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Speaker 1: Oh good time, Steve Tasper the textime tex down text time.

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Speaker 1: Here we go again, Welcome to the show. Tuesday afternoon

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park, New York. Tonight stay here. NIC's fall

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Speaker 1: day and temperature in the sixties. The Bills getting set

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Speaker 1: to hit the road again, headed to the NFC North again,

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Speaker 1: headed to Green Bay lambeau Field to play the Packers

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Players day off on Tuesday. No days off

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Speaker 1: for One Bill's Live John Murphy's Steve Tasker in our

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Speaker 1: one Buffalo Studio. I remember the days when I first started,

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Speaker 1: I was taken every other day off. Were is that?

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Speaker 1: Those those were the days first were the day The

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Speaker 1: days are gone. We're in the season now, We're come

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Speaker 1: in here three cups deep into my mornay and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you know what what happens? And I noticed it. I

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Speaker 1: noticed it yesterday. When you get into this part of

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Speaker 1: the season, the week start rocketing by, right. It's all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's Monday, and you know you've thought

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Speaker 1: about Sunday's game, You've watched Monday, You've watched Sunday's video,

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Speaker 1: and you start to look ahead. The weeks start flying

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Speaker 1: by right about now, Steve. The next time I stop

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Speaker 1: and take my breath, it'll be the bye week, which

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Speaker 1: is November something, right in November. It just happens this

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Speaker 1: we're neck deep in it. I mean this week, it's

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Speaker 1: the first month of the season's over on Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, Week four and that for that rough stretch

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Speaker 1: of the schedule that the Bills were, you know that

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Speaker 1: we could see it coming down the road from April.

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Speaker 1: It's like, wow, look at those first four games. Baltimore's saying,

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Speaker 1: was going to be a murderers row those first four weeks.

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Speaker 1: And we're almost through it. Yeah, almost through it, with

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Speaker 1: a chance to get to five hundred with a win

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Speaker 1: at Green Bay. We'll talk about that obviously over the

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Speaker 1: next three or four days here on the show. It

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Speaker 1: is Green Bay. It is a iconic and historic venue

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. The Bills don't play there

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Speaker 1: very often, but they're playing there this Sunday. I talked

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Speaker 1: to a couple of different fans, so I know people,

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Speaker 1: I know Bills fans who are headed to Lambo this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people look at this as a pig you

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Speaker 1: know this week. I had to get tickets for this

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Speaker 1: is he has a group of guys that are they

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Speaker 1: go every year to one of the road games. Right well,

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Speaker 1: they want to go to Lambeau. Have you you've been there,

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Speaker 1: right Murphys? Right so, and it is an iconic place.

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Speaker 1: You go there and it does reek of history of

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Speaker 1: the NFL. You go back in his Vince Lombardi everywhere,

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Speaker 1: it's bart Star, it's you know, all those those days

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Speaker 1: and uh now and then the more recent memory bread

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Speaker 1: Far and all of that, all the world championships. But

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Speaker 1: it's kind of cool. So I got I gotta go

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Speaker 1: pick those tickets up and get him, get my buddy

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Speaker 1: before the weekend. Yeah, it's there's a lot of Buffalo

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Speaker 1: people going. Yeah. And if you haven't, yeah, there is.

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Speaker 1: And if you haven't been there, um, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying you know you because it's not eat you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not like flying into a city and and driving

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of the stadium. It's it's in Green Bay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got to like land in Milwaukee, drive

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Speaker 1: a nice drive, you don't get me wrong. It's nice

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Speaker 1: and it's long, you know, like Michigan and all that.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna go on a short list, it's on

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Speaker 1: a second. But for CBS, have you done a number

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Speaker 1: of games at Green Bay over your career? I've done

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Speaker 1: h one or two? Yeah, yeah, not very many. So

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Speaker 1: and how many times did you play there? And you're

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Speaker 1: playing uh one? And we will count your final game.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a game, you know, probably two two

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Speaker 1: and we count that game. When did you get tossed?

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Speaker 1: It counts. When did you get tossed five plays in kickoff?

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Speaker 1: the Lambo Tour, the fan tour that they do, no

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Speaker 1: no because it was crowded. You know, it was sold

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Speaker 1: Everybody was like everybody was poking their head and the

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Speaker 1: saying hey are you okay? Hey is that okay? Wow? Hey? Hey?

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Speaker 1: is he okay? Like you were eating the sandwich. Runn't

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Speaker 1: my fault. It was a bad call. It wasn't my fault,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't. They did tell me they shouldn't have happened. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they told me that for a long time. They felt

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Speaker 1: bad about it. Mike, and listen to this. I'll do

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Speaker 1: another story. We're in Baltimore week one this year and

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Speaker 1: So's Mike. Uh, Mike not Mike Pereira, although uh, Mike

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Speaker 1: guy who the white hat who's had Steve, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I pulled, the officials were huddled up, and I pulled

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Speaker 1: And also on that crew was Mike Pereira, the Fox guy,

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Speaker 1: They apologize we shouldn't have done that, Steve Jerry remember

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Speaker 1: Probably you know it's all right if you missed it.

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Speaker 1: Steve got thrown out of his final NFL game for

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Speaker 1: the Bills in Green Bay. What was the year two

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Speaker 1: season's last regular season games in January nineteen. He was

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Speaker 1: a bad guy. I mean he was. I was a

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Speaker 1: You get that stuff comes out of that passion comes

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Speaker 1: even about and they were smart en. It wasn't about them.

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Speaker 1: it wasn't only indirectly at any right here for you, Murphy,

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Speaker 1: I'm venting for you. Wasn't about me either. I'm good today.

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Speaker 1: One more thing about lambou Field. I have a come No, seriously,

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Speaker 1: it's good to have a fight not involving me for

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Speaker 1: It's it's a unique place. It's a charming place. It's charming.

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Speaker 1: The fans are great, they are, but it's not sacred ground.

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Speaker 1: It's not like let's as a pilgrimage and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: don't know. The players won't get caught up in there,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to see Bills fan get caught

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I hate the Packers this week. Bands are

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Speaker 1: great there, they are great. I'll never forget. I can't.

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Speaker 1: because he is it. Confidence. I asked him once, I said,

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Speaker 1: you have supreme confidence in your arm, and he said no,

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Speaker 1: he said, if you classic face, he said, no, have

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Speaker 1: you seen me throw? Of course I don't have that

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Speaker 1: much confidence in my arm, he said, but I want.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to take a chance to make plays. And

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Speaker 1: he takes chances and miss his plays sometimes it makes

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Speaker 1: him Sometimes you gotta if you're gonna play him, which

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Speaker 1: teams are reluctant have been reluctant to do, to commit

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Speaker 1: to him as he's our guy at the start of

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Speaker 1: the season, right, teams have been reluctant to do that.

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna do that, you gotta be ready

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Speaker 1: for the upstand the downs. Think about it. You'll get

437
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Speaker 1: it all the time thinking about it. Murph, talk about

438
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Speaker 1: the pendulum of the quarterback that has happened in Buffalo.

439
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Speaker 1: You got the pendulum of Fitzpatrick, who was mister gunslinger,

440
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Speaker 1: and he's got he's gonna okay arm, but he takes chances.

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Speaker 1: He's likable. You love the guy. He's smart, The team's

442
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Speaker 1: always in a pretty good play against whoever they're playing.

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Speaker 1: He's you know all that, but he's slinging. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna let it go. Then the pendulum swings back

445
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Speaker 1: the other way to Tyrod. He won't throw it, he's

446
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 1: not taking any chances. He's pulling it down. He'll he'll

447
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Speaker 1: scamper for a three yard gain or dive forward or

448
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Speaker 1: it's frustratingly he will never try anything. And that you

449
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Speaker 1: know when you how does that work? That pendulum? And

450
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Speaker 1: of course if you could mix those two together, you

451
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Speaker 1: would either have a frankenstein of a guy who turns

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Speaker 1: it over every time he touches it, or a likable

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Speaker 1: guy who may as well kneel down. Right, You're you're exaggerating, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So Buffalo fans have ridden

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Speaker 1: that roller coaster at quarterback a lot, a lot, and

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Speaker 1: uh and it's been extremes. And you think about those

457
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Speaker 1: two guys who once played for the Bills and how

458
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 1: different they were and both pretty productive at times with fits.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it, too, is instinct. I

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Speaker 1: tried to I wasn't badgeringing, but I was trying to

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Speaker 1: put him down once about one. Is it that makes

462
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Speaker 1: you force it into coverage? What are you looking for?

463
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Speaker 1: And he said it's instinct, he said, I don't even

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Speaker 1: think about it. He said, instinct. I know what the

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Speaker 1: play is supposed to be. I know where my reeds are,

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Speaker 1: and if I think I have a chance to get

467
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Speaker 1: it there, it's gone, I will unload it. Now maybe

468
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Speaker 1: you know, and we're talking about split seconds here, right.

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Speaker 1: I tried to put him down, say what is it

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Speaker 1: that makes you pull the trigger. By the way his

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Speaker 1: face after that one touchdownd was ridiculous. After both touchdownds,

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Speaker 1: they gave him a chance, They had a chance to

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Speaker 1: win that game, and they got to stop. They had

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Speaker 1: him stopped and then Roethlisberger makes the throw I described

475
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Speaker 1: a minute ago, and it game's over. But they played

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Speaker 1: in an absolute mud puddle last night in Raymond James Stadium.

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Speaker 1: It had been raining and you know, by the end

478
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Speaker 1: of the game, the field was, you know, quagmire. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Fits is fun. The Steelers win. Fits through for

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Speaker 1: four hundred yards. What the only to see the first

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Speaker 1: It's the only quarterback in NFL history to throw for

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Speaker 1: three straight four hundred yard games in three Ryan Fitzpatrick, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: makes him fun. He Now what do they do? What

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Speaker 1: do you think they do? Winston is eligible right next

485
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Speaker 1: week they put him back in. I would stay with Fits.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, did you see And for those of

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Speaker 1: you who didn't watch the game last night, something happened

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Speaker 1: in that game as well, Um with Vance McDonald tied

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Speaker 1: end for the Steelers. And think back in Buffalo Bill's

490
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Speaker 1: history a few years ago and Freddie Jackson was running

491
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Speaker 1: they had a game in Chicago and Freddie Jackson goes

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Speaker 1: in for a touchdown and he and he stiff arms

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Speaker 1: the safety Chris Conti and gets in for the touchdown.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the all time great stiff arms.

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Speaker 1: Last night, did okay? So Vans? Last night, Vance McDonald

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Speaker 1: had one of the all time great stiff arms. He

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Speaker 1: comes down, he almost stiff arms, he got twice. Once

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Speaker 1: he gets him and then he pushes him and throws

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Speaker 1: him like a rag doll. And guess what it was,

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Speaker 1: Chris Conti, the same guy Freddie Jackson stiff armed. Oh

501
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Speaker 1: my gosh, it was unbelievable fans. McDonald literally threw the

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Speaker 1: guy onto the sideline and there was only two And

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Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what Chris Conti's thinking.

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Speaker 1: Eat and I get it. You gotta go in low,

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Speaker 1: you gotta pull the guy. He goes in high. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna like grab him around his shoulders and give him

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Speaker 1: a hug, like a holiday hug. And you know, Vance

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Speaker 1: McDonald just said get off me and pushes him down.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was it was huge. It had to

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Speaker 1: be humiliating, and yet we've seen him do it before.

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Speaker 1: So I guess it's not. He's still playing right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. We don't have the we don't

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Speaker 1: have the footage of Freddy Jackson doing it, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, let me tell you something. It was, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: here we do. Here's fred Jackson and he's it's in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Is that game? A lot of people remember it. And

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Speaker 1: he just get off me and pushes him. He didn't

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Speaker 1: get in and well, CONTI did switch numbers with the

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Speaker 1: Tampa by book in heres put the name on the

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Speaker 1: back of the jersey's the same, man, oh man, that

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Speaker 1: is a tough, tough money day. Yeah, to come back

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Speaker 1: from that last night's game. Vance McDonald stiff arming him

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Speaker 1: in this and we're looking right here on the MSG.

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Speaker 1: Freddie Jackson did it in Chicago a handful of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and it was the same thing. He just got lifted

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Speaker 1: into the sideline. All right. On the bills. What's been

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Speaker 1: the most responsible element of their turnaround? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple of calls in. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to them after the break and we'll take your responses

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can vote in our Twitter poll or

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Speaker 1: let us know via Twitter what you think most responsible

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills turnaround so far from the first

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Speaker 1: six quarters to the last six quarters. Offense, defense, coaching.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Give us a call? Eight three

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker, we just got to go in

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Speaker 1: here One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive and this

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio in

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Speaker 1: Archard Park. Bill's players off today, getting ready to come

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Speaker 1: back to practice on Wednesday. Sean McDermot said about the

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Speaker 1: injuries yesterday. Lashawan McCoy will be day to day with

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Speaker 1: his rib injury. Didn't play against the Vikings. Shack Lawson

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Speaker 1: should be ready to return to practice. He's missed a

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Speaker 1: couple of games with a hamstring poll Trent Murphy came

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Speaker 1: out of Sunday's game with a bit of an ankle injury.

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Speaker 1: McDermot says he'll be day today. McDermot kind of talked

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Speaker 1: about the issue that we're talking about today on the show.

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Speaker 1: First six quarters, last six quarters, the turnaround for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: What's been the difference. Sean McDermot at his news conference

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Speaker 1: late yesterday had this reason for the turnaround, at least

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Speaker 1: what he thought was responsible for the Bills around the

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Speaker 1: last six quarters of football. I've seen progress in the

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Speaker 1: last six quarters compared to the first six quords. I

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Speaker 1: know it's been mentioned out there. I think it's accurate.

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Speaker 1: The players I've worked hard, the coaches have worked hard

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Speaker 1: to get on the same page. I think the communication

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Speaker 1: has been a big part of that. But there's still

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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do and we're still early

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Speaker 1: in the season, so you know, we've got to continue

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Speaker 1: to go through that process and getting on the same page,

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Speaker 1: putting the players in positions to be successful, then playing

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Speaker 1: fast and discipline and executing. You know, Steve, if you

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Speaker 1: if you don't listen to that, you might your eyes

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Speaker 1: might glaze over and say, yeah, he didn't answer the question.

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Speaker 1: But I think he did be honest with you. I

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Speaker 1: think when he talked about communication has been a big

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Speaker 1: part of that. The coaches have worked hard to get

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Speaker 1: on the same page, the players have worked hard. Communication,

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Speaker 1: I think is the key. Look you're starting a season,

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Speaker 1: you have a new offensive coordinator, you have a defense

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Speaker 1: that has some new pieces in play, some important new

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Speaker 1: pieces in place. It would make sense that there'd be

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Speaker 1: a little nothing makes sense the way they played defensive

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Speaker 1: first six quarters that was awful, But the fact that

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Speaker 1: there might be a breaking period, I can see that.

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00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: I can see where communication would be an issue. When

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Speaker 1: you think about why did Sean McDermot take over play

589
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: calling second half against the Chargers gave it back to

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Speaker 1: it appeared to Leslie Frasier in Minnesota and I asked

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Speaker 1: him about last Friday. He admitted, You've talked to him.

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Speaker 1: It was communication. He just didn't feel like they were

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Speaker 1: communicating well as a group of coaches and players. So

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Speaker 1: that's why I took it over, That's why I gave

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Speaker 1: it back. I think that is as likely an explanation

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Speaker 1: is out there for why the first six quarters were

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Speaker 1: so bad the last six were pretty good. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a lot. It happens a lot, and

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Speaker 1: you see it around the league where guys will be

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Speaker 1: in the locker room in these postgame interviews and they'll

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Speaker 1: say exactly what McDermott said. Listen, we didn't communicate really well,

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Speaker 1: or we didn't have this ride, or we didn't do

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Speaker 1: this right. And people say, well, that sounds good, but

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Speaker 1: you know what are you talking about communicating? And listen,

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Speaker 1: it's really really complicated. You've got eleven guys trying to

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Speaker 1: defend or attack another eleven guys, and you're trying to

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Speaker 1: You've got complicated schemes, you've got verbiage, you've got adjustments

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Speaker 1: that are made on the fly very quickly, and your

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Speaker 1: ability to communicate what you're gonna do or for safety's

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Speaker 1: or for center on the offensive line or a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You've got to communicate what you want other people to do.

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Speaker 1: And so that this guy over here knows what this

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Speaker 1: guy's doing, and they're both playing the same coverage or

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00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: they're they're running the same protection up front, and it

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Speaker 1: happens so fast. You can only use one word to communicate,

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Speaker 1: or one or two words to communicate, and if you

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Speaker 1: get an extra half a second to do that, it

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Speaker 1: really helps. And and that's the kind of split seconds

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Speaker 1: we're talking about. So this communication thing is not just

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Speaker 1: coach speak. It's real. It's a real thing, and it

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Speaker 1: takes some time because these guys, and this is really true,

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Speaker 1: guys come up and like just between the two of us,

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Speaker 1: like Murph and I, if we were on the team,

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Speaker 1: we could in our interactions and on the field we

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Speaker 1: played together for a you know, seventy five snaps a game,

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Speaker 1: you develop your own code word, you develop your own

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Speaker 1: language just between the two of you about what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. And there's a history there of the last

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Speaker 1: fifty plays we've played. And now we're in this moment

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Speaker 1: and we've got this thing, and do that and he'll

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Speaker 1: he'll say, and he'll know it exactly what you mean.

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Speaker 1: And in another player he'll say and he'll say it

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Speaker 1: sweet yeah, and he'll say, do that and he'll be

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Speaker 1: the same words, but he's talking about something completely different.

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Speaker 1: And you know, so it's this communication thing that you

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Speaker 1: hear so much about is a real thing and it's

637
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Speaker 1: and it's a huge issue. In the game that we

638
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Speaker 1: had this week in Carolina, Cincinnati completely revamped their entire

639
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Speaker 1: offense that Andy Dalton had been running for seven years

640
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Speaker 1: for that game. For the season. Okay, the Laser had

641
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Speaker 1: a chance and they didn't. Now they had the whole OTAs,

642
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Speaker 1: they had the whole mini camp, they had the whole

643
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Speaker 1: preseason to do all that. And we were interested that that.

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Speaker 1: You know, how tough was it for Andy Dalton and

645
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Speaker 1: and he said, well, some of it we had adapted

646
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Speaker 1: last year and we started to go through it slowly

647
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Speaker 1: and surely, he said, the guy that really had the

648
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Speaker 1: problem with it was the center, the center because he

649
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Speaker 1: had because the run game and the past protections were

650
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Speaker 1: completely new words. Fab a rookie center, right right, And

651
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Speaker 1: so Billy Price, Yeah, so that was he said, the

652
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Speaker 1: center had more of a problem than quarterback. Didn't all that.

653
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Speaker 1: So you talk about it's not just the quarterback spitting

654
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Speaker 1: the playout, it's everybody and that communication is a real thing,

655
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Speaker 1: and he's and the players and coaches are very attuned

656
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Speaker 1: to it and very sensitive to it. So that's why

657
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Speaker 1: you hear him talking about it so much in these

658
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Speaker 1: interviews about communication, because it really is a real thing.

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Speaker 1: What do you think what's been most responsible for the

660
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Speaker 1: Bill's turnaround? Is it offense? Is it defense? Is it coaching?

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from you on Twitter or on the phone line.

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Speaker 1: TATO three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Wilbert on the line from South Buffalo. Hello, Wilbert, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know I'm when I hang everything on a coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: You know, right off the bat, you know, mick an Allen,

666
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Speaker 1: you're a starter. Brian de Ball knowing exactly the please

667
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Speaker 1: to call for him. And something went on in that

668
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Speaker 1: locker room in the second half with the defense. Somebody

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Speaker 1: did something. I'm thinking it's the coach's answer. Great, it's

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Speaker 1: a great rationale, Wilbert. I mean, you're right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what are some of the other talk a little bit,

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Speaker 1: Wilbert if you will, if you're still there, what do

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Speaker 1: you think what would be the problem maybe in the

674
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Speaker 1: first six quarters that you saw, what do you think change?

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Speaker 1: I mean because you said somebody said something. You're right,

676
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Speaker 1: somebody said something. What would you have said after six

677
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Speaker 1: quarters of the way you saw it? Well, definitely on

678
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Speaker 1: the just after the break you talked about communication. Somebody

679
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Speaker 1: got something going somewhere right now. I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a coach, but something definitely improved. Yeah, I'm

681
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Speaker 1: with you. And it's hard to put your finger on

682
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Speaker 1: when we don't know the language, but um, it was

683
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Speaker 1: almost And that's why it's the question come up. And

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure Sean McDermot was asked about it yesterday

685
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Speaker 1: for that reason. We all saw it. I mean, we've

686
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Speaker 1: seen all the snaps. This team is taken through three games. Now,

687
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Speaker 1: something right in the middle there changed. Yeah, And that's

688
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: it's interesting because everybody's trying to put their thumb on

689
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Speaker 1: exactly what it was. And I don't know if we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it. I don't know either.

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Speaker 1: We're asking, we're asking fans like Wilbert, and you didn't

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Speaker 1: let us know. What do you think changed? Well? Ask

693
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Speaker 1: Ryan Lewis about it. Two of the Bill's new Corner's

694
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Speaker 1: going to join us at one o'clock. We'll ask him

695
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Speaker 1: what happened. Yeah, Plus think about this. I mean they

696
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Speaker 1: changed quarterbacks and then they changed defensive signal callers. So

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Speaker 1: was it both those things together? Was one of them

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Speaker 1: more responsible than the other? And then they had conversations

699
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Speaker 1: during the week and gave the play calling seemed back

700
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Speaker 1: to Leslie Frasier. Josh Allen had, you know, a great

701
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Speaker 1: week to get prepared and be the starter, used his

702
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Speaker 1: skills differently than they would have in the other games.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, there's a lot of moving parts and

704
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Speaker 1: it's hard to put your finger on exactly what the

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Speaker 1: biggest contributor was. To get a call in here from

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Speaker 1: David Cheek to walk Hello, Dave, welcome, go head, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air with us. Yeah. I have to say

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Speaker 1: I agree with the way the polls gone defense coaching

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Speaker 1: and offense, But also I have to say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: we knew in the beginning of the season that the

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Speaker 1: defense was going to be the primary team and the

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Speaker 1: offense was gonna have to catch up because of the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. And we always had a good coaching staff throughout,

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Speaker 1: like whether it was mc dermott, Frazier, day Bold or whoever.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think they're a good group of coaches,

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Speaker 1: So I would say defense, and it just was like

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Speaker 1: probably like a student teacher teaching the defense. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden mc dermott, who's the teacher, came

719
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Speaker 1: in the room and just said a few things to

720
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Speaker 1: the students. Yeah, maybe you know you you're onto something there, Dave,

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Speaker 1: thanks for recalling. We might be witnessing Steve the defense

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Speaker 1: settling into where most of us, many of us thought

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Speaker 1: they would be. Do you agree, I mean, if you look,

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Speaker 1: even we're only three weeks into it. The NFL stats,

725
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Speaker 1: the rankings don't mean a lot, but they mean something

726
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Speaker 1: after three games, right, and you came across a couple

727
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Speaker 1: of numbers that they're top five against the run. Yeah

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Speaker 1: after three games. Now, this last opponent only had what

729
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Speaker 1: forty six yards rushing on six carries Minnesota. I mean,

730
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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. But overall ranking is pretty good, right, overall

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Speaker 1: ranking on defense, overall ranking, let's see eleventh. Yeah they're eleventh,

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Speaker 1: and hey, I mean you give up forty seven points.

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Speaker 1: Rubbing my hands together because if we if they get

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Speaker 1: to a top ten, I'm gonna I'm we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a whole segment on how right, I was, and you

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Speaker 1: if you like to tune in that it'll be about

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Speaker 1: fifteen weeks away because that's when the final rankings will

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Speaker 1: be in. But there's no doubt. You give up forty

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Speaker 1: seven points to Baltimore and you give up what thirty

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Speaker 1: one points in week two to the Chargers and you're

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Speaker 1: a I haven't in defense. That says something. And it

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Speaker 1: says something about the way these teams were scoring points

743
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Speaker 1: and maybe not getting the kind of yards that you thought.

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Speaker 1: And it says something about the way they played in

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Speaker 1: the last six quarters. Yeah, and that game against the Vikings,

746
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: it was a thumping. The Vikings had no answers offensively,

747
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: the Bills played extremely well defensively. Their pass protection for

748
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Speaker 1: the Vikings was not up to snuff, and the Bills

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Speaker 1: made him pay for it with turnovers. And they couldn't

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Speaker 1: run the football. Vikes couldn't run it, and when they

751
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Speaker 1: got down they couldn't even try to run it. Here,

752
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Speaker 1: just when we're on the topic of rankings, is Android

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Speaker 1: defense eleventh ranked defense in the NFL. It's only three weeks.

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Speaker 1: We get that this is a small sample size. They're

755
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Speaker 1: in the top third in the league in the yards

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Speaker 1: per game allowed right eleventh. Overall points per game, they're

757
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Speaker 1: in the bottom third, twenty fourth, right, you know what

758
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: I mean. So it's funny when we'll ask Lorenzo about

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Speaker 1: this Friday, because he's a big he's a big believer

760
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: in its points per game that you should look at. Obviously,

761
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: the Bills had a ton of issues against Baltimore and

762
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: against the Chargers first half where they were just you know,

763
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Speaker 1: scoring at will. Almost those have settled down. But to

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Speaker 1: be top third of the defense and yards allowed and

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Speaker 1: bottom third of the league and points allowed, that's a

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Speaker 1: statistical anomaly, Steve right and and you listen, they're still

767
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: they're thirty first in red zone percentage, they're sixteenth, right

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the right, in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack. At third down percentage, you know, the first

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Speaker 1: downs a game, they're twenty third. And interception rate, they're

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Speaker 1: twenty eighth. Passing yards a play, their thirteenth. Rushing yards

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00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: per play, they're in the top ten, number nine rushing

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Speaker 1: yards a game. Of course, we said they're top five

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Speaker 1: yards per play, they're in the top ten. They're number

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Speaker 1: nine yards a game, their eleventh and that's the total

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Speaker 1: defense is what the League uses total yards, which you

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00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: know all of us are going. You know, I don't

778
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Speaker 1: really care because there's some teams they don't care if

779
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: you get yards. It's the red zone and third down.

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00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: That's the big thing that's about defense is But still,

781
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: they're a little bit of a roller coaster right now

782
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: statistically like they have been on the field. So I'm

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Speaker 1: really gonna be interest to see how they play against

784
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Speaker 1: green Bay and whether they can keep it going. I mean,

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00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: green Bay is their defense is something that I think

786
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: the Bills could attack, and I think with Aaron Rodgers

787
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: not being one hundred percent, it'll be interesting to see

788
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: how he plays against this front as well. What's the

789
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: most responsible element for the Bills turnaround the last six quarters?

790
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: Give us a call or tweeted in eighth three fifteen

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: Nancy calling from South Buffalo. Hello and Nancy, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi. I don't know how often

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00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: you get females the calling on this show. You love

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Speaker 1: the Bills and I love watching them form into a

796
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: nice fighting team, And I would say that in the

797
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: locker room, what I would have said to them is

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00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: your professionals. You're talented guys. You don't want to embarrass yourselves.

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00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: You want to come out there full of energy and

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00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: ready to play. And if you're not willing to do that,

801
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: then you're gonna be replaced because you gotta stay hungry

802
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: in this game in order to make it work, and

803
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: you gotta stay able to show up. Nancy, you're a

804
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: pretty hardcore. If you don't, thank you, and we love

805
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: having you and Lancy you can call anytime you want.

806
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, basically, hey, if they're not

807
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: gonna show up prepared, they're gone. They're gonna be replaced.

808
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's the bottom line, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for recall. We're gonna take a break. Steve Tasker

810
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Speaker 1: and John Murphy. Here One Bills Live from One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio time now for

812
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Speaker 1: milestones presented by Reach Jewelers, the Official Jeweler or the

813
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. How about this Kyle Williams who had a

814
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Speaker 1: sack plat well the other day. That was his one

815
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Speaker 1: hundred seventieth Buffalo Bills games. So now he is tied

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Speaker 1: with cant Hall for the tenth most games ever played

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Speaker 1: by a Buffalo. Bill conn Williams, congratulations. One hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy games in the Buffalo uniform, tenth all time. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's got some people that can catch. Actually,

820
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Speaker 1: I did the work prior to the game list. Yea,

821
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Speaker 1: he can get all the way Carman, right, Yeah, he'd

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Speaker 1: get all the way to uh uh Steve Freeman. I

823
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Speaker 1: think this year. Maybe not. I'm not sure. Let me

824
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: look at that at it. How many games did you here, Stephen?

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Speaker 1: You you gotta be one hundred and sixty. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be up there somewhere right in terms of all time games. Well,

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Speaker 1: you got one like one hundred and sixty something like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm like twenty seventh overall or something much like my

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Speaker 1: let's story of my life. I'm about I'm on the list,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta go way down the list to get there.

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Speaker 1: Cole Williams, one hundred and seventy NFL games. Let's talk

832
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Speaker 1: to more with you about the turnaround for the Bills

833
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Speaker 1: the last six quarters. What's the reason Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty A call here

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Speaker 1: from Tom and Buffalo. Hello, Tom, welcome, you're on the air. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I sid for a while. First, I'd like to congratulate

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Speaker 1: Kyle Williams on his accomplishment there and the fact that

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Speaker 1: he got a sack. I mean, the guy's still getting

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Speaker 1: it done at his age. Yep, yep. Anyway, I said

841
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season that the Bills would

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Speaker 1: be lucky to win a couple of games in the

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Speaker 1: first handful, and it would be because of the defense.

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Speaker 1: I can actually see him maybe winning three games now

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen in there, three games seven or out

846
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: of seven, out of eight, out of nine? How many?

847
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: Three games out of five? What? Three games out of five? Oh,

848
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: so they can go three and two over the first

849
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: five games. Well, on the back half it gets easier.

850
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: So I could see us finishing ten and well, if

851
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: they play like they did on Sunday, they're going to

852
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: finish even better than that. There's no question about it.

853
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: I Mean, they played really well against a really good

854
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: football team on the road. But they've got to do

855
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: that every week, and quite frankly, Tom, you know that's

856
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: hard to do. And there could just as easily play

857
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: like they did in Baltimore as well unless they show up.

858
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: So and go ahead, as Josh Allen is making. Now,

859
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: you're right Tyrode's points per game last year, You're right,

860
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: there's no question about it. They played good with with Josh,

861
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: no question. Thanks very much for your call. Tom. Let's

862
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: go to uh Jason and Buffalo. Hello, Jason, welcome, you're

863
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,959
Speaker 1: on the air with us. Hey, guys, I just wanted

864
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: to say a couple of things here real quick. First,

865
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: I think to turn around because you guys point out

866
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: the last six quarters, but it was noted that when

867
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: we played San Diego in the second half that it

868
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: was questioning why they were still passing the ball. So

869
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: it was like and they had such a big league,

870
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: but we were just going after him from that perspective

871
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: the last game, we jumped on this other team and

872
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: had such a big league, so we just turned our heads,

873
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 1: our ears back and went right after quarterback. We really

874
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: knew he was only averaging like five yards of a

875
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: pass anyway, So that will go into why the run

876
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: percentage went that went into the top five, I would think.

877
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: And secondly, I think Frasier was probably a no brainer

878
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: to do the play calling. I mean, he comes from Minnesota,

879
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: so he's probably familiar with some of the things that

880
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: they likeed to do. But one of the biggest points

881
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: I wanted to make is, and I'm a big McCoy fan,

882
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: but I think a young quarterback plays a lot better

883
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: without a focal point such as McCoy. That's why I

884
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 1: was always like, you know what, if we can trading

885
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: right now, let's do it, because that'll help our young

886
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: quarterback developed, because everybody gets involved when it's that young

887
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and not the vocal of let's get McCoy the

888
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: ball right away is like everybody was just moving the

889
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: ball all the way around. And the only thing I

890
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: would say in sevo have some thoughts on this station.

891
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: You do want Lashaw McCoy to get the ball, you

892
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: do want him to be the center. What do you think? Yeah?

893
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: I agree, but he's but he's right. I get it.

894
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes a young player will think, gosh, I'm supposed to

895
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: get him. I'm supposed to get him the ball, even

896
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: when he's not supposed to get him the ball. And

897
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: I think that's what Jason saying. I don't want to

898
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: speak for him, but it sounded the point he made

899
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: was sometimes a young quarterback will try too hard to

900
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: get the star player of the ball, and it at

901
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: sacrifice of whatever play is called. So I get that

902
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: um and it is an interesting taking. You're right sometimes

903
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: that probably situation is true. But when he's healthy, you know,

904
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: Lashan doesn't need the ball. So hey, we're talking about

905
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: what's been most responsible for the Bill's turnaround. Maybe it's

906
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: this guy, our next guest. He sits with us on

907
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: studio right now. Bill's cornerback Ryan Lewis, who made his

908
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: first NFL start last Sunday in Minnesota a week ago. Today.

909
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: You got the word right that you were up, that

910
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: you were practice squad to the active roster, right, Yeah,

911
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: that's correct. Yeah, you'll come a long way in a week. Yeah,

912
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: it's been a crazy week. Bet it has. Talk about

913
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: the whole process. You're in camp with the Patriots and

914
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: and you didn't make it on the final cutdown, that

915
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: the disappointment there had to be pretty palpable. You had

916
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: to feel that. I would think, uh, yeah, I mean,

917
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: I know, it's just you know, a part of the game,

918
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: part of you know the nature of the NFL. How

919
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: it goes a little bummed out, you know, I couldn't

920
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, make a team there. It. A couple of

921
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: days later, my agent told me that I was coming

922
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, and you know they're claiming me, putting me

923
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: on the active roster. You know, my whole mood just changed. Um.

924
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: You know, the opportunity that I was given here was

925
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: just great, and you know, I'm just trying not to

926
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: take it, you know, take advantage of it, just so

927
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: I have it right active roster for the Baltimore game,

928
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: but inactive for the game. I'll correct, yeah, and then

929
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: practice squad for the Chargers game, yep, and then back

930
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: on the active roster. Tuesday was Sunday, last Sunday, your

931
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: first NFL snaps. That's my first ever regular NFL game.

932
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: That had to be a lot of fun. Oh, I

933
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: had the most fun I had or had in a while.

934
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: I didn't tell yo, Yeah, yeah, I mean tell he

935
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: talk about it. I mean, you come out there and

936
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: you think, you know, these guys are you know, Super

937
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: Bowl aspirations. They're deep in the playoff session. They looked

938
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: better this year. Got Kirk Cousins. I mean, la la, la,

939
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 1: on and on and on about how great the Vikings

940
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: are and how bad you guys are gonna lose. But

941
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: you go out there and that's not how it went down.

942
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, all week we were just talking about

943
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: tuning out the noise, you know, all the negatives, positives, whatever.

944
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: They just tune it out and just do what we

945
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: do the best. Um, you see the ends. All that

946
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: happened on Sunday. You know, we all just came together,

947
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: did our job, and you know we're out there just

948
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: having fun making plays and uh came away with the victory.

949
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: You're right. I ask you this question kind of in

950
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: the in the post game locker room. Let me ask

951
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: you again. Let me making it a better question. You

952
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: go into that game, everybody knows Tredavious is the guy.

953
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: In fact, Turdavious is becoming a shutdown corner. I'm not

954
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: gonna say it yet, but some people are saying that.

955
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: So the Viking's gotta be looking at Hey, we got

956
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: Tredavious on one side, we got a game playing his

957
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: first NFL game. On the other side, we're going that way.

958
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: Did you feel that? Did you think that going into

959
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: the game, and did you notice it happening once a

960
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: game got started? Yeah, going into the game, I mean

961
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: you got a new guy who's never played, you never

962
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: never started or played in an NFL game. I mean

963
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: I would just assume that they would want to try

964
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: and you know, take a top off and do whatever

965
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: it is on my side. But uh, you know, like

966
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: I had, like I said, I had guys like Micah Jordan,

967
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: you know, just helping me out everything, great coaches and points. Um,

968
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: it's targeted a couple of times, but didn't give up

969
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: any big plays and everything, and you know it was

970
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: it was all right. And the pastors are so strong

971
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: they never got a chance to go over the top

972
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: on your side or any side. Oh yeah, those guys

973
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: made my job really easy. You know, it's not always

974
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: that easy, you know, come away with you like that.

975
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: But I definitely got to think those guys up front.

976
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: I know you were thinking that going in, saying, listen,

977
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 1: I gotta be ready because Trey on the other side,

978
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm the new guy. Did you feel that during the

979
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: game or did you all of a sudden say, wow,

980
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: our pass rush is really helping me. I mean, what

981
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: do you feel like during the game when you got

982
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: out there and we're in your spot and the plays

983
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: were happening and the game started to take shape. How

984
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: are you feeling. I really didn't try to think, you know,

985
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: too much into it. You know, these guys are gonna

986
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: come after me. You know. All I was thinking about is,

987
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, I get the call, do my job. You know,

988
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: I owe to these guys, you know, to do the

989
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: best that I can. And so when it came down

990
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: to it, I just, you know, wanted to just do

991
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: what I can and win the game. That's exactly what happened.

992
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: That's where it's a smart way to go, and just

993
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 1: to stay in the moment. Don't think about last play,

994
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: don't think about the next one. I mean, is that something?

995
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 1: I mean? As as a cornerback. I mean, I'm sitting

996
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: here as an old wide receiver. You're so typical, you know,

997
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: you can kind of do you take me because I

998
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: can't even set you up for a route because you

999
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: forget about the last one anyone? Right? Yeah, So that

1000
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: was it had to be a day that you said

1001
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: it was the most fun you've had. It had to

1002
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: be just feel so good when you got up on

1003
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: those guys, know one you could play with a lot

1004
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: of coffee. Yea. It was just it was a blast,

1005
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the coach talks about, you know,

1006
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: bringing the juice, you know the energy, you know everything,

1007
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: and just keep going. You know, it's it's contagious out there.

1008
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: You know, one guy makes a play, another guy gets

1009
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: hyped for him, and then you know, the next thing,

1010
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, this guy coming in, he's getting hyped for

1011
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: the next guy and the next guy, and you know,

1012
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: before you know it. You know, it's it's We're a

1013
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: hard team to beat, you know, So as long as

1014
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: we just keep that up, you know, we'll be will

1015
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: be great. Bill Sport and Ryan Lewis and studio with

1016
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: us for a couple of more minutes. Want to ask

1017
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: you about your college career and your college decision. How

1018
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: does your guy grow up in Seattle? And why all

1019
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: the wind up all the way across the country in

1020
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh playing for the pitt Panthers. How did that? Yeah,

1021
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: I get asked that question, you know quite a bit

1022
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: um you know, the question, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt,

1023
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: no doubt. People get curious about it. So my uncle

1024
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: Tim Lewis, who actually played and he actually played for

1025
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: pitt back in the day. He knew the recruiting coordinator

1026
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: at the time. You know, it's kind of just like hey,

1027
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: you know, talking to him, I'm like, hey, here's my

1028
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: nephews film. He's kind of getting his name out there.

1029
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: You know, he's only had one year of high school football.

1030
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: You know, why don't you just take a look. And

1031
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: they're just like, yeah, okay, yeah, you know, we can

1032
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: look at it. Um. They really liked it because by

1033
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: the end end of the season, you know, when they're

1034
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: doing all the recruiting in January, Uh, they called me

1035
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: as if I wanted to go down there, you know

1036
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: for an official visit. I wanted to offer me a scholarship.

1037
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: So I was like yeah, Um, at the time, the

1038
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: only schools that I had offers from were Colorado, Utah,

1039
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: and Pitt. While I was on my pit visit, you know,

1040
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: a lot of kids committed to Utah, which was really

1041
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: where I was gonna go. But you know, they didn't

1042
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: have enough space for me. And it was between Colorado

1043
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: or a Pitt and you know, the family ties of

1044
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: Pitt and everything. As fellow, he was going to be

1045
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: a better fit for me. And you know that's how

1046
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: it went. Great experience, it was different. It was the

1047
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: right decision. Yeah, you know, as a West Coast kid,

1048
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: I didn't know too much about you know, culture and

1049
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: the life out of the East Coast. I was a

1050
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: little uncomfortable at first how to get used to things.

1051
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: But looking back, I would never, you know, never change anything.

1052
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about this because it's always I

1053
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: had kids going through college, the adjustment from high school,

1054
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: particularly a West Coast kid coming to Pitt, that adjustment.

1055
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: Compare that to the adjustment he had to make from

1056
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: Pitt to this one to starting in minutes soda for

1057
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: the Bills, right, and that they're both huge adjustments. Yeah,

1058
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: that's big time football. But like I said, the end

1059
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: of the day, football is just football. I mean, if

1060
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: you have you know, confidence, if you're prepared, and no

1061
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: matter what it is, you know they'll find the right

1062
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: guys and uh be able to do anything you can

1063
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: just to win it. Hit Nathan Peter and was your teammate,

1064
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: your quarterback? Correct? Yeah, I got a couple of pit

1065
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: guys on this team. Yeah, and everybody always asked Nathan

1066
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: about the winnever Clemson. You had to play a role

1067
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: in that game too, I would think I did. Yeah,

1068
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: I had. I had my small part in that game. Um,

1069
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: you know, Nate really set the tone for that game.

1070
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: I think he had something like four or five touchdowns,

1071
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: no interceptions. This is the great team win overall, you know.

1072
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: So how does that upset win compared to this past Sunday?

1073
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 1: That was a big upset win for Pitt beaton Clemson

1074
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: two years ago. What's it compared to this this past Sunday.

1075
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: I really don't try to compare it like too much.

1076
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: I mean, a win is a win. Um, you know,

1077
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: they're both great games and everything. You know, at the

1078
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: college level, that was, you know great, This is great too.

1079
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: But no matter what happens, I mean, you always just

1080
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: gotta you know, move on to the next game, you know,

1081
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 1: and just forget about it's let's talk about the next

1082
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: game Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers all that on the road. Um,

1083
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: but after the success you had this last week, you

1084
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: certainly got to carry a little confidence forward. Yeah, I

1085
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: guess the little confidence was great. But I mean, like

1086
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: I said, you can't get too far ahead of everything. Um,

1087
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: you know, you can't get too high, you can't get

1088
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: too low about things. You just gotta keep working no

1089
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: matter what. So it doesn't matter who we play, you know,

1090
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Minnesota, whoever it is, you know, we just

1091
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we're prepared and we'll go out there

1092
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: and do everything we can to win. Right now, I

1093
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: read this about you. Your cousin is Lewis Riddick from ESPN. Correct.

1094
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: Do you get much input from him? Does he counsel

1095
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: you much about life in the NFL or about where

1096
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: to go, where to play, and how to how to

1097
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: handle the ups and you what you were in Arizona

1098
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: then doing them and now Buffalo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a

1099
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: lot um you know, little time. So we'll just hit me,

1100
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, here and there. Tech He sent me some texts. Um.

1101
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: Most recent you know message I got for him was

1102
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: just you know, I was telling him how much fun

1103
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: you know, playing in the NFL was, and he was

1104
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: just telling me, you know, you're gonna make sure you

1105
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: savor that every game, every play, every practice, walking to

1106
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: the stadium, everything. You know, that's the guy who was

1107
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: just passionate about the game and you know misses it

1108
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: every day. And he's gonna be GM someday, don't you think.

1109
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And my dad I

1110
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: believe so. So I mean, uh, you know, the more

1111
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: information I can get from him, you know, the better

1112
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: your guy who's just been you know, a player, you know, personnel,

1113
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: a coach, everything, you know. The more I can learn

1114
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: definitely helps set myself up for the future. Your dad

1115
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: worked in the league assistant coach, and he played in

1116
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: the USFL with the Houston Gamblers. I wonder if he

1117
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: played with Jim Kelly. You know, I know my cousin

1118
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: lou Um, my cousin, uh was Rob riddyed Rob Reddy

1119
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 1: back and the Bills played with Roberty's my cousin. Yeah,

1120
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: I know, well yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I know he

1121
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: played with him. I'm not sure about my dad and U,

1122
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think my dad's now with the new

1123
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: Football League, the AFS coming out. Do you have a team. Yeah,

1124
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: he's the general manager of the Memphis Express. Oh yeah,

1125
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: so you are connected. You've got connections all over the place.

1126
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm very blessed with that. Yeah. Wow, he congratulations, first game,

1127
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: first start, and a great win. You got to feel

1128
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: pretty good about the way your NFL career has launched

1129
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: this past week. So far, so good. So I mean,

1130
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: as long as we just keep improving, then that's that's

1131
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: the only thing that matters. Good stuff. Thanks, right, We

1132
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you guys. Ryan Lewis, Bill's corner in

1133
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: his first year, got the start, got the win last

1134
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: Sunday in Minnesota. Steve and I'm back with more One

1135
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo

1136
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Radiofalo Bill's Radio Network Sports Update Update from One

1137
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills will have plenty of injuries to

1138
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: keep an eye on when they returned to practice tomorrow.

1139
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: Head coach On McDermot says running back Lashawan McCoy, who

1140
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: did not play Sunday in Minnesota, will be day to

1141
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: day with his rib injury. Defensive end Check Lawson should

1142
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: be ready to return to practice. He's missed the last

1143
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 1: two weeks with a hamstring ball. Defensive end Trent Murphy

1144
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: came out of Sunday's game with an ankle issue. McDermot

1145
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: says he will be day to day. The Bills head

1146
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: to another NFC East outpost this week off the Lambeau

1147
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: Field for a game against the Packers. Buffalo's won five

1148
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: in a row against NFC North. I'd say NFC East, No,

1149
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: it's NFC North. Buffalo's won five in a row against

1150
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: NFC North opponents going back to twenty fourteen. Packer's going

1151
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: to be without defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson. His season is

1152
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: likely over. His ankle injury required surgery. It's kept him

1153
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. On Sunday, Packers coach Mike McCarthy told

1154
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: reporters the injury is likely season ending. Everson Griffin, defensive

1155
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: lineman from Minnesota who did not play against the Bills

1156
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: with a knee injury, is being evaluated at a hospital

1157
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis following in an incident over the weekend where

1158
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: police were called to the hotel in which the Vikings

1159
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: defensive end was staying. So, says Griffin is getting an

1160
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: assistance on personal matters. Last night, Monday Night Football, Ryan

1161
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick threw for four hundred eleven yards, three touchdown, three

1162
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: interceptions also and Pittsburgh beat the Tampa Bay thirty to

1163
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: twenty seven. The Steelers with a big win there. Baker

1164
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: Mayfield says being named the brown starting quarterback is just

1165
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: the beginning. Mayfield finished off last Thursday Night's win over

1166
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: the Jets, and now he'll get to start this coming Sunday,

1167
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: replacing Tyrod Taylor. Arizona Cardinals made a quarterback switch yesterday,

1168
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: handing over the team to first round pick Josh Rosen

1169
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: in time for Sunday's home game against the Seattle Seahawks.

1170
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: Nine Ers say Jimmy Garoppolo is out for the year.

1171
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: MRI revealed a torn acl in his left knee after

1172
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: their games Sunday against Kansas City, and the Jets reportedly

1173
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: have contacted the Steelers about this. Gruntled running back laby

1174
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,800
Speaker 1: On Bell as far as a trade, Savers. They're in Clinton,

1175
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: New York, near Utica meet Columbus tonight in the annual

1176
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: Craft Hockey Bill USA preseason game face Off seven o'clock.

1177
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: You can watch it on MS, NBCSN. John Murphy, Steve

1178
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: Tasker here from One Bill's Drive, coming to you alive

1179
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: from our one Buffalo studio this hour. Peter King's going

1180
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 1: to join us from NBC Sports and Pro Football Talk

1181
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: Football Morning in America. He's a couple of minutes away.

1182
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: We hope to get Jeff glare On, the Western New

1183
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: York native Kenmore East High School product, who is the

1184
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: anchor of the CBS Evening News. We're told there is

1185
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: breaking news in New York. I don't think it's anything

1186
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: too serious, but breaking news that may preclude his appearance,

1187
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: or maybe we'll push it back a little bit. I

1188
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: want to talk to Jeff Glare about his prediction before

1189
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: the game last Sunday, if the Bills beating the Minnesota Vikings.

1190
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: He's got breaking news team. Now, that's the way it

1191
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: works in the real world. I don't know. I'm lecturing you,

1192
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: and I think, thank your finger at me. You scold me,

1193
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: that's real news. I think they deal with down at CBS.

1194
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: That's not fake news. I believe that's real news. But

1195
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: when Jeff comes on, we'll ask him, Jeff, did you

1196
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: have fake news to report? Is that just yeah, let's

1197
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: just let's just see what their third percentage is. If

1198
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 1: I were if if I asked him, did you have

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00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: real news or fake news? If I have Jeff Gloria

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00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: that don't do that. I won't because you know what,

1201
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: he would be perfect, Come on right, he would hang up.

1202
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: I would hang up if iver him, that's it doing

1203
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: your favor anyway. We'll see if we get to Jeff

1204
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: glor now, especially now after that little rant. I wan

1205
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: don't know from you about the Bills. What's been responsible

1206
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: for their turnaround the last six quarters? Right. First six

1207
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: quarters awful for the Bills, last six quarters pretty good.

1208
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: What's been most responsible for their turnaround? Give us a call.

1209
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: We got phone lines open eight oh three oh five

1210
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: fifty or outside Buffalo toll free one eight eight eight

1211
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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. On the Twitter poll, fifty

1212
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: six percent of you say it's the defense that's most responsible.

1213
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say it's the coaching, eleven

1214
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: percent say it's the offense. You've got some comments from

1215
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: the tweetchie from the tweet sheet Team any twenty two coaching.

1216
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I don't think the players all of

1217
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: a sudden decided to start playing. It's scheme putting players

1218
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: in a position to succeed, showing what they did wrong

1219
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: and correcting mistakes. We've seen more creativity on both sides

1220
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: of ball with play calls to confuse the opponent. That's

1221
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: from Team Many twenty two, also from EJ coaching, So

1222
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: two guys agreeing with each other coaching, putting the players

1223
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: in position to win individual battles and help the team

1224
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: be more successful. There is talent on the team, it

1225
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: just needs to be accentuated. So and I was kind

1226
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: of I gotta When we came up with this topic,

1227
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: I was kind of a big fan of the coaching staff.

1228
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: I thought the switch that happened at halftime or the

1229
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: Chargers game was all about coaching. I think the players

1230
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: were playing hard, they were giving it their all, and

1231
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: to flip the switch to Josh Allen, you got to

1232
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: count that as coaching decision. Also with Sean McDermott starting

1233
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: to call the plays, which led to conversations with he

1234
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: and Leslie Frasher and Leslie Frasier less face. He called

1235
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: a great game last week against the Bikes, So I'd

1236
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: throw a lot of that into the coaching pile. But

1237
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: then again, you know, on the defensive side of the ball,

1238
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: pass rush showed up, Trent Murphy showed up, Starlo two

1239
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: Lelee was soaking up tackles of double teams, allowing Kyle

1240
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: Williams to get a sack. Uh. The scheme came across

1241
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: with I think on Milano's sack where he came in

1242
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: and the back couldn't get across to block him, and

1243
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: he sideswiped him and he got his sack. Uh. You know,

1244
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: the force fumbles at the defense really stepped up, they

1245
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: really did, and I think you can tip your hat

1246
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: to them as well. Eight O three five fifty toll

1247
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty year

1248
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: thoughts on what turned it around? Brad calling from Richmond, Virginia. Hello, Brad,

1249
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: go ahead, Yeah, you guys doing good good. This is

1250
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: my This is my theory on how I think the

1251
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: defense turned around. Now, going into the first game, everyone

1252
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: thought that Monte was going to start so right or

1253
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: the first game he's inactive, so he could have been

1254
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: saying anything in the locker room. I see the vibe up.

1255
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: So then the second game comes, he's active. First quarter,

1256
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: we allowed twenty eight points with him on the field.

1257
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: So then halftime comes, he either could retires, whatever happened,

1258
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: We allow only three points in the second half. Then

1259
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Speaker 1: this game comes up. We allow six games. So I

1260
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: don't want to say I believe it's voluntary being off

1261
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: the team in one way. Well, like what like his

1262
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: presence was bad, or his presence was bad, he could

1263
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: have been saying anything to other teammates, you know, Brad.

1264
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, though I don't hear that from any players.

1265
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: I don't either, but I'll tell you might have galvanized him.

1266
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't hear that from any players. I

1267
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: don't either. That's the only reason I could come to

1268
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: think of. And I think maybe, you know, let's face it,

1269
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: it was a story. It was an unusual story. Um,

1270
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: maybe one of a kind story. But I don't know

1271
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: if I'm giving I don't know if I'm gonna get

1272
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: vante Us and his you know, retirement all that much credit.

1273
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: I think there are too many Yeah, I think there

1274
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: are too many guys working too hard around that locker

1275
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: room and in the coaching staff to say that his

1276
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: deal had that big of an effect on the on

1277
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: the team. Although if if you want to know what change,

1278
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: he's certainly one of the things that changed at halftime

1279
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: of the Charger game. What are you gonna do? You know?

1280
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: He wasn't that's the switch that flipped. He was a

1281
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: He was a barely a contributor, right. He didn't play

1282
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: much during preseason because of his injury and his slow

1283
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: recovery is the caller points out. Brad points out he

1284
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: was scratched and active from the first game. They were

1285
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: genuine concerned about his ability to play. He certainly wasn't

1286
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: gonna be any help. I think you'd give him too

1287
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: much credit. I don't think he was a major voice

1288
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: in the locker room. I don't think it was a

1289
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: major factor in the turnaround. No, I don't think that.

1290
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: I don't think guys were upset when he was here.

1291
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: You know, Brad, you say, well, maybe he was saying something.

1292
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: Maybe he was, but I don't know he's ever said that.

1293
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever alleged that. Ye. I think the same thing.

1294
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't think Vante Davis was a bad influence in

1295
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: the locker room. I think he was just struggling to

1296
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: find his way. I don't think he was a cancer

1297
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: or was spouting off, you know, like or being a

1298
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: bad distraction or being a liability in the locker room.

1299
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. I think he got

1300
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: to a point in that game and realized his career

1301
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: was over and and decided to bail. I think that's

1302
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: not the extent of it. I get where you're coming from, Brad,

1303
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: and it does coincide with the change that happened, But

1304
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: I think that's that's I don't think that's what caused

1305
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: the uptick in the Bills playing at all six quarters.

1306
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: Here's a call from Russ, Hello, Russo ahead, you're on

1307
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: the air with this, I have a little different pike.

1308
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: I think the coach kind of backed himself into a

1309
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: corner and costs himself the locker room for the first

1310
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: game and a half. Steve always said that the players

1311
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: know who should be the starting quarterback, but they had

1312
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: this competition that Peterman won. I think the players saw

1313
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: Peterman starting, and I think the coach kind of lost

1314
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: the locker room and they had to come to Jesus

1315
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: moment halfway through the second game and mc dermott took

1316
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 1: over and took the reins and said, we got to

1317
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: do this. Do you think when we say and Russ,

1318
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: just give me let me ask you this, do you think? Um?

1319
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know that I agree with you. I'm

1320
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: just saying you're saying that when the coach made the

1321
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: switch to Josh Allen, that was the difference. I think

1322
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: that made a huge difference, not just that they made

1323
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: the switch to Josh Allen, but then how he took

1324
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: that leadership role in the second half of that first

1325
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: of the second game and started started cheering on the

1326
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: players and everything, and I think that brought them together

1327
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: and said Okay, we gotta sit together for this kid.

1328
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: I don't think they ever got behind Peterman, and I

1329
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: don't think they believed in I'm just like you know,

1330
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: I just don't think they believed in them. Could be

1331
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: I think that costs. I think that disagree some credibility

1332
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: for the first week. Well, I don't think so, I think.

1333
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Russ. I'll tell you what. No,

1334
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: he didn't And I'll tell you this, Russ. I think

1335
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: it might have been for me. They all might have

1336
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: known that Josh Allen was up and coming that moment

1337
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: he was gonna overtake him, or that it was a

1338
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: close race, but nobody. I don't think it. No, but

1339
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: anybody in the one Bill's drive, in the locker room,

1340
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: or in the coaching staff was not prepared to go

1341
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: and play well with Nate Peterman. And in fact, after

1342
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals preseason game, there were instances where veteran players

1343
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: were like, geez, we don't know if Josh is ready. Yeah,

1344
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean they Josh didn't play well enough in the

1345
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: preseason to give those guys the confidence going into Week

1346
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: one that they were going to start a rookie quarterback

1347
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: and play okay, he's gonna play okay for us. I

1348
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: don't think there was any of that. I don't there's

1349
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: and I'm with Murph. I that never crossed my mind

1350
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott lost the locker room because he started

1351
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: Nate Peterman. I thought it was just the opposite. I thought,

1352
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: if he didn't start Nate Peterman, just started Josh Allen,

1353
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: he would have been given something Josh Allen to Josh

1354
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: Allen that he didn't earn. And I think that's really

1355
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: important to this group. I think that's really important to

1356
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: this coaching staff that they continue to do that give

1357
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: guys opportunities they earn. And I think it's important for

1358
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: the players to see guys on the field who who

1359
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: get what they earn, who deserve what they earned, who

1360
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: deserve the opportunities, who deserve the reps, who deserve to

1361
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: be activated from the practice squad, who deserve whatever they earned.

1362
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's an important element to this culture

1363
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: that is here at one Bill's drive that they won't

1364
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: deviate from, and even if it means starting Nate Peterman

1365
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: and having him play like that, they still will go

1366
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 1: back and say, listen, that was the corner they backed into.

1367
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't that they backed into a corner and saying,

1368
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: oh my, we should have started Josh Allen know the

1369
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: corner they backed into was allowing late Nate Peterman to

1370
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: legitimately earn the spot and then and then unearned and

1371
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: lose it. I think the last two callers have tried

1372
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: too hard to come up with a reason why they've

1373
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: turned it around after six quarters bad And yeah, yeah,

1374
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 1: I can't overthink it. No, don't overthink. Let's get some

1375
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: let's get some help on this on the subway. Fresh

1376
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,479
Speaker 1: take countline with us. A qualified observer, he is NBC

1377
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: Sports column Sunday Night Football contributor. He's covered the NFL

1378
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: for more than three decades. Our buddy Peter King is

1379
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: on the align with us right now, Peter, John Murphy

1380
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: and Steve here and Buffalo, good afternoon. How are you today?

1381
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: Everything's going great, guys, how about you? We're well. You

1382
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: called the Bills and your Football Morning in America column

1383
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: yesterday you said there was nothing flukey about the Bills victory. Right,

1384
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: that was legitimate what they did on Sunday in Minnesota.

1385
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I watched a lot of this game and

1386
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: what's what is what was so interesting to watch is

1387
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills physically won that game. They were

1388
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: far far better up front than the Vikings could handle.

1389
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: And I was just really impressed with the fact that

1390
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: not only that they could come in and win a

1391
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: game like that, but that they could do it with

1392
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: all of the little, uh, you know, all the little

1393
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: intramural stuff they had going on with your team, like

1394
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: the you know, Lavante Davis stuff and all that. It

1395
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 1: was just I was just impressed with how they were

1396
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: able to compartmentalize and play a really good game. What

1397
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: do you think's going on in Minnesota? Is there anything

1398
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: to be concerned about over there? Steve? I think that

1399
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: they've been very concerned about the quality of their offensive line,

1400
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: rightfully so, and once they know, once they you know,

1401
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: had some injuries, especially on that line, I think they

1402
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: were they entered that game thinking that. I think they

1403
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 1: entered that game thinking that they had to put the

1404
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 1: ball into the hands of Kirk Cousins, and that really

1405
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: was right a Buffalo Valley because if you can't really

1406
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 1: protect your quarterback, great, then what's going to happen in

1407
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 1: a game like that? At least in my opinion, you're

1408
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: and hand it over to a team with an underrated

1409
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: front seven. I'm not saying the Bills have the best

1410
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: front seven at football, but I do believe it's a

1411
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: competent and underrated front seven. And in my opinion, that

1412
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: really showed up on Sunday with Peter King from a

1413
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: Football Morning in America talking about the Bills win over Minnesota. UM,

1414
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: we're asking our listeners here today, Peter, what's you know

1415
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: if you look at the Bills so far twelve quarters played,

1416
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: the first six were brutal, the total meltdown in Baltimore

1417
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: in the first half against the Chargers, the last six turnaround,

1418
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: and what would you point your what would you point

1419
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: to as the most responsible issue in that turnaround? Is

1420
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 1: it offense for the Bills defense? Is it coaching? Is

1421
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: it too early to even think among these lines? What

1422
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: do you think? UM? I think that the one thing.

1423
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 1: Talking to Kyle Williams after this game, I always view

1424
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams as having the ability to have a good

1425
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: you know, be a good barometer guy. Yeah, he understands

1426
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: what's going on with this team, what makes it tick.

1427
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: He's been doing that for a decade. He said, something

1428
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: very interesting to me. He said, the Vante Davis thing.

1429
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: He said it didn't matter. He said it didn't It

1430
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: was not a factor at all in this week. And

1431
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:23,480
Speaker 1: I think sometimes sometimes we on the outside view things

1432
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: that happened on the inside of a team, like a

1433
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: guy quits in the middle of a game. And when

1434
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: when I heard that, I said, this is really going

1435
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: to have an effect on this team. And you know what,

1436
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: maybe it didn't. Maybe maybe actually a bunch of the

1437
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 1: players on this team said, hey, you know what, get

1438
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: this guy out of here and we're fine. And you

1439
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: know what, for all all of you who think we're

1440
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: not going to be fine, you know, uh, forget you.

1441
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: We are going to be final will show you. And I,

1442
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: in my opinion, this is just a weird little thing.

1443
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: I think they played the perfect team at the right

1444
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:17,799
Speaker 1: time because because Minnesota has been having major protection issues

1445
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 1: and offensive line issues, you know, going back to training camp,

1446
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 1: and what's the one thing that you really trust, especially

1447
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,599
Speaker 1: with you know, with Lashawn McCoy out, what's the one

1448
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: thing about the Bills that you trust right now? I

1449
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: trust their front seven to be an impact unit, and

1450
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: that's what they were in this game. And I don't

1451
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: I really don't want to oversimplify this, okay, but I

1452
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: think that in the first part of the season, especially

1453
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: now that nobody does anything in training camp, I think

1454
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: in the first part of the season that you truly

1455
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 1: cannot make a judgment on it team for three or

1456
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: four weeks because what we're seeing right now is a

1457
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that you know, Steve, when you

1458
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: played football and you went to Fredonia in late July

1459
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:14,839
Speaker 1: and August, you guys had to actually play hard in August.

1460
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: Not as hard as you had to play in November,

1461
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 1: but you had to play hard, and there was two

1462
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: practices a day, and you had, you know, on opening day,

1463
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: you were pretty much ready. That was like what the

1464
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: middle of October is now in the NFL. And in

1465
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's why so many teams are so weird

1466
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 1: early in the year and why Buffalo can go to

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01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: Minnesota and we shouldn't be Look, I was shocked like

1468
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: everybody else, but should we really be shocked about any result?

1469
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I was really surprised at Tennessee going to

1470
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and winning. I mean, there are just some things

1471
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: that happen in September that you just simply don't see coming.

1472
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they really shouldn't be.

1473
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: All that's surprising. Well, and speaking about things that are coming,

1474
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 1: the Bills are headed to Green Bay and to take

1475
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, And this

1476
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: is a matchup that's there's always this wildcard in there.

1477
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: Certainly Aaron Rodgers is a guy like none other in

1478
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:17,280
Speaker 1: the league right now, but he's also a guy who's

1479
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 1: a little bit nicked up and probably not one hundred percent.

1480
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: He got through the game this last week, but it

1481
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: didn't look like himself. How big a factor is that

1482
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: in this week's game? And otherwise, what's this matchup look

1483
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: like to you now that you're three weeks into it

1484
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: and the Bills have started to maybe come around defensively,

1485
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: I think it looks a lot different than it looked

1486
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: a week ago, you know, I mean it's a I

1487
01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 1: think it's a really really interesting game just from the

1488
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:51,759
Speaker 1: standpoint of, you know, Aaron Rodgers really is not able

1489
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: to run around nearly as well as he has in

1490
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:59,120
Speaker 1: the past. That's the first thing to really that I

1491
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 1: really look at here. That's number one. The second thing is,

1492
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: you know, I have real questions about whether the green

1493
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 1: Bay Packers their defensive front can impact a game as

1494
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: much as Buffalo's can, and especially this past week after

1495
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: seeing how much Buffalo was able to do to Minnesota. Look,

1496
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 1: green Bay's offensive line is better than Minnesota's, without any question.

1497
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: But I think especially now that you know that Aaron

1498
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: Rodgers probably is going to be staying in the pocket

1499
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,719
Speaker 1: for the most part, at least he's not a moving target.

1500
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: And so that to me is an advantage for the Bills.

1501
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 1: And look, Buffalo is playing green Bay at the right

1502
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: time to playing them at the right time because you know,

1503
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: and again, who knows how if Rogers is going to

1504
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,560
Speaker 1: get healthier at all as the season goes on. But

1505
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: I'd want to play him right now because clearly against

1506
01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: Washington he's just not He was just not Aaron Rodgers,

1507
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 1: sort of a classic Aaron Rodgers way. So I think

1508
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: it's a good opportunity to get them right now. Peter

1509
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: king outen with us NBC sports columnists. He writes Football

1510
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 1: Morning in America every Monday. In that column, yesterday, Peter,

1511
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: you named the Bills offensive coordinator Brian Dable as your

1512
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 1: coach of the week. Tell Us why my feeling when

1513
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: you watch games, Okay, when you watch games, my feeling

1514
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: as you as you go through the games, what you

1515
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 1: basically see as you look at teams and you look

1516
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: at teams that are playing. I thought that this was

1517
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: a real disadvantageous week for the Bills because first of all,

1518
01:12:56,280 --> 01:13:01,679
Speaker 1: they were changing quarterbacks, they were they were playing without

1519
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 1: with Sean McCoy. There was nothing to give you any

1520
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: confidence on offense that they were playing well. And as

1521
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:13,719
Speaker 1: I watched this game, I basically saw that the Bills

1522
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: obviously they got field position advantage in this game, but

1523
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: I think Brian Davil dialed up what they should have

1524
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 1: been dialing up at the time. You know, at the

1525
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 1: right they were making the right calls at the right time.

1526
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: And I'll give you one example, like, in my opinion,

1527
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 1: the third and nine play that Josh Allen took off

1528
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: on and he ended up hurdling Anthony Barr and making

1529
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: that play, you have to have faith, you know, you

1530
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:46,240
Speaker 1: have to know on a play like that that things

1531
01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: are going to break down or they have a chance

1532
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: to break down, and then you have to have confidence

1533
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: in your quarterback. Nobody expected him to to leave Anthony

1534
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,560
Speaker 1: Barr like he's Edwin Moses, but I do think that,

1535
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:03,600
Speaker 1: especially because they ended up scoring on that play, that

1536
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:08,839
Speaker 1: the collection of plays, the succession of plays that Dabell called,

1537
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 1: I thought were the right plays at the right time.

1538
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 1: And I just think sometimes go into a place and

1539
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 1: understand how you have to call a game, and I

1540
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: just think Bryan Dable called that game the right way.

1541
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 1: One of the other things that's going as we I'm

1542
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: gonna move away from from the Bills and the Green

1543
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: Bay game, Viking game, and I ask you about something

1544
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: that's let's at the top of the list for everybody,

1545
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: is all. There's been thirty four roughing the passer calls

1546
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 1: in the league over the first three weeks. Last year

1547
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:41,720
Speaker 1: there were sixteen. It seems to be a real hot

1548
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:43,919
Speaker 1: button for the league. Obviously, it's a point of emphasis

1549
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call, and some of them just

1550
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 1: don't seem to be consistent. I think, you know, that's

1551
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 1: the one thing we wish they were. What do you

1552
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:53,559
Speaker 1: think about the direction that this has taken the league?

1553
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: And do you think it's Do you think the end

1554
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: result is going to be something everybody can live with.

1555
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: I think the end result is going to be a

1556
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: lot different than what you're seeing now. I do think

1557
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: the NFL is going to continue to call the bodyweight sack.

1558
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: I think they will. And I don't think, however, they're

1559
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 1: going to continue to call the plays like the Kendricks

1560
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 1: and Matthews roughing the Pastors of a week ago. I

1561
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: think that's going to go away because they're not roughing

1562
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: the pastor. If you can't play, If you can't have

1563
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 1: those plays in a game without them being penalized, I

1564
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,799
Speaker 1: don't know how a defensive team can play football without

1565
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: the score being fifty eight to forty five every week.

1566
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: And so I do think you know, Mark Maski the

1567
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: Washington Post wrote today that the Competition Committee doesn't like

1568
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: what they've seen, didn't like what they saw in the

1569
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: Minnesota Green Bay game. I heard that last week as well,

1570
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: loud and clear. And so that's why I think that

1571
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: the NFL it's not going to make any big announcement

1572
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: about that call, or about those two calls in the

1573
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: Green Bay Minnesota game, because they now publicly backed the

1574
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: official in that game. Tony Corni to the hill. But

1575
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: I think anybody who knows anything about football says disregard

1576
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: what the NFL is saying on that, because what they're

1577
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: saying is absolute, total nonsense. Anybody who knows the sport

1578
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: of football knows that if you can't play the way

1579
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: Claim Matthews played on that tackle of Kirk Cousins, then

1580
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 1: you really are gonna have to change the rules of football. Now,

1581
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: the bodyweight sack. I don't love that either, but the

1582
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,839
Speaker 1: bodyweight sack was called correctly in the Green Bay Washington

1583
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: game the other day. As much as everybody is wringing

1584
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: their hands about it, if that is the rule on

1585
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 1: the books right now, it was called correctly. So if

1586
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: they decide that's the rule they want to keep, then

1587
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 1: we're going to see more of those. But the other

1588
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:01,639
Speaker 1: one I think is going to go. Peter I get

1589
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: trying trying to protect quarterbacks. I understand that. I acknowledge that,

1590
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: But then when you see the way like Jimmy Garoppolo

1591
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: got hurt and it's out for the rest of the year,

1592
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's just foolish for the league to

1593
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: try to over legislate issues to protect quarterbacks from being

1594
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: knocked out. Well, there's no question. I you know on

1595
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:25,719
Speaker 1: my podcast that I just recorded this late this Morning

1596
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: for Tomorrow kind of made a couple of points about this,

1597
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,719
Speaker 1: and one of the points I think is to say, essentially, look,

1598
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: football is an injurious game, more injurious saying basketball or baseball.

1599
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: I don't think all that much more injurious than hockey,

1600
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: and not as injurious, say as mma or boxing perhaps,

1601
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: but it's an injurious game and you're going to have

1602
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: a chance to get hurt every time you play. So

1603
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: the fact that the NFL is trying to make this,

1604
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, they are just paranoid that they're going to

1605
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 1: that's some team like now the forty nine ers. The

1606
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers are a crap primetime team the rest

1607
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: of the season. The Green Bay Packers last year, second

1608
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 1: half of the season crap primetime team, okay, because they're

1609
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: playing Hunley over Aaron Rodgers's Rogers Art. So they're trying

1610
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 1: to do everything humanly possible to make sure that doesn't happen.

1611
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: But there are some things you cannot avoid, period, and

1612
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: so that to me is the big reason why they're

1613
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 1: trying to do this. But at the end of the day,

1614
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: you can't do everything that you want to do to

1615
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: keep these guys on the field, because if you do

1616
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:53,799
Speaker 1: so much, then it's not going to look like football anymore.

1617
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: And that's my big objection to the Clay Matthews call

1618
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:02,640
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings eight days nine days ago. That

1619
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: cannot be a part of football or else it's not

1620
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: football anymore. Let me can I point this out to you,

1621
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:11,599
Speaker 1: Pete and see get your opinion on this. It's always

1622
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:14,439
Speaker 1: been my contention that the league gets usually gets all

1623
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: of these issues correct and sometimes though, it just takes

1624
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 1: them way way too long to do that. Right. I think,

1625
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: let's case in point, the catch rule seems better now

1626
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: it does. We haven't We really haven't run into the

1627
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: catch rule very much yet. We haven't run into that big,

1628
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,679
Speaker 1: big play that decides a game. We haven't had as

1629
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: Bryant play yet. Right. But I think you're right. I

1630
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a very very significant advantage

1631
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: for the game. And I know what you're saying, Steve,

1632
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 1: but I think the NFL does a disservice when they

1633
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: put people out to speak for the league, you know,

1634
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 1: like our Vron who who has not come out and

1635
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 1: said it really but clearly they are standing behind Tony

1636
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: Carency and Bass and and everybody in the league now

1637
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: is saying, yes, that's that's uh. You know, that's roughing

1638
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 1: the passer. It's not roughing the passer. It's tackling the

1639
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: quarterback a split second after the ball is released. It's

1640
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: never been roughing the quarterback, and it shouldn't be roughing

1641
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And I believe we are not going to

1642
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: see that call made anymore. Peter, thanks for this, Keep

1643
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: up the good work. We'll talk again next Tuesday. We

1644
01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Appreciate it, guys. Thank you. Peter King, NBC

1645
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: Sports column us. You can read his football Morning in

1646
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: America column on Monday mornings at Pro Football Talk dot

1647
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 1: NBC sports dot com. We thank Peter. You can see

1648
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: him a course on NBC Sunday Night Football. Peter joined

1649
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: us on the Subway Fresh Take Hotline, presented by Subway Restaurants,

1650
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: proud to be locally owned and operating John Murphy's teep

1651
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: Tasker Back with more in a moment One Bills Live

1652
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1653
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. Just tuned, Dan, You've missed

1654
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: a couple of good guests and some scintillating conversation between

1655
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: mister Tasker and myself. We had a couple of good

1656
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: guests though, we had Ryan Lewis. Bill's corner first NFL game.

1657
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:25,719
Speaker 1: He'll never forget that, Steve. He was with us about

1658
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: twelve thirty years, so he'll never forget his first NFL

1659
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: appearance on the field. He starts in his first game,

1660
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: he goes up against a team where his team is

1661
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,640
Speaker 1: a seventeen point an underdog. He wins in one of

1662
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: the biggest upsets in recent NFL history, and he played well,

1663
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: He really kind of played well in that game. The

1664
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: Vikings were off all offensively. You think about it, he

1665
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 1: was like before that, a week before, he was no place.

1666
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:50,519
Speaker 1: And then he's starting corner in one of the biggest

1667
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 1: wins in you know, recent frends. It's a historic win

1668
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: because in a game that was so lopsided in one direction,

1669
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 1: to go the other way that much, we never you

1670
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: never see it, you never see it. And he was

1671
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: on the field Ford, Yeah, he won't forget it. Really cool.

1672
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: And then of course Peter King a minute ago, we

1673
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,719
Speaker 1: are waiting on Jeff Glore from the CBS Evening News,

1674
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:13,799
Speaker 1: the anchor for CBS Evening news who have correctly predicted

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo victory going into last Sunday. We hope to

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Speaker 1: get him on he's got got a little tied up

1677
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: with some real news and that's his job. And then

1678
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:24,200
Speaker 1: coming up around to Brian Baldinger, longtime NFL offensive lineman

1679
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 1: now with the NFL Network, get his take on the

1680
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: Bills victory and on what's going on around the National

1681
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: Football League. In the meantime, our Twitter pollos up. We'd

1682
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: like to hear from you your response, either on the

1683
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: phone or on Twitter. You can vote in our Twitter

1684
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: poll the Twitter poll. Look, you got two different sets

1685
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: of quarters here. First six quarters to the Bill season awful,

1686
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,600
Speaker 1: Last six quarters very good? What's been most responsible for

1687
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: the Bills turnaround? On Twitter? Fifty five percent of you

1688
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 1: say is to play the Buffalo defense, Thirty four percent

1689
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 1: of you say it's the play of the Buffalo, it's

1690
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo coaching rather, and eleven percent of you say

1691
01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: it's to play the Buffalo offense. Give us a call,

1692
01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Eight oh three five

1693
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty A call from Manny in Hamburg. Hello, Manny,

1694
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: are on the air. Hi, John Nice, Steve Hi, My

1695
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: question is not my question. My thought is this UM.

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01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 1: Back when we had coach Schwartz as a defensive coordinator,

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01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 1: we had an attack defense, and then we hit and

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01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: we were in the top five, very call to top three.

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01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: And then we had new coaching come in and they

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01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 1: changed their defense to a reactionary type defense where we

1701
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 1: would react to whatever the offense was doing. And we

1702
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: haven't been the same since. And it seemed to be

1703
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: like watching the watching the last two games. We went

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01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:39,640
Speaker 1: six period, six quarters ago. We went from a reactionary

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01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: type defense to an attack defense because of McDermott. And

1706
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: we did the same thing with the last game. And

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01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: I'm very encouraged. And I think maybe See's prediction about

1708
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: being a top ten defense that's gonna happen. Now you

1709
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: would love that too, and why I hope. I hope

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01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 1: it does. I really hope it does. That's gonna that

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01:23:57,240 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: is going to be such a sweet victor. You don't

1712
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: think that I'm rooting against Oh, I know, you're not

1713
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: rooting against I love now you're rooting for the bill.

1714
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 1: You're rooting against me, Yes, not against Yes, I hope

1715
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 1: I hope that they are a top ten defense. I

1716
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: still think it's you know, it's it'll be a big

1717
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: jump up. Let's face it, well, twenty ninth last year

1718
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: in the top ten this year, and I get it. Listen,

1719
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 1: there's no twenty six last year, twenty six though, No,

1720
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 1: they were, uh twenty six they were twenty sixth defense. Yeah,

1721
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:26,719
Speaker 1: twenty six overranked defense. Yes, right, we'll see again, small

1722
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: sample size, right, absolutely, And Peter King said it, and

1723
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: we've all noticed it. It's become sort of a hot

1724
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: topic around the country for all the media. Is that,

1725
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, and I think it's spearheaded by what goes

1726
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,960
Speaker 1: on in New England every year. Nobody knows what their

1727
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,599
Speaker 1: team's gonna look like at until the first four games

1728
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: are over. Nobody's ready to play, right a couple of weeks, right,

1729
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: and they'll certainly showed that the first sixth, fourth, And

1730
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 1: Peter King was right. It is a preseason issue. It's

1731
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: a training camp issue. It's a football issue, a safety issue,

1732
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: because nobody can really step up their practices to the

1733
01:24:56,920 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: point where you kind of get acclimated to the speed

1734
01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: and the physicality the game until they kick it off

1735
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,560
Speaker 1: for real. So it kind of carries over for a

1736
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And let me tell you this too.

1737
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:09,640
Speaker 1: These teams get into the into the regular season and

1738
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: their practices are even less than they are in training camp,

1739
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 1: which is, you know, by past standards, is very very

1740
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 1: much cut back from the physicality of what it used

1741
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,200
Speaker 1: to be. There's no two of days, there's no tackling,

1742
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:29,799
Speaker 1: there's no full pads every day. It's just a different

1743
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: atmosphere now, and I think when the games really do

1744
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 1: start there's a huge adjustment that happens. That does it

1745
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: takes a month to find out who these teams are.

1746
01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: And and you see it with the Buffalo Bills in

1747
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,879
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. You saw it with Minnesota,

1748
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: or see it in New England. A lot all these

1749
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: teams have no idea who they really are until they

1750
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: get a month into the season. They can see these

1751
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: games and starting to get into the rhythm of the

1752
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,599
Speaker 1: regular season. So it's yeah, I mean, you can say

1753
01:25:55,600 --> 01:25:57,599
Speaker 1: what you want about you know, the defense and whether

1754
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,759
Speaker 1: it was a tack mode with Schwartz and a reactive

1755
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: mode against with Rex Ryan and now they're back to

1756
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 1: an attack too, attack mode with Sean McDermott. You still

1757
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 1: don't know yeah, right, no, and you almost if you

1758
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 1: want to get through it, you want to start a

1759
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: season with a healthy roster, you almost have to resign

1760
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: yourself to the fact that your team, this team, that team,

1761
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: your team might look a little bit shaky at the starts.

1762
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be ready to play. I could be ready.

1763
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: Not that you can't make them ready, you know what

1764
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: I mean. I mean some teams. I mean, certainly you

1765
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: got to have a hard time convincing anybody that Baltimore

1766
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: wasn't ready to play, But they certainly weren't the same

1767
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: team the next week I got when they got their

1768
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: heads handed to them by Cincinnati, right, you know, you

1769
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: know now the Dolphins, Dolphins think they're world beaters, and

1770
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: they've beaten Oakland and what Tennessee and Tennessee Jets. Okay, yeah,

1771
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: you're three and oh let's let's see you play you

1772
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: know at Minnesota. Yeah an, Hey, Bills fans, how about

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Speaker 1: here in Western New York. One Buffalo is hosting a

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Speaker 1: tissue and community blood It's coming up Tuesday, October two

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Speaker 1: donor gets a free pair of exclusive one Buffalo socks.

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Speaker 1: they make your appointment today. Steve and I'm back with more.

1784
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. And this is

1785
01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

1786
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: Jown Verping, Steve, chats were buttoned up. We are not,

1787
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 1: but today we are. We are a hot mess, but

1788
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: we're getting through it. Off the studio floor, We're getting

1789
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: through a Jeff Golore. We're hope to hear from him,

1790
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: the CBS News, CBS Evening News anchor, who's busy at work,

1791
01:27:56,880 --> 01:27:58,880
Speaker 1: who knew that there'll be something more important than One

1792
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 1: goes Live. We're talking about the victory over Minnesota Bakings.

1793
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 1: Bryan Baldinger from the NFL Network has had good things

1794
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 1: to say about the Bills really going back to training camp. Stee,

1795
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: Remember we had him on the phone after his training

1796
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 1: camp visit he likes the Buffalo Bills, and we're gonna

1797
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: talk to him during the two o'clock hour. There's some

1798
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: people out there who did not jump on the bandwagon

1799
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: of crushing the Bills in the offseason, but and Baldy

1800
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:22,320
Speaker 1: was one of them. Of course, he's a former Bill,

1801
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: former teammate of mine, and part of a guy they had.

1802
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:27,680
Speaker 1: He had three brothers, two brothers, the three of them

1803
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: were all in the league, and I think they were

1804
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,559
Speaker 1: all in the league at the same time. Pretty unusual.

1805
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: But Baldy was a center and he's on the NFL network,

1806
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:36,840
Speaker 1: does a lot of film breakdown. He can catch him

1807
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,600
Speaker 1: his stuff on Twitter's like you said, he's with the

1808
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: NFL networking. I like, I gotta be honest with you,

1809
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,160
Speaker 1: and I would do this analyst thing. I did it

1810
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: for a long time. I like offensive lineman in the booth.

1811
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: Dan Dierdorf was always a favorite guy of mine. A

1812
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't like him. I thought his point

1813
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,479
Speaker 1: of view about everything was great. And I have always

1814
01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 1: thought that offensive lineman. I've always known the offensive and

1815
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,880
Speaker 1: I hate to say this, but they're always a notch

1816
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: brighter than the average guy, and they communicate well. Because,

1817
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: like we said, and we talked about earlier in the show,

1818
01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 1: how important communication was. They're usually really sharp, really communicative,

1819
01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: and they have a great perspective on it because they

1820
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 1: can see the big picture from being in the trenches

1821
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: and they know why they're doing what they're doing. So

1822
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 1: he has some stuff on Twitter and his work with

1823
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:30,600
Speaker 1: the NFL Network where he breaks down quarterback play and

1824
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: he has some pretty good insights. And it's interesting too

1825
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 1: that whenever you watch the end, you do it a lot.

1826
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: You watch all these guys and how they're taking all

1827
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: the you know, you all see film nowadays everybody watches

1828
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: this all at twenty two or the highlights, and they

1829
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 1: got guys breaking it down. It'll give you an idea

1830
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: of how widely varying all the opinions are. And for

1831
01:29:52,080 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 1: the same film. It's really interesting to me. You know

1832
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 1: that you'll see guys. You'll see two guys watch the

1833
01:29:57,400 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 1: same film and I say I didn't like this because this, this, this,

1834
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 1: and this, and he'll have a downgrade on a guy

1835
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:03,680
Speaker 1: somebody else will watch the exact same films like wow,

1836
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:05,640
Speaker 1: I like what he's doing here, And then you know

1837
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,000
Speaker 1: it's that's why you missed on draft picks. Nobody can

1838
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: agree on what they're looking at. Good point, that's really true.

1839
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,599
Speaker 1: You're Brandon on the line from Clarence. Hello, Brandon, go ahead,

1840
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: you're on the air with U. Hi, guys, thanks for

1841
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:22,320
Speaker 1: taking my call. And I was at the Chargers game

1842
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: and I kind of noticed on defense from the first

1843
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: half of the second half that for one, they were

1844
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 1: rushing five a lot, in which they weren't doing in

1845
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: the first half. They were bringing in a safety York corner.

1846
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 1: And secondly, I noticed that Harrison Phillips was playing a

1847
01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:43,320
Speaker 1: lot more than Kyle Williams in the first half. So

1848
01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if Frager was it was hired for

1849
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: him to pull the plug on personnel packages or that,

1850
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,639
Speaker 1: but I kind of figured. And then with Josh Allen,

1851
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 1: when Baltimore had a huge lead and he could just

1852
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 1: put their ears back, he was still able to move

1853
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: the ball the first game. So I had a feeling

1854
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 1: that the Bills might win this or at least being

1855
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:11,360
Speaker 1: close against Minnesota going into this game. Really no one

1856
01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 1: else did, Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Brandon, you

1857
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 1: can't say that. Now. You got to call him before

1858
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:21,120
Speaker 1: the game and say that listen. I come from a

1859
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 1: huge Irish family and a dad who's head season tickets,

1860
01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 1: my parents who had season tickets with the all four

1861
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowls since the sixties. My dad's eighty three years

1862
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 1: old when in nineteen forty eight, he was playing a

1863
01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: baseball game for Kinesian High School and he was playing

1864
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 1: in War Memorial Stadium and he was getting in the

1865
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: dugout and he always tells his story, but he was

1866
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,640
Speaker 1: in the dugout with Cecil Page and Jackie Robinson. So

1867
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: that just gives you an idea of what kind of

1868
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:52,960
Speaker 1: sports family I come from. My dad would never call

1869
01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: in or tweet, but he's been a huge fan of

1870
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: all the Buffalo teams for years. All Right, you can

1871
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 1: call in afterwards and call the game's time. Thanks, Thanks

1872
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 1: you for calling, Thanks Brandon. All Right, coming up in

1873
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: the two o'clock hour, we'll have Brian Baldinger from the

1874
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:09,000
Speaker 1: NFL Network. Also, we hope to be able to talk

1875
01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:12,439
Speaker 1: with our guests from the CBS Evening News, Jeff Glore.

1876
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:14,519
Speaker 1: So come on back for hour number three the show.

1877
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: The Show's flying along. Time now for New York State

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Speaker 1: Lottery Inside the Numbers. Take a break from the expected

1879
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 1: play scratch off games from the New York Lottery. How

1880
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 1: about this. The Vikings ran the ball just six times

1881
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 1: against the Bills on Sunday, tied for the fewest rushing

1882
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 1: attempts by any team in a game in NFL history.

1883
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 1: Wherese they didn't have Dalvin Cook and the Vikings had

1884
01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 1: not by a strong rushing team, but just six rushing

1885
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,840
Speaker 1: attempts against the Bills, fewest rushing attempts by any team

1886
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,120
Speaker 1: in a game in NFL history. The Bills held them

1887
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:45,479
Speaker 1: to fourteen yards on the ground. That's New York State

1888
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:47,679
Speaker 1: Lottery inside the numbers. Take a break from the expected

1889
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:50,800
Speaker 1: play scratch off games from the New York Lottery. John Murphy,

1890
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: Steve Chasker coming back for the third hour One Bills

1891
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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collid to Health from One Bill's Drive

1892
01:32:56,200 --> 01:33:12,479
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hills Radio Network Stories Update update

1893
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:14,519
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Kind of a quiet day at

1894
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. With the player's day off. They have

1895
01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries they'll keep an eye on when

1896
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 1: the players return tomorrow. Sean McDermot said yesterday the running

1897
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 1: back Lashawn McCoy, who did not play Sunday, will be

1898
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 1: day to day with his ribs. Defensive end Shack Lawson

1899
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:28,719
Speaker 1: should be ready to return to practice tomorrow. He's missed

1900
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:30,800
Speaker 1: the last two weeks with a hamstring. Defensive end Trent

1901
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 1: Murphy came out of Sunday's game late with an ankle injury.

1902
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 1: McDermott says he will be day to day. The Bill's

1903
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:39,080
Speaker 1: head to another NFC North outpost this week off the

1904
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: Lambeau Field for a game against the Packers. Buffalo's won

1905
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 1: five in a row against the NFC North Street that

1906
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 1: goes back to twenty fourteen. Packers are gonna be without

1907
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 1: Mohammed Wilkerson, the defensive lineman. The former New York Jet

1908
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 1: is a sideline for the rest of the season. He

1909
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:56,679
Speaker 1: would be replaced by Dean Lowry. Wilkerson suffered a gruesome

1910
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 1: ankle injury in their loss in Washington. It kept u

1911
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:03,560
Speaker 1: person in DC overnight. Packers coach Mike McCarthy says the

1912
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:06,720
Speaker 1: injury is likely season end. Everson Griffin did not play

1913
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 1: against the Bills, the defensive end for the Vikings on Sunday.

1914
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 1: Now he's in the hospital being evaluated after an incident

1915
01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Police were called to a hotel at

1916
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: which Grifferson Griffin was living where he was staying, He's

1917
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,560
Speaker 1: getting assistance on personal matters. According to a source, the

1918
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:24,360
Speaker 1: league is comfortable he has a good support system around him.

1919
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:26,479
Speaker 1: There was an incident in the hotel over the weekend.

1920
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tried last night,

1921
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:32,440
Speaker 1: but they lost to Pittsburgh thirty to twenty seven. Fitzpatrick

1922
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:36,519
Speaker 1: through for three touchdowns, also through three interceptions and finished

1923
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:39,479
Speaker 1: with four hundred eleven passing yards. Baker Mayfield says he's

1924
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 1: just getting started. Being named yesterday as a new starting

1925
01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacker the Cleveland Browns, replacing Tyrod Taylor. Josh Rosen named

1926
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 1: late yesterday as a new starter for the Arizona Cardinals.

1927
01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:51,680
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes makes the announcement after Arizona dropped too and three.

1928
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo out for the rest of the season where

1929
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:57,360
Speaker 1: his torn acl should be about a nine month recovery.

1930
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 1: The Niners ready to go with C. J. Bethar step

1931
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 1: in at starter, and the Buffalo Savers are in Clinton,

1932
01:35:03,479 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: New York to night. In near Utica. They'll meet the

1933
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: Combus Blue Jackets tonight at seven o'clock on NBC Sports Network.

1934
01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:12,559
Speaker 1: It's the annual Craft Hockey Bill USA preseason game. That's

1935
01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:14,639
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy and Steve

1936
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 1: Tasker in our one Buffalo studio joined right now on

1937
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: the Subway fresh day Hutline by a guy who does

1938
01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of film breakdown for NFL Network. You

1939
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:24,680
Speaker 1: can see it all over social media. We had him

1940
01:35:24,720 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 1: on back at training camp when he came and visited

1941
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. Happy to have him back again. Brian Balding,

1942
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:31,960
Speaker 1: you're analysts for NFL Network. Played thirteen years in the NFL,

1943
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 1: including a cup of coffee here in Buffalo with Steve

1944
01:35:34,360 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: Tasker's Buffalo Bills Brian, John Murphy and Steve here in Buffalo.

1945
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:39,559
Speaker 1: Thanks very much for joining us today. Thanks a lot

1946
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 1: for having me. John, good to be with you. Is

1947
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 1: it how you're doing, man, You're doing good. I'm doing

1948
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:47,120
Speaker 1: better than I deserve, Baldi. Thanks for asking. Brian. Is

1949
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 1: it safe to say you are a Josh Allen fan?

1950
01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 1: It appears that way based on some of your social

1951
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 1: media output over the last week or so. I think

1952
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 1: you have to be. I mean, I think you have

1953
01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 1: to be. I mean I remember watching him on that

1954
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 1: start against Cincinnati in Week three of season, and it

1955
01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 1: was unmerciful what now he did to him that day,

1956
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:05,640
Speaker 1: and it didn't face him at all. And he went

1957
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 1: into Minnesota on Sunday and he took their lunch money

1958
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:11,920
Speaker 1: and I made a ton of plays and you know

1959
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: when the defense took the ball away, you know, he

1960
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:17,640
Speaker 1: made them pay for it. And he challenged every one

1961
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 1: of those athletes in Minnesota. We all know what their

1962
01:36:19,600 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 1: names are, they've been around they they're all highly paid,

1963
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: they're very very good players. But he wasn't he wasn't

1964
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 1: fazed by any of it, and neither or any of

1965
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:31,559
Speaker 1: the bills. And it was an impressive performance by Josh

1966
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: Allen Sunday and one of the things that people in

1967
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:36,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo were kind of noticing and maybe you could speak

1968
01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:41,200
Speaker 1: to this Brian Dabos offensive coordinator, really seemed to know

1969
01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:44,120
Speaker 1: the kind of athlete he was, know what he was

1970
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:46,479
Speaker 1: capable of, and also know you know that there were

1971
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:48,320
Speaker 1: times when they could he could ask him to do something.

1972
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 1: Then there are other times when he knew he had

1973
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 1: to help him along with play calls like the screen

1974
01:36:52,320 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 1: pass that was a walk into Croome was a really

1975
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: well well designed and executed play and called at the

1976
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:00,640
Speaker 1: perfect spot on the field. How let's credit do you

1977
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:04,040
Speaker 1: give Brian day ball? I can with a ton. I mean,

1978
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:06,640
Speaker 1: I know Brian's a smart guy, he's been around. I

1979
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:10,040
Speaker 1: think he's in a good spot. I think young you know,

1980
01:37:10,080 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: I think offensive coordinators when they get a guy like Josh,

1981
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:16,599
Speaker 1: I think it kind of opens up the playbook because

1982
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 1: like that play that you're speaking of to Creon for

1983
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:21,360
Speaker 1: the touchdown, I mean I see that in college football

1984
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,840
Speaker 1: a lot right now, Steve, and so you know it's

1985
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,640
Speaker 1: a one shot deal. If it's not there, I mean,

1986
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:29,400
Speaker 1: you throw it away, you check it down, you're run

1987
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:31,640
Speaker 1: with it. You know it's one shot in the ut

1988
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:34,519
Speaker 1: Minnesota the bike on the bubble, and so it was

1989
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:37,000
Speaker 1: well designed, called and execute. The ball handling is a

1990
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 1: little tricky because the ball handling is a big part

1991
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: of getting the Minnesota biking guys in the wrong place.

1992
01:37:43,320 --> 01:37:45,920
Speaker 1: But I'll say this though, you know, just watching especially

1993
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: week three here, you can't just line up and have

1994
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 1: a static offense anymore. You better have five sweet motions,

1995
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: ghost motion. You better have guys moving before the snap,

1996
01:37:56,720 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 1: because if you can get that, the defensive player's eyes

1997
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:03,800
Speaker 1: to get off the prize and where you want to

1998
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:05,679
Speaker 1: go with the ball, you can have a better chance

1999
01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:08,879
Speaker 1: to have a successful play. And I think Brian understands

2000
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:12,120
Speaker 1: that and he demonstrated on that play. Brian Baldigger from

2001
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: the NFL Network on the line with us. You can

2002
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 1: follow him on Twitter at Baldy NFL. Hey, Brian, I

2003
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: think you touched on this in your first response here,

2004
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 1: and I want to get into it a little bit more. Yeah,

2005
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like about what Josh Allen did

2006
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,400
Speaker 1: Sunday in Minnesota. And I told Steve and I believe this.

2007
01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:28,360
Speaker 1: What I like most of all about everything he did

2008
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:31,320
Speaker 1: was a competitive fire. You know, was flying through the

2009
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 1: air for that ten yard touchdown, jumping over Anthony barr

2010
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:35,439
Speaker 1: when on third and nine when he knew he needed

2011
01:38:35,479 --> 01:38:37,400
Speaker 1: to do that to get the first down. Look, he's

2012
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,920
Speaker 1: got He's got a room for improvement, no question about that.

2013
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:44,440
Speaker 1: But the way he competes and the leadership that demonstrates,

2014
01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:46,800
Speaker 1: I think is the most positive thing I've seen out

2015
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen through the first couple of weeks here.

2016
01:38:48,680 --> 01:38:51,160
Speaker 1: I agree, John, I totally agree. I mean, you know,

2017
01:38:51,240 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 1: the ten yard touchdown round of his you know, he

2018
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:55,240
Speaker 1: beats Anthony Bar to the pile on for the score.

2019
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 1: He seems to be the least surprised person in the stadium.

2020
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:00,879
Speaker 1: By I mean stadium. You know, all of his teammates

2021
01:39:00,920 --> 01:39:03,719
Speaker 1: are celebrating like crazy, and I think that Josh Allen,

2022
01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 1: it was just another play that he ran in white Home.

2023
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 1: He didn't realize it was against the league's best defense

2024
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe he did, but he thought he get

2025
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 1: too excited about it, you know, leading over Anthony Bar

2026
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:17,800
Speaker 1: for that high hurdle, you know, play at his I mean,

2027
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:21,080
Speaker 1: he just doesn't play with any fear and you know

2028
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: the bar, you know, Horse Carlin tackles him on the

2029
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:26,400
Speaker 1: sideline to get fifteen yards. He was like, do what

2030
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 1: you gotta do to bring me down. It's I mean

2031
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:31,600
Speaker 1: all of it. I mean, I mean Steve knows, you

2032
01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:34,640
Speaker 1: know obviously how competitive Jim Kelly was. It reminds me

2033
01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 1: of that type of fire. I mean, I think, you know,

2034
01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:39,800
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Josh Allen, I mean, I think you

2035
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: should put him on the defensive side of the ball

2036
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:43,320
Speaker 1: and said go play linebackers. They would have loved to

2037
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,719
Speaker 1: have done it. If you said get on the kickoff

2038
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 1: coverage seem to go coverage to kick Those guys would

2039
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 1: have loved have done that. Yeah. I think that's how

2040
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is sort of wires. Yeah, and he's coming

2041
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: in now too into a second start coming into Green Bay,

2042
01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:58,479
Speaker 1: and you know green Bay. I think it was they

2043
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:01,400
Speaker 1: hit at a Washington Red Skin defense last week that

2044
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 1: really really hit him in the mouth. And I think

2045
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers being physically not one hundred percent added to that.

2046
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:11,960
Speaker 1: Do you think Aaron Rodgers gets better and his second

2047
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 1: week after the knee injury or do you think things

2048
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:18,560
Speaker 1: continue to go sideways for them? Well? I did that

2049
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: game in Washington for National Radio last week's seed. It was,

2050
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those games. It was

2051
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 1: in the month. The range from start to finish the

2052
01:40:25,920 --> 01:40:29,720
Speaker 1: field was, you know, was what real conducive to doing

2053
01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:32,880
Speaker 1: anything out there except for Adrian Peterson running. But you know,

2054
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:36,639
Speaker 1: they lost their starting defensive end in Mohammed Wilkerson. It's

2055
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 1: been an issue. The Redskins put up over three hundred

2056
01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 1: and twenty yards of offense in the first half against

2057
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 1: the Packers. They did pretty much whatever they wanted to do,

2058
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: the deep ball on the d the fourth play of

2059
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,519
Speaker 1: the game to Paul Richardson forth touchdown Adrian Peterson went

2060
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: well over one hundred. I mean, there was a lot

2061
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,639
Speaker 1: of holes in that defense. And the way that Clay

2062
01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,240
Speaker 1: Matthews is being pedalized in this business right now, I

2063
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:02,200
Speaker 1: mean it's a little bit unfair. It's just well, it's

2064
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:04,640
Speaker 1: a lot unfair, and it's it's hurt them. You know,

2065
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:07,080
Speaker 1: some of those calls against him have hurt He's taken

2066
01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:10,320
Speaker 1: away good plays by Clay and he's given first downs

2067
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 1: to the opposition, and so it helped the Redskins on

2068
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:17,120
Speaker 1: Sunday with a number of those defensive penalties. Brain. How

2069
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:20,600
Speaker 1: limited does Aaron Rodgers look with his knee injury and

2070
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: what's the prognosis for his improvement in the next six days. Well,

2071
01:41:25,400 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: it's it's it's he's gonna battle this MCL's brain. He's

2072
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 1: got the brace, but you know he's uh, if he

2073
01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 1: gets quick pressure in his face, he's just gonna go down.

2074
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:36,160
Speaker 1: He's not going to try to fight it or escape.

2075
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 1: He does have mobility, he does still have that incredible

2076
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 1: feel for the pocket and where to go, and but

2077
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:46,160
Speaker 1: you know he's limping from start to finish. In his game.

2078
01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna limp start to finish next weekend Um against Buffalo.

2079
01:41:52,160 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: His receivers didn't help him at all. They had a

2080
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:58,320
Speaker 1: number of drops right in their hands. Aaron Rodgers doesn't

2081
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:00,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't phase him. He doesn't out at anybody or

2082
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:03,160
Speaker 1: anything like that. But I mean, they could have really

2083
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:04,960
Speaker 1: helped him out in the rain the other day. They

2084
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: all had drops. But you'll see it. I mean, he's

2085
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna limp start to finish. He's not going to have

2086
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:13,240
Speaker 1: him but he's still running with it. He's still scrambling

2087
01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 1: for first downs. He ran the read option two weeks ago,

2088
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, with the spring knee. So you can't just

2089
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:20,720
Speaker 1: say that he's going to stay in the pike. I

2090
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:24,760
Speaker 1: do think there is some aspects of this that could

2091
01:42:25,800 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: This sounds crazy, but I think you could actually help

2092
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 1: them in the long run just being able to beat

2093
01:42:30,800 --> 01:42:32,960
Speaker 1: people from the pocket and not having to get out

2094
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Speaker 1: so often. And I think Steve Young learned how to

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Speaker 1: do it, and I think maybe Ana Rodgers is going

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01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 1: to have to learn how to do it. He did

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01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 1: it well, really well at times. On Sunday, I said

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Speaker 1: the receivers didn't help him in a bunch of situations. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things I was going to ask you.

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Speaker 1: Do you think his offensive line and his receiver corps

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01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:51,320
Speaker 1: is at a point where they can do that they

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Speaker 1: can help him or did it looked like, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the Green Bay Packers were a little bit undermatched

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01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:59,559
Speaker 1: against Washington. Is that going to be a theme throughout

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01:42:59,600 --> 01:43:02,679
Speaker 1: the year? Well, they lost her starting at some point

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01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:05,240
Speaker 1: during the game. They also started right guard and they

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01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,639
Speaker 1: started right tackle, so they're playing with backups. But even

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01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 1: when Blago was in there and the whole group was

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01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:13,439
Speaker 1: in there, they struggled a little bit against an elite

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01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 1: front from Washington, and they pushed the pocket that the

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Speaker 1: left tackle is outstanding. Batar going up against Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: this week, I mean, if Jerry Hughes, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: having a great season so far, and I love Jerry's

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01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:26,759
Speaker 1: his effort and the whole thing. But if he beats

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Speaker 1: Botire on Sunday, I mean he's just playing at a

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01:43:30,160 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: different level because that boxtr has been pitching shut out

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Speaker 1: every week, right and Baldanger our guests from the NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Rogers knee in Juram makes me want

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01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 1: to ask you about Carson Wentzney You did like a

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01:43:41,600 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 1: close up on social media of Wentz's knee brace. What

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01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:45,679
Speaker 1: do you see there and how do you think Wentz

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01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:48,559
Speaker 1: has come back from his surgery. I thought he was awesome.

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01:43:48,720 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. I thought his eyes

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01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:53,800
Speaker 1: were good. I thought his accuracy was fined brains start

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01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: to finish in that game. I just thought he saw

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01:43:57,040 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: the field really, really well. He's got a new tight

2127
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:04,559
Speaker 1: end at Dallas Goddard the first pick, and he matched.

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01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 1: They went they don't have any wide receiver, so they

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01:44:06,520 --> 01:44:08,639
Speaker 1: went to three tight end packages of the whole game,

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01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:11,080
Speaker 1: and he threw the ball to tight ends all day

2131
01:44:11,200 --> 01:44:12,840
Speaker 1: and it was a bunch of tall ball going on.

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01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:16,519
Speaker 1: But his movement was good, his ability to escape the rush.

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01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:19,479
Speaker 1: You know, he's going to play the game the same

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01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:21,920
Speaker 1: way that he played it before. He's diving for first half,

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Speaker 1: taking defensive players on. I thought there if there was

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01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:28,880
Speaker 1: any sort of hesitation that people might have had about

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01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:31,320
Speaker 1: was it the right time to come back? I think

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Speaker 1: he answered all those questions with he played on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Did you watch Monday Night Football last night and get

2140
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:40,040
Speaker 1: a chance to to watch Mike Evans, a wide receiver

2141
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Speaker 1: the Bucks thirty five TV career receptions and he's number

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Speaker 1: one all time for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday

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01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:49,400
Speaker 1: Night Football last night. Of course, fitz Magic also took

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Speaker 1: place last night. What did you make of that Monday

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01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:55,280
Speaker 1: Night game and the roller coaster ride? That's Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:58,480
Speaker 1: And also we've been talking about it here. Ben Roethlisberger

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01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 1: continues to be the lynch pin of the entire organization

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I agree. I mean it was a good battle.

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01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:09,200
Speaker 1: You know, Tampa just made so many mistakes to get themselves,

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01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, deep in the hall, but they came out

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01:45:11,400 --> 01:45:13,720
Speaker 1: with Mike Evans. I said it last week when they

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01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: beat the Eagles that that receiving corps is as good

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01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:19,599
Speaker 1: and talented as any receiving corps in football. And Mike

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01:45:19,680 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: Evans is a beast. I mean he's beating every good

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01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:24,639
Speaker 1: corner in this league this year, no matter who Pittsburgh

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01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:26,720
Speaker 1: put on him last night, and catches he made down

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01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,840
Speaker 1: the sidelines in the end zone on his backside. He

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01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:32,920
Speaker 1: did the same thing the week before to the Eagles.

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01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: You know, if the Shawn Jackson's punt return doesn't get

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01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:39,760
Speaker 1: called back. Tampa might be three and oh, and there's

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Speaker 1: no questions about Fitzpatrick being the starting quarterback. He might

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01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:46,120
Speaker 1: make a case for it now, but I think Joe

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01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: Cotter's gonna ride Fitzpatrick until there's no reason to ride

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01:45:49,439 --> 01:45:51,519
Speaker 1: him anymore, and then they'll make the switch. But on

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Speaker 1: the other side, Ben made all the big players all

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01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:56,519
Speaker 1: the way down to stretch. You know, they don't have

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01:45:56,560 --> 01:45:59,519
Speaker 1: a great brushing attack right now. They've got all the

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01:45:59,600 --> 01:46:01,600
Speaker 1: seems like they've got some issues. But the one thing

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01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 1: about him is he's still a hard guy to get

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Speaker 1: to the ground. I don't care what age is right now,

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01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:08,560
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty six, whatever he is, he's still a

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01:46:08,600 --> 01:46:11,280
Speaker 1: hard guy to get down and he'll fight you tooth

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01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:13,600
Speaker 1: and nail, even though he doesn't have the mobility he

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Speaker 1: once had. Brian, I got one more question for you,

2175
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Speaker 1: and it deals with the Dolphins. I'm having a hard

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01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: time acknowledging their three and oh start, actually after you

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Speaker 1: know the quality of their opponents, right they beat Oakland,

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Speaker 1: they beat the Jets, they beat Tennessee. But there they

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Speaker 1: are three and oz and I wonder what you think

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01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 1: of them? Why why do they have to resort to

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01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:33,639
Speaker 1: kind of trick plays this fast Sunday to beat Oakland

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01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 1: because they're you know, they're not that good, they're not

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Speaker 1: that talented. Thank you answer, I was looking for thank

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Speaker 1: you for East. But they, you know, the Raiders, they

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01:46:46,439 --> 01:46:49,360
Speaker 1: just make these play some dumb football. I mean to

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01:46:49,439 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 1: touch an interception by Derek Carr, I don't know what

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01:46:53,120 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 1: he's doing to Martavis Brine. I don't know what Mark

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01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:56,920
Speaker 1: Tavis Brian is doing. The ins. We're gonna go in

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01:46:57,000 --> 01:46:59,799
Speaker 1: there and take the league. Late the fourth quarter, Savian

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01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:02,799
Speaker 1: how he makes the right play. I mean makes the reception,

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01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:06,479
Speaker 1: he end zone, but the routes horrible. The throws back um.

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Speaker 1: But look at the reverse touchdown pass at Jacken Grant.

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01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 1: Jacking Grant's got elite speed. He's a hard guy to

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Speaker 1: tackle space. He was like that at Texas Tech with

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01:47:16,240 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 1: Matrick Mahomes. He's like that in the NFL. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you give that guy some space, he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: anybody in this leagueal fad and he did on a

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Speaker 1: couple of occasions on Sunday. So they got a couple

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Speaker 1: of trick plays and made a couple of plays on defense,

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Speaker 1: and that was enough to be a Raider team that

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Speaker 1: just seems to find ways to lose games right now, right,

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Speaker 1: and one more, I want to take you one about

2203
01:47:36,600 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 1: one more team. Eli Manning and the and the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants with say Quon Barkley in the backfield. Tell

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01:47:44,280 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: me what you see in the Giants this year? I

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01:47:46,479 --> 01:47:49,040
Speaker 1: mean are they I mean they didn't. They decided not

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01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:51,240
Speaker 1: to use one of their draft the second pick of

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01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,600
Speaker 1: the draft, to get one of those young quarterbacks. They

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Speaker 1: decided to stick with Eli and got sa Quon Barkley.

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Speaker 1: Was you think at this point was it the right move? Well? Eli,

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01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:02,680
Speaker 1: I thought it was the best quarterback in Week three

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01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:04,880
Speaker 1: in the league. I mean, he was awesome on Sunday.

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01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:07,600
Speaker 1: I mean just I think he missed four passes the

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01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 1: whole day. He was unbelievable. Him to Odell was unstoppable.

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01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 1: They may regret it, Steve, I mean, because I think

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01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:17,760
Speaker 1: all four of these quarterbacks that are playing right now

2217
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: are all going to be really good players. Because he

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01:48:20,439 --> 01:48:23,800
Speaker 1: might regret it, but this offense can be dynamic. They

2219
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:27,599
Speaker 1: still need to fix some issues on the offensive line

2220
01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:30,479
Speaker 1: that seemed to just show up every week, but they

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01:48:30,520 --> 01:48:34,800
Speaker 1: overcame him on Sunday Donny Houston. But the offense in

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01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:37,680
Speaker 1: the way that Pat Tchurmer calls it. I mean they

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01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 1: can be a top five offensive football before the end

2224
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:43,560
Speaker 1: of the season. Hey, Brian, thanks for this. We appreciate it.

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01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:46,759
Speaker 1: We really like your video breakdowns on the NFL networking

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01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: on social media, and we hope we get a chance

2227
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: to talk again sometime. Thanks very much anytime, Steve, take

2228
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:53,400
Speaker 1: care now, talk to you guys down the road. Thanks

2229
01:48:53,960 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger. You can follow them on Twitter and see

2230
01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:58,720
Speaker 1: some of that great breakdown stuff at Baldy NFL and

2231
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 1: if Her NFL Network Analysts. Thirteen years playing his trade

2232
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:05,760
Speaker 1: in the National Football League along the offensive line. He

2233
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 1: was here for a cup of coffee, right, But you

2234
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:08,960
Speaker 1: remember him. You thought he was a good guy when

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01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:11,639
Speaker 1: he was a great guy, a great teammate. But let's

2236
01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:13,200
Speaker 1: face it, him he was a center and he was

2237
01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 1: Kent Hall was on the team and he had hard

2238
01:49:15,200 --> 01:49:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to get that guy off. We

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01:49:17,080 --> 01:49:19,280
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys, and bald he was one

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Speaker 1: of them, and there were more than him. Great football

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01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:24,160
Speaker 1: players come through the organization. But there was a team

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01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: with a roster as before free agency that was going

2243
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl every year. It was a hard

2244
01:49:29,120 --> 01:49:31,720
Speaker 1: roster to break into, and you know that's at those

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01:49:31,760 --> 01:49:33,560
Speaker 1: times when those guys are coming in and trying to

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01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: make the team. There was just no space on that

2247
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 1: roster form because they had some truly great players on it.

2248
01:49:38,240 --> 01:49:40,160
Speaker 1: So a lot of them left here and went on

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01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:43,040
Speaker 1: to have really good careers or continue really good careers

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01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:44,920
Speaker 1: at other places. But they couldn't crack the lineup in

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01:49:44,920 --> 01:49:47,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo thanks to Brian Baldinger. Yet we had him on

2252
01:49:47,520 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: on the Subway Fresh Take Highline presented by Subway Restaurants

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01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:54,799
Speaker 1: proud to be locally owned and operated. Hey, he mentioned

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01:49:54,840 --> 01:49:57,240
Speaker 1: how well Jerry Hughes has played through three weeks. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of times during our play by play

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01:49:59,520 --> 01:50:02,320
Speaker 1: broadcast on Sunday Hughes had a big game, an impactful

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01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:04,720
Speaker 1: game this past Sunday. But to be honest, he's been

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01:50:04,800 --> 01:50:07,720
Speaker 1: solid for three weeks. As even the analytics guys that

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01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:10,599
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus have taken notice. I know we talk

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01:50:10,680 --> 01:50:13,880
Speaker 1: about analytics and you maintain they are not predictive, which

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01:50:13,920 --> 01:50:15,720
Speaker 1: I think is an important point, but if you look

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01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 1: at what's gone on the last three weeks, but Jerry

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01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:19,840
Speaker 1: Hughes has done the last three weeks. This says something.

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01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is applying pressure. He has tied with Khalil

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Speaker 1: Mack for the first three weeks from an edge player

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01:50:27,320 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 1: number of pressures. Jerry Hughes has twenty in the first

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01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 1: three weeks. Khalil Mack has twenty for the Bears, and

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01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:34,479
Speaker 1: then it's De Marcus, Lawrence d Ford and Chris Long.

2269
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:36,599
Speaker 1: So it's right there with Khalil Mack and the number

2270
01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 1: of pressures coming off the edge through the first three weeks.

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01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:42,320
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is getting some attention as he has earned

2272
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: it really for his play the first three weeks this year.

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01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:47,599
Speaker 1: He's been a force. I mean to get in come

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01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:49,720
Speaker 1: off the edge, working against the left tackle. We saw

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01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:53,479
Speaker 1: him this last week get the strip sack. He's forcing

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01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:55,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback to step up, and I think it's going

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01:50:55,240 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 1: to be up to Kyle Williams and star Low to

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01:50:57,200 --> 01:50:59,719
Speaker 1: let it. Pushed the pocket back and forced the quarterback

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01:51:00,120 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: have nowhere to go, but they didn't. That wasn't kind

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01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:05,960
Speaker 1: of the plan this week. If you watched the film

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01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 1: of the Bills Vikings game, the Bills used a different

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01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:13,280
Speaker 1: kind of alignment in this game. For whatever reason, they

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01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 1: did their films today in their game and it worked,

2284
01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:18,720
Speaker 1: no question. But their plan was not to push the

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01:51:18,760 --> 01:51:21,640
Speaker 1: pocket from the interior. On a couple of occasions they

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01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:24,200
Speaker 1: did just the opposite of that and came hard off

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01:51:24,240 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: the edge with all their pressure, and it was it

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01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 1: was effective. But the way Jerry Hughes is playing, you

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01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:32,680
Speaker 1: put him in there and listen, we all know the

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01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:35,160
Speaker 1: kind of season. Khalil Mack is putting together guys a

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01:51:35,240 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: wrecking crew, and Colonel Mack is right there with him,

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01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hughes, I'm sorry, Jerry Hughes is right there

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01:51:41,439 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: with him. And even this last week he did he

2294
01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:45,000
Speaker 1: got a strip sack of his own. Yeah, but he

2295
01:51:45,160 --> 01:51:48,760
Speaker 1: just owned the left tackle Riley Reef, just all day long.

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01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:51,360
Speaker 1: It was was almost unfair to watch. Jerry Hughes is

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01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:53,360
Speaker 1: off to a good start and maybe a key player,

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01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:55,519
Speaker 1: certainly a key player, you would think. This week our

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01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:58,800
Speaker 1: Twitter poll the tale of two games really for the

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01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:02,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, actually tale of one and a half games, right,

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01:52:02,360 --> 01:52:05,880
Speaker 1: six bad quarters, horrible quarters and six pretty good quarters.

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Speaker 1: We want to know from you what changed for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's our Twitter poll. The season starts out

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Speaker 1: with three really bad quarters and then your last three

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01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:16,880
Speaker 1: quarters really good for the Buffalo Bills. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: What change? What's the reason for it? Is it the defense?

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Speaker 1: On the Twitter poll, most of you believe it is

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01:52:21,640 --> 01:52:24,320
Speaker 1: a change in the defense. Fifty five percent of you

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01:52:24,439 --> 01:52:27,040
Speaker 1: say the defense has been most responsible for the Bills

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01:52:27,080 --> 01:52:29,759
Speaker 1: reason turnaround? Thirty four percent of you say it's coaching,

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01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 1: eleven percent credit the offense. Give us a call, we

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Speaker 1: got time to talk about it. Eighth three five fifty

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Speaker 1: twenty three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Here is a David Amherst with a thought on that. Dave,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Hey guys, you do a great job. I

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01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: love the show. Well thanks Dave. Listen. Diversity coache high

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01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: school coach for thirty some years, and it's obvious to change.

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01:52:56,120 --> 01:52:58,720
Speaker 1: To me, it's very obvious what costs a change rather

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01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:02,680
Speaker 1: and that motivation Now curtly if I'm wrong, but we

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01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:07,400
Speaker 1: had basically the same players, the same coaches, um and

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01:53:07,520 --> 01:53:12,400
Speaker 1: an even more difficult opponent, and obviously these guys just

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01:53:12,600 --> 01:53:15,639
Speaker 1: need to be motivated. You can take you can take

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01:53:15,720 --> 01:53:18,960
Speaker 1: superstars and have an unsuccessful season, and you can take

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01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:24,839
Speaker 1: a mediocre team and vice versa. So I think it's motivation,

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01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: and obviously there's some discipline that has been taken care of,

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01:53:28,479 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: because correctly, if I'm wrong, there will we have many

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01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:35,559
Speaker 1: fewer penalties. I think they had eleven penalties against the Vikings,

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01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:38,720
Speaker 1: didn't they? I don't know. Yeah, I got it right here.

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01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 1: I believe the Bills had eleven penalties. Yeah, I'm sorry,

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01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:43,439
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Twelve penalties. They had a lot of penalties

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01:53:43,439 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. It seemed like they had a lot

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01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:51,080
Speaker 1: more than we did. But anyway, um, if they had

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01:53:51,439 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 1: the Vikings had six penalties, Bills had twelve, Vikings had six,

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Speaker 1: So I thought I heard them say twelve on on TV. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: my hope. My biggest point here is the motivation factor.

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01:54:06,360 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: Since we had the same players, the same skill set,

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01:54:10,760 --> 01:54:14,080
Speaker 1: in the same situation, even a more difficult situation, playing

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Speaker 1: a prospective Super Bowl, what do you make of that?

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01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:21,200
Speaker 1: See motivation is that the change? Well, listen, something changed,

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01:54:21,240 --> 01:54:24,360
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. They were up against it,

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01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:28,200
Speaker 1: and after two weeks they were they were embarrassed. Let's

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01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:30,639
Speaker 1: face it, they got embarrassed on the road in Week one,

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01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: didn't look good in week two. Certainly they played better

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01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:38,480
Speaker 1: in the second half defensively, but also I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It is a strong It is a strong motivator. Embarrassment, anger,

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01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: and frustration with yourself and your team is a strong motivator.

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01:54:47,200 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 1: Guys don't want to be the reason that the team

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01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:52,720
Speaker 1: gets further embarrassed, so they bear down and they concentrate

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01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: even more. But they continue to work hard. And like

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01:54:55,440 --> 01:54:58,080
Speaker 1: I've told you, yeah, the games are the games are

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01:54:58,160 --> 01:55:00,760
Speaker 1: one Monday through Saturday, and today is the evidence of

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01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:02,880
Speaker 1: the hard work they've put in. And these guys, when

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01:55:02,920 --> 01:55:06,080
Speaker 1: you're motivated by the embarrassment of everybody telling you how

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01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:09,040
Speaker 1: bad you are, telling you that you're the worst underdog

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01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:12,640
Speaker 1: in the modern era since the Super Bowl era, seventeen

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01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:15,960
Speaker 1: points is unprecedented, you're gonna get you're gonna get beat badly,

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01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:18,760
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get embarrassed again. That's pretty motivating. Whether

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01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 1: they tell you they put that stuff out of their

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01:55:21,600 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 1: mind or not, they're still motivated and motivated by it

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01:55:24,800 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 1: because they do not want to get embarrassed. What's most

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01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: responsible for the bills turnaround? Give us a call, let

2362
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:31,880
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Hey, this came in today,

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01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:34,360
Speaker 1: Steve the Jets right. The Jets on top of the

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01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:36,680
Speaker 1: world a couple of weeks ago. They lost last Thursday,

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01:55:36,720 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: and they're making a little change here of the New

2366
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 1: York Daily News is the Todd Bowls Jets head coach

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01:55:41,920 --> 01:55:43,680
Speaker 1: is going to take back some of the plate calling

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01:55:43,800 --> 01:55:47,880
Speaker 1: duties from defensive coordinator Casey Rodgers. Specifically, Bowls will call

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01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:50,840
Speaker 1: the defensive plays and two minute hurry up situation. That's

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01:55:50,880 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 1: what the New York Daily News reports. So that happened here.

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01:55:54,040 --> 01:55:56,280
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles is a defensive coach. Why wouldn't you write,

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01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:58,320
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you dive in and say, hey, let me,

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01:55:58,440 --> 01:56:01,280
Speaker 1: let me take a crack at this. It's an interesting

2374
01:56:01,400 --> 01:56:05,400
Speaker 1: question because these coaches get their jobs because they were

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01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:09,840
Speaker 1: invariably really good coordinators. And you're a good coordinator because

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01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:12,360
Speaker 1: as an offensive guy, you're a good coordinator, because you're

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01:56:12,360 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback whisper, you're a great play caller, all of

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01:56:15,480 --> 01:56:18,040
Speaker 1: that same thing. On defense, you get it because you

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01:56:18,200 --> 01:56:19,640
Speaker 1: put in a good game plan and you call a

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01:56:19,720 --> 01:56:21,720
Speaker 1: great game So then you get promoted. Then you get

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01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:24,000
Speaker 1: promoted because of that, and then you hand it off

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01:56:24,040 --> 01:56:26,160
Speaker 1: to somebody who's not as good as you. Well there was.

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01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:28,760
Speaker 1: We had a guest on the show, I want to say,

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01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: a year ago before you were here, who said the

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01:56:31,440 --> 01:56:33,720
Speaker 1: NFL teams, if they were smart, would look to develop

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01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,640
Speaker 1: head coaches. Don't just steal the hot coordinator, don't just

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01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 1: steal the defensive guru, the offensive play calling guru. Find

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01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 1: a guy who's schooled in all aspects of the game

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Speaker 1: and make him your head coach. Hire I can't remember who.

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01:56:44,920 --> 01:56:48,360
Speaker 1: Hiring from within? Hiring from within, Marv Levy. Where was

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01:56:48,400 --> 01:56:52,120
Speaker 1: his expertise special teams? Nothing? So no, I'm just kidding,

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01:56:52,360 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. The skill set that

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01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:57,840
Speaker 1: makes you a great coordinator might not be that closely

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01:56:57,880 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: aligned with a skill set that would make you a

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Speaker 1: head coach, really good head coach. That's correct, And so

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01:57:01,800 --> 01:57:03,520
Speaker 1: I got to be a better way to do this

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01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: but here. But yeah, but then you open up some

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01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:07,520
Speaker 1: pan I don't want to get into. Well I can't,

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Speaker 1: I guess I can't. You're gonna get into this Pandora's

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01:57:10,040 --> 01:57:12,560
Speaker 1: box where you're all these guys on your staff know

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01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:14,000
Speaker 1: that sooner or later one of them is going to

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01:57:14,040 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 1: be the next head coach. Then you've got ambition and

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01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:19,800
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Going on in your staff and it's

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01:57:19,840 --> 01:57:22,160
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to keep it together. What doesn't have

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01:57:22,280 --> 01:57:24,600
Speaker 1: to be from within though? Well, yeah, but why would

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01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:27,520
Speaker 1: you deliver develop head coaches on your staff? Have him

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01:57:27,560 --> 01:57:31,080
Speaker 1: go you know, the right guy? Well, that that's what

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01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:32,960
Speaker 1: teams do. I asked, and I've I think I've said

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Speaker 1: this on the show before. I asked Dan Rooney, who's

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01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,160
Speaker 1: no longer with us, late Dan Rooney, who is you know?

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01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:42,440
Speaker 1: Obviously for decades deeply and he was the owner of

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01:57:42,440 --> 01:57:46,040
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he had Chuck Nole for twenty

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01:57:46,080 --> 01:57:49,960
Speaker 1: six years, Bill Kauer for fourteen or sixteen years, and

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01:57:50,040 --> 01:57:52,040
Speaker 1: now he's got Mike Tomlin. All three of those guys

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01:57:52,120 --> 01:57:54,120
Speaker 1: won a head coach or one of Super Bowl as

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01:57:54,120 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: head coach and went to multiple Super Bowls. And I

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01:57:58,600 --> 01:58:01,560
Speaker 1: asked him, I said, what, how do you I mean,

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01:58:02,680 --> 01:58:05,480
Speaker 1: why do you get it right every time? Why every

2419
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:07,320
Speaker 1: coach you hire wins a Super Bowl and some of

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01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:09,280
Speaker 1: these teams go through ten of them and can't get

2421
01:58:09,320 --> 01:58:12,000
Speaker 1: a head coach? Why is that he goes? He goes,

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01:58:12,360 --> 01:58:17,160
Speaker 1: You hire the smartest guy you can find, and you

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01:58:17,280 --> 01:58:20,320
Speaker 1: just support him until he figures it out. Yeah, make

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01:58:20,400 --> 01:58:22,040
Speaker 1: him a good head coach. You make him a headcoach.

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01:58:22,080 --> 01:58:25,920
Speaker 1: You gotta listen. That's incredibly patient in today's football, smart

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01:58:26,080 --> 01:58:29,880
Speaker 1: and smart, but you know you're gonna have but you're

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01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: gonna have a hit fan basic. It's pretty impatient pretty quickly. Yeah,

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01:58:33,120 --> 01:58:34,840
Speaker 1: that's really wet. We should do a show about that

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01:58:34,960 --> 01:58:38,440
Speaker 1: someday in the off season when it's quiet. Write that

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01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: down right off season show coming up next time to

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01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:43,960
Speaker 1: the show. Jeff Groy, who is a West Jeff Glory,

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01:58:44,080 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 1: Jeff Grey, Ryan Groy, Jeff Glory, CBS Evening News anchor,

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01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:50,960
Speaker 1: a local guy who picked the Bills to beat the Vikings.

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01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: Where'd you come up with that? You'll be live with

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01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:55,040
Speaker 1: us on the line when we return. John Murphy, Steve Tansker,

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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01:58:57,200 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Football. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. John

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01:59:13,720 --> 01:59:16,120
Speaker 1: Rurphey and Steve Tasker comedy here from our one Buffalo

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01:59:16,200 --> 01:59:19,520
Speaker 1: studio in Orchard Park. Huge win for the Bills Sunday,

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01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:23,000
Speaker 1: an unpredicted win by most except for one man, One

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01:59:23,280 --> 01:59:26,680
Speaker 1: lonely man, a voice in the wilderness saying the Bills

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01:59:26,720 --> 01:59:28,880
Speaker 1: can beat the Minnesota Vikings. He said they would. He

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01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:32,120
Speaker 1: did it last week on the new show on NFL Network,

2444
01:59:32,160 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 1: cow Brand's Football Experience and that guy who predicted Jeff Glore,

2445
01:59:35,840 --> 01:59:39,000
Speaker 1: Tonawanda native, the anchor for the CBSCV News. Here's what

2446
01:59:39,080 --> 01:59:44,160
Speaker 1: he said last Friday night on NFL Network listening. Everybody's

2447
01:59:44,320 --> 01:59:47,000
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. Everyone in survivor pools is taking them.

2448
01:59:47,200 --> 01:59:50,080
Speaker 1: But as the face of CBS News and a Bill Stan,

2449
01:59:50,440 --> 01:59:52,520
Speaker 1: I want you to give us Sunday's news tonight. Grant

2450
01:59:52,520 --> 01:59:55,000
Speaker 1: into that, Cameron say, you're opening your broadcast on Sunday

2451
01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:57,920
Speaker 1: night right after Vikings Bills. How do you open the show?

2452
01:59:58,080 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: Good anything? I'm Jeff Flour. We're going to begin the

2453
01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:01,960
Speaker 1: broad test with the biggest upset of the week in

2454
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Speaker 1: the NFL, the Bills beating the Vikings twenty one seventeen. Unbelievable.

2455
02:00:11,720 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 1: He get it with a straight face too. We've got

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Speaker 1: Jeff Glore football Prognosticator live on the Subway fresh Day

2457
02:00:17,200 --> 02:00:19,440
Speaker 1: Conline with us right now, Jeff, John Murphy and Steve

2458
02:00:19,480 --> 02:00:22,160
Speaker 1: Tasker up here in Buffalo. Congratulations, what's your Who do

2459
02:00:22,240 --> 02:00:24,560
Speaker 1: you like this week? What's your best bet? Well? I

2460
02:00:24,720 --> 02:00:26,840
Speaker 1: liked I hope the Bills win I don't know if

2461
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a limb the same in a

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Speaker 1: spot like that. No, it was, Um, Listen, it was

2463
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Speaker 1: I was. I was trying to prepare myself, even though

2464
02:00:35,320 --> 02:00:37,680
Speaker 1: I was predicted the victor. I was preparing my son.

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02:00:37,720 --> 02:00:39,600
Speaker 1: I said, you know, because Jack's a big Bill fan.

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Speaker 1: Now he's eight and and so, Um, I was trying

2467
02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:44,360
Speaker 1: to get him ready during the week and saying, listen,

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02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:47,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a could be a tough game. Vikings

2469
02:00:47,080 --> 02:00:50,280
Speaker 1: are good, the Bills are on the road. So but

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Speaker 1: now he's like flowing with confidence, and he's talking to me.

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02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:54,560
Speaker 1: I get home last night and he's talking to me

2472
02:00:54,560 --> 02:00:56,920
Speaker 1: about the Packers and he's like, Dad, we beat the Vikings.

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02:00:56,960 --> 02:00:59,200
Speaker 1: We can easily beat the Packer. There you go. You

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02:00:59,320 --> 02:01:01,280
Speaker 1: got him in. You've got him in. He's already a

2475
02:01:01,360 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: victim of that logic. That doesn't seem to work. Where

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Speaker 1: did you come up with that prediction, Jeff, that's kind

2477
02:01:07,000 --> 02:01:09,080
Speaker 1: of a bold statement to make on Friday, two days

2478
02:01:09,160 --> 02:01:10,960
Speaker 1: before that game, which you know, let's face it, the

2479
02:01:11,000 --> 02:01:13,720
Speaker 1: Bills were seventeen point under dogs. I literally pulled that

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Speaker 1: out of it. I mean, I did not know that

2481
02:01:16,040 --> 02:01:17,480
Speaker 1: that Kyle was going to ask me that, and I

2482
02:01:17,560 --> 02:01:19,760
Speaker 1: just came up with it on the fly. Okay, it

2483
02:01:19,880 --> 02:01:23,120
Speaker 1: may it may it look looked practiced, but it wasn't

2484
02:01:24,120 --> 02:01:26,560
Speaker 1: like you made it look easy, which it's easier for

2485
02:01:26,680 --> 02:01:28,240
Speaker 1: you than it was for Murph and I all week

2486
02:01:28,280 --> 02:01:29,960
Speaker 1: on the radio last week when we were trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out, trying to conjure up because we could figure out,

2488
02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:36,720
Speaker 1: I waited that the Vikings could win big or win

2489
02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:38,840
Speaker 1: in a close game, and maybe the Bills would win

2490
02:01:38,880 --> 02:01:41,720
Speaker 1: in a close game. But nobody saw the Bills win

2491
02:01:41,800 --> 02:01:45,320
Speaker 1: in twenty seven to six. I just find the NFL

2492
02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:49,360
Speaker 1: is always so unpredictable, especially in this era. I mean,

2493
02:01:49,440 --> 02:01:52,720
Speaker 1: look at the Patriots lost to the Lions on Sunday night.

2494
02:01:53,240 --> 02:01:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean handily, what by sixteen points? So I just

2495
02:01:58,360 --> 02:02:02,480
Speaker 1: I guess in the end everything we ken even out

2496
02:02:02,520 --> 02:02:04,320
Speaker 1: a little bit where you know, we might take our

2497
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:09,560
Speaker 1: lumps at times this year, but it's you have these

2498
02:02:09,680 --> 02:02:11,720
Speaker 1: results that are sort of just out of the norm. Now.

2499
02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:14,480
Speaker 1: I obviously I hope it continues. I hope a lot

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02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:18,080
Speaker 1: of us hope it continues. But um, I think, um,

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02:02:18,920 --> 02:02:22,720
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen was unbelievable. Yeah, and I were

2502
02:02:23,680 --> 02:02:26,160
Speaker 1: every play. I mean, I'm sort of looking at my son, son,

2503
02:02:27,000 --> 02:02:29,520
Speaker 1: and so the first touchdown happens and we're excited, and

2504
02:02:29,560 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 1: then the first fumble happens and I'm like, what's going

2505
02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:36,240
Speaker 1: on here? And then the second fumble happens, and it

2506
02:02:36,440 --> 02:02:40,240
Speaker 1: just it was it was like a dream come true. Afternoon, Jeff,

2507
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Speaker 1: Jeff Glare from the CBS Evening News, our guest, he's

2508
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Speaker 1: in town. I want to native at Kenmore East High School, Jeff.

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02:02:45,880 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: The unpredictability of it is what gets me. I mentioned

2510
02:02:48,440 --> 02:02:51,200
Speaker 1: my broadcast partner on Sunday, Mark Kelso a couple of times,

2511
02:02:51,480 --> 02:02:53,360
Speaker 1: this is why I love the NFL because stuff like

2512
02:02:53,440 --> 02:02:55,320
Speaker 1: that happens. And I gotta tell you, I don't know

2513
02:02:55,440 --> 02:02:59,480
Speaker 1: how anybody, anybody can bet money on NFL football because

2514
02:02:59,480 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: of stuff like Sunday. But the Bills being huge underdogs

2515
02:03:02,480 --> 02:03:03,920
Speaker 1: and coming up victors in that game, I don't know

2516
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:06,480
Speaker 1: anybody would risk their money like that. I don't disagree

2517
02:03:06,520 --> 02:03:08,800
Speaker 1: with you. So this is so what This was the

2518
02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:12,320
Speaker 1: biggest upset in the NFL since ninety five, right, Yeah?

2519
02:03:13,880 --> 02:03:17,320
Speaker 1: And then I thought somebody had characterized it as like

2520
02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:21,840
Speaker 1: the most unpredictable results since the NFL went to a

2521
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:27,040
Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule in nineteen seventy eight, right, which sounds

2522
02:03:27,160 --> 02:03:29,520
Speaker 1: right to me? Yeah yeah, I mean because you're talking

2523
02:03:29,520 --> 02:03:32,120
Speaker 1: about a game where they were sixteen and a half

2524
02:03:32,120 --> 02:03:36,360
Speaker 1: point underdogs and then one by twenty one. Yeah yeah, amazing,

2525
02:03:36,520 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. You can't figure it out and there's no

2526
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:40,120
Speaker 1: way to hang your hat on it. And as the

2527
02:03:40,200 --> 02:03:44,320
Speaker 1: Bills now, they traveled to Green Bay, and everything changes

2528
02:03:44,360 --> 02:03:47,320
Speaker 1: in seven days. I mean, even the game in Green

2529
02:03:47,400 --> 02:03:49,560
Speaker 1: Bay is going to be affected by the result that

2530
02:03:49,880 --> 02:03:52,360
Speaker 1: we all saw last week. You think, well, now Rogers

2531
02:03:52,480 --> 02:03:55,280
Speaker 1: isn't quite one hundred percent, and their offensive line may

2532
02:03:55,320 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 1: have some issues, and all of a sudden, the Buffalo Bills,

2533
02:03:57,840 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, fans think they're world beaters. So he so

2534
02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:04,880
Speaker 1: Rogers basically says is hamstring is fine, but he's still

2535
02:04:04,960 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee issue. Right yeah, right, that's the report,

2536
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:10,720
Speaker 1: that's correct, Okay. And then so I didn't get a

2537
02:04:10,800 --> 02:04:12,960
Speaker 1: chance to hear what Peter was saying because we were

2538
02:04:13,000 --> 02:04:15,960
Speaker 1: on with this special report on CBS News, but he

2539
02:04:16,120 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 1: was so Peter was talking about the front seven that

2540
02:04:18,840 --> 02:04:21,560
Speaker 1: was that is better than people think? Are they better

2541
02:04:21,600 --> 02:04:24,839
Speaker 1: than they've been rated? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

2542
02:04:25,040 --> 02:04:27,040
Speaker 1: You sound like you listen to the show every day, Jeff,

2543
02:04:27,080 --> 02:04:28,640
Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling us? No, well, I saw,

2544
02:04:28,680 --> 02:04:32,440
Speaker 1: I did see when I can, I saw some of

2545
02:04:32,480 --> 02:04:35,560
Speaker 1: the tweets. So why is he why why was he

2546
02:04:35,640 --> 02:04:37,400
Speaker 1: impressed by that? I mean it was it was cool

2547
02:04:37,440 --> 02:04:40,560
Speaker 1: to hear well. He thought that the Vikings did have

2548
02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:42,760
Speaker 1: some protection issues that have gone all the way back

2549
02:04:42,760 --> 02:04:44,240
Speaker 1: to the preseason. He thought it was a really good

2550
02:04:44,280 --> 02:04:47,320
Speaker 1: matchup for Buffalo. They and they took advantage of it.

2551
02:04:47,440 --> 02:04:49,800
Speaker 1: They they knew what they were up against, and they

2552
02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:52,480
Speaker 1: played like they needed to play to beat the Vikings.

2553
02:04:52,560 --> 02:04:55,760
Speaker 1: Now and they're going against the Packers. The one thing

2554
02:04:55,840 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 1: he said particularly about Jerry Hughes yea, Jerry Hughes is

2555
02:04:59,280 --> 02:05:01,560
Speaker 1: having an elite season. He and Khalil Max share the

2556
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:03,200
Speaker 1: lead for the amount of pressure they put on the

2557
02:05:03,280 --> 02:05:06,880
Speaker 1: quarterback this season. Obviously, Khalil Max getting some recognition because

2558
02:05:06,880 --> 02:05:08,240
Speaker 1: of the big plays and the fact that he was

2559
02:05:08,280 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football and had the trade happened, But

2560
02:05:12,040 --> 02:05:14,560
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes has been every bit the player that Khalil

2561
02:05:14,640 --> 02:05:18,040
Speaker 1: Mack has been for the Bears, and last week Riley

2562
02:05:18,120 --> 02:05:21,160
Speaker 1: Reef had no answer for Jerry Hughes. So coming into

2563
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:24,120
Speaker 1: this game, the Packers have an elite left tackle and

2564
02:05:24,240 --> 02:05:28,800
Speaker 1: it could be a different story unless you consider Aaron

2565
02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:32,600
Speaker 1: Rodgers being, um, not one hundred percent. So there's all

2566
02:05:32,680 --> 02:05:36,240
Speaker 1: these variables that are in play. Uh, but you know

2567
02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:39,040
Speaker 1: it should be a better offensive line effort by the Packers,

2568
02:05:39,600 --> 02:05:43,000
Speaker 1: but Aaron Rodgers shouldn't be one hundred percent. So I

2569
02:05:43,080 --> 02:05:46,560
Speaker 1: saw some talk down here about there's talk about the

2570
02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:51,440
Speaker 1: Jets pursuing Leon Bell. There's been no talk about that

2571
02:05:51,840 --> 02:05:56,840
Speaker 1: with regard to them. There has been talk about that,

2572
02:05:57,040 --> 02:06:00,560
Speaker 1: and it may happen. I do, and tis just me talking.

2573
02:06:00,600 --> 02:06:03,200
Speaker 1: I haven't heard about the Bills. No, yeah, no, the

2574
02:06:03,240 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 1: Bills aren't going to pursue that's fake new that's fake.

2575
02:06:05,680 --> 02:06:10,080
Speaker 1: But the Jets, yes, I wouldn't be surprised at that.

2576
02:06:10,560 --> 02:06:14,320
Speaker 1: But I do think Levion Bell will be traded to somebody.

2577
02:06:15,360 --> 02:06:16,960
Speaker 1: What if somebody has to give up to get him

2578
02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:19,440
Speaker 1: for like the rest of the season before then getting

2579
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:22,839
Speaker 1: him a new deal, Well that depends. If the Pittsburgh

2580
02:06:22,840 --> 02:06:26,120
Speaker 1: Steaters want to get anything out of him, then they're

2581
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:28,520
Speaker 1: gonna have to trade him for something. And the longer

2582
02:06:28,560 --> 02:06:30,760
Speaker 1: you're patient and can wait, or your team allows you

2583
02:06:30,840 --> 02:06:34,880
Speaker 1: to wait. You can wait to get the lowest price. Jeff,

2584
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:38,040
Speaker 1: we're interviewing you. I got a couple of questions. All right, No,

2585
02:06:38,440 --> 02:06:41,960
Speaker 1: you sound like a caller, Jeff from New York. Go ahead, Jeff.

2586
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,720
Speaker 1: What's a typical Bills Sunday like for you? How many

2587
02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:46,560
Speaker 1: games do you get to in person? And what do

2588
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 1: you do when the Bills are on TV? I'm hoping

2589
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: to get to the we were I wanted to get

2590
02:06:50,480 --> 02:06:53,400
Speaker 1: to the Chargers game, but then I had a hurricane

2591
02:06:54,320 --> 02:06:55,880
Speaker 1: that I was covering and I wanted to take my

2592
02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:58,160
Speaker 1: son to it. So I'm hoping to get to a

2593
02:06:58,200 --> 02:07:01,520
Speaker 1: couple of games this season. Generally speaking, if I'm here

2594
02:07:01,600 --> 02:07:04,680
Speaker 1: and not able to get to Buffalo, um we end up.

2595
02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:06,720
Speaker 1: Um we end up streaming it like through you know,

2596
02:07:06,760 --> 02:07:08,560
Speaker 1: Sunday Ticket because some of the games around here. It

2597
02:07:08,680 --> 02:07:10,720
Speaker 1: was interesting this past weekend. I end up getting the

2598
02:07:10,800 --> 02:07:13,560
Speaker 1: local stations from both New York City and the Hartford market.

2599
02:07:13,800 --> 02:07:18,320
Speaker 1: It was on The Hartford market was televising it, um

2600
02:07:19,240 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 1: New York wasn't. So I was actually able to watch

2601
02:07:21,240 --> 02:07:25,280
Speaker 1: it on my cable normal cable package. But usually I

2602
02:07:25,400 --> 02:07:28,280
Speaker 1: end up streaming the game. And then it becomes a

2603
02:07:28,280 --> 02:07:31,240
Speaker 1: bit of a competition because my wife's family is from Philadelphia,

2604
02:07:31,320 --> 02:07:35,240
Speaker 1: so she supports the Bills, but she's an Eagles fan, um,

2605
02:07:35,560 --> 02:07:40,320
Speaker 1: and so sometimes we're battling over that. Yeah, well, whoever

2606
02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:43,440
Speaker 1: you do, are you the guy that holds the remote though? Right?

2607
02:07:43,480 --> 02:07:47,440
Speaker 1: I mean generally generally you are the man right generally speaking.

2608
02:07:47,480 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 1: But we try to share. So yeah, no, it's a

2609
02:07:49,720 --> 02:07:53,520
Speaker 1: it's a big thing. It's become a ritual with Jack

2610
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:56,480
Speaker 1: and I and it really has become a special time.

2611
02:07:56,960 --> 02:08:01,880
Speaker 1: And so I really try and try to protect those

2612
02:08:02,000 --> 02:08:04,360
Speaker 1: those Sunday afternoons as much as I can. It's great,

2613
02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:06,560
Speaker 1: and we're glad you're a Bill's fanning, glad you're so prominent,

2614
02:08:06,640 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: and glad that your predictions are right. I'm going to

2615
02:08:08,640 --> 02:08:10,640
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for your prediction for the Sunday Jeff,

2616
02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:13,160
Speaker 1: You're a hot streak here, all right. You guys will

2617
02:08:13,160 --> 02:08:14,320
Speaker 1: be the first to know if I do it. You

2618
02:08:14,360 --> 02:08:19,440
Speaker 1: haven't got the questions for Steve no. Um, but listen,

2619
02:08:19,520 --> 02:08:21,440
Speaker 1: this is like, this is what what what is the

2620
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:23,560
Speaker 1: mood there? Now? I mean I'm not I'm not I'm

2621
02:08:23,600 --> 02:08:26,080
Speaker 1: not there. I mean I have to. Obviously, I felt

2622
02:08:26,120 --> 02:08:28,320
Speaker 1: great about it these past couple of days. But are

2623
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:34,000
Speaker 1: people surprised? Did did folks expect this from from Josh

2624
02:08:34,120 --> 02:08:36,480
Speaker 1: or what? No? I think they're pleasantly surprised with Josh.

2625
02:08:36,560 --> 02:08:39,040
Speaker 1: They liked him in the wind. They there's a lot

2626
02:08:39,080 --> 02:08:41,480
Speaker 1: of room for growth. He's still completing just over half

2627
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:43,800
Speaker 1: of his passes. He made some plays with his legs.

2628
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:45,680
Speaker 1: They know that he's going to have to learn to

2629
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:47,560
Speaker 1: be better. But there's a lot of things that are

2630
02:08:47,600 --> 02:08:50,440
Speaker 1: and some of them are intangible that they love what

2631
02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:53,720
Speaker 1: they saw, and particularly the leadership and the competitive fire

2632
02:08:53,800 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 1: that they saw, and of course the fact that he's

2633
02:08:56,400 --> 02:08:58,960
Speaker 1: got those physical abilities. So there's a lot of positives

2634
02:08:59,200 --> 02:09:02,520
Speaker 1: about Josh lying around and now the defense has played

2635
02:09:02,600 --> 02:09:04,680
Speaker 1: really well in the last six quarters and they feel

2636
02:09:05,000 --> 02:09:07,520
Speaker 1: every baking kind of breathe a sigh of relief that

2637
02:09:07,640 --> 02:09:09,920
Speaker 1: the team's going to be competitive. Now. I mean, my

2638
02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:13,920
Speaker 1: biggest only my concern right now. So Garoppolo got hurt running,

2639
02:09:14,760 --> 02:09:17,960
Speaker 1: Gwentz got hurt running last year, right, I'm with you.

2640
02:09:18,520 --> 02:09:22,320
Speaker 1: I just that's not to be not to be Debbie Downer,

2641
02:09:22,320 --> 02:09:25,520
Speaker 1: but I mean, like it is. It's it's a concern.

2642
02:09:25,560 --> 02:09:26,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to be you don't have

2643
02:09:26,680 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 1: him to play scared. But everybody's gonna be careful, right,

2644
02:09:29,400 --> 02:09:32,400
Speaker 1: That's right. Thanks correct, Jeff, Thanks for this, Thanks for

2645
02:09:32,520 --> 02:09:34,720
Speaker 1: your great work, and thank you for being a Bills fan.

2646
02:09:34,760 --> 02:09:36,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show with us today. We

2647
02:09:36,080 --> 02:09:38,840
Speaker 1: appreciate it, all right, Murph, thanks very much. Jeff Glore,

2648
02:09:38,960 --> 02:09:40,720
Speaker 1: he is the anchor of the CBS even he News.

2649
02:09:40,760 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: You see him tonight six thirty on CBS. Emmy Award

2650
02:09:43,360 --> 02:09:47,600
Speaker 1: winning journalist Huge Bills fan predicted it right. He predicted

2651
02:09:47,760 --> 02:09:50,920
Speaker 1: the only one I really a prominent person to predicted

2652
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:54,640
Speaker 1: a Buffalo victory. He's it unbelievable. We thank Jeff for that.

2653
02:09:54,760 --> 02:09:56,040
Speaker 1: We thank you for the prediction. We thank you for

2654
02:09:56,120 --> 02:09:57,880
Speaker 1: coming on the show. He joined us on the Subway

2655
02:09:57,880 --> 02:10:00,840
Speaker 1: Fresh Jack Hiline presented by Subway Restaurants, proud to be

2656
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:04,200
Speaker 1: locally owned and operated. We're back with more One Bills

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02:10:04,240 --> 02:10:06,760
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

2658
02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:25,720
Speaker 1: What have we learned from today's show. It is presented

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02:10:25,760 --> 02:10:28,560
Speaker 1: by Advanced Alarm, providing Western New York's homes and businesses

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02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:31,720
Speaker 1: with the finest insecurity in home theater the preferred alarm

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02:10:31,840 --> 02:10:33,840
Speaker 1: and home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We had

2662
02:10:33,920 --> 02:10:36,840
Speaker 1: cornerback Ryan Lewis in studio with us. First NFL game

2663
02:10:36,880 --> 02:10:39,840
Speaker 1: Sunday got the start for the Bills at Minnesota. Ryan

2664
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: Lewis talked about the last week or so, cut by

2665
02:10:42,160 --> 02:10:44,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots, picked up by the Bills, cut by the Bills,

2666
02:10:44,720 --> 02:10:47,960
Speaker 1: put on Buffalo's practice squad, reactivated, and starts last Sunday.

2667
02:10:48,000 --> 02:10:49,920
Speaker 1: He went through the last week for us on his

2668
02:10:50,040 --> 02:10:54,040
Speaker 1: appearance on the show. Yeah, I mean, I know, it's

2669
02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:55,360
Speaker 1: just you know, a part of the game, part of

2670
02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:56,840
Speaker 1: the you know, the nature of the NFL, how it

2671
02:10:56,920 --> 02:10:58,920
Speaker 1: goes a little bummed out. You know, I couldn't you know,

2672
02:10:59,080 --> 02:11:01,240
Speaker 1: make a team there. But a couple of days later

2673
02:11:01,280 --> 02:11:02,839
Speaker 1: and my agent told me that I was coming to Buffalo,

2674
02:11:02,880 --> 02:11:04,440
Speaker 1: and you know they're claiming me, putting me on the

2675
02:11:04,440 --> 02:11:08,120
Speaker 1: active roster. You know, my whole mood has changed. You know.

2676
02:11:08,280 --> 02:11:10,320
Speaker 1: The opportunity that I was giving here was just great,

2677
02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:11,480
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm just trying not to take it,

2678
02:11:11,640 --> 02:11:15,480
Speaker 1: you know, take advantage of it. There he is, Ryan Lewis.

2679
02:11:15,520 --> 02:11:17,600
Speaker 1: It's a great story and a great finish to the

2680
02:11:17,640 --> 02:11:19,560
Speaker 1: story for him. And we'll see how much of a

2681
02:11:19,640 --> 02:11:21,840
Speaker 1: role he plays moving forward for the Buffalo Bills. Also

2682
02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:25,040
Speaker 1: on the show today, Brian Baldinger, former offensive lineman in

2683
02:11:25,080 --> 02:11:27,640
Speaker 1: the NFL and now an analyst for NFL Network, talked

2684
02:11:27,640 --> 02:11:29,680
Speaker 1: about how he is a big fan of Josh Allen.

2685
02:11:31,840 --> 02:11:33,600
Speaker 1: I think you have to be. I mean, I think

2686
02:11:33,640 --> 02:11:35,960
Speaker 1: you have to be. I mean I remember watching him

2687
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:39,800
Speaker 1: on that start against Cincinnati and three preseason and it

2688
02:11:39,880 --> 02:11:42,080
Speaker 1: was unmerciful what Cincinnati did to him that day, and

2689
02:11:42,080 --> 02:11:44,360
Speaker 1: it didn't FaZe him at all. And he went into

2690
02:11:44,400 --> 02:11:47,440
Speaker 1: Minnesota on Sunday and he took their lunch money and

2691
02:11:48,280 --> 02:11:50,640
Speaker 1: I've made a ton of plays and you know when

2692
02:11:50,640 --> 02:11:53,200
Speaker 1: the defense took the ball away, you know, he made

2693
02:11:53,240 --> 02:11:56,320
Speaker 1: them pay for And he challenged every one of those

2694
02:11:56,360 --> 02:11:58,360
Speaker 1: athletes in Minnesota. We all know what their names are

2695
02:11:58,440 --> 02:12:02,080
Speaker 1: getting around. They're all highly paid, they're very, very good players.

2696
02:12:02,880 --> 02:12:06,280
Speaker 1: But he wasn't. He wasn't based by anything, and neither

2697
02:12:06,320 --> 02:12:08,280
Speaker 1: wore any of the Bills. And it was an impressive

2698
02:12:08,400 --> 02:12:12,040
Speaker 1: performance by Josh Allen. And Sunday Ryan involving around the

2699
02:12:12,080 --> 02:12:14,000
Speaker 1: show with us, Hey, every Tuesday, we do this the

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Speaker 1: ad Pro Sports High school coaches of the week, let's

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Speaker 1: let you know. In Section six, the AD Pro Sports

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Speaker 1: High School football Coach of the Week for this past week.

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Speaker 1: This past week Section six, Jim dupri A Pioneer led

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02:12:25,880 --> 02:12:27,760
Speaker 1: them to a win of our top ranked cheek Tawaga.

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Speaker 1: And in section five, the Rochester Area the AD Pro

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02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:33,920
Speaker 1: Sports High School Coach of the Week Dan Victor of Irondequoy.

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02:12:34,600 --> 02:12:37,440
Speaker 1: His team scored a touchdown with fourteen seconds remaining to

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02:12:37,520 --> 02:12:40,240
Speaker 1: get a win over Victor twenty eight twenty one. Our

2709
02:12:40,440 --> 02:12:43,600
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, I thought it was interesting. See, I

2710
02:12:43,680 --> 02:12:47,320
Speaker 1: guess I'm not surprised by the response. People were trying

2711
02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:49,800
Speaker 1: to figure out what it was that changed the bills.

2712
02:12:49,840 --> 02:12:52,120
Speaker 1: With six quarters of football played so far this year,

2713
02:12:52,600 --> 02:12:55,600
Speaker 1: three awful quarters and three pretty good ones, who what's

2714
02:12:55,640 --> 02:12:59,200
Speaker 1: most responsible? Fifty five percent of responded and say defense,

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02:12:59,240 --> 02:13:03,400
Speaker 1: thirty four percent say coaching, eleven percent say offense. It

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Speaker 1: would be interesting too to know what if you would

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Speaker 1: have put individuals on there, what individual guys responsible for it?

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Speaker 1: They might have said, Josh Allen, Yeah, yeah, who would

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Speaker 1: you say if it was an individual who did it?

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Speaker 1: Was based Sean McDermott, probably Jerry Hughes, Jerry Hughes. Maybe yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that's interesting. But yeah, defense has played well,

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Speaker 1: no question, and they really shut down Vikings, which I

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Speaker 1: think was a surprise for some people given the first

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Speaker 1: two weeks. But here we are. It's and they're they're

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Speaker 1: headed for green Bay. First day to practice week. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we'll have Chris Brown and practice. We'll get a player

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Speaker 1: after practice and talk a lot more about the Bills

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