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Speaker 1: one of their analytics and research experts. He had an

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Speaker 1: he took a survey with twenty six research analysts around

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Speaker 1: a really interesting breakdown. He's also had some other breakdowns

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Speaker 1: all of that in the two o'clock hour, and then

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Speaker 1: twelve forty five we're going to hear from Brandon Guzda

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Speaker 1: from Rachel's Mediterranean Grill, one of the team's proud spots.

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Speaker 1: But they're doing a really good thing for O'shi's Children's

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Speaker 1: what you can do when you stop in at Rachel's

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Speaker 1: We've also got the Twitter poll, which right now, after

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Speaker 1: watching the Monday night game, Steve, we're sitting there watching

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Speaker 1: hell is stopping those guys? Those of you didn't know

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that close. The Chiefs looked phenomenal, and Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson's struggle and Lamar Jackson did not look like an

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Speaker 1: I mean this year, this coming year or last year

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Speaker 1: play the AFC played the North Right? So this year

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Speaker 1: They'll be able to score some points on just about anybody.

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Speaker 1: a cell who wants to talk about the Bills offense? Gary,

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, thought y'all doing good? Hey guys, how y'all

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Speaker 1: doing um. I think they're sending obviously if they want

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna throw it, can't would throw it. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna throw it up. It's gonna get picked. That's the

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Speaker 1: great turnovers. That's what I worried about. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I would say he hasn't. He hasn't had nearly as

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Speaker 1: many of those as he did last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: he had the one chuck to Tyler Croft there and

435
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Speaker 1: even though Kraft came down with it, we know what

436
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Speaker 1: happened with the officials. And I know in his last

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Speaker 1: fourteen games, I think he's got twenty seven touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: and four interceptions, So I mean we're talking about almost

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Speaker 1: a full season there. His last fourteen games, he's got

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Speaker 1: four picks, So I think he's done a much better

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Speaker 1: job of curtailing the let's just chuck it and hope

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Speaker 1: something good happens type throws. He's cut back noticeably on

443
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Speaker 1: playing hero ball, although some would argue that that play

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Speaker 1: when he's running any lateral again on Sunday, was an

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Speaker 1: example of that, and you could make an argument I'm

446
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Speaker 1: not going to disagree with that, but I think the

447
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Speaker 1: vast majority of his decision making has been decidedly better

448
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Speaker 1: this year, and I think because of that, the offense

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Speaker 1: has been able to ascend in the fashion that we've

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Speaker 1: seen it. Not to mention the fact that his almost

451
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Speaker 1: seventy two percent completion percentage has raised the efficiency of

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Speaker 1: this offense to a degree we haven't seen in quite

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Speaker 1: some time. Well, I think also it's it's one of

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Speaker 1: those things where Josh Allen has started to you know,

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Speaker 1: not only stay on the football field with with the offense,

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Speaker 1: but also you know, look more like he's got every

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Speaker 1: throw in the book. It's not just him he's a

458
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Speaker 1: facilitating more. He's he's getting rid of the football more.

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Speaker 1: He's um And I think there's and also you know

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Speaker 1: you say that that the choices to our Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: that they're a lead Tier two justice launched below or

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Speaker 1: sending I think whatever they are right now, they still

463
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Speaker 1: are getting better. They are as sending they're running a

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Speaker 1: tech needs improvement, There's no question about it. They've got

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Speaker 1: to get that going a little bit better. And if

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Speaker 1: if they do that week it was better, Statistically it

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Speaker 1: was better. But I think there's a lot of times

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Speaker 1: when it needs to be more meaningful to the to

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Speaker 1: the way their offense looks all the time. Devin single

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Speaker 1: Terry and even T. J. Eldon when he was in

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Speaker 1: this last week, snapped off a couple of very nice

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Speaker 1: runs right, two consecutive runs, But I think it needs

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Speaker 1: to be more meaningful in the game plan rather than

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Speaker 1: just we're gonna try try this here to keep them

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Speaker 1: on us kind of thing, because it right now it

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Speaker 1: kind of feels to me like they're they're handing it

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Speaker 1: off and you almost feel like they're experimenting with the

478
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Speaker 1: running game rather than having it inside there they Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary has made some nice runs, no question, but I

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Speaker 1: think more than anything, I notice it's one run sprinkled

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Speaker 1: in with three or four not so great runs well,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've done a better job of using

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Speaker 1: the screen game almost to double as a run game

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Speaker 1: at times. You know, those quick little passes get a

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Speaker 1: guy out in space, get the blockers out in front

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Speaker 1: of them. That's worked pretty well for them. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I think the run game has made more

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Speaker 1: progress these three weeks than the Bill's defense has. I

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Speaker 1: would say that. And with that in mind, let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the phones at eight h three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty and we go to Brian in Alabama. He's got

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Speaker 1: concerns about Buffalo's defense. Brian, thanks for joining us. Hey, Hey,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, fellows. How you guys doing to that? Good?

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Speaker 1: Doing good? And real quick and and I'll hang up

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Speaker 1: and listen. First, my four year old daughter loves your

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Speaker 1: intro where you say Steve Steve of She repeats that

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Speaker 1: to me every morning when I love it. But but

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Speaker 1: my question about the defense is, um, I know, I

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Speaker 1: know they return they're returning a lot of starters, but

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Speaker 1: it looks like they might be suffering this year from

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Speaker 1: letting uh Lawson and uh Phillips Jordan Jordan Phillips from Arizona.

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Speaker 1: To me, it looks like they're they're struggling from that,

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to kind of get you guys opinion.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that had something to do with it?

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Speaker 1: I know they didn't get too much younger on the

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Speaker 1: defensive line, and that's that's all has been kind of

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Speaker 1: the problem for the Bill's defense throughout the past years.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they should have kept those two or

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Speaker 1: here's what I think it is, Brian. I think we

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Speaker 1: think about how much this team, how much this team

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Speaker 1: year over year has worked very hard to maintain as

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Speaker 1: much continuity as possible. Okay, now every roster is going

513
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Speaker 1: to turn over twenty to twenty five players from one

514
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Speaker 1: year to the next. It's just the law of averages

515
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: in the league right now with free agency and everything.

516
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Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips was a very good player. Shack Lawson was

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Speaker 1: a steady player that you could count on. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they were world beaters. What you have to look

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Speaker 1: at with Buffalo's roster is this, where was the most

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Speaker 1: turnover from last year to this year. It's the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not even close, so the most turnover there.

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Speaker 1: I think there is a feeling out process that is

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Speaker 1: going on right now where those players apps and OTAs

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Speaker 1: no preseason games, are learning to play off of one

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Speaker 1: another at the NFL regular season game speed. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's all locked down yet, So I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a work in progress for this

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Speaker 1: defensive front, for all of them to learn how to

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Speaker 1: get playoff of one another, execute consistently. And let's not

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Speaker 1: forget this, Steve. The last two years, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: lost the primary guy who calls the pass rush games

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Speaker 1: up front in obvious passing situations. It was Kyle Williams

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Speaker 1: for the longest time. He retires, that responsibility gets passed

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Speaker 1: down to Lorenzo Alexander and with Harrison Phillips as an understudy.

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Speaker 1: So Lorenzo Alexander's calling all the pass rush games all

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Speaker 1: year last year. This year, I asked Leslie Frasier, who's

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Speaker 1: handling that responsibility now? And he says, we are going

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Speaker 1: with a group effort, so one guy may not call

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Speaker 1: it the same way as the next guy based on

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Speaker 1: the giving game plan for the week. Now, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they all huddle up in the meeting room and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we get this look, we're gonna go to this. So

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Speaker 1: guys that are making those calls just be wary of

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Speaker 1: a B and C. Hey, if we get this look,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna try this stunt or twist or whatever.

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Speaker 1: If you're in the game, we're going with this and

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Speaker 1: this is what we'll call it. So I think those

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Speaker 1: things are all getting worked out. And they sound like

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Speaker 1: small things, Steve, but you know better than anybody those

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Speaker 1: small little details can sometimes mean the difference between getting

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Speaker 1: a quarterback down on his back and a guy getting

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Speaker 1: a ball off late where you're just getting a hit.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a work in progress type deal

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Speaker 1: more than anything else. They have talent, but I just

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Speaker 1: don't think the talent has fully jailed yet up there.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? But I think you're right. I

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00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: think they're still feeling themselves out. I don't know who,

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Speaker 1: if the coaching staff or the players know exactly what

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Speaker 1: they've got, or how each guy, if he knows what

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Speaker 1: he's how he's fitting in. They're still tinkering with the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Cody Ford moved over to left guard this

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Speaker 1: last week, Quentin Spain came off the field, and you

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Speaker 1: know Winters goes in to play right guard. So they're

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Speaker 1: still tinkering around with those guys up front, and they're

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Speaker 1: tinkering around with the defensive line in the exact same way.

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Speaker 1: We've seen different multiple combinations of four different guys playing

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Speaker 1: four different positions. Throughout these games, they usually start with

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Speaker 1: the same four that you know. It's it's Trent, it's

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Speaker 1: the usual suspects, it's Trent Murphy, it's uh Jerry Hughes,

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Speaker 1: it's Quentin Jefferson and At Oliver and then they'll come

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Speaker 1: in with Mario Addison, uh aj Epenezza, Harrison Phillips, and

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Speaker 1: Vernon Butler. And then as the game goes on, Butler

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Speaker 1: will start working with Ed Oliver and you know, Quentin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson will move over and start working with Harrison Phillips,

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Speaker 1: and then uh aj Epenessa will come in with Trent

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Speaker 1: Murphy and you know that kind of so they're still

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Speaker 1: feeling this thing out at game speed. I think you're

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Speaker 1: going to see them continue to experiment with personnel combinations,

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Speaker 1: both on the defensive line that Brian's talking to us

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Speaker 1: about here and also on the offensive line. So you

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Speaker 1: work your most effectiveness. You're most effective when you're working

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Speaker 1: with the guys in the spots where it works. And

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that Cody Ford, you know, won't be

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Speaker 1: get a shot at left tap I'm just exaggerating, but

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Speaker 1: making a left tackle spot they're going to experiment with

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Speaker 1: getting some guys on the field who can play with

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Speaker 1: the right skill sets. They're not there yet, and like

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Speaker 1: you said, you say it's a work in progress. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly what it is. They're three weeks into a sixteen

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Speaker 1: week season with no preseason games to look at these

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Speaker 1: guys or try them out, and I still think they

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Speaker 1: don't know what works best. Yeah, and the most change

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Speaker 1: has happened on the defensive line from last season to

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Speaker 1: this season. That's where they have the most new personnel.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna take some time. You just hope it

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Speaker 1: doesn't cost them a game because their defense can't get

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Speaker 1: the stops that they need. We got to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when I'm back, we'll hear from Brian Dable and

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, who commented on the defensive struggles, particularly in

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Speaker 1: the second half against the Rams last week. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to all of that when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Caster One Bills Live busy show for

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Speaker 1: you today, And we told you we're gonna hear from

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable, Leslie Frasier, we're gonna do that right now.

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Speaker 1: As the coordinators both addressed the media as they do

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Speaker 1: every Monday following games, and Brian Dable was asked about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line shuffle that Steve referenced Cody Ford at

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Speaker 1: left guard, Brian Winters at right guard, and Quentin Spain

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Speaker 1: on the bench. That was something they turned too late

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Speaker 1: in the Dolphins game and then this past Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Rams, that's how they started and it didn't change

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Speaker 1: the duration of the game. So here is Brian Dables

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Speaker 1: reasoning behind the offensive line shuffle. That's just a decision

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Speaker 1: for that game that we you know, we came up with,

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Speaker 1: you know, of confidence in all three of those guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, how it shakes out going forward, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's a good group to work with.

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Speaker 1: So he said he has confidence in all three of

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Speaker 1: those guys. I'm wondering if Eric Woods theory that he

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Speaker 1: proposed on Monday has merit because he was of the

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Speaker 1: opinion that this could be a preemptive move for when

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Speaker 1: John Feliciano comes back, who I think most people would

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Speaker 1: agree is one of your top five linemen, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be in the starting lineup. So when Feliciano is ready

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Speaker 1: to play, does he just slide right into right guard

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Speaker 1: and they leave Cody Ford at left guard. It's an

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Speaker 1: interesting theory, but knowing the way Brian Dabele operates along

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Speaker 1: with coach McDermott, I think they just thought, we think

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Speaker 1: these are our best five for this week, and I

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Speaker 1: think this could be subject to change on a week

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Speaker 1: to week basis depending on who they're playing. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: put it past him to think that the skill set

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford and Brian Winter's bring to the table would

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00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: is a better matchup with Aaron Donald mobility, more mobility,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more less road greater, and a little

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Speaker 1: bit more lateral motion. I don't know, or maybe just

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Speaker 1: the opposite. Maybe it's more road greater and less lateral motion.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's I think that was probably,

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Speaker 1: like Dave Ball said, the Rams had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a special challenge for the Bill's offensive line, and

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Speaker 1: this gave him a better chance to stack up to

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Speaker 1: it physical a little bit better feet with those two guys, right,

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Speaker 1: So at least that's what it looks like to me.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's probably, you know, not to say

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Speaker 1: that those guys don't tell the truth all the time.

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Speaker 1: I think that's pretty pretty much true. I think that's

648
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Speaker 1: I think you can take it at face value that

649
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: they thought Aaron Donald was such a playmaker, such a

650
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Speaker 1: difference maker, they needed to give the guys a physical chance,

651
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: a better physical matchup. It'll be interesting to see if

652
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Speaker 1: that remains the same this week, or if they go

653
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Speaker 1: back to Spain at left guard and then forward back

654
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: at right guard this week. I mean, you think about

655
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Speaker 1: the Raiders and their defensive front. You know, it's hard

656
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Speaker 1: to say, it's hard to say which direction they might

657
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Speaker 1: go there. You know, the Raiders defense has not been

658
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Speaker 1: good to this point at stopping offenses. Right now, I mean,

659
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: right now, they're what are they here? They are twenty

660
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Speaker 1: seventh in total defense, twenty seventh against the run or

661
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth against the run, sixteenth against the past, twenty

662
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Speaker 1: fifth and points allowed. I mean, they're not slowing anybody

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Speaker 1: down right now. Right so maybe you go back to

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Speaker 1: being a road grader type group. They've played and run

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Speaker 1: people over. Yes, they've played the Saints. They've played well.

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Speaker 1: Last week. They they just played New England and even

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Speaker 1: Carolina I think has proved to be a more potent

668
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Speaker 1: offense than people anticipated. Now they've since lost Christian McCaffrey,

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Speaker 1: which obviously is a huge void in their lineup, but

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00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: still in all, they've played some decent teams all three weeks.

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Speaker 1: If the offense the Bills are bringing in doesn't make

672
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Speaker 1: it any easier, but they've they're kind of like the Bills.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders have coughed up thirty points, and you know,

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Speaker 1: weeks one in week three and they gave up twenty

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Speaker 1: four to the Saints and beat them, So they've given

676
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Speaker 1: up some points. And if you watched any of that,

677
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Speaker 1: I was I was surprised that Carolina Panthers were able

678
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Speaker 1: to hang thirty points on those games with a rookie

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Speaker 1: head coach and Teddy Bridgewater and a lot of pieces

680
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Speaker 1: in a pandemic year, with an offseason like they had.

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Speaker 1: First game out of the shoot, Panthers came out and

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00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: moved it around on them, which was a little bit surprising,

683
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Speaker 1: and they really had. They made Drew Brees look bad

684
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Speaker 1: in his own building, so or well, actually that was Vegas.

685
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Speaker 1: They made the Saints look bad on the road, so

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Speaker 1: that surprised me a little bit as well. And then

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Speaker 1: of course, we've all seen him how tough it is

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Speaker 1: to win in Foxborough. Yeah, now we mentioned John Feliciano.

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable provided an update on the possible return of Feliciano.

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Speaker 1: We know he was targeting this week's game since the

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Speaker 1: Raiders are his former team. He really wanted to play

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Speaker 1: in this game. But coming off that torn peck, that's

693
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: a tough injury that requires a long rehab. But he

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Speaker 1: would be eligible to come off ir this week, along

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Speaker 1: with Josh Norman and Isaiah Hodgens for that matter. So

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Speaker 1: here is Brian Dable updating you on John Feliciano's status.

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Speaker 1: He's everything you wanted in a teammate and an offensive linement.

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Speaker 1: He's gritty, he's tough, he's very intelligent. You know, he's

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00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: he did a really good job for us last year

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Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully we'll get him back here as

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00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: soon as Weeken's important part to our team. Oh no

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: guarantees that he would be back this year this week, sorry,

703
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Speaker 1: and I don't know. I think it's ambitious to think

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Speaker 1: that he could come back in eight to nine weeks

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Speaker 1: time and be ready to play in a regular season

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Speaker 1: game when he's been idle for this long. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's working his tail off to get ready,

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00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: but this team's humming right now on offense, and I

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00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: think they want to be sure the guys completely ready.

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00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: There's no reason to rush him. You've got plenty of

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: talent there right the time schedule was eight to twelve. Yeah,

712
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's a little premature. It is he was,

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Speaker 1: and believe me, he wants to play and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: play as soon as he's capable. But they'll, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no reason to hurry him back right now when

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Speaker 1: you haven't lost a game yet in this season and

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00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: you're humming along. Certainly they're gonna need that depth at

718
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: some point during this regular season, but until they do,

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Speaker 1: they probably like to guys they've got because if he

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Speaker 1: comes back, somebody's got to go, and that's that's never

721
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: a good thing, right although I think they would agree that.

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Speaker 1: You know, Feliciano is the emotional leader of that team

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Speaker 1: and he's probably one of their top five. So I

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Speaker 1: would expect when he is good to come back, he'll

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Speaker 1: slide right back into the starting lineup. Okay, we have

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Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we return, we will

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Speaker 1: be joined by Rachel's Mediterranean Grill Director of Operations Brandon Guzda,

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Speaker 1: who's going to explain to us they're round Up at

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Speaker 1: Rachel's program to benefit O'shi's Children's Hospital. So that's coming

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Speaker 1: up next, a cool program that you can be a

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Speaker 1: part of just by getting your grab and go from Rachel's.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it next here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you and joining us on the line right now is

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Speaker 1: the director of operations for Rachel's Mediterranean Grill. It's one

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Speaker 1: Brandon Goozda joining us to kind of explain this second

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Speaker 1: annual fundraising effort that they're undertaking to help O'shi Children's

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Speaker 1: Hospital in partnership with the Bills. So, Brandon, thanks very

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. How you doing this afternoon, I'm

741
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: doing excellent. Thank you so much for having me. It's

742
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Yeah, So why don't we just get it

743
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: get right to it here? The Roundup program. Maybe just explain,

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00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: you know, the thought process behind it and how you

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00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: know your patrons can kind of help in the effort here. Yeah. Absolutely,

746
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,959
Speaker 1: So this is our second annual Rachel's Roundup. We've done

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00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: partnered with those Shy Children's Hospital. We're very thankful, you know,

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00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: to give back to our community and honored with our

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Speaker 1: partnership with the Buffalo Bills as well. You could stop

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Speaker 1: into any of our ten locals throughout the Buffalo and

751
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: Rochester area. You go in, when you're ordering your meal,

752
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: or even if you're ordering online, you can round your

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00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: bill up a dollar, two dollars, round the changeup, donate

754
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: any increment you would like, um round your bill up

755
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: and all proceeds will go to the children's hospital. So

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00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: we're excited, you know, we're excited to give back to

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00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: the community, especially to the women children of our community.

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: You're also getting some help from one of the Buffalo

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00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: Bills himselves, Harrison Phillips is signed up. He's going to

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Speaker 1: do an event for you. Is it a virtual event

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00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: or is it going to be in person? Hopefully with

762
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: you know the regulations and everything. Everyone's wearing their masks.

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00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: He's gonna do it in person, and you know he's

764
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: gonna donate for the cause as well. I know he

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00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: partners up with Oshai Children's Hospital and with our partnerships

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00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: alongside with the Bills and stuff, it coincides greatly together.

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00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: So we're excited to have that event. Yeah, Harrison Phillips

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Speaker 1: and the Bills committing five thousand dollars to the effort,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, that virtual event. I know, it's always a

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Speaker 1: kick for the kids. I mean you see the photos,

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00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: you know at the hospital when Harrison or some of

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00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: the other players go by, and I mean the smiles

773
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: are ear to ear. I mean that is just that

774
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: is tough to beat. Um, But maybe just tell us,

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00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, you got the program or this fundraising effort

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00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: off the ground last year. Was there anything you took

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00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: from year one that maybe you want to implement here

778
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 1: in year two to make it even more successful? Yeah?

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00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely that's um. Last year I was in person.

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Speaker 1: M Obviously COPD wasn't a factor. Last year's where most

781
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: of our businesses came from. But now everything is virtually

782
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: turned to an online platform. So we're having a lot

783
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: of orders on our app, Rachel's Grilling. Through our website,

784
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: you can order directly for delivery or contact list of

785
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: delivery or pick up in any of our locations. So

786
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: we added it onto our online platform where when you're

787
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: checking out and you're ordering your food m via online

788
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: for pickup or delivery, you can just round up on

789
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: the website as well, added all onto your check and

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00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: then it comes right into us and your food gets there.

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00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: How was the response last year in its first year

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Speaker 1: and be expected to grow with the pandemic or how

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Speaker 1: do you think this is going to work? Yeah? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: m So we're just very appreciative to all of our

795
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Speaker 1: consumers for showing support and how our community has really

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00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: came together as a whole during this whole pandemic. Last

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00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: year was very well for the first one. We've we've

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00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: marketed and promoted this a lot here in year two

799
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Speaker 1: because it's just a way to give back as a whole,

800
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Speaker 1: from our consumers, to Rachel's, to our partners the Buffalo Bills,

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00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: just to give to our women and children's and we

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00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: have been very fortunate with how it has turned out

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00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: so far here in year two due to everything that

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00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: has been going on, but people have been giving tremendous

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00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: amounts and you know, we're excited on our end to

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Speaker 1: you know, at the end give a little surprise as well,

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00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,919
Speaker 1: and with the way COVID nineteen has hit everybody hard.

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Speaker 1: It's even hit the hospital hard, including the programs that

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00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: you know they're they're partnered up with, whether it's Stones, Buddies,

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00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:15,479
Speaker 1: UM or other you know programs that they have those

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Speaker 1: are affected negatively by COVID. So your guys' efforts is

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00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: going to go largely to some of those specific programs,

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00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: right yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. Um. Any any way we

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00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: can get back to them so they can afford some

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Speaker 1: of their things, because like you said, everyone has been affected.

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Speaker 1: So it's just a way that we can make sure

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Speaker 1: they have all the resources necessary. As a community, we

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00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: can we can give back to some much needed equipment

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Speaker 1: that they need, some some resources to keep the hospitals

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Speaker 1: afloat and keep going during these times. We're talking to

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Speaker 1: Brandon Gooza, director of operations for Rachel's Mediterranean Grill as

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Speaker 1: they're undertaking a round up program to help support Oshy

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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital, and there are many programs that they have

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00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: there along with some key services like trauma, emergency medicine

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Speaker 1: and the programs for children with the complex conditions and

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Speaker 1: special needs. Right, I know that your stuff you're doing

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Speaker 1: is really appreciated by the families. Of course O'shy appreciates

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Speaker 1: it as well. We will show all the best with it,

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Speaker 1: and proud of you guys for you know, I know,

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Speaker 1: we do a bunch of business with you here at

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Speaker 1: the State and we're eating your food all the time.

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Speaker 1: Pa chips man, you guys are I'm addicted to the

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Speaker 1: Pa chip You guys are fantastic. We're glad you're taking

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Speaker 1: a giving back to the community, taking a large step

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Speaker 1: in this and and inviting everybody to join in. So

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on with us. We really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, and good luck. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having me. It's a pleasure and we'll be in talk soon,

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Speaker 1: all right, Brandon, take care, good luck with this effort.

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Speaker 1: That's great that they're doing it online too, so you're

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00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: online orders you can round up there as well to

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Speaker 1: benefit O'shi Children's House well, which is really smart and lighted,

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00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: you know, Covid and everything contactless deliver your whole life's

844
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: online these days, right, well, yeah, more so than ever. Right,

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Speaker 1: So it's really great. And Rachel's and like I said,

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00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: they're here all the time in this building. I mean,

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00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: they're bringing us food all and they're a proud sponsor

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Speaker 1: of the show and of the bills, and they're they've

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00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: got signage in the stadium and so they're they're they're

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Speaker 1: all over it, and and good for them for doing

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00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: it not only here in Buffalo, but also in their

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Speaker 1: Rochester locations as well. Yeah, we just had Rachel's in

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Speaker 1: here yet. Last week. Um, you know, one of our

854
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: one of our crew members was leaving for you knowing

855
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: out of town and we said good bye to Kelly

856
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: and we had Rachel's here. We ordered in and did

857
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: like a little Rachel's lunch party for as a going

858
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: away party. So I was telling our producer Jay, I said,

859
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: you better get about eighteen bags of the pea chips

860
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: because I am addicted to those things. Man. I cannot

861
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: It's like, you can't eat just one and then all

862
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're at the bottom of the bag

863
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: and you're like, what the hell You're dumping the crumbs

864
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: into your your hand like yacking them. Yeah, no question

865
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: about it. They're really good. Um. I could eat those

866
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: all day long until the cows come home. All right,

867
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but when we return.

868
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: It is the weekly visit from Good Morning Footballs Kyle Brandt,

869
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: who might be one of the biggest Josh Allen flag

870
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: waivers in the entire country that lives outside of Buffalo.

871
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about Josh, the three and oh Bills,

872
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: and maybe even his three and O Chicago Bears. We'll

873
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: talk to the Chicago native next here on One Bill's Live,

874
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio

875
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: Collo Bills Radio Network. Sports dates are sports update from

876
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Bills players off this afternoon. They will

877
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: return to the practice field tomorrow as they turn the

878
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: page from Sundays went over the Rams to this week's

879
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: game in Las Vegas against the Raiders. We also hope

880
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 1: to have updates on injured players like wide receiver John

881
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: Brown and others come midweek. Tennessee Titans in Minnesota Vikings

882
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: suspending team activities starting today because of a number of

883
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: positive COVID tests following their Sunday game. Tennessee reported three

884
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: new positives for players five new positives from personnel. Fortunately,

885
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: the Vikings haven't had a positive test as of yet,

886
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 1: but they hosted the Titans on Sunday, leading to their

887
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: suspension of in person activities as a precautionary measure. Prior

888
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: to the news Tuesday, the NFL reported zero positives for

889
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: players in its most recent release of testing data. Last night,

890
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: a matchup of the past two league MVPs, pat Mahomes

891
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,240
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs blowing out Lamar Jackson and the Ravens

892
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: thirty four twenty and it wasn't even that close. Mahomes

893
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: with four touchdowns and rushed for another as Kansas City's

894
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: defense limited Lamar Jackson to just ninety seven yards, passing

895
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 1: Bill's host the undefeated Chiefs in Week six at Bill's Stadium.

896
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: The La Chargers just can't seem to get away from

897
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: the injury bugs. Starting corner Chris Harris Junior a foot

898
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: injury during their Week three loss to the Panthers on Sunday,

899
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,959
Speaker 1: and now it appears he's going to miss significant time.

900
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: Reports are the injury could keep him out at least

901
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: a month. To the ice to Tampa. Lightning are the

902
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: champions of the Hockey World. Brandon Points scored his playoff

903
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: best fourteenth goal. Lightning beat the Stars to nothing on

904
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: Monday to win the Stanley Cup, their second championship in

905
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: first since two thousand and four. That is your Sports

906
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: Update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

907
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: you for our number two of the show, as we

908
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: are now going to be joined by Good Morning Football's

909
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt. Do we have our intro for Kyle? Oh?

910
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: We had a huge intro. Oh, yes, that's right, So

911
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: I guess I should tease it a little bit better.

912
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: That's on me. Sorry, guys on the other side of

913
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: the glass here. But we know that Josh has been

914
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: off to a fantastic start to the season here through

915
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: the first three weeks, and MVP talk is being thrown

916
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: around and our guests coming up here. One Kyle Brandt

917
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: is in that group. So every week we send this

918
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: crazy thing. This is a scepter. We do it for

919
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: angry runs. We send it to the play who has

920
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: the most physically dominating run of the week. We sent

921
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: one to Josh Allen after ran over and Miami Dolphins linebacker.

922
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: Usually they send a picture back. He didn't send one.

923
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: It's okay if you just want to keep it low profile,

924
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: just want to keep my mind on the game, that's fine.

925
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: And then the picture comes through and are you telling me,

926
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: look at this thing that this dude doesn't have the

927
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: juice right now. Look at Look at Josh Allen with

928
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: the scepter with the sleeveless shirt. Inexplicably cropped out of

929
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: this picture is a set of actual cantle oops that

930
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: he sat down on the table in front of him.

931
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: They had cantal oops. They went to the produce store

932
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: and set them down. Josh Allen with the scepter looking

933
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: like a regal king. And this was before he went

934
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: out and beat an undefeated team at home. He has

935
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: it all going on. Most entertaining player in football right

936
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 1: now and undefeated Josh Allen. Many more of these to come,

937
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: many more of these to come. Do you have an

938
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: over under Kyle on scepters for Josh Allen? What would

939
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: be your overunder Witheen games to play in the regular season.

940
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: It's a great question, I'm telling you. We bought out

941
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: the scepter section at the scepter store, bought all the

942
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: ones they had starting them. It's frowned upon. You're supposed

943
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: to leave some scepters for other people, but we said,

944
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: we don't care. We're taking the scepters. And we almost

945
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: had Josh nominated again this week for that crazy play

946
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: where he got flagged for ripping the guy's face down,

947
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: and then said, Aaron Donald, bring it on. It was

948
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: just like, he blows this gasket of physicality. So I'm

949
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: gonna put the over under. We have thirteen regular season

950
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: games left, plus the playoff games which we know Buffalo

951
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 1: will be playing. I'm gonna put it at an even

952
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: eight point five. Wow, he can go. He can go

953
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: nine septs, which is like having a whole set of

954
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: China eight point five. I thought, around five, what do

955
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: you think, Wow, what do you think the balance is

956
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: going to be? Because we saw that, you know, the

957
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: funky lateral sideways passed. He tried to do again, and

958
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: I said, and I equated that play you're talking about

959
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 1: with him face mask and a guy. And he was like,

960
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: the big drunk buddy, you're trying to get out of

961
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: the bar. The guy's just not having it. He's not going.

962
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: He's staying right, He's not he's staying. I mean he's

963
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: got the drunk strength, got the drunk strength going on.

964
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, they call that. It's a great, great comparison.

965
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: They call that the beer muscles right there. You know,

966
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: you think that you can take on Mike Tyson because

967
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: you've had three uh Molson ices or whatever it is,

968
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: but here it is, it does It could be Mike

969
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: Tyson there and he's still gonna stiff arm him. I

970
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: go the different direction. You guys went with the booze,

971
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 1: which I love. I always say that at this point,

972
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: almost once a game, sugar high Josh Allen comes out

973
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: and he becomes the kid who did twelve Pixie Sticks.

974
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: It just gets just a little nuts and it's just

975
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: his energy goes so crazy and he'll stiff arm the

976
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: whole group or to your point of Steve, and one

977
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: of the biggest plays of the game, in the final

978
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: minute of the game, he'll add lib an option toss

979
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: out to the sideline. That's just him. That's sugar rush

980
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: or beer muscles Josh Allen. And we've seen the downside

981
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: of that for we've seen it when he does it

982
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: and burns himself. But it's seeming like it's not becoming

983
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: as harmful and it's kind of working or is getting

984
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: away with it. So it's very encouraging. I cannot believe

985
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: we talked last week when we were sending him the scepter.

986
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, hopefully they'll do a picture back.

987
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo is usually great with that great organization. I'll take

988
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: himself too seriously this when he sent the picture back

989
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: with literally a pair of cantalopes on the table in

990
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: front of him. We could be used literally, which could

991
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: be used as a metaphor, but as we know, he

992
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: was raised on a cantalope farm, and come to find out,

993
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: it was Josh's ideas, like we gotta put the cantalopes in,

994
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: And the only reason that the picture took a long

995
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: time getting back was there like, look, we gotta go

996
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 1: out and get some Candleopes's gonna take us a while.

997
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: And it's We've done this probably fifty times, Angry Runs.

998
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: We've always gotten a picture back, and there's been some

999
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: great Rob Gronkowski, Julio Jones. This is my favorite one

1000
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: that we have ever gotten. It's the first one that

1001
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: involves produce from a guy who continues to produce every

1002
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: single week. It's ironic. I love. He's very good at

1003
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: playing along you, as he always says, you know, growing

1004
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: up on a farm, and he was always told by

1005
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: his dad, you you grow where you're planted, and I

1006
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: guess that's an homage to that as well. So but

1007
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: taking it a step further, Kyle, your propensity to support

1008
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: the Bill's efforts here through the first couple of weeks

1009
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: has drawn the attention of the Bills Mafia. And I

1010
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this tweet. Maybe you did

1011
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: because you were added on it, but it looks like

1012
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: people are ready to make you an honorary member of

1013
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: the Bills Mafia. So look, I know you're a Chicago

1014
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: native and the Bear's blood runs deep here, but if

1015
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: you have room in your football heart, it looks like

1016
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: the Bills Mafia would be happy to have you as

1017
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: an honorary member. Well listen, I was classically trained on

1018
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia enthusiasm by the gentleman that tweet, Chris Berman.

1019
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: And I know that nobody circles the wagons like the

1020
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's right. I grew up with that. I

1021
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: love that. I have never been to the ralph I've

1022
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: never even been to Buffalo. I've never been to the

1023
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: city of Buffalo. I live about maybe four hours away

1024
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: in Westchester, New York. I would love to go. And

1025
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, guys, it's fun to support

1026
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 1: the Bills, not only because they keep winning, but people

1027
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: get mad about it. Anytime you have love for the

1028
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: Bills online or whether it's Josh Allen or Sean McDermott,

1029
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: people people across the country don't agree with you. They

1030
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: think you sound foolish. They tell you that, they tell

1031
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: you need to be drug checked. They say it's same

1032
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: old Bills. And I'm just gonna keep standing on that

1033
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: ground because it's three and oz and they're cranking off wins.

1034
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: So I love swimming upstream like that because the country

1035
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: still doesn't believe right. There's so much to talk about

1036
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: now with the Bills. They beat the Rams game was

1037
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: going to be a big test. The Rams are a

1038
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 1: very good football team. The Bills jumped out to a

1039
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: huge lead, almost lost it, and then looked great coming

1040
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 1: back and winning it. They're three and oz walking into

1041
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: Vegas this week. And then there's also the stuff on

1042
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,240
Speaker 1: the horizon that's going on with Tennessee and the Vikings,

1043
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: the COVID outrown and that's going on. Let's just stick

1044
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 1: with the Bills for a minute. What was your big

1045
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: takeaway from the Bills win over La Here in Buffalo.

1046
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: I got a buddy of mine, Steve, he's nearby. I

1047
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: work out with him sometimes, big football fans, huge Bills

1048
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: fan for the last thirty years, and we come. We

1049
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: talk about the game every week, and he always wants

1050
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: to talk about the Bills. And he walked, I walk

1051
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: I saw, mister. He goes, Man, these Bills and I go,

1052
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,439
Speaker 1: what are you gonna start complaining? Don't even start. He goes,

1053
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: why do they have to blow the lead? I just

1054
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: shut up. They won the game. I don't want to

1055
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 1: hear any complaining as an undefeated team. I've been working

1056
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: out with you through some very thin years for the Bills,

1057
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: where you would cut off a finger to have a

1058
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: three wins in a month, let alone to start three

1059
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: and oh. So my takeaway is, of course you don't

1060
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: want to see him blow that lead, but who cares.

1061
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: They won the game against a very good Rams team,

1062
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: and in a way, didn't it kind of set up

1063
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: to see how cool it was that Josh goes right

1064
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: down the field after they have blown the lead, the

1065
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: same twenty eighth to three lead the Falcons blew in

1066
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and he said, I got this, and

1067
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: the ref said we got you. And then he make

1068
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: a big throw and it was great and they I

1069
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: like that it's set up like that for him and

1070
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: to get to show that we can do this. Yeah,

1071
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're trying to let this offense breathe

1072
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: a little bit because it's only been three games and

1073
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: it's probably not a big enough sample size, but it

1074
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: is in stark contrast to how this team tried to

1075
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: move the ball each of the first two years with

1076
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: Brian Dable. And I even asked him yesterday, you know,

1077
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to stamp your offense with an identity,

1078
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: but it is. I mean, six receivers are up on

1079
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: the roster every Sunday, they're going three and four wide

1080
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: almost ninety five percent of the time. Now, this is

1081
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: just a different way that they believe that they can

1082
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: win now, and it's just proof positive that they've given

1083
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: Josh the keys to the car. But the question here

1084
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: is it's a modern day offense. I don't think the

1085
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: Bills fans are used to seeing this. So how excited

1086
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: are Bills fans allowed to get in your estimation, knowing

1087
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: you kind of look at the league from a much

1088
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: wider scope, Well, I say this respectively. You say Bills

1089
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: fans aren't used to seeing it. Bills fans aren't used

1090
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: to seeing a lot of winning either, not as much

1091
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: as they want. It's been a long time, and now

1092
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: look what's happening. I would also say to Bills fans,

1093
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: did you watch the Monday night or last night? Because

1094
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: that guy number fifteen for the Chiefs, that's the Boogeyman,

1095
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: and that's the guy you're gonna have to go through.

1096
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: So if you want to sit up here and run

1097
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: the old fashioned stuff and tight end double here, run here,

1098
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: you gotta go. That guy's gonna get to thirty or

1099
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: forty if he needs to. I mean, Mahomes is the

1100
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: guy who's running, not just the FFC of the league.

1101
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: And I know these Sean McDermott Bills teams have a

1102
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: lot bigger plans to just get into the wild card game,

1103
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: get to the Divisional round, and they want to win

1104
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. And they might have picked a bad

1105
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: era to do it. Because Mahomes is basically perfect and

1106
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: he doesn't have bad games. You're gonna have to outscore

1107
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: him somehow. So when you say, Bills, how should they

1108
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,919
Speaker 1: feel about this? Enjoy it. You got a big old

1109
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: quarterback who's chucking touchdowns. The star receivers, you got young

1110
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: running backs, and you're gonna need it because don't be

1111
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: just good enough to lose by Mahomes, lose doom Homes

1112
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: by twenty because a lot of teams are Let's talk

1113
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: about that game last night. Mahomes did. He looked phenomenal,

1114
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: and I, for me, I had to get up. I

1115
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, I cut out at like halftime. I was like,

1116
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: I know how this is going to end? Right. The

1117
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: thing that shocked me about that wasn't the Mahomes played

1118
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: like he did, and that Andy Reid made these calls

1119
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: and that all the you know, the Chiefs were who

1120
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: they were. The thing that shocked me was Lamar Jackson.

1121
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: That did not look like the Baltimore Ravens. They didn't

1122
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: look like the Baltimore Ravens under John Harbaugh, let alone

1123
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: under Lamar Jackson. What do you think is up with

1124
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: Lamar to have the Chiefs more than got his number?

1125
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: Do they have some sort of template for making him

1126
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: have problems? What's going on with Lamar Jackson and the Ravens?

1127
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 1: If anything, it's tough. Listen, you know what the scariest

1128
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: thing is about about that win last night by the Chiefs.

1129
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens still might be the second best

1130
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: team in all the football. That's how strongly I feel

1131
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: about how Kansas City is. I mean, the Ravens are excellent,

1132
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: they're loaded, they're across their excellent team, and they got washed.

1133
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: That's how good I think Kansas City is. And Lamar

1134
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: I think was candid, almost to a fault after the

1135
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: game when he said that the Chiefs are my kryptonite.

1136
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it reminds me of when Pedro Martinez in

1137
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: the two thousand said the Yankees are my daddy, and

1138
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: he was right, and they beat him every time. And

1139
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: he also said Lamar that the Chiefs defended him the

1140
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: same way that Tennessee Titans did in the playoffs. You

1141
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: know how that went. So I don't really believe in

1142
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: blueprints or templates for as someone as talented as Lamar

1143
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: and a coach as good as Harbaugh, but it's certainly

1144
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: they have found a way to contain what he does,

1145
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: and if more teams start doing it, we'll see. But

1146
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: this I think it was less a statement on Lamar

1147
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: more a statement of how good the Chiefs are. The

1148
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: defense was awesome. It's not just the Mahome Show. They

1149
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: didn't have you have a good first half? I feel you, man,

1150
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: believe me. I know, I know what it's like to

1151
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: watch the late game and tune off at halftime. The

1152
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: first beginning of the beginning of that game, the Chiefs

1153
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: missed the field goal, they missed an extra point, they

1154
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: gave up a kick return touchdown. It was really sloppy,

1155
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: and they were up seventeen and a halftime over maybe

1156
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: the second best team in all of football. That's what's scared,

1157
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: That's exactly yeah, because if they were, if they're that

1158
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: much better than the second best team in the football,

1159
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty depressing for the rest of the lot.

1160
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: Good lord, m So let's shift gears here and let's

1161
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: go to your hometown team. Did the Bears make the

1162
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: right move going to one Nick Foles? And it doesn't

1163
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 1: sound like this is for the interim. I mean they

1164
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 1: made it sound like this is this is our guy

1165
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: and we're sticking with him here going forward. Yeah, And

1166
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: it's one thing we love to do and cover in

1167
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 1: the NFL. You guys know this is hand out all

1168
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: these accolades after two weeks. This guy's the MVP, this

1169
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: guy's the Rookie of the Year. It's ridiculous, but it's

1170
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: something we do and out to that end, Matt Naggie

1171
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: is the coach of the year right now. Three and oh.

1172
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: If you remember early in the season for the Bears,

1173
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: they were way down against Detroit and he didn't pull Trubisky.

1174
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: Then Trubisky make the comeback in this game, he said, nope,

1175
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, and he does make and Foles makes

1176
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,439
Speaker 1: the comeback. That's a coach going with his gut. Matt

1177
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: Naggie's entire philosophy, it's on his play card and everything

1178
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,439
Speaker 1: is bu He just wants to be himself. He wants

1179
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: the players to be themselves. And obviously he made the

1180
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: right choice. Mitch Drubisky was not Matt Naggie's guy either.

1181
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,959
Speaker 1: I don't can underestimate that. When Trubisky was drafted number

1182
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: two overall by the Bears, ironically, Naggie was in Kansas

1183
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: City as they were drafting Pat Mahomes. He comes in

1184
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: and he has tried for two straight years to try

1185
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: to make Miss Drubisky a thing. He finally had enough.

1186
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: He said, I'm going with my guy, the guy who

1187
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: I've played with before, and Nick Foles one of the

1188
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: most interesting football lives to ever we've ever seen. He

1189
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: does what he does, come off the bench and throw.

1190
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: It was basically five touchdowns because one was dropped and

1191
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: one was overturned, down sixteen points and wins. So I

1192
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,439
Speaker 1: think it will be Nick Foles for a long time.

1193
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are the sneak He has good

1194
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: team in football, and I would not want to play

1195
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: them right now, especially with the new quarterback. How do

1196
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: you feel about it as a fan though? I mean

1197
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: to put your fan hat on for a second. How

1198
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: does it grab you that way? The fan hat says,

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01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: we tried everything with Mitch to make this relationship work. Chris.

1200
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: We went to counseling, We looked at ourselves, we had talks,

1201
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: We had those little dolls, you know where your role

1202
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: played with the dolls you try to work through the

1203
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: We tried everything to make that relationship work everything and

1204
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: it didn't. And we wish him the best and we

1205
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: love him, but we've moved on. We found a new man.

1206
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: He has a Super Bowl ring, he has a cool car,

1207
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be fun right for you said

1208
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: they were the sneaky best team. You know, how good

1209
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: are the Bears? I know the three and oh, but

1210
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: it was you know, and let's let's just talk about

1211
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: him like they are the Bills. They only played Detroit,

1212
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: they only played the Giants and Whish Cheese Deef and

1213
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: then Atlanta. So how good are the Bears or how

1214
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: good can they be now that they made this switch? Well,

1215
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: I don't think they're as good as Green Bay. And

1216
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: that's that's the Bears lot in life. That's been the

1217
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: story for twenty five years, since the beginning of the

1218
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: far Vera. But if you've watched the defense, and I

1219
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: imagine a lot of people watching have not seen much

1220
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: of the Bears because they're not haven't been national, and

1221
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: they're not on a lot of red zone. Khalil Mack

1222
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: has been unbelievable. People who have been down on him

1223
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: for a little bit, He's been unbelievable this year. Don't

1224
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: even look at the numbers, look at the games A

1225
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: team Hicks their defensive tackle looks like a top ten

1226
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: defensive tackle in the league. By far. The defense is back,

1227
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 1: And I don't know if even if you wanted to debate,

1228
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: are they the sneakiest good team at three and ozer,

1229
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: they're definitely the most mysterious good team because we don't

1230
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: know exactly what we're gonna get from Falls. There's so

1231
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: much mystery. There's other teams. Tennessee looks good, Pittsburgh looks good.

1232
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 1: We kind of know what we're getting from Tannehill. Even

1233
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: in Roethlisberger. A lot of mystery from Falls, and we

1234
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: know when he gets the hot hand, he can't be

1235
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: Beat's interesting thing for now for the Bears too. They

1236
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: play the Colts this weekend, and he goes up against

1237
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: his old buddy Frank Reich, who we know have a

1238
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 1: great history together, you're old teammate. And then after that

1239
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 1: it's Bucks. It's the Bucks versus the Bears. So it's

1240
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: the fulls Brady rematch in the wits braiding through for

1241
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: five hundred yards in the Super Bowl and still lost

1242
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: the Knick Foles. So the Bears are fascinating and all

1243
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden and they're undefeated. Yeah. Taking it to

1244
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: this week's game for the Bills. The Raiders have played

1245
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: some pretty good teams here through their first three games.

1246
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: You know, New Orleans beat them pretty handily, you know,

1247
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: and move the football against just about every team they've

1248
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: played so far, but had a tough go of it

1249
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: with New England. They shut down Waller, They're double team

1250
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: in the checkdowns. You know, Belichick in his U Mad

1251
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: Lab Scientist Cape really kind of shut down their offense.

1252
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: And now a lot of their young players are nicked up. Kyle,

1253
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: we don't even know if they're gonna play. We're talking

1254
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs is beat up. We don't know if he's playing.

1255
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: Their other rookie receiver Bryant what is it, Brian Edwards

1256
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: or yeah, yeah, from South Carolina. He's not probably not

1257
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: gonna play. And now we hear this morning, Damon Arnett's

1258
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: probably out for a month, one of their starting corners.

1259
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: In the little bit. Then maybe you've seen of the Raiders.

1260
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how much Raiders you watch, but how

1261
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: do they grab you? Here? Out of the shoot? It'll

1262
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:07,919
Speaker 1: be gut checked for the Bills. Let'll tell you why

1263
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: the Raiders in this very strange season when everyone's trying

1264
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: to figure out what they're about, the Raiders have a

1265
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: really strong identity. They know what their team is. They're

1266
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: going to run the wheels off it. Josh Jacobs if

1267
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't leave the league and carries is in the

1268
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: top three. I mean they want to get him the

1269
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 1: ball like teams used to get the running back the

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01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: ball in the nineties. They want to get him thirty

1271
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: carries and they will run right up the middle until

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01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo makes them stop. That's gonna be We're gonna see

1273
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: how tough they are. This is not gonna be one

1274
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: of these these fancy rams Sean McVay deals. They will

1275
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 1: go right up the middle like Gruden used to do

1276
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: during his first day with the Raiders. And I'll say

1277
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: there's some optics involved in this too, because if Buffalo,

1278
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: let's say they were to lose to the Raiders, then

1279
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: the conversation becomes, well, New England destroyed the Raiders and

1280
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo just lost. I think New England might be still

1281
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: the class to the AFC East. We don't know that

1282
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: for sure, but that will be the conversation the next day.

1283
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:00,919
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of pressure here as we look around.

1284
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of fun talking about Josh Allen

1285
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: and how good he's playing. Brownie and I have both

1286
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 1: said it on this show. Yeah, we like Josh and

1287
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: we think he's gonna be in the conversation. But the

1288
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: conversation for MVP starts with Russ Wilson, does it not. Yeah,

1289
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: he's been phenomenal. He's got everything, Steve, he's got the numbers,

1290
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 1: he's got the you gotta have the storyline too, you

1291
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: gotta have everyone pulling for His storyline is that he's

1292
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: never won, he's never received a vote. But it's really

1293
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 1: early and I would not put anything past Patrick Mahomes.

1294
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: I would not put it past Roger. I've been asked that,

1295
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: do you think Josh Allen can win the MVP. Maybe

1296
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: it's just it's a tough year. It's like being nominated

1297
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 1: for Best Picture in nineteen ninety five. You had to

1298
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: go against Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction and Shawshank. It's

1299
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 1: just loaded. So there's a lot of really good ones.

1300
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 1: But there's no reason to say, and Buffalo fans feel

1301
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,759
Speaker 1: secure in saying this, there's no reason to say Josh

1302
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: Allen could does not have a shot at this thing. Statistically,

1303
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 1: he's there, storyline, he's there, leadership, he's there. It'll be

1304
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 1: the signature wins for him. Isn't the big big games

1305
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: against the New England's isn't it? You think? Really? It's

1306
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 1: it's how good it's the best guy kind of on

1307
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: the best team. So if it's somebody whoever, whether it's Seattle,

1308
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: whether it's Buffalo, whether it's any other teams, New Orleans

1309
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: or Pittsburgh or whoever, whoever goes fourteen and two, that

1310
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: guy on that team is the guy that wins the MVP. Yeah,

1311
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: and I think the only thing I would add to that, Steve, is,

1312
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 1: at this point, it's gotten so out of control with

1313
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: these gaudy statistics. You have to have some sort of

1314
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: statistical insanity. Meaning Patrick Holmes through fifty touchdowns when he

1315
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: won it. Last year, Lamar had the greatest rushing offensive

1316
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: all time. They were breaking records. So it's not just

1317
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: enough like it might have been when a Brett Varve

1318
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: was winning it or a Peyton even when you, well,

1319
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:49,759
Speaker 1: I threw thirty five touchdowns, he went thirteen and three.

1320
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys who are gonna do that.

1321
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: You gotta do something nuts, and I'd think so far.

1322
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: I know you guys have seen the stat thirty three

1323
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,679
Speaker 1: touchdowns and three picks for Josh over the last fourteen

1324
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: games or something like. He's there, He's really there. He's

1325
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna have a say so last one I've got for you,

1326
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 1: Kyle is you know you referenced it. These offenses are

1327
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: just off the charts, like through the first three weeks here,

1328
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: and I know the league always puts those releases out.

1329
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 1: Most touchdowns ever scored for the first three weeks and points,

1330
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: and what the hell's happened all these defenses? What is

1331
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 1: going huh? You know, it's a good question because I

1332
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: thought this season the defenses were supposed to have an

1333
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: advantage early because of the training camp and no, priests

1334
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: now always say the guys can tackle better. Not so far.

1335
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: I mean we're going to see the defenses will level out.

1336
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 1: And I still think Pittsburgh is amazing. I still think

1337
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,839
Speaker 1: Buffalo is gonna be really good, and I like Chicago's defense.

1338
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,720
Speaker 1: But it's funny because the kickers for some reason, have struggled.

1339
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: We saw Harrison Bucker shank a couple last night, but

1340
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: it's like, who cares. We're scoring so many touchdowns we

1341
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: don't even need them. So it has been nuts, but

1342
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: it has been really really fun to watch. The last

1343
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: one for me. You mentioned it early in the show

1344
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 1: the Bills, and I'm using finger quotes as they ain't

1345
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: gotten a break because there's a UPLA brains that point

1346
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: against them, but the pass interference call in the in

1347
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 1: the Bills game that helped them. There have been some

1348
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: other calls as well. There was a reception slash interception

1349
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta Chicago game, there was the interception slash

1350
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:16,839
Speaker 1: reception in the Bills game. And there's the holding penalties

1351
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 1: are way down. The officials had no offseason either. How

1352
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: have you seen the league officiated? To me, they've gotten

1353
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: out of the way and maybe that is why we

1354
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 1: notice their calls more often. I don't know, but how

1355
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: do you think that that end of it's going? Uh?

1356
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,759
Speaker 1: And you can also bleed that into the COVID problems

1357
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: we've got this week. You know, how's the league handling itself?

1358
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:40,120
Speaker 1: Because I tell you, I can't take my eyes off

1359
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: the TV when the games are on, and I think

1360
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: there's something to that stay with the officiating. It's it

1361
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: seems to be you know a little bit in the

1362
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: NBA or even in calls, and just to let them play,

1363
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: just let them run. It's been awesome and I don't

1364
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: even have the number. It does feel like not every

1365
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: other play is passing, eerience or holding. Look, there's been

1366
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: some big calls, and I'm not gonna say that Buil

1367
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 1: didn't benefit from one. I will say this any Rams

1368
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 1: fans who are still whining about that call. You guys

1369
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,000
Speaker 1: got a call on the Superdome a couple of years

1370
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: back that was the worst non call of all time

1371
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: and you got to go to a super Bowl because

1372
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 1: of it. So you're still cashing on that thing. I

1373
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be whining so far if they are doing that,

1374
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:18,560
Speaker 1: and if they are saying, shoot, let him play a

1375
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,839
Speaker 1: little bit more, I'm into it. I like it, and finally,

1376
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: I'm just like you guys. I not only love this game,

1377
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: but I make my living off of it. The news

1378
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: from the Titans is very scary. It's it's very disconcerting.

1379
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: I don't know where it's gonna go. It sounds like

1380
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: they've got the thing handled and they're trying to contain everyone.

1381
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: But I would be remiss if I didn't say that

1382
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: that rattles my cage, and I hope that they're very

1383
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: smart people in charge handle that all right. He is

1384
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football's Kyle Brand. Kyle, thanks for joining us.

1385
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: As always, we'll catch you up with you on Tuesday, sir.

1386
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 1: Next week. Guys, next time, just drop me a text.

1387
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: I'll wear red two. I can do it, Okay, Yeah,

1388
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: we'll send you the memo. Man, Yeah, there you go.

1389
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: Kyle Brand from A Good Morning Football, it was an

1390
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: entertaining guest to have here on the show every week.

1391
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: He's here every Tuesday on One Bills Live. And man,

1392
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: I I'm just amazed at the points that are just

1393
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 1: being put up week after week after week after week.

1394
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: But I guess and I agree with him. I think

1395
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: the general consensus was what we usually see at the

1396
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 1: start of every training camp, the defense is ahead of

1397
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: the offense because there's more you got to put in

1398
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 1: sync on the offensive side of the ball than on defense,

1399
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 1: and that has not been the case anywhere. Like points

1400
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 1: are being scored at a record rate right now, which

1401
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: is just so surprising. It seems like it is they are.

1402
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any numbers yet. We're gonna start seeing

1403
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: that in an pretty soon. So Week one was the

1404
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: most touchdown scored in Week one ever go and then

1405
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 1: I don't think it's slowed down much at all here.

1406
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: These last couple of weeks, and certainly we hear in

1407
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo are prime examples. We're just trying to get over

1408
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: twenty points a game, and we've hung thirty on two

1409
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 1: of the opponents and high twenties in the other seven.

1410
01:13:57,479 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 1: It's a different kind of year for the Bills, no question,

1411
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:03,480
Speaker 1: now for me standing here, and none of it's been flukey.

1412
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean they've been hanging it up. And remember we

1413
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 1: know two they left a couple of touchdowns on the

1414
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 1: table and some field goals on the table against the Jets,

1415
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: or they're hanging up fifty. I mean it was, well,

1416
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: look at the Titans. They were to slumping those guys up.

1417
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: Look at the Titans this past week. They can't get

1418
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: it into the end zone because Skowski kicks six field goals,

1419
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: including three from fifty yards plus, and they get to

1420
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: thirty one in a one point game. That means thirty

1421
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 1: point they scored. But I'm saying that's that's even an

1422
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: offense that can't find the end zone and they're still

1423
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: scoring points. It's six field goals from Kaskowski. They hung

1424
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: thirty one on them, and that's it's it's the weirdest

1425
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. They go, they hang thirty one on them

1426
01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: when they have to settle for six eighteen from fifty

1427
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 1: plus eighteen of those points are kicking. I mean they

1428
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: get scored two touchdowns and got a two point conversion.

1429
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: It's something, but still points are being scored. I don't know,

1430
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 1: It's just I didn't I didn't anticipate this. I certainly

1431
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,920
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate the bi offense to be this prolific. At

1432
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: the same time, I didn't expect opponents to run run

1433
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: up points on the Bill's defense, which is something we

1434
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: will get to here very soon on the show, as

1435
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Leslie Frazier and his comments on where

1436
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 1: this thing has to go on the defensive side of

1437
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: the ball to get some things fixed. Because he has

1438
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 1: said it, his players have said it. We have not

1439
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,719
Speaker 1: played up to what has been our standard here. And

1440
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 1: you know the run defense. I mean, you heard Kyle

1441
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: Brand say it. If they don't get this run defense

1442
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 1: fixed at a fundamental level, first, Josh Jacobs is going

1443
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: to be running with the ball a long time on Sunday. Yeah,

1444
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna They're gonna get hit in the mouth by

1445
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: the Raiders and it's it's gonna hurt, and they gotta

1446
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:43,880
Speaker 1: they won't be able to get him off the field

1447
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,640
Speaker 1: and And here's the biggest thing to remember about this

1448
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:53,480
Speaker 1: Raiders offense. They have tackle the tackle, the biggest offensive

1449
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: line in the entire league, the biggest line, the biggest

1450
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:02,640
Speaker 1: front five. So you better be digging in, digging in

1451
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: on that defensive front because these guys are coming to

1452
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: punch you in the mouth and run you over. So

1453
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 1: biggest offensive line in football, they're gonna have to come

1454
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: up with a good plan to stop this Raiders run game. Yeah,

1455
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: and and I don't know that they have. You know,

1456
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,080
Speaker 1: they're not going to reinvent the wheel in a week,

1457
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: but they are going to get it together. And they

1458
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it. I've heard a couple of guys say that,

1459
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: you know, the run fits weren't quite right. And I

1460
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 1: mentioned on the broadcast the other day when the Rams

1461
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: were running, it looked like the Bills had a defender

1462
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,680
Speaker 1: making getting some penetration into the run game. But they

1463
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,840
Speaker 1: were like ships passing in the night. They were getting

1464
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: walled off as they penetrated. The back was going right

1465
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: back behind them and so and a lot of it.

1466
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,760
Speaker 1: When that happens, it means run fits just aren't quite right.

1467
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: And you know you can fix that in a week.

1468
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: Without trying to absolutely reinvent your defense. All right, we

1469
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but when we come back,

1470
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: we'll hear from defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier on fixing some

1471
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 1: of the things that's ailing Buffalo's defense and your phone

1472
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,560
Speaker 1: calls and eight o three oh five fifty as we

1473
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 1: were asked you where has the Bills offense reached? What

1474
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:07,720
Speaker 1: level are they at? Are they elite? Are they just

1475
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: below the elite in the league or are they still ascending.

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Speaker 1: We'll take your comments at One Bills Live and on

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Speaker 1: the phone lines at fifty join us when we come

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Speaker 1: back here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kali to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Second half of the program underway, good conversation

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Speaker 1: with Kyle Brand from Good Morning Football, our weekly guest

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01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, and we want to get to the phones

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01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:48,640
Speaker 1: to hear from you as we are talking to you

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Speaker 1: with today's Twitter poll on where you would rank the

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Speaker 1: Bills offense so far in twenty twenty eighth three five

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Speaker 1: fifty to get on board, and we lead off here

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Speaker 1: with Connor and Lockpoort, who has been waiting patient ly, Connor,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining us. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Guys? Not much? Go ahead. I was

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Speaker 1: just I just want to hear your opins on our

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01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: defense right now. I mean we let Sicky really tear

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Speaker 1: us up in Miami. I mean not not great. I

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01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: mean we got Darren Waller coming up, and I know

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01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 1: that that is, uh, he's a star. But the thing

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01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: about it is, two weeks later we got Travis Kelsey

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01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: and Patty coming up and it might be a little

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01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: bit more difficult. So I see this might be along

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01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 1: with the Mario Addison injury. I don't know what's up

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01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:47,879
Speaker 1: with that. Um, we'll see what happens to that, honestly.

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Speaker 1: But um, through the middle, we just don't look great.

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01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: And I just don't like teams that are under us,

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01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: in my opinion, hanging points on us. Um, I just

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01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: want to hear your opinions on that. Steve Task is

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01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 1: a hall of famer. Steve Chrissie is the greatest here

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01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: and Bill's history. I'll hang up and listen, all right,

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01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: parting shot there very well, it's Connor. I will first

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01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: of all calm his fears about Mario Addison. He was

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01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: having cramps, muscle cramps at the end of that game.

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01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: He did not have an injury, as it was told

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01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: to us in the press box, So Jess muscle cramps

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01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: for him, So as far as I know, he's good

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01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: to go. The other guys are more of a question mark,

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01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: like John Brown with a calf injury and a couple

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01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: of the other guys that got nicked up in the game.

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01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Steve, Yeah, and I agree with you. It

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01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: has been a different kind of look for the defense

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01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills this season. They're usually tough to

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01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: score on, They're usually tough to move the football on.

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01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: Their run defense has been has always been a little

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: bit worse ranked than their past defense, and this year

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01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: that's pronounced the Rams. Now. The Rams are a good

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01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 1: football team, no question about it. But the Bills struggle

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01:19:56,240 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: in Miami with that offense is offense as well, and

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. I think we talked about it

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01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. I think their defensive line in

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01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 1: particular is still a work in progress. Not that they

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01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: don't have the talent to play well, but that they

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01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: don't have the right combinations and guys are still trying

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01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: to learn how to play in this system and with

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01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: each other, and they keep shuffling around to each other

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01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: every week and during games as well, so I think

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01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: it's still a work in progress. They'll take the wins

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01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: that they're getting now, but they're still trying to find

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01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: a combination that helps these players play to their best.

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01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: Because right now, I think i'd agree with you, I

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01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:33,679
Speaker 1: don't think they are. I don't know if you want

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01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: to keep playing that way. I know you're three and

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01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: oz and you haven't been bit by it, but do

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01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,840
Speaker 1: you keep the rotation going if you know it's compromising

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01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,599
Speaker 1: the consistency of your play? Well, I think they keep

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01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: it going because nothing's working right now, you know what

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01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: I mean. So Okay, I don't think they like the

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01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 1: way because I think there's two ways to look at it.

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01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: Keep shuffling to find the right combination, or reduce the

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01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,879
Speaker 1: shuffling to try to establish some consistency of play, decide

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Speaker 1: on a combination and stick with it. Yeah, I get it.

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01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to maximize whatever they've got, and

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01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: certainly at this point, I don't think they can be

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01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: happy with the results of any of it. So I'm

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01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: whether they continue to do that or not. There's no

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01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: doubt they're working and burning the candle at all ends,

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01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 1: both ends, trying to figure out what they can do

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01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 1: to get the defense short up. All right, back to

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Speaker 1: the phones. At eight three, five fifty, we go to

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Speaker 1: Tom in West Seneca. Tom, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining the show, Chris Steve, thanks for having

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01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: me just a quick commentary. You know, guys, I'm a

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01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: big fan of the Melo dramatic endings and the bills

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01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: gave me my money's for on Sunday for sure. After

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01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: that victory, I really think it's safe to say that

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Speaker 1: d Josh Allen has arrived. He plays with tremendous fervor,

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01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:58,759
Speaker 1: and he's got that big time grit, smart and gifted

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01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 1: with a phenomenal talent, especially that ultra powerful arm Quitting

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01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: is not in his votecab and I think it's time

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01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: for all the critics of Jaysh Allen to take a

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01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 1: seat and a chill pill. And about the penalty that interception,

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01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: I remember something Jim Kelly said years ago. He said

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01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: it all something a good team overcomes bad calls, and

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01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:31,920
Speaker 1: we did and as far one more counted about the

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01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:36,840
Speaker 1: defense that I think they're great, but somebody forgot to

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Speaker 1: tell them it is a sixty minute game. And yeah,

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01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: they played the first half thirty minutes beautiful, the second

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01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 1: half not so much. And I think there was a

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01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: fair call the pass interference, and the analysts on Sunday

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01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,919
Speaker 1: agree with that. I think that's pretty much it. Guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you much for having me and have a great day. Yeah.

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01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the defense, and yes, they

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01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: kept the Rams off the scoreboard in the first half,

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01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:08,640
Speaker 1: but they were moving the ball on them. I mean,

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01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: it's not like the Rams were threeing out. They were

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01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: moving the ball. So to keep them off the scoreboard

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01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:18,200
Speaker 1: was admirable. Because the ultimate defensive statistic is points allout.

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01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 1: I mean, think about the Patriots defenses for so many years.

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01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 1: They might not be in the top fifteen in total

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01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:29,519
Speaker 1: yards allowed, but you go look at their red zone

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01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:33,519
Speaker 1: defense and they're probably top five. They care about one

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01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: statistic and that is points allout. And that's how Belichick

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01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: has operated for more than thirty years. And I'm not

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01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: saying that's what the Bills should adopt. They've been very

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01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,599
Speaker 1: good at holding teams down against the past, but right

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01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:50,919
Speaker 1: now that is not happening across the board for Buffalo.

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01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 1: And you know, the Rams are a juggernaut offense. I mean,

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01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 1: let's be honest, So they were playing one of the

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01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: better offenses in the entire league. Just the way it's run,

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01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: the right, the way it's schemed, the talent they have, Uh,

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01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 1: it's really really good. Yeah. That notwithstanding, they did give

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01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: up twenty eight points to the Miami Dolphins. So the defense,

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01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: his issues are probably somewhere in the middle of playing

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01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: a really good opponent and giving up way too much

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01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 1: against an average opponent. I'm not I'm not willing to

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01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: say the Dolphins aren't, you know, competent. The Jets maybe

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01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 1: call them average, the Jets maybe. And I think I

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01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: think with Ryan Fitzpatrick down there and the added stuff

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01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: they got this year, I think the Dolphins are a

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01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: little bit more formidable than than they're given credit for.

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01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: And I and I've said this and I'll say it again.

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01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:45,479
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's an elite decision maker. He's not an elite

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01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: talent physical talent. He's not an elite quarterback. When he's

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01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: got the ball in his hands, he makes elite decisions

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01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:52,719
Speaker 1: and he gives puts his team in a chance, whatever

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01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:54,640
Speaker 1: that play gives him, they get the most out of

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01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: it because he's their quarterback. That's hard to beat. And

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01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm not gonna bail on the defense. Certainly,

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01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about them. They they're

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01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: gonna have to. It's like Leslie Frasher said about Levi Wallace,

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01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 1: if you want to get people off your back, play better. Yeah,

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01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: Kafreshal's say that about the whole defense. You know, if

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,640
Speaker 1: they they want to shut the critics up, they got

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01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 1: to play better. And they and they know it, and

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01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:19,640
Speaker 1: we can sugar We're not even gonna try and sugarcoat it.

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01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: It's a defense that I think has been surprisingly uh.

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01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 1: I don't know bad, not bad that there haven't been bad.

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01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: I'm but they're not what the below their standard. I

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01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: think they're surprisingly below their standard. I thought this defense

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01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: might take a step forward this year as good as

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01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: they had then the offseason they had and the guys

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01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: they brought in. I still hasn't. It hasn't been like that.

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01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you, though. I think it's

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01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: new pieces that they're trying to fit together upfront, and

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01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 1: as we've heard coach mcdermots say, time and again, it

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01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: starts up front, and if the guys that are up

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01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 1: front are not completely in sync yet because they're still

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01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: feeling each other out with all the newness that's up there.

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01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:57,599
Speaker 1: Quentin Jefferson, Vernon Butler, aj Epanessa, Mario Addison. I mean

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: that's half of your defensive line contingent, you know. So

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01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:04,720
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips back. Harrison Phillips back in after missing the

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01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:07,800
Speaker 1: last twelve thirteen games of the season last year, and

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01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: even he's not one hundred percent yet. Coach Frazier said

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01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: that yesterday Harrison is working back to being old Harrison Phillips.

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01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 1: He's not quite there yet because let's not forget he

1641
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 1: told us he had surgery on Tuoni's in the offseason.

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01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: Not one that takes a lot of doing to get

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01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 1: back where you were at one point in time. All right,

1644
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: I think they're yeah, but they've got work to do,

1645
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:28,640
Speaker 1: no question about it. They are not as good a

1646
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: defense statistically as they were a year ago. We have

1647
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back, we'll

1648
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: try to get to more of your phone calls and

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01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:37,680
Speaker 1: coming up in the two o'clock hour seth Walder from

1650
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com and analytics expert as he will be

1651
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 1: talking about where the Bills rank in analytic advancement. They

1652
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: did pretty well, so we'll talk to him at the

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Speaker 1: top of the hour. Here on One Bill's Live, presented

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01:26:50,800 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Back

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01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, and it's time for New York

1656
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: Lottos inside the Numbers. Take a break from the expected

1657
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: play scratch off games from the New York Lottery. Josh

1658
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: Allen's three hundred eleven passing yards against the Rams lose

1659
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: his season total to over a one thousand, one thousand

1660
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 1: and fifty yards, marking the most in team history through

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01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:35,639
Speaker 1: three games. Allen is also the first player in Bill's

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01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: history to have back to back four touchdown games. Is

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01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: he back to back four touchdown games? All right, I'll

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01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 1: go with it. Kelly never had back to back four

1665
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: touchdown games, so I don't know, I don't know he had.

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01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: I know he had a five and a six touchdown game.

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01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: He has a touchdown game against Pittsburgh, right, uh yeah,

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01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: and four of those were to beabs so um, one

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01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: to beat to Beebs, one to Dre and the other

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01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,599
Speaker 1: one I think was to James Lofton. I don't think

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01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: Thurman had one of that game. So yeah, it's just

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01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:09,879
Speaker 1: six touchdowns that was. So that's New York Loto. Inside

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01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 1: the numbers for you. I think we score Josh two

1674
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:16,760
Speaker 1: on those guys piling up numbers at an alarming rate. Entertaining.

1675
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: But man, it's just it's like it's like a carnival game.

1676
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: It's been thinking and I and I will give a

1677
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 1: lot of credit to Steph Diggs, John Brown and Cole

1678
01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:30,240
Speaker 1: Beasley and Gabriel Davis and in this past game, most

1679
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:34,599
Speaker 1: notably Devin Singletary, all those guys. We have not been

1680
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: plagued with drops like we were a year ago. Uh,

1681
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 1: the ball seems to be floating in there really well.

1682
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:44,720
Speaker 1: Josh has put great touch on a bunch of his passes.

1683
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:49,720
Speaker 1: It's been fun, There's no question about it. It has

1684
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 1: been a blast to watch, and it's been fun for

1685
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: I think Bills fans. One of the big reasons it's

1686
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: fun for Bills fans, Brownie, I think, and you know

1687
01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: our Bills fans, can you know call us and tell

1688
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: us there thing we always we always try and hope

1689
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 1: for the best, and we spun it positive all offseason

1690
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: without Okay, if he takes another step like he did

1691
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: last year, we're gonna be pretty good. Listen, he blew

1692
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: us all out of the water. Nobody was saying he's

1693
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,120
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna complete seventy. I was not saying that,

1694
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:18,599
Speaker 1: you know, I just didn't think it was gonna happen.

1695
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 1: We were hoping for one small step from Josh. We

1696
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: were hoping weep, we were hoping for sixty. And it's unbelievable.

1697
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 1: This has been unbelievable. I think even I don't know.

1698
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't know that Josh's dad thought he's gonna be

1699
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:39,479
Speaker 1: able to do this and maybe not this year, that

1700
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 1: year three. That's the fun part of this. It's been

1701
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:45,960
Speaker 1: great and pleasantly surprised. As many times last year as

1702
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 1: we took calls after a loss when with Brian Dable

1703
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: and he wasn't very good and he didn't call the

1704
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: right place. His play selection has been great and the

1705
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 1: execution has been fantastic. Um, it's just a lot of

1706
01:29:56,800 --> 01:30:00,599
Speaker 1: fun and I get it. We've been the how about this.

1707
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 1: We've been to the playoffs two out of the last

1708
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:05,720
Speaker 1: three years. This is a lot more fun. Yeah, this

1709
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: is a lot more fun. Offense is fun for fans

1710
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,720
Speaker 1: and people watching the games. Defense wins it. I get it,

1711
01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:12,720
Speaker 1: and I know all that, and I don't have any

1712
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:14,960
Speaker 1: disrespect for the defense, but I'm just telling you everybody

1713
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: thinks it's more fun to watch an offense that can

1714
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: light it up. Yeah, eight oh three, oh five fifty.

1715
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:21,639
Speaker 1: Let's take a phone call here. We'll go to Bob

1716
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:24,960
Speaker 1: in Syracuse, who wants to talk about Buffalo's defensive line. Bob,

1717
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Hey, guys, you know,

1718
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: I was thinking about what I think Brownie. You said

1719
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: it last week during the pregame, and I think it's

1720
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:36,920
Speaker 1: you saw it last week. You saw it against Miami,

1721
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 1: losing Star, losing Jordan Phillips and the interior portion of

1722
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:45,559
Speaker 1: that line. Um, it's a huge adjustment. And who did

1723
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 1: they pick up last year? That free agent from San

1724
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 1: Diego's a big yeah. Um, I mean you're talking about

1725
01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:58,839
Speaker 1: three huge bodies that we lost. And I think Edmunds,

1726
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, when he has to play on his heels

1727
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:08,120
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have that penetration that he did last year,

1728
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 1: it throws his game off a little bit. And then

1729
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:14,840
Speaker 1: I think that that translates to a little bit of

1730
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:16,600
Speaker 1: a weakness in the middle of the field because you

1731
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: have to bring safeties up to try to stop that run.

1732
01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 1: Because I really do think that we're struggling in the

1733
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: interior portion of that line, and I just wanted to

1734
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:28,880
Speaker 1: know your opinion. Do you think that it's possible that

1735
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: we'll try to get a big body in there to

1736
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: replace one of those three guys supposed to be Vernon Butler.

1737
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the guy that essentially is supposed to

1738
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:41,599
Speaker 1: fill that role into a lesser extent, Harrison Phillips. Those

1739
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: are your two main beefy guys that you're probably gonna

1740
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: put in there at the one technique. I don't know

1741
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:49,920
Speaker 1: that they've got all their defensive lineman playing the right

1742
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 1: technique right now. And it's not because they're not coaching

1743
01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 1: it or I just think they're still learning it. And

1744
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: there is a lot that goes into it. It's not

1745
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: just having a guy that can hold his ground. It's

1746
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 1: taking the right shoulder of the offensive lineman. It's a penetrating,

1747
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: it's soaking up linemen. It's different assignments on different and

1748
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: different techniques on different plays. And I don't think they're

1749
01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 1: hitting on all cylinders. So I don't think they're getting

1750
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: these guys to play exactly the techniques the exactly the

1751
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 1: way they want them to be played, and that has

1752
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 1: a ripple effect across the whole front. And I think

1753
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: one thing I've never played defense, but one thing I

1754
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 1: continued to hear while I was playing, and even while

1755
01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:27,000
Speaker 1: I was broadcasting, is this defender and I get it. Defenders,

1756
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 1: when things aren't going exactly the way you're thinking about it,

1757
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:33,800
Speaker 1: the natural tendency for every player and human being for

1758
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 1: that matter, is to start trying to do more. You

1759
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 1: start trying to do your job and help your buddy

1760
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 1: do his job. You start trying to cover for your

1761
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: buddy over here. And then when you start trying to

1762
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:44,960
Speaker 1: do that and get a couple of guys doing that,

1763
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:48,880
Speaker 1: everything comes apart, and that I think they're a victim

1764
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 1: of that. I think a little bit. Listening to Leslie

1765
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:53,600
Speaker 1: Frasier this week and Coach mcderman, who both addressed the

1766
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:58,760
Speaker 1: media on Monday, the comments from them were identical, and

1767
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 1: that was do your job, do your one eleventh, and

1768
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 1: we're going to get back to fundamentals in practice this week.

1769
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: Coach Frasier thought that the gap integrity was not consistent enough.

1770
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:13,640
Speaker 1: It contributed to some big gains on the ground for

1771
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:17,560
Speaker 1: the Rams, and for some of these guys, that is

1772
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:22,439
Speaker 1: a new message. You know, play your one eleventh, do

1773
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: your role only in this defense. You have to trust

1774
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 1: that the other ten guys are going to do their role.

1775
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 1: Don't start doing extra work to cover up for somebody else.

1776
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:34,720
Speaker 1: Just do your job and the other ten guys do

1777
01:33:34,880 --> 01:33:38,760
Speaker 1: your job. And if we're all playing consistently as an

1778
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: eleven man group, we'll be fine because the talent is there.

1779
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 1: But convincing some of the new guys here of that

1780
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 1: might take a little doing because we've seen it before.

1781
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:51,960
Speaker 1: I mean the Philadelphia game last year when they got

1782
01:33:52,040 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 1: run over. The next week they had it fixed. The

1783
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 1: question is are they going to be able to get

1784
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: it fixed in a week's time now with so many

1785
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 1: new guys playing up front on that defensive line. And

1786
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:07,639
Speaker 1: I'll say, I'll say one more thing. We're only three

1787
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 1: games in, but you're four leading tacklers on this football team, Steve.

1788
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 1: They're all defensive backs. That's not a good recipe for success.

1789
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,559
Speaker 1: When four defensive backs are you're leading tacklers on your team.

1790
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: That's a problem and it's got to get fixed. Yeah,

1791
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:25,040
Speaker 1: no question it. And I think it starts up front.

1792
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 1: It always does, and the front seven, and I think

1793
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,439
Speaker 1: you can you can count on the Bills starting to

1794
01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: throw more people at the line of scrimmage. If their

1795
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 1: run defense doesn't get better, they've got to have more

1796
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 1: help in the run game. And that's the they've got

1797
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: to get it stopped. And if you take a queue

1798
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:46,360
Speaker 1: from what the New England Patriots did, they know that

1799
01:34:46,439 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: the Raiders, they use the run game to pound it

1800
01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 1: and pound it, and the passing game is just to

1801
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 1: dump off to get a first down or a dump

1802
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:54,719
Speaker 1: off to get them in third and short or second

1803
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:58,799
Speaker 1: and short. They do they have not thrown the football

1804
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: down the field as much as they did once did,

1805
01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:06,559
Speaker 1: and the Patriots made him pay for that. All right,

1806
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:08,479
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but when we return,

1807
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 1: we'll have Seth Walder from ESPN dot com, one of

1808
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 1: their analytics experts, who had an interesting write up on

1809
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 1: which NFL clubs are the most analytically advanced. The Bills

1810
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 1: fared well in that anonymous survey of analytics employees across

1811
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 1: the league, So we'll talk to him about that, along

1812
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 1: with some other things with some of the advanced metrics

1813
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 1: that he and his cohorts do at ESPN dot Com.

1814
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 1: It's coming up next here on One Bill's Live, presented

1815
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:51,920
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills

1816
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:56,840
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1817
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 1: Bills players off today, return to the practice field tomorrow.

1818
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,080
Speaker 1: As they turned the page from Sundays went over the

1819
01:36:02,200 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: Rams to this Sunday's game against the Raiders in Las Vegas.

1820
01:36:06,360 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: They wilt to have updates on injured players like wide

1821
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: receiver John Brown and left Tackleton Dawkins, among others on Wednesday. Meanwhile,

1822
01:36:13,280 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 1: the Raiders are going to be without starting left cornerback

1823
01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:18,479
Speaker 1: Damon our Nette for at least a month. The rookie

1824
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:21,639
Speaker 1: fell awkwardly on his thumb in last week's game, which

1825
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,679
Speaker 1: he fractured during training camp, so we won't be suiting

1826
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: up against the Bills on Sunday. The Tennessee Titans and

1827
01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings are suspending team activities starting today because of

1828
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 1: a number of positive COVID tests following their Sunday game.

1829
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 1: Tennessee reported three new positive tests for players five for personnel.

1830
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: The Vikings haven't had a positive test as of yet,

1831
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:46,400
Speaker 1: but they hosted the Titans on Sunday, leading to their

1832
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:50,519
Speaker 1: suspension of in person activities as a precautionary measure. Prior

1833
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:53,760
Speaker 1: to the news, the NFL had reported zero positive tests

1834
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:57,639
Speaker 1: for players in its most recent release of testing data.

1835
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football was a match of the past two

1836
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:04,920
Speaker 1: league MVPs. One looked like one, the other didn't. Patrick

1837
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: Mahomes through four touchdowns ran for another in Kansas City's

1838
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 1: thirty four to twenty win over the Ravens Lamar Jackson

1839
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,479
Speaker 1: held to just ninety seven yards passing. The Bills host

1840
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:18,720
Speaker 1: the undefeated Chiefs in Week six at Bill's Stadium. The

1841
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: LA Chargers can't seem to shake the injury bug. Starting

1842
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 1: corner Chris Harris Junior a foot injury during LA's Week

1843
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: three loss to the Panthers, and now it appears he's

1844
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: going to miss significant time. He could miss a month

1845
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:34,479
Speaker 1: to up to six weeks. NBA news Doc Rivers has

1846
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:36,920
Speaker 1: stepped down as coach of the LA Clippers. The team

1847
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:41,400
Speaker 1: fell well short of its championship expectations this season, despite

1848
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 1: acquiring All Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Last summer,

1849
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 1: Rivers had two years left on his contract. Finally, Major

1850
01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:52,240
Speaker 1: League Baseball playoffs get underway this afternoon Astros and Twins

1851
01:37:52,280 --> 01:37:54,640
Speaker 1: at two, followed by the White Sox and A's and

1852
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 1: then the Blue Jay's take on the Rays at five pm,

1853
01:37:57,120 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 1: followed by the nightcap Yankees and Dans. That is your

1854
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:04,719
Speaker 1: sports update here from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve

1855
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:07,639
Speaker 1: Tasker with you and joining us on the line right

1856
01:38:07,720 --> 01:38:12,559
Speaker 1: now is ESPN's sports analytics writer one Seth Walder at

1857
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:16,280
Speaker 1: ESPN dot com. Seth, it's Chris and Steve. Thanks very

1858
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 1: much for joining us. How you doing I'm doing great.

1859
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: How are you guys? We're doing well. And you know,

1860
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,719
Speaker 1: one of the reasons we got John was we wanted

1861
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 1: to talk to you about this analytics survey that you

1862
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:31,160
Speaker 1: did with some people anonymously across the league to see

1863
01:38:31,240 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 1: which teams might be the most advanced analytically. And you know,

1864
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:38,639
Speaker 1: I know that's something that you specialize in as well.

1865
01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:41,240
Speaker 1: So why don't you just give us the general overview

1866
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: of the findings that you pulled from that. Yeah. Absolutely,

1867
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 1: so I think that there is a pretty clear consensus

1868
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: top three teams in terms of how analytically they advanced

1869
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,920
Speaker 1: they are, and that is taking into account two things,

1870
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:00,439
Speaker 1: which is one how high the level of work teams

1871
01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: for producing and two how much is that integrated into

1872
01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: their decision making process. So the Ravens, Browns, and Eagles

1873
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: are that kind of top three that I alluded to,

1874
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 1: and that's how they sort of finished in this survey, Ravens, Browns,

1875
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 1: followed by the Eagles. I think the interesting thing is

1876
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:21,679
Speaker 1: what's the tier after that, because a lot of people

1877
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 1: know about that top three, but everyone after that is

1878
01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: less known. And that's where the Bills showed up. So

1879
01:39:27,479 --> 01:39:31,439
Speaker 1: the Bills received three votes for being producing the highest

1880
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: level of work overall out of twenty four and then

1881
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 1: they received seven votes for being one of the top

1882
01:39:39,640 --> 01:39:42,280
Speaker 1: five most analytical advanced. Those the Bills tied with the

1883
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:45,640
Speaker 1: forty nine ers as being in that next tier, And

1884
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,000
Speaker 1: to me, that's really interesting. We talk about things like

1885
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 1: the Bills, forty nine Ers, Viking, Seahawks, Colts, Rams, Patriots.

1886
01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: That's that next kind of group. What kind what did

1887
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:57,120
Speaker 1: you run into? As far as I know, this was

1888
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:01,680
Speaker 1: an anonymous survey, but how much proprietary information were these

1889
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:04,600
Speaker 1: guys willing to give up or how much knowledge of

1890
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:07,880
Speaker 1: the other teams mechanics did they have. I mean, this

1891
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:11,679
Speaker 1: seems to me like most teams hold their analytics departments

1892
01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:14,360
Speaker 1: pretty close to the vest. Did you have trouble cracking

1893
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 1: that egg? Well, it's true, you're right, that is there

1894
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: is a sort of like secret the element. It's one

1895
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:22,759
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I wanted to ask the question,

1896
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:25,880
Speaker 1: because it's like, well, on the outside, how could you

1897
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 1: possibly how could you possibly know? But if there is

1898
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:31,560
Speaker 1: a group of people that have the best idea of

1899
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 1: what everyone else is doing, it's analytics staffers themselves, and

1900
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:37,840
Speaker 1: that's who I surveyed. And because you know, they talk,

1901
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: they moved from team to team and so they start

1902
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:44,719
Speaker 1: to build that sense. And so I think that folks

1903
01:40:44,800 --> 01:40:48,080
Speaker 1: have a general idea. They talk to other staffers and

1904
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:49,840
Speaker 1: they might hear, oh, yeah, we're doing a lot of

1905
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: cool stuff. But maybe our coach isn't really interested in this,

1906
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 1: or our GM loves this kind of analysis, so they

1907
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 1: have a sense. I think you occasionally I would hear

1908
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:05,840
Speaker 1: things about teams, you know maybe yeah, I think they

1909
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 1: actually don't do a lot or they do do a lot.

1910
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: It all kind of depends, but I think that this

1911
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,880
Speaker 1: is a pretty good sense of what people around the

1912
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: league believe other teams are doing. We're talking to Seth

1913
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 1: Walder from ESPN Com analytics writer Seth I wanted to

1914
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 1: kind of get into I wanted to see if there

1915
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 1: was an application for these analytics and the advancement that

1916
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: it's presumed the Bills have in this area with respect

1917
01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:35,840
Speaker 1: to the evolution of their offense. I think we can

1918
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,439
Speaker 1: all agree. I know it's only three games, and probably

1919
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:40,519
Speaker 1: in your world that's too small a sample size, but

1920
01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 1: the offense that the Bills have put up through the

1921
01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: first three games has been in stark contrast to what

1922
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: they have done each of the last two years under

1923
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:52,600
Speaker 1: the same coaching staff and coordinator. And I realized that

1924
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:55,800
Speaker 1: part of that is the is the maturation of Josh Allen,

1925
01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But I'm wondering if there is an analytic

1926
01:41:58,840 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 1: element to the evolution of this offense too, which now

1927
01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:05,560
Speaker 1: has completely spread the field and going largely three and

1928
01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:10,160
Speaker 1: four wide with their offensive sets. Is there an analytic

1929
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:14,360
Speaker 1: element where perhaps the Bills look at the other teams

1930
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 1: around the league that are lighting it up. For example,

1931
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:20,240
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, maybe to a lesser extent, the Seattle Seahawks

1932
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 1: with the way they're letting Russell Wilson throw the ball

1933
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:25,160
Speaker 1: all over the place, and maybe they made somewhat of

1934
01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:27,920
Speaker 1: a conscious decision at some point this offseason to say,

1935
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:33,400
Speaker 1: let's take the steps necessary to be that. I think yes,

1936
01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 1: because when you think about where the biggest advantages are

1937
01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 1: in football, maybe the biggest one, probably the biggest one,

1938
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:48,200
Speaker 1: is just advantages in the passing game or passing over running.

1939
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 1: And so when you prioritize that in the ways that

1940
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 1: you are talking about, I think that those are things

1941
01:42:55,439 --> 01:43:00,360
Speaker 1: that the Bills can potentially have an edgine. Another thing

1942
01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:02,000
Speaker 1: will be like play action, right, Like the Bills are

1943
01:43:02,040 --> 01:43:05,040
Speaker 1: running play action thirty five thirty five percent of their

1944
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: pass play play action is one of those quantitative edges

1945
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:11,120
Speaker 1: where we just know that it works, so you should

1946
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:13,479
Speaker 1: do it more. And is there is there a limit

1947
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:15,040
Speaker 1: to how much you can do it? I don't know.

1948
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 1: There might be, but no one. No one's like doing

1949
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 1: it enough to have really found out yet. So whatever

1950
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: you're doing, do it more. And I think the Bills

1951
01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 1: are are definitely doing that. And then I'll tell you

1952
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:28,560
Speaker 1: one I just noticed like five minutes ago. It's not

1953
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: just it's not just offense. But I was looking at

1954
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 1: our our our win rate metrics, which are measuring pass blocking,

1955
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:41,559
Speaker 1: pass rushing, run blocking, run stopping, and the Bills are

1956
01:43:41,600 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: really kind of polarized, like their pass blocking and their

1957
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:47,920
Speaker 1: pass rushing is really strong in these metrics and they're

1958
01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: weak and run blocking and run stopping. And ultimately, when

1959
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:53,400
Speaker 1: you're building a roster, you gotta you gotta have priorities,

1960
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 1: and it's always a safe bet to prioritize the pass

1961
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:00,080
Speaker 1: game on both on both sides of the football. And

1962
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:03,960
Speaker 1: so I can't say whether that was through quantitative analysis

1963
01:44:04,080 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: that they decided to construct a line that geared towards that,

1964
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:11,559
Speaker 1: but that is the right sort of approach, I think,

1965
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 1: and it's probably kind of paying off for Buffalo. How

1966
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: much of a correlation can you draw between analytics and

1967
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: winning and losing given the you know this, the survey

1968
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 1: that you conducted, Well, it's really hard to One thing

1969
01:44:24,720 --> 01:44:27,679
Speaker 1: is that if you could potentially have a feedback feedback

1970
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:33,040
Speaker 1: loop right where like, uh, the Ravens are good. So

1971
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,360
Speaker 1: actually the Ravens might be a bad example because we

1972
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 1: sort of know they're very analytically inclined, and I know

1973
01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm forget, yes, forget last night. I think that the

1974
01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: difficulty is like our people by people saying, wow, the

1975
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 1: forty nine ers they came out of you know, they

1976
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:50,720
Speaker 1: were really good last season, so maybe they're doing Maybe

1977
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:53,599
Speaker 1: they're more analytically inclined than I thought they were. It's

1978
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:55,320
Speaker 1: a little hard for me to get in every every

1979
01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:58,680
Speaker 1: sort of like survey taker's head and say that, um so,

1980
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: I think it be like if you sort of risky

1981
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:06,680
Speaker 1: to draw like a straight line correlation between how analytically

1982
01:45:06,680 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: advanced other people think you are and how how much

1983
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:11,799
Speaker 1: you are winning, because there's just so many other variables.

1984
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: They're there. We're talking to Seth Walder from ESPN dot com,

1985
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:18,920
Speaker 1: analytics writer for them at the site, and the one

1986
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:21,559
Speaker 1: part of that write up that you put together NFL

1987
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:26,040
Speaker 1: Analytics survey which teams most, most and least analytically inclined?

1988
01:45:26,280 --> 01:45:28,040
Speaker 1: Should check it out on ESPN dot com if you

1989
01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:32,040
Speaker 1: get a chance, which area of the game is most

1990
01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:36,000
Speaker 1: affected by analytics across the league? And ten of your

1991
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:39,120
Speaker 1: respondents in the survey said game management, which I don't

1992
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 1: think is necessarily a surprise seth but does it? But

1993
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 1: does the game management analytic applications go beyond the obvious

1994
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:52,600
Speaker 1: ones like you you should go for it here on

1995
01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:55,760
Speaker 1: fourth down because your win probability improves by this much.

1996
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,960
Speaker 1: I think that's an analytic component that even the average

1997
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 1: NFL fan is familiar with. How much deeper does it

1998
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: go than that? Maybe a little bit, there's some two

1999
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:08,680
Speaker 1: point stuff, But actually it's those kind of things that

2000
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,200
Speaker 1: I think are what people are talking about. And the

2001
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:14,360
Speaker 1: reason why they felt like it's important even though it's obvious,

2002
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:21,680
Speaker 1: is because it's like super tangible advantage gained. If you

2003
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:25,759
Speaker 1: have good game management and you go for two fourth downs.

2004
01:46:25,880 --> 01:46:27,680
Speaker 1: You know, you have a guy in the booth right

2005
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 1: who calls down to the head coach who is gonna

2006
01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:33,080
Speaker 1: punt the ball, and twice in the game he says, no,

2007
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:36,200
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta go for it here. The numbers say.

2008
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:38,240
Speaker 1: The numbers say, we got to do it right, and

2009
01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 1: you gain four percent win probability or something like a

2010
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 1: coach would paul an all nighter, you know, or seven

2011
01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:48,599
Speaker 1: all nighters to gain a four percent edge in their

2012
01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:51,599
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, right, So like that's a really that's

2013
01:46:51,640 --> 01:46:54,519
Speaker 1: a really tangible edge. The thing that was interesting was

2014
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: people said, well, yeah, that's a that's a really easy

2015
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 1: way to gain an advantage, but it's a hard one

2016
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: to offer an implement because I can say we need

2017
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 1: to go for in this situation, but if the coach

2018
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:08,400
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do it, then it's just not going

2019
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 1: to happen. And so that's really where it hinges on.

2020
01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 1: Can you take it from the meeting room actually to Sunday?

2021
01:47:16,240 --> 01:47:20,120
Speaker 1: So here's a question, and I'm smiling as I'm asking.

2022
01:47:20,160 --> 01:47:22,280
Speaker 1: We're asking, we've been first burned about this while you

2023
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:26,439
Speaker 1: were answering that last question. For an analytically advanced person

2024
01:47:26,560 --> 01:47:29,679
Speaker 1: like yourself, who you know, gets into the deep, into

2025
01:47:29,720 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 1: the weeds with this stuff, what is your reaction when

2026
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 1: you see what someone like Doug Peterson did last Sunday,

2027
01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:40,240
Speaker 1: which was essentially go for the tie and punt with

2028
01:47:40,640 --> 01:47:43,559
Speaker 1: seconds left on the clock instead of attempting a sixty

2029
01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 1: four yard field goal. So I think you think I'm

2030
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:51,639
Speaker 1: going to criticize that move, but I'm actually not. You're not, Okay,

2031
01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:54,640
Speaker 1: I'm not. Yeah, our numbers. Now here's the thing that

2032
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:57,160
Speaker 1: this is coming. There's one sort of key assumption that

2033
01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:59,120
Speaker 1: we're taking in account where we call it tie a

2034
01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 1: half a win, So you could argue that point, though

2035
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: early in the season I'm not sure it's less clear

2036
01:48:05,560 --> 01:48:09,559
Speaker 1: that you should. In overtime, seams are very different because

2037
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:14,360
Speaker 1: because of this kind of like sudden death leverage, and

2038
01:48:14,760 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: our model actually favored punt in that situation. So, um

2039
01:48:20,240 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: so when we ran the numbers, it does that. Yeah.

2040
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,240
Speaker 1: One thing that I've learned looking at the numbers over

2041
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: time is that overtime is often you kind of throw

2042
01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:31,639
Speaker 1: out what you think the model is going to say,

2043
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:35,000
Speaker 1: because you can really kind of change a lot can

2044
01:48:35,120 --> 01:48:38,720
Speaker 1: change over time when you're sort of you and you

2045
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:40,639
Speaker 1: are saying, well, if I'd give it up on fourth down,

2046
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:44,920
Speaker 1: suddenly they can score and win the game. And that's

2047
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:47,400
Speaker 1: and that's interesting because the Eagles are one of those

2048
01:48:47,439 --> 01:48:50,280
Speaker 1: teams that I believe has an analytics guy in the

2049
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 1: booth that does have radio communication with Doug Peterson, so

2050
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:55,880
Speaker 1: he was clearly on the same page as as what

2051
01:48:56,000 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: your models were saying. That's right, that's right, exactly. Yeah,

2052
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: it's the analytics is interesting because sometimes and this is

2053
01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 1: when you run into the roadblock, and this is you're

2054
01:49:07,400 --> 01:49:09,720
Speaker 1: you're getting over it now because fans used to say,

2055
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:11,599
Speaker 1: you know, go for it all the time on field,

2056
01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:15,519
Speaker 1: and it was hard for coaches to do. Now you're

2057
01:49:15,560 --> 01:49:18,280
Speaker 1: getting more and more coaches on board with going forward

2058
01:49:18,360 --> 01:49:22,479
Speaker 1: on fourth down and more and more varied situations. But

2059
01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:24,840
Speaker 1: it's more than it's more than that. How what is

2060
01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise element to analytics that you've come across,

2061
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:32,280
Speaker 1: not just going forward on fourth down, but but maybe

2062
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:36,040
Speaker 1: some other aspect of analytics that surprised you. Well, I

2063
01:49:36,160 --> 01:49:39,160
Speaker 1: just think that the going forward on fourth down is

2064
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:42,160
Speaker 1: like the super visible thing, right, But there's just so

2065
01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:45,600
Speaker 1: much depth below the surface that you know we're not

2066
01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: going to see, right like a teammates a free agent signing,

2067
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,479
Speaker 1: and we may not know exactly why. One of the

2068
01:49:50,560 --> 01:49:54,120
Speaker 1: things we do at ESPN Analytics is we have access

2069
01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: to that same player tracking data that teams do, and

2070
01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: we build our own metrics. So like I alluded to before,

2071
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:03,880
Speaker 1: or our run blocking metrics are pass rushing metrics, those

2072
01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:06,760
Speaker 1: are all based on player tracking, where we're looking at

2073
01:50:07,040 --> 01:50:09,439
Speaker 1: the players, the chips and the shoulder pads in relation

2074
01:50:09,520 --> 01:50:12,439
Speaker 1: to one another, how fast they can beat their block

2075
01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:15,759
Speaker 1: or all of that. That's a just a total next

2076
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 1: level of analysis that the teams can have and some

2077
01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: do have when trying to evaluate players, and I think

2078
01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: that that's really where we're going to start to find

2079
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,559
Speaker 1: an edge. Can we we can start to quantify how

2080
01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:33,600
Speaker 1: well does this corner stick with his man, uh, you know,

2081
01:50:33,720 --> 01:50:37,920
Speaker 1: when he's running a certain type of coverage. How how

2082
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 1: much burst does this defensive linemen have when it's third

2083
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: and long and he knows it's going to be a

2084
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:47,000
Speaker 1: path like Those are all questions that we can look

2085
01:50:47,080 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: at the field and get a sense of, but it's

2086
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 1: really hard to quantify, and I think that's where teams

2087
01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:57,240
Speaker 1: are going to gain a pretty substantial edge over the

2088
01:50:57,360 --> 01:51:00,920
Speaker 1: next few seasons. Talking to Seth Walder from ESPN dot com,

2089
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 1: one of their analytics writers, and the last one I've

2090
01:51:03,400 --> 01:51:05,920
Speaker 1: got for you, Seth is, you know, going down that

2091
01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:08,559
Speaker 1: question again, which area of the game is most affected

2092
01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:11,479
Speaker 1: by analytics across the league? There was a zero there

2093
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:16,200
Speaker 1: for pro personnel evaluation, and that surprised me because I

2094
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 1: looked at the acquisitions that the Bills made at the

2095
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, taking into account where this offense is gone,

2096
01:51:23,439 --> 01:51:26,559
Speaker 1: which is extremely pass heavy in comparison to previous years,

2097
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:28,800
Speaker 1: and I look at Stefon Diggs in the trade that

2098
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 1: was made there. It's a player who had a catch

2099
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 1: rate I think eighty one point eight after a previous

2100
01:51:36,240 --> 01:51:38,760
Speaker 1: season where the Bills were in the top three and

2101
01:51:38,880 --> 01:51:42,200
Speaker 1: drop percentage. And I look at Stefan Diggs catch rate

2102
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:45,000
Speaker 1: at eighty one point eight. I look at josh Allen's

2103
01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 1: completion percentage of fifty nine percent last year, and then

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Speaker 1: I look at the two receivers they drafted who have

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Speaker 1: very wide catch radiuses in Gabriel Davis and Isaiah Hodgins,

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Speaker 1: and I say, there's got to be some analytic application

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Speaker 1: to point them in the direction of those players, Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think you're right and don't and by

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Speaker 1: Ladd's right, like, that's a down the guy who's catching

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01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:09,320
Speaker 1: some passes down field. So to have a catch ray

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Speaker 1: when you're not like a you know, you're always a short,

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Speaker 1: you know, slot die or something like that is particularly impressive.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's possible. That was really one

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Speaker 1: thing that absolutely surprised me too, because of basically all

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Speaker 1: the reasons you just said. I think two things are

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Speaker 1: happening here. Number one, it's it was a question was

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Speaker 1: like what impacts the game the most, and so you

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01:52:30,920 --> 01:52:32,599
Speaker 1: think you get a lot of people who say, well,

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Speaker 1: if I could just get the coach to go for

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01:52:34,320 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: two in these situations, that's just like literally improving our

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01:52:38,280 --> 01:52:41,559
Speaker 1: chances to win. So I'm gonna put that as number one.

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Speaker 1: And then the second is the way one person put

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Speaker 1: it to me, and you mentioned two players that were

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Speaker 1: drafted right in college, personnel was a different category that

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01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:53,560
Speaker 1: some people felt analytics did have a big impact on.

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01:52:54,479 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 1: The way one person put it to me was, yeah,

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01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:59,439
Speaker 1: we can find maybe some things in the NFL, but

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01:52:59,560 --> 01:53:02,720
Speaker 1: what you're talking about is all the players to level

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01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: of competition across the NFL is pretty even, like the

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01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,200
Speaker 1: gap between the best team and the worst team is

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01:53:07,200 --> 01:53:10,880
Speaker 1: not that why in college the gap is gigantic, and

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01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:13,880
Speaker 1: so you need to be able to account for the

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01:53:14,280 --> 01:53:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, a player's teammates on the field and who

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Speaker 1: their opponent, who their opponent is, and you really have

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Speaker 1: to be able to reconcile that giant wide gap between

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Speaker 1: you know, Alabama and Rice, and so data analysis really

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01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:33,280
Speaker 1: lends itself to kind of reconciling those differences. And so

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01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:36,400
Speaker 1: it's a really it's a really important way to be

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01:53:36,479 --> 01:53:39,760
Speaker 1: able to help your team's draft process. One of the

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01:53:39,840 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 1: things that that analytics have helped us with is everybody

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01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:45,519
Speaker 1: has come out with power rankings. ESPN has their latest

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty NFL FPI rankings. What are the criteria for

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01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 1: that and is it easier to quantify large groups or

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01:53:53,120 --> 01:53:57,839
Speaker 1: is it easier to quantify smaller entities like individuals? Probably

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01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: large groups, because you're just I think it's just it's

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Speaker 1: just easier, like, yeah, just larger in a way, more

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Speaker 1: in a way, more sample, I guess I could say. So.

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Speaker 1: The way the Football Power in Next works is we

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Speaker 1: have a prior which is largely based on largely based

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Speaker 1: on the betting market and where where it anticipates teams being.

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01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: But then once the season starts, it sort of evaluates

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01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:26,280
Speaker 1: each team in each game based on offense, defensive, special teams,

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01:54:26,479 --> 01:54:28,920
Speaker 1: and with the key being who did you play against? Right?

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01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:33,160
Speaker 1: So like if the Bills played the Jets tomorrow and

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01:54:33,240 --> 01:54:38,080
Speaker 1: the Bills won by three, then it would think less

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01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:41,000
Speaker 1: of the Bills tomorrow than it did today, if that

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01:54:41,160 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 1: makes sense, because it would expect the Bills to beat

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Speaker 1: the Jets by more than three. If the Bills beat

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Speaker 1: the Jets by three, and they got to kick you know,

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01:54:47,640 --> 01:54:50,000
Speaker 1: they had a couple of like long kick returns. They

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Speaker 1: got a lot of helpful special teams, which is not

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01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 1: very predictive. It's very random. Then it would think even

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Speaker 1: less of the bills because of that. So it's taking

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Speaker 1: an account all three phases who you played. And so

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Speaker 1: as a result of that, you know, we have we

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Speaker 1: have Buffalo at ten currently the ten best team going forward.

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Speaker 1: It's a predictive matter, Seth. Listen, we appreciate the insight

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Speaker 1: and the expertise here. Thanks for kind of shedding a

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Speaker 1: little more light for us on the depths that you

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Speaker 1: guys go to to kind of come up with a

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01:55:20,720 --> 01:55:25,040
Speaker 1: lot of these answers, I guess for not only US

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01:55:25,120 --> 01:55:27,240
Speaker 1: fans that read it on ESPN dot com, but what

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Speaker 1: the people around the league are doing for their respective

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Speaker 1: teams as well. We appreciate it, thanks, Seth. Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care of that. Seth Walder from ESPN

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01:55:35,080 --> 01:55:37,560
Speaker 1: dot com one of their analytics writers, and I mean

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Speaker 1: they got a huge team at ESPN dot Com. I

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Speaker 1: mean half of these numbers would make your headspeh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I am just that's gotta be your thing. I am

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01:55:47,120 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 1: so on the surface level of that stuff. I do

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01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:52,960
Speaker 1: find a lot of it interesting, but these guys get

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01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:57,920
Speaker 1: so deep in the weeds with predictive analysis and all

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01:55:57,960 --> 01:56:00,920
Speaker 1: of this other stuff. It's just like, man, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was a decent math student, but this is just

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01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:06,160
Speaker 1: this is on a different level and I am not

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01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:09,640
Speaker 1: cut out for it. So I am grateful to these guys,

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01:56:10,000 --> 01:56:14,560
Speaker 1: especially when they can spell it out for layman like us,

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01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:17,240
Speaker 1: at least in that universe, you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 1: give me a number that I can concretely understand without

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01:56:22,240 --> 01:56:24,560
Speaker 1: you needing to explain it to me for five minutes.

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01:56:25,200 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 1: Like give me digestible information that's going to help us right,

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01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:32,680
Speaker 1: kind of evaluate this team better, that kind of thing. Yeah,

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01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: don't give me a spreadsheet. Yeah, I always restort it.

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01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:39,839
Speaker 1: I always fall back to the Tim Russert whiteboard approach.

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01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:42,880
Speaker 1: If you can't scribble it on a whiteboard and make

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01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:45,960
Speaker 1: me make it easy for me to understand, I probably

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01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:48,880
Speaker 1: don't want to know, because all it's gonna do is

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Speaker 1: confuse me, you know, in all for all intents and purposes.

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Speaker 1: But there's some interesting numbers that they do have, and

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01:56:54,600 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: they have a huge team there at ESPN dot com.

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Speaker 1: The five thirty eight dot com is a complete analytics

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01:57:01,000 --> 01:57:04,480
Speaker 1: site that covers sports, politics, everything under the sun. They

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01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:07,160
Speaker 1: work in conjunction with the ESPN, so they do a

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01:57:07,240 --> 01:57:09,120
Speaker 1: lot of good stuff there and we wanted to get

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01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: him on to kind of shed some light. And it

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01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: was good that the Bills are in that top tier

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01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: or the second tier of most analytically advanced, because there

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01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: are applications that genuinely help coaches on Sundays. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at Buffalo's strength and conditioning staff and all

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01:57:26,240 --> 01:57:28,800
Speaker 1: of the sports science that they have in place now

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01:57:28,920 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 1: and the lack or the low number of injuries we've

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01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:33,960
Speaker 1: seen the last two years, you can't tell me that

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01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:38,520
Speaker 1: there isn't some level of application that helps them do

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01:57:38,680 --> 01:57:41,880
Speaker 1: a better job of keeping the players healthy number one,

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Speaker 1: and getting them back on the field that much faster.

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Speaker 1: Number two. Yeah, we've said that. I said that a

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01:57:47,320 --> 01:57:48,960
Speaker 1: lot last year in particularly when they opened up the

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01:57:48,960 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 1: new facility, that it wasn't just about getting these guys

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01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:53,480
Speaker 1: on the game, on the field on Sunday and getting

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Speaker 1: to play, was also about keeping them healthy so they

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Speaker 1: can practice and prepare to play well. It's easy enough

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Speaker 1: for us to last week to sit there and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, we don't know if they're gonna play him

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01:58:03,360 --> 01:58:05,160
Speaker 1: and Matt Milan, who, Well, they get on the field

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01:58:05,200 --> 01:58:08,240
Speaker 1: on Sunday, it's great they played. How great would it

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Speaker 1: have been if they could have practiced all week? You know,

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01:58:10,840 --> 01:58:13,760
Speaker 1: how much better would they have played. That's the thing

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01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:16,120
Speaker 1: that fans and and even players kind of tend to like,

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01:58:16,200 --> 01:58:18,360
Speaker 1: just just get me to the game, you know. And

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds went through that this past week because he

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01:58:20,760 --> 01:58:23,880
Speaker 1: wasn't sure you play, wasn't sure when you're you play

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01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:27,000
Speaker 1: better when you're prepared. Your morale is the highest when

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01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:30,520
Speaker 1: you're the most prepared. And it's one thing to get

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01:58:30,560 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: these guys ready to play on a Sunday and act

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01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:34,520
Speaker 1: back in the old days in the you know, in

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Speaker 1: the North Dallas forty days. If you if you don't know,

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01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:38,960
Speaker 1: if you remember that book or that movie that was

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01:58:39,040 --> 01:58:41,680
Speaker 1: made out of the book. Um, you know, just you know,

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01:58:41,760 --> 01:58:43,680
Speaker 1: give the guy a needle, shoot him up and get

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Speaker 1: him to play on Sunday. He didn't have to pray,

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01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, let him stand around all week on the

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Speaker 1: practice field. Well, simple fact. The matter is and I

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01:58:51,240 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 1: know it sounds crazy, but the better prepared you are

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01:58:54,080 --> 01:58:55,840
Speaker 1: for the during the week, it seems like you play

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01:58:55,920 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 1: better on Sunday. You know, that's not really is that analytics, Brownie?

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01:58:59,680 --> 01:59:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's analytics are common sense. But

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01:59:02,240 --> 01:59:05,480
Speaker 1: that's why this that's the best of why this building

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01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:07,800
Speaker 1: next to us that's so full of all this technology

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01:59:07,880 --> 01:59:12,600
Speaker 1: and expert people who are manning it, um have helped

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Speaker 1: put the Bills on the map for not getting injured

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01:59:15,560 --> 01:59:18,680
Speaker 1: and having a lot of injuries. Um, you know, and

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01:59:18,760 --> 01:59:21,120
Speaker 1: in this and even and it's even a greater challenge

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01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:22,880
Speaker 1: in this year with the pandemic and the lack of

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01:59:22,960 --> 01:59:25,640
Speaker 1: preseason and the run up and all that. It's, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any It's not a coincidence. And

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Speaker 1: you know, as much as nice as it was to

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01:59:32,280 --> 01:59:35,520
Speaker 1: have Tremaine Edmonds Matt Malone back on the field, you know,

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01:59:35,720 --> 01:59:37,520
Speaker 1: it's just important to get him out there to practice,

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01:59:37,720 --> 01:59:39,720
Speaker 1: let alone game day. All right, we have to take

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01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:42,120
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return, we'll get to the

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Speaker 1: phones at eight oh three, five fifty, we'll check in

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet and we'll get a little NFL

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Speaker 1: true false in there. It's all coming up next here

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Caster. Final half

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Speaker 1: reads Milestones, Reads Gens, the official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen threw for three hundred eleven yards had four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns against the Rams. He now has ten passing and

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Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns on the season. That makes him the

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Speaker 1: first quarterback in NFL history with ten or more passing

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Speaker 1: and two or more rushing touchdowns in a team's first

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Speaker 1: three games of a season. He's the first kind of

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Speaker 1: cool whenever kind of cool. You can find any one

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Speaker 1: of those stats though, if you dig around deep enough.

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Speaker 1: But still, it's amazing. He's been outstanding at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the season. No knock on him whatsoever. Where would

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Speaker 1: you rank the Bills offense so far in twenty twenty?

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Speaker 1: That is the question being posed to you on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at One Bills Live. So wagh in with your comments

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Speaker 1: I chose c which was ascending and on the way up.

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Speaker 1: But I strongly believe that they have all the tools

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Speaker 1: and talent that with reps they can be better than

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Wow, okay, they got they got some thoroughbreds

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Speaker 1: on that offense out there in Kansas City. In case

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Speaker 1: you didn't catch the game last night, I mean the

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Speaker 1: speed that they can put on the field with the Cheetah,

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Mikole Hardman, Sammy Watkins. You know that's your

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Speaker 1: top three. And then you got Damian Williams, Clyde Edwards,

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Speaker 1: a layer, and you got, oh, by the way, one

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Speaker 1: of the best tight ends in the game in Travis Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's a lot to They

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Speaker 1: lit it up last a lot to hand. They really

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Speaker 1: lit it up last night, and they look good doing it.

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Speaker 1: They did it with style in that first half. They

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Speaker 1: scored Baltimore buildings. Yeah, they absolutely coasted the second half,

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02:02:05,880 --> 02:02:09,800
Speaker 1: but they were Andy Reid was on full display as

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Speaker 1: a play caller last night. In the first half of

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Speaker 1: that game. It was absolutely unbelievable. It was innovative. He

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Speaker 1: had you know, they just seemed like on this play,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw it to this guy, and this next play,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw it to that guy, and this next player,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw it to a guy they don't expect.

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Speaker 1: And how about this play sprinkled in here unexpectedly. It

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Speaker 1: was really amazing. It was a fantastic display a different

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Speaker 1: level they are. They are playing at a different level.

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Speaker 1: And how long and how many seasons they can keep

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Speaker 1: this up is going to be really a debate that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be worth having, because it looks like

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Speaker 1: there's no stop at him at this moment. From Randy

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02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:49,240
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, it's c borderline B, which was

2315
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:53,839
Speaker 1: between ascending and second tier, just below the top teams.

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02:02:54,320 --> 02:02:58,480
Speaker 1: My reason being consistency. The Bills have yet to put

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02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: a team away. Definitively, Jets don't count until they can

2318
02:03:03,040 --> 02:03:09,160
Speaker 1: start exciting for sixty minutes, start exciting until they can

2319
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:12,040
Speaker 1: start playing for sixteen minutes instead of thirty nine. They

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02:03:12,120 --> 02:03:18,840
Speaker 1: won't level up, says Randy. Yeah, I listen that three

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02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:21,800
Speaker 1: games is not a season. Make no question. They've showed

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02:03:21,840 --> 02:03:24,840
Speaker 1: it against it, and I to me, they have played

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02:03:24,880 --> 02:03:28,160
Speaker 1: well against lesser competition offensively, They've they've hung up a

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02:03:28,200 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: lot of points on teams that they should have hung

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02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: up a lot of points on it, except for Week

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02:03:32,520 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: one when they left about maybe twenty points on the

2327
02:03:37,400 --> 02:03:40,640
Speaker 1: on the table before they you know, from turn two

2328
02:03:40,720 --> 02:03:42,760
Speaker 1: turnovers in the red zone of two miss field goals.

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02:03:43,120 --> 02:03:47,640
Speaker 1: So you be that as it may. They control that

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02:03:47,760 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 1: game from start to finish, and they control the Miami

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02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:53,680
Speaker 1: game as well, although Miami, you know, did some things offensively.

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02:03:53,720 --> 02:03:56,640
Speaker 1: We're talking about the Bills offense, and their offense right

2333
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: now is playing like it should it. It came back

2334
02:04:00,080 --> 02:04:03,720
Speaker 1: and put together four and a half or just under

2335
02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: four minute drive together in the fourth quarter of a

2336
02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:11,040
Speaker 1: game where they had a big lead and put it away. Yeah.

2337
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: They converted a third and twenty two, converted a third

2338
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:17,000
Speaker 1: and twenty five, and scored the goal ahead, scored the

2339
02:04:17,040 --> 02:04:20,160
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown with seventeen seconds left, with fifteen seconds left.

2340
02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:22,960
Speaker 1: So I don't know what you expect him to do

2341
02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:25,760
Speaker 1: in the competition that has been presented them, but you

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02:04:26,000 --> 02:04:28,120
Speaker 1: I will accept that what you said. It's a small

2343
02:04:28,160 --> 02:04:32,120
Speaker 1: sample size. Yeah, but they are top five in total offense,

2344
02:04:32,600 --> 02:04:37,840
Speaker 1: passing offense, and scoring offense. And if they haven't even

2345
02:04:37,880 --> 02:04:42,000
Speaker 1: played their best football yet. Holy crap, Like I would

2346
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:43,560
Speaker 1: like to see him play there. I think they can.

2347
02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:47,120
Speaker 1: You know, we always talk about how the Patriots sometimes

2348
02:04:47,160 --> 02:04:49,080
Speaker 1: they'll stub their toe early in the season, have a

2349
02:04:49,120 --> 02:04:51,360
Speaker 1: loss you weren't expecting them to have, but then they

2350
02:04:51,400 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 1: get Then you get to November and that team is

2351
02:04:54,400 --> 02:04:57,560
Speaker 1: just it's like a steamroller. You can't get them off

2352
02:04:57,600 --> 02:05:01,600
Speaker 1: their game. And you would hope that the Bills at

2353
02:05:01,680 --> 02:05:04,720
Speaker 1: least their offense and hopefully their defense sooner rather than later.

2354
02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:07,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of traveling on that path. You know, they've

2355
02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 1: got they've discovered this new ability to produce points and

2356
02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:16,600
Speaker 1: yards at a frightening pace. But they don't do it

2357
02:05:16,720 --> 02:05:20,560
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes. Not many teams do, let's be honest,

2358
02:05:20,640 --> 02:05:22,600
Speaker 1: maybe with the exception of the Chiefs and maybe one

2359
02:05:22,680 --> 02:05:24,320
Speaker 1: or two other team. I mean, the Rams were in

2360
02:05:24,400 --> 02:05:28,720
Speaker 1: producing points for a half of a game last week.

2361
02:05:29,360 --> 02:05:35,560
Speaker 1: So can the Bills capture more of the consistency, because

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02:05:35,600 --> 02:05:37,560
Speaker 1: if they can, then I think they can get to

2363
02:05:37,640 --> 02:05:41,160
Speaker 1: that Chiefs level. Because the Chiefs are here, the Ravens

2364
02:05:41,160 --> 02:05:43,920
Speaker 1: are probably here, and everybody else is probably right below that,

2365
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:48,240
Speaker 1: and the Bills right now are top five in the

2366
02:05:48,320 --> 02:05:50,920
Speaker 1: categories I mentioned, which are most important when you consider

2367
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:57,160
Speaker 1: offense points, okay, and passing offense, and they're not. They

2368
02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:59,880
Speaker 1: haven't played a sixty minute game yet. If they can

2369
02:06:00,120 --> 02:06:03,880
Speaker 1: do that, then maybe they can get to that elite level,

2370
02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:06,120
Speaker 1: because what they're doing right now without playing at an

2371
02:06:06,160 --> 02:06:09,840
Speaker 1: elite level is top five in the league right And

2372
02:06:10,040 --> 02:06:11,880
Speaker 1: for three weeks they have been top five in the

2373
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:16,880
Speaker 1: league offensively. And we'll see if that translates into consistency

2374
02:06:16,920 --> 02:06:19,400
Speaker 1: throughout the year and they can string wins together. They

2375
02:06:19,440 --> 02:06:22,120
Speaker 1: still have to play some phenomenal defenses and some other

2376
02:06:22,160 --> 02:06:24,800
Speaker 1: teams that can do it. And you know, the Patriots

2377
02:06:24,840 --> 02:06:27,800
Speaker 1: are in their division, and every time you play the Patriots,

2378
02:06:28,760 --> 02:06:32,040
Speaker 1: all your statistics start to look a little bit sick.

2379
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:35,520
Speaker 1: You know, you can't Your third down percentage goes away,

2380
02:06:35,600 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 1: your red zone percentage goes away, Your rushing offense looks

2381
02:06:39,520 --> 02:06:42,600
Speaker 1: like it can't find itself, your passing offense looks a

2382
02:06:42,600 --> 02:06:44,680
Speaker 1: little bit out of kilter. That's just the way the

2383
02:06:45,080 --> 02:06:47,760
Speaker 1: Patriots play. And it's not like they come out and

2384
02:06:47,800 --> 02:06:50,520
Speaker 1: they sack you nine times. They get three picks, although

2385
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:51,880
Speaker 1: you know once in a while they'll do that too.

2386
02:06:52,400 --> 02:06:54,760
Speaker 1: Most of the time, it's like you just can't find

2387
02:06:54,800 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: your rhythm against that team. You just can't stay on

2388
02:06:57,520 --> 02:07:00,400
Speaker 1: the field on third down. Your running game in what

2389
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:02,200
Speaker 1: used to be a five and a half six yard

2390
02:07:02,240 --> 02:07:04,480
Speaker 1: game is now a one yard game, and you can't

2391
02:07:04,480 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: get out, you know, you can't get out of that rut.

2392
02:07:06,520 --> 02:07:09,080
Speaker 1: That's what it happens when you play that that New

2393
02:07:09,120 --> 02:07:12,280
Speaker 1: England defense. But that happens to everybody who plays him.

2394
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm really interested to see this team continue

2395
02:07:15,440 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And like you said, I want to

2396
02:07:17,600 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: see him put a game together where they don't leave

2397
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 1: double digit points on the floor, you know, on the field.

2398
02:07:24,880 --> 02:07:26,720
Speaker 1: I want to see him convert all those you know,

2399
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:30,080
Speaker 1: drop pass here, just a miss long pass there, don't

2400
02:07:30,120 --> 02:07:32,640
Speaker 1: fumble it away in the red zone, hit the kicks

2401
02:07:32,680 --> 02:07:34,920
Speaker 1: you're supposed to hit. Those kind of games. I'd like

2402
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,840
Speaker 1: to see him put together a bunch of those. From

2403
02:07:37,960 --> 02:07:40,120
Speaker 1: Nick t on the tweet sheet, he says, we can

2404
02:07:40,200 --> 02:07:42,560
Speaker 1: only go based off of the three games they've played,

2405
02:07:42,640 --> 02:07:45,960
Speaker 1: and based on those games, the offense is elite. Josh's

2406
02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:49,040
Speaker 1: stats and thirty plus points per game is elite, but

2407
02:07:49,160 --> 02:07:51,400
Speaker 1: we can't expect thirty points every game for the rest

2408
02:07:51,440 --> 02:07:55,920
Speaker 1: of the year. So our defense better get fixed quick, right.

2409
02:07:56,440 --> 02:07:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the offense, but a holy coal, let's

2410
02:07:58,680 --> 02:08:00,960
Speaker 1: fix the da That's what the nick three year saying here. Well,

2411
02:08:01,080 --> 02:08:03,040
Speaker 1: most of the people, I would say, are in the

2412
02:08:04,440 --> 02:08:06,880
Speaker 1: in the camp of Keith here and on the next

2413
02:08:06,960 --> 02:08:08,760
Speaker 1: count of the tweetchis as the Chiefs has proven it

2414
02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:11,600
Speaker 1: over a larger sample the Bills have over three games.

2415
02:08:11,720 --> 02:08:13,720
Speaker 1: Let's pump the brakes a bit. And I think that's

2416
02:08:13,920 --> 02:08:15,520
Speaker 1: kind of where we're all at. I don't want to

2417
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:17,840
Speaker 1: pump the brakes. I just want to I just don't

2418
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:19,520
Speaker 1: want to take it out of gear. You know what

2419
02:08:19,600 --> 02:08:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I want to see him. I want to

2420
02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:23,240
Speaker 1: see him continue to do what they have done. And

2421
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:26,680
Speaker 1: I think the encouraging thing for me has been this.

2422
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:31,680
Speaker 1: For instance, in the Rams game, they got put up

2423
02:08:31,720 --> 02:08:34,240
Speaker 1: against it. The Dolphins came back and put them up

2424
02:08:34,280 --> 02:08:36,200
Speaker 1: against it, and I say, you know what, both they

2425
02:08:36,240 --> 02:08:38,320
Speaker 1: lost the lead in both those games, and the offense,

2426
02:08:38,560 --> 02:08:42,600
Speaker 1: particularly in the Dolphins game to the door, they turned

2427
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:46,720
Speaker 1: that switch on and scored bang, touchdown, bang another touchdown.

2428
02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:49,440
Speaker 1: They went back up by double digits in the In

2429
02:08:49,520 --> 02:08:54,480
Speaker 1: the first fourth quarter. Yeah, it's hard to do that.

2430
02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:57,520
Speaker 1: It's really hard to do that. And the bills, and

2431
02:08:57,600 --> 02:08:59,839
Speaker 1: then this last week when they only had one possession,

2432
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:01,920
Speaker 1: I have to get it done, do or die. They

2433
02:09:02,000 --> 02:09:05,560
Speaker 1: got it done despite a third and twenty two, a

2434
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:09,000
Speaker 1: third and twenty five and yeah, and I'm not I'm

2435
02:09:09,120 --> 02:09:12,600
Speaker 1: and I get it. They did. They got the benefit

2436
02:09:12,680 --> 02:09:15,120
Speaker 1: of a call on that. But I've I've made my

2437
02:09:16,440 --> 02:09:18,200
Speaker 1: feelings about that clear. If it's a penalty in the

2438
02:09:18,240 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: first quarter, it's a penalty in the fourth quarter. And

2439
02:09:21,520 --> 02:09:26,960
Speaker 1: even the former NFL official on the broadcast said, yeah,

2440
02:09:27,000 --> 02:09:30,320
Speaker 1: that's that's actually a good call. So at the very least,

2441
02:09:30,360 --> 02:09:32,320
Speaker 1: that was a legal contact. I mean, if it was

2442
02:09:32,320 --> 02:09:34,640
Speaker 1: all very interference, it's illegal. It was all three of them.

2443
02:09:34,680 --> 02:09:38,720
Speaker 1: It was a legal contact. It was holding and pass interference. Yeah,

2444
02:09:39,400 --> 02:09:41,240
Speaker 1: all right, we have to take a break. One more

2445
02:09:41,320 --> 02:09:43,800
Speaker 1: segment to go when we will talk to you about

2446
02:09:44,080 --> 02:09:46,920
Speaker 1: what we have learned from today's show. That's coming up

2447
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:49,640
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

2448
02:09:49,720 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time for what have we

2449
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:11,879
Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Presented by Skyworks, the official construction

2450
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:15,520
Speaker 1: Equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills, and we had

2451
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Speaker 1: our weekly guest on the show today in Good Morning

2452
02:10:18,800 --> 02:10:23,839
Speaker 1: Football's Kyle Brandt, who is as excited about Josh Allen's

2453
02:10:23,880 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 1: just about everybody else in the Buffalo in western New

2454
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:30,400
Speaker 1: York area, and he equated Josh performing on the field

2455
02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:35,800
Speaker 1: to a sugar rush. We'll have him explain at this point.

2456
02:10:35,920 --> 02:10:40,080
Speaker 1: Almost once a game sugar high, Josh Allen comes out

2457
02:10:40,200 --> 02:10:42,560
Speaker 1: and he becomes the kid who did twelve Pixie Sticks.

2458
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:45,520
Speaker 1: It just gets just a little nuts, and it's just

2459
02:10:45,640 --> 02:10:48,160
Speaker 1: his energy goes so crazy and he'll stiff harm the

2460
02:10:48,200 --> 02:10:50,360
Speaker 1: whole group. Or to your points, I'm one of the

2461
02:10:50,400 --> 02:10:52,120
Speaker 1: biggest plays of the game. In the final minute of

2462
02:10:52,160 --> 02:10:55,040
Speaker 1: the game, he'll add lib an option poss out to

2463
02:10:55,120 --> 02:10:58,560
Speaker 1: the sideline. That's just him. That's sugar rush or beer

2464
02:10:58,640 --> 02:11:02,600
Speaker 1: muscles Josh Allen. He liked your beer muscles reference. Yeah,

2465
02:11:02,720 --> 02:11:05,160
Speaker 1: he liked that one. Yeah, he's the kid that your

2466
02:11:05,200 --> 02:11:10,000
Speaker 1: trigger rushes a little cleaner. But yeah, but yeah. Kyle Brandt,

2467
02:11:10,240 --> 02:11:12,840
Speaker 1: who is all about the Buffalo Bills and has been

2468
02:11:13,200 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 1: on that bandwagon throughout the off season and seems to

2469
02:11:16,600 --> 02:11:18,800
Speaker 1: be all like all of us for being Bills fans

2470
02:11:18,880 --> 02:11:20,720
Speaker 1: well rewarded at least the beginning of this season. So

2471
02:11:20,840 --> 02:11:23,480
Speaker 1: the majority of Bills fans today on our Twitter poll

2472
02:11:23,800 --> 02:11:27,800
Speaker 1: felt that the Bills were in that second tier as

2473
02:11:27,880 --> 02:11:33,760
Speaker 1: far as offensive performance, where they would rank them tier two,

2474
02:11:34,520 --> 02:11:37,280
Speaker 1: not quite at the top, but just below them. I

2475
02:11:37,360 --> 02:11:40,800
Speaker 1: think that's a fair place to put them. But I

2476
02:11:40,880 --> 02:11:43,560
Speaker 1: think the potential is there to get to that top

2477
02:11:43,680 --> 02:11:45,720
Speaker 1: rung of the ladder because of what we were just

2478
02:11:45,800 --> 02:11:48,880
Speaker 1: talking about, Steve, the fact that this team still hasn't

2479
02:11:48,920 --> 02:11:51,360
Speaker 1: put a complete game together on offense. We can talk

2480
02:11:51,360 --> 02:11:53,560
Speaker 1: about the defense another time, but as far as their

2481
02:11:53,600 --> 02:11:56,760
Speaker 1: offense goes their top five right now, and I don't

2482
02:11:56,800 --> 02:11:59,720
Speaker 1: know if they've played their best football from start to

2483
02:12:00,000 --> 02:12:03,960
Speaker 1: finish in a game a complete offensive annihilation. And there's

2484
02:12:04,000 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 1: also the fact that you look at the three choices

2485
02:12:06,600 --> 02:12:09,040
Speaker 1: we had in the people who said they were ascending

2486
02:12:09,120 --> 02:12:11,320
Speaker 1: or ascending, I would say this too. We've seen them

2487
02:12:11,360 --> 02:12:13,840
Speaker 1: throw the football around, josh Adlos setting NFL records and

2488
02:12:13,840 --> 02:12:15,680
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and he's leading the league in passing

2489
02:12:15,760 --> 02:12:19,240
Speaker 1: and all of that. Okay, their run game hasn't matched

2490
02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:22,400
Speaker 1: that in production yet, and perhaps they haven't asked it

2491
02:12:22,520 --> 02:12:24,920
Speaker 1: too as much and haven't needed it too as much.

2492
02:12:25,320 --> 02:12:26,920
Speaker 1: But they need to run the football a little bit

2493
02:12:26,960 --> 02:12:29,560
Speaker 1: more effectively, certainly both running backs in this last game,

2494
02:12:29,840 --> 02:12:33,280
Speaker 1: particularly Devin Singletary. He's averaging five and a half yards

2495
02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:36,280
Speaker 1: a carry, so who cares, right when they give it

2496
02:12:36,320 --> 02:12:38,720
Speaker 1: to him, he's getting five yards. So they're good enough

2497
02:12:38,920 --> 02:12:41,520
Speaker 1: now and it's enough to keep a defense on us, absolutely,

2498
02:12:41,520 --> 02:12:43,080
Speaker 1: and I think that's all they've needed it to do.

2499
02:12:43,200 --> 02:12:44,920
Speaker 1: I think there's going to come a time during the season,

2500
02:12:44,960 --> 02:12:47,480
Speaker 1: as we've all seen it as football fans, they're gonna

2501
02:12:47,480 --> 02:12:49,280
Speaker 1: need to run the football and run it effectively in

2502
02:12:49,440 --> 02:12:52,840
Speaker 1: four minute offenses in that kind of environment and in

2503
02:12:53,040 --> 02:12:55,360
Speaker 1: the beginnings of games, and in games where you get

2504
02:12:55,400 --> 02:12:58,360
Speaker 1: to in Kansas City, when the next three games the

2505
02:12:58,440 --> 02:13:00,360
Speaker 1: Bills have got the Raiders, they've got the Heights, and

2506
02:13:00,360 --> 02:13:02,280
Speaker 1: the Kansas cy Chiefs are here on a Thursday night,

2507
02:13:02,560 --> 02:13:04,240
Speaker 1: you might want to run the football a little bit

2508
02:13:04,280 --> 02:13:06,400
Speaker 1: to keep Pat Mahomes off the field. I don't know,

2509
02:13:07,400 --> 02:13:09,240
Speaker 1: or you just may want to say, forget it, we're

2510
02:13:09,320 --> 02:13:11,920
Speaker 1: slinging around. If you score touchdown, We're gonna score touchdown

2511
02:13:11,920 --> 02:13:14,760
Speaker 1: on a field goal, fire fire, right. So, but at

2512
02:13:14,800 --> 02:13:16,720
Speaker 1: some point you're gonna want to see the running game

2513
02:13:16,720 --> 02:13:18,440
Speaker 1: be a little bit more productive and a little more

2514
02:13:18,480 --> 02:13:20,520
Speaker 1: dependable than it has been so far. But other than that,

2515
02:13:22,080 --> 02:13:24,080
Speaker 1: everybody else in the league, just about everybody else in

2516
02:13:24,080 --> 02:13:25,920
Speaker 1: the league will take the passing game that the Bills

2517
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:27,960
Speaker 1: are put on the field this point. And you know,

2518
02:13:28,120 --> 02:13:30,800
Speaker 1: right now, to this point, through three games, Bills are

2519
02:13:30,840 --> 02:13:32,920
Speaker 1: throwing it a little more than fifty eight percent of

2520
02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:35,600
Speaker 1: the time, running at forty two percent of the time.

2521
02:13:36,280 --> 02:13:38,800
Speaker 1: That's more of the common balance that we've seen from

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Speaker 1: some of the better offenses in this league. So welcome

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Speaker 1: to the party, Buffalo Bills. Yeah, welcome to the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty football season. You gotta throw it if you're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Tomorrow's show, we'll be back on the practice

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Speaker 1: field with Maddie Glab get an update on all the

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Speaker 1: injured players like John Brown, Zach Moss, Dion Dawkins, and

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from head coach Sean McDermott. For Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Brown. Thanks for joining us. This has been

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