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Speaker 1: on a Thursday, Chris Brown Steve Tasker won Bills live

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Speaker 1: as our MSG viewers going to look at the state.

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Speaker 1: A little dusting of snow has been cleared from the field,

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Speaker 1: winter day. As we haven't reached the last day of

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Speaker 1: fall yet, Steve, we got a couple more weeks for

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Speaker 1: the December twenty first, right, yeah, yeah, otherwise known as

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Speaker 1: then the day start getting longer, thankfully, because this is

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Speaker 1: a dark one. It is depressing. You know, some people

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Speaker 1: But we've we've got winter ahead. First. I told him,

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Speaker 1: it's so bad. It's when did when did seven thirty

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Speaker 1: longer days. Today, what's today's day? Get like today's third?

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Speaker 1: and chime in for us either there or on the phones.

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Speaker 1: Eighth three, five fifty one, eighty eight, five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty got an open line for you there to

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Speaker 1: grab and we'll be back in a moment with that

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Speaker 1: conversation and much more coming up here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, one Bills Live, a Thursday edition. We'll be

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Speaker 1: getting out to the practice field and just a little

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Speaker 1: bit joined Maddy Glab on the sideline. See what's going

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Speaker 1: on out there is that we can hear the base

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Speaker 1: pumping outside on the practice field, and that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be on grass this week. I'llbeit indoors in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: although the grass here probably doesn't resemble the grass in

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Speaker 1: Arizona too effectively. But they were just on a two

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Speaker 1: and a half three weeks ago, yeah, so it won't

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Speaker 1: be that far and at all. And what we're asking

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Speaker 1: you today is with respect to Josh Allen's season and

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Speaker 1: the production that he has put up. He's been among

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Speaker 1: the league leaders in passing for most of the season.

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Speaker 1: So we're asking what would it take for Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: to get serious league MVP consideration. And your choices are

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Speaker 1: there at one Bills Live on the Twitter poll A,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have to run the table. B they must

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Speaker 1: be he must be the league leader in total touchdown

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Speaker 1: scored or see needs a signature game in prime time

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Speaker 1: or something else, and right now leading the voting in

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Speaker 1: the early going is the Bills have to run the table.

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Speaker 1: I don't know they have to run the table, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a prerequisite for him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it will certainly garner the attention necessary to get in

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Speaker 1: more league MVP consideration, but I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: a must have in this What do you think? Do

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Speaker 1: you think though, if they run the table, does he

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Speaker 1: get it? If he plays like he has when in

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Speaker 1: their wins, Yeah, he plays like he did the first

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Speaker 1: moment of the season and they run the table. Yeah

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Speaker 1: that he could? He could, Yeah, I mean that's what

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Speaker 1: you think. And then I think if you can mix

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Speaker 1: some of the a couple of these together, I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any question. Well yeah, well I right. You know,

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Speaker 1: the signature performance in primetime can go a long way,

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Speaker 1: like some monster stupid game, something similar to what he

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Speaker 1: did again the Seahawks, you know, or what was his

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Speaker 1: other four hundred yard passing game? No, no, it was

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna remember Dolphins game was four fifteen against

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I think that's rights. So he has one

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Speaker 1: of those type of games, you know, against the Niners.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to happen against the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: but or the Broncos, you know, or against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: even Yeah, one of these monster games where you throw

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Speaker 1: for four hundred three touchdowns, run for another in prime

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Speaker 1: time for a national audience that could have some staying

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Speaker 1: power too. Um I came up with the total touchdowns

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Speaker 1: as an option because right now he is sixth in

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Speaker 1: the league in total touchdowns among quarterbacks, he's got twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Ahead of him right now is Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Kyler Murray. Murray's got ten

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, which is why he's ahead of Josh who

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Speaker 1: has six rushing touchdowns twenty two passings, so he's just

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Speaker 1: one behind Kyler Murray. He's got twenty eight total. Murray's

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Speaker 1: got twenty nine, Brady thirty one, Mahomes thirty two, Wilson

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Speaker 1: thirty two, Rogers thirty four. So I think the names

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Speaker 1: you have heard the most for MVP have been Mahomes, Wilson,

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Speaker 1: and Rogers. Those have been the three names that you

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Speaker 1: often see on the national you know, talk shows, you

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Speaker 1: know highlight shows, what have you. Those are the most

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Speaker 1: popular names, the most frequent names that we've seen mentioned,

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Speaker 1: and Josh is just off the pace there in terms

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Speaker 1: of production. But man, it's been a productive season for him.

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Speaker 1: And I know there's probably other people that will say, well,

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Speaker 1: you got other quarterbacks in the conversation too, what about Roethlisberger?

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Speaker 1: You know, what about Deshaun Watson. Sure, I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they you can throw him into the mix and

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Speaker 1: nobody would really bat an eye. But that's not the

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Speaker 1: conversation we're having here. I mean we're talking about what

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Speaker 1: it's going to take to get to vault Josh into

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Speaker 1: that conversation. Yeah, if he's if he's leading the league

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Speaker 1: in total touchdowns and had a signature game, or if

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Speaker 1: they run the table and he's a big part of

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Speaker 1: why he and he's thrown for three bills a game

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Speaker 1: and it's got a three to one, maybe even four

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Speaker 1: to one touchdown interception ratio. Yeah, he's he's in it.

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Speaker 1: He's in the chap. I think too, that the MVP

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Speaker 1: conversation ends what like Championship weekend. Yeah, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: remember when it comes down. Um, I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: that the Pro Bowl. Voting usually ends week fifteen. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's different. Um, it goes past the end of the season, correct.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it goes to the end of

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Speaker 1: the regular season and then there's a closing window and

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Speaker 1: when the voting stops, and then I don't think they

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Speaker 1: announce it until conference championship weekend or somewhere. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: that's how I don't know, but the and it's decided

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Speaker 1: on by NFL writers, right, yeah, yeah, I think if

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Speaker 1: he finished, if they run the table, well, here's what

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Speaker 1: happens there. If they run the table, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: thirteen and three and that's a monster season. So and

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Speaker 1: they're a hail Mary from fourteen and two. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, Josh is in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: And it also depends on two on what the other

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Speaker 1: teams do. I mean, you know, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: derail Pat Mahomes that easily, but you've got to show

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Speaker 1: up big. I think, yeah, they got to run the table.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's MVP. I think it is

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a team. Yeah. Associated Press pretty

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Speaker 1: much runs that thing in terms of the league MVP,

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Speaker 1: and I was choping I could find when the voting closes,

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Speaker 1: but I was unable to do that, Wikipedia not being

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Speaker 1: very cooperative with the name. I think it's I think

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Speaker 1: if they run the table, that puts him in the

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Speaker 1: heart of the conversation, given the fact that they've had

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Speaker 1: a really tough schedule to play. They if they run

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Speaker 1: the table, think about it. They're three and one and

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Speaker 1: a hail mary from going four and oh against the

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Speaker 1: most competitive division in football, the NFC West. They're a

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Speaker 1: hail mary from sweeping that division. They will sweep the

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Speaker 1: AFC East Division. And they lost too in the in

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Speaker 1: the scenario in which they run the table, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they they they sweep both divisions. They lose on a

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Speaker 1: funky Tuesday game after it was on again, off again,

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Speaker 1: much like the Baltimore Ravens had this yesterday with the

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Speaker 1: with the Wednesday game, and they win four prime time

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Speaker 1: games going down the stretch, and they're one of their

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Speaker 1: other lasses is to the defending Super Bowl champions. That

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Speaker 1: could do it. I might do it. That could do it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I'll tell you this too. They're they're

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Speaker 1: eight and a half point favorites this weekend, which is

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Speaker 1: a lot. I don't know I'm not talking about the

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Speaker 1: whether they're going to cover or not. I am too,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you this this is if if they

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Speaker 1: if they do run the table. I'm telling you, thirteen

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Speaker 1: and three is a big number there that would that

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Speaker 1: would mean they would have that would get people's attention. Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: and here's the thing. Yeah, you don't sweep the table

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Speaker 1: from here, but if you win this week, you gotta

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Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna be win the next week against Denver. Denver, Well,

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Speaker 1: next week's Pittsburgh, right, well, at Pittsburgh. If you win Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's just coming off the season, the lid's

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Speaker 1: coming off the season. Then there's no more hiding out

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Speaker 1: at at the number three position in the playoffs or

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Speaker 1: the four position. Yeah, you're gonna be the number two,

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Speaker 1: number one right, Yeah, that could do it all? Right,

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Speaker 1: break time for us. When we come back, we'll check

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Speaker 1: in with Maddy Glabb along the practice sideline, see who's up,

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Speaker 1: who's down, who's participating in practice, and how Matt Mulatto

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Speaker 1: looks as he returns to practice this week along with

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Speaker 1: fellow linebacker Tyrrell Dotson. That's coming up next here on

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live presented by Collata Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with you. Time to head

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Speaker 1: out to the practice field to see what's going on

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Speaker 1: with these Buffalo Bills on a Thursday. And to do that,

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Speaker 1: we have to join our colleague Maddie Glabb, who is

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Speaker 1: stationed along those sidelines and see just what is going on.

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Speaker 1: And Maddie, we learned yesterday that Matt Milana was going

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Speaker 1: to return to practice even though he's still on injured reserve.

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Speaker 1: So what can you tell us about how he looks

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Speaker 1: out there at least right now. Yeah, So Matt Milano

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Speaker 1: and another linebacker, Tyrel Dodson, we're both designated to return

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Speaker 1: to practice as of yesterday, and they're both out here today.

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Speaker 1: None of them are in red jerseys. Both look like

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Speaker 1: they're participating as they normally would during a practice if

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Speaker 1: they were healthy. So one thing that will be determined

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Speaker 1: is once that injury report comes out this afternoon if

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Speaker 1: they were full or they were limited in practice. But

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Speaker 1: of course, good to see these two out here. Good

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Speaker 1: to see Matt Mlano out here. It feels like it's

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Speaker 1: been forever that we've actually seen him in a practice

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Speaker 1: doing football drills. And also one of the other guys

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Speaker 1: that came up nicked up after the game this last

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Speaker 1: week was when Josh Allen stayed down on the ground.

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Speaker 1: He has said that he doesn't think his ankle is

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Speaker 1: going to be an issue that can you tell it?

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Speaker 1: Is his ankle extra wrapped? Is he limping? What? You know?

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Speaker 1: What's his status? Yeah, Josh Mulano or Josh Mulana. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen looks completely fine today in practice. I can't really

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Speaker 1: tell it's wrapped much more or anything like that, just

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Speaker 1: because it's a little bit chilly out here today, so

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Speaker 1: guys are in long pants. I don't think anybody is

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Speaker 1: in shorts today, so a little tough to tell. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people are wearing sweatpants. But Josh Allen looks

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Speaker 1: like normal. I mean, he is a fire out there.

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Speaker 1: He's a tough guy. I was pretty surprised to see

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Speaker 1: him just run right back into that game after just

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Speaker 1: taking one playoff. But like he said, he doesn't think

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Speaker 1: it's going to affect him. So it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how he is in practice this week, if it

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Speaker 1: affects him at all, or if he has a brace

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Speaker 1: or a rap or anything on his ankle. We know

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Speaker 1: that John Brown is currently on injured reserve. This week

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Speaker 1: will be the second of at least three games that

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Speaker 1: he will have to miss before he can even think

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Speaker 1: about returning. Any sightings of John Brown in any capacity

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Speaker 1: out there, you know, it's stuff on the side type

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Speaker 1: stuff with the strength and conditioning staff. Perhaps, Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what, there's a player on the side, but I

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Speaker 1: cannot make out who it is because the person is

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Speaker 1: in a sweatshird and long pants and has their hood

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Speaker 1: up and a mask on. So I would guess it's

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Speaker 1: either Cam Lewis or John Brown, but I have no clue. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't for your hair poking out of your hat,

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't be sure if it was you either. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody's ways too bundled up out here on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: and the mask just completely does it away with trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out who players are from like a hundred

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Speaker 1: feet away. One of those guys is getting some work in.

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Speaker 1: What about what about the wide receiver crew? I know

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Speaker 1: Jake Crumeroll was assigned to the active roster and that

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Speaker 1: that gives them I believe a full seven guys at

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Speaker 1: wide receiver on their fifty three man. How does that

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Speaker 1: crew look over there? It must be pretty populated, although

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Speaker 1: even with John Brown out, Yeah, definitely. I mean we've

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Speaker 1: seen this roster and how many wide receivers they've used

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Speaker 1: in every single game, how many how many wide receivers

636
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: have been active and everything single game. It's something that

637
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same from last year this year. Certainly

638
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: many more wide receivers are active in games this year

639
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: than last year, just with the way that they're using

640
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: wide receivers. But yeah, Jay Cumero is out here practicing

641
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: wide receiver group looks normal other than John Brown. And

642
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: I think the nice thing about Jay Cumero, Yes he's

643
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: been active for game day rosters, but this is somebody

644
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: who's been on the team since September, So for him

645
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: to get activated to the fifty three, you feel like

646
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: by now he's very familiar with the offense and how

647
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: it runs. And then just the last thing for me, Maddie,

648
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: are there any other names that we may have overlooked,

649
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: some new additions that you might see at least sidelined

650
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: right now, we're not participating that maybe we didn't expect.

651
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't think so. The only player

652
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: that I have not located that might be in street

653
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: clothes would be Mario Addison. But my guest for him

654
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: would be that's a veteran rest day. He's usually getting

655
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: one of those a week now. He was on the

656
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: injury report on Friday, I believe as a knee slash

657
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: vet rest day. So I wonder if he's on injury

658
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: report where that rest day, if that knee will be

659
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: next to it still, So he's somebody that's expected to

660
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: usually get those once a week. But I think this

661
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: is the healthiest this team has looked since the beginning

662
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean, usually I'm giving you guys

663
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: a laundry list of injuries, and all we've got today

664
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: is really John Brown, Cam Lewis and very few other people.

665
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: So that's good. I mean, it's week thirteen. That's what

666
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: you want with this team. Hopefully they can continue to

667
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,479
Speaker 1: get healthier. We'll see when they decide to activate Matt

668
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: Milano and Tyrell Doddson. They have that twenty one day

669
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: window now that they're practicing now, So things look good

670
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: over here on the practice field with health. All right, Mattie,

671
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: we appreciate Atti thanks for bringing us up to speed.

672
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you, all right, see you guys later.

673
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: All right, that's Mattie Glab live from the sidelines at

674
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: practice today, and good news for the most part. And

675
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: you think about where this team was just a few

676
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: short weeks ago. I mean, they had a secondary that

677
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: was in tatters, a wide receiving corps that was nicked up,

678
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: offensive line group that couldn't get their best five on

679
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: the field. Right, you can make the argument, as Maddie did,

680
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: that they're in pretty decent shape for a football team

681
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: in week thirteen. Yeah, John John Brown is a huge loss, right,

682
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 1: question about it. But if you can get Matt Milano

683
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: back on the field, with Dodson back on the field,

684
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: you gotta think they'll take a step forward. And I

685
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: and I don't know how long it'll last because it

686
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: hasn't lasted at any point during this season. But you

687
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: got Josh Norman and Levi Wallace healthy. Uh, you know,

688
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: Tarren Johnson's still healthy. He's starting to play better. Uh.

689
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: And of course, uh, poor year in hide back there,

690
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,959
Speaker 1: Tradavious White, isn't you know, They're they're solid as rocks.

691
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: So if those you fall that none of that changes

692
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: and you can get some better play like they've been

693
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: getting from your pass rush in your front five front. Yeah,

694
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: there's particularly these last five games to go. You have

695
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: five games left. That's huge to go healthy into that stretch. Huge. Yeah,

696
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty one eight eight five fifty two,

697
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: five fifty. As we are talking about what it would

698
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: take to get Josh Allen serious league MVP consideration, choices

699
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: for you are A, Bills have to run the table

700
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: for that to happen. B he has to be the

701
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: league leader in total touchdowns, or c has to have

702
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: a signature game in one of these primetime games that

703
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: remain for the Bills four in total of their last

704
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: five contests. And the voting right now seems to be

705
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: leaning to the Bills running the table forty six percent

706
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: of the vote there, although there is a healthy percentage

707
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: that thinks maybe just a signature game and a prime

708
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: time contest will raise Josh's cash A and earn him

709
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: more league MVP considerations. Safe for the national writers, they're

710
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: going to see you say, for instance, in this in

711
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: one of these two games, either in the Pittsburgh Monday

712
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: night game or in the in the in the New

713
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: England Pittsburgh Sunday night game or the Monday night game

714
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: against New England. One of those games Josh throws for

715
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: four eighty or five even five hundred yards, right, has

716
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: a has a big day? Yeah, against those two defenses.

717
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: One of those two defenses in a primetime game that

718
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: goes they then they could lose one of their remaining

719
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: five games. And still so you think that would remove

720
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: the requirement to run the table if he can, they

721
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: still listen, they still got to go four and one,

722
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: five and zero to do it to get him in

723
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: the conversation. Unless unless one of the games that they

724
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: lose is like you know, of where he throws it

725
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: fifty five times for like I said, five hundred yards

726
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in a pick you know, one of those games.

727
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: If one of the losses is a signature game and

728
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: that's the only one and the rest of them are good, Yeah,

729
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: that that could do it as well. So if you

730
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: mix any of these yeah, yeah, I just think that

731
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: it's still on the table there. And this is a

732
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: team that's, like we heard just from Mattie, this is

733
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: a team that's in better shape now than it was

734
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: a month ago. Which which is what you want to

735
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: see going into December. I mean, you want to be

736
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: peeking performing, you want to be consistent, and that's harder

737
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: to do if you have an injury riddled roster. Just

738
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: to ask to San Francisco forty nine ers the Bills

739
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: are playing this week, I mean no George Kittle, no

740
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, no d Ford, no Nick Bosa, no Solomon Thomas.

741
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you can run down. I mean it's like

742
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: we were talking to Eric Davis yesterday. He said the

743
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: forty nine ers have the best NFL roster on injured

744
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: reserve in the league. Yeah, they do. You think about

745
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: those names, It's like, wow, it's pretty impressive. It is

746
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. And I think too, they've got a really

747
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: sharp coach and Kyle Shanahan who's gotten who's very well

748
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: respected around the league. And I think now with him

749
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: having this much time with his quarterback, his new quarterback,

750
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: they're going to start smoothing out their offense production as well.

751
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna start getting more out of it. And because

752
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: he'll learn what they can do, you know, and what

753
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: they can do without Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, let's go to

754
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: the phones. Leading us off today will be Mike in

755
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: north Tonawanda. Mike, you're on one Bills Live. Thanks for

756
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: joining us. What do you have? Hey? You doing? Guys

757
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: listen to a show quite regularly. Steve. First of all,

758
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: I would like to congratulate you on your dedication to

759
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: USA football. I'm a literal league coach as well, and

760
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: you've speaken a couple of times at things that we've

761
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: had up at the stadium, and kudos to you on

762
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: a job while done there. Thank you. I want to

763
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: ask one question on does it hinder Josh Allen's MVP

764
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: consideration with Brown out of the lineup? Considering I mean,

765
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: this week not necessarily is a big concern, but certainly

766
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: next week against Pittsburgh where that defense is a stellar

767
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: defense and we're gonna need all hands on deck, and

768
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: I want to I want to the defense of the

769
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills the last three games in particular, has really

770
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: stepped up and performed stellarum compared to where they were

771
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: at the beginning part of the season. And with Milano

772
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: back on the practice field I heard today it looks

773
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: like they're only going to get better um, which down

774
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: the stretch we certainly need I wonder if you can

775
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: make some comments about that, um and that's it. I

776
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: would just hang up and listen, all right. I do

777
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: think every quarterback is made better by better players around him.

778
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: So John Brown being out does hurt him, hurt Josh.

779
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: And as the chance is to get the MVP and

780
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: tend to get some national recognition, it all comes down

781
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: to how good the entire offense plays and what Josh

782
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: looks like in the middle of that. That's what's going

783
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: to happen. And anytime you take out a good player,

784
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna hurt. Secondly, the defense is getting better.

785
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: This the defense that is showing signs of getting to

786
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: a point where they'll be peaking at the right time

787
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: when they need to win big games. And I've said

788
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: it a gazillion times on this show and Everybodace else.

789
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: Your reward for winning a big game usually unless that

790
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: game is the super Bowl, but all those important playoff

791
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: games and regular season keynote victories up throughout the year.

792
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: Your reward for winning a big game usually is a

793
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 1: bigger game, and those games become bigger when your expectations

794
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: are raised and the stakes become higher. Home Home field

795
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: advantage in the playoffs, that kind of thing, a bye week,

796
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 1: being the number one seed in this year, get winning

797
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: a division title rather than being a wild card, and

798
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: the bigger game you win, the bigger the next one's

799
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: going to be. And that's your reward, really, And that's

800
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: what the Bills are looking at. In these last five games.

801
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: They beat this team in San Francisco, go nine and three,

802
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know you got this. Then

803
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: you got this Sunday night game against an eleven and

804
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: oh Pittsburgh team or presumably maybe twelve and oh by

805
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: that time they play, they play on Tuesday night this

806
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: next week, then that game becomes enormous, it becomes even bigger.

807
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: So that's that's it, man, that's it. Is it. Good

808
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: players out of the lineup hurt you and all the

809
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: things that go with that. And this defense is going

810
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: to be I think a lynchpin of whatever progress they

811
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: can make in the playoff. And I won't debate for

812
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: a second that John Brown is loss. He most certainly is.

813
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: But I am encouraged by the way we saw Gabriel

814
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: Davis step up again last week when pressed into more action,

815
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: and very quietly he is now tied for the league

816
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: lead or the league lead, the team lead in receiving

817
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns with Stefan Diggs at four. And let's not forget

818
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: this guy had two touchdowns negated by penalty this season

819
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: in the Raiders game and in the Patriots game he

820
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: had touchdown catches negated by penalty. This guy would have

821
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: six touchdowns in very limited action. So I think the

822
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 1: more time he gets on the field here, knowing Brown

823
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: is not playing this week and he's not going to

824
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: play next week because he's got to miss at least

825
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: three games on IR, I'm very interested to see how

826
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: the rapport between Josh Allen and Gabriel David can grow

827
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: and develop over these next couple of games, Knowing he

828
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: is likely to be out on the field the most

829
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: of the guys that would be stepping in to fill

830
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: the void left by Brown in the lineup. So something

831
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: I'm interested to keep an eye on going. Thing that

832
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: says he's productive in the end zone. I don't think

833
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: that we can definitively say that already. This will give

834
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: you an idea of why Gabe Davis has been good.

835
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: Now they can still run their eleven personnel all they

836
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: want with three wides with Gabe Davison, so instead of

837
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: John Brown, it would be Gabe Davis in there. The

838
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: thing that hurts is the four wide package. You can't

839
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: go now. You got to go to Andre Roberts and

840
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: bring him on the field. Isa McKenzie, Crumero, anybody else

841
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: you can name. Somebody's got a tale take Gabriel Davis's

842
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: spot when John Brown is in the lineup. If you

843
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: if you move all through you, if you Gabe David

844
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,439
Speaker 1: to John Brown's to take the last guy on, there's

845
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody else. That's where the drop off is.

846
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: It not only takes away a guy on the field,

847
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: it also takes away a personnel combination that you're not

848
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: so confided in, and it hinders what your offense has

849
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: done well to this point. It takes away it takes

850
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: something off the table that you've been counting on for

851
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: maybe what tense twelve snaps a game right. So it's

852
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: that's the trickle effect that comes in and drops right

853
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: in the lap of Brian Dabole, the offensive coordinator. He's

854
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way to either make that

855
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: happen without John Brown or use the same plays with

856
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: different personnel on the field like go ten personnel or

857
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: eleven personnel use the tight end is Gabriel Davis's spot. Yeah,

858
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: so it's it's a it's a problem. They still run eleven,

859
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: that's their number one formation, So it's I don't think

860
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: it's crippling and that it might reduce the option and

861
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: they couldn't have done that if Gabe Davis wasn't the

862
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: player he is, right break time for us, But when

863
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: we return, NBC Sports Bay Area forty nine Ers beat

864
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: reporter Matt Mayoko will be joining us next to bring

865
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: us up to speed on the forty nine Ers, their

866
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: relocation to Arizona and how it's all playing out in

867
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: their preparations for the Bills on Monday Night football at

868
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. He's coming up next

869
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live presented by Kalota Health, It's

870
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Healo Bills Radio Network, Sports Date, your

871
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Bills back on the

872
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: practice field, Matt Milano and Tyrrell Dotson participating, though they

873
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: still remain on injured reserve, they were cleared to do

874
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 1: so effective Wednesday, so second straight day for those two

875
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: participating in practice will get a full injury report later

876
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: this afternoon in advance of the Week thirteen matchup Monday

877
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: night with the forty nine Ers. Another positive note, Bills

878
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: linebacker Aj Clin named AFC Defensive Player of the Week

879
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: for his performance against the Chargers last Sunday. Kline led

880
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: the game with fourteen tackles, a career high for him,

881
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: including three and a half for loss of one and

882
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: a half sacks and a pass breakup. Fine is the

883
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: third Bills player to win an AFC Player of the

884
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: Week award in twenty twenty twining Josh Allen, who won

885
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,240
Speaker 1: twice in Week two in Week nine, and Jerry Hughes,

886
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: who won in Week seven after being postponed three times

887
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: because of a COVID nineteen outbreak. With the Ravens, Baltimore

888
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh met yesterday afternoon despite missing twenty two players.

889
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: The Ravens held their own but lost in what was

890
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: considered an ugly game to the Steelers. Nineteen fourteen. Pittsburgh

891
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: remains undefeated at eleven and ozo. Some bad news from

892
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: that game for the Steelers, however, as linebacker Bud Dupree

893
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: tore his acl he is going to miss the rest

894
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty season. NBA News. First it was

895
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Now the Lakers have locked up forward Anthony Davis.

896
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: Davis and the Lakers are finalizing a five year, one

897
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety million dollar contract to stay with the

898
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: defending champs. Davis was set to become a free agent.

899
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

900
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number two of the program

901
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now. The NBC

902
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: Sports Bay Area reporter for the forty nine ers. It's

903
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: one Matt Mayoko. Matt, thanks for joining us. How are you?

904
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, Chris and Steve. I'm excited to see

905
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: the forty hours play a home game about what a

906
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: thousand miles round where they actually fall home. But so

907
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be a safe distance away here in

908
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Bay Area watching along with you guys. Yeah,

909
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: so it's it's it's gotta be weird. I mean all

910
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: of us are you know, only covering home games for

911
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 1: all extents and all intents and purposes and watching and

912
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: covering road games. But now you're gonna be doing that

913
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: for both, Um, how strange is that gonna be? It's

914
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: just going to add another layer to this whole wacky

915
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. Yeah, I guess it's one of those

916
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: things you just kind of take it in stride, right,

917
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: And I know the forty Hours certainly weren't taking it

918
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: in stride. And Saturday and Sunday were kind of crazy

919
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: because the word came down from the Santa Claric County

920
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: health officials that no contact sports were allowed, even for

921
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: practice in that county. And so when that happened, you know,

922
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: they immediately said, you know, the forty nine ers are

923
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: not exempt, and so everybody just started like, okay, what

924
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: does this mean? And that meant players, players, wives, players,

925
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: families were like, what's going on? Are you coming back home?

926
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: And so the forty nine hours really had to kick

927
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: that thing in the high gear. To figure out how

928
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: they were going to handle this. They looked at some

929
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: places in the Bay Area to practice, places outside of

930
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: Santa Clara County. Ultimately, you know, they were up against

931
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: this kind of a time crunch, but they had kind

932
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: of the luck on their side of having that one

933
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: extra day. So you know, their first practice of the week,

934
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: in keeping with a normal practice week, is Thursday today,

935
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: whereas normally it'd be Wednesday. And so what they were

936
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: able to do is put it all together. They're going

937
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: to be practicing in Glendale, Arizona, really close to the stadium.

938
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: They left yesterday afternoon and today they'll have their first

939
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: practice there in Arizona to get ready for there. And

940
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing the air quotes here their home game. What

941
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: about the facility they're using is at a high school facility,

942
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: a college facility. I don't know that Glendale, Arizona, I

943
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: don't think that. Correct me if I'm wrong, But the

944
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: Cardinals do not practice at the stadium. They've got a

945
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: facility down in town, correct. So what the Cardinals do do, however,

946
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: is that they have training camp there, and so there's

947
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: a if you've been to that area, there's a few

948
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: hotels right by the stadium, and so they're going to

949
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: be staying in one of those hotels. And the practice

950
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 1: fields are right outside of State Farm Stadium. And I'm

951
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: not sure if those are like youth soccer fields or something,

952
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: but there are practice fields there that the Cardinals use

953
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: for training camp. And then they can go inside the

954
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: stadium and hold some practices every year where fans get

955
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: in there and watch them. But that's what the furtnners

956
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: are going to do. And I don't know if I

957
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: mean it's walking distance. I don't know if they're going

958
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: to have something kind of roped off where they walk

959
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: to the practice fields or they're going to bust to

960
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: the practice fields. But basically everything they want is going

961
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: to be right there, and they are not. You know,

962
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: this is not like a spring break activity. You know,

963
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: this is not like a even training camp of years

964
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: past where you know, guys talk about it's at time

965
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: to bond. They are not allowed to bond. You know.

966
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,439
Speaker 1: They will go from literally their hotel room where food

967
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: will be delivered to their door, to you know, probably

968
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: the desk in their hotel room for Zoom meetings, and

969
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 1: then they'll go to the practice field and then they'll

970
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: come right back. So you know, there is no real

971
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: bonding that takes place. In fact, cal Shanahan made a

972
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: point to say that the forty nine ers during the

973
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: bye week got into some issues where they had nine

974
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: guys go on the reserve COVID list because they went

975
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: to dinner. If you guys went to dinner, and then

976
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: they spend about thirty minutes after dinner bonding, socializing, and

977
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: that's when they got into problems. So you know, there's

978
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: going to be a very regimented situation that they have

979
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: there in Glendale to pretty much just be you know, work, sleep, eat,

980
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: and all of that, except for the practices will be

981
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: taken place inside each individual's hotel room. So Matt, forgive

982
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: me if you if you don't have the answer to this,

983
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,479
Speaker 1: because I realize you don't have boots on the ground

984
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: in Glendale to kind of cover their practice in their

985
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: operation down there in totality, but this is not just

986
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: something where you pick up and move and you're good.

987
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen these teams, like the Bills, for example,

988
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: when they have to mobilize for training camp. I mean

989
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: they've got all their weight room equipment on a moving

990
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: van and they're heading up the New York State Thruway

991
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: to go to Rochester for training camp. It's a big

992
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: to do. I understand, getting the players down there and

993
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: the coaches by air is fine, and they get everything

994
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: down there in time. Are they going to be operating

995
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: shorthanded in any way in terms of all the things

996
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: they usually have at their disposal on the home front

997
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: in a given practice week, whether it's practice equipment, I mean,

998
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: could be anything. Yeah, I know that they loaded up

999
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: the moving trucks on Monday was and started heading down there,

1000
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: and then the team left local time here at two

1001
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: fifteen yesterday. But what Kyle Shanahan has said is basically,

1002
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, let's kind of hit the ground running in

1003
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:30,439
Speaker 1: Arizona this week and then figure out what they need,

1004
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,760
Speaker 1: what they don't need, and kind of readjust the plans

1005
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: going forward. So the idea is what Santa Clara County

1006
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: said was you can't come back basically until December twenty first,

1007
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: and most people here think that that's going to be

1008
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: that temporary time is going to be extended. But what

1009
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is trying to impress upon as players is that, hey,

1010
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: let's just take this in one week increments at Let's

1011
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: not look at this as a three week stay, because

1012
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,479
Speaker 1: then your head starts to spin and and you start

1013
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, being away from the holidays, from

1014
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: your family. So what they're going to do is basically

1015
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: use you know, these few days here leading up to

1016
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,879
Speaker 1: the game against the Bills. It's kind of a dry

1017
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: run to figure out exactly how they want to implement

1018
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: things going forward. So to your point, Chris, if they're

1019
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: going to be you know, if they need you know,

1020
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: a blocking sled or more video equipment or this or that,

1021
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: or they figure, gosh, we didn't even use this, we

1022
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: can send that back that that's what they're going to

1023
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: use this week for to kind of figure out what

1024
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: the essential parts of their operation really are. Now be clear,

1025
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: the human side of this is it always extend. I

1026
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: used to play, so I know how the families have

1027
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: to react to this. You're you're talking about a team

1028
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,919
Speaker 1: leaving three weeks before Christmas or three and a half

1029
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 1: weeks before Christmas, with no prospect of getting back in town.

1030
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: You're and you're you said it was it will probably

1031
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: be extended. You think these these restrictions will be extended

1032
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: further or shorter, depending on how this happens. Oh, I

1033
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: don't think I think there's I mean, my personal opinion

1034
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: is it's one hundred percent that it doesn't just end

1035
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: at twenty one December twenty one. I think it goes

1036
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: on because the pandemic, you know, is not coming to

1037
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: an end anytime soon. So I just can't see Santa

1038
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: Clara Health officials saying, Okay, you know, we're good at

1039
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: December twenty first, so I think it's going to extend forward.

1040
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: But Steve to your point. The one thing Kyle Shanahan

1041
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: has told the team, and he's been very upfront with

1042
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: him and hasn't made any promises to them. You know,

1043
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: he's basically kind of thrown his hands up and said,

1044
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: you know, guys, I can't I can't make any promises

1045
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: that I can't deliver. I'm not going to make any

1046
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: promises that that I can't deliver. But the one thing

1047
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: he has told them is we will find a way

1048
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: so that you are with your family for Christmas. And

1049
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: he said, whether that's somehow getting back to the Bay

1050
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: Area or footing the bill and having everybody come to Arizona.

1051
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: You know, some guys might even get apartments close to

1052
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: the facility there in Glendale. Uh, you know some guy,

1053
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, Everything is open ended, but they have

1054
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: made that promise and kind of be in tandem with

1055
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: Jed York, the CEO of the team, they have told

1056
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: their players, we will find a way so that you're

1057
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: not alone in your hotel room without family on Christmas

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Speaker 1: Day talking to Mat Mioko from NBC Sports dot Com,

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Speaker 1: and you just put it right up up um an

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Speaker 1: interesting take I thought on you know, the building blocks

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00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers and Bill's current regimes and

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00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: how both organizations kind of went about it in a

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00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: similar fashion. I don't know if enough Bills fans are

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00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: fully aware. I think most are aware that Sean McDermott

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00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: did interview with the forty nine ers when he was

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Speaker 1: available as a head coaching Kennedy, But I'm not so

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00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: sure everybody knew that Brandon Bean also interviewed with the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. So maybe just shed some light if

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Speaker 1: you could on number one, you know what you put

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Speaker 1: together there in terms of the right up at NBC

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00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: Sports dot Com and the parallel paths that you kind

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Speaker 1: of see these two organizations on. Yeah, No, it's something

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00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: that you know obviously, you know, the forty nine ers

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00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: in the Bills were completely on the same page as

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00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: with what they were trying to accomplish, and it really

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00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: shows in the success they've had, and they've they've had

1077
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: success in different ways, right, I mean for Sean McDermott

1078
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: and Brandon Bean, the success was pretty immediate, you know,

1079
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: playoff Berth in twenty seventeen. For the forty nine ers,

1080
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: it was more of a keep building show patients, and

1081
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: then finally it all came together season for them to

1082
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl. But what the forty nine

1083
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: ers set out to do after years of dysfunction with

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00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: their general manager and their coaches, multiple coaches, they decided

1085
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: that they were going to kind of follow the same

1086
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: outline that the Seattle Seahawks had had made, which is,

1087
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: you know, you get the head coach and then you

1088
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 1: pair them with a general manager and you really spend

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00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: a lot of time and put a lot of emphasis

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00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: on getting that relationship right. And so what the forty

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00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: nine ers did was, you know, they wanted to hire

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Speaker 1: the head coach. First. They wanted the head coach to

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00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: be kind of the central figure of the organization, but

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00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: they also wanted the head coach and the general manager

1095
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: to kind of be in tandem. And so they interviewed

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00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and then I think the next day they

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00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: hired or they interviewed Sean McDermott. And the timing of

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00:59:55,480 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: that was basically the next day the Buffalo Bills hired

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, and I can't remember if they hired you

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Speaker 1: guys can help me out on this one. Did they

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01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: hire Brandon being the exact same time or they it

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01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: was almost it was three months later or four months later? Actually, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was after the draft, Yeah, yeah. So it worked

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01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: out very well for them because you know, obviously those

1105
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: two gentlemen had worked together, they had a good relationship.

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01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: There was trust there, and that is so key. And

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Speaker 1: in talking to Jed York just this morning about Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: so Jed Yorke and Pragmathe or the forty two top executives,

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Speaker 1: and they were in charge of the hiring process, And

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Speaker 1: in talking to Jed York this morning, he said that

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01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: you could really see that those two were on the

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Speaker 1: same page and that there was chemistry there and they

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01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: were talking the same language. And so, you know, I

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01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: don't know how close the forty nine ers were to

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01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: offering Sean McDermott or Brandon Bean, but certainly if it

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Speaker 1: had gone that way, they wouldn't have hired one without

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01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: the other. I think the forty niners were very intent

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Speaker 1: on hiring an offensive minded head coach, and they were

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Speaker 1: willing to wait for as long as it took, and

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Speaker 1: in the case of Kyle Shanahan, it took him until

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Speaker 1: in essence, the day after the Super Bowl, although that

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01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: agreement was in place before the Super Bowl, and then

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Speaker 1: also Kyle Shanahan kind of brought along the general manager,

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Speaker 1: John Lynde. So the basic point is that they went

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Speaker 1: about it. The organizations went about it very similar fashions.

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01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: They got the guys who were not only the best

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01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 1: for the organization at the time, but also paired them

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Speaker 1: with the general manager that was the best for those guys.

1129
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Speaker 1: And you see how I mean. I don't think either

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Speaker 1: one of them. I mean, but clearly neither one of

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01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: those organizations would take a mulligan. They both are very

1132
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: happy with the decisions that were made, the working relationship

1133
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: and just basically the results at each organs has gotten

1134
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen. You know, you speak about mulligan. So

1135
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: the Niners are without Jimmy Garoppolo and their Mulligan is

1136
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins. And there's a lot of respect out here.

1137
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Speaker 1: I've said this on our show just today that there's

1138
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Speaker 1: a lot of respect around the league for Kyle Shanahan

1139
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: and how long did it take him or is it

1140
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: still a work in progress of finding out what Nick

1141
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: Mullins does well. Is the offense starting to smooth out?

1142
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 1: And I know you lose Kittle and I mean that, Yeah,

1143
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: you know there's been some problems that don't start with

1144
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback. But how has that transition gone to Nick

1145
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: Mullins for Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I mean Nick Mullins is

1146
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: a lot more effective when Deebo Samuel and Brandon Ayuke

1147
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: and Rahee Moster are out there. Those are three guys

1148
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: and maybe you're not familiar with the rookie Brandon Aiyuk,

1149
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: but he'll be back this week and he's a he's

1150
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: a very polished wide receiver. And so they have two

1151
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: young guys at the wide receiver position that do a

1152
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: lot of the same things. They can basically run routes

1153
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: in any depth. In the case of Deebo Samuel, he'll

1154
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: even catch passes, even those shovel passes behind the line

1155
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And then they really turn on the yak

1156
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: uh for this offense, and you know they're they're very

1157
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: good in space. And Rahee Moshert is this dynamic running

1158
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: back who's basically in scoring position anytime he touches the ball.

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01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: So you know, those those guys have a way of

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01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 1: making Nick Mullin's job a little bit easier, just as

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01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 1: you know they can make Jimmy Garoppolo's job a little

1162
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: bit easier. But I think I think Kyle Shanahan knows

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Speaker 1: exactly what he has in all of his quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 1: and he's probably learning he will be learning on the

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Speaker 1: fly a little bit about pairing Deebo, Samuel and Brandon

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Speaker 1: I you together, because those guys just haven't been on

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Speaker 1: the print on the field much at all this season healthy,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a practice field or or the game field.

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01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 1: But you know, Mullins isn't going to be the guy

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Speaker 1: that you know that the team climbs aboard his shoulders

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Speaker 1: and he wins a game for you. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: a he's a distributor. You know, he's a guy that's gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, best case scenario, keep the chains moving. He's

1174
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: going to make the smart play, He's going to be decisive,

1175
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands, pick up the

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01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, the throw on third and four that keeps

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Speaker 1: the chains moving, and and just you know, not lose it,

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Speaker 1: and I think that that's kind of the approach they're

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Speaker 1: going to take against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: And then just on the defensive side, matt Um. Obviously,

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01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: they've had to deal with a ton of injuries. I mean,

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01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: you look at their injured reserve list and it looks

1183
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: like an all star team. But what have they done

1184
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: to generate pass rush the last few weeks without having

1185
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: d Ford or Nick Bosa for the longest time now,

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01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: I mean, what have they done to kind of manufacture pressure,

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Speaker 1: I guess for to make up for those losses. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of two parts. I mean, they've they're not

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Speaker 1: a huge blitzing team. That's that's kind of not what

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Speaker 1: Robert Sala has in his DNA. I mean, what they

1191
01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: want to do is they want to play solid football

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Speaker 1: and they don't want to, you know, create vulnerabilities in

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01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: their own defense by fabricating pressure. Their four man pass rush,

1194
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: their their nickel pass rush is nowhere near what it

1195
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Speaker 1: was last year without the guys that you mentioned. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the game against the Rams, they had some

1197
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: really good individual efforts. Carry Hyder, who had one good

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Speaker 1: year with the Lions, had some injury issues. He has

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Speaker 1: seven and a half sacks now, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: where this defense would be without him. But the guys

1201
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: have really done a good job in the secondary covering.

1202
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman is back, Jason Varet is having a really

1203
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: good seasons as a cover corner. They've kind of they've

1204
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: been mixing up their coverages more than in the past.

1205
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: They used to always be the cover three, and you know,

1206
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: offenses knew what they were getting, but the forty arms

1207
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: were so sound in their assignments that they were tough

1208
01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: to beat. But I think they're just really well coached

1209
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: and well schooled up and they're not going to beat themselves.

1210
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the approach that they've taken and

1211
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: kind of, I mean, almost miraculously that past defense has

1212
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: not fallen off all that much, and certainly not to

1213
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: the level that you would expect from a year ago

1214
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: when they had such a dominant force. They're still playing

1215
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: some pretty good football now. The one thing, and I

1216
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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys were going to ask me

1217
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 1: about this, but they have had issues against running quarterbacks

1218
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: or quarterbacks who can break outside the pocket and make

1219
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: plays with their legs and so that's going to be

1220
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 1: a huge emphasis is to be disciplined with their pass

1221
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: rush lanes, because I mean, as they prepare for this game,

1222
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: they know that Josh Allen can absolutely wreck their night

1223
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: if they aren't disciplined and they allow him to escape

1224
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: the pocket, and especially if they're in man coverage and

1225
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: those defensive backs they're running with their back to the

1226
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and they could have a really tough

1227
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: go of it against Josh Shallen. Let me just be

1228
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: really presumptuous here, if you had, if I ask you

1229
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Speaker 1: for your gut feeling, how likely who's Robert Sala gonna

1230
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: be the head coach of next year? My gut feeling

1231
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: would be Detroit. And the reason is because he's from

1232
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Speaker 1: dearborn Michigan, and I mean, I think that that's kind

1233
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: of a teardown, you know, where he can I would

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01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: imagine that Detroit's gonna follow the same blueprint the forty

1235
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Speaker 1: nine ers did, the same blueprint that the Buffalo Bills did,

1236
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 1: and so that Salo would come in with kind of

1237
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: the GM of his choice and he can kind of

1238
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: work that thing anyway he wants. But that would be

1239
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: my thought is that you know, that's a pretty good situation.

1240
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: Another team that you know, they know him is Houston.

1241
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: You know, he worked there, so he's familiar with that setting.

1242
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: So those would be that, certainly in my mind, the

1243
01:07:55,120 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: two leading candidates because of a his familiar being familiar

1244
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: with the organization in Houston, and then be you know,

1245
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: kind of growing up probably his dream job was always

1246
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. So those two seem pretty likely to me.

1247
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Speaker 1: And I tell you what, you know, it's tough to handicap,

1248
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: you know, head coaching jobs, and you know, the flavor

1249
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: of the month one month isn't the same as the next.

1250
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: But even with all of the issues the forty niners

1251
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: have faced defensively, I would almost I would make a

1252
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 1: strong argument that Salah is doing a better job this

1253
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: year when the forty nine ers are five and six

1254
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 1: than he did last year when they were thirteen and three.

1255
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 1: You're not the first person that I have heard that

1256
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: assessment made. And it's hard to argue. I mean, still

1257
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: sixth overall in yards against, I mean fourth against the pass.

1258
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: With all the injuries they had in this I mean,

1259
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: it's it's remarkable, it really is. I mean, you take

1260
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: any other team in the league that loses their top

1261
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: two pass rushers for the we're seeable future and one

1262
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: of their best interior defensive linemen and say, yeah, go

1263
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: get him. I don't know how many of those teams

1264
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: are still going to be top ten defenses in the league.

1265
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 1: It's remarkable, but Matt, thanks very much for the time.

1266
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,680
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thanks for painting the picture on this

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Speaker 1: relocation effort by the forty nine Ers. It's certainly going

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01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: to be interesting here over these next few weeks for

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01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: us to all watch. I can't imagine what it's going

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01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: to be like for you to have to cover it

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01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: from afar for the better part of the next month.

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Speaker 1: So good luck to you on that. Thanks Matt, I

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01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Chris and Steve Hay was a pleasure being

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01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: on with you and wish you all the best as

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01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: the season moves forward. Yea out there, that's Matt and

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01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: Ioko from NBC Sports dot Com And if you get

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Speaker 1: a chance, you should check out his right up today.

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Speaker 1: How the forty nine Ers and Bills both found successful

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01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: coach GM pairings. It's it's an interesting read on the

1280
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: parallel paths that these two teams took in their front

1281
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: office construct. It's they wanted to make sure both of

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01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: these organizations that they had a GM and a head

1283
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: coach that were firmly aligned and in lockstep. And that

1284
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,759
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean you want them to agree on everything.

1285
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: In fact, Coach mcdermot's quoted in there and he said,

1286
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, that's something you don't want.

1287
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 1: You don't want to be agreeing on everything, but you

1288
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 1: want to know that you can express your opinion to

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01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: the other guy without you know, fear of any blowback,

1290
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,600
Speaker 1: knowing that both of you are trying to achieve the

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01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: same things for the organization. It's just that people are

1292
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: going to see it differently sometimes, especially with all the

1293
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: deep in the weeds decisions that you sometimes run into

1294
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 1: with building your roster. Whenever, Yeah, somebody in the room,

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01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: whether it's the GM head coach or whether it's somebody

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01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: they trust and some you know, like in Buffalo's case,

1297
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: Joe Shane or Dan Morgan, Malik Jackson Boyd, Malik Boyd.

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Speaker 1: Somebody in the room's got to be willing and it's

1299
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 1: got to and I think from what I seen and heard,

1300
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: it's a real healthy atmosphere here and that's there's guys

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01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,720
Speaker 1: who are they don't feel like they're stepping out of

1302
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 1: their lane when they say, wait a minute, wait a minute,

1303
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: are we sure we should be? How about you know,

1304
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 1: I think this is a bad idea for this reason. This,

1305
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You gotta have some dissent

1306
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: inside in the room. Because it's one thing to have

1307
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:24,560
Speaker 1: a philosophy that you all appreciate and believe in and

1308
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: know how you're trying to build the team. But when

1309
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about building the something with human beings and

1310
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: their lives and their skill sets, there's a lot of

1311
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: different avenues to be taken there. And I think it's

1312
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 1: really healthy that you've got a place where somebody's willing

1313
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 1: to stand up on the table and not fear for

1314
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: their job for taking a stand against something. Yeah, and

1315
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 1: and I had forgotten, you know, I'm reading this article

1316
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: and I forgot that being interviewed out there. I totally

1317
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 1: slipped my mind. I'm reading the artum like, oh, yeah,

1318
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 1: that's right, he did interview out there. I think he

1319
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: interviewed first, and then McDermott interviewed the next day, and

1320
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: then the day after that. The bills pretty much said

1321
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: you're a head coach if you want to come in,

1322
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 1: and then that was it. He was off the table

1323
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers, although, as we heard Matt say,

1324
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,560
Speaker 1: the general consensus out there by those who cover the

1325
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: team was that the forty nine ers were after an

1326
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: offensive minded head coach. And so, you know where did

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01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: it all land in the end? Well, McDermott wasn't an

1328
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 1: option for them because he was already off the table,

1329
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 1: but they waited until after the Super Bowl between the

1330
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: Falcons and you know, the Patriots before they could officially

1331
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: sign Kyle Shanahan as their new head coach. And it's

1332
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 1: worked out pretty well for them too, absolutely. And it's

1333
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: interesting too that I hadn't thought about this that when

1334
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills hired Sean McDermott, the forty nine ers

1335
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: crossed Brandon off their list. Yeah, for all intensive purposes,

1336
01:12:57,920 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: because those are the two guys that were in lockstep there.

1337
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 1: So that's why it was no longer an option for

1338
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: him out there, even though the GM position was open.

1339
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: And then you know, Lynch goes in there and then

1340
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 1: Shanahan follows. So but yeah, I mean it's worked very

1341
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,679
Speaker 1: well for both organizations in turn and you could see

1342
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:19,520
Speaker 1: these rosters on the come just with the the decisions

1343
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,719
Speaker 1: that were made, the building blocks that were put into place,

1344
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:26,759
Speaker 1: that the astute use of draft choices and draft capital.

1345
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 1: Both teams have drafted extraordinarily well over the better part

1346
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: of the last three years, and it's it's part and

1347
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 1: parcel why these rosters are as strong and deep as

1348
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: they are. It's interesting to me too as well that

1349
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: the Niners were hell bent on having an offensive head

1350
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 1: coach and the Bills went with a defensive guy. Yeah.

1351
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Pagoulas were as concerned with

1352
01:13:55,880 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: the background expertise of who their head coach was going

1353
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: to be. I think they were more concerned about culture

1354
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: building a roster the right way. I don't think they

1355
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: were preoccupied with that, maybe as much as the forty

1356
01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:14,640
Speaker 1: nine ers were. And I say it's interesting too. The

1357
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: head coach is an offensive guy. The GM's defensive guy,

1358
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,560
Speaker 1: John Lynch, was a great defense you know, he's a

1359
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame caliber and maybe that only helps with

1360
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 1: the balance, probably help us too. Yeah, so interesting break

1361
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: time for us. But when we return, it's that game

1362
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: you all love to play, where you have to guess

1363
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: who the tweets belong to pulled out of the social

1364
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: media stratosphere. Is it a Dolphin, a Jets fan or

1365
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: a Pats fan? Your turn to assess who it is

1366
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 1: from somewhere else in the division whining about their team.

1367
01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:52,559
Speaker 1: So get on board now eight oh three oh five

1368
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty your

1369
01:14:55,640 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 1: chance to win a Dawson Knox fanbox this week, where

1370
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: you can find at Bills fanbox dot com. Remember go

1371
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: to Buffalo Bills dot com slash ob l contest to

1372
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 1: read the rules in their entirety for this deal. When

1373
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: we return here on one Bill's Live presented by Kalota Health,

1374
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, a second

1375
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: half of the show underway here on a Thursday, and

1376
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: it is time to play the game we all know

1377
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: and love dolphan Jets fan Pats fan. For those of

1378
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: you that are new to the game, the way it's

1379
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: played is Steve or I will read you a tweet

1380
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,719
Speaker 1: from a real fan from one of the Bills division opponents,

1381
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 1: and it is you got a guess which fan it is?

1382
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,640
Speaker 1: Does it sound like a Dolphins fan? A Jets fan

1383
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: or a Pats fan, and if you guess correctly, you

1384
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: will win the Dawson Knox fanbox this week, which includ

1385
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: the shirt designed by him, along with some other goodies

1386
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: in there. And make sure you go to Buffalo Bills

1387
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: dot com slash obil contest to read the rules in

1388
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: their entirety. And Steve is going to give the first

1389
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 1: clue this week. I gave the first clue last week,

1390
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: and our first contestant is Tim in Castile, So we'll

1391
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: bring Tim up here. Tim, how are you doing? You're

1392
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: ready to play? Yes? I am all right, Tim, listening.

1393
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: Here's Steve. But the first clue this is from a

1394
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: guy named Todd. He says this about his team. Not

1395
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: happy at wait here we go, not happy with that

1396
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 1: performance at all, but at least we won the game.

1397
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: Dolphan Jet fan or Pat fan Pats fan? That is

1398
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: not correct, Good guests, Why why'd you think it was

1399
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:55,720
Speaker 1: a Pats fan there? Because they won last week? They

1400
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 1: did win on the last second field goal too. But

1401
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: believe it or not, that was a Dolphin fan that

1402
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 1: said he was not happy with their victory over the Jets,

1403
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: but thanks for playing, Tim, We appreciate the call in

1404
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: and the attempt. Better luck next time. So we move along.

1405
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,600
Speaker 1: We go to Josh and Madinah as our next contestant.

1406
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: Here for dolphan Jets fan Pats fan, and Josh, are

1407
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: you're ready to play? Sir? I am yes, okay. So

1408
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 1: here is clue number two, a brand new tweet, this

1409
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: one from Caesar. He says, our safety has been such

1410
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: a great addition to the defense. I think most people

1411
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: knew he'd be a contributor, but I don't know if

1412
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: many thought he'd be playing this well. And he has

1413
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: a two year contract too. Dolphan Jets fan or Pats fan?

1414
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: Say Jet fan? He says, jet Why are you say

1415
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,560
Speaker 1: Jets fan as just a guess? Well, I'm sorry that

1416
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: the guest is incorrect. That was a Patriots fan. He

1417
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 1: was actually talking about Adrian Phillips, their free agent who

1418
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: they signed in the off season, who has had a

1419
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,759
Speaker 1: good season for New England. But thanks for trying, Josh,

1420
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: Better luck next time. So we have to go to

1421
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: clue number three, Steve and uh, let me get our

1422
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: next contestant up and running. It's gonna be Don in Buffalo.

1423
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: Who is our next contestant? Donna you're with us, I'm

1424
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: with you, all right, ready to play, I'm ready, all right,

1425
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: here we go, doll fan, Jet fan or Pat fan.

1426
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: Remember back in the summer when we would look at

1427
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: the schedule and say we can win there? There? There?

1428
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:40,640
Speaker 1: Who is that? Who's that sound like? Don? It's a

1429
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: Jets fan? And what makes you think that because they

1430
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 1: got no win? Don? You would be correct? That is correct. Congratulations,

1431
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: you have won this week's edition of dolphan Jets Fan

1432
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: Pats Fan. Hang on the line because they do need

1433
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,639
Speaker 1: to get your information so they can get that Dawson

1434
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: Knox Bill's fanbox out to you. Congratulations. Awesome, thanks so much, guys.

1435
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 1: All right, hang on the line, don't hang up there.

1436
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: They'll get your information there. And let me just make

1437
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: sure we lock him up there like he got him

1438
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: locked up so he doesn't we don't lose him. Yeah,

1439
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: that was I mean that one was probably a little

1440
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 1: bit easier than the other two. But yeah, it's it's

1441
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:24,719
Speaker 1: interesting because you got some parallels with some of these teams.

1442
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: For example, last week, a lot of fans for the

1443
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: Dolphins and for the Patriots weren't happy with the way

1444
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: the game went, and so it could have been any

1445
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,719
Speaker 1: one of two teams that wasn't happy with an ugly victory.

1446
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of complaining on that front

1447
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: for both of those teams. And then you have, you know,

1448
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: the whole personnel situation for a couple of these teams.

1449
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 1: The Jets more than anybody obviously, But the Jets got

1450
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: a new safety, you know, in the trade with Jamal

1451
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,640
Speaker 1: Adams from Seattle, and we know New England got a

1452
01:19:57,680 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: new safety and Adrian Phillips, so there might have been

1453
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,519
Speaker 1: some in decision there. So we can't make it a

1454
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: shoe in and all that easy for you. So there's

1455
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: always two out of the three that seemed to be

1456
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: parallel in whatever subject did. We try to do it

1457
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: that way, so it's up super easy. But the fans

1458
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 1: have been on at the last couple of weeks. I

1459
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,640
Speaker 1: remember back That's a funny tweet though, because everybody does it.

1460
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: Remember back in the summer when we look at the

1461
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: skates and we say we're gonna win, there're paper shooting there. Yeah,

1462
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: no question the Jets fans are still looking for that

1463
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:27,599
Speaker 1: first one. There was I tell you, I'm I'll say

1464
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: it again last week against the Dolphins, was their best

1465
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 1: and I think last chance to win a game the Dolphins, No,

1466
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Jets, right right right, I remember your

1467
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: Jet even a couple of weeks ago. I think the

1468
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: Dolphins were their last best chance. I mean, they're it's

1469
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: not going to be easy for them going forward to

1470
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: find somebody who maybe when you get when they play

1471
01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: somebody at the end, at the end of their schedule.

1472
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: They've got the Bills, and they've got to be hoping

1473
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 1: the Bills will run the table and have everything sewed

1474
01:20:56,880 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: up before they play that last game. They got the

1475
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: Raiders before that, at the Patriots before that, the Chiefs

1476
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: before that. Now something has changed. This is Oh, I'm sorry,

1477
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the wrong team. That's not right. I

1478
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: went to the I went to the wrong team. Here

1479
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: they got they got the Raiders, the Seahawks, the Rams,

1480
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: the Browns, and the Patriots. They're over the Jets. The

1481
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: Jets are not gonna win a game for the entire season.

1482
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:33,960
Speaker 1: Goose Egg. They just got beat by twenty to three.

1483
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: They scored three points against the Dolphins. Now they play

1484
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 1: the Raiders, who the Raiders are coming off an embarrassing loss.

1485
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna be highly motivated, and they're they're at their

1486
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: home against the Raiders. Yeah, a couple of these other

1487
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: tweets from Jets fans are pretty good. Then they go

1488
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: to Seattle, they go to la then they got the

1489
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:55,679
Speaker 1: Browns at home, and then they go to New England.

1490
01:21:55,760 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: On week seventeen. They done, and the brown They're probably

1491
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: gonna need that game in week sixteen, so they're not

1492
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: gonna be laying down at all. They are Rams are

1493
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: in a in a battle in their division alone, so

1494
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,479
Speaker 1: week fifteen they're still gonna be fighting for position. And

1495
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 1: the Raiders just laid an egg last week, so they're

1496
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: gonna be loaded for bear this week. And I'll say this,

1497
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: you get to the end of the game, and if

1498
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 1: Patriots are out of the play even if the Patriots

1499
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: are out of the playoffs's you think the Patriots, the

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, they have six Super Bowl victories, are

1501
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: gonna lay down and be the only loss to a

1502
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: Jet team. They will beat them a million to nothing

1503
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: to keep that from happen. A million to nothing, one

1504
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: million to zero zero, the go tech Mo Bowl off.

1505
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: They are, here's their only here's their only hope. Let

1506
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: me just think about this all right, I would say

1507
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,960
Speaker 1: it was a fun exercise. Rais Team, Raiders, Seahawks, Rams,

1508
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: Patriots all right, and the Browns. I think if I

1509
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 1: was looking at that, the worst I will I don't

1510
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,000
Speaker 1: put the Patriots at the bottom of that stack of

1511
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: being difficult to beat. I would have to say the Browns.

1512
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,960
Speaker 1: So here's their here's their hope. The Jets hope. Yeah,

1513
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: they got a fire Adam Gase right before the Browns

1514
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: get as they get into that week of the Browns game,

1515
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 1: and give them a little boost, right, a little bit

1516
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: of do you think that's a little juice. I think

1517
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 1: that's their best chance to win a game. Browns is

1518
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 1: the last hope they are not beating the Patriots. The

1519
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 1: Patriots will not allow that. Yeah, I'm not anticipating that either,

1520
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: some of these Jet tweets. And I'll tell you this too,

1521
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,839
Speaker 1: the Jets, if they if they're gonna go oh in sixteen,

1522
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: they'll they will drive a U haul bus to that

1523
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: state and they will be out of there so fast

1524
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 1: they will they will guys will be running for the bus.

1525
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: They will run quarterback, sneak, quarterback, sneak, quarterback, sneak punt

1526
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 1: just to get that game over with. Some of these

1527
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: other tweets were good, like this one. Yes, every NFL

1528
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: quarterback miss is open guys at times, but Sam Darnold's

1529
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,759
Speaker 1: now doing it on a routine game by game basis.

1530
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:08,400
Speaker 1: This other guy says to me, his body language looks

1531
01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,679
Speaker 1: like someone who knows they're on the way out. Yeah,

1532
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 1: there's a there is still mixed of this man deserves

1533
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:16,640
Speaker 1: This man deserves better than to go out like this

1534
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: talking about Frank Gore and the Jets. Yeah, that was

1535
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: another one. Yeah, it's uh, it's rough, man, it's rough,

1536
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: all right, it's a break time about the Jets. Yeah.

1537
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:30,720
Speaker 1: Like I said, though, it's fun when it's not your ching,

1538
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: but I think you might be right. All right, break

1539
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: time for us. When we return, we'll have a little

1540
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:40,680
Speaker 1: coffee with the Bills. As Christian Wade sits down with One,

1541
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen will bring that to you when we return

1542
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health,

1543
01:24:45,760 --> 01:25:02,479
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

1544
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:06,600
Speaker 1: Time now for coffee with the Bills, Christian Wade with

1545
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and it's presented by Tim Horton. Is the

1546
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: official cafe and bike shop of the Buffalo Bills. How's

1547
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 1: it going, buddy, It's going great, Christian. I'm super excited

1548
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: to do this with you. Um, I'm not gonna talk

1549
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: about British accent being interview. I promise my Australian accent

1550
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: might come out. I'm a little better at that one. Okay, okay, Well,

1551
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, do your thing. My fust question,

1552
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 1: feudough is are you a coffee or a tea guy? See,

1553
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm a t guy. I don't know what it is about.

1554
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: When it is coffee, it's gotta be something super light.

1555
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty soft when it comes to coffee drinking.

1556
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:42,800
Speaker 1: He's gotta have a lot of sugar, a lot of

1557
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 1: cream in it. When I do coffee, it's like an

1558
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: ice vanilla latte, and I do it for the taste,

1559
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:51,599
Speaker 1: not really for the energy. But if I'm just sitting down,

1560
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,599
Speaker 1: I'm having having probably black teeth an he's sugar in it. Well,

1561
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 1: you dock pans on the day. If I'm I'm feeling

1562
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:00,799
Speaker 1: a little chunky, probably not. But if I feel thin, yeah, sweet,

1563
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:05,120
Speaker 1: sweeten that thing up wonderful. I love it. I love it.

1564
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 1: So you don't know if your hid shake. I always

1565
01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: see you do your little hid shakes and stuff. How

1566
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 1: much time do you spend like humming up with his

1567
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 1: hand shake? Too much time? I got a handshake, Let's go.

1568
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 1: I gotta obviously with all old lineman. I got a

1569
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 1: handshake with you until all the running backs, so Tonio, Antonio,

1570
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: t J Wheezy, motor Semo Um Stefan Cale, John Gabe,

1571
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: I got on Gabe. I got a hand hugged with Andre,

1572
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: which is nice. I go over top missing eye, hit

1573
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 1: me low with Uh. I've seen that one. I got

1574
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: a nice little handshake with Duke Um. A little man

1575
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 1: is just like a firm handshake. You know. I try

1576
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 1: to crush his hand when I said so little, you know,

1577
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: when I give me handshakes the gentleman's high shake that

1578
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,519
Speaker 1: one right, Yeah, but it like it feels just like

1579
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 1: I'm like almost like a you know, when you're sitting

1580
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: down a dog you can say Paul. It's kind of

1581
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: like like that's how a little Isaiah's hand fills. So

1582
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: the small Yeah, he's just a little guy. But you

1583
01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:07,600
Speaker 1: know we love them the same. What could we do?

1584
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:09,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we try to treat everybody the same, you know,

1585
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: give them their hash shake and make sure everyone feels

1586
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:16,760
Speaker 1: slide they're involved. Direct correct, tell us a bit about

1587
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving and uh, I want you to throw in

1588
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: there your best Thanksgiving side because obviously the tucky is

1589
01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: the main event. I know, But what's your favorite side

1590
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 1: that goes? I think my favorite side it's gotta be

1591
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: a combination. It's got to be either the stuffing or

1592
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: it's the mashed potatoes and gravy. But you get the

1593
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: rolls and you dip the rolls and both fine. So

1594
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: that's that's the way I do it. I'm not a

1595
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,720
Speaker 1: big fan of the jelly or the jam whatever you

1596
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: want to can call that. What is it? Fanberry stuff?

1597
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 1: I don't know a cranberry sauce, guy, Um, I really

1598
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: like a sweet potato with the marshmallows or the green

1599
01:27:57,520 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: being cast role. But give me all the mashed potatoes

1600
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: and gravy can. I'm probably sure that you came in

1601
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 1: this morning a bit overweight, huh. I don't want to

1602
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: say how many pounds, but you would be a correct sir.

1603
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 1: It's all good. I'm sure you run it off in practice.

1604
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:17,120
Speaker 1: Just there. We just had that note I hit the

1605
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 1: son a couple of times. I'll be good to go.

1606
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 1: Last week we had murder on the show. This week,

1607
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: it's your turn. So I'm gonna give you a phrase

1608
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: and we want to see if you can translate it. Okay,

1609
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: still yeah, all right, here we go. So I'm gonna

1610
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: quiz because I know you're pretty good this. We always

1611
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,840
Speaker 1: talk and mess around with these English kind of phrases stuff.

1612
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: I had to kind of think about this one to

1613
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: make it quite hard. Difficulty level is probably like medium.

1614
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 1: Put a little sauce on the idiot. Yeah, a little

1615
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 1: bit of sous, a little bit of sores fan. All right.

1616
01:28:54,960 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 1: So here it is. We're walking and I'm saying, Josh,

1617
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm treating cracking reaper cracking. No, I'll be like, Josh,

1618
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: I'm cream cracket, like you're just you're just chilling, not

1619
01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: quite like you. Two more guests say say it again,

1620
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:21,920
Speaker 1: Say it again, be a Josh, I'm treating cracking man cracking.

1621
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:30,560
Speaker 1: You're tired? Is that it? Yes? So in England we

1622
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 1: say we use the word naked when you're tired. I'll

1623
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:38,799
Speaker 1: be like, man, I'm nakid bro. So you say cream cracker.

1624
01:29:39,320 --> 01:29:43,559
Speaker 1: It winds nacked and you know the rest. Nice. Okay,

1625
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:49,559
Speaker 1: all right, there you go, Bro, I'm afraid cracking, bro. Lovely, lovely, Well,

1626
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Bro. This is Coffee with the Bills,

1627
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: presented to you by Tim Wins. I'm your host, Christian Wade,

1628
01:29:57,439 --> 01:30:00,560
Speaker 1: Thank you fortune. All right. That's Chris and Wade with

1629
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:05,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Very nice. He's cream crackered, he's tired using

1630
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: all those English phrases. See if his teammates know him,

1631
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 1: he's teaching them some things. So that's great break time

1632
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: for us. But when we return, we will have NBC

1633
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: Sports NFL columnist Peter King joining us. Says he will

1634
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: give us a landscape of the NFL, what he thinks

1635
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: of all of the COVID happenings that have gripped the

1636
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:30,519
Speaker 1: league over the last month, and we'll ask him what

1637
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: he thinks of Josh Allen in these bills when we return.

1638
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 1: Here for our number three of one Bills Live presented

1639
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio, Allow Bills Radio

1640
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 1: Network Sports Update. You're a sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1641
01:30:55,479 --> 01:30:58,439
Speaker 1: Bills back on the practice field and joining their teammates

1642
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:00,839
Speaker 1: for the second straight day, we're line backers Matt Milano

1643
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:04,080
Speaker 1: and Tyrrell Dootson, both of them cleared to practice but

1644
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 1: remain on injured reserve. We'll get a full participation report

1645
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 1: following today's session when the injury reports released, but the

1646
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: Bills remained fairly healthy as they head into their Week

1647
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,400
Speaker 1: thirteen matchup Monday night with the forty nine Ers. Another

1648
01:31:16,439 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: positive note, Bills linebacker aj Clin named AFC Defensive Player

1649
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: of the Week for his performance against the Chargers in

1650
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:25,160
Speaker 1: last week's when Klein led the Bills with fourteen tackles,

1651
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 1: a career high for him, including three and a half

1652
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 1: for lost, one and a half sacks, and a pass breakup.

1653
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:32,479
Speaker 1: Kline as the third Bills player to win an AFC

1654
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,719
Speaker 1: Player of the Week award this season, joining Josh Allen,

1655
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:38,720
Speaker 1: who's wonted twice, and Jerry Hughes, who wanted back in

1656
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: Week seven after being postponed three times because of a

1657
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,920
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen outbreak. With the Ravens, Baltimore and Pittsburgh met

1658
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. Ravens kept it close despite missing twenty two

1659
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:51,560
Speaker 1: players who were on COVID reserve, but lost to the

1660
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: Steelers nineteen fourteen, Pittsburgh remains undefeated at eleven and OZH.

1661
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:57,519
Speaker 1: Some bad news though from the game for the Steelers,

1662
01:31:57,560 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: as linebacker Bud Dupree tow his ACL he will now

1663
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 1: miss the rest of the twenty twenty season. And in Miami,

1664
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:08,439
Speaker 1: Dolphins coach Brian Flores told reporters Thursday that rookie quarterback

1665
01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: to A Tonga Violoa will be a game time decision

1666
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 1: for Sunday's bout with the Bengals. Tonga Violoa injured his

1667
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:17,960
Speaker 1: thumb during practice last week. If he can't go, Ryan

1668
01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:22,519
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick will make his second straight start into his absence.

1669
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

1670
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Third hour of the program now

1671
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:34,799
Speaker 1: under way. Joining us on the line, the NBC Sports

1672
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,560
Speaker 1: NFL Insider that you all know and love it is

1673
01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:40,600
Speaker 1: one Peter King joining us. Peter, thanks for spending some

1674
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 1: time with us. How are you and your family during

1675
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 1: the pandemic here? We're doing fine, We're healthy, we're good.

1676
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 1: We're all massed up. And I think every time I've

1677
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 1: left my apartment in Brooklyn since about March eighteenth, I

1678
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 1: put a mask gun. So I don't know I'm getting

1679
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: a little bit cocky. I feel a little bit indestructible.

1680
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: But now we're all doing well. Over what's been the

1681
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:09,320
Speaker 1: What's been the most amazing part for you? About this

1682
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 1: NFL season? You know, Steve, that's a really that's a

1683
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 1: good question. Somebody was asking me the other day, what's

1684
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing about this season? And I'll give you

1685
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:24,679
Speaker 1: the weird thing, and then the interesting thing. The weird

1686
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 1: thing is that, you know, the last time I left

1687
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: my apartment to do anything for, you know, to cover

1688
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:36,080
Speaker 1: the NFL was I went on a one week training

1689
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 1: camp trip around August tenth, and when I got home

1690
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 1: from that, I have not left the seventh floor of

1691
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:49,639
Speaker 1: a Brooklyn apartment building. And it's just it's just so strange.

1692
01:33:49,920 --> 01:33:53,600
Speaker 1: The whole thing is so strange to know that this

1693
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: year will start and finish without having any human contact

1694
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: with anybody who I've known for all these years in

1695
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:06,479
Speaker 1: the NFL, and it'll all be like this, right, It'll

1696
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:10,840
Speaker 1: all be either on the phone or it's in some

1697
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: sort of you know, video conference format, And you know,

1698
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:21,240
Speaker 1: it's just you hate to be bella chicky in at

1699
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: a time like this, but it is what it is

1700
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: we all deal with the same stuff and we just

1701
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: need to get to the other side of it. I

1702
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: know that doctor Sills is often on weekly conference calls

1703
01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 1: with national media members such as yourself, and I know

1704
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:41,120
Speaker 1: Commissioner Goodell made some comments this week as well. What

1705
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,360
Speaker 1: do you feel from their most recent comments? Are your

1706
01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 1: biggest takeaways from, you know, the league moving forward here

1707
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,439
Speaker 1: through these last five weeks of the regular season and

1708
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well, there's probably a couple of things. It

1709
01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 1: was about a month ago I was writing something at

1710
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:05,960
Speaker 1: length in my column about this and I texted doctor

1711
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:11,600
Speaker 1: Sills and I said, hey, before you before you go

1712
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: to bed. It was a Sunday, before you go to

1713
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 1: bed tonight, would you mind? I got a couple of

1714
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: questions for you. And so he called me in about

1715
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:24,479
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen and I just said, man, you're serious about this,

1716
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: aren't you. And he goes, yeah, well, there's some long

1717
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: days with this. But I'll tell you the most interesting

1718
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: thing about the virus to me, and that is that

1719
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: doctor Sills and his team, you know, along with some

1720
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:47,799
Speaker 1: some of the smartest people about the coronavirus in the country,

1721
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 1: have figured out that let's say, for the sake of argument,

1722
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, you have a breakout on your or an

1723
01:35:56,080 --> 01:36:00,880
Speaker 1: outbreak rather on your team, they're able to figure out

1724
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: whether all of the positive tests have come from one source. Remember,

1725
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:12,719
Speaker 1: you know, maybe six weeks ago when the Tennessee Titans

1726
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:16,760
Speaker 1: had that outbreak, and obviously the Bills were involved in

1727
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 1: it because the Bills had to play in an odd

1728
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 1: midweek game. But there was you know, they finished with

1729
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 1: this outbreak and then all of a sudden, a position

1730
01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:32,439
Speaker 1: coach tested positive. And so the NFL was like, man,

1731
01:36:32,560 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. We had this under control.

1732
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:42,839
Speaker 1: And that's when they found out that different every test.

1733
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 1: When you get a positive test, you can actually look

1734
01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 1: at that test and see if the strain of the

1735
01:36:50,479 --> 01:36:55,560
Speaker 1: virus is the same strain that led to all the

1736
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:59,599
Speaker 1: other positives. And so, in other words, in that particular case,

1737
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 1: they determined the reason that they didn't hold up the

1738
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:06,560
Speaker 1: Titans from playing any more games is that they determined

1739
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:11,840
Speaker 1: that that positive test on the assistant coach came from

1740
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 1: somewhere else other than inside the building where the Titans

1741
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:21,280
Speaker 1: train and work. So's that, to me is the most

1742
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:23,599
Speaker 1: interesting thing I've learned about this this year. The other

1743
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: thing I think, you know, Roger Goodell said this week,

1744
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 1: I think he said it to Mike Tarico on NBC

1745
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 1: that at least as of now, and I'm paraphrasing, that

1746
01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: they're not really thinking of a bubble for the playoffs, right.

1747
01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 1: I mean why, I'm a little mystified by that because

1748
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:51,800
Speaker 1: I would much rather have my team, if I'm the

1749
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, I would much rather have my team in

1750
01:37:56,600 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 1: a controlled atmosphere for the seven days before they're going

1751
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: to play a playoff game. And again, not to doubt

1752
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:08,400
Speaker 1: that any of them are going to be devoted to

1753
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: making sure they stay in and all that. But unfortunately,

1754
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 1: and I realize this is going to be a tough

1755
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:18,479
Speaker 1: thing for some families, but you know, you have no

1756
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 1: idea where of the virus could come from, and especially

1757
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: if you have kids who might be at school or

1758
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 1: preschool or whatever. You just so, in my opinion, I

1759
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:36,160
Speaker 1: think the league definitely should consider, you know, a bubble

1760
01:38:36,479 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, and not every team going to one

1761
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 1: location like in the NBA. I'm talking about every team

1762
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 1: just having a bubble in its hometown. One of the

1763
01:38:48,320 --> 01:38:51,680
Speaker 1: we've heard a ton of weird stories with the scheduling.

1764
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:53,639
Speaker 1: I mean that had a game yesterday on a Wednesday.

1765
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: For the second time in seventy years in the NFL,

1766
01:38:56,600 --> 01:39:00,240
Speaker 1: We've had games pushed back to Tuesday. We've had games

1767
01:39:00,280 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 1: delayed and moved around it. It's been constant. But some

1768
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: of the one of the most interesting individual stories of

1769
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:10,519
Speaker 1: this whole coronavirus season has got to be Kendall Hinton,

1770
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: who played twenty five snaps at quarterback last week for

1771
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:17,439
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. The worst case scenario is like, hey,

1772
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: you lose your starting quarterback. Well, the worst worst case

1773
01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: scenario is the Broncos lost all their quarterbacks. Yeah, that's

1774
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:27,320
Speaker 1: something that nobody ever thought about, and now you've got

1775
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: so you got to practice squad wide receiver taking snaps

1776
01:39:30,479 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 1: at quarter I think that's got to be the most

1777
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:35,840
Speaker 1: individually weird thing to happen from this entire season. So Phy.

1778
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 1: I had him on my podcast this week with Today's Thursday.

1779
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 1: I talked to him Tuesday afternoon for twenty minutes, and

1780
01:39:46,400 --> 01:39:49,600
Speaker 1: you could just tell in that conversation that he is

1781
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 1: that he was just blown away. It still was a

1782
01:39:55,920 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 1: shock to him, honestly, that he played in a football game,

1783
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:05,200
Speaker 1: first of all, and that he played quarterback, second of all,

1784
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:08,439
Speaker 1: and that he played against the number three defense in

1785
01:40:08,479 --> 01:40:11,519
Speaker 1: the NFL, which because of this game, they're now the

1786
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:18,640
Speaker 1: number one defense in the NFL. And you know, in

1787
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:24,040
Speaker 1: some ways, you know, I thought that it was some

1788
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:26,639
Speaker 1: of it was unfair, but in the other the other

1789
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: part of it, honestly is that, hey, look, you know,

1790
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:33,280
Speaker 1: the Broncos brought this on themselves, the same thing with

1791
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:36,560
Speaker 1: the Ravens. The Ravens brought this on themselves, and so

1792
01:40:36,800 --> 01:40:39,439
Speaker 1: I think I don't think it's unfair for them to

1793
01:40:39,560 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: have to play with this, But you're right, it's it's

1794
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 1: such a it's a cool story. And obviously, you know,

1795
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:50,639
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us thought that the Broncos

1796
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 1: were going to win that game anyway. But when you

1797
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 1: put a guy in who really has not played significant

1798
01:40:57,200 --> 01:41:01,760
Speaker 1: snaps at quarterback since twenty sixty and he played so

1799
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:06,800
Speaker 1: such such a significant number of snaps that they decided

1800
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: this guy is not going to be our quarterback of

1801
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:12,680
Speaker 1: the future, so they replaced him. So a guy who

1802
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:15,639
Speaker 1: got his job taken away from him at Wake Forest

1803
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:19,280
Speaker 1: ended up playing the New Orleans Saints. It was kind

1804
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 1: of an incredible day. What about you know, some of

1805
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,800
Speaker 1: these places where we've already seen coaching changes, Peter Um.

1806
01:41:27,080 --> 01:41:30,880
Speaker 1: You know, the Lions cleaned house after Thanksgiving both head

1807
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: coach MGM and you know, obviously that's a resetting of

1808
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, epic proportions, not that they haven't done it

1809
01:41:40,040 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: in the past. But what about Matthew Stafford. Do you

1810
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: think they have to kind of let him go reset

1811
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 1: there as well and just really start from the ground

1812
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:52,759
Speaker 1: up and let him try to find a nice landing

1813
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:57,120
Speaker 1: spot somewhere else where maybe he can win something. You know,

1814
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: my gut feeling is they need to start over in

1815
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:06,519
Speaker 1: all ways in Detroit. I mean, Matthew Stafford's at twelve

1816
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:11,679
Speaker 1: years zero playoff wins. Are the Detroit Lions any different

1817
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:15,640
Speaker 1: today than they were ten years ago? I don't think so.

1818
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 1: They're a desperate team that never wins anything. And again

1819
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:27,599
Speaker 1: I don't blame Matthew Staffords. It's hard to blame any

1820
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:31,640
Speaker 1: one individual. But the fact is, in my opinion, I

1821
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:34,920
Speaker 1: think you ask your new coach a new GM when

1822
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:39,360
Speaker 1: they come in. You say to him or say to them, rather, okay,

1823
01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 1: you're going to make the decision on Matthew Stafford. You

1824
01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: can't make the decision in a vacuum because Matthew Stafford,

1825
01:42:46,320 --> 01:42:49,559
Speaker 1: if he's on the team next year, is thirty five

1826
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 1: million against your cap. If you either cut him or

1827
01:42:53,120 --> 01:42:55,880
Speaker 1: trade him, he's twenty five million on your cap. So

1828
01:42:56,479 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 1: there are factors you know to be way in there.

1829
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 1: And you know, the sad part of it is for

1830
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 1: Detroit and again not to jump on Matt Patricia when

1831
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:13,759
Speaker 1: he's down. But the philosophical difference, the personality difference between

1832
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia and Darius Slay. Darius Slay made the Lions

1833
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:25,440
Speaker 1: trade Darius Slay to the Philadelphia Eagles in the offseason,

1834
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:31,600
Speaker 1: and it also made the Detroit Lions select Jeff Okuda

1835
01:43:32,080 --> 01:43:33,920
Speaker 1: in the first round of the draft with the third

1836
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: pick overall. Now, Couta has been far less than good

1837
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:44,280
Speaker 1: this year so far, but it's impossible to judge how

1838
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 1: he's going to be for his career. But imagine if

1839
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:50,120
Speaker 1: you're the Detroit Lions and you're looking at your team

1840
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: and he's say, man, if if Matt Patricia could have

1841
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,720
Speaker 1: at least gotten along with Darius Slay and we could

1842
01:43:56,760 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 1: assigned him, they could have taken another player in Who

1843
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:03,560
Speaker 1: knows would they have taken to a Tonga Valoa with

1844
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 1: that third pick in the draft, and imagine how different

1845
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: their future would be if you're interviewing coaches and saying, yeah,

1846
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade Stafford. Maybe we'll get a low one

1847
01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:16,200
Speaker 1: for him, but whatever, we'll get something for him, and

1848
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 1: then you'll have a quarterback in the future into a

1849
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:22,160
Speaker 1: Tongue Valoa. I'll tell you they'd be a lot more

1850
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:25,960
Speaker 1: attractive job right now the Detroit Lions GM and coaching

1851
01:44:26,120 --> 01:44:29,240
Speaker 1: job if that had been the scenario that happened last year.

1852
01:44:29,439 --> 01:44:31,600
Speaker 1: How attractive are some of the other a vacancy's like

1853
01:44:31,680 --> 01:44:33,600
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien and Houston. He was let go. He was

1854
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:36,360
Speaker 1: the de facto GM there as well. I would imagine

1855
01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna hire both new people for both those positions

1856
01:44:41,320 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: rather than having one guy, Phillip. How attractive is that job?

1857
01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: I think Houston is the most attractive job out there,

1858
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:52,519
Speaker 1: because even though the Jets have all these draft picks,

1859
01:44:52,560 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: and they have the first pick, and you know, the

1860
01:44:56,080 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 1: first pick probably is going to be Trevor Lawrence, and

1861
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,840
Speaker 1: everybody says, oh my god, it's Nirvana, you got this

1862
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: great guy. I mean, look, I don't I don't I

1863
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: think this is an exaggeration, but the Jets just have

1864
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:16,640
Speaker 1: a black cloud over they just they just do. And

1865
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,519
Speaker 1: you know, there's a reason why they lose every year. Now,

1866
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:23,200
Speaker 1: obviously Rex Ryan gave him a little bit of a

1867
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:28,679
Speaker 1: reprieve there, but you know, other than say three respectable years,

1868
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 1: how long has it been since the Jets have been

1869
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: even remotely dangerous or remotely good. So again, who knows, uh,

1870
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:41,400
Speaker 1: they could turn it around. But to me, Houston's the

1871
01:45:41,479 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: best job Deshaun Watson over the last since Bill O'Brien

1872
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:49,200
Speaker 1: got fired, you know, when they were oh and four

1873
01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 1: and Bill O'Brien you know, got fired, you know, in

1874
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 1: the in the seven weeks since, uh, they're four and

1875
01:45:57,280 --> 01:46:01,800
Speaker 1: three and Deshaun wa as I wrote my column the

1876
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:06,120
Speaker 1: other day, is basically the same quarterback as Aaron Rodgers

1877
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes. You look at his numbers, they're you know,

1878
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:14,360
Speaker 1: they're very very similar, all three of them. And so

1879
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:17,599
Speaker 1: I would just look at this and say, even though

1880
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:21,640
Speaker 1: Houston doesn't have the draft picks, I think it's the

1881
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: best job out there because they have the one thing

1882
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:28,799
Speaker 1: that everybody wants, you know, a top five, six seven

1883
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:33,320
Speaker 1: young quarterback playing at the peak of his profession talking

1884
01:46:33,360 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: to NBC Sports NFL insider Peter King, and we're about

1885
01:46:37,040 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in Peter here, and we haven't asked you

1886
01:46:39,040 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen, And it's something we're kind of knocking

1887
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:44,439
Speaker 1: around on the show today what it would take to

1888
01:46:44,640 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: get Josh into any kind of league MVP consideration, because

1889
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:51,439
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear that it's it's a Rogers

1890
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:56,200
Speaker 1: Wilson Mahomes race right now. So we've run the gauntlet

1891
01:46:56,240 --> 01:46:58,720
Speaker 1: of everything from the Bills running the table over the

1892
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: last five weeks to leading the league in total touchdowns

1893
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:05,200
Speaker 1: to him having some major performance in one of these

1894
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 1: four primetime games that the Bills have left. What do

1895
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: you think he would have to do to just even

1896
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:13,639
Speaker 1: get into the conversation there? With the three names I mentioned,

1897
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 1: I think Derrick Henry might be involved in it too,

1898
01:47:17,400 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: if he keeps going the way he's going. I don't

1899
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 1: know that, but if I had a ballot, right, I

1900
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:28,280
Speaker 1: mean I do have a ballot, and I wish that

1901
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: we could vote for more than one person, But the

1902
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 1: way the AP does the voting with the NFL, with

1903
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: the NFL MVP, it's you got fifty people with a

1904
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:44,880
Speaker 1: vote and they all vote for one person. I think

1905
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:49,680
Speaker 1: probably the Bills have to either run the table or

1906
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:55,320
Speaker 1: come very close, maybe win four out of five. And

1907
01:47:55,880 --> 01:47:59,160
Speaker 1: to me, I think he would get in the race.

1908
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:07,960
Speaker 1: If Buffalo beats Pittsburgh in week fourteen and he he

1909
01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:13,000
Speaker 1: has an incredible game, then you have to say that's

1910
01:48:13,920 --> 01:48:17,439
Speaker 1: that is worthy of him being in the conversation. Now.

1911
01:48:18,120 --> 01:48:20,360
Speaker 1: Then if he loses two or three down the stretch,

1912
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:24,320
Speaker 1: then he wouldn't be in the conversation. But again, look,

1913
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:26,680
Speaker 1: I think you guys are right. I think this is

1914
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 1: probably probably you know, if I had to vote today,

1915
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't. I'd probably vote for Mahomes. But Rogers,

1916
01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: Rogers needs to be in the discussion too, because he's

1917
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: doing more with less than any of the other candidates.

1918
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:48,760
Speaker 1: How what will it take for a running back as

1919
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 1: good as Derrick Henry? What will it take for him

1920
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: to to win the MVP? And you know, when he's

1921
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:58,720
Speaker 1: sitting there neck deep in quarterbacks, Steve, to me, I

1922
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:03,720
Speaker 1: think what what would have to happen is that they

1923
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 1: would have to have the kind of ending that we're

1924
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:09,240
Speaker 1: just talking about. They're sitting there eight in three right

1925
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:13,799
Speaker 1: now and Honestly, he's got an easy schedule down the stretch,

1926
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:17,960
Speaker 1: so he doesn't have the opportunity, with the exception of

1927
01:49:18,120 --> 01:49:22,679
Speaker 1: their Christmas weekend game against the Packers in Green Bay,

1928
01:49:23,479 --> 01:49:28,919
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have the kind of schedule that lends itself. Hey, everybody,

1929
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:33,719
Speaker 1: look at me. But you know, let's say they sweep

1930
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:36,840
Speaker 1: down the stretch and they go thirteen and three and

1931
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:40,640
Speaker 1: he keeps playing. Let's say every game or all but

1932
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 1: one game is one hundred and twenty yards or more rushing,

1933
01:49:45,320 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: And you know, I think, I think it's hard for

1934
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:52,599
Speaker 1: a running back to win it, and I think it's

1935
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:55,680
Speaker 1: going to be hard for Patrick Mahomes to not win it.

1936
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 1: But the only way he would really have a chance

1937
01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:02,080
Speaker 1: is to continue to play the way he has, uh,

1938
01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:06,360
Speaker 1: you know recently, where he just seems to be to me,

1939
01:50:06,560 --> 01:50:09,360
Speaker 1: I think he's he's the modern day ear Ol Campbell.

1940
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:13,400
Speaker 1: Uh you know in that you know, he's both He's

1941
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:17,600
Speaker 1: not the speediest guy around the end, but wow, in

1942
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: between the tackles and making people miss, he's really incredibly good.

1943
01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:26,000
Speaker 1: Speaking of running backs, Peter, I saw you dropped a

1944
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:29,720
Speaker 1: line in there for University at Buffalo's Jared Patterson in

1945
01:50:29,840 --> 01:50:32,680
Speaker 1: one of your columns there, um, after his last two

1946
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 1: weeks of extraordinary production, record breaking production, how did you

1947
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:39,880
Speaker 1: kind of catch wind of what he had done the

1948
01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 1: better part of the last two weeks. I saw, you know,

1949
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:48,559
Speaker 1: I saw some highlights of him Saturday night. I always

1950
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:52,600
Speaker 1: work most of the day's Saturday and Saturday night. And

1951
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:54,760
Speaker 1: I saw the highlights, and I said, every one of

1952
01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:57,760
Speaker 1: this guy's rushes is a touchdown, you know, I mean,

1953
01:50:58,640 --> 01:51:02,639
Speaker 1: how's this happening? They have a good offensive line. Yeah,

1954
01:51:02,760 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 1: And then I thought it was cool. He said when

1955
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:08,639
Speaker 1: when the head coach called him and said, geez, I'm

1956
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 1: sorry I didn't take you out. I'm sorry I took

1957
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:14,400
Speaker 1: you out so you couldn't get that record of nine

1958
01:51:14,479 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: touchdowns or whatever it was. And he said, don't worry,

1959
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:21,160
Speaker 1: coach Ronto Ohio. And so I'm an Ohio Bobcat and

1960
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:25,000
Speaker 1: so I said, oh, interesting, there's a big game Buffalo

1961
01:51:25,120 --> 01:51:28,160
Speaker 1: in Ohio. But I don't I don't know that it's

1962
01:51:28,200 --> 01:51:31,400
Speaker 1: going to be uh. I don't know that that that

1963
01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:33,640
Speaker 1: OU's got much of a shot in the game. But

1964
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:37,120
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. And so then I looked

1965
01:51:37,160 --> 01:51:41,439
Speaker 1: up his stats and he's just wow, he's he's really,

1966
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,799
Speaker 1: really something, and you know, he's a guy will definitely

1967
01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:47,720
Speaker 1: see at the next level at some point. Yeah, one

1968
01:51:47,840 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 1: question I've got for you about the division races around

1969
01:51:50,320 --> 01:51:55,599
Speaker 1: the league. What's it gonna take to win the NFC East, Steve,

1970
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:57,840
Speaker 1: if you look at it, you know, if you look

1971
01:51:57,880 --> 01:52:01,120
Speaker 1: at the schedule right now, all four teams in Week

1972
01:52:01,240 --> 01:52:05,600
Speaker 1: thirteen in the NFC's they're all on the road, and

1973
01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 1: they all are underdogs, sum in a significant way. The

1974
01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:15,720
Speaker 1: Giants with Colt McCoy playing play Seattle, Washington is at Pittsburgh,

1975
01:52:16,160 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is at Green Bay, and Dallas and Dallas is

1976
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:26,720
Speaker 1: at Baltimore. So this is weird, but it's very possible

1977
01:52:27,800 --> 01:52:30,800
Speaker 1: that all of them that the best record in this

1978
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 1: division after this weekend is going to be four and eight.

1979
01:52:34,920 --> 01:52:39,680
Speaker 1: And then look, I don't mean to extrapolate necessarily here,

1980
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:45,080
Speaker 1: but just imagine the following week Giants in Arizona, Washington

1981
01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:51,960
Speaker 1: at in Arizona against San Francisco, Philly against New Orleans,

1982
01:52:53,080 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: and then Dallas is playing at Cincinnati. So let's say

1983
01:52:56,560 --> 01:53:00,439
Speaker 1: that Dallas is the only one that wins. That would

1984
01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:06,599
Speaker 1: mean after fourteen weeks, the most wins in the NFC

1985
01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:09,720
Speaker 1: East would be four, there would be there would be

1986
01:53:09,800 --> 01:53:13,080
Speaker 1: a three way tie atop the division at four and eight. Yeah.

1987
01:53:13,280 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 1: So hey, it's just it's crazy. I happen to think

1988
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:20,479
Speaker 1: Washington is the best team in the division right now,

1989
01:53:21,520 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 1: given all of the negatives that everybody has. Washington's got

1990
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:29,640
Speaker 1: a good defense and they got a quarterback who I

1991
01:53:29,760 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: trust not to lose games and Alex Smith. Yeah, Peter,

1992
01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:35,639
Speaker 1: we were joking a few weeks ago that the tie

1993
01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:40,280
Speaker 1: that the Eagles had could be the deciding factor. You know,

1994
01:53:40,320 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 1: we're figuring out, you know now when the division at

1995
01:53:42,680 --> 01:53:44,599
Speaker 1: six nine and one and everyone else will be behind

1996
01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:46,240
Speaker 1: him at seven and nine. I don't know if anybody's

1997
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:50,559
Speaker 1: getting a six wins and no, listen, right now, if

1998
01:53:50,600 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 1: you had to guess, I think, I mean, I think

1999
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 1: I think somebody will get to six. I mean, you've

2000
01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: got two teams right there right now with four. I

2001
01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:03,840
Speaker 1: think somebody will get to six, But I don't think

2002
01:54:03,880 --> 01:54:08,760
Speaker 1: anybody gets to seven. Yeah, six nine and one is

2003
01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 1: a sad day. Amazing, Peter, Listen, thanks for the time.

2004
01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:15,080
Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate it. We always like checking in

2005
01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,599
Speaker 1: with you for the landscape of the league. So appreciate

2006
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:21,559
Speaker 1: the time very much. Good seeing Peter. Hey, thanks so much.

2007
01:54:21,640 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: Great seeing you guys. Take care of all right, stay

2008
01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:28,800
Speaker 1: safe out there. That's Peter King, NBC. NFL Insider has

2009
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:32,440
Speaker 1: his Football Morning in America column every Monday, where you know,

2010
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: those are not hours that I envy like he is.

2011
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: He is basically up for twenty hours on a Sunday.

2012
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:42,880
Speaker 1: And he kind of said he sends his his Monday

2013
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:47,240
Speaker 1: Morning story in it about one thirty am, and I

2014
01:54:47,360 --> 01:54:49,880
Speaker 1: haven't been up that late writing Collins in a long time.

2015
01:54:50,040 --> 01:54:52,080
Speaker 1: I know last week it was like I don't miss it.

2016
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 1: He posted it. I think he posted it three am

2017
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:58,720
Speaker 1: last last weekend. Because sometimes you're dependent, like there's there's

2018
01:54:58,800 --> 01:55:00,760
Speaker 1: something that you want to be a part of your

2019
01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:05,080
Speaker 1: column that morning, and he's blanketing the league, he's not

2020
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:07,800
Speaker 1: writing for one team, and so you're waiting to get

2021
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:10,120
Speaker 1: to hear back from somebody haven't called you back. They

2022
01:55:10,200 --> 01:55:12,680
Speaker 1: might be on the West coast, And you know, you

2023
01:55:12,760 --> 01:55:14,960
Speaker 1: finally get a hold of him one am Eastern time,

2024
01:55:15,600 --> 01:55:17,760
Speaker 1: and it's like man alive, Like you got to turn

2025
01:55:17,840 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 1: that around. And I mean, I don't miss I don't

2026
01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:23,800
Speaker 1: miss those deadlines. Bad man. That is rough. M so

2027
01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 1: good to talk with him, And yeah, the NFC least

2028
01:55:28,400 --> 01:55:30,800
Speaker 1: is going to be a fight to the finish that

2029
01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:35,240
Speaker 1: literally no one cares about. I mean, seriously, it is ugly.

2030
01:55:36,040 --> 01:55:38,120
Speaker 1: And he painted the picture. I don't know if any

2031
01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: of them were winning a game this week, they yeah

2032
01:55:40,360 --> 01:55:44,800
Speaker 1: that those those Yeah, it's a gauntlet. They've got a

2033
01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:48,320
Speaker 1: really rough schedule the East does this year. The funny

2034
01:55:48,400 --> 01:55:51,720
Speaker 1: thing is you look at the division records. Okay, the

2035
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:54,440
Speaker 1: Giants have four wins, three of them are against their

2036
01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:59,879
Speaker 1: own division. Yeah, they've won one game outside of their division.

2037
01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:04,160
Speaker 1: Steve say the same thing with Washington. The Eagles have

2038
01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:07,040
Speaker 1: only won one game outside of the division. It's just

2039
01:56:08,200 --> 01:56:14,560
Speaker 1: it's extraordinarily horrific. It really is. And that's not who

2040
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:17,880
Speaker 1: cares what that means, but um, but those are the

2041
01:56:17,960 --> 01:56:22,720
Speaker 1: four Those are the four foundational franchises in the NFL.

2042
01:56:23,400 --> 01:56:26,120
Speaker 1: Those are the big boys. Those are the biggest Those

2043
01:56:26,120 --> 01:56:28,680
Speaker 1: are the TV mark markets. If and I did this,

2044
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:32,280
Speaker 1: if you shifted the NFL to make divisions by size

2045
01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:38,280
Speaker 1: of of of cities, you would put the only one

2046
01:56:38,320 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 1: that would be in there would be Chicago in there.

2047
01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:44,040
Speaker 1: It's not in there right now. Those are the four

2048
01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:49,200
Speaker 1: big cities. It's unbelievable. It's they stink. It's not good.

2049
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:51,880
Speaker 1: They stink. And I'll tell you this, though, Shook, I

2050
01:56:52,040 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 1: think Dallas would be running off with it had Dak

2051
01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:58,560
Speaker 1: Prescott stayed healthy. Are you sure though? Because their defense

2052
01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:01,240
Speaker 1: is a mess. I still I think so. They would.

2053
01:57:01,680 --> 01:57:04,360
Speaker 1: They would have one or two more wins and there

2054
01:57:04,560 --> 01:57:06,560
Speaker 1: their way out in front. Yeah, I guess that's good.

2055
01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:09,320
Speaker 1: They've given up more points than any other team in football.

2056
01:57:09,360 --> 01:57:11,240
Speaker 1: Remember three weeks ago, you and I were talking on

2057
01:57:11,320 --> 01:57:14,520
Speaker 1: the podcast one Bills. We're talking about are they gonna

2058
01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:16,840
Speaker 1: break the record for most points allowed? I think they're

2059
01:57:16,880 --> 01:57:19,080
Speaker 1: still on pace. Yeah, you might be right. I might

2060
01:57:19,160 --> 01:57:21,560
Speaker 1: be overstating, Steve. Just think about this for a second.

2061
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:26,880
Speaker 1: They've given up more points per game than Detroit, and

2062
01:57:27,040 --> 01:57:30,000
Speaker 1: Detroit fired their guy. I mean, how long has Mike

2063
01:57:30,080 --> 01:57:33,960
Speaker 1: McCarthy let last down there? I don't know. I mean,

2064
01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:36,600
Speaker 1: I don't think Jerry wants to hit the reset button again.

2065
01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:40,080
Speaker 1: He must, I don't think he does. And they've got

2066
01:57:40,160 --> 01:57:45,040
Speaker 1: other problems because your franchise Dak now he's a free

2067
01:57:45,080 --> 01:57:48,600
Speaker 1: agent again, and now you've got a cap that's going

2068
01:57:48,680 --> 01:57:53,240
Speaker 1: down twenty percent. The hell are you doing there? Like

2069
01:57:54,480 --> 01:57:58,120
Speaker 1: there's gonna be problems, gonna be some difficult fiscal decisions.

2070
01:57:58,200 --> 01:58:00,880
Speaker 1: Forget about your head coach right now. Maybe maybe you uh,

2071
01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, sweep everything out again, I mean and start

2072
01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:06,600
Speaker 1: with a GM. Well, Jerry's the GM. You got to

2073
01:58:06,600 --> 01:58:08,240
Speaker 1: bring in a head coach that this is on the

2074
01:58:08,320 --> 01:58:10,480
Speaker 1: same page with. I don't think Mike McCarthy's the answer

2075
01:58:10,560 --> 01:58:12,600
Speaker 1: at all. I don't know, I do not. I don't

2076
01:58:12,640 --> 01:58:15,800
Speaker 1: know that he stepped out of the league for a

2077
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:18,600
Speaker 1: year and it's like the league passed him by, and

2078
01:58:18,760 --> 01:58:22,080
Speaker 1: well there are those who would argue that it had

2079
01:58:22,120 --> 01:58:24,760
Speaker 1: passed him by a decade ago and the only thing

2080
01:58:24,840 --> 01:58:27,200
Speaker 1: that kept him relevant was his quarterback and a bad

2081
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:32,040
Speaker 1: lot of his they were. They were highly criticized for

2082
01:58:32,160 --> 01:58:35,320
Speaker 1: the for the lack of imagination in their offense with

2083
01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:39,080
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy as their head coach. Yeah, that's why they

2084
01:58:39,120 --> 01:58:40,880
Speaker 1: brought the flour in because he would give him a

2085
01:58:40,880 --> 01:58:42,800
Speaker 1: little sums on. Yeah. Now, the pen is in the pudding.

2086
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:45,040
Speaker 1: Proof is in the pudding, especially in Green Bay, where

2087
01:58:45,160 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 1: as Peter said, they're doing more with less. Yeah, I

2088
01:58:47,680 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 1: mean that, And that is the one thing that you

2089
01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:53,560
Speaker 1: have to give to Aaron Rodgers in the MVP conversation.

2090
01:58:53,880 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about who Russell Wilson has to

2091
01:58:55,800 --> 01:58:58,320
Speaker 1: work with, who Patrick Mahomes has to work with every

2092
01:58:58,360 --> 01:59:02,120
Speaker 1: single week, and it's like and alive, Like Rogers is

2093
01:59:02,160 --> 01:59:04,400
Speaker 1: doing it with Davanta Adams and a bunch of guys.

2094
01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:08,160
Speaker 1: Davante Adams is no joke, but still that's just Adams

2095
01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys. Most of the most of

2096
01:59:09,680 --> 01:59:12,040
Speaker 1: the team, even bar Jones is a nice player. Buffalo

2097
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: goes four deep. So does Kansas City, so does Seattle.

2098
01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:17,880
Speaker 1: You know, they go they go deep, so do the Rams.

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Speaker 1: You know. So most of these teams that are lightening

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Speaker 1: it up a little have some guys Green Bay don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that would be one thing working in Aaron rodgers

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Speaker 1: favor as people that have votes like Peter King way

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Speaker 1: out the League MVP conversation, break time for us, But

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll hit the tweet sheet and

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Speaker 1: see what you think needs to happen for Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: to at least get into the conversation for League MVP.

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Speaker 1: There's choices are there for you at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: So check out the Twitter poll. Let us know what

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Speaker 1: you think or give us a call. Eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty Steve and I back in a flash

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Coming back to One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: where we're broadcasting from the Seneca studios here at One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive in Orchard Park, New York. Time now for

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Speaker 1: us to get with Gavin Mercado. He's the executive director

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Speaker 1: of sportsbook and Interactive Gaming at Seneca Resorts and Casinos.

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Speaker 1: He stopped to talk with me about Predict the Bills

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Speaker 1: to let us know what it's all about. All right, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: So I need you to tell us more about this

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Speaker 1: Predict the Bills as part of the partnership with Seneca Gaming.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it on the Bills app all the time,

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Speaker 1: but maybe just spell out for fans how this thing works. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this app is pretty cool actually. So what it is

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Speaker 1: is it's kind of like, like he said, predict the Bills.

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Speaker 1: So what you do is you you log into the

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Speaker 1: Bills app, you can create an account, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of think of it as like the beginnings

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Speaker 1: to sports betting because a lot of these questions in

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Speaker 1: there are are very very similar to actual bets you

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Speaker 1: can place. Uh. You go through this app though, and

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Speaker 1: you know the good thing about it is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you get free credits to play, right, You don't have

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Speaker 1: to spend any money. You don't have to spend a

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Speaker 1: dollar to to get these credits. And what you kind

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Speaker 1: of do is you can wager these credits based off

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Speaker 1: these questions and and and depending on how you how

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Speaker 1: comfortable you are that this bet is gonna you know

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Speaker 1: or this this question you're gonna get is right. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty fun app. Uh. They got a leaders

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Speaker 1: board on there, right, so you can see how you

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Speaker 1: how you compared everybody else that's answering these questions. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know. On top of that, so you can win

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Speaker 1: some some meat prizes from autographs merchandise from the players. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and then some perks you can get from the casino

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Speaker 1: side too as well, like like um, a one night

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Speaker 1: stay at the at the one of the casinos. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then this finals if you do the best out

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Speaker 1: of the you know, out of the league and and

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Speaker 1: win everything, and you can get I believe a stay

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Speaker 1: at the casino for you and eleven other people or

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Speaker 1: are similar to that site. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty neat, right, And the cool thing is you

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Speaker 1: can you get you get a different set of questions

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Speaker 1: at half time, so depending on how the team is going,

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Speaker 1: you can kind of get a feel for it first half,

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Speaker 1: and then the second half you could you can get

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Speaker 1: a second set of questions and kind of gauge a

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Speaker 1: bas off how you did so far. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it could be any thing in the game, Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could go from anything from will the

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Speaker 1: Bills score on their opening possession to like anything that

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Speaker 1: happens through the course of the game. So it's not

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Speaker 1: like you have all these questions sitting there and they're

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Speaker 1: answered in the first quarter. It's almost like you can

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Speaker 1: keep answering questions as you go almost through the course

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Speaker 1: of the game. So it's like an extra thing to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to while you're paying attention to the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really fun too, Right, you can and not only

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Speaker 1: is it you're gonna score touchdowns, but you can you

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Speaker 1: can ask these answer these questions and how the players

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Speaker 1: are going to do you know, it's Josh answer row

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Speaker 1: for so many yards? Is right? And then a funnel

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Speaker 1: and I actually seen on there was wash. How many

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Speaker 1: points are going to be scored in the third, third,

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Speaker 1: third quarter? Right? How do you know that? Right? They

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Speaker 1: give you a number and they're saying you can pick

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Speaker 1: between twelve and eighteen, or you can pick between nineteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty. And you know, they give you those and

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Speaker 1: you just gotta pick it, you know, and it's fun.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it. But you know what I really find

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Speaker 1: pretty cool about this app is that they got the

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill shout theme song. I'm there, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's on there. Yeah I was. I was playing around

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Speaker 1: the other day with a couple of buddies and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the bill scored and you know, with

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Speaker 1: with the limited people that you have at the house

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Speaker 1: and joining the game now because of all this stuff

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Speaker 1: going on, and uh you know, I hit the button

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Speaker 1: right and all of a sudden, we're all cheering because

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Speaker 1: you hear this Buffalo Bills shouts. Yeah yeah, what is what?

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Speaker 1: You know, COVID's affected everybody, and it's affected a lot

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Speaker 1: of businesses. What's the landscape you know of sports betting

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Speaker 1: now with COVID, Because I mean we're talking about predict

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Speaker 1: the bills. This is a good way around COVID. You

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Speaker 1: can play this anywhere. You don't have to go anywhere

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Speaker 1: to do it. But what's the landscape been like with

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Speaker 1: COVID for you guys? So, I mean it's a full

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Speaker 1: time job right now with our odds makers making sure

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Speaker 1: that they're they're aware of everything that's going on right

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Speaker 1: with the games they're going to cancel, the players are

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Speaker 1: testing positive because that all plays an effect on how

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Speaker 1: how our lines are, right. So, so, I mean we

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Speaker 1: got a full time job, you know, and as games

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Speaker 1: get delayed, you know, we get a lot of calls like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know this is bets still stand. You know, our

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Speaker 1: prime example was Pittsburg and Baltimore. I mean the game

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Speaker 1: got pushed back almost a week. People put on that game,

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Speaker 1: you know, days ago before the best started. Then all

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Speaker 1: these scenarios came up, and you know, I guess you

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Speaker 1: have those questions. We encourage them to ask them, right

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Speaker 1: because there's money involved in this stuff obviously, and you know,

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Speaker 1: come down, answer those ask those questions. We definitely got

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Speaker 1: to answers for him though. But it's a full time

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Speaker 1: job right now with everything going on. And then what

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Speaker 1: would you say is hot right now? Because you know,

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Speaker 1: there's probably restrictions to some degree based on some of

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about with scheduling and whatnot in the

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Speaker 1: moving target that games are at times. So is there

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Speaker 1: something that's kind of bubbled up to the surface as

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Speaker 1: a hot and popular thing in sports betting as a

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Speaker 1: result of the pandemic, Like where if people shifted their

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Speaker 1: focus maybe a little bit more than even you guys

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Speaker 1: anticipated a lot of conference winners when it comes down

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Speaker 1: to who's gonna look at conference? Yeah, huge bets, right,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what happens in this week, per se.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it depends on how they how they finish

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Speaker 1: out the season. We're seeing a lot of action on that.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, being in Western New York, obviously

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Speaker 1: a lot of hometown support when it comes to these

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Speaker 1: type of wagers, you know, Super Bowl as conference divisions.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen a lot of action from the hometown.

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Speaker 1: I got it. I got it. And then just the

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Speaker 1: best way to get started with predict the Bills, I

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Speaker 1: guess is to just hop on the app. That's the

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Speaker 1: best way to go, right, Yeah, Yeah, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: the Predicted Bills app is, like I said, as the

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Speaker 1: beginner's it's actual sports betting, but it's fun, right. You

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Speaker 1: can do it during the game, interacting throughout the game

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Speaker 1: with the app. So yeah, it's it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun though. I think in a lot of ways it's

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Speaker 1: it's almost like an extension of a fantasy football. People

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Speaker 1: are always checking their rosters and fantasy football. This is

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Speaker 1: another thing that you can kind of check in on

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Speaker 1: as the game unfold. It's kind of it's kind of

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Speaker 1: an extension of that, at least for people that got

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Speaker 1: into these kinds of fun games in the fantasy football angle.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of another way to do that. You're

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Speaker 1: doing that more from a team perspective though, and there's

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Speaker 1: so many different things that you can pick from week

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Speaker 1: to week. I think that's what keeps it interesting and

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Speaker 1: maybe it makes it different from people that like fantasy football.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe am I crazy with that or

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Speaker 1: not at all? Not at all. You know, I've seen

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Speaker 1: there too. Like even though the games, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: questions are posted later in the week, you can still

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Speaker 1: log in during the beginning that we can see what

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Speaker 1: the you know, the team stats are, see how they

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Speaker 1: compare to their pone with they're playing like I was

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Speaker 1: messing around with it today and I seen the Buffaloes

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Speaker 1: comparison to San Francisco. Yeah, and they kind of get

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Speaker 1: that little homework before the event actually starts, right, it's

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, you gotta do your research, man, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do the research. All right. Well, look, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: kind of spelling out how to jump on board with

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Speaker 1: Predict the Bills and add to the fun of you know,

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Speaker 1: game days, and you know it's gonna be Monday night football.

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Speaker 1: Why not do it? This week? Gets started on Predict

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Speaker 1: the Bills this week? Probably no better week. Do it

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Speaker 1: in prime time when everybody's watching something else to keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on. So thanks for spelling it out and

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Speaker 1: helping us learn how to get started. If people haven't

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Speaker 1: jumped on board already with Predict the Bills, we appreciate it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me guys. All right, that's Gavin Ricado,

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Speaker 1: executive director of Sports Book and Interactive Gaming at Seneca

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Speaker 1: Resorts and Casinos and the proud sponsor of our studios

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Speaker 1: here and One Bills Live, the Seneca studios here for

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Speaker 1: the instigators and for us here on One Bills Live. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so learned a little bit about predict the Bills, Steve

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Speaker 1: and I, yeah, I know you and I have taken

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Speaker 1: a look at that on the Bills app. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting. It's it's for fun, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's it's and that's all it is. I'm

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Speaker 1: Bills fans. It's pretty harmless and nice, a nice way

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Speaker 1: to kind of have a little bit more, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's like a more like contest rather than a wager.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty fun. Yeah, you want to get to

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet really quick? Yeah, all right, because we've

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Speaker 1: been asking what would it take for Josh Allen to

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Speaker 1: get serious league MVP consideration, and the tweet sheet has

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Speaker 1: always brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

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Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. From Andrew, I

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Speaker 1: chose others. I think it needs to be a culmination

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Speaker 1: of all three. Josh needs to go at least four,

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Speaker 1: oh these next four games and get towards the top

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Speaker 1: of the leaderboard for total touchdowns and making a statement

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Speaker 1: on primetime wouldn't hurt his chances. Well, see they're saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do all that stuff. Yeah, and he may have

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Speaker 1: to sure, because let's face it, it's not just about him.

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Speaker 1: It's about Pat Mahomes, It's about Aaron Rodgers, Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: and anybody else you want to throw in that mix

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Speaker 1: as well. So, and I think as soon as the

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Speaker 1: Steelers get going, if to say, if the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: going fourteen to, oh fifteen to and going sixteen and

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Speaker 1: o in the regular season, Ben Roethlisberger's got to get

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Speaker 1: some love as that guy, whether his numbers say it

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Speaker 1: or not. And so it's not just about Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: how well he plays. Certainly some of those guys have

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Speaker 1: to come back to him as well. Alan is voting

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Speaker 1: for a prime time performance in prime time. So Alan

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02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:29,840
Speaker 1: no doubt his team MVP this year, he says, And

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Speaker 1: with the primetime games coming up, he can showcase his talents.

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Speaker 1: If he puts the entire team on his shoulders during

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Speaker 1: a bad game and comes out with the W, he

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Speaker 1: will definitely be considered. He thinks, it's just going to

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Speaker 1: take a primetime performance. I'll take more than that. I'll

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Speaker 1: take more than that in this even if it's even

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Speaker 1: if he beats the Steelers. If he beats the Steelers

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Speaker 1: and hangs it up there, that gets him back into

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Speaker 1: the conversation. Okay, I think, but he doesn't assure him

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Speaker 1: of anything. That doesn't assure him of anything. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, it's it's interesting. That was which tweet?

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Speaker 1: Was that what you just read? That was the one

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Speaker 1: from Alan? All right, let me talk to one. Let

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Speaker 1: me talk about the one from Nick. He says, I

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Speaker 1: love Josh and I think he's an MVP someday, but

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Speaker 1: I don't see it this year. He started out at

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Speaker 1: an MVP level. Since Week four he's had ten TD,

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Speaker 1: seven interceptions and an average QBR of eighty seven point five.

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Speaker 1: Not bad at all, but not MVP numbers. To win MVP,

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Speaker 1: he'll need those early season stats in all five games left.

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Speaker 1: I think that's right. It's an up. He'll battle it is.

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Speaker 1: And that was a high bar when they jumped out

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Speaker 1: of the gate, and weeks one through four went four

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Speaker 1: and oz. It was a high bar that he set

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Speaker 1: for chucking the ball over the yard. For a guy

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Speaker 1: who hadn't thrown for three hundred yards in a single

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Speaker 1: game to have come out and have the start that

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Speaker 1: he did, it was pretty special, and you know, and

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Speaker 1: teams started to catch up with it, and now that

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Speaker 1: what they really need is to get healthy offensively, and

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Speaker 1: which I think they are for the most part, except

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Speaker 1: for John Brown. They've still got three pretty good options

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Speaker 1: out there at wide receiver, plus the tight ends and

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Speaker 1: running backs, so they've got enough weapons even is even

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Speaker 1: when John Brown's not there. Thanks for weighing in on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We appreciate it. We're always like getting

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Speaker 1: your opinions of what you think of some of those

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02:11:08,960 --> 02:11:10,600
Speaker 1: polls we throw out at you. We have to take

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Speaker 1: a break, but when we come back, time for what

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Speaker 1: have we learned? Figure out what it was, because I'm

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Speaker 1: still scratching my head back in a moment here Steve

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Speaker 1: Desk or Chris Brown. One Bill's Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio time for what have

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Speaker 1: we learned from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: Had Matt Maoko on from NBC Sports. He's the Bay

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Speaker 1: Area Niners beat reporter for that outfit and he had

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Speaker 1: an interesting right up today on NBC sports dot Com

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Speaker 1: about how the Bills in forty nine ers chose their

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Speaker 1: gms and their head coaches, who have constructed the teams

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Speaker 1: very successfully. Here's what he had to say about that.

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Speaker 1: The organizations went about it very similar fashions. They got

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Speaker 1: the guys who were not only the best for the

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Speaker 1: organization at the time, but also paired them with the

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Speaker 1: general manager that was the best for those guys. And

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Speaker 1: you see how I mean. I don't think either one

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Speaker 1: of them I mean, but clearly neither one of those

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Speaker 1: organizations would take a mulligan. They both are very happy

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Speaker 1: with the decisions that were made, the working relationship and

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Speaker 1: just basically the results at each organization has gotten since

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. So it's an interesting conversation that we had today.

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Speaker 1: Also had some good ideas on the landscape of the

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Speaker 1: league amidst the COVID stuff from Peter King. We did

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Speaker 1: talk yesterday quickly Steve about whether or not the Niners

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Speaker 1: would be able to have fans at the game on

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Speaker 1: Monday night against the Bills. I have found out that

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Speaker 1: that is a no go based on the latest COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen information and guidance from the Arizona Department of Health Services.

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Speaker 1: Members of the general public will not be permitted to

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Speaker 1: attend the Cardinals home game against the Rams on the

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Speaker 1: sixth or the Niners Bills game on the seventh. So

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Speaker 1: here's another thing we didn't think about. That field's gonna

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Speaker 1: be chewed up. They played the day before. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if they have a side field a second, because

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02:13:28,040 --> 02:13:31,360
Speaker 1: they can put take pieces out of that fields. They

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Speaker 1: may have to they and I noticed two when they

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Speaker 1: played two and a half weeks ago when they played

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals that guys were There were a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys slipping and falling, coming, going, getting off their feet.

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Speaker 1: So I was we'll see, hopefully they'll fix it up.

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Speaker 1: Though hopefully it'll be fixed it. Good to go jam

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Speaker 1: Pack show tomorrow, as we do every Friday. We've got

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Speaker 1: NFL films, Greg co Sell, Lorenzo Alexander with the Lowdown,

2394
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Speaker 1: and a new edition of Taskers Teammates. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: Steve can guess it this time. We will see you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for Steve Tasker. I'm Chris Brown. This has been

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. We'll catch you Friday