off
Speaker 2: of their ledger, but all so gives Cincinnati an extra possession.
Speaker 2: So all that stuff being said, Baltimore doesn't look the same. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just don't. As you know, the bad breaks they got.
Speaker 2: Lamar just doesn't look the same. And I'll say this
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati did some dumb stuff defensively that I don't
Speaker 2: think Buffalo would do. We'll just see.
Speaker 1: He's had three different injuries over the past month, knee, ankle, toe,
Speaker 1: He's not moving the same way. I think it's impacting
Speaker 1: his decision making because of you know, he's playing hurt
Speaker 1: and it's distracting him. I think it's impacting how he
Speaker 1: plays the dynamic athlete that he is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think I think he's only had I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he's had an offensive touchdown since he's returned to the lineup.
Speaker 1: It's been mostly rushing touchdowns for the Ravens and he
Speaker 1: has not impacted them on the scoreboard nearly as much
Speaker 1: as where you seeing him. There is a chance that Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and Cincinnati all missed the playoffs. How would
Speaker 1: that change your outlook on Buffalo's chances? This postseason, if
Speaker 1: those clubs were all out of the playoff picture.
Speaker 2: Well, and if that's the case, there's no question Buffalo's
Speaker 2: got the best quarterback in the conference in the playoffs SILF. Now,
Speaker 2: Drake may is playing extremely well, no question. But Josh's
Speaker 2: got a bigger engine and he's got a higher ceiling
Speaker 2: and all that. Here's the problem. Yes, your quarterback's better
Speaker 2: than anybody else in the tournament. But I don't know
Speaker 2: that this roster and the team that's made up around Josh,
Speaker 2: because of the injuries and the turnover and the stuff
Speaker 2: we've seen, that he doesn't have more question marks than
Speaker 2: any roster that's been around Josh and one of these
Speaker 2: other tournaments they've been in. So I don't know that.
Speaker 2: I don't know that the answers to the questions we
Speaker 2: have about who the injuries, the pass rush, Bosa's health,
Speaker 2: Ed Oliver's out, all the you know, all the injuries
Speaker 2: that they've had, Michael Hoyts out. This surrounding cast around
Speaker 2: Josh may have more question marks than any roster Josh
Speaker 2: has gone to the tournament with it outside of maybe
Speaker 2: two now to nineteen. Right, So yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 2: love it that those quarterbacks are out of the mix
Speaker 2: because it gives you, you know, the trump card every game.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that this supporting cast has been
Speaker 2: healthy enough and shown enough ability to overcome it that
Speaker 2: it would make a difference. CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud has not gotten it done in the playoffs for
Speaker 1: the Texans. Daniel Jones is a mystery. Bo Nicks has
Speaker 1: his detractors. They can't score points right now, right defense
Speaker 1: is winning them games.
Speaker 2: Drake May is a problem.
Speaker 1: May is a problem. Drake May is a problem for
Speaker 1: stretches of this season. He's been the most efficient quarterback
Speaker 1: in football, and he's a big play quarterback as well.
Speaker 1: So and he's got an aces coordinator who has been
Speaker 1: there and won Super Bowls and m Annuals. So that
Speaker 1: guy's probably your biggest threat if those other Cats are
Speaker 1: not in the playoffs, as has been the case for
Speaker 1: the last several years. Let's pivot to the numbers game,
Speaker 1: where we'll see if Steve can nail down some Bills
Speaker 1: December history.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Question number one, Steve, how many wins do you think
Speaker 1: the Bills have in the month of December since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: so the last five Decembers how many total wins do
Speaker 1: you think the Bills have concumulated?
Speaker 2: How many Sundays is that total? Give me that? Usually four?
Speaker 2: All right, so it's five four twenty. Uh, well, they
Speaker 2: had to won that where they lost it to throw
Speaker 2: away a game, let's say twenty. I'll say they finished eighteen.
Speaker 1: You nailed it, Steve. It is exactly eighteen, exactly eighteen.
Speaker 1: Question number two, how many times since twenty twenty have
Speaker 1: the Bills gone undefeated in September.
Speaker 2: Twenty to twenty one?
Speaker 1: Four undefeated in September since.
Speaker 2: Twenty September or December?
Speaker 1: December? December undefeated in December? I will say since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean three times.
Speaker 1: Three times will be correct. Two for Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I did the math on that because it had you
Speaker 2: don't have two losses in that?
Speaker 1: Well you got you actually have three total losses. But yes, okay,
Speaker 1: but you're on.
Speaker 2: My bad math two for two.
Speaker 1: Question number three, since twenty twenty, what do you think
Speaker 1: the Bills points per game average is in the month
Speaker 1: of December since twenty twenty? Points per game average, I'll.
Speaker 2: Say thirty two and change, oh so close, really thirty
Speaker 2: one and.
Speaker 1: Change thirty one points per game on the nose and
Speaker 1: question number four since twenty twenty, which single season was
Speaker 1: it that the Bills averaged the most points per game
Speaker 1: in December? You know, over all those years they've averaged
Speaker 1: thirty one. What's the high water mark in December? Which
Speaker 1: year in that stretch? Twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, let's say
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and Steve, you have gone got four
Speaker 1: four in the numbers game running the table.
Speaker 2: That's girls, Steve.
Speaker 1: Is mister December. I've missed December twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: They fever got me. The first one that got me
Speaker 2: when I got eighteen out of twenty win. That was
Speaker 2: that was big.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four, they averaged thirty seven point eight points per.
Speaker 2: Year they had had the they remember they had the
Speaker 2: LA game forty two that they lost and then they
Speaker 2: scored forty four, forty eight, forty eight and beat against Troy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that.
Speaker 1: That juiced the number up a little bit. Let's go
Speaker 1: uh in case you're wondering, in twenty twenty the Bills
Speaker 1: were four and oh. In twenty twenty one, two and two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, four and oh twenty twenty three, four
Speaker 1: and oh twenty twenty four, four and one.
Speaker 2: Then they had to throw away game in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Four, but that was in January. Oh okay, so that
Speaker 1: didn't count. There was another loss mixed in there. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know where it was. But yeah,
Speaker 1: four and one last year in the months of December.
Speaker 1: They can go four and one this year in December, right,
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Speaker 1: now for our one burning question, and this has to
Speaker 1: do with Buffalo's defense. Does Jack Thompson and play on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball warrant more time at
Speaker 1: the middle linebacker spot even when Terrell Bernard is healthy again?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I would say yes. The thing that you
Speaker 2: know Milano has stayed healthy and seems to be playing
Speaker 2: a little bit better. You see him making attackle once
Speaker 2: in a while. He's not you know, he's not the
Speaker 2: All Pro uh Matt Mlano three years ago, but he's
Speaker 2: playing better. Shaq Thompson brings something to the table. And listen,
Speaker 2: I'll say this though too. What we have noticed about
Speaker 2: Shaq Thompson from the Pittsburgh game to the middle of
Speaker 2: the week and coming into the Cincinnati game is his
Speaker 2: leadership and what he brought to the table and the lead.
Speaker 2: You know, he stood up in the meeting, he did,
Speaker 2: you know, gave all this stuff and and got his
Speaker 2: guys fired up. That's also what Terrell, That's why Terrell
Speaker 2: Bernard is on the field. He's that the same He's
Speaker 2: cut from that same cloth. So it will come down
Speaker 2: to the guy they want on the field, how he
Speaker 2: plays the physical and the and the tackling ability and
Speaker 2: the size of Shaq or you know, the athleticism and
Speaker 2: speed and playing in space of Terrell Bernard. Neither one
Speaker 2: of you get the feeling. Neither one of those guys
Speaker 2: will balk at any way. They are used. They're all
Speaker 2: they're buying into whatever the plan is. So if you
Speaker 2: if you switch them in and out on down and
Speaker 2: distance for coverage and run stop or whatever whatever. I'm
Speaker 2: sure neither guy will beef that at all. But Shaq
Speaker 2: Thompson has earned more opportunities and we've we've talked about
Speaker 2: it at length with the Sean McDermott era. When you
Speaker 2: earn it, you get it, So it's hard to envision
Speaker 2: him not getting more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has been a physical presence at the second
Speaker 1: level of their defense. I think over the course of
Speaker 1: the season when he has been in there, he's been
Speaker 1: their most consistent linebacker. I don't think we're talking out
Speaker 1: of school and saying that. And look, it's not an
Speaker 1: issue right now because Bernard is dealing with a pretty
Speaker 1: bad elbow injury. We don't know the nature of it,
Speaker 1: but it kind of looked like it got dislocated. That's
Speaker 1: not fun. It's gonna take him in it for him
Speaker 1: to get right. But when he does come back, this
Speaker 1: is a very good problem for the Bills to have
Speaker 1: because all too often they get to the end of
Speaker 1: the season and they don't have enough people.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Having a us nurplus would be a welcome change for
Speaker 1: this team going into the postseason.
Speaker 2: There's they have five games left. It's over a month.
Speaker 2: It's week after week after week after week. They've still
Speaker 2: got to get to the end of the season. They're
Speaker 2: not out of this yet. They've got I mean, they're
Speaker 2: not in the playoffs. They have you know, nothing is
Speaker 2: settled yet. They've got a long way to go. And
Speaker 2: that's you know, us sitting here and it's like, wow,
Speaker 2: we got all these games, you know they got They've
Speaker 2: played twelve games, they got five games left. It is
Speaker 2: a long way. A third of the season is left.
Speaker 2: It's a marathon. So they've got a long way to
Speaker 2: go to get to the end of the season. I'm sure,
Speaker 2: I'm abs one hundred percent sure that they're gonna need
Speaker 2: Terrell Bernard back on the field at some point badly,
Speaker 2: whether it's Milano sitting down, or whether it's Shaq Thompson
Speaker 2: getting tweaked, or something other else happens where they were
Speaker 2: Tarren Johnson gets nicked. Now they're gonna go three linebackers.
Speaker 2: All of that's on the table because they got so
Speaker 2: far to go. But yes, you know, Shaq Thompson has
Speaker 2: made his presence felt. It is a good problem to
Speaker 2: have when Bernard gets healthy if he can, but you're
Speaker 2: gonna need him. You gotta get everybody healthy as you can,
Speaker 2: as healthy as you possibly can.
Speaker 1: Like coach McDermott says, when people talk about backups and
Speaker 1: you know the last three four guys on the roster,
Speaker 1: he looks right at the media member that asks the
Speaker 1: question and says, we're gonna need everybody. Yeah, he knows
Speaker 1: all too well. This season is far too long. It's
Speaker 1: a battle of attrition. You're gonna need everybody. Our closing
Speaker 1: figure deals with wild card playoff teams and their Super
Speaker 1: Bowl chances. In the Super Bowl era, seven wild card
Speaker 1: teams have gone on to win the Super Bowl the
Speaker 1: old playoff system, four seed has won it three times,
Speaker 1: the five two times, and the sixth seed two times.
Speaker 1: The last time a wild card team won at all
Speaker 1: was in February of twenty twenty one, when the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers went from the five seed with Tom Brady
Speaker 1: to Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Let's not that long ago. It is not.
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