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Speaker 1: what it used to. I really question how far he

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Speaker 1: can get it down the field. I mean he threw

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Speaker 1: it down there a couple times, but it was like

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Speaker 1: a rainbow. I mean it was it had some arc

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Speaker 1: on a night. So that's what I worry about. Connor

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Speaker 1: and I and I appreciate. I'm glad you got you know,

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Speaker 1: there were some Steeler fans up there and I and

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Speaker 1: it was it was, it was. It was a great

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Speaker 1: atmosphere yesterday, and you always knew the Steeler fans would

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Speaker 1: show up. They always do there. It's a great fan base.

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Speaker 1: What do we say about the fans in the stands? Though?

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Speaker 1: As it tains to Josh and Howard affects him and

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Speaker 1: his I don't know if there was going to be

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Speaker 1: a game where that would affect him. Yesterday would have

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Speaker 1: been it, you know, opening day after coming off the

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship and all the expectations. So yeah, there might

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Speaker 1: have been a little bit of that. If there was,

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Speaker 1: you can bet somebody's gonna be in his ear about it. Well,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know. You don't know. I like to

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Speaker 1: hear and see what the guys on the sidelines think

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Speaker 1: about it, because it's hard to just sit here and

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Speaker 1: look from our advantage point about it. I would venture

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Speaker 1: to say, especially knowing Josh listens to Elvis and Frank

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Speaker 1: Sinatra before games just to try to calm himself down

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Speaker 1: so he's not overhyped. I mean, he, as we've said,

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Speaker 1: Josh is one of the most self aware young quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, he knows when he's deviating from

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Speaker 1: his center. If we want to get all fun shway

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Speaker 1: about it here. He's very self aware with that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing he fights is his

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Speaker 1: own hyper competitive nature. He fights it and when the

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Speaker 1: out is he gets juiced, he gets amped, you know.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen this earlier in his career Steve, where

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Speaker 1: he's got a guy wide open on the opening series

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Speaker 1: and he overshoots him. Why because his body is pumping

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Speaker 1: and mainlining adrenaline and he's really worked to tone that

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Speaker 1: down and pull himself back. He's got to like almost

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Speaker 1: apply reins to his own his own hyper competitiveness. You

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Speaker 1: can you can see it, I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 1: Last year happens. You know, he's he's got this huge

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Speaker 1: love affair with the with the city and the team,

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Speaker 1: and he's and then he signs an enormous contract, you know,

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. So he got that on the on

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Speaker 1: this plate now, and you know, coming out in a

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Speaker 1: day like yesterday, gains a team like Pittsburgh. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's a recipe. That's a recipe for some self self

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Speaker 1: pressure right there. Ye. Well, and I think I think

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Speaker 1: it's more rooted in he wants it so bad. Sure,

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Speaker 1: he wants it so bad every snap, every play. And

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Speaker 1: somebody did ask him after the game, do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you were pressing a little bit, especially after he

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Speaker 1: fell behind? And the only thing that he said really

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Speaker 1: with respect to his own demeanor on the field was

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Speaker 1: I was probably a little too aggressive early in the game.

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Speaker 1: And I thought there were instances when he dropped back

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Speaker 1: and instead of taking what Pittsburgh gave him, he decided

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Speaker 1: to move on to the next step in his progression

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Speaker 1: to look for something bigger. He didn't just want to

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Speaker 1: take little bites at the apple early in the game.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was looking at big chunks on occasion,

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Speaker 1: not all the time. On occasion. He was looking for

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Speaker 1: the big play, and that goes back to what he

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Speaker 1: was trying to steer away from earlier in his career,

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Speaker 1: always wanting to play hero ball, the home run shot.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that was every play yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: there were some instances where you saw guys running free

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Speaker 1: on underneath routes and he was waiting for that big

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Speaker 1: one to come open. Whether he's throwing a whole shot,

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Speaker 1: a post pattern, whatever, it was a couple of instances

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Speaker 1: where I thought that was the case. Let's get back

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Speaker 1: to the phones. We go to Ken in Depew. Ken,

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Speaker 1: You're on one bills live. What do you have for us? Hey,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Um? Just a few thoughts, um,

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Speaker 1: And I guess Steve, you could, uh, you could answer

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Speaker 1: to this one. Um. You just didn't feel it yesterday.

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Speaker 1: H Pittsburgh came with a purpose. Um, they got beat,

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Speaker 1: they got embarrassed a couple of times. That defensive line

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00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: came out ready for a fight. Our offensive line been ready,

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Speaker 1: they were ready to play. But when I got punched

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Speaker 1: in the mouth. You know, holding penalties, I've coached it,

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00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: I've played it in the line. Holding penalties are lazy.

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Speaker 1: Feats you watched. You watched the Pittsburgh pass rush. Our

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Speaker 1: offensive line just didn't match the readiness and intensity. When

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Speaker 1: that happens, Josh starts to push it and he loses

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a focus of what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: And you could see the Pittsburgh defense came out with physicality.

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Speaker 1: They were tossing receivers around when they backled them. Our

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Speaker 1: receivers got up. Diggs got up Swall a couple times

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Speaker 1: because they stuck him good. The offense maybe they were

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Speaker 1: maybe they believed in themselves a little too much, and

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Speaker 1: maybe there wasn't full hundred percent respect for what Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 1: defense could do. I just don't feel that they were

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Speaker 1: mentally prepared being put as a Super Bowl possibility. Maybe they,

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Speaker 1: you know, rested on their laurels of this is what

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Speaker 1: we can do. But you got to go out and

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Speaker 1: prove it every single week. Yeah that's yeah. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they showed up to prove it yesterday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the call. Can't appreciate it. There's something to

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Speaker 1: be said for And I was talking to Charles Davis,

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Speaker 1: who was doing the game for I guess CBS with

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Speaker 1: Iron Eagle and on Friday or Saturday, and you know,

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Speaker 1: think about this. You know, the Steelers were eleven and

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Speaker 1: one last year, eleven and oh last year. Then they

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00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: were eleven one when they played the Bills, and Bills

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Speaker 1: put them eleven in two and and they Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: has yet to put up a losing season as the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has been there for

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Speaker 1: a long time. They're a winning organization. And coming into

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Speaker 1: this game, Charles Davis had spoken to Mike Tomlin all that,

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Speaker 1: and he said it was interesting that Mike Tomlin kind

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Speaker 1: of relished for the one of the few times in

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Speaker 1: his tenure as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers walking

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Speaker 1: into a game as the underdog six and a half

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Speaker 1: point underdog. Yeah to him, And I'm sure it was

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Speaker 1: to him. What an easy game to get his guys

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Speaker 1: ready to play well and throw in some history on

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Speaker 1: top of that. Cameron Hayward after the game yesterday said,

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Speaker 1: the last two times we played them, we know we

545
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: did not play our best game, right, so we were

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Speaker 1: determined to play our best game in this matchup this time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they had they had a ton to prove to themselves,

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Speaker 1: and that to me, that's that's the most motivating thing

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00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: you can get as a team when you think you

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Speaker 1: have something to prove to yourselves and to everybody else

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00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: as an underdog, when you know you've got something better

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00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: to give and you haven't been able to do it yet,

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00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: you're out there to do that. I think you saw

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Speaker 1: that Ken, that wass what you know? Ken from Depew

555
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: said in his last call, they came out with something

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Speaker 1: to prove. The Bills did not come out like that.

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00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: You know, they did not have that angle to motivate themselves.

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00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: They are having to dredge it up from expectations on

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00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: and that's a hard place to to rev up some

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00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,239
Speaker 1: aggression from when everybody's been telling how great you are

561
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: for a while. Gotta rev it up this coming week

562
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: because you got your first division game of the year

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Speaker 1: and it's on the road, So I gotta be ready

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Speaker 1: for that break time for us here, But more are

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: your phone calls when we continue, So Aaron and Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: Joe and Ee Aurora hang tight another's holding at eight

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Speaker 1: O three five fifty. We'll get to you when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kelli to health.

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

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Speaker 1: Here on a Bills Football Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you as we are dissecting and combing our way

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Speaker 1: through the Bills twenty three sixteen loss in the home

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Speaker 1: opener on Sunday at the hands of the Steelers. Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you took away from that game, the

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00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: biggest plus, maybe the biggest minus. What as you what

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Speaker 1: you're focused on looking forward, whatever it is. Give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight O three oh five fifty one fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty or hit us up on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills Live if you can't get to

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Speaker 1: a phone, and we go back to the phones and

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Speaker 1: we go to Aaron in Pittsford. Aaron, what do you

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Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bills Live all right?

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Speaker 1: Um So, listening to other people's calls and seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of the different, um, you know, issues that people

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00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: are having with the game. You have to realize that

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00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: the Bills coaches put those players in the position to win,

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00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: and the thing is they just didn't perform, as simple

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Speaker 1: as that. And guys are saying that like Dion Dawkins

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00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: had lazy feet. Um, no, he's not ready yet. You

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00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: can tell he wasn't ready. That's what let all of

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Speaker 1: this holding calls he had. No, he's noticeably smaller and

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00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the same game ship shape yet. So

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Speaker 1: he's out there battling, but he's not ready. And I

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Speaker 1: just want to end itself with Steve Rhall of Famer. Okay,

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00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: thank Yeah, there's uh. You can always say that about

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Speaker 1: any game. Um, your coach's job is to put guys

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Speaker 1: in the spot where they can do their best. And

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Speaker 1: if you know, if Dion Dawkins, you know, wasn't it

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent, maybe you'd never know and you probably

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Speaker 1: never get him to admit it, or maybe if he did,

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00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: he's like, listen, I'm gonna go. But and he was

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Speaker 1: doing extra since he came back, extra weight training, extra conditioning,

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Speaker 1: and he said on Friday when he spoke to the media,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to roll. Now you could say, well, what

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Speaker 1: else is he gonna say? I'm not ready? Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: and also you can say too, and I know this,

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Speaker 1: you know every time I said it earlier, every time

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Speaker 1: the Bills losing their offense doesn't score thirty points, that

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Speaker 1: Brian dables. Play calling is a horri horrific and you

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Speaker 1: go back to look at the fourth down play where

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Speaker 1: they had the backwards pass. Uh, and you know, when

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work, it's like, oh, you're trying to be

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Speaker 1: too cute or you're trying to finesse the defense because

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Speaker 1: you don't think you can beat them physically. You don't

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Speaker 1: all this. They infer all these things onto a coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: The simple fact that matters is when you call a

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Speaker 1: play and the players execute it right, it works. That's

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Speaker 1: why it's designed. It's it's designed to work, and they

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Speaker 1: run it all week in practice and if it looks good,

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Speaker 1: they're keeping it in. If it doesn't look good, they're

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Speaker 1: taking it out, get rid of it. And yeah, and

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Speaker 1: there's and the Steelers are good football team, particularly defensively,

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Speaker 1: they're really good. So I think this the Steeler's offense.

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Speaker 1: If they had ten best plays, five of them were penalties.

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Speaker 1: Um drives got sustained because they scored on four straight

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Speaker 1: possessions of the second half, two of which would would

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Speaker 1: have been stopped maybe for three and hour if you

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Speaker 1: don't call the DPI on Levi Wallace, that's twenty six

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Speaker 1: yards they're not handed free and suddenly in the red

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Speaker 1: zone on third down, Yes, um, and then another drive

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Speaker 1: has stopped. If Trudevious White is not called for defensive

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Speaker 1: holding on his interception and that was not I didn't

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Speaker 1: think it was hitting defensive holding at all. In fact,

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Speaker 1: no questionable at best. Nobody on the Steelers sidelines in

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Speaker 1: the background was jumping up and down going holding. Holy

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Speaker 1: even the receiver when he pulled that down. Unfortunate call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's where it goes. Well, you gotta live with that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the Bills, uh, you know we're put Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't have now. Maybe se Sean McDermott took it

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: on himself yesterday. I gotta be better, we gotta coach better,

641
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: we gotta go that fine, But they weren't out of

642
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: bounds at all. And what they asked their players to

643
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 1: do yesterday, and I thought, you know, they got players

644
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: got outplayed by a really good football team, nevertheless outplayed

645
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: they did. The question after that, though, and we can

646
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: get to that here later in the show, but the

647
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: question after that that usually is the follow up, is well,

648
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: when should the coaches recognize that it's not working and

649
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: then make new adjustments? So they can put them in

650
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: position to succeed based on how that game is going.

651
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: When do you turn that page? Well, do it series

652
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: by series? Yeah, And you know you think too that

653
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: if you're sitting over there in Josh, I mean you

654
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: read during the break, you know Josh was some of it.

655
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: You say, Okay, Josh, you gotta peel him off the

656
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: ceiling a little bit. Or we've had callers that referred

657
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: to that. Even the Pittsburgh the guy who's a fan

658
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh called us I thought maybe Josh was pressing

659
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: too much. Maybe he wasn't. If that's the case, and

660
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: if the coaches see it and Josh isn't playing like

661
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: he does in practice every day where he just misses

662
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: a guy, misses on a long ball, misses on crossing routes,

663
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, our plan isn't bad. We just you know,

664
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: got to calm down. And it's just and it's not

665
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: just Josh Allen either. And you see here in one

666
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: of the throwouts to Colbezy where he threw it in

667
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: the dirt and then he had you know, you have

668
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: a pass a couple of low balls, and that maybe

669
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: Josh trying to be too aggressive, we're trying to throw

670
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: too hard, or you know whatever. But if you got

671
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: a guy who's not playing normally and the what you

672
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: know he can do, why make adjustments to your game plan.

673
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: If that's the case, And maybe that's what the Bill's

674
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: coaching staff thought about, you know, maybe that listen our plan.

675
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: We got guys open, Josh, you gotta put the ball

676
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: on him, or we think Josh's got enough time if

677
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: he looks to the right guy or gets to the

678
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: second read, whatever the case may be. If they make adjustments,

679
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they did yesterday, they make adjustments series

680
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: by series, not at halftime or by the quarter. Every

681
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: time they come off the field, they're talking about what

682
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: the defense was doing to them. Yeah, let's go back

683
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: to the phones. We go to Joe in East Aurora. Joe,

684
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life. Oh, gentlemen,

685
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: two des A question and the statement A question for Steve.

686
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: When they punted that ball and it was blocked, immediately

687
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: when I looked at the screen, I thought that the

688
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: punting were standing too close to the line. And then

689
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,959
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on that steep? And then um,

690
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: if depot keeping this ball and including Allen and the

691
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: running game law is one of these times he's going

692
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: to get popped. There goes the super Bowl and there

693
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: goes forty three million dollars of up bills money. What

694
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: do you guys think about that? To take the special

695
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: teams play the block punt? You know I didn't. I

696
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: haven't even looked that close at what I What I

697
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: noticed first and foremost was that Hawk took four steps

698
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: to punt it. And you're right he is. He's way

699
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: too close. Um he's back at eleven or twelve yards

700
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: instead of fifteen yards. Um, that's yeah, we saw it

701
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: on we saw it on the on the thing. He

702
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: is standing at the ninth the balls at the well.

703
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can run it back. We can,

704
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: we can, Um, we can look at it again. But

705
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: he is standing if he's standing too close to the

706
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: ying a scrimmage as the punter, I mean, how hard

707
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: is it to count fifteen yards? All right? It's got

708
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: to be fifteen and that because he steps in and

709
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: you're right, and then he took two small steps and

710
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: then his two regular two step the balls on the

711
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: twenty two. Yeah, he's standing at twelve and a half

712
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: or thirteen and a half yards and he steps up

713
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: into what amounts to a Steelers huddle to try and

714
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: punt it out of there. It was a jailbreak. It

715
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: was not let's not make any bones about it. Let's

716
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: face it. If he's a yard and a half further back,

717
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: the guy can't block that with the way he does.

718
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: He's gonna to do something different his hands and hot

719
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: took too many steps to get that off. Yeah, And

720
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: here's indication of that, And we appreciate the call, Joe,

721
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: thanks for that. Um. The indication that he's too close

722
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage is the fact that the

723
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: guy that blocked the punt. Oftentimes, when we see punts

724
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: that are blocked, and Steve knows this far better than

725
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: I do, but usually you have guys laying out just

726
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: to get a fingertip on the ball to put the

727
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 1: brakes on. This guy could have sat down and had

728
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: lunch with him. Like. He didn't even have to extend

729
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: his arms. He's right there. Yeah. Um. And just as

730
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,240
Speaker 1: a frame of reference, most punters this day and age

731
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: take a maximum of two steps. Yeah, it's maximum. It's

732
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a two second getoff time around

733
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: there at one point and he took a gather. He

734
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: took it like a little hop step, and then his

735
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: two steps, and by then it's too late in this league,

736
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: especially if you're up a yard and a half closer

737
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: than you should be. So there were there were a

738
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: bunch of things that that were not executed properly on that.

739
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's why you got what you got. Here's

740
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: the thing. If you're if you're lining up at fifteen

741
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: yards on the on the on the at the lineup,

742
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: if we could get that, if we get the punt,

743
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: if we could put it on the screen, the punt

744
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: and freeze it and freeze it right where you got

745
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: it and give us an idea of how far back

746
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: he is. He's supposed to be fifteen yards exactly, and

747
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not. The ball is on the back

748
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: it up okay, So um, we're not gonna get that

749
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: from the twenty three. And he's standing on the fourteen, No,

750
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: the ten, he's dead on the tent. So um, he's

751
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: fourteen years fourteen, Yeah, that means that means something. He

752
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: then takes an extra step and he takes well, if

753
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: he as he catches it, he takes two small steps

754
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: to gather himself. You can't, you gotta go, don't have time,

755
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: you gotta go, And you don't have to attack the

756
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: ball and get it off. You wait on the you know,

757
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: these guys wait on the snap to get back there,

758
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: and takes two small steps and then two big ones

759
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: to punt it. And it's too late. And and plus

760
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: there's a absolute jailbreak that now the Steelers work coming

761
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: after it. It was their plan, guys in the kitchen there,

762
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: it was their plan to block it. Yeah, it's too

763
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: many step he's about a yard closer, and then took

764
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: an extra step which made him another yard closer. Right,

765
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: so now instead of fifteen, it's thirteen yards. And that's

766
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: why the guy that got there first didn't even have

767
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: to go full extension. It's like, yeah, he stood at

768
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: fourteen and shuffle stepped up to thirteen, then took two steps,

769
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: and your block point goes from being at eleven and

770
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: a half twelve and a half to ten and a half.

771
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: You know, you get it blocked. Plus they're coming after it,

772
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: AND's and it's always more than one thing that does it.

773
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: There's probably there will probably be ump teens punts this

774
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: year from Matt Hawk where he gets the ball off

775
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 1: that slow or slower, and it's fine. But when they're

776
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: coming after it and there's a standing close the first

777
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: and it's the first rep of the season or one

778
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: of the first reps of the season, you're not quite

779
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: You haven't seen a lot of things yet on a

780
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: punt rush, and there's some things they want to throw

781
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: at you that you haven't seen or haven't prepared for,

782
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: and you gotta be ready for it. You just haven't

783
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: seen enough to stop it well enough. That's a confluence

784
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: of events that leads to bad things, and it happened

785
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: early in the season for the Bills. It is a

786
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Football Monday. It's your phone calls Wall to wall,

787
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: Gary and Wheatfield, Tony and South Buffalo others open lines

788
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: for you at eight oh three, oh five fifty Your

789
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 1: big ways from yesterday's Week one defeat at the hands

790
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: of the Steelers coming up next here on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: John and it's time book spires into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

798
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: with you on a football Monday, one that didn't go

799
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: quite as well as Bills fans and the Bills themselves

800
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: had hoped a twenty three sixteen loss at the hands

801
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: of the Steelers. Taking your phone calls at eight oh

802
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty, so keep them coming. Open line

803
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: for you. There. We lead off this segment though, with

804
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: Gary in Wheatfield. Gary, what do you have for us?

805
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: You're on One Bills Live. Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. Hey. Um.

806
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: You know, like they call it the old Super Bowl

807
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: hangover thing, I'm wondering if they kind of had the

808
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: old playoff hangover thing when they got beat by Kansas City. Well,

809
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a game that's what eight

810
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: months in the rearview mirrors. I'm not so much about

811
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: that particular game. It's about the season in general being

812
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: so good and then coming in and try and taking

813
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: it out of gear in the off season and then

814
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: showing up flat right kinda Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, I

815
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: mean that's that seems easy enough and it seems reasonable

816
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: enough to assume that. Um I don't. I think he

817
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: ran into a team that was more motivated and hungry

818
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: than you were. I don't think there's any question about that.

819
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: Steelers had a chip on their shoulder about the Bills.

820
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: Bills are beating him twice in a row, once on

821
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: a Monday night and once in their own building. Um,

822
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, the So they had that going for them.

823
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: The Bills didn't Opening Day huge atmosphere, and the Steelers

824
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: wanted to come in and spoil a party. They were

825
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: highly motivated and they had a lot. They had a

826
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: reason to have a big chip on their shoulder and

827
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: have that emotional edge on the Bills. The Bills didn't

828
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: match it. Yeah, there was a there was a good

829
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: comment or a quote. I guess it was written about Ben,

830
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 1: about Ben Laethlisberger in the locker room. I guess their

831
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: rookie tight end I remember his name. He said something

832
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: about how loud it was out there on the field,

833
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: and I guess Ben said, well, welcome to the NFL. Yeah.

834
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: That was Pat Fryarmouth the tight end who was their

835
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: second round pick who made that comment. It was on

836
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: this sidelines during the game that he actually said it

837
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: to me. He's like, man, it's loud out here, and

838
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: bench is like, yeah, get used to it. It was

839
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: really loud out there. It was really loud that the

840
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie opening kick return was like deafening. Yeah. I

841
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: make the argument that on that last cut, when he

842
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: gets Cameron Sutton to turn his back, if he races

843
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: him to the far sideline to the Steelers sideline after that,

844
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: I make the argument he beats him to the pylon

845
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Maybe what do you think right right here,

846
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: he should have stayed sideline now right here with his

847
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: back turn, beat him to the pylon and he cuts

848
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: it back inside again. Maybe he didn't know the guy

849
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: was coming behind, right, but you gotta know the pursuits

850
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: behind you, so cut it to the sideline where you

851
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: got green grass in front of you. Don't have to

852
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: slow down. Yeah, it's hard to know. I think, right

853
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: I think he should have cut up right on the

854
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: outside on the sideline right behind Taiwan Jones Um and

855
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: like right here and then and right back up the

856
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: sideline as he gets by the defender of Pittsburgh, because

857
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: you know there's yes, certainly, if you do everything perfect,

858
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: you can go. But at every level of football, the

859
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: guy with his hand on the ball gets to choose

860
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: where he runs, and it's hard to second guess him.

861
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: Certainly you can on the field, but he can't see,

862
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: he can't see the guy behind him, and he may

863
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: and probably can't even feel him at that point, because

864
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: you can feel some of those guys when you're when

865
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: you're in traffic, when you step up through the hole,

866
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: you know you just left him behind, so you know

867
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: they're kind of behind you. When you start running a

868
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: kickback like that, you can't feel those guys because it's

869
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: it's there's too much space. And that's why you know

870
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: he probably cut right back into into the defender who

871
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: actually tackled him from behind. Back to the phones into

872
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: Tony in South Buffalo. Tony, what do you have for us?

873
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's life. Hey guys, how are you

874
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: doing good? Hey? Listen, I went a couple points um.

875
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: First of all, sometimes with that with our coach is

876
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: a conservative nature so much it seems like he helps

877
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: he holds Josh back a lot, like here's Josh and

878
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: kyd Fran and Goldford and I'm courth found and he's

879
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: like he's waiting for the coach, and a coach just

880
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: like totally like changes his whole tune and it's like

881
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: Josh is like ready to go, when it's like the

882
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: coach is like, nope, what's this golfer kick a field

883
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: goal or whatever? You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I do.

884
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: And I thought about this yesterday too, and I get

885
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: what you're saying. McDermott kind of puts, you know, kind

886
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: of tamps down Josh's aggression. I think McDermott really probably

887
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: gives him a message like this, listen, if you want

888
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: to stay on the field, convert the third down. Don't

889
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: keep asking for me to keep going for it. Get

890
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: it together and get the third down. Even then, he

891
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: did go for it a couple of times yesterday later

892
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: in the game, and I mean they were in no

893
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 1: man's land on the one play on the thirty six

894
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: yard line. I'll say this though, doing that conservative particularly,

895
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: they went for it in the second half a couple

896
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: of times. The first half he went in. They went

897
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: in a half time with a ten point lead, so

898
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: who is right? Yeah, you know, I mean you can say, well,

899
00:48:58,160 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: they should have had a twin. Yeah, if Josh would

900
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: have hit the passes, they would have had a couple

901
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: more touchdowns. But they go in with a ten point

902
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: lead with him playing conservative. Then in the second half,

903
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh starts putting things together. The penalties are going against you,

904
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: he goes for it and they couldn't convert those either.

905
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: Now granted, what was a fourth and seven or something

906
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 1: fourth and eight, but nevertheless, so I think McDermott treats

907
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: it like, Okay, listen, if you want me to start

908
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 1: going for it, start being more consistent offensively well, and

909
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing where analytics goes out the door.

910
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: You can't treat analytics in a vacuum. You have to

911
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: recognize the flow of the game and how it's going,

912
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: How is your team performing, how are they executing? And

913
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree Josh missed on some

914
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 1: throws in the first half and even in the second half.

915
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: So when your offense is not operating at peak efficiency

916
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: like you anticipated they would based on their performance last year,

917
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: you can't be overly aggressive at that point in time

918
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 1: because there's less of a chance they're going to convert

919
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: on a day like that when it's not all looking

920
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: like a well oiled machine, and it did not. It

921
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: was out of sync. You know, you can't knock McDermott

922
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: for not going for it on every single one of those.

923
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: And I think there's a little bit to be said there.

924
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: There is analytics, and they say, you know them. I

925
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: saw somebody crushing Tomlin for when they got down there

926
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: on a third and goal or a fourth and goal

927
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: in the two or whatever, going forward or kicking the

928
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: field goal, which they kicked the field goal to go

929
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: up by ten make it a two score game. Right.

930
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 1: It went from the when probability went from thirty three

931
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: percent down to twenty six percent going of kicking the

932
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: field goal. Yeah, but you're kicking that field goal to

933
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: make it a two score game because you know your

934
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: defense is handing it to that offense. I don't know

935
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: that was the percentage on that play, but that they

936
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: were killing. Here's the thing, there's just a vacation for

937
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: kicking the field goal though, when your defense is playing

938
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, here's why I bring it up though,

939
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: in that game against that team, in that game, those

940
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: statistics don't mean anything because those statistics are league wide

941
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: and all you know, they're You're talking about a vast

942
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: array of data. This is in this game where there

943
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: are variables that are not accounted for in your stats,

944
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 1: like my left tackle just got his leg broke, or

945
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: my right guard has got a hamstring, or this guy

946
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: on their team is better than all whatever. There's matchup

947
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: problems and extenuating circumstances that are not accounted for in

948
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: the data. They got a number one defense, we got

949
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: a number thirty two offense. I'm not going forward on

950
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: a fourth and three. Yeah, So I'm exaggerating to make

951
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: the point I'm trying to make is the head coaches. Yes,

952
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: he's got the analytics and all of that, but on

953
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: that day, in that situation, when his team's playing like

954
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: they are, I'm gonna punt it away or I'm gonna

955
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: go for it, or here's it. Yeah, I will go

956
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: forward here. I won't go forward here. The game has

957
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: changed now I will go for it. That kind of

958
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: stuffs and I'm a big proponent of that because it

959
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: makes to me, it makes too much logical sense, because

960
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: the invariables that happen in each game are very different.

961
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: The matchups are different, your offensive lines different than the

962
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: two thousand offensive lines that were in the data. That

963
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: kind of thing not to mend, you know, not to

964
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: mention the fact that's a day when your offense can't

965
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: punch it in in the red zone. I mean, they

966
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: end up going one. I know, we just did the

967
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: red zone play of the game. That was the only

968
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: red zone touchdown on one for four, So you can understand.

969
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: I actually respect coaches more when they're not blindly loyal

970
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: to the analytic numbers. They're actually taking into account the

971
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: flow of the game, how their team is performing, and

972
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: I thought McDermott did that yesterday. We have to take

973
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, more of your

974
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: phone calls at eight oh three oh five, fifty open

975
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 1: lines for you there weigh in on what you took

976
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 1: away from yesterday's performance from the Bills in the twenty

977
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: three sixteen loss at the hands of the Steelers. Plenty

978
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: more to come here on One Bill's Live presented by

979
00:52:51,719 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve

980
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

981
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

982
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated beer

983
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: of normalcy here and welcome to our number two here

984
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: on a Buffalo Football Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

985
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: slicing and dicing up yesterday's twenty three sixteen loss at

986
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: the hands of the Steelers, and it is time now

987
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 1: to go around the locker room presented by Connect Life,

988
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: Connect Life Blood and Organ Donor Network, and we begin

989
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: with head coach Sean McDermott, who was asked about the

990
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: fourth down decisions yesterday, the fourth and one and the

991
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: fourth and eight against the Steelers. It felt like overall

992
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: with you know where we were sometimes just outside of

993
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: go for its situations. You know that field position was

994
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: important there. Obviously went forth two times in the second half,

995
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 1: once plus forty I think it was plus forty seven

996
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: on the one he just asked about. The other one

997
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: fourth I think it was a plus thirty five, thirty

998
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: six yard line something like that, thirty seven yard line

999
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: fourth and nine, I believe it was, and really didn't

1000
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: want to punt it there. You know, not much you

1001
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: can trade off of the field position there. So the

1002
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: goal before that was to on third down, I get

1003
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more to get us in positive position

1004
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: on fourth down if if we needed a fourth down,

1005
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: So we didn't execute. And while he talked about those

1006
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: fourth down decisions on offense, he was also asked about

1007
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: the second half defense against the Steelers and what changed overall.

1008
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: You know, you hold a team of sixteen points if

1009
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: you take away the block punt, right, So I thought

1010
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: it overall defensively, and they were in some tough positions defensively,

1011
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: our defense I'm talking about, you know, overall, you know,

1012
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: they played hard, and they did some good things, some turnover,

1013
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: some opportunities on some turnovers that we gotta we gotta

1014
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: take advantage of. And I thought they gave us some

1015
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: field position in the first half in particular. But give

1016
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: them credit, they made some plays, right, They made some

1017
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: place down the stretch, in particular to put the game

1018
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: away on a critical third down. And then the third down.

1019
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: I thought it was the big momentum changer the third

1020
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: down on the DPI call. So so that's coach, let's

1021
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: dice these two up here, Steve. First, the fourth down

1022
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: decisions fourth and eight and fourth and one, both in

1023
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: plus territory. One of them in no man's land at

1024
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: the thirty six, which is coach pointed out, you're not

1025
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: going to gain much in field position punning from their thirties,

1026
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: and they were going into they were going into the

1027
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: scoreboard in which is the wind end if you're going

1028
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:55,919
Speaker 1: to kick the field goal. I think that's right. Would

1029
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: have been a fifty four yard or into the wind,

1030
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: into the stiff at that time, into the orboard. That

1031
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 1: would have been a heroic kick. Not the bass couldn't

1032
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: hit it once in a while. I don't think he's

1033
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: gonna hit it, you know, nine out of ten. But

1034
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: he's right. I think when you're when coaches tend to

1035
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: think about it, you always think, like, you know, you

1036
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: got to make sure the bad, the horrific thing doesn't

1037
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: happen first and give him the ball on your own

1038
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: fifteen yard line by going for it on fourth and

1039
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: one from your fifteen right, so you know, and on

1040
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 1: that play he throws into double coverage, puts it behind

1041
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis and it goes in complete turnover. On down

1042
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: he's put it on his back shoulder and Gabe Davis

1043
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: had it, you know, he had a chance at it. Yeah,

1044
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: but couldn't pull it in. It was actually was that

1045
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: was one of his better throws, even with the Steelers

1046
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: guys around it, because the Steeler never got a hand

1047
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 1: on it, and he put it on Gabe's back shoulder

1048
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: and he couldn't pull it in. And I get that

1049
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: it's a hard catch to make when you got three

1050
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: guys around you. You always feel like you're gonna get

1051
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: whacked or the ball's gonna get tipped or maybe not

1052
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: tipped or whatever. So it would have been a great

1053
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: play had it happened. But obviously two, it's a roll

1054
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: of the dice because on that kind of play, you

1055
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: got one shot. You know, guy's double covered, triple covered

1056
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: that you got to throw it. And it's almost the

1057
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: point where if you throw it, you kind of if

1058
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: it's not going to be complete, almost hope they intercept it,

1059
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: go down and your receiver touches him right, so it's

1060
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: like a punt inside the five on fourth down. UM.

1061
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: But that didn't happen, obviously, And then the fourth and

1062
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: one was a big bone of contention after the game

1063
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: for fans. Throwback I think is the big takeaway from this.

1064
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: One of the things the two that got the Bills

1065
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: when they motioned in, the dB was left out there

1066
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: by himself with nobody to get there, and he was

1067
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: just had enough width so that the interference couldn't get

1068
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: there in time. He covered the space into the backfield

1069
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: before the protection could get there. So even if this

1070
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: play was executed better, I'm still I'm not sure it

1071
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: would have worked because Cameron Sutton had such a wide

1072
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: alignment because they were conscious of Brita's speed to the edge,

1073
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: so they had Sutton line himself up extra wide so

1074
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: they would not get outflanked, because if they do, it's

1075
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So I don't know even if Brita lined

1076
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: up wider in the backfield if that would have helped,

1077
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: or even if he flared out, if that would have helped.

1078
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: Because Sutton was lined up very wide defensively. He was

1079
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: like the safety valve out there. Yeah, and like I said,

1080
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: I think there was some pre snap motion from the

1081
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: wide side coming in. Sutton was on him and when

1082
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: they brought the attacked it immediately he got caught moving

1083
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: was and he was, like you said, he had some width.

1084
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: He was out wide and then was on runs as well,

1085
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: so he beat Gilliam up the field that he needed

1086
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: to make and I know I talked about it in

1087
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: the postgame media room with some of the other media members.

1088
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: It reminded me of the Drew Bledsoe fake in the

1089
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: Seattle game in two thousand and four when he did

1090
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: the same exact thing, faked a sneak at the line

1091
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and then threw it out to mcgahey. Seattle

1092
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: had a much narrower alignment on the play because they're

1093
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: expecting an inside handoff or a sneak of some kind,

1094
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: So they all crashed down on the line and mcgahey's

1095
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: out in the left flat by himself and he goes

1096
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: thirty yards for a touchdown. Right. I wonder if Dabel

1097
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,479
Speaker 1: got that play from that game, because he's not afraid

1098
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: to pull anything out anywhere. But the execution was bad,

1099
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: and they were also victimized by a very fortuitous alignment

1100
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: defensively by Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the play got snapped off.

1101
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: And you know that's the way and when plays like

1102
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: that work, while you're brilliant, you're creative, you're innovative, YadA YadA.

1103
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: When it doesn't, you know, take his job, you know

1104
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,439
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Right, there's no in between there where

1105
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna try it, you gotta look, you get a

1106
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: chance to see it, you've seen the film or whatever.

1107
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: And then this game, on the opening game, I think

1108
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: sometimes you're right, you don't know exactly what these guys

1109
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: think about plays like this. What are the Steelers going

1110
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: to do against this formation where maybe you had a

1111
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: handle on it, but an opening Dame, opening weekend, Like

1112
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: I said, this is one of the other things, or

1113
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: one of the many things that is a question mark.

1114
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: All right, So now let's move to the fourth down defense,

1115
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 1: with which coach commented on thought they did a good job.

1116
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: I would tend to agree for the most part, especially

1117
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: with how the third quarter started. First drive at the

1118
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: third quarter, Trevious White gets an interception and gets flagged

1119
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: for defensive holding, which I think we both felt was

1120
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: questionable at best. So instead of marching in in plus

1121
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: territory in Pittsburgh on offense, they get a fresh set

1122
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: of downs because it's defensive holding and it's an automatic

1123
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: first down. But you look at two red zone stands

1124
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: by the defense in the third quarter, the first one

1125
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: Steelers have at first and ten at the twelve, and

1126
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: they neutralize them to the point that they get a

1127
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: third and four at the six. Vernon Butler gets pressure

1128
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: on Roethlisberger, who hurries the throw to Harris out of

1129
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: the backfield, goes in complete. They kicked the field goal.

1130
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: Second red zone drive in the third quarter by the Steelers,

1131
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: first and goal from the four, poor Yer and whitestop

1132
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: Harris for a two yard lost. Second and goal from

1133
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: the six, Johnson with a fantastic pass breakup on Eric

1134
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: Ebron in the left side of the end zone on

1135
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: an island with a six five tight end as a

1136
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: five ten dB maybe makes the best pass defense play

1137
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: of the game. And then third and goal from the six,

1138
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: Milano and trail technique is able to knock Harris down

1139
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: and tackle him in the open field on a crossing

1140
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: route underneath to stop him at the three, and it's

1141
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: a field goal. Again, let's not forget the defense in

1142
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: the first half forced five straight punts and held him scoreless,

1143
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: and then in the second half forced two field goals

1144
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: on two red zone possessions. Yeah, now it kind of

1145
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: went the wrong way after that. The DPI on Levi,

1146
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: which again I think at least make an argument about,

1147
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: because yes, he never got his head around but he

1148
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: made a play on the ball. But I just think

1149
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: when a ref doesn't see the dB turn his head around,

1150
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: he's throwing a flag. And the ball was virtually uncatchable too.

1151
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean he was under throwing. He underthrew it, and

1152
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: I think that's the reason Ben Roethlisberger throws it like

1153
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: that and he's asking for help because he can't throw

1154
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: it out there ahead of him. And the flag came

1155
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: in late. It was not from the back judge, it

1156
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: was from what was that the line judge. I think

1157
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: the I mean the guy that's up on the line

1158
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: through it. No way, There's no way Roethlisberger thought his

1159
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: guy was gonna have a clean catch. But Levi actually

1160
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: makes contact with the ball. He literally defends the pass. Now,

1161
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: I know if there's contact, it doesn't matter. If you

1162
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: defend the pass, you gotta call it. But I'm my

1163
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: only guess is the ref who is far up the sideline,

1164
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: who's at the line of scrimmage, who threw the flag

1165
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 1: on this play, said, oh, he never got his head

1166
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: around estimated contact. I'm throwing it and just threw it.

1167
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: And it's a twenty six yard game for yeah. I mean,

1168
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: Levi is a surprise as everybody else. Yeah, yeah, there

1169
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: you go. You gotta live with it. You have you

1170
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 1: got an i NT that gets negated by a questionable

1171
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: defensive holding. I mean, look, were the two penalties the

1172
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: reason they lost the game? Probably not, but they certainly

1173
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: held Pittsburgh win. It would have been a much different

1174
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: second half. It wouldn't have been a two score game.

1175
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: Wouldn't have been a two score game with ten minutes left. Yeah,

1176
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: so and you know these and the play is this

1177
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: defensive holding at the top of the route is where

1178
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: they called it? Not there, and and yeah, what are

1179
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: you gonna do? So it's unfortunate, but I can't believe

1180
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: those believe that no place in the in the defensive

1181
01:03:54,800 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: secondary did any Pittsburgh Steeler do less than that and

1182
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: not get and get called, you know, or the Steelers

1183
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: did at least that, if not more, in the defensive

1184
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: secondary in the same game and didn't get called. You

1185
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I that kind of stuff happens

1186
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: every route in the NFL. And they decided to call

1187
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: this one and not Yeah, like that's because he got

1188
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: his hand on the short pad. It was it was

1189
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: the inside hand. I think he gotta he gotta. He

1190
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: had his his forefinger and his thumb pinching the jersey

1191
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: and that was what they called. Yeah, So there you go.

1192
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: So that's that. Let's get to Josh Allen's comments on

1193
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:44,919
Speaker 1: the offensive struggles against the Steelers. Certain situations in the game,

1194
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: you gotta gotta figure out how to how to get

1195
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: something going. Um. You know, we just we didn't have

1196
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: everything today and again just early on, just finding some

1197
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: things and missing Emmanuel Um on the deep throw. Obviously,

1198
01:04:58,160 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: that's when I went back. When a defense like the

1199
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: this gives you that type of opportunity, you got to

1200
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: execute and make those plays happen. Um. You know I didn't.

1201
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: We didn't. It is what it is. Um. But again

1202
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good tape to learn from. And

1203
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: you know it's never as good, never as bad as

1204
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 1: you think on tape. So, um, you know, we got

1205
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,479
Speaker 1: some work to do. We know that, and we're looking

1206
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: forward to this next week and uh, you know, getting

1207
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: out there on Sunday. And then Josh Moore is specifically

1208
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: addressed what he saw from the Steelers defense through the

1209
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: course of the game on Sunday. They didn't pressure as much. Um,

1210
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, they they use their front four and they

1211
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: got they got a really good front four. You know,

1212
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 1: they got some depth there too that can make some

1213
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: plays and good after the quarterback a little bit. But um,

1214
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: you know, like I said early on, just being smarter

1215
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: with the ball and finding completions and forcing them to

1216
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: maybe get tired and uh, just doing it a different way.

1217
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: You know, we'd come out and play how we wanted to. Um,

1218
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, well, we'll watch this tape

1219
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: and we'll learn from it. There's gonna be a lot

1220
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: of good things to learn from acknowledging that, you know,

1221
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 1: in terms of what you said early on, given the

1222
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 1: steel with credit to what they bring to the table,

1223
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: but looking at a lot of the factors, whether it

1224
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: be the fourth down plays or the you know, the

1225
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: the gaff on special teams there, is it fair to

1226
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: say you guys did a lot to beat yourselves. Yeah,

1227
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: I would definitely say that. And um, you can't expect

1228
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: to beat a good football team when like like you said,

1229
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: beating yourself, it's it's not going to work out very well. Um.

1230
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: But again, you know it's they had a good they

1231
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: had a good plan, they executed well. So that's where

1232
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: it's at for them. I want you to, you know,

1233
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: being of the wide receiver ilk Steve, I want you

1234
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: to just try to dissect this a little bit more

1235
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,720
Speaker 1: effectively for everybody, so you know the layman can understand.

1236
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: So I asked Cole be easily yesterday, knowing that the

1237
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: Steelers rarely blitzed. I think their blitz percentage was under

1238
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: four percent in the game yesterday. And we're effective in

1239
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:02,919
Speaker 1: rushing for or that obviously means they're dropping seven into

1240
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: coverage for most of the game. So I asked Cole Beasley,

1241
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: how effectively did those seven they were dropping into a

1242
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 1: coverage restrict your space? Was your space compromised most of

1243
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: the afternoon? His answer was this, it was for the

1244
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: most part. I was talking to some other wideouts in there.

1245
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,479
Speaker 1: There weren't many times that we got many one on ones.

1246
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: It was always somebody playing hard leverage one way and

1247
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: then somebody waiting for us on the other side. So

1248
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: they definitely had a good scheme. They made it tough.

1249
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: But we've got to be better. We've got to make

1250
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 1: more plays. Maybe just explain a little bit more what

1251
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: Beasley is talking about when they come out, what the

1252
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: hard leverage means if if you're if you're playing a

1253
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:44,959
Speaker 1: wide receiver, you stand on his right or his left,

1254
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 1: you're right or your left. You take one side away

1255
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: from him. So if he's going to break, he's got

1256
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: to break through your body or the other direction. So

1257
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: you're overplaying him to one side, overplay him to one side.

1258
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: You leverage him and say you're taking away this part

1259
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: of the field by your body position. He's not going

1260
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: to be able to run that direction because you're standing

1261
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: there across your face, so he's got to go the

1262
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: other way. And then they put another guy over there

1263
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: waiting on him and constricting that and it's a bracket. Now,

1264
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: one of the ways you beat that is to beat

1265
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: them deep, you know, beat them deep. They're inside outside,

1266
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: it's got to take a third guy to stop them.

1267
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: Over the top, you can get past them and pull

1268
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: them out or pull those two defenders out of the area.

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Speaker 1: And a guy comes underneath there and that area has

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Speaker 1: been vacated. Obviously, that takes a little bit more time

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01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: to develop, and you got to call the play when

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Speaker 1: they're running that exact defense, right, So, and that leverage

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01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: is gonna be it because so if you're gonna run

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Speaker 1: that play. What happens if they they go over under

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Speaker 1: and instead of side to side, bracket side to side.

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01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: You got to know that going in and you make

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: the read accordingly. But when you go out there and

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01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: you got to try and make that happen, when you

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01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: know you're the pass rush is hot and all of

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01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: that stuff it, you can do it. And I'm Cole

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01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: Beasley could get open if if there were two guys

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01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: covering him, or three even three guys covering if he's

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01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: got the time. But it takes a lot of time

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01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: to shake those guys, and you know, the time they

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01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 1: did not have most of the day, that's right, And

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Speaker 1: particularly when you're they're giving you only one direction to go,

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01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 1: you know that, and the guy's waiting on you. That's

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01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: that's hard to do. It takes some time to get loose.

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Speaker 1: So seeing how out of sync Buffalo's offense was, we

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01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: should fully anticipate future opponents to take a page out

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Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh book here going forward right until you

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Speaker 1: show you can beat it consistently. Yeah, if yeah, and

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01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: they'll be team to day line. Right. There'll be times

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Speaker 1: when teams try to do it and they won't have

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Speaker 1: the personnel that run it as well as the Steelers do,

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01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: and the Bills will have more time in the secondary

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01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: because they're the pass rush the Steelers do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I would think the Washington football team when they're here

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01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: in two weeks, with first round picks left to right

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01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 1: on that defensive there might be able to employ a

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01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: similar strategy. And this is a little bit and this

1302
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 1: is where the coaching staff comes in. There's no magic

1303
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: elixir because if there's a way to do that and

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01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,639
Speaker 1: stop everybody with it, everybody would run the exact same

1305
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:04,679
Speaker 1: defense all the time. So you've got to have answers

1306
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 1: built into the same play. So if it does happen,

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01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: you've got to have answers, and you've got to have

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01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: time to get to those answers. I think Josh was

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01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: on the money. He's got to take He's got to

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01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: get early completions that gets him into a rhythm, and

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01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 1: it changes the entire mindset of a defense like Pittsburgh

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01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: when they're when they're not getting a chance to get

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01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. He's getting out getting easy completions, even

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01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: if it's only six yard completions. Sooner or later, somebody

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01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: you know, breaks a tackle and it turns into a

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01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: fifteen or sixteen yard completion, and it just changes the

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01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: entire personality of the game. And Josh didn't wasn't able

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01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: to do that. Early yesterday, we've been showing plays here

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01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 1: where you know, there's one in the dirt to Cole Beasley,

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01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: there's one off the mark, to h Sanders, there's one

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01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: or one off the mark to Gabe Davis. Cole Beasley.

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,480
Speaker 1: He had a hard time just getting the easy completions

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01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: that we saw him do so much last year. All Right,

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01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 1: we have to step aside into take a break here,

1325
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: but Alan Washington, David in Brockport, you will be first

1326
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 1: up after the break as we take more of your

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01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: phone calls. Here on a Buffalo Football Monday, It's Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on one Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, Chris Brown,

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01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,640
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Buffalo Football Monday.

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01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 1: On the heels of Buffalo season opening loss to the

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01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Who want to get right back to the

1333
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: phones at eight o three five fifty one eight eight

1334
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty to get your biggest

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01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: takeaways from yesterday's game, And as promised, we lead off

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Speaker 1: with Al in Washington State out on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. What do you have for us? Al? Hey, Hey,

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01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: good morning, pastor m I kind of had like two

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01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 1: takeaways from last night's game after listening to most of

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01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: the postgame report afterwards. Also, first, I'm forterstanding that comes

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01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: to mind. Is there anything that we could have done

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01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: differently in the preseason to help prepare us. I don't

1343
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 1: want to say better, but just prepare us more differently

1344
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: for those first game jitters that we obviously saw. Yeah,

1345
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: And the second thing is my biggest fear about the

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01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: cautious play calling in the beginning of the half is

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01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 1: that it will transfer over to the next game and

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01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: we're not going to look like the Bills that we

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01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: were of twenty twenty, when we are very aggressive and

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01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: that kind of play calling that I really appreciated, definitely

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01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: on fourth down. I think Mike Shoe brought it up

1352
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: on the postgame reports. It did not look like ms

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01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: Dermott of twenty twenty. And I'm just I'm hoping that

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01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 1: we get kind of more back to our roots. Yeah,

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. For the play calling in twenty twenty,

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01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 1: I think it would have looked like the same play

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01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 1: calling in twenty twenty. If they would have completed the

1358
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:58,799
Speaker 1: passes that they were throwing, it would have looked exactly

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01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 1: the same. I think the play calling was about identical

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01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 1: to what it was in twenty twenty, maybe even in

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01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 1: particularly in the early going, even more aggressive than it

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01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty as so, but when you don't

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01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 1: complete passes and your quarterback throws in the dirt and

1364
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: you got guys dropping it, or you got your passes defended,

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01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: or you got pass rushing the guy's running for his

1366
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: life or whatever, it doesn't look like it did when

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01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: that those things weren't happening. So I don't think the

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01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: play calling was any different than it was or less

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: aggressive than it was in twenty twenty. I think it

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 1: was the exact same and it just wasn't executed as

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01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: well because of maybe the team was. It was Week

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01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: one and the Steelers came out and their defense is

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01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: really good, whatever the reason. I think I don't agree

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01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:49,679
Speaker 1: with that play calling thing so much. I do think, yeah,

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01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 1: you could come in much you could do preseason very

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01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,879
Speaker 1: differently than the Bills did. You could play your starters

1377
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 1: three straight games and let the backups or the guys

1378
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 1: that are just trying to make the squads on the bench,

1379
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: and you'll be three games into your season. And whatever

1380
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: the consequences are of that yet to live with, whether

1381
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: it's good or bad, but you'd be much more ready

1382
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: to play if your starters played, you know, half of

1383
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: every preseason game or every preseason game all the way through.

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01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 1: They'd be really ready to play right now if they're

1385
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: healthy enough to do it. I think there were some

1386
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: mitigating factors too that may have made you feel like

1387
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: the Bills were not being aggressive enough on offense. It's

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01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: like we said earlier in the show, Pittsburgh took a

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01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: page out of Buffalo's defensive playbook. They relied on their

1390
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: front four getting pressure without blitzing, and relied on their

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01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,479
Speaker 1: seven and coverage to give up nothing cheap and nothing deep.

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01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 1: And it's hard to be aggressive when they're playing like that,

1393
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: whether it's covered two shell or whatever, three deep zone.

1394
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: It was very clear that they were gonna try to

1395
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:03,799
Speaker 1: bracket average Buffalo's top two passing targets. Beasley and digs

1396
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: and they were not going to let anybody get over

1397
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: the top of them, and their pass rush helped them

1398
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 1: accomplish that because they were usually in Josh's kitchen before

1399
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: any deep routes could develop, and anybody could show themselves

1400
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: to Josh is an option over the top. So you

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01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: can't call them not aggressive if they're calling it, but

1402
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: they can't execute it because the pass rush is being

1403
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: too effective or the coverage is too effective. Yeah, and

1404
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 1: or yeah, or they just it's a bad throw by

1405
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: Josh the one of those sands where they touchdown. So

1406
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,800
Speaker 1: I don't and it's it's easy to sit here and

1407
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: say that, but if they hit those plays, we're having

1408
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: a very different conversation today. I mean, let's face it,

1409
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: they hit those plays. This game's different, like the plays

1410
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:52,640
Speaker 1: that we're seeing the Sanders playing. This one right here

1411
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 1: to Beasley, I mean, that's not an incomplete pass that

1412
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: turns into maybe a game, not much, but some And

1413
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: then that one right there that would have been and

1414
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, a second and six instead of a second

1415
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: and ten or second and five. So yeah, you just

1416
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: I don't think it's different play calling. Well, it's different

1417
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 1: plays probably but the attitude of aggressive or conservative isn't

1418
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 1: any different than it was last year. I think their

1419
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: execution was by far less than what it was a

1420
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: year ago. Yeah, it's a matter of execution. It's a

1421
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:25,720
Speaker 1: matter of taking what the defense gives you. If the

1422
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: defense is determined not to let you throw it deep,

1423
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: there are ways to do that to prevent you from

1424
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 1: throwing it deep. So I know, as much as you

1425
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:34,759
Speaker 1: want to get back to your roots, you can't always

1426
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: just say this is what we're gonna do today and

1427
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: it's going to work. The defenses in this league are

1428
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: too good, and very often they combat and try to

1429
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: neutralize the very thing you do best. So that's why

1430
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 1: it's such a cat and mouse game each and every

1431
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: week in this league. From a play calling perspective, let's

1432
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: go back to the phones. We go to David and Brockport. David,

1433
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on one Bill's Live. Yeah,

1434
01:16:57,160 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: I have two prisit of things and quite a few

1435
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: other things. Um. One positive thing is uh Isaiah mackenzie

1436
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: looks like Steve Um last year. He took it to

1437
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: the house at one play he had last year and

1438
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 1: and to the twenty five in the first play this year, um,

1439
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 1: and um, our partner didn't look great. Um, I mean

1440
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: he put it inside of ten three times before that.

1441
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 1: That black punt teams coach has a lot of work

1442
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 1: to do, uh. On on on the line protecting him

1443
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: and how many steps he takes. And our um, Brian

1444
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,759
Speaker 1: Dable and our line coach got a lot of work

1445
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: to do because they're our offensive line looked a lot

1446
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:53,839
Speaker 1: like the twenty years that we had with no no playoffs. Um,

1447
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: So they got a lot of work to do on

1448
01:17:55,760 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: an offensive line. Um. And it's you know, the corners

1449
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: and the safeties here, our receivers before the bow. There

1450
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 1: are several times and those no calls, how come? Yeah,

1451
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean it's a judgment call, as we know, David unfortunately,

1452
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:20,680
Speaker 1: and it looked like the Steel's got a few more

1453
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: of those. But it's not much you can do. Yeah,

1454
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: it's at the discretion of the officials. What are you

1455
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: gonna do? That's yeah, that's that's the frustrating part about it.

1456
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: You And like I said a minute ago, I thought

1457
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: there were times when the Steelers did as much or

1458
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 1: more than some of the penalties that the Bills got,

1459
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: and it was not called. Um. I'm not saying it

1460
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: was all one sided. I'm sure that you know the

1461
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: Steelers will tell you the same thing, but UM, that's

1462
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: the way it is. You got to kind of live

1463
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: with that. UM. I thought, particularly the Levi Wallace penalty

1464
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,679
Speaker 1: was a bad call, and and Tredavious White I thought

1465
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: it was bad as well. I thought it was a

1466
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,760
Speaker 1: touchy call as well. Um. But when you pick the

1467
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: ball off and you and you, the official thinks she

1468
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 1: might have gained an advantage because you grabbed a jersey,

1469
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna get that call. But yeah, I agree. I

1470
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: thought the penalties for the Bills, while you might have

1471
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: you can maybe point two penalties. The Steelers took, not

1472
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: many of them. I thought the timing of them were

1473
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: crucial to the success of the Steelers. Ben the pass

1474
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: interference play that Levi Wallace took, I think was quintessential

1475
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback play. Roethlisberger put that ball up for grabs

1476
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 1: short and put it just toward the spot where his

1477
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: receiver could make a play on it without really expecting

1478
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 1: it to be complete. And the dB was gonna get

1479
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:45,760
Speaker 1: tangled up. And they probably knew that once in a

1480
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 1: while Levi Wallace doesn't make a play, doesn't get his

1481
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: head around. So let's see if we can get a

1482
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: free one. And they did. They gave him a free one.

1483
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: There's no way Roethlisberger thought that play was going to

1484
01:19:56,960 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: be a completion. There's no way. He threw it up, said,

1485
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: let's see what the official thinks of this, see if

1486
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: we can get a flag essentially, and he did, and

1487
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 1: he did. Let's get back to the phones. Eight oh

1488
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty. We go to Matt in Williamsville. Matt,

1489
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: you're on one bills live. What do you have for us?

1490
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: How are we doing? Guys? Good? Matt was actually gonna

1491
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 1: touch on something that you kind of already answered. The

1492
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: previous question was Trey White penalty on the interception. I

1493
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: think that was game changing. I think that flips the

1494
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 1: script if we picked that ball off right there. So

1495
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: that was a little a little rough to see, but

1496
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: it happens. You're right. And then the play calling was

1497
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: I think was just as aggressive a last year. However,

1498
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: I think at times that came out arrogant. I last

1499
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: year I never saw a fleet flicker. I'm third in

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01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: one with a one wide receiver route. I've never seen

1501
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 1: a ten yard behind the back pitch on a fourth

1502
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: and one last year, so I think they were a

1503
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 1: little over aggressive in areas and especially in important times.

1504
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: That's all I really have to say. Just want to

1505
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on Mat. I'll say this, you don't

1506
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 1: run that quarterback flip, that backward flip on the fourth

1507
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: and one unless you got to allow the build and not.

1508
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 1: Josh picked up one of those already. You know, he'd

1509
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: already done one quarterback sneak and picked up the first down.

1510
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 1: And then when you've got a quarterback like Josh who's

1511
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: run the ball a couple of times, they've had a

1512
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: couple of called runs. He's big, he's strong, you kind

1513
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: of expect the Steelers kind of to dive in on it,

1514
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: which they did, but disciplined enough for Suthing comes out

1515
01:21:21,400 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: and doesn't stays out wide and hymns the play in

1516
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: so the Bills can run a play like that backward

1517
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: fourth down I think a little easier with a little

1518
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: more probability of success because of their quarterback. In this case,

1519
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: it didn't work, but I get the logic behind the call. Yeah,

1520
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:42,719
Speaker 1: I particularly at the time when he's already been running.

1521
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: That's why I found the previous call so interesting. He's

1522
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 1: saying they weren't aggressive as they have been in the past.

1523
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 1: Matt believes they were overly aggressive, and I would kind

1524
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: of lean that way. I mean, there weren't too many

1525
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:57,720
Speaker 1: times last year that they came out with five receivers

1526
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: in an empty backfield against a defensive line of this caliber,

1527
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: with first round picks across the board. They did. To me,

1528
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: that says we believe we can beat you, no matter

1529
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: what you got four guys you want to bring it us.

1530
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: I don't care if they're all first round picks. Our

1531
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: five will block them up because our receivers are that good.

1532
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: We'll get open, we'll make place. So do what you

1533
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 1: want to do. But we're coming out with five wide

1534
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: and an empty backfield. Couldn't get it. They couldn't get

1535
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: it done, get it died, and Josh couldn't get it

1536
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:26,440
Speaker 1: in there. So so I thought they were aggressive, more aggressive,

1537
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:28,679
Speaker 1: I thought, not less. You could say they were arrogant.

1538
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: I get that, and maybe say, hey, we don't know

1539
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 1: if I want to go that far. But yeah, I

1540
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:35,639
Speaker 1: think they were confident. Well, I don't think they were arrogant.

1541
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: I think they said, listen, this is what we're gonna

1542
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: do best this year. We got five guys were deep

1543
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: and wide out. It's a passing league and we can

1544
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: do it. We'll see if at least they felt we

1545
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: think we can get open before you can get to

1546
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: our quarterback. Yep, and that that. Unfortunately, yesterday proved to

1547
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: be a miscalculation. They did not have the better of

1548
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 1: that matchup, and they thought they would eight oh three

1549
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: oh five fifty. Let's go to Mark and Rochester. Mark

1550
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: what you have for us? You're on one Bill's life.

1551
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how are you doing today? Just a couple

1552
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: of things I've seen yesterday. Um, as far as the

1553
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: play calling goes, and I don't know the final sets

1554
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: for Singletary, but I know one of the stets I saw,

1555
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: he has like eleven rushes for seventy two yards. That's

1556
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: a pretty good clip. Um. I don't think they set

1557
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: him enough. I think if they would have come on

1558
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:26,760
Speaker 1: seeding them, I mean their passed rush. Don't get me wrong,

1559
01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: Pitchburgh always has a good pass rush. They always do.

1560
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: But they were having a trouble stopping the run yesterday.

1561
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 1: And I think Davels should have stuck with that instead

1562
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: of going out there with the five wide like he did. Um.

1563
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: That's the only thing. I mean, that's one of the

1564
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: play calls I just kind of disagreed with him with UM.

1565
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:50,799
Speaker 1: The other one is Josh Allen with the design quarterback rushes.

1566
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna get that kid hurt doing those. I mean, yes,

1567
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: he's a big guy, but those defensive players know that, Okay,

1568
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: this is of the Zion run. He's a running back now,

1569
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna lay into him as hard as they

1570
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:07,599
Speaker 1: can hit him, just because they can, because now he's

1571
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: a running back. That's the only that. Those were the

1572
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 1: only two I really that really bothered me. And as

1573
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: far as UM play win, I thought Levi Wallace and

1574
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins not their best games. I mean, Steve, don't

1575
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,719
Speaker 1: get mad at me, but I think if Dion Dawkins

1576
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: would have got one more penalty for holding, he would

1577
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 1: have had to change his number to number seventy nine.

1578
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, I get it, Yeah, and you

1579
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: may be right. You may be right. Um. It might

1580
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,679
Speaker 1: have been one of those things where they are having

1581
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: the conversation in the headsets on the sideline. Say, listen,

1582
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,679
Speaker 1: if Dion can't get this guy, can't stop tackling this guy,

1583
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna put Spencer Brown in. You know, it may

1584
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: be that sometimes I've seen it happen before. And yeah,

1585
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying about Devin Singletary running the

1586
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 1: football and running it well and giving him more. He

1587
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: had ten rushes for forty seven, so you can do

1588
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,759
Speaker 1: the mass four point seven per rush. Then he snapped

1589
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: off a twenty five yard or and that's you know

1590
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: that changes. Yeah, but I'm gonna say this, he did

1591
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: not have a single carry that went for lost or

1592
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: no game yesterday. Right plus eight I'm gonna run it

1593
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 1: down for you, Okay, plus eight plus two plus six

1594
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: plus one plus one plus three plus two plus six

1595
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 1: plus fifteen plus twenty five plus three. He had a

1596
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: good game yesterday for what he was asking to get

1597
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 1: in there with that stretch where it's plus one plus

1598
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 1: two plus one plus three. Let's not forget this is

1599
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: a top ten run defense they're playing. Yeah, well, he

1600
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: had plus carries. Yeah, plus carries. I think he's gonna

1601
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 1: be I think he's a better player than he was

1602
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,160
Speaker 1: last year. So I do too. So is my guy

1603
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: that I've been harping on, Dawson Knox had four targets,

1604
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: four catches, and a couple of them were crucial. But

1605
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:01,439
Speaker 1: I You're right, it's if they run the ball and

1606
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 1: continue to run it that well. With Devin Singletary, he's

1607
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: gonna get most of the carries this season, and he

1608
01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 1: may well get over a thousand yards for the first

1609
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: time in his career. But it's gonna be a throw

1610
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: first offense. It's just don't And I think too that

1611
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: knowing it's a throw first offense, I think the Bills

1612
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: are going to probably address the two guys that they

1613
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: feel can help them in the passing game on swing

1614
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,600
Speaker 1: routes as well. Now Moss is capable of doing that,

1615
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,360
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, But I think every just because

1616
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:31,240
Speaker 1: you saw Singletary and Breed to this week, don't assume

1617
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna see him both next week. They are gonna

1618
01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:37,200
Speaker 1: be making weekly decisions. In this group of three backs, Breed,

1619
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: a Singletary, Moss, and one guy's gonna be inactive. And

1620
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: it might be one guy one week and another guy

1621
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:46,440
Speaker 1: the next week. We know how coach plays this thing. Yeah,

1622
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: you earn the right to play that week. Yeah, you get,

1623
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: you get your You get what you earn, and that's

1624
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: it'll change. Mark my words, it's gonna change week to week.

1625
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,679
Speaker 1: I think it could very well change week to week.

1626
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:00,960
Speaker 1: I think Singletary earned the right to play next week

1627
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: based on the way he played on Sunday. Yeah, I

1628
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 1: would agree with that. But that doesn't mean the second

1629
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: guy can be Moss next week against Miami. It doesn't mean.

1630
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily mean that's the only criteria either. If

1631
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: he well, that's street too. If he stinks in practice,

1632
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,639
Speaker 1: all week may change. You're a hundred percent right, You're

1633
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. All right, we have to take

1634
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, more your

1635
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: phone calls. Bob and Buffalo, Bryce and Buffalo Phill and Clarence,

1636
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: Frank and Derby. We'll dry get to all of you

1637
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live presented by

1638
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Kaloid of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back.

1639
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: We want to get right back to the phones here,

1640
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do that with Bob and Buffalo here

1641
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: on a Buffalo Football Monday. Bob, what do you have

1642
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: if you were on one Bills Live. Good afternoon, guys,

1643
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:58,880
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Two questions. One is it

1644
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:01,000
Speaker 1: pertains to the offense of line, and the second one

1645
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: is more of a general generally speaking, in the offseason

1646
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: last year John Feliciano played right guard and you saw

1647
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: Cody Ford, and then when he was injured, Becker played

1648
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:14,640
Speaker 1: left guard, and they've obviously switched this year, and I'm

1649
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: not sure I've heard an explanation as to why. And

1650
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:19,800
Speaker 1: as it pertains to that, I'm wondering, is there much

1651
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 1: different Steve in terms I know when it concerns the

1652
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,719
Speaker 1: tackle positions, normally your left tackle is the more valuable tackle,

1653
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 1: But is there much of a difference in terms of

1654
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:30,640
Speaker 1: the two interior guard positions and is it easy to

1655
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:32,880
Speaker 1: flip flop from one another and why are they doing that?

1656
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:36,560
Speaker 1: And then my general question. You know, sometimes here on

1657
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: the broadcast on TV, they'll say the first twenty plays

1658
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: are scripted, and that's always confused me because obviously, on

1659
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: first down, if quarterback gets sacked and the second and twenty,

1660
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: you're not going to call the same play that if

1661
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 1: the running back games eight yards and it's second and two.

1662
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 1: So if you can maybe shed some light on those topics.

1663
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,599
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, I think so. First of all,

1664
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: the right guard left guard thing, it's a good question.

1665
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it might have to do

1666
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:04,480
Speaker 1: with just comfort level with each one. And one guy's

1667
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 1: better off his right leg than the other one's off

1668
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 1: his left leg, that kind of thing. And it's how

1669
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,679
Speaker 1: you take your pass sets. You take in mirror images

1670
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: of each other. If you're running the same technique and

1671
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: you're on one side as opposed to the other, the

1672
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: techniques obviously just mirror each other. So and it's a

1673
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 1: has to do with comfort level. Now. And the right

1674
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: right tackle left tackle thing is all about having a

1675
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,560
Speaker 1: right handed quarterback. So if you have a left handed quarterback,

1676
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: obviously like the Miami Dolphins do, it should be your

1677
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 1: right tackle who is the more is the more gifted

1678
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 1: guy because your quarterback toa is facing his left with

1679
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 1: because his left arms back to throw his blind side,

1680
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: his blind side is the right side, not the left side.

1681
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's the right left tackle value chart.

1682
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 1: So the other thing you asked about scripting plays what

1683
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 1: they do is it's not just about they script the plays.

1684
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:05,959
Speaker 1: Two for a couple of things. One, they think they've

1685
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 1: got an idea a handle on what your defensive alignment

1686
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,880
Speaker 1: will be versus certain things, but there are certain things

1687
01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:17,120
Speaker 1: they want to find out for later in the game,

1688
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 1: so they will run certain shifts and motions, personnel formations

1689
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:25,360
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing, and plays to get an

1690
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 1: idea of what your defense is going to do against

1691
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: those personnel packages and those motions. And they're trying to

1692
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 1: get a sense of what your checks will be when

1693
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: they do certain things. So they're really virtually the first

1694
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:41,799
Speaker 1: twenty plays are like an experiment into what you're doing,

1695
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:46,200
Speaker 1: not so much about getting successful, although they do will

1696
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 1: have a lot of times great success with it. They

1697
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 1: find things out about what you're doing with the personnel

1698
01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: and shifts and motions that they put on in those plays.

1699
01:30:57,479 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: So yes, it's serves a bunch of purposes. Plus, if

1700
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna script twenty plays, guess which twenty plays you

1701
01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: really really practiced during the week. The twenty plays you

1702
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna run, Yeah, So everything else comes

1703
01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 1: down the pipe after that. Yeah, And they may not

1704
01:31:13,120 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 1: run all twenty on that first two series, you know,

1705
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:19,679
Speaker 1: assuming they're both nine plays scoring drives, but they're definitely

1706
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: gonna get to them at some point if they're anticipating

1707
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:24,000
Speaker 1: a certain look on it, down and distance based on

1708
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 1: film study back to the phones here and to Bryce

1709
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Bryce, you're on one Bill's life. Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen.

1710
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: I was just curious to know how what you guys

1711
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: thought about the whole idea of Josh Allen's contract being

1712
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: given to him a little bit prematurely in the sense

1713
01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 1: that it seemed like, guess that he was playing with

1714
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: a lot more nerves is real nerves. I know it

1715
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: is the first game. First, getting low season expectations is hot.

1716
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that contract played the role. That's my

1717
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 1: first comment and then my second comment. As far as

1718
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: like two quarters of Goal talks about the running game,

1719
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,000
Speaker 1: I think one in the Boy will take a lot

1720
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 1: of that pressure off of Josh, who's now saying that

1721
01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:06,120
Speaker 1: he's a he's a man right now in Buffalo. I

1722
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: think that that contract, I think one of the ball

1723
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:13,200
Speaker 1: will alleviate some of that pressure. That's one's us. Yeah,

1724
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:16,479
Speaker 1: I mean I get what he's saying here. I do.

1725
01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 1: If you have a running game you feel you can

1726
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:22,520
Speaker 1: rely on. Yeah, obviously, less of the burden is on Josh.

1727
01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: I don't think the contract is what weighs on Josh's mind.

1728
01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:30,800
Speaker 1: I think Josh is such a hyper competitive player. He

1729
01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: wants to win so badly that sometimes it becomes all consuming,

1730
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 1: and he wants to get it all in one play,

1731
01:32:39,520 --> 01:32:42,680
Speaker 1: and I think he has to often remind himself, and

1732
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 1: I think his coaches sometimes have to remind him, Hey,

1733
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: we don't have to get it all in one sixty

1734
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,880
Speaker 1: yard throw. We can work the ball down the field.

1735
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:55,400
Speaker 1: We have people that we can trust to make plays

1736
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 1: for us. It doesn't all have to be on you.

1737
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 1: And sometimes when the roar of the crowd is going

1738
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:07,559
Speaker 1: the place is bedlam. I think that energy gets inside

1739
01:33:07,640 --> 01:33:11,200
Speaker 1: him and sometimes even gets the best of him, where

1740
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:15,280
Speaker 1: his decision making on every single play isn't on point,

1741
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: his throwing mechanics on every single play aren't on point,

1742
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: and it's his job to rain himself back in. And

1743
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: I thought he lost sight of that a couple of

1744
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:28,599
Speaker 1: times yesterday, to the point where he even said I

1745
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: was too aggressive early in the game. I think we

1746
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:34,439
Speaker 1: saw that. Yeah, then, Bryce the caller, I don't think

1747
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:37,200
Speaker 1: it has anything. I'm with Brownie on this From all

1748
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: the things I think I know about Josh, the contract

1749
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,599
Speaker 1: isn't what his problem was yesterday. It was being amped

1750
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 1: up in a stadium. It was just seventy thousand people

1751
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 1: who have been waiting to watch him play his best

1752
01:33:51,439 --> 01:33:54,880
Speaker 1: for like eighteen months, and him wanting to play in

1753
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 1: front of them and show them what he can do

1754
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:58,439
Speaker 1: because he didn't they didn't get a chance to see

1755
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:00,439
Speaker 1: it last year in person. I think that was a

1756
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:04,080
Speaker 1: I think it was an absolutely off the hook atmosphere yesterday,

1757
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:06,760
Speaker 1: and I think it brought out what our buddy Kyle

1758
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:09,760
Speaker 1: Brandt calls a sugar high Josh. He and while it

1759
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:11,840
Speaker 1: didn't look the same because he doesn't run around like

1760
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 1: he used to, even though he didn't run a couple

1761
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: of really nice runs the other day, he does it

1762
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 1: does affect him throwing. I mean, he's gunning it when

1763
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to gun it's he doesn't get he's

1764
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,920
Speaker 1: not disciplined in his platform, just throwing it inaccurately a

1765
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:29,720
Speaker 1: little bit yesterday in the earlier not crazy, but he's

1766
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, it certainly wasn't the accurate thrower that we

1767
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 1: saw last year and the guy we've been seeing you

1768
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:37,879
Speaker 1: and I Brownie had been seeing in practice quite frankly,

1769
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:40,680
Speaker 1: so I think, yeah, I don't think it hadn't even

1770
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:42,000
Speaker 1: do with the contract. I think it had to do

1771
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 1: with the electricity in the stadium and how badly he

1772
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:49,080
Speaker 1: wanted to do something for the people who come to

1773
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:51,280
Speaker 1: watch him play, and Bills fans and all that. And

1774
01:34:51,439 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: for the run game. Yeah, it would be great to

1775
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:56,839
Speaker 1: have a Derrick Henry type run game like the Tennessee

1776
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 1: Titans do, where you run it for one hundred and

1777
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: ninety yards a game, run it, you know, twenty five

1778
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 1: thirty times a game. But here's the thing. You got

1779
01:35:06,240 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: this quarterback in Josh Allen. You got these receivers, and

1780
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: you watch them practice every day, and you work on

1781
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 1: your run game, and you work on your pass game,

1782
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 1: and you watch your guys play against you know, granted,

1783
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 1: albeit your own players. You know what you do really

1784
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: really well, and you know what you're not as good at.

1785
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:25,640
Speaker 1: And even if you're good at everything, you know the

1786
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 1: stuff you do really really well, that's where you want

1787
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: to play your games. And right now, at this point

1788
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: in history, the Bills are really good at throwing the

1789
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 1: football all over the yard better than they are running

1790
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: the football all over the yard. So while it'd be

1791
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: nice to have a running game, you got what you got,

1792
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 1: and yesterday was a step way up from where they

1793
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:47,200
Speaker 1: had been last year in their running game. And for

1794
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: right now, I'm pretty happy with the way that went. Yeah,

1795
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,799
Speaker 1: break time for us here, Phill and Clarence, Frank and Derby.

1796
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 1: You guys are first up, Percy, you'll be soon to follow.

1797
01:35:56,439 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 1: Got an open line for you though, at eighth three,

1798
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:01,400
Speaker 1: five fifty on this Buffalo foot Ball Monday. We'll keep

1799
01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:03,800
Speaker 1: taking your phone calls as long as you keep supplying them.

1800
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:06,519
Speaker 1: We're back for our number three Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1801
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 1: with you here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid

1802
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker

1803
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

1804
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

1805
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:40,960
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratosphere of

1806
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:46,080
Speaker 1: normalcy here. We are our number three Chris Brown, Steve

1807
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: Tasker with you. One Bills Live is the show here

1808
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,920
Speaker 1: on a Buffalo Football Monday, and we're taking your phone calls.

1809
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 1: We don't want people waiting any longer, so we'll go

1810
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:57,600
Speaker 1: right back to him to get your thoughts on yesterday's

1811
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: game and leading us off here is Phil and Clarence. Still,

1812
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:03,720
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills live. Um. Yeah,

1813
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 1: the leagues and the game is a game of strategy,

1814
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 1: and you go in with a good game plan. But

1815
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:16,639
Speaker 1: the teams that are most successful are the ones that

1816
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: have coaches that can think of their under feet. You

1817
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: know you're going with a good game plan, but players,

1818
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:27,400
Speaker 1: even the most talented players, sometimes have bad games and

1819
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: the other the other side, has a good game plan.

1820
01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 1: And so during the game, not just at halftime, but

1821
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 1: during the game, you've got to be able to make adjudgments.

1822
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 1: You're the guys. You guys have a bad game, maybe

1823
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: a case of the nerves, whatever, you see that they're

1824
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 1: struggling with certain things. You've got to be able to

1825
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: adjust and call plays. Is that compensate for what you

1826
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:55,719
Speaker 1: see happening on the field. And I think as much

1827
01:37:55,760 --> 01:38:00,000
Speaker 1: talent as we have to work with, and as many

1828
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 1: advantages as we have with home field and all the

1829
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: things that we have going for us, I think our

1830
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: coaching staff is a great coaching staff, but we they

1831
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:14,040
Speaker 1: really need to concentrate on being a little bit more

1832
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 1: clever when it comes to making on the fly adjustments.

1833
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether you agree, but I think Mark

1834
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 1: mark Leavy, especially Ted marsh Broda was great at that,

1835
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day. And I think that

1836
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 1: the you know that was that was the strength of

1837
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 1: our teams back then. What might have you done? What

1838
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:37,400
Speaker 1: might you have done differently? Phil yesterday in particular, well,

1839
01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:42,799
Speaker 1: you could see that that Josh was was a little nervous.

1840
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: There was a lot of pressure. You know, draw plays,

1841
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:50,639
Speaker 1: swing passes, you know, the screen passes, things that that

1842
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:56,639
Speaker 1: relieve the pressure, that take the defense and slow them

1843
01:38:56,680 --> 01:39:01,400
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Uh, you know, just maybe counter

1844
01:39:01,680 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: some of the game plan that they came up with

1845
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: that concentrates on our strengths. Yeah, I mean, I think

1846
01:39:12,040 --> 01:39:16,240
Speaker 1: in their defense they did run four quarterback draws, um

1847
01:39:16,320 --> 01:39:19,640
Speaker 1: so they did that all the time. They expected that.

1848
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:23,799
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't need the tight end The passes

1849
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: worked because we didn't do that very often, and that

1850
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:28,920
Speaker 1: came up every time we tried it. It was good.

1851
01:39:29,120 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 1: We didn't sail on the tight end passes, but we

1852
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,599
Speaker 1: didn't throw any screens right, and we didn't do any

1853
01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:41,599
Speaker 1: any swing pass it well, not very any screen screen

1854
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:43,759
Speaker 1: passes that I saw. Yeah, they didn't run any screens.

1855
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,439
Speaker 1: You're right about that, not even or they didn't even

1856
01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 1: run a receiver screen really yesterday. Um and with all

1857
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 1: the receivers on the field, that that's an option they

1858
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:54,640
Speaker 1: could have turned too. So I'll I'll buy that for

1859
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:56,680
Speaker 1: a dollar. I'll give you that one. They did run

1860
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: quarterback draws. They ran four of those. Yeah, I mean

1861
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:01,680
Speaker 1: they're not going to They're going to get away from

1862
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: those quarterback student body lefts and rights like they used

1863
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:07,120
Speaker 1: to run when Josh will finish the second year. But

1864
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:09,960
Speaker 1: I'll say this, you're right there is that is one

1865
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,320
Speaker 1: way to do it. Where you start when you see

1866
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:16,439
Speaker 1: a guy's having a rough day. Let's say it's somebody

1867
01:40:16,479 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: important like your quarterback, or somebody important like Steph Diggs

1868
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 1: or maybe your right guard or center. You pick, take

1869
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,759
Speaker 1: your pick guys having a rough day. What the usual

1870
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:31,720
Speaker 1: coaching what you usually do is between series, you go

1871
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: over and you sit down next to the guy and

1872
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:36,519
Speaker 1: you try and snap him out of it. Because you

1873
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 1: got eleven other guys that are not having a bad day,

1874
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:41,920
Speaker 1: or not all of them having a bad day, who

1875
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: need to run the plays that they've practiced. So the

1876
01:40:46,240 --> 01:40:49,519
Speaker 1: coaching thing is not to change your entire philosophy. You

1877
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 1: change your philosophy due to what the other guys are doing.

1878
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:54,880
Speaker 1: The other team is doing, not your own guys. You

1879
01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 1: expect your own guys to show up and shake it off.

1880
01:40:58,439 --> 01:41:03,559
Speaker 1: Have a conversation between series and say listen, now you

1881
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:06,160
Speaker 1: need to take a deep breath, or listen, don't let

1882
01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 1: that guy get under your skin, or hey, you're not.

1883
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:12,799
Speaker 1: You gotta you're getting into hurry, don't hurry your routes.

1884
01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 1: When you're doing that, you gotta get your full depth,

1885
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:18,800
Speaker 1: or make sure you work your technique. Don't let him

1886
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:21,120
Speaker 1: bit you into taking an off step of that kind

1887
01:41:21,120 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: of stuff. You talk those guys out of it. You

1888
01:41:25,400 --> 01:41:27,720
Speaker 1: try and get them back into the mental state. You

1889
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,639
Speaker 1: need to get them too, so they can play their best.

1890
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: You don't change your game plan because you've got a

1891
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: guy that stinks that day. You either replace the guy

1892
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: that stinks if you can, or you try and talk

1893
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: him out of it and get him and it made

1894
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:48,599
Speaker 1: him realize during the game, like hey you're doing this

1895
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: and this stop it, or hey, you need to be

1896
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 1: doing them more of this and this, So you can't

1897
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:56,479
Speaker 1: because that way, instead of affecting the other ten guys

1898
01:41:56,479 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: by calling some game plan you didn't practice, you get

1899
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:02,400
Speaker 1: that one guy hitting, and then you can start hitting

1900
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 1: on all cylinders instead of just ten of eleven. There's

1901
01:42:04,680 --> 01:42:06,720
Speaker 1: too much investment through the course of the week in

1902
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:09,080
Speaker 1: whatever the game plan turns out, and it's not saying

1903
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 1: you can you can't deviate from it in some ways,

1904
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,639
Speaker 1: but you don't throw out the baby. There's too many

1905
01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 1: reasons you've got this game plan in place. This game

1906
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:19,519
Speaker 1: plan is the one you've prepared because the other It

1907
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:22,160
Speaker 1: should work against what the other team doesn't do well,

1908
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: and it should counteract their strengths and weaknesses. So if

1909
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 1: you go do something else, what are you gonna do

1910
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 1: play to their strength? Then your game plan is what

1911
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:33,920
Speaker 1: it is because you've dissected what your opponent does and

1912
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:36,840
Speaker 1: doesn't do well. So if you got one guy or

1913
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:38,840
Speaker 1: two guys that aren't playing up their best, you got

1914
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,280
Speaker 1: to change them, not your game plan, because they're the

1915
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:43,960
Speaker 1: other teams certainly not going to They're gonna have the

1916
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: same strengths and weaknesses that they came into the game with.

1917
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:50,520
Speaker 1: That's who they are, that's who you're playing. So you

1918
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: got to you gotta go over set those guys, either

1919
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:56,200
Speaker 1: set them down, put somebody else in, or to put

1920
01:42:56,200 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: it bluntly, talk them out of it and get them right.

1921
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:02,920
Speaker 1: So that's the coach's job and the guys who and

1922
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:06,280
Speaker 1: certainly you made a good point, they're always adjusting and

1923
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:11,400
Speaker 1: game planning, and a team will have ways to overcome

1924
01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:14,479
Speaker 1: its own deficiencies and they'll have things like that, but

1925
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: you'll anticipate those because you know, there's nothing new under

1926
01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 1: the sun. Yeah, so yeah, you don't. You don't change

1927
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:24,920
Speaker 1: your game plan because you guys got a guy that's

1928
01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 1: not playing well. You work on that guy that day,

1929
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: because you got ten other guys who have practiced this

1930
01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: game plan, and this game plan you got you believe

1931
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:37,559
Speaker 1: it should work. Yeah, eight oh three h five fifty.

1932
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,000
Speaker 1: Back to the phones into Frank and Derby. It's been

1933
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 1: waiting patiently. Frank, what do you have for us? Two things. One,

1934
01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 1: you guys already talked about the penalties. I know, like

1935
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:49,080
Speaker 1: the interception, the holding penalty, and the interception was a

1936
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: big one, very very game changing. But in the fourth quarter,

1937
01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: I believe it was when the Alan got set or

1938
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:57,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he got sacked through the past. He

1939
01:43:57,200 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: got hit. The guy left his feet to hit him,

1940
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:01,560
Speaker 1: and a helmet the helmet contact, and no call was

1941
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:03,599
Speaker 1: ever made any thing. That would have been a pretty

1942
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:07,439
Speaker 1: point to make that call, but it was blatantly missed.

1943
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. You got me on that. I

1944
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: did not even notice it. Yeah, I'm trying to remember

1945
01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:15,080
Speaker 1: exactly when. Do you remember exactly when you saw that

1946
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,000
Speaker 1: or I don't remember exactly know what it it was in

1947
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:18,599
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, it was it was a very big

1948
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:20,519
Speaker 1: point of the gaming on Buffalo was kind of driving

1949
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: a little bit. He got hit and Alan kind of

1950
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: stood up and he like looked back and pointed to

1951
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:26,600
Speaker 1: his helmet and they kind of blew it off. But

1952
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 1: I mean, even leaving your feet. I never thought the

1953
01:44:28,479 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 1: defender was allowed to leave his feet to the quarter. No,

1954
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: he's not. If that was if it was like that, yeah,

1955
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: you're right, it should have been called, particularly if he

1956
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:36,680
Speaker 1: if he got in the head and mostly if you

1957
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:40,439
Speaker 1: even glance at his head, you know, you get a penalty.

1958
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: So I'm i gotta be honest with you, Frank, I

1959
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:47,519
Speaker 1: didn't I never saw that, So, um, maybe it'll come

1960
01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:49,160
Speaker 1: up again. Maybe I'll get a seat, chance to see

1961
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:51,439
Speaker 1: it all, watch the game on game pass and see

1962
01:44:51,439 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 1: if I can catch it. But yeah, you got me

1963
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:55,560
Speaker 1: if if it is what you say it is, I'm

1964
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 1: shocked that they didn't call it, because there, if anything,

1965
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: they over effish that. Yes, that's one of the things

1966
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: that is. Yeah, I mean, for all the stuff we

1967
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: heard about taunting in the NFL in the preseason, they

1968
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: didn't call that much yesterday. And I saw a lot

1969
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,680
Speaker 1: of guys stand up and kind of, you know, give

1970
01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:15,519
Speaker 1: it a little something at the end of a play,

1971
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:17,240
Speaker 1: and I thought, Wow, that might have been called in

1972
01:45:17,280 --> 01:45:20,960
Speaker 1: the preseason. But they're kind of like it's a yawn fest.

1973
01:45:21,120 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: Now the regular seasons began, obviously, let's go to Percy

1974
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 1: and Buffalo next. Percy are on One Bill's Live. Hey damn,

1975
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 1: how you got these doing good? Poor guys? This this

1976
01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:34,679
Speaker 1: game basically we reminded me of a Super Bowl twenty five.

1977
01:45:34,760 --> 01:45:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Steve. My thing is, they got seven dbs

1978
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 1: that tells you you should run the ball again. We

1979
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,120
Speaker 1: didn't screen them. That's how you're going to swaw him down.

1980
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:51,599
Speaker 1: And and and my, my, my concerns this third quarter scoring.

1981
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:54,840
Speaker 1: Here we go again. We don't it seems like the

1982
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:58,439
Speaker 1: offense don't make adjustments in the third quarter. You know,

1983
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:00,960
Speaker 1: we were we had this issue last year. It looked

1984
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:04,240
Speaker 1: like this maybe an issue this year. And I got

1985
01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: one last question, do um. I don't know if the

1986
01:46:07,520 --> 01:46:11,799
Speaker 1: crowd noise plays a issue with this question, but Steve,

1987
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 1: we had only things DBS had to do was turn around.

1988
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 1: We had three pass in appearances. If they turn around

1989
01:46:20,240 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: the balls right down, I mean, do the players call

1990
01:46:24,080 --> 01:46:27,120
Speaker 1: out and say, hey, ball ball ball. Maybe they can't hear.

1991
01:46:27,320 --> 01:46:30,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. But if we just turn around, we

1992
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:34,600
Speaker 1: got three interceptions. Yeah, I see what you mean. And

1993
01:46:34,640 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 1: you're right, Um, the noise is a factor on the

1994
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:40,559
Speaker 1: ball call. And you only get the ball call when

1995
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: you're playing defense, obviously, and you're on and you're on

1996
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,439
Speaker 1: your own sideline. Yeah, you're not gonna get it on

1997
01:46:46,439 --> 01:46:48,720
Speaker 1: the other sideline now. And and plus you gotta be

1998
01:46:48,760 --> 01:46:51,680
Speaker 1: like on the sideline area where they're players. If you're

1999
01:46:51,720 --> 01:46:55,000
Speaker 1: down like where Levi Wallace was, you know, everybody kind

2000
01:46:55,040 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: of congregated the line of scrimmage when you get twenty

2001
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,760
Speaker 1: six yards down the field where this play was there's

2002
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 1: no down there, so there's nobody to call ball. So

2003
01:47:03,880 --> 01:47:08,000
Speaker 1: that's it. And and yeah, so that's why that's not

2004
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:11,760
Speaker 1: a thing. And as far as let's see seven, Yeah,

2005
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:13,840
Speaker 1: you're right. If they got seven dbs on the field,

2006
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 1: which I don't know. If I don't know, if they

2007
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:18,800
Speaker 1: played four down seven dbs because they run a three

2008
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 1: four defense, yeah, they weren't playing with seven. They weren't

2009
01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:24,880
Speaker 1: playing with seven dbs. But if they were, yeah, you're right,

2010
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: you can run the football against that. And I don't

2011
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:29,639
Speaker 1: know if I agree. I don't know if I agree

2012
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:32,760
Speaker 1: with the never making third quarter adjustments. Offensively, they were

2013
01:47:32,760 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 1: scoring thirty points a game last year. They were lightening

2014
01:47:35,080 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: people up, and if they if there was a time

2015
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 1: when they came out a little bit fin maybe I

2016
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: remember vaguely, maybe we had some conversations about that, that

2017
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:45,720
Speaker 1: they came out a halftime flat a number on a

2018
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: number of occasions. I don't know. Well, they came out

2019
01:47:48,240 --> 01:47:50,519
Speaker 1: in the second half and they had a twelve play

2020
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 1: drive and it's stalled on the fourth and eighth, so

2021
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 1: that was their first possession. They got a couple of

2022
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 1: first downs despite missing a couple of throws by Josh,

2023
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 1: and they were still able to convert, including the third

2024
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:07,479
Speaker 1: and three that he converted on the quarterback draw to

2025
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:11,320
Speaker 1: get the first down. He got three yards, and you know,

2026
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 1: they're into Pittsburgh territory. And then they come up short

2027
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,320
Speaker 1: on a third and eight that Josh threw in complete

2028
01:48:17,320 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: into traffic. And then on the fourth and eight, you know,

2029
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:23,439
Speaker 1: the past to Gabe. It's on his back shoulder, but

2030
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:25,120
Speaker 1: you know he can't come up. We've been around and

2031
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:29,600
Speaker 1: get it. Yeah. So it's execution, man, Yeah, it's execution.

2032
01:48:29,680 --> 01:48:32,720
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Oh I see, I got Super

2033
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:34,800
Speaker 1: Bowl twenty five and run against sevent dbs. Yeah, I

2034
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: got you. Yeah, and you're right. Not for nothing. Miami

2035
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 1: was the first team last year that put seven dbs

2036
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:45,680
Speaker 1: on the field against this passing attack. They did that

2037
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 1: at times where they had seven dbs out there. I

2038
01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:50,719
Speaker 1: even remember one or two plays they had three down

2039
01:48:50,760 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: linemen and eight defensive backs on the field to try

2040
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:55,719
Speaker 1: to come up with a way to stop the Bills

2041
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:58,960
Speaker 1: passing game. The Steelers were more effective with just five.

2042
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:01,640
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I'm not going to pretend that

2043
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 1: I was paying attention as to whether they played any dime.

2044
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 1: But they did play a good amount of nickel yesterday

2045
01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:09,240
Speaker 1: and they were effective. They did a good job Bracken

2046
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:13,040
Speaker 1: and Digson Beasley and restricted the space for them not

2047
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:16,880
Speaker 1: only in terms of getting open but yards after the catch. Steve,

2048
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to see if I can look it

2049
01:49:18,320 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: up in the break. There were not a lot of

2050
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:23,160
Speaker 1: yards after the catch either. No, and that's what good

2051
01:49:23,200 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: defenses do. I've said it a ton. The best defenses

2052
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:28,200
Speaker 1: in the league, the first guy that gets to the

2053
01:49:28,200 --> 01:49:32,840
Speaker 1: ball makes the tackle, and that virtually across the board,

2054
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,799
Speaker 1: year after year, decade over decade. They don't miss tackles.

2055
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,719
Speaker 1: Matt Milano is a great defensive player because he doesn't

2056
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:45,360
Speaker 1: miss tackles. The play he made on Naji Harris on

2057
01:49:45,400 --> 01:49:50,040
Speaker 1: the third and five or the third and six, I

2058
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:52,720
Speaker 1: guess it was when the Steelers are going in after

2059
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:55,800
Speaker 1: halftime and that they ended up taking a field goal.

2060
01:49:55,880 --> 01:50:00,000
Speaker 1: When Milano made this tackle on the three against Naji Harris,

2061
01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:03,240
Speaker 1: swing pass across the middle, he catches it two steps

2062
01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:05,639
Speaker 1: and he's on the ground. Milano tackles him. It ends

2063
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 1: up being a field goal, and Mike Mike, Mike Tomlin

2064
01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:11,439
Speaker 1: got a little bit grilled for going for the field

2065
01:50:11,439 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 1: goal there instead of taking the going for it on

2066
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 1: fourth down for the for the end zone. Nevertheless, Matt Milano,

2067
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 1: the point being that first out of the ball makes

2068
01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:24,200
Speaker 1: the tackle, no broken tackles is a pretty good defense. Defense,

2069
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:27,160
Speaker 1: and that goes for individual players as well. Let's go

2070
01:50:27,200 --> 01:50:29,960
Speaker 1: back to the phones. We go to Sean and Lackawanna. Sean,

2071
01:50:30,040 --> 01:50:34,679
Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on One Bill's Life. Sean,

2072
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:38,800
Speaker 1: are you there? All right? I'm gonna put Sean back

2073
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:43,520
Speaker 1: on hold and instead we'll go to Frederick in Tonawanda.

2074
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:49,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, Frederick here on One Bill's Live, all right,

2075
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:52,080
Speaker 1: might have to phone problems here because we're not hearing

2076
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 1: anybody on the open lines there, So I'll put him

2077
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:56,400
Speaker 1: back on hold too, see if we can't figure out

2078
01:50:56,439 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 1: what's going on there. One thing I did want to

2079
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: discuss with you, Steve, was the platoon situation at right guard.

2080
01:51:04,240 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 1: Through the course of the first half, Cody Ford and

2081
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 1: Ike Butker rotated two series apiece. So Cody Ford starts

2082
01:51:12,560 --> 01:51:15,000
Speaker 1: the game, gets the first two series, Ike Butker comes on,

2083
01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:17,639
Speaker 1: gets the next two, Cody Ford gets the next two

2084
01:51:17,640 --> 01:51:20,240
Speaker 1: after that, and so on all the way up until halftime,

2085
01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 1: and then the second half it's all Cody Ford. Now,

2086
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:26,920
Speaker 1: there was no injury report on Ike Butkers, so we

2087
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:31,080
Speaker 1: know that's not the reason that the rotation stopped. But

2088
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:35,040
Speaker 1: Ford got the entire second half. So what do we

2089
01:51:35,120 --> 01:51:37,120
Speaker 1: make of that? Number One? The fact that there is

2090
01:51:37,160 --> 01:51:40,679
Speaker 1: a platoon situation there. It's not far into this offensive line.

2091
01:51:40,680 --> 01:51:43,120
Speaker 1: If we remember when Cody Ford was a rookie, he

2092
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:46,160
Speaker 1: was platooned with Tie and Secki at right tackle two

2093
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 1: years ago. So what do we make of the platoon

2094
01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:52,439
Speaker 1: situation number one? And what do we read into Cody

2095
01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:56,519
Speaker 1: Ford getting the entire second half Number two? I don't know.

2096
01:51:56,560 --> 01:52:00,160
Speaker 1: I think you can extrapolate that they weren't putting the

2097
01:52:00,160 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 1: guy that wasn't playing well out there, or perhaps we'll

2098
01:52:05,400 --> 01:52:08,800
Speaker 1: see Butker as a matter of recourse, get just the O.

2099
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:11,320
Speaker 1: They'll get the opposite deal this week. If they're going

2100
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: to continue to do that because of Cody Ford coming

2101
01:52:15,160 --> 01:52:17,040
Speaker 1: off a massive injury and because of the quality of

2102
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:19,840
Speaker 1: play that Butker's given them over the course of last

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01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:22,840
Speaker 1: half of the last year and training camp, they have

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01:52:22,880 --> 01:52:25,240
Speaker 1: made a decision yet, and I don't know whether it's

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01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 1: a good thing or a bad thing. They would love

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01:52:27,640 --> 01:52:29,479
Speaker 1: to have somebody who could play it at all pro

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01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:31,200
Speaker 1: level being there, but if they did, the other one

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01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:34,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't be playing. So they're looking for somebody to take

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01:52:34,439 --> 01:52:36,920
Speaker 1: the reins, and maybe Cody Ford did that in the

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01:52:36,960 --> 01:52:39,479
Speaker 1: second half of the Pittsburgh game. So when it all

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01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:42,080
Speaker 1: comes out in the wash, Cody Ford gets eighty eight

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Speaker 1: percent of the snaps in the game at right guard,

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01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:48,639
Speaker 1: even though they listed them on here as a tackle.

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01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:52,679
Speaker 1: I don't know why. And Butker got ten snaps which

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01:52:52,720 --> 01:52:54,960
Speaker 1: all came in the first half. Obviously, that was twelve

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01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:58,640
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps at right guard. So they sprinkled

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01:52:58,640 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: in Butker on a rotation basis in the first half

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01:53:01,560 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 1: and that was it. What it means, we don't know.

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01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:09,080
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott, Brian Dable, along with Leslie Fraser, we'll all

2120
01:53:09,080 --> 01:53:11,960
Speaker 1: be addressing the media late this afternoon, so we'll see

2121
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,080
Speaker 1: if some answers are provided in that regard as to

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01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:17,439
Speaker 1: why there was a platoon situation there in the first

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01:53:17,439 --> 01:53:21,280
Speaker 1: half but not the second half. As we've been told,

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Speaker 1: there are some phone line problems at the WGR studios,

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01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 1: so we're unable to pull those phone calls up at

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01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:31,160
Speaker 1: this time. So I apologize to Sean and Frederick. We

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01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:33,360
Speaker 1: just can't get you on the line and on the

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01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:36,680
Speaker 1: air at this juncture. We hope to get your reconnected

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01:53:37,439 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 1: in due course. Here at three five fifty. What we

2130
01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:45,200
Speaker 1: can do, though, is go to the tweet sheet where

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01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 1: we can get some of your thoughts on yesterday's game,

2132
01:53:48,280 --> 01:53:50,719
Speaker 1: your main takeaways. And that's brought to you by Corrigan

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01:53:51,040 --> 01:53:54,880
Speaker 1: Moving Systems, which is the official equipment moving company of

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01:53:54,920 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And Ethan leads us off and says,

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01:53:57,920 --> 01:53:59,840
Speaker 1: this may be unpopular, but I think this was a

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01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,559
Speaker 1: would wake up call for Buffalo. Remember how after we

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01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:04,759
Speaker 1: lost to Arizona we went on a huge winning streak,

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01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:06,519
Speaker 1: So I think this was good for the team to

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01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:08,920
Speaker 1: come down to earth a little bit and stay humble

2140
01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:13,920
Speaker 1: and hungry. Well that might be the case. I think

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01:54:13,920 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 1: they'd still rather have the w in their back pocket. Yeah, yeah, perhaps,

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01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:22,000
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe there'll be some things learned from this

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01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:25,480
Speaker 1: from a loss like this, but I'm sure that McDermott

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01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:28,080
Speaker 1: and his staff are gonna spit it in the most

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01:54:28,120 --> 01:54:31,640
Speaker 1: positive way they can to either light a fire and

2146
01:54:31,760 --> 01:54:35,880
Speaker 1: other guys or motivate them or chastise them, punish or whatever.

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01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:37,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's going to be. I don't

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01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:39,120
Speaker 1: know that they need to even do any of that.

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01:54:39,920 --> 01:54:42,320
Speaker 1: Um well, I mean some coach McDermott is a pretty

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01:54:42,320 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 1: good team at course correction when they have a down performance.

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01:54:46,520 --> 01:54:48,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm all that into having the

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01:54:48,120 --> 01:54:50,240
Speaker 1: players step up in the mic like they did yesterday

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01:54:50,240 --> 01:54:52,600
Speaker 1: and say, well, you know, yeah, we didn't really need

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01:54:52,640 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: to win this game. They're a good team and there's

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01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:57,520
Speaker 1: sixteen more of them, is like I would, Well, I don't.

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01:54:57,680 --> 01:54:59,560
Speaker 1: I didn't hear anybody say we didn't really need to

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01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:01,480
Speaker 1: win this game game. I think they gave credit where

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01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:05,680
Speaker 1: it was due. Pittsburgh out played US. I didn't mean.

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01:55:05,720 --> 01:55:07,920
Speaker 1: I was trying to just make a point about not

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01:55:08,040 --> 01:55:10,080
Speaker 1: taking the loss as hard as you would expect him

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01:55:10,120 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: to take a loss like that, given all that was

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01:55:12,280 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: packed into it. And I, um, yeah, so I And

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01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 1: I'll say, you know, when Josh stepped up to the

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01:55:18,600 --> 01:55:20,560
Speaker 1: mic and was sitting there talking to the media, it

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01:55:20,600 --> 01:55:24,840
Speaker 1: looked like somebody had you know, he lost his dog. Yeah,

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01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:27,640
Speaker 1: he just lost his dog, you know. So, um he

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01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:30,200
Speaker 1: looked pretty down about it, and I think he I

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01:55:30,280 --> 01:55:32,680
Speaker 1: think for the most part he should be. I mean,

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01:55:33,760 --> 01:55:36,520
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league has more to do with wins

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01:55:36,520 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 1: and losses than any other player on the on the team. Now,

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01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:40,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna need help and all that, and I get

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01:55:40,480 --> 01:55:42,880
Speaker 1: all that, but um, I think Josh was a little

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01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:46,200
Speaker 1: bit disappointed in himself and the team yesterday. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to more of the tweet chief comments looked anyway. We'll

2175
01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:52,240
Speaker 1: get to more of the tweet chief comments in a second.

2176
01:55:52,280 --> 01:55:54,280
Speaker 1: We do have some news and notes to bring to

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01:55:54,320 --> 01:55:57,280
Speaker 1: you from around the league that we wanted to get to.

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01:55:57,400 --> 01:56:01,520
Speaker 1: Some unfortunate news out of Washington is Ryan Fitzpatrick suffered

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01:56:01,920 --> 01:56:05,560
Speaker 1: a bad hip injury when he went to the ground.

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01:56:06,240 --> 01:56:08,280
Speaker 1: It looked a lot like the Tua injury that he

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01:56:08,320 --> 01:56:11,919
Speaker 1: had in college at Alabama. Hopefully he doesn't need surgery,

2182
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:13,280
Speaker 1: but the word is he's going to be out for

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01:56:13,320 --> 01:56:16,040
Speaker 1: a significant period of time. He is going on injury reserve.

2184
01:56:16,640 --> 01:56:20,280
Speaker 1: So it looks like the Bills will be seeing Taylor

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01:56:20,360 --> 01:56:26,840
Speaker 1: Heineck at quarterback for Washington in week three. So our

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01:56:26,880 --> 01:56:29,400
Speaker 1: best to uh fits that you know, he heals sooner

2187
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 1: rather than later. But suffered the injury against the Chargers

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01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:36,520
Speaker 1: yesterday and was placed by Heinecky. He got whacked from

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01:56:36,560 --> 01:56:40,280
Speaker 1: behind and he landed on his knee and his hip

2190
01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:43,960
Speaker 1: got jammed backwards. So his femur kind of jams up

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01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:47,480
Speaker 1: into his head exactly, and it's and it dislocates and

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01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:51,640
Speaker 1: then I guess from this popped right back in and

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01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's pretty pretty vicious hit. But

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01:56:56,840 --> 01:57:00,440
Speaker 1: not not like the Alex Smith injury or anything. No

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01:57:00,520 --> 01:57:05,480
Speaker 1: so um. And that's similar to how to injured his hip.

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01:57:05,680 --> 01:57:07,560
Speaker 1: He fell in much the same way with his knee

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01:57:07,600 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: down bearing all the weight and then it jabs back

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01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:14,000
Speaker 1: up into your pelvis and there's nowhere for the femur

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Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, it goes into the joint and something's

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01:57:17,520 --> 01:57:19,840
Speaker 1: got to give. So it'll be interesting to see what

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Speaker 1: amount of damage has happened, whether it's soft tissue or

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01:57:24,440 --> 01:57:27,360
Speaker 1: whether it's the If it's the bone, well, I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what. Do I know what's better or what's worse? Yeah,

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01:57:30,280 --> 01:57:33,080
Speaker 1: you know Dolphins, who the Bills play next week. Coming

2205
01:57:33,120 --> 01:57:36,280
Speaker 1: off a squeaker of a win over the Patriots yesterday

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01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 1: in Foxborough seventeen sixteen, and the beneficiaries of a late

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01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:46,960
Speaker 1: fumble by Damian Harris, the Patriots running back. Patriots were

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01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:51,880
Speaker 1: driving down down a point and with about two minutes left,

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Speaker 1: Damian Harris has a costly fumble in the red zone

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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins get it back and they're able to

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01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: kind of salt the game away and win seventeen sixteen.

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01:58:00,840 --> 01:58:02,919
Speaker 1: So a big win on the road for the Dolphins.

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01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:05,839
Speaker 1: And as we've said, Steve, the Dolphins have a gauntlet

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01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:09,080
Speaker 1: of a schedule the first five weeks, so that is

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01:58:09,120 --> 01:58:11,360
Speaker 1: a huge win that they picked up there that maybe

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01:58:11,360 --> 01:58:13,720
Speaker 1: not everybody had chalked up for them, even with a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in mac Jones starting for the Patriots. Yeah,

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01:58:17,400 --> 01:58:23,080
Speaker 1: Mac and mac Jones. His number, his stat line was

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01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:25,560
Speaker 1: not all I mean, he had seventy percent completions or

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01:58:25,600 --> 01:58:27,760
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, I'll look here it is,

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01:58:28,040 --> 01:58:35,040
Speaker 1: I've got it. Mac Jones was twenty nine of thirty

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01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:37,760
Speaker 1: nine for two hundred and eighty one yards a TD

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01:58:38,240 --> 01:58:40,760
Speaker 1: and an interception with a one h two point six rating.

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01:58:41,640 --> 01:58:45,040
Speaker 1: It's not bad at all. There's a lot of veteran

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01:58:45,080 --> 01:58:47,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who would love to have a game like that.

2226
01:58:47,200 --> 01:58:51,560
Speaker 1: So Mac Jones off to a nice start and obviously

2227
01:58:52,200 --> 01:58:54,480
Speaker 1: the fumble not being his fault get given him a

2228
01:58:54,560 --> 01:58:56,840
Speaker 1: chance down the red zone late in that game. You

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01:58:56,920 --> 01:59:00,840
Speaker 1: gotta really tip your hat to that. And we've talked

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01:59:00,840 --> 01:59:04,720
Speaker 1: about it. We were kind of hoping Cam Newton would

2231
01:59:04,720 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 1: be the quarterback, not mac Jones because he does play

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01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:14,080
Speaker 1: that position with his mind rather than with his body,

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01:59:14,120 --> 01:59:18,160
Speaker 1: and that's that's dangerous. Yeah, and then there was this

2234
01:59:18,280 --> 01:59:25,520
Speaker 1: Steve the Jets Darnold game, Carolina versus New York and

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01:59:25,720 --> 01:59:30,680
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold exacts his revenge a nineteen fourteen win and

2236
01:59:30,720 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 1: the opener over the Jets. That had to feel good

2237
01:59:35,960 --> 01:59:41,040
Speaker 1: for him. Rights had got a game ball for sure. Awesome. Yeah,

2238
01:59:41,080 --> 01:59:44,240
Speaker 1: he had the long plan and he throws a long pass,

2239
01:59:44,960 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 1: a long touchdown pass to Robbie Anderson who comes loose

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01:59:48,160 --> 01:59:50,000
Speaker 1: and the two of them were on the Jets last year.

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01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 1: He lets that go and Robbie Anderson behind the defense

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01:59:53,480 --> 01:59:58,480
Speaker 1: walks it in. That's got to feel particularly good for Panther,

2243
01:59:58,680 --> 02:00:02,400
Speaker 1: for Robbie Anderson and Sam Darnold. Darnald ends of the

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Speaker 1: Day twenty four of thirty five for two seventy nine

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Speaker 1: and a touchdown with a one o two rating. He

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02:00:09,400 --> 02:00:11,280
Speaker 1: ran for a touchdown then he yeah, there it is

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02:00:11,320 --> 02:00:13,640
Speaker 1: he runs for a touchdown, throws for a touchdown. Wow,

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02:00:14,240 --> 02:00:18,440
Speaker 1: Yeah that was I like that. That makes me feel good. Yeah.

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02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:24,280
Speaker 1: Does that make me a bad person cheering against the Jets, Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. It's uh. I was hoping for

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Speaker 1: a for a big old New York Post back page tabloid,

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02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:38,600
Speaker 1: you know, headline. But unfortunately, between the Yankees playing the

2253
02:00:38,640 --> 02:00:44,640
Speaker 1: Mets and the Giants debacle yesterday, they're getting the more

2254
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:47,680
Speaker 1: of the headlines than the Jets losing to Sam Darnold

2255
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Speaker 1: and the Panthers. I was expecting something like ah, damn

2256
02:00:50,280 --> 02:00:53,640
Speaker 1: Sam or something like that. You know, they disappointed me.

2257
02:00:53,840 --> 02:00:56,760
Speaker 1: I was really hoping for more. But yeah, unfortunately that

2258
02:00:56,880 --> 02:00:59,480
Speaker 1: was not to be the case. And speaking of the Jets,

2259
02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:02,760
Speaker 1: they lose left tackle McKay Beckton for four to six

2260
02:01:02,800 --> 02:01:05,640
Speaker 1: weeks after he dislocated his kneecap and it's going to

2261
02:01:05,680 --> 02:01:09,280
Speaker 1: need knee surgery to get his MCL cleaned up. So

2262
02:01:09,320 --> 02:01:12,360
Speaker 1: that's four to six weeks for him, maybe longer with

2263
02:01:12,480 --> 02:01:16,280
Speaker 1: a guy that big, three seventy pound, Like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a lot on the joints, man, But damcl is not

2265
02:01:19,160 --> 02:01:23,080
Speaker 1: not complicated. It's it's the for those of you don't know.

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02:01:23,160 --> 02:01:25,680
Speaker 1: It's the ligament on the inside of your knee that

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02:01:25,840 --> 02:01:30,040
Speaker 1: keeps your patella off your tibia right, and it's no,

2268
02:01:30,160 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 1: it keeps your foot from swinging sideway out out of way.

2269
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:40,720
Speaker 1: It's right media right, Yeah, it's the inside, so it's

2270
02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:46,360
Speaker 1: not complicated and you can, um, you can go, particularly

2271
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:48,280
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman if you can keep that leg in

2272
02:01:48,360 --> 02:01:51,400
Speaker 1: alignment right in right in line with your foot and

2273
02:01:51,680 --> 02:01:54,360
Speaker 1: knee and hip all in. So four to six weeks

2274
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:59,160
Speaker 1: out for him, and then safety LaMarcus Joiner out for

2275
02:01:59,200 --> 02:02:02,600
Speaker 1: the season for the Jets. So the injuries for them,

2276
02:02:02,840 --> 02:02:06,200
Speaker 1: which started at that joint practice with Green Bay in

2277
02:02:06,240 --> 02:02:09,760
Speaker 1: the summer, has stretched into week one of the season. Now,

2278
02:02:09,880 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: tough break for them. It's gonna be a tough road

2279
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 1: to hope for the Jets all season though, So we'll

2280
02:02:15,880 --> 02:02:18,680
Speaker 1: see where it goes. And former Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor

2281
02:02:18,720 --> 02:02:22,680
Speaker 1: Steve thirty seven twenty one went over the Jacks. Yes,

2282
02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:26,720
Speaker 1: Tyrod lighten them up very much. So nice game. Yeah,

2283
02:02:26,800 --> 02:02:30,160
Speaker 1: he had a nice game and it um, you know,

2284
02:02:30,480 --> 02:02:32,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know what do you say about it?

2285
02:02:32,400 --> 02:02:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean Tyrod Taylor twenty one to thirty three two

2286
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:38,080
Speaker 1: ninety one two touchdowns. Brandon Cooks had a connection yesterday,

2287
02:02:38,240 --> 02:02:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, making that making this throad here over the top,

2288
02:02:42,240 --> 02:02:44,800
Speaker 1: and you know, ty it looks just like the Tyrod

2289
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:47,000
Speaker 1: we knew here in Buffalo, very nifty in the pocket,

2290
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:50,200
Speaker 1: made some throws a little bit off script, and you

2291
02:02:50,240 --> 02:02:53,160
Speaker 1: know the thing that does it for you, for me, Brownie.

2292
02:02:54,840 --> 02:02:57,720
Speaker 1: His receivers made plays for him. They were they were

2293
02:02:58,000 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 1: busting a gut for Tyrod. And and we've seen guys

2294
02:03:01,040 --> 02:03:05,280
Speaker 1: do it. They the guys that, Yeah, he's a fantastic teammate,

2295
02:03:05,320 --> 02:03:10,160
Speaker 1: a great leader, and he's a tremendous athlete, and you

2296
02:03:10,200 --> 02:03:13,280
Speaker 1: know he's been playing long enough now where this is

2297
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:15,880
Speaker 1: all just yeah, I got this a little bit of

2298
02:03:15,920 --> 02:03:18,680
Speaker 1: backyard football. But it worked for Houston yesterday. Yeah, it

2299
02:03:18,720 --> 02:03:23,360
Speaker 1: did so good on them, thirty seven twenty one. And

2300
02:03:23,440 --> 02:03:25,800
Speaker 1: of course, the trolls were out on Twitter as soon

2301
02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:28,960
Speaker 1: as the game was over, because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: see these two teams as among the worst in football.

2303
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:33,360
Speaker 1: We know that the Jaguars just had the first pick

2304
02:03:33,360 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 1: in the draft last year. Everybody was expecting the Texans

2305
02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:38,680
Speaker 1: to be in line to be first on the draft

2306
02:03:38,720 --> 02:03:42,280
Speaker 1: board this coming spring. So after the Texans beat the Jags.

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02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:44,960
Speaker 1: On Twitter, people are going, gee, I wonder who the

2308
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:46,920
Speaker 1: Jags are gonna pick first in the draft in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two after one, right, it was Yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: how social media works. Yeah, I think, well, you're right.

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Speaker 1: The game was supposed to be hot garbage. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: for the Jags it was Tyrod. He showed out very well.

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Speaker 1: He was He showed himself to be a very very

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Speaker 1: capable veteran player and like we know, he is here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Break time for us when we come back.

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Speaker 1: More your thoughts on the tweet sheet and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to some of your takeaways from the game, a twenty

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Speaker 1: three sixteen loss at the hands of the Steelers. Back

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Speaker 1: in a second. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: connection with the phone lines, so we're gonna try them

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Speaker 1: here as Sean and Lackawana has been waiting patiently. Sean,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? All right? I feel like everybody's

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02:05:16,960 --> 02:05:19,760
Speaker 1: folding up the bills towel too quick. One thing I

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02:05:19,800 --> 02:05:23,080
Speaker 1: wanna hit on is the hard count on any of

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Speaker 1: those fourth downs. I didn't see Josh or here Josh

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Speaker 1: making an attempt to do it. I mean, that's fine

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Speaker 1: yards right there in a lot of cases. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's an automatic first down and keeps us moving. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you this though, Sean. On one of the fourth

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Speaker 1: downs it might have been, I don't know what the

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02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:42,400
Speaker 1: fourth down. It was. One of the fourth downs. They

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Speaker 1: did line up, and what they do is they give

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Speaker 1: a hard count and if the defense jumps into the

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02:05:49,120 --> 02:05:53,080
Speaker 1: neutral zone, more snaps it. But there's not really a

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Speaker 1: play that they've got a play cold. But nobody believes

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02:05:58,080 --> 02:05:59,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna snap it because they don't think the defense.

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02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:03,800
Speaker 1: What happened was the Steelers twitched and Morse took a

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02:06:03,880 --> 02:06:07,000
Speaker 1: chance knowing that they weren't. You know, that was their chance.

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02:06:07,280 --> 02:06:10,200
Speaker 1: He snapped it to Josh on a play when they

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02:06:10,200 --> 02:06:12,480
Speaker 1: didn't cross into the neutral zone and the play went off,

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02:06:12,520 --> 02:06:16,000
Speaker 1: and then it didn't. It didn't It was in shotgun,

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02:06:16,920 --> 02:06:20,880
Speaker 1: so the play didn't come off because you know, they

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02:06:20,880 --> 02:06:22,680
Speaker 1: were trying to get a hard count of five yard

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02:06:22,720 --> 02:06:25,640
Speaker 1: penalty on a cheap snap. So you'll see the Bills

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Speaker 1: do that once in a while. Wile they'll get up

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Speaker 1: to the line, everybody will settled in there and Josh,

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02:06:29,200 --> 02:06:32,000
Speaker 1: you give the hard count. If they jump into the

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02:06:32,040 --> 02:06:34,520
Speaker 1: neutral zone, Morse will snap it and not even know

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Speaker 1: if they have a play or not. They may have

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Speaker 1: some rules they follow, but they're trying to get that.

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Speaker 1: And that did happen once that I noticed the other day.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, hard count would help. It looked like

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Speaker 1: when Josh wanted to go for it on fourth down

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Speaker 1: and he's putting his hands up and wants to go,

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Speaker 1: I think that's an attempt to get that hard count off.

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Speaker 1: Let the time run out. Line up and see who bumps,

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Speaker 1: because you know, if they jumped, let that's it. You

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Speaker 1: know we're moving the ball. Yeah right, He'll flashes hands

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Speaker 1: every once in a while. I do remember there was

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Speaker 1: one possession where they were deep in their own territory,

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Speaker 1: backed up and Josh was in the shotgun trying a

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Speaker 1: hard count a couple of times. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was a fourth down, but he was hard counting trying

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02:07:14,240 --> 02:07:16,080
Speaker 1: to get them to jump. But you're dealing again with

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Speaker 1: a veteran Steelers defensive line. You know, Louia lou has

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02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:22,000
Speaker 1: been in this league over ten years, so has Cameron Heyward,

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Speaker 1: and Watt's been around long enough where typically as disciplined

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Speaker 1: and as coached as they are, they don't fall for

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Speaker 1: that all that often, not maybe like some other teams perhaps.

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Speaker 1: So Yeah, didn't really use it a lot. I get

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Speaker 1: your point, but I did see it once and it

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02:07:38,400 --> 02:07:42,400
Speaker 1: didn't work. Let's get back to the tweet sheet where

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Speaker 1: we've got a couple more of your comments, ready and waiting.

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Speaker 1: Jack says, biggest takeaway was the defense played pretty well.

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02:07:48,360 --> 02:07:50,840
Speaker 1: Seemed to lock up the run game correct. They did,

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02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:53,960
Speaker 1: and at least early there was better pass rush but

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02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:57,840
Speaker 1: I am concerned that the interior old line really struggled,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers gave gave League a blueprint to mess

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02:08:02,280 --> 02:08:06,080
Speaker 1: up our passing attack. Alan and his wide receivers looked

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02:08:06,080 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: a bit off. If you have faith at your front

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02:08:08,520 --> 02:08:12,520
Speaker 1: four can win against this Bill's offensive line, then yeah,

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Speaker 1: there might be a chance that they go off go

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02:08:15,240 --> 02:08:17,360
Speaker 1: to school on what the Steelers did yesterday. That is

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Speaker 1: the blueprint. You know you need pressure with four, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a blueprint. But the blueprint you might be talking

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Speaker 1: about is how am I getting four first round guys

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Speaker 1: on your D line? Then Washington has that. There's a blueprint.

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Speaker 1: Washington has that, so they might see more of it

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02:08:31,560 --> 02:08:34,880
Speaker 1: than print. The Steelers front four are really good, and

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Speaker 1: not just front four, but they got a couple of linebackers,

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02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:39,640
Speaker 1: a couple and a defensive tackling Cam Hayward and of

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02:08:39,640 --> 02:08:46,880
Speaker 1: course Um the new guy, Um melban Ingram, So they

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02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:49,240
Speaker 1: had some guys over there. And plus it was week one.

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02:08:49,280 --> 02:08:51,760
Speaker 1: Everybody's fresh and healthy. None of those guys are beat

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02:08:51,880 --> 02:08:54,600
Speaker 1: up by the season or anything. So with the Bills

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02:08:54,640 --> 02:08:57,280
Speaker 1: got a really good swing from the Patriots, and they

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02:08:57,280 --> 02:09:01,720
Speaker 1: made the Patriots the Steelers and the Steelers made it count.

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02:09:02,560 --> 02:09:04,640
Speaker 1: They made it count, and they they walked out with

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Speaker 1: a win. But you're right, the blueprint isn't just one

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers, it's for the whole league, and it's

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Speaker 1: the one the McDermott and Brandon Bean have tried to get. Here.

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02:09:13,040 --> 02:09:17,080
Speaker 1: You get quick, steady, constant pressure with just four guys rushing,

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02:09:17,200 --> 02:09:19,120
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be pretty hard team to score on.

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02:09:19,840 --> 02:09:23,320
Speaker 1: John on the tweet sheets says too many holding penalties,

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02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:27,200
Speaker 1: also that Trey White iant was not a penalty. With

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02:09:27,240 --> 02:09:30,320
Speaker 1: that being said, they really need to clean up the penalties.

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02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:33,880
Speaker 1: I am sensing a theme there from John Nick says

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02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:37,120
Speaker 1: the old line got dominated and Josh was substandard. Outside

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02:09:37,120 --> 02:09:39,760
Speaker 1: of that, there are positives to build off. The defense

2421
02:09:39,800 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: looked like they did in twenty nineteen and Singletary was effective.

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02:09:43,560 --> 02:09:45,480
Speaker 1: We just need Josh and the offense to take a

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02:09:45,520 --> 02:09:49,960
Speaker 1: deep breath and reset against Miami. What kind of Miami

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02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:51,760
Speaker 1: team are we expecting. I know we'll get into this

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02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:55,080
Speaker 1: later in the week, but you know they were resourceful,

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02:09:55,400 --> 02:09:58,400
Speaker 1: if anything. On Sunday against New England, that's not an

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02:09:58,440 --> 02:10:00,840
Speaker 1: easy place to win, even against the quarterback. Well, they

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02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:03,080
Speaker 1: won that game. Exactly the way the Bills won last

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02:10:03,120 --> 02:10:05,680
Speaker 1: year in the Justin Zimmerman game. When yeah, Patriots are

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02:10:05,680 --> 02:10:07,200
Speaker 1: going in with a chance to win it and they

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02:10:07,200 --> 02:10:10,600
Speaker 1: fumbled it. It's why you have played every snap, not

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02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:13,200
Speaker 1: just most of them. And that's you know, it costs

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02:10:13,200 --> 02:10:16,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots a win on opening Day, Max says, lost

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02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:18,440
Speaker 1: to a tough, well coached team, but could have easily

2435
02:10:18,480 --> 02:10:20,440
Speaker 1: won that game if that deep ball connects and they

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02:10:20,480 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 1: get the punt off. What I don't like is the

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02:10:22,520 --> 02:10:25,120
Speaker 1: two fourth and ones that Josh really wanted to go

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02:10:25,200 --> 02:10:27,520
Speaker 1: for but was forced off the field. Let's show our

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02:10:27,560 --> 02:10:30,280
Speaker 1: guys some trust go get that well. As Steve pointed

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02:10:30,320 --> 02:10:33,600
Speaker 1: out earlier, if you were getting more conversions on third down,

2441
02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:36,720
Speaker 1: maybe you get the benefit of the doubt from your

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02:10:36,760 --> 02:10:40,120
Speaker 1: coach more often. Right, Yeah, you earn your chance to

2443
02:10:40,120 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth Look like you can get it.

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02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:44,800
Speaker 1: Then they didn't. Up to that point, they weren't even

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02:10:44,840 --> 02:10:47,160
Speaker 1: four for nine one of them. They weren't fourth and ones,

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02:10:47,240 --> 02:10:50,120
Speaker 1: they were fourth and threes. Yeah, so, and they were

2447
02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 1: four of nine on third down conversions in the first half,

2448
02:10:53,000 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 1: four of nine on third down conversions in the second half.

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02:10:55,800 --> 02:10:58,240
Speaker 1: Tiffany says I waited the entire game for a high

2450
02:10:58,280 --> 02:11:00,360
Speaker 1: impact play either from the offense or fence that it

2451
02:11:00,480 --> 02:11:03,320
Speaker 1: never came. Unfortunately, the Steelers were able to make one

2452
02:11:03,760 --> 02:11:06,520
Speaker 1: in all three phases. The special team's mis Q was

2453
02:11:06,520 --> 02:11:08,840
Speaker 1: the play that surprised me the most. Fortunately, we have

2454
02:11:08,920 --> 02:11:12,600
Speaker 1: sixteen more to go, Canny Shack says. Third quarter maybe

2455
02:11:12,680 --> 02:11:15,720
Speaker 1: a problem for us again, like so many times last year,

2456
02:11:15,800 --> 02:11:18,640
Speaker 1: we were flat in the third quarter and unfortunately couldn't

2457
02:11:18,680 --> 02:11:21,600
Speaker 1: make the comeback. Not too worried for the season. We

2458
02:11:21,640 --> 02:11:23,840
Speaker 1: need to build and peak at the right time. Back

2459
02:11:23,880 --> 02:11:28,240
Speaker 1: to work. Let's go Bills. Yeah, maybe there was some

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02:11:28,480 --> 02:11:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm maybe that'd forgotten about it. I think we might

2461
02:11:30,360 --> 02:11:33,240
Speaker 1: have had conversations last year about the Bills coming out flattening.

2462
02:11:33,320 --> 02:11:35,240
Speaker 1: We did. Quarter. It was a it was a problem.

2463
02:11:35,280 --> 02:11:38,400
Speaker 1: It was a thing. It wasn't Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah.

2464
02:11:38,440 --> 02:11:42,040
Speaker 1: Maybe they had a twelve play drive to start the

2465
02:11:42,080 --> 02:11:44,600
Speaker 1: third quarter. It just stalled on a fourth and eighth

2466
02:11:44,600 --> 02:11:48,280
Speaker 1: that they couldn't convert. That's right, Um, and the fence

2467
02:11:48,320 --> 02:11:50,360
Speaker 1: got a red zone stop on the first two possessions

2468
02:11:50,360 --> 02:11:51,960
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, So I don't know if that holds.

2469
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:54,280
Speaker 1: The Bills found some things out about themselves in this game,

2470
02:11:54,640 --> 02:11:58,640
Speaker 1: and not all of it pretty, but they also had

2471
02:11:58,680 --> 02:12:00,640
Speaker 1: some things to build on as well. So we'll see

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02:12:00,640 --> 02:12:02,480
Speaker 1: how they bounced back during the week and get their

2473
02:12:02,480 --> 02:12:05,000
Speaker 1: prep done and see what happens in Miami. Break time

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02:12:05,080 --> 02:12:07,040
Speaker 1: here for Steve and I, but we come back to

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Speaker 1: close it up next here on One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live here in a Buffalo football Monday. Chris

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02:12:27,040 --> 02:12:29,640
Speaker 1: Brown speed tasker with you. Thanks for all the calls

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Speaker 1: and contributions to the show today on the tweet sheet,

2480
02:12:32,640 --> 02:12:37,280
Speaker 1: And there is one thing that we are hearing trickling

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02:12:37,360 --> 02:12:43,440
Speaker 1: out of Denver. Joe Pompliano, who is a guy that

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02:12:43,920 --> 02:12:50,520
Speaker 1: covers Denver news, business news, money behind sports, etc. Is

2483
02:12:50,640 --> 02:12:54,520
Speaker 1: reporting that Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, is rumored

2484
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:58,680
Speaker 1: to be interested in buying the Broncos. Team is currently

2485
02:12:58,760 --> 02:13:02,240
Speaker 1: valued at about four billion dollars, which is no problem

2486
02:13:02,320 --> 02:13:04,560
Speaker 1: for Jeff Bezos, knowing that's only about two percent of

2487
02:13:04,600 --> 02:13:08,680
Speaker 1: his net worth. Seriously, it's two percent of his net worth,

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02:13:09,320 --> 02:13:14,360
Speaker 1: So four billion dollars, He's worth two hundred billion dollars, right,

2489
02:13:14,880 --> 02:13:19,360
Speaker 1: So if he was interested, he would be able to

2490
02:13:19,400 --> 02:13:23,760
Speaker 1: pay over ask, shall we say, But we know that

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02:13:23,800 --> 02:13:26,800
Speaker 1: the Broncos are going to be a two billion dollars

2492
02:13:26,880 --> 02:13:29,200
Speaker 1: weekend in Vegas, right, Yeah, They're going to be made

2493
02:13:29,320 --> 02:13:31,800
Speaker 1: for sale here in the not too distant future. They

2494
02:13:31,840 --> 02:13:33,640
Speaker 1: are going to do that. Yeah. The Bowlands, Yeah, the

2495
02:13:34,000 --> 02:13:37,280
Speaker 1: Bowling family, there's some issues there. It looks like they

2496
02:13:37,280 --> 02:13:40,000
Speaker 1: are going to put the team up for sale. Jeff Bezos,

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02:13:40,040 --> 02:13:42,760
Speaker 1: the owner of Amazon, CEO of Amazon, is going to

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02:13:42,800 --> 02:13:44,680
Speaker 1: be interested in doing so, and I'm sure the rest

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02:13:44,680 --> 02:13:48,400
Speaker 1: of NFL ownership would be all too happy to have him. Yeah,

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02:13:48,440 --> 02:13:53,560
Speaker 1: that's okay. We'll see where it goes. Yeah, okay, we'll

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Speaker 1: see I'm like, I like where we're at right now. Yeah, Steve,

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02:13:57,320 --> 02:13:59,760
Speaker 1: and I'll do it all again tomorrow. As we begin

2503
02:13:59,840 --> 02:14:02,200
Speaker 1: to turn the page, we'll get comments from head coach

2504
02:14:02,200 --> 02:14:04,800
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, Brian Dable, and Leslie Frasier. And we have

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02:14:04,920 --> 02:14:08,880
Speaker 1: Eric Wood joining us tomorrow. So we'll see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one pm one to three