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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Light, where we get your Bills

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Speaker 1: related info and tossing some fun all in about the

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Speaker 1: time it takes you to drive to work, unless, of course,

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Speaker 1: you're working at home, as a lot of you are

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Speaker 1: right now. Coming up a look at Stefon Diggs assault

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Speaker 1: on a twenty year Bills record, NBC Sunday Night Football

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Speaker 1: analyst Chris Collinsworth and does anybody have it better than

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Speaker 1: Corey pull Hork has. We'll address it all next at

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Speaker 1: a Steve taster who has been all all other fields.

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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the stratospere of normalcy. Welcome to episode six of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Light, a fun sized version of our daily

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Speaker 1: show from Monday to Friday, One Bills Live with one

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Speaker 1: quarter to calorie Steve, and it's a top of the

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Speaker 1: marquee game on Sunday Night between the Bills and Steelers.

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Speaker 1: As we all know, currently the one and three seeds

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Speaker 1: in the AFC squaring off at Bill's Stadium. Build up

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Speaker 1: to the game here, Steve, what has it been like

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Speaker 1: for you? This is one of those games it's just

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Speaker 1: another game on the schedule that seems bigger than the

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Speaker 1: last important, really big game you just played. The Niners

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Speaker 1: were really good defense coming in. They were in the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl just nine months ago. They have had injuries, yes,

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Speaker 1: but they've got to still have that coach and they

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Speaker 1: have that shine on their season where you feel like

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Speaker 1: a you know, with a couple of signature wins for them,

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Speaker 1: they're back in the race. I can get into the

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Speaker 1: wild card and can make a run at it. And

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Speaker 1: they'll get guys back late in the season, like Jimmy Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: like Kiddle, those guys they got a chance to if

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Speaker 1: they can kind of hang in there until they get healthier,

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Speaker 1: that they were going to put together a run. And

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Speaker 1: they got a good defense, and this just in they

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Speaker 1: still have a good defense. They were just injury riddles. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but the Bills got a got a game from their

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Speaker 1: quarterback that is as good as any game from any

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the league this year. And he's had three

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Speaker 1: such games let's go by the way. Yeah he's yeah.

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Speaker 1: So they ran into it and the Bills showed up

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Speaker 1: big time, and uh and there you have it. It

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Speaker 1: was a It was a really good win for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: But you got this game this week against the Steelers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's another one. It's kind of reminds me of

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Speaker 1: the commercial with DJ Khalid and another one and another one,

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Speaker 1: because that's what you have. You got another big one

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Speaker 1: here against the Steelers. And even though the one after

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Speaker 1: that against Denver certainly doesn't have the marquee value with

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Speaker 1: the season that the Broncos are having, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: just as important because if the Bills win Sunday Night,

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Speaker 1: Denver could be a division clinching scenario in week fifteen. Right,

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Speaker 1: think about that for a second time. To play the

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Speaker 1: numbers game now though, Steve, as we do every week

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Speaker 1: here on one Bill's light and our focus, I haven't

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Speaker 1: gotten these right very much lately. I got he did

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Speaker 1: pretty good last week. I thought you got all nine

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Speaker 1: you got them all. I did do that, everybody scoring touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: This one concerns Stefan Dicks. He missed out on setting

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Speaker 1: a team record for fewest games to reach one thousand

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Speaker 1: the Niners, went over a thousand yards. Now has one thousand,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven receiving yards this season. Did that in twelve games.

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Speaker 1: Can you name the two Bills receivers who hold the

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Speaker 1: record for fastest to one thousand receiving yards in a

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Speaker 1: single season. Give it a whirl here, Steve, I can

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Speaker 1: do this. You can get the two guys. There's the

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Speaker 1: only two guys that have done this faster than Stefan Dick.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking off and on about this receiving thing

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Speaker 1: so it's one of them's gotta be Stevie Johnson. It

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Speaker 1: is not. Stevie Johnson has the most has the record

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Speaker 1: for most consecutive thousand yards seasons in Bill's history with

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Speaker 1: three straight. But he squeaked out a thousand yards a

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Speaker 1: the mouth with that one. They all right, molds Eric

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Speaker 1: Molds in two thousand, Yes, and Andrea not. I was

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Speaker 1: down the list here. Jerry Butler, not Jerry but not

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Speaker 1: Albert Dominion, Albert Dominion, well done, Steve nineteen sixty four.

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Speaker 1: Now the next question is how many games golden Wheels?

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Speaker 1: That guy had? Forty two receptions and like a eleven

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Speaker 1: I'm my wife. I'm still playing. It's along with his one.

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Speaker 1: I'm still playing my wife and are traveling and we go,

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Speaker 1: you know, you travel everything, you gotta go through Atlanta. Right.

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Speaker 1: So we're in Atlanta. We're getting one of those trains

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Speaker 1: So he's like, I figure and looking at him, he's

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Speaker 1: I figure he's like a scout or somebody. He's got

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Speaker 1: his hand. I said, how are you doing? Golden wheels?

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Speaker 1: Oh you recognize I did, and he was he was

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Speaker 1: like like, you know, you know, well, he's like the

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Speaker 1: nobody is touching that record twenty four yards per receptions.

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Speaker 1: That's I mean, we think about the dominant season that

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Speaker 1: on him to stay twelve. Well, no, twelve is what

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Speaker 1: Diggs did and he didn't make it. Those not right,

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Speaker 1: it's sooner than that, less games than twelve. Well, if

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Speaker 1: did it in twelve. Five other Well, there's five total

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Speaker 1: in twelve games. Okay, Now we're not counting the Debenion

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Speaker 1: I'm not counting the Mold season in five thousands. So

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Speaker 1: there are four other names on this list that have

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Speaker 1: thousand yards seasons here, sure, Oh so they could be

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Speaker 1: there's there's four guys total. Okay, some people have done

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that's a thousand yards in twelve games.

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Speaker 1: And was I right in saying Andre Andrea is correct?

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Speaker 1: He did it in nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety four?

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Speaker 1: What about Stevie? Did he do that? Stevie did not

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Speaker 1: do it? No, Now, one of the guys here us Peerless, Yes,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two. One the guys you guessed already before, right, Peerless?

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Speaker 1: Who I got? Whop? I got Stevie and Andre? No,

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Speaker 1: you got Andre and Peerless. That's had two more names,

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, So he had another shouts and yard season.

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Speaker 1: He had another thousand yard season and did it in

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Speaker 1: twelve games. So do you want to remember who I

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Speaker 1: an old man, You're unbelievable. Just guess one of the

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Speaker 1: best receivers in team history that's not named Andre re

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Speaker 1: one of the truth guys. It's one of the two

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Speaker 1: guys you just guessed for fastest two thousand yards Stevie Jonson. Molds, Yes, molds. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so molds did it in two thousand and two. So

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Speaker 1: he took molds off the table. No no, I said,

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Speaker 1: there are guys that have done it multiple times. So okay,

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Speaker 1: so you didn't under you misunderstood. That's my bad for

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Speaker 1: not presenting it properly. Sold in two thousand and in

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Speaker 1: eleven games. In two thousand and two, we got to

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Speaker 1: a thousand and twelve games. You've got read molds and price.

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Speaker 1: There is one name left on this list, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now it's not easy. It's not

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Speaker 1: Elbert Debenion but reached a thousand yards in twelve games.

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Speaker 1: Not Jerry Butler. And it's not Jerry Butler, And it's

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Speaker 1: not Stevie Johnson. Who you guess are Is it pre

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Speaker 1: or post two thousand? It is twentieth century, not twenty

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Speaker 1: first century. So it's before two thousand. Oh, what's the guys,

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Speaker 1: what's the receiver's just before I know you can do it.

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Speaker 1: What's the guys? I know you can do it. Do

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Speaker 1: you want me to give you the decade? Now? It

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Speaker 1: was in the eighties, right, it is in the eighties

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Speaker 1: before you got here. What was his name? I can't

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Speaker 1: think it was his name? Do it? You can see him.

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Speaker 1: You've probably met him time. He was gone before him

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Speaker 1: just before me early eighties, played with Ferguson, Mitchell or somebody. Now, no, no,

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Speaker 1: who is it? Uh? I don't know. I'm a nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty one Frank Lewis. Frank Lewis and Steve he did that.

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Speaker 1: Frank he was thirty four years old that year. Really,

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Speaker 1: that's what's thousand yards in twelve games? That up my

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Speaker 1: hat to that guy. I don't think I've ever met

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Speaker 1: Frank Lewis Francs. I don't think I've ever met him.

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Speaker 1: And Marlon Briscoe was the other guy that I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that's who I would have said, Marlin

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Speaker 1: Briscoe he did it in thirteen games in nineteen seventy. Wow. Um,

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Speaker 1: but yes, good stuff. So yeah, that was that was fun.

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Speaker 1: I like that one. Uh. Finally, Steve, it looks like

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Speaker 1: Diggs will set the team record for single season receptions.

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Speaker 1: He's got ninety right now. The record is a hundred

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Speaker 1: set by Eric Moulds in two thousand and two. Four

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Speaker 1: games to play. What's the range where you think Digs finishes.

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Speaker 1: Give me like a five catch range of where he'll

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Speaker 1: finish in total receptions for the season, assuming he breaks

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Speaker 1: the record of one hundred. Here, four games, four games

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Speaker 1: and he's averaging seven and a half receptions a game.

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Speaker 1: He's averaging seven and a half reception. I got you.

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Speaker 1: So he's giving a range where you think he'll wind up.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get between one oh five and one ten

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Speaker 1: to Chris collins Worth from NBC Sunday Night Football and Chris,

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Speaker 1: I realize it's very much a week to week league

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Speaker 1: has been for some time now, but the magnitude of

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Speaker 1: this game, and I know both coaches are going to

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Speaker 1: compartmentalize these as just the next game, but I feel

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Speaker 1: like this one, with two of the top three seeds

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Speaker 1: in the conference right now, has the potential to be

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Speaker 1: a course correction for Pittsburgh after last week, and then

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Speaker 1: for Buffalo, I can see a win being almost a

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Speaker 1: catalyst for the rest of the year for them. How

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Speaker 1: do you see it for each of these respective teams

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Speaker 1: in terms of what a victory could mean coming out

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Speaker 1: of it. But I think for Pittsburgh it's a really

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Speaker 1: big game, really big game, because they got a chance

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Speaker 1: to go from being undefeated to no longer the top seat.

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Speaker 1: Right if Kansas City wins and Pittsburgh loses, in Kansas

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Speaker 1: City's the number one seat. So a loss is really

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Speaker 1: a statement because they've kind of been backtracking a little

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Speaker 1: bit the last two weeks anyway, especially on the offensive side.

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Speaker 1: But for Buffalo, a loss and you go, damn, most

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Speaker 1: of the country thinks that's the Pittsburgh Steelers they got

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Speaker 1: one loss in snow, big deal, right, But if they win,

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Speaker 1: If Buffalo wins this game, people are going to be

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Speaker 1: talking about them, like I'm talking about them right now,

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Speaker 1: Like why not Buffalo? Tell me what you're seeing on

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Speaker 1: tape that would tell you. I mean, Kansas City's a

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Speaker 1: really good team. They're a really good team. Are they unbeatable? No,

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Speaker 1: Denver almost beat them the other night in the game

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Speaker 1: that we it they have. They have ups and downs

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Speaker 1: on offense. But you go, if they come out of here,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo comes out of this one with the win, which

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Speaker 1: I have no idea even who the favorite is in

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Speaker 1: the game, but they come out of here with the win,

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Speaker 1: everybody's going to be doing what I'm doing right now.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be saying, keep an eye on the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason other than the fact that it hasn't

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Speaker 1: happened since the days of Steve Tasker and Jim Kelly

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Speaker 1: and those guys. It hasn't happened that this team has

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Speaker 1: gone to a super Bowl. But talent wise, there's no

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Speaker 1: reason they can't as we and you're right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll wait and see about that. And it's been a

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Speaker 1: long time and you're right. Because it never happened doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it can't happen this year. I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you a little bit of something we alluded to earlier

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Speaker 1: in the division. A team like the New York Jets

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Speaker 1: and what happened with Greg Williams and the things that

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Speaker 1: happened list last week with him calling a zero blitz

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Speaker 1: and the Raiders hitting it for the win. A team

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Speaker 1: like the Jets, who is looking gonna be looking at ostensible.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna fire Adam Gates or not.

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Speaker 1: I would think they probably are. The writings on the wall.

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Speaker 1: If you're an owner of a team, if you can

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Speaker 1: make the Buffalo Bills worse by snatching their offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: and having that offensive coordinator to come over and mentor

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Speaker 1: your young quarterback in Sam Darnold, and even if you

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Speaker 1: do draft Trevor Lawrence, you got the both of them,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Wouldn't that make a lot of sense

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Speaker 1: for a team within your division to snatch the good

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Speaker 1: people from your division rivals and make yourself better and

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Speaker 1: them worse and try and close the gap that way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could. Or you could also take Eric b enemy

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Speaker 1: from the top team in the league and go do

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Speaker 1: the same thing. They're in the AFC too, So I

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Speaker 1: think either one of those would be fine choices. But

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Speaker 1: I think you're on the right track that they're if

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Speaker 1: in fact they do change. I like Adam, but you

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Speaker 1: know it's going to be tough for him to hang

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Speaker 1: on to that job. I think that if they do

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Speaker 1: make a change, it almost has to be whoever you

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Speaker 1: think is the best person out there that can develop

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback period, end of story. If that's not

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Speaker 1: who you're signing and be your head coach, I think

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Speaker 1: it's a mistake. Right. Speaking of Greg Williams, I know

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Speaker 1: you get to do a podcast every week with Richard Sherman,

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Speaker 1: and you caught up with him after he had played

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Speaker 1: the Bills. If I have my timing right here in

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Speaker 1: terms of when you tape that podcast episode, So I guess, first,

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Speaker 1: I guess you've been around Richard. You know you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised by his very frank comments about Greg and

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Speaker 1: the play call that he made. But what did he

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Speaker 1: have to offer on the Bills and his impressions of

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Speaker 1: them or Josh Allen if anything, Well, he was really

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Speaker 1: impressed with Josh and the receivers as well. And I

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Speaker 1: mean one thing he would not say. He may have

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Speaker 1: alluded to it lightly, but the simple truth is the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers built their entire franchise around their pass rush.

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Speaker 1: And those guys are gone, right, Boss is gone, and

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Speaker 1: you know, Bartner's on, and you know, so it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's tough that that secondary now is going to get

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Speaker 1: exposed in a way that they haven't in a while.

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Speaker 1: And Buffalo's offensive line did a great job in that game.

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Speaker 1: But I will say, but what they're about to see

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Speaker 1: this week is a heck of a lot better than

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Speaker 1: what they saw with the remains of San Francisco's off

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Speaker 1: pass rushers. So this is going to be a tremendous burden.

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Speaker 1: T J. Watt is off the chart, Cameron Hayward off

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Speaker 1: the chart. Steven to step onto it with the interior push,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna blitz, you know, they're gonna send people

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Speaker 1: out of the secondary. They're gonna blitz linebackers, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: read blitzer backs. They're gonna put pressure on Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: This is a great next test for him. He basically

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Speaker 1: stood there in the pocket and did whatever he wanted

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Speaker 1: to last week. That will not be the case this week.

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Speaker 1: I know you you've played for the Bengals, you live

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Speaker 1: in that area. Talks just a little about your early

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Speaker 1: impressions of Joe Burrow before he lost rest of his

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Speaker 1: season back in week eleven from Afar we thought we

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Speaker 1: were really impressed with him. Is do you think he

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Speaker 1: seems for real? Am? I right? I've never been so

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Speaker 1: sad to the organization as I was the day that

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Speaker 1: he got hurt. You know, at some point, and people

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Speaker 1: at Buffalo would understand this, At some point, you have

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Speaker 1: to have a little hope. And one kid came in

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Speaker 1: there and there was hope. I mean even the games

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Speaker 1: they were losing, they were competitive and he was tough

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Speaker 1: man that their offensive line was bad and he was

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Speaker 1: just getting beat up left and right, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, he just looked like, Hey, they

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Speaker 1: just put a little bit of stuff around this guy.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be something else. And then not

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Speaker 1: only did he get hurt, I mean he got hurt.

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Speaker 1: That's a big injury. And there's uncertainty not about whether

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Speaker 1: or not he's ever going to play, but will you

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Speaker 1: ever be the same kind of player? Because he was

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Speaker 1: a bull fighter in the ring. They were telling Brandon

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Speaker 1: Graham from Philadelphia was telling me, I mean your Brandon

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Speaker 1: Graham almost killing him on this one hit and it

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Speaker 1: was borderline, maybe a little bit late, and he said,

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Speaker 1: Bro got up, looked over the referee. He didn't throw

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Speaker 1: a flag, he said. Bro didn't complain, he didn't say anything.

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Speaker 1: He just turned back to Graham and he goes, when

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Speaker 1: I'm the goat, I'm gonna get that call right there.

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Speaker 1: And I couldn't stop laughing it because I just kept laughing.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the favor this kid. They came out

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Speaker 1: of the game with a whole lot of respect for

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. One more quarterback. I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: about Chris was you know, what's what's kind of Befallen

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Speaker 1: Carson wentz here And people can draw up whatever conclusions

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Speaker 1: they want as to why it's fallen apart the way

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Speaker 1: it has. My question to you is do you think

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Speaker 1: it gets to a point where the organization moves on

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Speaker 1: from him? And I realized the way Jalen Hurts plays

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Speaker 1: would have to be a major factor in that kind

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Speaker 1: of a decision. The only reason I asked that is

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Speaker 1: because I think about a guy like Frank Write in

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis who may not have Philip Rivers next year because

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Speaker 1: he's on a one year deal, and he and Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz got along pretty famously when he was there as

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Speaker 1: a member of Doug Peterson's staff. I'm just kind of

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Speaker 1: wondering where that path leads for Carson Wentzon lighted what's

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Speaker 1: happened in Philadelphia. Man, I don't know what is the

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty million dollar corps. Yeah, I understand

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Speaker 1: the contracts, the roadblock. Yeah, yeah, So I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: all for it, and I think Frank Wright had a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with the success of that Philadelphia Eagles team.

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Speaker 1: And not to put down either Carson or Doug, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that you're talking about that's a

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Speaker 1: tough thing to do. And don't forget the next year

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Speaker 1: likely is going to see a reduced salary cap. The

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Speaker 1: salary cap next year might go from one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety or whatever supposed to be down to about one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty, and we're going to see a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good veteran players on the open market that

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Speaker 1: had to get cut just strictly for salary cap. Purposes,

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Speaker 1: and then you're going to see teams unable to sign

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Speaker 1: them because they're not going to have money because of

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Speaker 1: the reduced cap. Now, maybe they end up spreading that

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Speaker 1: cap over a longer period of time and pulling money

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Speaker 1: from tomorrow or for five years from now back into

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Speaker 1: this year so they don't have to do that. But

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Speaker 1: as of right now, there's a real chance that, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to dump a contract

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Speaker 1: like that and be there's gonna be some really great

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Speaker 1: players that are taking a fraction of what they would

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Speaker 1: ordinarily and probably taking one year deals one last one.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's about the big picture, particularly in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: You got you know, Pittsburgh's the number one Kansas city.

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Speaker 1: Now they've got identical records coming down. Buffalo is sitting

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Speaker 1: at the three spot. Tennessee, Cleveland, Miami, Indianapolis. If you

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Speaker 1: get back to Miami, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and in Vegas, Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: New England, how do you think the wild card slots

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Speaker 1: shake out those last three spots to the AFC. That's

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Speaker 1: a good question. I tell you, Cleveland really impressed me

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Speaker 1: the other day. That was the other breakout team as

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Speaker 1: far as I was concerned. You're talking about a team

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Speaker 1: that's played in some bad weather in Baker Mayfield. They've

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Speaker 1: just been an awful weather up there. So what happened

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Speaker 1: was they developed the run game, and they were number

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Speaker 1: one in the league, and everybody had a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions about Baker Mayfield, and all of a sudden, Baker

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Speaker 1: comes out against granted, not a very good defense in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: but you know, a legitimate, tough guy football team and

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Speaker 1: lit their hair on fire. They scored thirty eight in

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Speaker 1: the first half of that game and predominantly throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: So now you pair that running game with what they

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Speaker 1: can do throwing it, that's something. And I still think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be really hard for Baltimore to not

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Speaker 1: get in. You know, they're going to get some of

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Speaker 1: their big guys back. Klais Campbell and company are going

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Speaker 1: to get back in action down the stretch run and

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Speaker 1: they might come in as the seven seat a team

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Speaker 1: like Baltimore, But I sure wouldn't want to play them

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Speaker 1: in the first round. And then you know, after that,

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Speaker 1: it gets to be New England's one. You can never

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Speaker 1: take your eye off. Las Vegas was a little lucky,

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Speaker 1: just to be where they are right now. But I

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Speaker 1: think if I had to say which teams are sitting

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Speaker 1: there that aren't Pittsburgh or Kansas City that I think

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Speaker 1: could still win this thing, Buffalo, Cleveland, Baltimore would be

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Speaker 1: the ones I would say, Chris, thanks for the time.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you carving out a little bit of your

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Speaker 1: afternoon with us, and we look forward to watching you

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night with Mike Tarico. Thanks for the time, man.

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Speaker 1: You gotta guys get seeing our Thanks to Chris Collinsworth

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Speaker 1: for giving us some time here on one Bill's life

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00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: time now for something's got to give. It's where we

639
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Speaker 1: pit two opposing parts of each team in the upcoming

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Speaker 1: Bills game and assess which one will falter Steve you ready?

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Speaker 1: I'm so ready, Okay. Sunday Night's game between the Bills

642
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: and Steelers is a battle of division leaders. Josh Allen

643
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: leads the number three passing offense in football into the

644
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. The Steelers bring the number two pass

645
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: defense to the table. Buffalo averaging over two hundred seventy

646
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: six yards per game through the air. Steelers pasty is

647
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: allowing under two hundred. I should mention. The Bills have

648
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: the number one third down conversion offense in the league

649
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: at just under fifty percent. The Steelers defense leads the

650
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: league and points aloud, sacks and interceptions. They're also fourth

651
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: in third down defense. Something has got to give here,

652
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: Which unit gets the better of the day. Let me

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Speaker 1: just your honor, Let me just take in my lawyers,

654
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: fine falter, Well, I guess which team comes out on

655
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: top is the better night in terms of neutralizing the

656
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: other or winning over the other? And does that mean

657
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: specific area? Like, so, do the Steelers give up more yards,

658
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: more third down conversions that that that that and still

659
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: win the game and they fall? You know what I'm saying?

660
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: Do the Bills score thirty five and lose? And then

661
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: that means the defense faltered score ten and win ten lose.

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00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: Let me clarify. I guess what I'm asking here is

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00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: which side of the ball in this matchup holds truer

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00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: to their form based on a lot of these numbers

665
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: than the other. Like, does you do the Steelers go

666
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: out and have a big sack and interception day and

667
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: hold them down? Or do the Bills come out and

668
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: kind of do what they do in the passing game

669
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: are there though? Okay, because if the Bills could play subpar,

670
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: Josh throws for two thirty or two hundred even, the

671
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: Bills wink? And why why do they go? Why do

672
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: they win if he throws for two thirty? I don't know,

673
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: just say it because they score? I don't So you

674
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And like the Bills picked Ben

675
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: off a couple of pick sixes or whatever, the Steelers

676
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: are given up just shy of two hundred yards passing

677
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: a game. I mean, they're killing it. Yeah. So if

678
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: if Josh throws for two h five, yeah, or two

679
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: thirty even and the Bills win, Steelers still did a

680
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: pretty good job. The guy did you know what I mean?

681
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: You're right, That's what I'm saying. I would say this though,

682
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: looking at this specific because I think that's more likely

683
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: I would. I would say this though looking at this

684
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: specific matchup. As you just stated, if the Bills only

685
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: throw for two thirty and the Steelers do their job,

686
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: there's probably a pretty good chance that the Steelers can

687
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: win the football game. If this Steelers side of the

688
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: ball does not live up to their averages in this game.

689
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: It's games that match they're not winning. They're not because

690
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: Steelers can't score that many points. I think you can

691
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: make the argument in this game that if the Bills

692
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: do just enough in the passing game, that there are

693
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: other elements of their team that can carry the day,

694
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: namely their defense, maybe even their special teams. Where for

695
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 1: the Steelers, to me, I don't see them winning this

696
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: game unless their defense plays like they've played all season long.

697
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: I think that's their only way to victory, neutralizing this

698
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: Bill's offense and completely holding them down. If they can't,

699
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: I don't see a path to victory for them. Here's

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00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: the thing. Steelers give up two hundred yards. Bills average

701
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: two seventy six passing. Yeah, I would imagine it's gonna

702
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: be somewhere in there. The Bills are gonna be a

703
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 1: little less than their average, but a little more than

704
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers are given up. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But if if the Bills go to eighty yeah, yeah,

706
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: my fears or if they go one ninety five, yeah,

707
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: that's it goes towards that that side of the ball.

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00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,479
Speaker 1: My fear in this one is the takeaway ability of

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00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers. I mean, they lead the league in interceptions.

710
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: I think they're a plus eleven in the turnover margin.

711
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: So that is the one statistic that scares me because

712
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: we know how much that impacts the outcome of games.

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00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills have been taken it away too.

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00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: They've got twelve takeaways in their last six. That's not

715
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: quite at the rate of what the Steelers have done

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00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: this season, but that's how Pittsburgh's been winning games by

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00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: taking the ball away. Here's the stat that I think

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Speaker 1: is going to be crucial in this game. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Pittsburgh defense hits on the quarterback, quarterback hurries, quarterback sacks,

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00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: how much they're in with jo In Josh's lap. For Buffalo,

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00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be third down conversions if the if the

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00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: Bills are ten of thirteen, they're gonna win. You know

723
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's those are the stats weren't great

724
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Speaker 1: last week. They weren't great last week on third down.

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00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: I want to say they were like six or third

726
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: or four of eleven, four of eleven. Maybe I'll have

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00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 1: to go look at the third down very much. Well, yeah,

728
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: they didn't need it. Well, I mean that's not true.

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00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: First and ten first down, second and five first down

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00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: you know, like it's almost like didn't even get to

731
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: third downs some of the time. So that's you know,

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00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: they did that a lot. I mean they had what

733
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: they have, eleven drives in the game. Yeah, and they

734
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: had what eleven third downs? They had thirty four points.

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00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty good much, pretty efficient. All right. Finally

736
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: we have our one burning question, and uh we kind

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Speaker 1: of we're kind of teasing a little bit here with this,

738
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: but is there a better job for an NFL player

739
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: than Bill's punter Corey Bhorkez. I mean, seriously, Steve, on

740
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: a busy day, Okay, let's just not to knock special

741
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: teams here, because I know this is near and dear

742
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: to your heart. But on a busy day, Corey Bjorkez

743
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 1: is probably on the field for fifteen plays, counting holding

744
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: for field goals, extra points, and punts. Okay, but this

745
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: season he's punted twenty nine times in twelve games. It's

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00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: the lowest total in the league, tied for the lowest

747
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: total in the league. So I ask you, Steve, is

748
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: there a better job for an NFL player than Bojo

749
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: has as Bills punter. I'm thinking Markley's got a pretty

750
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: good job, well, right, let him Yeah, and I probably

751
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: should have amended that too, for people who actually have

752
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: to take the field on every single right. I mean,

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: that's for guys that have to take the field, guys

754
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 1: who actually have a role to play on the field

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00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: on game day. That's tough to beat. That's pretty bad.

756
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: Think about this. He held for Tyler bass on what

757
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: was it, two or three field goal attempts and three

758
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,479
Speaker 1: or four extra points, so that's like six or seven

759
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: plays that he's out there, and then he punted once

760
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 1: and put his golf in a day. Four touchdowns, four

761
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: extra points, two field goals, six six seven plays he

762
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: was on the field and the only time he hit

763
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: the ground was when he took a need to hold.

764
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: I mean, did he break a sweat? I don't know

765
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: if he did. He worked, actually, there's no question about it.

766
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: And Mike he worked harder in warmups than he did

767
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: during the game. Yeah, I mean he probably gotten about it.

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00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: He probably got a bigger lather in warmups punting then

769
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: he did at any point right now in the game.

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00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the hardest he would arguably steve the hardest

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00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: he would have to work on any given play that

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00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: he would be on the field for the hardest he'd

773
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: have to work, would be made a drill run on

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00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: the field for a quick field goal at the end

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00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: of the half with the clock, you know, winding down.

776
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: You know, hurry, hurry, Harry made made a mayde. Or

777
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: if the return man on a punt got through and

778
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: he's got to go make a tackle. He ain't getting

779
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: through these days, not with not with Krumero and Taiwan Jones,

780
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: Meta Kevic. Yeah, they've been top five and punk coverage

781
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: for most of these those jokers are getting it done.

782
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, punt watch it for a minute, unstrap your

783
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: chin straps, start walking off. Be great if they could

784
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: bring out like a Shaise lounge for him just to

785
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: kind of put at the end of the bench. Listen,

786
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: let's not get a little little drink with the umbrella.

787
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: Not go off the hook here. We gotta you gotta

788
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: stay focused here, stay humbling, hungry here. You can't start

789
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: you can't start jacking around. I think that would be

790
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: you're right, um, that gay and the Bill's offense, and

791
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: I said it the other day, they're killing it staying

792
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: on the field. This offense and that it got lost

793
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: in the wash, but they're drive right before halftime, they

794
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: get the ball with two what was no. One oh

795
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: five left on the half and bing bing bing bing

796
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: field goal was no time on the clock. How about this?

797
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott after the game called that execution at the

798
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: end of the first half. He used the word elite. Steve,

799
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: how often have you heard that word out of coach

800
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: McDermott's mouth about an area of his football team. He

801
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: was hard to impress. He uses the word elite. Yeah,

802
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 1: it was. It was elite. And and they just kicked

803
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: the field goal. Now you're up seventeen or up ten,

804
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: going in seventeen seventeen, seven and a half and you

805
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: and you know, and not only that, they stopped the

806
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: Niners when they had it with over two minutes ago,

807
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 1: they were thinking kind of the same thing. They punted

808
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: back to the Bills with over a minute to go,

809
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: and the Bills take advantage and get three points out

810
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: of it, go in and a half and they kick

811
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Speaker 1: it off in the second half. That was that was big,

812
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: that great stuff. That was absolute positively elite execution, no

813
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: question about it. But kudos to you Corey Bojorkez, you

814
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: are in a good spot right now. But the way

815
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: this offense is rolling, he's wearing his baseball hat more

816
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: than he is his helmet. It's a special job to

817
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,280
Speaker 1: have right now. Good for him, all the more power

818
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: to you. All right, that's all the time we have

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Speaker 1: this week. Remember, everybody, when you don't have two plus

820
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Speaker 1: hours to listen to One Bills Live, all our podcast

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Speaker 1: platforms and on YouTube, come check out One Bill's Light

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823
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: next Bills game, all in about thirty to forty minutes.

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