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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time. I watch Steve Casper end touts

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Speaker 1: time to time, down over time. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Hello there, Wednesday afternoon. Right, it is Wednesday, One day's Life,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Kalaida Health Company from Archer Park

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Speaker 1: where the field has been plowed. It's a beautiful day. Really,

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Speaker 1: it's chilly here in Archer Park. Twenty nine degrees. Chris

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Speaker 1: guys overhead, Crispin wintry. It's nice. The field looks great.

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Speaker 1: It's nice if you're watching on the it's a great

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Speaker 1: day to go ski. And if it was that time

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Speaker 1: of year, you know, if it was early enough for

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Speaker 1: snowy enough and ski. Now. I think has it opened

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Speaker 1: down south? I think they opened a week or so ago.

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Speaker 1: I think so. Welcome to the show. Jomeraphy. Here was

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Speaker 1: Steve Casker here till three o'clock. It's Wednesday. It's the

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Speaker 1: first day of the big practice week. Is a Bills

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Speaker 1: gets said to travel to Miami. Have a fifty degree

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Speaker 1: change in temperature between today and Sunday. The forecast anyway,

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Speaker 1: Sunday seventy five degrees and sunny where the Bills playing

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Speaker 1: in South Florida. Good afternoon, so the bills are practicing

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Speaker 1: outside today? Yeah, right, almost fifty change in temperature. What

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Speaker 1: do you got? Right before we came down the Steve said, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start. I said, I couldn't think of anything.

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Speaker 1: You know what I did this morning? So the missus

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Speaker 1: is out of town visiting the mom, right, so I

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Speaker 1: have to do my own, like you know, I look

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Speaker 1: after myself, which is which is problematic at best, and

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Speaker 1: I do need supervision. But so this morning I had

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Speaker 1: I was doing that and I tried to do the math.

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Speaker 1: I was how long it was going to take me

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Speaker 1: So because I had a thing here I had to

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Speaker 1: do before the show, right, busy day, So in my

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Speaker 1: wisdom and intelligence, the math was wrong. I was like

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Speaker 1: hanging out. I was like an hour and a half

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Speaker 1: early earlier. I was like, so I had to, you know,

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Speaker 1: so you do the math. You know you are both

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Speaker 1: got you know, we're in her you're in your you're sixty,

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Speaker 1: I'm fifty, said, we're you know that kind of age.

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Speaker 1: I like sleep right, yeah, and I and I totally

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Speaker 1: totally cheated myself out of like ninety minutes a good

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Speaker 1: sack time this morning. And I right, and there's nobody

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Speaker 1: in them. It's like nobody's rattling around. I mean I was.

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Speaker 1: It's totally blew it. It's total mental mistakes. To start.

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Speaker 1: It was a rough start, you've got, but now it is.

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Speaker 1: I did get up bright and early and got some

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Speaker 1: stuff done, you know all that. I got that work done,

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Speaker 1: and I was here at the stadium little early and

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Speaker 1: all that, and it was a good event. Uh here

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Speaker 1: But you know when you sit there and you sit

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Speaker 1: there what, oh man, I don't even do for an hour?

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Speaker 1: Yeah you could prep for the show. Well I did,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I mean even you weren't even here

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Speaker 1: that early, right, No, I mean I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: the show. You know. It's it's bad when you walk

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Speaker 1: in the everybody's looking at you. What are you doing

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Speaker 1: There's like eighteen people in the office and I walk

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Speaker 1: good night last night and it started. I did. I

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Speaker 1: was doing, you know, like you I'd prefer to. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I prefer to stay home on Tuesdays and do prep

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Speaker 1: pretty much a spotting board all set up. I had

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Speaker 1: event the Muscular Distrivie Association of Western New York, a

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Speaker 1: fundraiser in which they honored the late great Or Winstein,

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Speaker 1: the former Channel seven news anchor. His family invited my

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Speaker 1: And it hit me out of nowhere, you know, driving

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Speaker 1: And the contactor was a pup, right, so you know everybody, right,

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Speaker 1: It's fun to go to those things. It was funny

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. I didn't I did not know who

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Speaker 1: a great night. They raised a lot of money. I

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Speaker 1: Great memories of Herb Weinstein with his family members there

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Speaker 1: were there. It was really a good night. Came out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. Yeah, and I still got my work done.

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Speaker 1: Got up this morning. While you were roaming around trying

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Speaker 1: to figure outing I was doing dolphins work. Well, that's good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so there are that's where we're at. We got here.

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Speaker 1: You're spotting boars. Do you just keep the same one

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Speaker 1: this matchup. They're still not very good, right. They want

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Speaker 1: a couple in a row. I get that, and they're

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Speaker 1: but they have less talent on the roster now, I

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Speaker 1: They've lost people since they played here a month ago

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Speaker 1: least on paper. I know they're playing better, But on

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Speaker 1: paper they don't have as much talent as they brought

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm really thinking, the Bills got to

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Speaker 1: They have to win this game. The Bills do, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't crush them, but it's certainly what it does. Really,

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Speaker 1: still sticky. What they'd be six and four, they'd still

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Speaker 1: So this is and plus against the Dolphins, who are

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Speaker 1: But Kyle Brandt, who I consider a very entertaining observer

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Speaker 1: I think primarily because he's on the show with us

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Speaker 1: every Tuesday. But when he said yesterday, if the Bills

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening. So I'm not really going

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Speaker 1: to I'm more worried about. Look going into this game,

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Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about how the Bills play rather than

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Speaker 1: still the team that jumped out to that great start

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah they are. I mean their exact same team.

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Speaker 1: They're playing a little up and down. But that's the

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Speaker 1: I anticipate from this game Earth, It's gonna be down

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be another one of those games where

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Speaker 1: you know, whether you think the Dolphins stink or whether

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Speaker 1: stink or whether you think they're the Bills are great.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a tight game because that's how

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Speaker 1: the team is built right now. Unless one of the

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Speaker 1: other teams catches, like I've said a couple of times

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Speaker 1: this week, lightning in a bottle, right, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tight, low scoring game because that's the way the

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Speaker 1: Bills are built right now, and that's the way their

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Speaker 1: offense is playing. And the only way that's going to

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Speaker 1: missing on throughout this season. You know, they've they've they've

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Speaker 1: had some opportunities to stay on the field. They've had

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Speaker 1: some opportunities to hit a big deep ball when the

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Speaker 1: he couldn't you know, he couldn't get it within ten

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Speaker 1: this game is gonna be tight close to the vest.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a nail biter. And you would think

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Speaker 1: because of the bills propensity to be ready for those games,

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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be your team. Want you want

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Speaker 1: your team to pull it out? Yeah, you know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Josh is the focus of our Twitter poll today. We

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you think Noah Pole, But just

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Speaker 1: a question here. It is after twenty NFL starts. Now,

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Speaker 1: where do you see Josh Allen's progression? We'll take whatever

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Speaker 1: after twenty NFL starts. Where are you with Josh Allen?

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Speaker 1: Where do you see his progression? Let's know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Some people will well, I'll let you figure out what

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Speaker 1: It feels good in hear somebody turned the heat up

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Speaker 1: starting yesterday. I think it kicked on. So let's send

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Speaker 1: it outside where it's not the same. Chris Brown bills

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Speaker 1: that bad. But welcome to the frozen tundra field. One. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the sun is out. There is no wind, so

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Speaker 1: is doable as far as I'm concerned. And it was

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Speaker 1: interesting because right when some of the players broke off

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Speaker 1: he told the lineman, he said, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear that anybody's cold today. When you signed with Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: you knew what you were signing up for, so let's

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Speaker 1: get moving and get the blood moving like that. They

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Speaker 1: should put that on the walls inside the training center. No,

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Speaker 1: you knew what you signed up for. That's inspiring right there, right, Bronnie,

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Speaker 1: We've started our show today talking about Josh Allen. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is you know what I found interesting, among other things

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Speaker 1: hear that from Sehn? He kind of said that, didn't

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Speaker 1: he Well, he said he's making adjustments. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think he said he said, we don't want to overcorrect.

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Speaker 1: He said he's making adjustments. He had some turnovers early

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's part of the conversation that's

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Speaker 1: to not overcorrect and thereby overthrow targets, which has been

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Speaker 1: So I think there's a balance there to be struck

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Speaker 1: and I think they're still trying to find that balance obviously. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I both thought on a couple of the long balls

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Speaker 1: it's been moving around once he throws, it's not going

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Speaker 1: we've seen him do this is twelve months ago, he

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Speaker 1: was hitting on these long balls and now he hasn't

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to figure out a reason why. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not one over thirty yards all year. I want to

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Speaker 1: say he's over sixteen on those, if the number is right,

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Speaker 1: if I remember it right. But I think at the

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Speaker 1: know distinctly the last home game he missed on a

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Speaker 1: deep shot. The past faded and tailed inside of where

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Speaker 1: opening that he saw late because his progression was left

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Speaker 1: and ultimately the past is knocked down for an incompletion.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot more at work to just Hey,

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Speaker 1: he's not putting enough arc on a ball to drop

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Speaker 1: but there is no simple fix for this, is what

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Speaker 1: haven't connected on one. It's not just one problem, it's

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Speaker 1: going to require different things from him for everything to

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Speaker 1: And that's part of the reason why those longer and

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Speaker 1: things do have to go right to connect on a

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Speaker 1: the whole, you're looking to hit on about thirty to

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Speaker 1: thirty five percent of those kinds of plays, where some

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Speaker 1: this clear too, And you may or may not agree.

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Speaker 1: There's more to where Josh Ellen needs to improve than

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Speaker 1: just the deep pass right, and I'm sure they've worked

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Speaker 1: on that extensively the last couple of days and especially today,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, And I think the

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Speaker 1: his decision making, or be replicating a coverage in such

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Speaker 1: a way that it changes post snap as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: you can run plays off cards all you want, but

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Speaker 1: to replicate the speed at which things happen to accelerate

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Speaker 1: his internal clock to make a decision the right one

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Speaker 1: that much quicker, even if it's a half a second

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Speaker 1: his processing of what's going on out there after the

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Speaker 1: snap of the ball. One more, I got one more

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Speaker 1: question on Josh Chris. It's big picture. It's actually our

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Speaker 1: where do you think he is in his progression? You know,

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Speaker 1: we're all impatient, we all want Josh to be a superstar, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's twenty starts. He's uh, you know, about almost midway. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's past the midway point. Of a second season as

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Speaker 1: a starter, you'd like to have everything. But I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's really that much off schedule about where

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback should be twenty NFL starts into his career.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's he's lagging way behind, but I'm

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Speaker 1: interested in your thoughts on that. Yeah, I think he's

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Speaker 1: a little behind to what degree. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: respect to that, But I think I think the facts

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Speaker 1: are this, what is he ten touchdowns seven picks, yep

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Speaker 1: in terms of passing touchdowns right now? I think you

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Speaker 1: have to be fair factor in his rushing touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: that equation as well. But I think for the seventh

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Speaker 1: I think this is now. I think the production in

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Speaker 1: to what degree. I think you can, like I said,

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Speaker 1: there has to be an uptick there going forward. And

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Speaker 1: I think, and I'm kind of looking for this, I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any question. And there's some things I

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Speaker 1: was something in that play that gets me. It gives

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Speaker 1: how far he's come. The pre snap read was he

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Speaker 1: had was right on the money, he adjusted out of it,

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Speaker 1: and the execution just wasn't there, not on him, but

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Speaker 1: on John Brown as receiver. John Brown said as much

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Speaker 1: has said, you know, I messed that up. Of execution

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Speaker 1: around him has got to be better. It's not just

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Speaker 1: on Josh. There are some things he's doing pretty darn

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Speaker 1: well and it's not getting looked at or noticed because

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Speaker 1: of the lack of execution around him. I would agree

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Speaker 1: maybe reducing options for a given play. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to pretend to know how many different plays have

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Speaker 1: multiple options, but we know in this era of RPOs

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Speaker 1: option routes, site adjusts, things of that nature. Do we

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Speaker 1: chiefly the skill position players, because with option routes, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think Josh's pre snap recognition of coverage blitz, whatever

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Speaker 1: the next hurdle now for Josh is post snap, because

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Speaker 1: there is a blueprint out there, and New England put

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Speaker 1: force him into bad decisions. Now, while he has improved

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Speaker 1: in that area in terms of reducing turnovers, because all

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Speaker 1: that pressure in Week four had him throw four picks

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Speaker 1: in the game against New England, you go to the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia game, they sent similar pressure. He wasn't successful. You

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Speaker 1: can go to the Miami game, they sent more pressure

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Speaker 1: at him, fits and starts. There were some lulls in

638
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: the offense. Eventually they figured it out and win the game.

639
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: But then last week Cleveland sent a ton of pressure

640
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: at Josh, six and seven man blitzes at times, cover zero,

641
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: things like that, just like New England did, and it

642
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: forced the offense to be ineffective. That's gonna keep happening

643
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: until post snap Josh and this offense have answers and

644
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: beat it. Until that happens, he should expect to see

645
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: heavy pressure and his internal clock getting accelerated because of it.

646
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: On the line with Chris Brown, he is outside at

647
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: Bill's practice on the grass practice field field number one

648
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: outside the head Pro Sports Training Center. And look, the

649
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo offensive issues are not all Josh Allen issues. And

650
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure the coaching staff spent the bulk of the

651
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: last two days on the offensive side of the ball

652
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: trying to find answers. Chris, based on what we saw

653
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: last Sunday against Cleveland and really what I think they

654
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,959
Speaker 1: have at tight end, I think there might be some

655
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: answers there. With both Dawson Knox and Tyler Croft, they've

656
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, kind of moved around the edges

657
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: of making those guys important parts of the offense. But

658
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: I just feel like those two have something to add,

659
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: something to help with the offensive struggle. What do you think?

660
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: I believe Dawson Knox is a matchup problem for opponents.

661
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: And I asked coach on Monday, what's the next step

662
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: for him, and he said, it's got to be consistency.

663
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: I mean again last week, yes, he made some plays.

664
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: He could have made more if he didn't drop the

665
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: ball twice. There were two plays that were to be

666
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: made there that would move the sticks, keep the offense

667
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: on the field, and he dropped both passes, both catchable

668
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: balls at least in my opinion. And so if you

669
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: want to make him a bigger part of the offense,

670
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: he's got to demonstrate in practice that he's going to

671
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: catch everything you throw at him. So that's the step

672
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: that he has to take. And you know, personally, I

673
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: think if you're in a situation where decisions have to

674
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: come quicker and the internal clock is accelerated, for Josh,

675
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: I think you have to turn to players that can

676
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: give you answers faster. I don't know if there's anybody

677
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: on the field that gets separation faster than Cole Beasley,

678
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: and so I think he has to be looked upon

679
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: as more of the hot route option going forward two

680
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: because he gets separation faster than anybody on this team

681
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: in my opinion. So if you want to make somebody

682
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: option one to be a site adjust or a hot route,

683
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: I think number ten is probably your best answer. Doesn't

684
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: say anything to you, Brownie that the Bills willingly threw

685
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: the ball forty one times last weekend in ever to

686
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: win a close ball game. I don't know if they

687
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: would have done that last year, right, No, I understand

688
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: your point and I respect it, and I'm in favor

689
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: of it, meaning run the ball more, better balance. Again,

690
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: this is kind of going back to the conversation I

691
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: had with you guys Monday when I was getting all

692
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: hot and bothered. You have to if you want to

693
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: take some of the burden of the decision making off

694
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen, you run the ball more. And I

695
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: know Murph's gonna say, well, there were a lot of

696
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: eight man boxes. Well, if all an opponent has to

697
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: do is throw an eight man box out there to

698
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: keep you from running. Well, then you're not a good

699
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,719
Speaker 1: NFL offense. So if there's an eight man box, you've

700
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: got to come up with solutions and fine ways to

701
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: still gain enough yards to keep a defense on us.

702
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: So when they put eight in the box, they don't say,

703
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: all right, here comes a pass. Let's get ready for that.

704
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: And that's basically where we are. Don't you start putting

705
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: words in my mouth, Chris, thank you, Chris, all right, Brownie,

706
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 1: I'm just reiterating your words. Chris brown builds it outside

707
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: or Buffalo Bills dot com on the sidelines that practice today,

708
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: twenty sixties out there. He didn't look cold. He looked fine. No,

709
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, it's the sunshine makes everything better? Does wind?

710
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: He has no wind? Yeah? Yeah, a lot of good

711
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: ideas about this Buffalo offense. We have talked a lot

712
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: about Joshi Island. I think most Bills fans are there

713
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: right now, right like, what's the answer. I don't know.

714
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, and you have more insight

715
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: into what works offensive football wise, but um, clearly, I

716
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: mean they have spent I would think the bulk of

717
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: the last two days trying to solve that problem, right, Yeah,

718
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: And it's accentuate his progress or lack of progress, or

719
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: his stage of development, everywhere you want to put where

720
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: he is. It's always accentuated in a loss, very close loss,

721
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: because he has the ball in his hands every every play,

722
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: and you know he has a chance to affect it

723
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: and if they don't, if he doesn't do it enough

724
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: and they lose a close game, you know he's highlighted.

725
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: And he knew it. After coming off the field after

726
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: the game, he's you know, I'd left a lot of

727
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 1: plays out there. When you can get to the point

728
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: where you hit those plays, or you don't leave very

729
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: many of those plays out there, or just stay on

730
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: the field more offensively. Even in a loss, your quarterback

731
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: doesn't look like the reason, you know. And I think

732
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: in this Cleveland Law game, it was so close, I

733
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: think people are looking at John say, man, if you'd

734
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: have done a B or C, if there's this one

735
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: play or whatever, your whole day would have changed. And

736
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: we all know that's the case. I mean, if the

737
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: Bills would have won that game nineteen sixteen and looked

738
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: like they did, everything would have been different, even though

739
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: they're the same guys, same team, and it's just a

740
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: different result. But you know, when when you don't win

741
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: and it's a close game, you look at the guy

742
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: who had the most chances to affect it, and that

743
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: starts with your quarterback. Yep, hey, this came out last night.

744
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: Good news. I think I feel good about it. The

745
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: so since the season. The schedule came out back in

746
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: the spring in April, that Week sixteen game Bills at

747
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: New England was either going to be Saturday or Sunday.

748
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: The league finally made the announcement last night about Saturday,

749
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: December twenty first. The Bills are going to play Saturday,

750
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: December twenty first against New England at New England in Foxborough.

751
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: It's part of three games. It's a triple header Week sixteen.

752
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: It's an NFL Network triple header. So Saturday, December twenty first,

753
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: the Bills play at New England at four thirty pm.

754
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: It's the rematch of the game played up here in

755
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: what Week four. It should be a pretty good one, maybe,

756
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: you know. Obviously it's a game that has potential to

757
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: have some playoff implications. The league moved a couple of

758
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: games or set a couple of games on that Saturday.

759
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: Houston Texans at Tampa Bay one o'clock that Saturday. That's

760
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: where the afternoon starts. The Bills get the second game,

761
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: Bills at New England at four thirty pm, and then

762
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: eight fifteen pm. The tripleheader concludes when the forty nine

763
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: ers are home against the Rams. Should be a good game.

764
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: The game is on NFL Network and locally here on

765
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: WKBWTV Channel seven in Buffalo. I love that, Seeve, you

766
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: know why gets Saturday off? Seriously, honestly speaking, it's great.

767
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: You know I'll be I'm ready for the game by

768
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: Friday night anyway, So there you go Saturday. Well we'll

769
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: leave Friday for into a Foxborough and have the game

770
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: at four thirty, be home by eleven o'clock at night,

771
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: and spend Sunday watching the rest of the action. Yeah.

772
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: I hope it means something too. That's you look by

773
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: the way, it's a second it's not prime time, but

774
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: it's a national television appearance. The Bill is going to

775
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,439
Speaker 1: Dallas in a couple of weeks on Thanksgiving National TV.

776
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: The only game going on same thing on Saturday, December

777
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: twenty first, So put that complaint. Beside the Bills are

778
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: National TV. Yeah, the four thirty windows the big window,

779
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, because Saturday night people go out the

780
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: same thing. Sunday night football is big, but the four

781
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: thirty Sunday afternoon window is the one that crushes the ratings.

782
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: I hope it means something, really, I do too, and

783
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: I think it will. Yeah, I think it will, but

784
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see how much it means.

785
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm certainly it's gonna probably have a big effect on

786
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: the Bills chance to make the playoffs, certainly the Patriots

787
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: and the and the division and how that goes. But

788
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: m yeah, it's just one that's like, what third year

789
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: in a row the Bills have played the Patriots on

790
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 1: Week sixteen something like that. They're a lot around Christmas,

791
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: right the last couple of years. You smell a conspiracy

792
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: here or I'm just because they do that. The league

793
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: does it, not on purpose that it'll be in New

794
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: England late, but they do. But they do pitch and

795
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: division games at the beginning of the schedule and the

796
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: end of the schedule. Last year it was Week sixteen.

797
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, it was Week sixteen. Yeah, there you go, yeah, okay,

798
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: three three years. But I'm all right with that. I

799
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: like that. I like the fact that does Saturday. That

800
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me. All Right, what do you think? What

801
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: do you see Josh Allen's progression after twenty NFL starts.

802
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: We'll get to your phone calls. Read some of the

803
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: tweets on the tweet sheet. Got a good show. I

804
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: haven't even gone through what we got here. We just

805
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: hit Chris brown Field Gates from ESPN NFL reporter. Field

806
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 1: Gates going to join us at one coming up after practice,

807
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from tarn Johnson. Bill's cornerback schedule to

808
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: join us. Ryan Fitzpatrick in the two o'clock our former

809
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: Bills quarterback starter now for the Miami Dolphins. It's unusual

810
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: for the starter for the Bills opponent to be on

811
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: the opposite the city's radio show. Don't you think? I

812
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: don't know we are. I don't think we've ever done

813
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: it here with Fits And he'd be the likely candidate,

814
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: was he on? He wasn't on with us week four

815
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago? Right, Nope, the starting quarterback for our opponent

816
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: this week is coming on the radio with US today.

817
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: Great that's kind of cool. Fits. He was willingness to protici.

818
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: I salute our producer Jay Harris. We don't do that

819
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: often enough. He did a good job, salute him enough,

820
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: or he doesn't do things that we should salutem. I'm

821
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: just as a simple question. I think it's great. How

822
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: frustrated are you with the last lack of success? I

823
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: can't wait to productor I'm thinking about Yeah, I'm gonna ask.

824
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Fits this just a little freeb I

825
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: was thinking about this last night when Jay sent us

826
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: the note that Fits is coming on. Look, he's not

827
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: going to Pro Football Hall of Fame, right, we know that,

828
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: But he's got Fitz has got some pretty amazing career accomplishments, right,

829
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: the only guy to start for eight different teams, the

830
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: only guy to throw a touchdown pass for eight different teams.

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Speaker 1: I had a note, let me find it. How many

832
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: head coaches has he played? He's got at least? Right, then,

833
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: also stuff that he can and on his resume that

834
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: he accomplished as a starter. Where does it if two

835
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: touchdown passes this year? He probably will, right? If he

836
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,959
Speaker 1: keeps starting. He's just the eighth player in NFL history,

837
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: who's drafted in the seventh round or lower to throw

838
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: for two hundred more career touchdowns. Again, these are not

839
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame numbers. They are not These are not

840
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame credentials. But he's got stuff. He's got accomplishments.

841
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: He's got pelts on the wall if it's does right.

842
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: He talked him about that. Yeah, absolutely, And at this

843
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: point of his career, and I know he's probably not

844
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: done this, and you and knowing him like you and

845
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: I do, he could not possibly at this point care

846
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: anything about all of that stuff. It's been a nice career.

847
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: He's bounced around a little bit, no question, that's kind

848
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Speaker 1: of his thing. Eight teams. He's the only guy to

849
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Speaker 1: ever do that and throw a touchdown. He started had

850
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: some let's face it, he's had some fortuitous things happen

851
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: for him to get him on the field. An injury here,

852
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: a tweaked ankle here, hurt knee there, and he's obviously

853
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: signed as a backup. He's an incredibly smart quarterback, the

854
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: all mcbro in the locker room, and the guys love him.

855
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: You love playing for him. He's got a great sense

856
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: of humor. He's self defecating. Um deprecate, yeah, self, Yeah,

857
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: I hope he self defecates on them Sunday up. No,

858
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: he's self deprecating. He's just a great dude. So he's

859
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: one of the guys it's easy to cheer for, but

860
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't think about any of the cool stuff that

861
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: we are like sitting over here, going to look at

862
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: this guy and he's got, you know, a bunch of kids,

863
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: and you think about how his kids have grown up

864
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: bouncing around from NFL city to NFL City, to NFL

865
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: city to NFL city, and their dad has been this

866
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: guy that has galvanized just about every team he's been on.

867
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: Absolutely right. Fitzpatrick on the show with us today at two, UM,

868
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: and that's it. We got a pretty good show. Oh,

869
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: Coffee with the Bills coming up today as well, So

870
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: stick around, a good show. We want to talk to

871
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: you when we come back. Dialus up eighth three fifty

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

873
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: Just keep me from self defecating. I think you're mayor.

874
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: I've right where do you see Josh Allen there? Right now?

875
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: After twenty NFL starts, We're coming back. One Bill's Live

876
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health Live from the Seneca Studio on

877
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live, John Murphy

878
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: see tasker coming here from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park.

879
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: The Bills are practicing, getting ready for Miami. We're getting

880
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: ready for Miami as well. Twenty NFL starts in Josh

881
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: Allen's resume right now. Where do you see his progression?

882
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: What do you think? Kind of a wide open, big

883
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: picture question for you. Let's get to some phone calls.

884
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: John on the line from Florida, John, Welcome, Where in

885
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: Florida are you? John? I'm in Jupiter, Florida. Know where

886
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: it is? Good weather, Ammy, But I grew up in Buffalo. Okay,

887
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: Bills fan, you're going to the game Sunday. First, I

888
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: was at the very first game in nineteen sixty with

889
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: my dad. WHOA, there you go, guys. Here's what I

890
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: want to say that really troubles me about this Josh

891
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: Allen situation. Hey, I go to Division three football games

892
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: or high school games, and I can see a quarterback

893
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: not overthrow the long ball by ten to fifteen yards.

894
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't just miss a receiver. He's just

895
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: way way off face. Disturbing to see a guy at

896
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: this level who can't throw a long ball to a

897
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: wide open receiver. Well he did last year, though, Jah,

898
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: why do you think he's changed from last year this year?

899
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's why I'm asking you, Steve, what's happened. Well,

900
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: there's we had this conversation just last segment about with

901
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, and we think there's the bottom line is

902
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: every play is different, and there's been a couple of

903
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: instances in the last month or so when they've tried

904
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: to go deep and the ball's got blown around because

905
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: the wind, particularly here in Buffalo. There's been times when

906
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: he's you know, when pressure's got to him. He hasn't

907
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: thrown off a good platform. Uh. They've continued to try

908
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: the deep ball and still haven't hooked up on one.

909
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: But you would think at some point, as you always say,

910
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, even a blind hog gets an acorn once

911
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: in a while, that's something's gonna happen, that they'll hit

912
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: on one and then maybe the floodgates will open. But

913
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: I don't I'm with you. They hit him last year.

914
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: There they look good doing include the overcorrection, like Josh

915
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: hinted Dan at Sunday and McDermot almost and I think, look, look,

916
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: you can look at the last four or five weeks

917
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: of the season, uh deep into it and say, you know,

918
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: he was turning it over so much early on John

919
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: that now he's trying to make sure he doesn't turn

920
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: it over, and he's throwing the ball, you know, sky

921
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: high or too far. So maybe those all those are

922
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: probably part of the reason on each one of those passes.

923
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: Let's go to David north Towna Winda, Hello, Dave, welcome

924
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: to the show. Hi, how are you all good? Thank you? Um,

925
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: I got maybe two questions for you. Okay. For one thing,

926
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: I don't think it's so much that he's overthrowing his receivers.

927
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: The receivers have to break loose from their defenders, and uh,

928
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: Josh Allen gets in trouble, they're not coming back to

929
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: help them out. You're standing in one spot. Instead. You

930
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: look at any other team in the NFL, and they're

931
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: always coming back to help out their quarterback. Well, there's

932
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I don't know if there's a

933
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: lot of I mean, that's a that's a philosophy that

934
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: you're right. It's called a scramble drill and if the

935
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: quarterback brace contain or if if something happens, you've got

936
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: to break your route off and just and kind of

937
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: play a little streetball. You've seen a lot of plays

938
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: be made over the years like and even this year,

939
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: plays are made like that when quarterbacks scrambled around. Russell

940
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: Wilson is phenomenal at it. That's one of his gifts.

941
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is really good at it. Ben Roethlisberger, particularly

942
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: early in his career, was really that's how they got

943
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: to and won a couple of Super Bowls because Ben

944
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: could make plays off the page. And I agree with you.

945
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: Once that happens, it's as much on the receivers as

946
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: it is on Josh. But it's also something they work

947
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: on together. Another point there, Dave. Yeah, Yeah, I noticed

948
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: two weeks ago they were doing the quarterback option run

949
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: and that was working pretty well. What are your friend do?

950
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't recall that either Josh Allen or get involved

951
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: from the center. He'd run to the side and if

952
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: they were coming after him, he'd just uh later roll

953
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: it to his running back. That was hear him. It

954
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: was like a college running back option. Yeah, they as

955
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: part of their running game. They probably got some plays

956
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: like that in and and last week. And here's the

957
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: thing too. I remember last week one time where it

958
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: seemed like where Josh was done an RPO or run

959
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: pass option where he could either give it to Devin Singletary,

960
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: keep it himself, or throw it. Maybe throw it, and

961
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: they kind of got a little bit crossed up. But

962
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: every time Josh they have that play called and Josh

963
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: keeps himself, you're taking it out of the hands of

964
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. So whether the defense wants you to or not,

965
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: he should get something out of it. You're right, and

966
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: I their running game is diverse. They do have some

967
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: of that option stuff in. They do some of that

968
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: RPO stuff in there. They got zone reads, they got

969
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: man reads. All that stuff's in there, and it's up

970
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff to figure out by looking at

971
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: the defense on film is what's going to work that week.

972
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: So that's why you see it one week and maybe

973
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: not see it the next field. Yates from ESPN is

974
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: going to join us when we come back. Come on

975
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: back with us. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health

976
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: Live from the Seneca Studio, Seneca resorts in Casino. Nothing

977
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: comes close. Hello, Bill's Radio Network Sports Date. The update

978
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive, The Bill's practicing outdoors Today. It

979
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: is twenty six degrees and cloudy here in Buffalo. Sunday

980
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: in Florida it will be fifty degrees, warmer, seventy five

981
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: and sunny. Bill's beat the Dolphins here thirty one, twenty

982
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: one in Orchard Park last month. This Sunday will be

983
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's fifth started quarterback since he returned to the

984
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: line in from Miami, and that happened at Buffalo last month.

985
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: Head coach Brian Flores says fitz is the starter for

986
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. Fitzpatrick will be on the show with

987
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 1: us about one hour from now. Veteran rest days today

988
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: for a linebacker Lorenzo Alexander an offensive lineman, Tie and

989
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: Sky the referee Sunday, Scott Novak, the Bills and the

990
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: Dolphins coming up Sunday, got the game for you right

991
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: here on our flagship radio station in Buffalo, w g

992
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: R Sports Radio five fifty. Bill's Week sixteen game is

993
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: now a Saturday game. The NFL made the announcement yesterday.

994
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: Three Saturday games on December twenty first, the Bills in

995
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: New England for thirty kickoff that Saturday. When the schedule

996
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: came out, they left it open Saturday or Sunday. They

997
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: decided to have the Bills play on Saturday. NFL teams

998
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: were told yesterday that a private workout will be held

999
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: for Fridge in quarterback Commin Kaepernick this Saturday in Atlanta.

1000
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: It will include on the field work in an interview.

1001
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: All teams are invited to it. Ten video of both

1002
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: the workout in the interview will be made available to

1003
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: the teams as well. Sae Quon Barkley of the Giants

1004
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: is not one, but he's still not going to accept

1005
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: being shut down. Where the Giants just two wins and

1006
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: eight losses and need to get going. Barkley had an

1007
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: X ray on his shoulder after their loss to the Jets.

1008
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: My shoulder is expected to be fine. There's time for

1009
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: him to recover. The Giants have their bye week in

1010
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: Barkley says when they're playing he will be back. Savers

1011
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: practicing today at key Bank Center. The Savers host Carolina

1012
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: tomorrow night at seven o'clock. On Saturday, they are home

1013
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: against Ottawa on Saturday night at Keybank Center, and the

1014
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: Bisons have a new manager. Their parent club, the Blue Jays,

1015
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: announced today that they picked Ken Huckabee as a manager

1016
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: of the Bisons for the upcoming season. The former big

1017
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: league catcher, he'll be the twenty first manager in the

1018
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: Bisons Modern era era. Let's say that word wrong era?

1019
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: Era is right? Era? What did I say? Era? I

1020
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: think he said deprecate. I'm trying to help you live

1021
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: that down. Now. You keep bringing up a guy. It's

1022
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: so fi You're like Sam Darnold talking about seeing ghosts. Right,

1023
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: You're never gonna let that one. Can't get it go.

1024
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: I'm align with us right now. Happy to have him

1025
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: to Wednesdays at one o'cock is the time we talked

1026
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: with ESPN NFL insider Field Yates. He's on the line, Hello, Field,

1027
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker Rupp here in Buffalo miss him.

1028
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: Good moments in the first hour when Steve where Steve

1029
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: should I tell him? No? Steve was trying to were

1030
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick. Steve was trying to say he

1031
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: was self deprecating, and it came out self defecating, which

1032
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: is not really fits. I'm not even sure what self

1033
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 1: defecating would actually entail. I got a pretty strong idea,

1034
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: but you know, needles say, it's not the message I

1035
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: was trying to get through. But thanks for coming on field.

1036
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: What do you think about this Bills this week after

1037
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: that Brown's loss? Yeah, you're guys, and on paper, the

1038
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: Bill should be winning on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.

1039
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: Dolphins now have a winning streak of two games. They've

1040
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: shown they're tough, they've shown themselves to be resilient. They

1041
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: also have a talent gap though that's the reality for

1042
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: the Bill. And you know, early on this season, when

1043
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: people were poking holes and the Bill's schedule, people would

1044
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: say things like who have they played? And my retorts

1045
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: on this show and otherwise was they don't make the schedule.

1046
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: And the sign of a good team is one that

1047
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 1: beats the teams they should. They beat both the Jets

1048
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: and the Giants of MetLife. Stad am they beat the Bangles,

1049
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: that beat the Redskins. I get it. None of those

1050
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: teams are scaring the bejeezis out of anybody that being said,

1051
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: you gotta beat them. Last week was one where they

1052
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: gave it away. They should have beat the Browns I

1053
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: believe they are them would talented team certainly, and they

1054
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: had a chance to win that game last week obviously

1055
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: with the fourth quarter lead. That need to make sure

1056
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: the games like Sunday are an aberration another trend, because

1057
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: although last week was tough, they're still right in to

1058
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: think of the playoff race. They should win this game

1059
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and I know that the coaches can't go

1060
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: into that with that mindset. They can't tell the players

1061
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: that we show up on Sunday and we just win.

1062
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: There's a lot more that goes into it, but I

1063
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: just think from our point of view, I think the

1064
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: expectation going into this game is this is a game

1065
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: that they can take care of, and if they do,

1066
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: there's something to build off them. Seven wins in ten

1067
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: games is a really positive start for any NFL team

1068
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: in a season. They feel. There's no mystery about Buffalo struggles.

1069
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: It's offense, and McDermott admitted it minutes after the game Sunday.

1070
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: We need to score more points at this and we're

1071
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: not late in the season, but we're in the second half.

1072
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: What can a team do to expect to get better offensively?

1073
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: There's you know, Jerry rice Is and walking through that door,

1074
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: as they said. Yeah, I don't want to say give

1075
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: up hope, because that's ridiculous, right, I mean, you've got

1076
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: how many more games? Seven games left to play just

1077
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 1: in the regular season. I think you have to also

1078
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: deal with the reality that this is not going to

1079
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: be anything. It's not gonna be the Ravens. Y're not

1080
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: gonna be the Chiefs this year. Offensively, I think, and

1081
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm sort of just beating the same drum

1082
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: that so many others have been beating. Is there are

1083
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,240
Speaker 1: a couple of subtle changes that might make some sense.

1084
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: I think the Devin Singletary is a player that's earned

1085
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: more and more playing time. No, I understand the need

1086
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: to kind of bow out his talent with the fact

1087
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: that you do have Frank Gore still and that Devin

1088
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: Singletary has been banged up, but it seems like he

1089
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: is the type of player that when the football is

1090
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: in his hands, he brings good things. And there's a

1091
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: reason why Robert Foster did not play or did not

1092
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: have a catch until this past week. Now. I don't

1093
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: know all the reason behind that, but obviously there's something

1094
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: that coaching staff is not seeing or has not seen

1095
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,919
Speaker 1: up to this point. That being said, he is sort

1096
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: of like microwave ball offense, right you put it in

1097
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: the minute, put it in the microwave for an out

1098
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: for a minute, and next thing you know, you have

1099
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: a full cooked meal. In this case, it's a long touchdown.

1100
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: So you would like to think that Robert Foster's explosive

1101
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: plays could find a way to be more of a

1102
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: weekly focus for the Bills. The fact that he got

1103
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: on the catchboard last week was a good start, and

1104
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: we all remember how explosive he was last year. He

1105
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: was their receiving group towards the back half of the season.

1106
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: So would not be, at least in my estimation, a

1107
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: bad idea to involve Robert Foster a bit more weekly

1108
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: game plan. Yeah, and I think that's the thing. Do

1109
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: you think it's And we're in the fans and us

1110
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: here on this show, we're kind of focused on Josh

1111
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: Allen and some of the things he's doing well, some

1112
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: of the things he's not doing well. The ball is

1113
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: still in a close game. As I made this point

1114
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago that you always look at the

1115
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: guy who can affect it most as being the biggest

1116
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: difference as the reason why, particularly in a close loss,

1117
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: and that's what we're looking at with Josh Allen. No

1118
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: question and how much in season upward trajectory is there

1119
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. I think it's a fair question to ask,

1120
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: because you know, week nine, you kind of are what

1121
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: you are in some spots, and it's not like you

1122
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: play multiple quarterbacks, right, so if you have a running

1123
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: back that's struggling or an offensive lineman the struggling, you

1124
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: might just sub that player out because you have out

1125
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: their options on the roster. You are who you are

1126
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: with one quarterback in this league. And Josh, you know,

1127
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: I still remain of the mindset that he is now

1128
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: a year and a half into his NFL career and

1129
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of room for him to grow. The

1130
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: problem is when you're six and three and you're in

1131
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: the playoff mix and you have a chance to at

1132
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: least get into the dance this year, then fans, and

1133
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: understandably so and followers of the team don't want to

1134
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: hear excuses about the quarterback and being on schedule with

1135
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: his development. Josh I think has to be a bit

1136
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: more assertive, a bit more consistent, turnovers need to be eliminated,

1137
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: as is the case for every quarterback. But accuracy is

1138
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: what it's going to come back down to for Josh Allen,

1139
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: and he just needs to make more accurate throws consistently.

1140
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: That's a very boiled down version of what needs to

1141
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: get better. But ultimately, if you're a quarterback in the NFL,

1142
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: that's an easy place to start. Let's work on the

1143
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: nitty gritty first. Yates Guessie is ESPN's NFL Insider. We're

1144
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 1: going to talk about fantasy football in a couple of minutes.

1145
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,720
Speaker 1: With Field, let's talk about the Dolphins. You know they

1146
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: have one two in a row. I was telling people

1147
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: who would work today, the guys I work with here

1148
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: Field that yeah, they're playing better, but well, I don't

1149
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: know if their roster is any better. In fact, I

1150
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: think they lost some pretty significant players in the last

1151
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: month since the Bill's beat them by ten points. Here,

1152
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: what do you think, Yeah, they have, but what they

1153
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: have lost in talent, they have found a way to

1154
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: just play better. And I think part of what's happened

1155
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: with Miami is that at the beginning of the season

1156
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: it was a matter of who was actually going to

1157
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: be around Ninkafitpatrick was trade again and Drake was traded. Obviously,

1158
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: Larahmy Tumpson was traded before the season, but we've seen

1159
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: a lot of guys moved on in Miami. Now you

1160
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: are who you are. Not only have you know most

1161
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: of the most desirable player has been traded, but the

1162
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: NFL trade deadline is behind us. So it's no longer

1163
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: a game of showing up to work and wondering, all right,

1164
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: is this player who has a locker next to me

1165
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: even going to be around next week? This is who

1166
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: the team is. And I don't want to say that

1167
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,439
Speaker 1: the tank for Tua movements is over. They still could

1168
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: finish with the number one pick in the draft. But

1169
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 1: if you look at the NFL right now, I think

1170
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: it's clear they are not the worst team in the

1171
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: NFL based off of the way they play and they're

1172
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,879
Speaker 1: coaching and their preparation. That being said, I still look

1173
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: at this as a game that the Bills need to

1174
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: win on Sunday, and I know that I'm stating in

1175
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: the obvious there, but I still think the Dolphins, for

1176
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: as much progress as they've made, you know, still some

1177
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: limitations for this team. They can be run against. They

1178
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: have a secondary that still needs to reinforce a lot

1179
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: of several several spots. So if there was a game

1180
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: for the Bills passing game to get on track, this

1181
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: is it. You know, I hate the concept of a

1182
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: tank field. I hate to acknowledge a tank. It appeared

1183
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: that's what the Dolphins are doing. And our buddy Armando Salgaro,

1184
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: he's on the show with us tomorrow. He wrote a

1185
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: pretty interesting column the other day in the Miami Herald

1186
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: about how it's almost like a two level thing in

1187
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: Miami now, like coach Coach Flores and his players ignore

1188
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: the tank. They don't care about a tank where the

1189
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: upper levels of management are all in on the tank.

1190
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: That that cannot be a productive or a healthy atmosphere

1191
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: in Miami if in fact that's what's going on. Yeah,

1192
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually think it sort of can be.

1193
00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: Really this sense. Here's why is that On the one hand,

1194
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: it's true, like it probably is true the coaches need

1195
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: to be worried about their day to day livelihood and

1196
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: making sure the players are ready. On the other hand,

1197
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: like the front office sort of can take a bigger

1198
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: picture of you because ultimately they need to find a

1199
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: way to, you know, to do what's best for the

1200
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: franchise going forward. So I actually think it can work.

1201
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: It's a really delicate balance, but I think they found it.

1202
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: I think it actually wasn't working at the beginning of

1203
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: the season because some of the factors I talked about

1204
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: how you just don't know who's gonna be there a

1205
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: week tweak. But I do think this year or sorry,

1206
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: this stretch of the year, the Dolphins have found that balance.

1207
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: Like Brian Flores knows what the deck that he has

1208
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: been dealt is and they're making the best of it

1209
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: going forward. Yeah, And I was going to ask you

1210
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: how much credit does Brian Flores get for turning it

1211
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: around with what seventy percent of a depleted roster that

1212
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,439
Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna get that was depleted even

1213
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 1: further after he thought he had his roster set. I mean,

1214
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: it got worse after the season began for these guys,

1215
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: and it's gotten worse during this season with the injuries.

1216
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: How much credit does Brian Flores get for a two

1217
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: game winning streak with this crew? Yeah? A ton and

1218
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: really a ton. And what I would say is, I

1219
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: think sometimes we just sort of because I was thinking

1220
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: about this a lot recently, with people asking about Coach

1221
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: of the Year candidates and then also spinning things forward

1222
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: to who are some of the most desirable head coaching

1223
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: candidates for twenty twenty and one thing I realize is

1224
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: that although we have thirty two NFL head coaches and

1225
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: we sort of assume generally that they do the same thing,

1226
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: it's clear that every team has a different need from

1227
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: their head coach, and that coach's job can vary year

1228
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: to year. The role for Brian Flores this year. He's

1229
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: obviously a defensive minded head coach, but he has a

1230
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in Pat Grant that he implicitly trust. They

1231
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: have been working together or did work together for a

1232
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: long time prior to this year. But a huge part

1233
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: of what Brian Flores has had to do this year

1234
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: is instill belief into the players that what they're doing

1235
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: is actually going to work, that you can buy into

1236
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: what is being sold right now, which is the elusive

1237
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: yet sometimes we have to admit it tanking, and I

1238
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: think that Brian Floores' ability to keep things on track,

1239
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: to keep the players playing hard to prevent a tank

1240
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: that includes a lack of effort is really impressive. Now

1241
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: they're two and seven, and they probably will finish with

1242
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: somewhere between three and five wins this year. That's not

1243
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: going to get him Coach of the Year consideration, but

1244
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: I still think that you can look at, let's say

1245
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: they finished four and twelve, it might be the most

1246
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: admirable four and twelve job, or admirable job of any

1247
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: coaches one somewhere between two and six games we've seen

1248
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: in quite sometimes. Okay, hey, one more question about the

1249
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: doblins I have for your field, and it's about Steve

1250
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: and I are both very fond of Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's

1251
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: coming on with the show of this next hour from

1252
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: a career standpoint, from a big picture standpoint, and you

1253
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: can talk to this because you've been around the league

1254
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: for a while. I was, I maintained that I said

1255
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: this to my buddy Steve here earlier in the show.

1256
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: Fitz has some kind of unique accomplishments in his career.

1257
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: Not Hall of Fame credentials, but to start and throw

1258
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass for eight different teams. He's two touchdowns

1259
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: away from throwing two hundred for his career. I don't

1260
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: I think he's one of eight players to do the A.

1261
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he's look, he's gonna have an interesting resume

1262
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done what he accomplished in

1263
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: the league. And again, there's no place for him in Canton, Ohio.

1264
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: He would admit that. But well, in terms of NFL history,

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Speaker 1: I think he's done something special here with his career,

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Speaker 1: hasn't he He really has. He's gonna be like the

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Speaker 1: last baseball pitcher who also bat or something like that,

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Speaker 1: like our super utility player in baseball, someone who just

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Speaker 1: continually found value, provided value to his roster. Never the star,

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Speaker 1: never the guy that you built a franchise around, but

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Speaker 1: a player who always was good enough to help you

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Speaker 1: out pinch. And so many people revere Brett Farve for

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Speaker 1: his football accolades because they are basically as good as

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Speaker 1: there is for the quarterback position. Ever, but we also

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Speaker 1: always talk about how much Brett Farve loved the game,

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Speaker 1: and not that Ryan Fitzpatrick has had Brett Farve's career

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Speaker 1: at all, But don't you think that he reminds me

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Speaker 1: of Farve in his pure enjoyment of football. Fitz seems

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01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: to have a blast every time he is out there.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes people might perceive it as care free. I look

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Speaker 1: at it as passionate and the guy is I really

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01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 1: think he's a warrior. I think he's incredibly tough. I

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01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: think his teammates respect the heck out of him. I've

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed the various chapters of Ryan Fitzpatrick, and I

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01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: think that the when Brian floor Is decided to go

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Speaker 1: with fitz people push back on it, and I think

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Speaker 1: it has proven to be a really wise choice for that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll agree that he's going to come on our show

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Speaker 1: in the next hour, and I gotta ask you, let's

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Speaker 1: take a little trip around the National Football League. All

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01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: thirty two teams may be represent it in Atlanta this

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01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:05,439
Speaker 1: weekend on Saturday for Colin Kaepernick's workout that was set

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Speaker 1: up by his agent and the NFL. They've all been invited.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of this workout with Colin Kaepernick?

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Speaker 1: Do you think he'll get signed? Yeah? It's a layered conversation.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would say, is that is it

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Speaker 1: better than no workout? Yes? Is this perfect? No? Could

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Speaker 1: I have thought of a perfect solution? Not necessarily, but

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Speaker 1: what I think it does, And there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways to look at this is I think from

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Speaker 1: the NFL standpoint, it's showing that it's not stagnants on

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Speaker 1: this matter, right, at least in their eyes, might be

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Speaker 1: somewhat of a gesture of goodwill. Beyond that, I think

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Speaker 1: from a team standpoint, it's exposure to Colin Kaepernick, right,

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01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: that's important because quarterback it's not like there's a ton

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01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: of great quarterbacks available. And if they go in there

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01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: and they see a player that they view is capable

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01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 1: of helping them be better than they might, there's a

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Speaker 1: chance he is signed. I think it's still a small chance,

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,919
Speaker 1: but still it also is I don't want to sound

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01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't. I don't want to sound

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Speaker 1: so pessimistic about it, but I think it's fair that

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01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: people have noted this is sort of cover for the

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Speaker 1: NFL too, right, and for teams in some ways. So

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Speaker 1: if a team separate from this previously wanted to sign

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick, it would have been viewed as very bold

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Speaker 1: and audacious to even work him out, much less sign him.

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Speaker 1: Now everyone's gonna have exposure to him. So if someone

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Speaker 1: signs Colin Kaepernick following this workout, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: quite as much sticker shock as there would have been

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Speaker 1: up until this point. I think it'd be very interesting

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01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: to see who actually shows up from each team, because

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Speaker 1: I think most every team will be represented. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there'll be head coaches there just because it's Saturday

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01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: before a game. Obviously there are four teams on a buy,

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01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: but even that might be a long shot. Maybe some

1327
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: general managers. But I think this will be a lot

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01:04:56,200 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: of scouting, you know, scouts, area scouts, pro scouts, regional

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01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:02,919
Speaker 1: scouts that happen to be based in the Southeast, things

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01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: like that that I think will end up being the

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01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: vast majority of it. For Colin Kaepernick, got another quarterback

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Speaker 1: question for you, Field. Are the Jaguars making the right

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01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: move plugging Nick Foles right back in the starting lineup

1334
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 1: and in place of Gardner Minshew, What do you think?

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01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: I think so. I think he's a leader of the team.

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01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: I think he's the player that you signed to be

1337
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: the He could take your offense to new levels this offseason,

1338
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: I think. So. Does it come without risk? No, of course,

1339
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: Not that being said, I do think this was the

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01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: right move. Nick Boles has worked incredibly hard to earn

1341
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: this opportunity. And Gardner Minshew. Even if Gardner Minshew provides

1342
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: four or I guess three and a half years of

1343
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: backup quarterback duty to you behind Nick Boles, Like, I

1344
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: think it's totally fine. I think it's totally and entirely

1345
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: fine for the one hundred and seventy eighth pick in

1346
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: the draft. Excellent value. And if Nick Boles comes back

1347
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: and struggles massively, well then you know you've got a

1348
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: quarterback waiting in the wings and Gardner Minshew that could

1349
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: help you potentially make a playoff push because at division,

1350
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: even though looks like Houston's scream at the crop is

1351
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: still pretty close. Yeah. How good was the Seattle Seahawks

1352
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: forty nine ers game on? I guess it was Monday

1353
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: night Sunday night this week. Really good game in jadeveon

1354
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: Clowney really showed up in a big way for the

1355
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: first time in Seattle. Yeah, game of the year in

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01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: my opinion. I've really really enjoyed it and thought it

1357
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: was just there was some interesting moments down the stretch

1358
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: right It almost felt like each team was starting to

1359
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: give it away to the other late in the fourth

1360
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: quarter and overtime. But that's football and it's about how

1361
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: you bounce back. And I thought it was a really

1362
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 1: impressive showing from Russell Wilson, really impressive showing from the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers defense for the most part, and Jadeveon Clowney,

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01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, that's his moment right there. That's the

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01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: best moment of his Seahawks career and a reminder that

1366
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, sacks are not the only way to measure

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01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman or a pass rushers impact. He was

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01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: all over the field, showed incredible agility and athleticism to

1369
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: scoop and score that football for the touchdown like in

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01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: the way that he did so easily. So a key

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Speaker 1: win for Seattle. There certainly a team that's going to

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Speaker 1: be heard from come January. Field ESPN, NFL Insider also

1373
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: a fantasy football expert on NFL on ESPN. You want

1374
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: to get the fantasy questions, Steve, or you got something

1375
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask him to. One last thing I

1376
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: gotta ask you about around the league. The most amazing

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01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: season I think a quarterback's having. I know that Russell

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01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: Wilson is really knocking it out of the park in Seattle,

1379
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: but Lamar Jackson is doing some things we've never seen

1380
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,919
Speaker 1: anybody do before. Do you think that's gonna be enough?

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01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: Is he changing the game like it looks like he

1382
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: might be, and is it enough to win him the MVP?

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01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: If he keeps up, If he keeps us up, he's

1384
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: got an outstanding shot at winning the NFL MVP. To me,

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01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: it's a two horse race right now between he and

1386
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in terms of changing the game. The reason

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01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: why I say no is because they don't make Lamar

1388
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: Jackson's right, they don't make a bunch of these type

1389
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks that are incredibly athletic in the way that

1390
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: he is. If you look at the top quarterback prospects

1391
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: coming out of this year's class, the early return to yes,

1392
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: it's two Tuggle Byloa out of Alabama and Joe Burrow

1393
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: out of LSU, both good athletes, but neither one of

1394
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 1: them are nearly the player athletically Lamar Jackson is. And

1395
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 1: then when you go to guys like Justin Herbert from Oregon,

1396
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: definitely not the athlete that Lamar Jackson is. So he

1397
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: might be changing the way that teams have to account

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01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: for him this year, but I don't think that all

1399
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden next year, we're going to have five

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson type quarterbacks because he's rare athletically. He truly

1401
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: is rare. All Right, fantasy football questions, we take him

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01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: on Twitter for field Gates will zip through these. From

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01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: Jack he tweets in for a flex Jarvis Landry or

1404
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman, and he says, thank you, pheel Well, you're

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01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: quite welcome. I would go with Tevin Coleman. That Steelers

1406
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 1: defense has been no jokes the start of Week four,

1407
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,679
Speaker 1: all right? From Jay, he says Mark Andrews or Brian

1408
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:47,840
Speaker 1: Hill for a flex and Hunter Henry in my tight

1409
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: end spot. Oh, I would go with Hunter Henry and

1410
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 1: then Brian Hill, who looks to be the next man

1411
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 1: up in that Falcon's backfield. A tweet from JB. Bill's

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01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: defence at Miami or Minnesota defense against Denver? What do

1413
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: you think? I would go with the Bill's defense against Miami.

1414
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: The Bill secondary still is yet to allow you one

1415
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 1: hundred yard receiver. I know the run defense hasn't been great,

1416
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins running offense is about as poor as

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01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 1: there is in the NFL. All right, from sp It's

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01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: a PPR league. Tyrell Williams versus Cincinnati, Jared Cook at

1419
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: Tampa or Kenny Galladay versus Dallas, and that I guess

1420
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: that's Stafford's playing, right, Yeah, well, it's a no brainer

1421
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: of Stafford's playing. But even if he's not playing, as

1422
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: we saw last week, Kenny Gallady, what a special player

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01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: he is. He is tremendous for Detroit. Can I ask

1424
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:44,639
Speaker 1: you them question, Field, what's a PPR league points per reception?

1425
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: So if you have five catches, you get five additional

1426
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 1: points one day, Murf, we're gonna get you playing all

1427
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: kinds of fantasy. Yes, you're gonna start your own league. Field,

1428
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for this great talking with you, Thanks for all

1429
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:59,120
Speaker 1: of your insight. We'll do it again next week. All right, guys,

1430
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: talk to you next week. Field Gates Field fantasy football expert.

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01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: He is an ESPN NFL insider. I admit it. Did

1432
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: you know what PPR is? No? Your interest in the

1433
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 1: vernacular of the sport. Trying to cover to learn just

1434
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: a little bit. What have we learned from today's show?

1435
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: We learned what PPR is? If I yeah, that's right.

1436
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: If here's the thing too, If I start to learn

1437
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 1: more about it and I start to like some spark

1438
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: of competitiveness comes back into me. I'll start doing this

1439
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:30,920
Speaker 1: and then then the show will go down, man, the

1440
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: show about and the family will leave me, and yeah,

1441
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: I'll stop eating. And you know, all right, we're talking

1442
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: about the real football, the Bills and Josh Allen. Where

1443
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: do you see his progression after twenty NFL starts. We

1444
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Give us a call eight

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01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: two five fifty. We haven't read any tweet shit on

1447
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We'll do that. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick

1448
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: coming up at about thirty minutes, so stick around. We

1449
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:55,560
Speaker 1: got a way to go here and a lot of

1450
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: good stuff coming up. One Bill's I presented by Collat

1451
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: of Health Line from the Seneca Studio in Chard Park

1452
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's radio show. It's called One Bills Live.

1453
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 1: It's me and it's Steve Casker. I'm John Murphy. We're

1454
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: coming alive from the Seneca Studio inside the ad Pro

1455
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: Sports Training Center. Outside the ad Pro Sports Training Center,

1456
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: practice continues. It's a cold day out there. It's cold

1457
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: even in the fieldhouse, Steve, but there we go, yeah,

1458
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: seventy five degrees in Miami. I think it has something

1459
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 1: more to do with the surface they're practicing on. It does. Yeah,

1460
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: the environment. Gotcha our question today, question of the day.

1461
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: What do you think about this? Josh Allen right, the

1462
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: focal point of everybody's attention, Uh, struggled. I think that's

1463
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 1: fair to say. Against the Cleveland Browns last Sunday, Where

1464
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: do you see Josh's progression after twenty NFL starts? Where

1465
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: is he in his uh, his progression in the NFL?

1466
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: Give us a call, let's talk about it. Eight three

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01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,759
Speaker 1: two fifty. Let's take a few calls. Arielo in New England.

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01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: You're on the area this Where are you calling from, Arielo?

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: How you doing guys? From where? Rhode Island? Rhode Island? Okay, excellent.

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01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: We'll be there round Christmas time for the Bills game. Yeah,

1472
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: love Rhode Island. Yeah, So how's it going. I live

1473
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 1: actually fifteen miles from Gillette Stadium. Okay, there you go.

1474
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: I've been a Bills fan since you know, I can

1475
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: remember so Jim Kelly he is and the four quarterbacks

1476
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,959
Speaker 1: we've had that I can remember Jen Edwards, EJ. Manuel.

1477
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 1: I think that Josh Allen is. I think he's gonna

1478
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: be it. What do you see? What are you? What's

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01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: the most notable thing you've noted? What is the most notable,

1480
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: noticeable aspect of his game that's improved for you. I

1481
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 1: just think he has it all. I mean with the moves, well,

1482
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:52,600
Speaker 1: he's got the arm strength. I think they put a

1483
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: lot on him. I think the Bills often has been predictable.

1484
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: With the run. We had an app single there for

1485
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: six weeks. I mean gore people. Just the defense were

1486
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 1: sitting back waiting for the deep ball, and they're gonna

1487
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: give you the three yard run, the four yard run.

1488
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: He's not gonna break an eight yard run on you.

1489
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: He's great. But the defense, they know that, they're saying

1490
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: back waiting for the deep ball, and I such spend.

1491
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 1: I think he's he doesn't have the six three wide receiver.

1492
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 1: I love John Brown's. Hey, he's not a one. He's

1493
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: the one A basically runs great routes. Stephen calls, I

1494
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: think he's missing a six fourth frame guy like the

1495
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: Barnado Hobbits. Well, don't get him the ball. I haven't

1496
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: seen the Bills receiver go up and get a cut

1497
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:32,800
Speaker 1: the ball. You know what I mean? Those balls are

1498
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: not you know you you see it throughout the NFL

1499
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: the highlights. Receivers go up and grab these balls. Save

1500
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback? Can there? I don't develoing him out. I

1501
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 1: wonder Steve, thank you for your call. By the way,

1502
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: a relio realio um duo guaims can play that role,

1503
01:13:46,160 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: right And he hasn't played for a couple of weeks.

1504
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think he's in

1505
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 1: active this last week? And I don't know. I think

1506
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 1: that there's It's interesting how they have rough rotated the

1507
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: bottom of the wide receiver rooster on game day with

1508
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:05,759
Speaker 1: John either John Brown not John Brown, with Duke Williams,

1509
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: with Isaiah McKenzie and Bob Foss, Robert Foster, those three

1510
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: guys being up and down, and it's been you know,

1511
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 1: the constants have been, well who's it been. It's been

1512
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 1: John Brown and Cole Beasley and Andre Roberts because Andre

1513
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: Roberts obviously he's a return guy. And then the other

1514
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,839
Speaker 1: two guys in the bottom Isah McKenzie, Foster and Williams.

1515
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: Those guys have been rotated through and it's we haven't

1516
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,560
Speaker 1: really ever gotten that there was a pattern to it

1517
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 1: or anything. It's most it seems to be game plan specific,

1518
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: and the last couple of weeks it has not been.

1519
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: Duke Williams, you know, Arelio on the phone pointed out

1520
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: what he saw and I don't know if I agree

1521
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 1: with it entirely as a as a shortcoming of the

1522
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: wide receivering cord. They don't go up and get balls.

1523
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: Duke Williams is that guy, um and you know we

1524
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: saw it in the Tennessee game. He scored an important

1525
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: touchdown there. But I'm not sure where they're at with

1526
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: that group, and especially as Steve said at the bottom

1527
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: end of day. Group call here from Dominic and Jacksonville, Florida.

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01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: Hello Dominic around the airy. Hey, guys, how are we

1529
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: doing good? I think I call Steven Murph uh. First

1530
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: of all, it's wanted to say, I'm pretty fired up.

1531
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: My wife and I we're gonna be down in Miami

1532
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: watching the game. We got front row seats right behind

1533
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 1: the Bills bench, So I'm definitely Josh supporter. Admittedly, I've

1534
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,679
Speaker 1: been feeling a bit defending them since the Senior Bowl

1535
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: but to me, it's, uh, I think everybody needs to

1536
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: just kind of wait a little bit. Um. I think

1537
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: his progression has been totally fine, lit a little funk

1538
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 1: right now, the whole team is. But um, if sometimes

1539
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: when we look at the negatives, we forget to look

1540
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 1: at the positives. Every game, this guy makes throws and

1541
01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:48,679
Speaker 1: you know, sticks bullets in between two defenders. He makes

1542
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: throws that just sometimes I think we take bills for

1543
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: granted and missed the overall game that this guy has

1544
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 1: ye in the way he loses touchdowns in the red

1545
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,600
Speaker 1: zone that he runs in. When's the last quarterback that

1546
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: we have that ran in as many touchdowns in his

1547
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 1: twenty games? Yeah? Yeah, Josh Allen, you're making really good

1548
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 1: points and I agree with that. Um, And I think

1549
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 1: Steven when we talked about it, when we kind of

1550
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,600
Speaker 1: devise this twitter question, this show question today, where do

1551
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 1: you see his progression? I don't think. I think you'd

1552
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: be hard pressed to say he is not better than

1553
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,720
Speaker 1: he was a year ago at this time. Right, he

1554
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:26,560
Speaker 1: is clearly better. Right, Yeah, make that argument to me

1555
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: that he's regressing. I don't think he is at all.

1556
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: I think he's a much better quarterback than he was

1557
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: twelve months ago. Maybe in a week to week basis,

1558
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: he'll take it like this game, you didn't I didn't

1559
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: play well as well against the Browns as he did,

1560
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: say against the Dolphins or somebody else on the schedule.

1561
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,639
Speaker 1: He does go up and down week week. But I think,

1562
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: as we've said, he he seems to be an upward trend,

1563
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: gradual baby steps, no question. Sometimes you see some things

1564
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: that make he encouraged, and sometimes you things that see

1565
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: things that frustrate us. But I think he's getting better

1566
01:16:58,200 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: and better. And I saw a nice said it or

1567
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: in the show. There are a couple of things he

1568
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: did last week that let you know he's seeing things

1569
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: pre snap. And Chris Brown are Bills insider who gave

1570
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,840
Speaker 1: us a hit live hit from practice today on our program,

1571
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:13,560
Speaker 1: said he seems to be seeing everything pre snap just

1572
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: the way he should, but it's post snap that's still

1573
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,560
Speaker 1: happening a little too fast for him. And one of

1574
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,679
Speaker 1: the things that occurs to me when I say that, Murph,

1575
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 1: We've had all these veteran quarterbacks come through different teams,

1576
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: and I covered him for CBS, They'll say, listen, when

1577
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:29,560
Speaker 1: he starts seeing these teams for the second time, for

1578
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:32,600
Speaker 1: the third time. Then it starts to slow down for you.

1579
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if this Miami defense will

1580
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: get a little slower or he'll do some things he

1581
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:39,719
Speaker 1: wasn't able to do the first time because it looks

1582
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: so familiar to him. It'll be interesting to see if

1583
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: he plays better. I guess a team the second time.

1584
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: First time. He's played somebody twice this year, right, Yeah,

1585
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: and he's played the Dolphins last year, but that was

1586
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: a different coaching staff, a different philosophy, different defense. So

1587
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: this is the first team he's going to get a

1588
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: second look at him one season. He's had his best

1589
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: games against the Dolphins. We talked about that game he

1590
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: had last week last year and seventeen. He dominated in

1591
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: the finale three through for three, ran for two. Yeah,

1592
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: he's only playing against him three times. The finale was

1593
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,600
Speaker 1: amazing last December at Miami, the game that you know

1594
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: took a pizza out of our Hearty threw two touchdown passes,

1595
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: ran should have had three, should have ran for one

1596
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:21,720
Speaker 1: hundred thirty five yards in that game and the heat

1597
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,760
Speaker 1: to Charles Clay just miss winning the game. He's played

1598
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: his best games against Miami that game and then and

1599
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: the Houston game down in Houston still bother me. I

1600
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: know that's a team that took those are two games

1601
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: to two plays. Take you to eight and eight on

1602
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: that year, not you know, all the rampifications to go

1603
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: with it, but this is a different You have a

1604
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: different feel about your team when you're eight and eighth

1605
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: than you do when you're six and ten. I think,

1606
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: don't you, And I think ancient history, Steve, it is

1607
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: six and three now, that's also but I'll tell you

1608
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: this too. Think about that those plays last year. They're

1609
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: hitting more of those this year. Obviously they're six and

1610
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: three instead of their six and two coming into last week,

1611
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:56,600
Speaker 1: instead of two and six where they were at the

1612
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: halfway point last year. They're much different plays because they're

1613
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: hitting more are those plays. And I think we talked

1614
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 1: about the margin of aera. You know, two missed field

1615
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: goals this last week was the margin. They couldn't cover that,

1616
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,760
Speaker 1: But that's still a bigger margin of aera than they've

1617
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,080
Speaker 1: had in a while. Yeah, yeah, you know you're right.

1618
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: Call here from Stan in Buffalo, Hello saying go ahead.

1619
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:22,759
Speaker 1: You're on the air with this Stan, how you're doing today, Okay,

1620
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: go ahead, good goods, just want to jump in. I

1621
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 1: know we spoke Monday about about certain things as far

1622
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: as progression that Josh I'd like the progression. Um. You know,

1623
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that stick out. I think

1624
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 1: the way to move his progression forward personally is it's

1625
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 1: got to be personnel. I just you know, you brought

1626
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: Duke Williams off the practice squad and now you sat

1627
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,560
Speaker 1: him two games. One player that really sticks out to

1628
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: me that I think personnel helps is there was a

1629
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: play in the game. I don't know if it's the

1630
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,560
Speaker 1: third quarter when it was, but Andre roberts Rand was

1631
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: in the slot. We ran a good route, but hesitated

1632
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: and Josh had him for and through a ninety eight

1633
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: minor or fastball and Andre was like, oh I hesitated

1634
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: and boomt dude. Yeah yeah that was a slant. Yeah.

1635
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: I think I think if Andrey actually breaks out of

1636
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: that heart, he's still running back to Buffalo right now,

1637
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: he's Forrest Gump. He's just it's gone. But if you

1638
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: got the wide receiver, but the Duke or an Isaiah

1639
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:29,799
Speaker 1: in that slot, I think Andre is a great, great

1640
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: return guy. Obviously, but I think he's your last choice

1641
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 1: to put in his a receiver slot. I think I

1642
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 1: don't know why we're sitting and only playing five wide

1643
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: receivers slots. I don't know why he's good questions you guys,

1644
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: But I think it's personnel. I think I think we

1645
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: sit Lee Smith, and I think we bring in the

1646
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: young guns and run Sweeney knocks and effort and start

1647
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: doing some some many many Jake gun, many hurry up offense,

1648
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: and I think Josh feels comfortable that way. Yeah, Stan,

1649
01:20:58,360 --> 01:20:59,800
Speaker 1: you got a lot of ideas, right, and some of

1650
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: you know pretty good and you make some good points too.

1651
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: I don't know about the k gun or the hurry up,

1652
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 1: but I do think this Josh did a point in

1653
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: his development now and we haven't talked about this, this

1654
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: aspect of it. He can be helped by the guys

1655
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: around him, by Andre Roberts and something I and I

1656
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: would venture to guess there are real solid reasons why

1657
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,799
Speaker 1: coaching staff is churning the bottom of the wide receiver

1658
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 1: group from week to week and why Duke Williams is

1659
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: not active this week and Isaiah McKenzie is and vice versa,

1660
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: and Bob fought. Robert Foster is up and he's down.

1661
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 1: There's some real reasons for that, and I think a

1662
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: lot of what is I think a lot of the

1663
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 1: problems with the offense being inconsistent is lack of execution,

1664
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: where you've got guys maybe running the wrong route, guys

1665
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:48,679
Speaker 1: maybe making the wrong read. Guys. Maybe Josh is better

1666
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: than we think he is, and the guys out there

1667
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 1: aren't playing as well as we think they are or

1668
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: as well as it looks like. There may be some

1669
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: of that going on, and I think at this point

1670
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 1: in Josh's development, my point is these guys can help

1671
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: him a little bit by being perfect in what they do,

1672
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 1: their adjustments, their routes and all that. And I think

1673
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,600
Speaker 1: hopefully for all of us, you want Josh to be

1674
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: one of those quarterbacks that elevates their play. I don't

1675
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: think he's there yet. I don't think he's there yet,

1676
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 1: but I think ultimately he's It could be a reverse role,

1677
01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:21,560
Speaker 1: and and you know, he can elevate the play of

1678
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:23,799
Speaker 1: the wide receivers around him. I think the good quarterbacks

1679
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Speaker 1: are able to do that, and certainly when you have

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01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: the best guys out there, when you have great wide

1681
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,719
Speaker 1: receivers and an elite quarterback. You know you're tough to stop.

1682
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Speaker 1: Let's get some tweets in. We've had a lot, got

1683
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: a good responses to our question, where do you see

1684
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's progression after twenty NFL starts? We go to

1685
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

1686
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,760
Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Bills fan twelve

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01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: to eighty three writes in, well, Josh is nowhere there

1688
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: he needs to be, but he is being coached well

1689
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: and is accepting coaching. He seems to be trying to

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01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: become the pocket passer you need in the NFL, play

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01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: smart to be great in the future. For now, I'm

1692
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: with Steve. This is our team. Get used to watching

1693
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: games like this. Okay, you can consider right, Yeah, I see.

1694
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: I can hug this team. You can hug them. You

1695
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:08,599
Speaker 1: can also hug them and say let's get better. Yeah,

1696
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: I mean, but I know this. The trade deadline's gone.

1697
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:13,760
Speaker 1: They're not drafting anybody. Nobody's walking through the door. These

1698
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 1: are the guys you're gonna have to live and die with.

1699
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: And I'd rather be happily on this six and three

1700
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: wagon that they're on and see what happens. You can

1701
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: hug them and say and I think I think the

1702
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: points are in there somewhere. I think this group is

1703
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: good enough. Talent wise, execution wise, they're not. And that

1704
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: comes down to stuff that they do all in the

1705
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,760
Speaker 1: fields like today. Days like today today is when they

1706
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: can start to win in Miami this weekend. And I

1707
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: think that's where, uh, you know, all the nuts and

1708
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 1: bolts get put in. And I think that's one of

1709
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: the things when you get in these tight games, it's

1710
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: the details of days like a Wednesday and a Thursday

1711
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: and a Friday practice that win games on Sundays and

1712
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's what needs to be as good

1713
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: as anything about the team or if anything needs to change,

1714
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: if indeed it isn't isn't going the way they wanted to,

1715
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: I think it starts on days like during the week

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01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: that we're seeing today. Really good point coming up on

1717
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: the next tweet on the tweet sheet from NICKI, who

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01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: says Allen definitely needs to get better, but there was

1719
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: a time when quarterbacks developed behind a veteran for years

1720
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 1: before starting. If Josh Allen does not get better, that's

1721
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 1: a problem. But let's not pretend that Allen is supposed

1722
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: to be at his full potential at this point in

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01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: his career. Really good point, NICKI, And look, how much

1724
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: time do you give him? I don't know the answer

1725
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: to that. I've been thinking about that a lot this week,

1726
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: Steve twenty NFL starts. It's not insignificant, but it's certainly

1727
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 1: not a lot of NFL starts. At what point, how

1728
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 1: much patience do you have? I guess I still have

1729
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: patience with Josh Allen. I still believe he's gonna get

1730
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: he's gonna get better. I think we're seeing it gradually, slowly,

1731
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: not as quickly as many people that hope. But it's

1732
01:24:51,439 --> 01:24:54,559
Speaker 1: an interesting question, and he's right, you know, not toom

1733
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: long ago, quarterbacks would sit and wait and watch and

1734
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: learn and then maybe play after a couple of years. Right,

1735
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how far down this rabbit hole you

1736
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: want to go with While he's playing at an early

1737
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:05,600
Speaker 1: age and he might have had a chance to be

1738
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: mentored by an older guy. You got him on a

1739
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: five year contract, he's less than two seasons into it.

1740
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: You don't have to make a decision about that long

1741
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 1: term for a long time. So you know, you're it's

1742
01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: just like the rest of the team. You may you

1743
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 1: better love him for the next couple of years, because

1744
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of him, and we're gonna

1745
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 1: watch every snap and every throw that he makes, and we'll,

1746
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: I think we'll all have a really good idea of

1747
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: who he is, you know then, But right now we

1748
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: just get glimpses of it. Yeah, and we'll see. All right,

1749
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: we got more to come. We got Ryan Fitzpacker's scheduled

1750
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: to be on the show, and much much more. Come

1751
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 1: on back, One Goes I, presented by Kalaida Health from

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01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1753
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 1: I'll go back One goes Live, jam Verfee, Steve Tasker,

1754
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,759
Speaker 1: Bill's practice as ended, and we are joined in studio

1755
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: by Bill's nickel corner, Terren Johnson. Right up the practice field,

1756
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: pads on and everything you want. You came in here

1757
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,639
Speaker 1: to warm up, didn't you arn? Pretty? I definitely did.

1758
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: It's about twenty below outside, man, we gotta we gotta

1759
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 1: cranked up and here you feel good? He's good? Right?

1760
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,680
Speaker 1: I do? Feel yeah? We got right Fitzpactor coming up

1761
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 1: on the showing about ten or fifteen minutes. Give us

1762
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 1: a question for him, what would you what would you

1763
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 1: want to note from Fitts? I'd say, how is he

1764
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: so fearless? I feel like he plays fairless? Yeah, I

1765
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: think that's a good point. I like that as a quarterback. Yeah,

1766
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: what do you think of him? Just kind of a

1767
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: different type of quarterback? You ran for a touchdown here

1768
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: last month, and he'll hang in there and take hits.

1769
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: He that's the fearless part to talk about, right, Yeah,

1770
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think he's a dog. Yeah. Yeah,

1771
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: But he's been on eight teams eight that's like, and

1772
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:54,519
Speaker 1: he's start a touchdown for each of those eight teams.

1773
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 1: He's only got in history to do it, so he's

1774
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 1: done some kind of cool stuff. But he does bring

1775
01:26:58,240 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 1: a little something different to the offense. What do you

1776
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: notice watching film with this Dolphins team that you saw

1777
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: a month ago. I'm I feel like he's definitely good

1778
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:08,640
Speaker 1: with bringing guys along, you know, um, just he's a

1779
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 1: he has control of the offense, and he's a real leader.

1780
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:12,599
Speaker 1: And you can tell that he's been in the league

1781
01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: for for a number of years. They seemed to they

1782
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: won a couple in a row. And you know they

1783
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: were here a month ago, they seemed to be Uh,

1784
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 1: they've come together a little bit of teams, right, you

1785
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 1: must see that from it's only a month ago. You

1786
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: watch their first five games. Now you see it almost

1787
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: a different team, even though the names might be the same.

1788
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, yeah, even when they played

1789
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: against US, I feel like they had a fire about him,

1790
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 1: you know. So we just got to make sure we're

1791
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,720
Speaker 1: not looking past any teams ever, So we're just making

1792
01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: sure we're in tune to this game coming on Sunday.

1793
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 1: What's the locker room vibe coming off coming off a close, lost,

1794
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: tough loss on the road in Cleveland, coming back trying

1795
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:49,680
Speaker 1: to you know, start the process again. I mean, how,

1796
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: how what's the vibe like? Just just getting back to

1797
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 1: to the fundamentals. Really just making sure that that the

1798
01:27:57,280 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: mistakes we made in the Browns game, we just want

1799
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 1: to correct them, learn from them, and get better moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Bill Scorner Terren Johnson in studio with us. In his

1801
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: second year with the Buffalo Bills. Were there a lot

1802
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: of defensive mistakes? I mean, you held that team to

1803
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: nineteen points a defense scored two of Buffalo's points. Is

1804
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: it hard to find places where you can get better

1805
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 1: defensively here in this Um, if you watch the film,

1806
01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:21,640
Speaker 1: it's not hard, really better, I don't think so. Just

1807
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:23,880
Speaker 1: as far as our tackling goes, I feel like we

1808
01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 1: could tackle a lot better me included, you know what

1809
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: I'm saying it and gap integrity. So those two things

1810
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,559
Speaker 1: I feel like, well will help the defense. And it's

1811
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: a nickel corner you, I would think have a bigger

1812
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:36,479
Speaker 1: role to play in run defense, and maybe anybody else

1813
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: on the back end. Huh yeah, I mean, I'm I'd

1814
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 1: say Nichols kind of like a strong safety position, you know,

1815
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:46,240
Speaker 1: just closer in the box. You got to some different

1816
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: guys coming at you from their skill positions. Offensively, they've

1817
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: lost a couple of guys to IR. They got a

1818
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 1: different running back in a different big time number one

1819
01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 1: wide receiver is now Wilson's out of there? Is that right?

1820
01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:59,479
Speaker 1: Wilsons last Preston Williams. Preston Williams, I'm sorry Williams is

1821
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:01,799
Speaker 1: out of there? And how does that change their philosophy

1822
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: or what do you notice it's going to be different

1823
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:07,679
Speaker 1: about them because of the changing personnel. UM, I feel

1824
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: like they move different guys around, So one guy I'll

1825
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: be playing a slot, then he'll go outside. Just just

1826
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 1: things like that I would say, and just basically just

1827
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:19,639
Speaker 1: putting the offense on the shoulders of Fitzpatrick, Karen Johnson,

1828
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 1: our guests, Bills Cornered. Do you if you found and

1829
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:24,639
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the entire defense. I mean, first four games,

1830
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:26,839
Speaker 1: two kids are getting up like eighty four yards average

1831
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: per game on the ground. The last five it's like

1832
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards per game. Their teams attacking

1833
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,040
Speaker 1: you differently with their rushing attack than they were maybe

1834
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: the first couple of games this season. From what you see, Yes,

1835
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 1: I'll be doing it. Just they're running the ball more,

1836
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I feel like we haven't

1837
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 1: been as disciplined as we should have been, like in

1838
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:48,560
Speaker 1: our in our gaps from the last few games, and

1839
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: I feel like that's something that we're focusing on this week,

1840
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: is just making sure we're more disciplined and just just

1841
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 1: playing with a little bit more edge to us. Yeah.

1842
01:29:56,160 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 1: And one of the things that would be nicest to

1843
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: get a turnover to did you did you bust Tredavious's

1844
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: chops about having one go off his face. Masters, I mean,

1845
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I didn't bust on

1846
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:12,880
Speaker 1: his chops. It's just because he's made big plays. So

1847
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,640
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna when that opportunity comes again, he's

1848
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:17,639
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for it. And if the opportunity comes

1849
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: my way, I gotta be ready for it, and everyone

1850
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: else is gonna we're gonna find a way to get

1851
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: the ball more. Darren, you missed four games I think

1852
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: right early this year, got hurt in the Jets game.

1853
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Was yeah, yeah, And how have you come back from that?

1854
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 1: You feel healthy and I feel I feel a hundred percent.

1855
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:34,439
Speaker 1: My body feels great. I mean I played in four

1856
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 1: games since, so, I mean that's just part of the game,

1857
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 1: just getting a little knicks here and there. But I'm good.

1858
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: That's part part of learning how to play right. I mean,

1859
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: last year even it's what the five games. I think

1860
01:30:45,160 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 1: with injuries at the end of the year, I believe

1861
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's part of your education a year

1862
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: and a half into the NFL, like this is what

1863
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: happens when you get hurt. This is how you handle it,

1864
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 1: This is how you come back is that part of it. Yeah,

1865
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:57,400
Speaker 1: big part of it is learn how to take care

1866
01:30:57,439 --> 01:31:00,280
Speaker 1: of your body. Um, I've learned that the over these

1867
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:02,680
Speaker 1: last two years, just making sure that I'm doing the

1868
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: right things to prevent the small injuries and the like

1869
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 1: the hamstring and growing stuff like that. How much of

1870
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:13,600
Speaker 1: a part of your day or the daily routine and

1871
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 1: most of the guys is this sports science people over here,

1872
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:18,559
Speaker 1: Because we were just talking before we came on the air,

1873
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:21,840
Speaker 1: you have zero guys on the injury list coming into

1874
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:24,640
Speaker 1: this week. Everybody seems fully healthy, fully practicing, which is

1875
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: almost unheard of week ten or twelve of the NFL season. Now,

1876
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:29,680
Speaker 1: there have been a couple of injuries, you know, like

1877
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips is on IR, a couple of guys like that,

1878
01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:34,519
Speaker 1: But for the most part, you don't have any of

1879
01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:37,439
Speaker 1: these guys that you're that are dragging around stuff. It

1880
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: really seems to be a healthy team. How much time

1881
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: do you guys spending there? How much a bigger part

1882
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: of the culture is that place in there? I mean,

1883
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 1: I feel like the training room is a great place

1884
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:50,040
Speaker 1: to be in. You know, I feel like I've heard

1885
01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: stories of other other organizations where it's frowned upon being

1886
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:55,800
Speaker 1: on the training room. But I feel like we take

1887
01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:57,639
Speaker 1: pride in being in the training room just making sure

1888
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:01,879
Speaker 1: that we're healthy and just ready to play on Sundays.

1889
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 1: And then after the game on Sundays, we're right back

1890
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:06,000
Speaker 1: in the training room trying to get ready for the

1891
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:09,000
Speaker 1: next week. During your season and a half into your

1892
01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:11,799
Speaker 1: NFL career, a year and a half into being in Buffalo,

1893
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:13,679
Speaker 1: how how do you think you've adapted to the NFL

1894
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:17,599
Speaker 1: lifestyle West? You know your Western guy, right, Sacramento. It's

1895
01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:19,680
Speaker 1: different here, a little bit different. I mean it's just

1896
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:23,560
Speaker 1: weather either, right, Nah. So Utah where I went to

1897
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:26,840
Speaker 1: college at, it's it's very similar. It's very similar here.

1898
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: And I don't know the people here. I love the people,

1899
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:33,479
Speaker 1: I love the fans, I love being here. So yeah,

1900
01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 1: I just I really enjoy playing here. And what about

1901
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: going to Miami. You did not play in that game

1902
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: last year? I did? You? Did? You? Was my last

1903
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 1: game last year? Okay? Yeah, you kind of you sucked

1904
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:46,720
Speaker 1: it up and played a long time. I had the

1905
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 1: hardest remember the hardness? Did you don't wear that anymore?

1906
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 1: You feel good? But we took it, took a toll

1907
01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: on you right, Yeah, it did. It definitely didn't and

1908
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of my mind on my mind too a little bit.

1909
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:00,560
Speaker 1: But you know, I feel good now and I'm just

1910
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:03,720
Speaker 1: excited to keep going. We're excited to have you here, Taron.

1911
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by it most stay one piece two

1912
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: most definitely Taron Johnson Bill's Corner joining us. Next hour,

1913
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:12,200
Speaker 1: we got Ryan Fitzpator coming up, plus coffee with the Bills.

1914
01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: Come on back. One Bill's Live, presented by Clouda. Hell

1915
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 1: f how did that just drop out? I don't know,

1916
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: coming in from the Seneca studio. I got that one right.

1917
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:36,600
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills Radio Network Stories that

1918
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:38,719
Speaker 1: day comes from One Bill's Drive. The Bills have wrapped

1919
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 1: up their practice. They went outdoors today this first day

1920
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 1: of the practice week. Twenty six degrees and cloudy here

1921
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. It'll be seventy five and sunny on Sunday

1922
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,400
Speaker 1: in South Florida. But the Bills went outdoors today because

1923
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:51,479
Speaker 1: of the surf. As you would think Golfhalo trying to

1924
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 1: shore up its run defense. The first four games, Bills

1925
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: gave up an average of eighty four yards per game

1926
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:58,840
Speaker 1: on the ground. The last five, including their win against

1927
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins a month ago. They're giving up an average

1928
01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 1: of one hundred forty one yards brushing per game. Veteran

1929
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:07,120
Speaker 1: rest days today for linebacker Lorenzo Alexander and Tay Insecki.

1930
01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: The referee Sunday is Scott in Novak, Bill's Dolphins. You

1931
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: can catch the game right here on our flagship radio

1932
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: station in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty one o'clock kickoff.

1933
01:34:16,439 --> 01:34:18,320
Speaker 1: I'll have the call the game with Eric Wood in

1934
01:34:18,439 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 1: the radio booth in Salcapachu will being on the sidelines.

1935
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:23,639
Speaker 1: The NFL has set the date for the Bills Week

1936
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 1: sixteen game. It's part of an NFL tripleheader. The Bills

1937
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 1: will play the Patriots on Saturday, December twenty. First, we

1938
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: know that now for thirty kickoff on Saturday. The first

1939
01:34:33,120 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 1: game that day is Houston to Tampa Bay at one,

1940
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:37,680
Speaker 1: the Bills in New England at four thirty pm, and

1941
01:34:37,880 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 1: then it's the Rams in San Francisco Saturday night at

1942
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:43,679
Speaker 1: eight fifteen. The Bills will be on National TV again

1943
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,000
Speaker 1: in the second to last week of the regular season.

1944
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 1: Jets owner Christopher Johnson talked about his seeing today. He

1945
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: says coach Adam Gas will not be fired now or

1946
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: after the season. He called Adam Gas a good man

1947
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 1: and a good coach, and he likes the dynamic he

1948
01:34:57,080 --> 01:35:00,599
Speaker 1: has with the new general manager, Joe Douglas. He said

1949
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: that Gays is safe and he told the team that

1950
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 1: today NFL teams will look at Colin Kaepernick work out

1951
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: this Saturday in Atlanta. It's an NFL setup workout on

1952
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:11,560
Speaker 1: the field work and an interview. All teams invited to

1953
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:14,800
Speaker 1: attend and video will be made available. Giants running back

1954
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley he's still not one hundred percent, but says

1955
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. He will not be shut down.

1956
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:22,639
Speaker 1: Even with the Giants at two and eight, they eventually

1957
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:25,080
Speaker 1: going to have to focus on the future. But after

1958
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 1: an X ray on his shoulder after Sunday's lost to

1959
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 1: the Jet, Barkley says he's in and sabers back at

1960
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 1: practice today, getting set for hosting Carolina tomorrow. Bidons have

1961
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 1: a new manager. Former Big league catcher Ken Huckabee named

1962
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:38,640
Speaker 1: as the twenty first manager of the Bisons in their

1963
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 1: modern Era Era Era, It's era era. I have trouble

1964
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:46,639
Speaker 1: with a report like Ara parsegon No, No, that's Ara.

1965
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 1: This is Welcome back to the show, John Murphy with

1966
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:53,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Ryan Fitzpatrick's going to join us in this hour.

1967
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 1: His counterpart and the Buffalo roster. Josh Allen met with

1968
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: the media moments ago after the Buffalo practice, answered variety

1969
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 1: of questions we're talking about Josh on this show. The

1970
01:36:02,360 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 1: media was too Josh Allen's news conference today and he

1971
01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: started out talking. He was asked a question about does

1972
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 1: he have kind of a metal block about throwing the

1973
01:36:09,840 --> 01:36:12,840
Speaker 1: deep pass Now, Um, is that really what's at work here?

1974
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:15,240
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen answered that question say, no, it is not.

1975
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:18,040
Speaker 1: Does I want to complete every ball? I know, I

1976
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:19,400
Speaker 1: know I haven't done a good job with that, and

1977
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 1: nobody in history has ever completed every ball. So, UM,

1978
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: it's not anything I'm worried about, you know, Um statistically

1979
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:31,720
Speaker 1: deep balls and how efficient our our passing game is. Um.

1980
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:35,920
Speaker 1: Looking there, you know makes me happier, and UM, I

1981
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 1: have no worries about it. It's something we're working on,

1982
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:40,200
Speaker 1: something that I'll happen over time. It's not like we're

1983
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:42,680
Speaker 1: we're throwing, you know, a bunch of deep balls during

1984
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:44,759
Speaker 1: the game. We have a couple opportunities and um, Obviously

1985
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to hit those opportunities. But you know,

1986
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 1: the more the more you play, um, the more optunities

1987
01:36:49,280 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: will have and we'll continue to work on him, and UM,

1988
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:55,320
Speaker 1: no doubt that'll be fixed. I'm sorry, is it though

1989
01:36:55,439 --> 01:36:57,720
Speaker 1: to say that you did this optics make you the

1990
01:36:57,840 --> 01:37:01,840
Speaker 1: humor to chunk place because just to take out the

1991
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:05,000
Speaker 1: march of the care that you know of eight play

1992
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: l sixty ninety seven year drives. But if they you

1993
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:10,960
Speaker 1: feel like you need to have more chunk places in

1994
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:14,760
Speaker 1: this offense, well I think yeah, every every offense would

1995
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 1: say that they want more chunkyards and more chunk plays.

1996
01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 1: And obviously those are nice and we've had opportunities and

1997
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: um I haven't done a good enough job with capitalizing

1998
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 1: on them. So um yeah, it makes things easier for sure,

1999
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 1: but it's something that you don't want to live and die.

2000
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: Just buy the deep ball and live and die by

2001
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:32,479
Speaker 1: the chunk play. So um, you know, we're trying to

2002
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 1: take care of business and we're working extremely hard, you know, UM,

2003
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:38,360
Speaker 1: myself included, and we're going to continue to grind each

2004
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:43,400
Speaker 1: and every day. Said, that's that's part of said, that's

2005
01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 1: still part of your development. It's uh, but you're still

2006
01:37:47,840 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 1: in your second year. That's you know, you've worked done

2007
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 1: it an immediate passing short passing games. How much do

2008
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:55,719
Speaker 1: you think that that's that's still part of your growing plays.

2009
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:58,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking to improve each and every day. UM,

2010
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:01,599
Speaker 1: And I think if you ask any quarterback in the league,

2011
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 1: they'd say the same thing that they don't want to

2012
01:38:03,439 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: become stagnant where they're at and they're always trying to

2013
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:09,799
Speaker 1: look for ways to improve. And that's no different for myself. UM, obviously,

2014
01:38:09,840 --> 01:38:11,560
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot to work on, and I

2015
01:38:12,240 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 1: know nowhere near where I need to be, nowhere near

2016
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 1: where I want to be, and um, where I want

2017
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:19,720
Speaker 1: to be is probably more is higher than where I

2018
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:21,600
Speaker 1: need to be. Um. You know, I hold myself to

2019
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:23,560
Speaker 1: a very high standard and I'm going to continue to

2020
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 1: work hard and UM, you know my goals to get

2021
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: where I want to be the threat and where your

2022
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:35,880
Speaker 1: numbers have come down and they get force straight to

2023
01:38:35,960 --> 01:38:38,960
Speaker 1: you now without right, And that's a processing that you're

2024
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:41,760
Speaker 1: going through. Is that's connected to that whole process. And

2025
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:43,320
Speaker 1: when you at a point now where you can just

2026
01:38:43,439 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 1: kind of are you overthinking or can you just react

2027
01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 1: to it in the student No, I can. I can

2028
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 1: definitely react. But the job of the quarterback obviously is

2029
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:53,840
Speaker 1: to move the ball, put points on the board, and

2030
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:57,600
Speaker 1: protect the football. Um. And you know, at the end

2031
01:38:57,600 --> 01:38:59,240
Speaker 1: of the year, I wasn't doing a good enough job

2032
01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: of tecking football and I've made that very important to

2033
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 1: me and understanding what that football is and um, you

2034
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:08,360
Speaker 1: know who it represents. Um, you know there's still some

2035
01:39:08,439 --> 01:39:10,640
Speaker 1: things to clean clean up as far as running the

2036
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 1: ball and you know, not not fumbling, but um, you

2037
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 1: know that that's that's what I'm very very much still

2038
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 1: trying to improve on in that aspect. But UM, you know,

2039
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:23,120
Speaker 1: coach sat usold down today and said, you know, play fearless,

2040
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 1: you know. So UM to have that you know, green

2041
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,640
Speaker 1: light and that confidence from him, still like you know

2042
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 1: that that means a lot. And UM, I'm not saying

2043
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out there and be reckless. And there's

2044
01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:35,439
Speaker 1: there are two different terms for a reason. So um,

2045
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:37,600
Speaker 1: just being very very aware of what's going on but

2046
01:39:37,720 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 1: not trying to be gun shy about anything. But where

2047
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 1: is that balance? Pretty easy to reckless but then also

2048
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 1: wanting to well I think I mean I still think

2049
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:51,720
Speaker 1: it's been there in the last few games. I'm not

2050
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:54,040
Speaker 1: really I'm not just checking the ball down, you know,

2051
01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 1: I'm still taking my opportunities. And um, we've had some

2052
01:39:56,479 --> 01:39:58,560
Speaker 1: success in the intermediate you know, ten to fifteen to

2053
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 1: twenty yards you you know, we have our guys are

2054
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:03,479
Speaker 1: doing a great job of getting open. Um. You know,

2055
01:40:03,479 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: I gotta find some more completions in the game, and um,

2056
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:08,400
Speaker 1: you know, and that it's gonna come, you know, more points,

2057
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 1: which everybody wants, obviously, I think everybody in the league

2058
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:13,120
Speaker 1: wants more points. But um, you know, we're played to

2059
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:15,560
Speaker 1: win football games no matter you know, what what the

2060
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:18,519
Speaker 1: outcome is, and no matter what the score is. This

2061
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: isn't like the high confidence the offense kind of splattering

2062
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,519
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, and where's the confidence. We're still

2063
01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 1: very confident. We this is I'm just gonna say one thing.

2064
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,400
Speaker 1: This is a group that really cares about each other. Um,

2065
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 1: how we talk to each other, how we feel about

2066
01:40:33,880 --> 01:40:35,479
Speaker 1: each other, you know, the way that we hang with

2067
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 1: each other outside this facility. UM, I don't know if

2068
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:41,280
Speaker 1: it's the same anywhere else. Um, you know, we do

2069
01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:43,720
Speaker 1: definitely have a group of guys that care about this

2070
01:40:43,840 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 1: football team and care about winning. And that's really all

2071
01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: we care about. It doesn't matter how we get done.

2072
01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 1: You know, the linemental talue. They obviously linemen love to run.

2073
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: But if we gotta throw it fifty times a game,

2074
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: we'll throw it fifty times a game. We've got to

2075
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: run it fifty times a game, we'll run it fifty

2076
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:56,760
Speaker 1: times a game. It doesn't matter how the job gets done.

2077
01:40:57,320 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 1: Our group is very focused on trying to get that

2078
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,240
Speaker 1: job done, and we're you know, preparing each and every

2079
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 1: week to try to do that, to getting a coach

2080
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 1: to be to be fearless, um, just to reinforce that

2081
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 1: you know that you don't have to be overly conscious

2082
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:18,519
Speaker 1: in some ways, Just to get your mindset just not

2083
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: maybe just you or whoever, but just get your mindsets

2084
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:24,599
Speaker 1: a flipboard wards to a little bit more. Oh. I mean,

2085
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 1: I I don't really think it's a huge change in

2086
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,880
Speaker 1: my mindset. It's going to be. Um. I think I've

2087
01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 1: been playing you know, very smart football last few weeks

2088
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:35,760
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's going to change. I think

2089
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:37,600
Speaker 1: I want to be smart with the football. And like

2090
01:41:37,720 --> 01:41:39,679
Speaker 1: I said, there's there's been opportunities that I haven't hitting.

2091
01:41:39,680 --> 01:41:41,439
Speaker 1: I gotta be better on those. But you know we're

2092
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 1: six and three for a reason. And um, protecting the

2093
01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:46,240
Speaker 1: football and making sure that you know, we sustain long

2094
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: drives and move the chains on third down and ultimately

2095
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:49,720
Speaker 1: we getting the red zone, we put points up on

2096
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 1: the board. Um, that's really our focus. It's just you know,

2097
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: we see getting deep passes of training camp and things

2098
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 1: like that, and we know you're a strong guy, and

2099
01:42:01,080 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: it's just THO, those questions that are lingering out there.

2100
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: That's the question, isn't it. Well, I mean, I'm not

2101
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: sure if you appreciate. I appreciate you know, I definitely

2102
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 1: get the question, and trust me, I want to complete

2103
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:20,680
Speaker 1: every pass I throw. Um, But like I said, you know,

2104
01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 1: we're trying to work each and every day, trying to

2105
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:25,640
Speaker 1: get better. And you know, there's there's a lot that

2106
01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:28,479
Speaker 1: goes into a certain play. Um, you know, every play

2107
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: is different, its own element, and I gotta be better.

2108
01:42:31,640 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: I'm handling those elements. Anticipatory, he said, how do I

2109
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:44,240
Speaker 1: How do I feel? Yeah, Um, I feel like I'm

2110
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,680
Speaker 1: obviously growing in that aspect, and that's something that has

2111
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:48,920
Speaker 1: been an added focus as well. Having a guy like

2112
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:50,960
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley and just kind of seeing how he delivers

2113
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, I made it it um apparent

2114
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:55,920
Speaker 1: to myself this offseason, just kind of sitting down and

2115
01:42:56,080 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: trying to find ways to get the ball out quicker.

2116
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 1: And it's still something. It's just more reps. The more

2117
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: reps you get on doing it and seeing the ball

2118
01:43:02,520 --> 01:43:05,960
Speaker 1: leave your hand before your receiver turns um and seeing

2119
01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:08,599
Speaker 1: more completions and practice and like as a training camp

2120
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 1: and even going back to OTAs. The more you can

2121
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: do that, the better you feel, the more confident you get.

2122
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:19,839
Speaker 1: Dry maybe you're seeing the guy open throwing as opposed

2123
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:24,160
Speaker 1: to yeah, and then you know that's um. You know,

2124
01:43:24,439 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 1: that's where when I was a younger quarterback, you know,

2125
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: especially at Wyoming, having the arm um the strength to

2126
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:32,360
Speaker 1: be able to wait an extra second and see the

2127
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:35,320
Speaker 1: guy open and still be able to get the ball there. Obviously,

2128
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:38,719
Speaker 1: NFL's a little little tighter space um having things happen

2129
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 1: a little quicker. So you know, I don't say I

2130
01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:43,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it's been hard, but it's definitely been an

2131
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: adjustment that I've been learning from and I'm going to

2132
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:49,120
Speaker 1: continue to grow there where it's easily great. Probably. Yeah,

2133
01:43:50,280 --> 01:43:53,599
Speaker 1: how much of you guys worked on the slot going

2134
01:43:53,680 --> 01:44:00,760
Speaker 1: back Monday? I think the coach express Pat's going to

2135
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: drush the of Have you guys worked on that? Yeah,

2136
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:07,800
Speaker 1: we work on it every day. Um, we have a

2137
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 1: two minute drill that we work on. UM honesously. You'd

2138
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:13,840
Speaker 1: love to be perfect in those situations, especially when it

2139
01:44:13,880 --> 01:44:16,400
Speaker 1: comes to game time, but I feel confident in how

2140
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 1: we address things, how we go about things, especially in

2141
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:23,160
Speaker 1: the two minute. Um. You know, I I don't know

2142
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 1: if we could have done anything different in that game.

2143
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,720
Speaker 1: I actually maybe getting out of bounds. But you can't

2144
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:30,639
Speaker 1: spike it there, you know, Um, you got to find

2145
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:32,040
Speaker 1: a good play. You don't want to waste your time

2146
01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:33,880
Speaker 1: out just because you want to hold it there for

2147
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: your kick. UM, So I guess I don't. I don't

2148
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 1: think anything would have been different there. You've mentioned the

2149
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 1: success of the short to hear MENI and stuff, the

2150
01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:44,600
Speaker 1: development on that part of your game. How much is

2151
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 1: ten Dorse played a little? He's played a big part, um,

2152
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, obviously having that experience of playing in the NFL. UM,

2153
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, he's been He's been a huge help and

2154
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:55,680
Speaker 1: just as far as trying to understand what defense is

2155
01:44:55,760 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 1: doing and uh, the concepts that he kind of brings up,

2156
01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 1: um the tape, the film that he shows us like,

2157
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: it's very very cool with how much pride he takes

2158
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:05,360
Speaker 1: in his work and I really appreciate what he does.

2159
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,719
Speaker 1: Bill's quarterback Josh Allen. There's a lot to like about

2160
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:12,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, including the way he handled that today, Steven. Look,

2161
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 1: he is the focus of attention. He knows that we

2162
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:16,640
Speaker 1: know that he's a focus of our show today, and

2163
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 1: he answered all those questions straight up in a straightforward manner.

2164
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 1: There's no defensiveness, there's no why are you asking me

2165
01:45:23,439 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 1: that type thing. And the one thing that really got

2166
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:27,960
Speaker 1: me and I wrote it down when he said Coach

2167
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:30,240
Speaker 1: sat us down today their first day back at work

2168
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: and said, play fearless. I think that there's there's there's

2169
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:35,760
Speaker 1: a message there, I think, and it goes back to

2170
01:45:36,160 --> 01:45:38,160
Speaker 1: our discussion about Josh and the way he's played and

2171
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:41,759
Speaker 1: maybe backing off overthrown the deep passes because he's afraid

2172
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:44,559
Speaker 1: of leaving him short for picks. Coach set him down

2173
01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: the entire team today and said play fearless. I really

2174
01:45:48,280 --> 01:45:49,680
Speaker 1: think there's something there. What do you think? Yeah, and

2175
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:51,519
Speaker 1: it's a little inspiring to hear it too. Yeah. I

2176
01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:54,639
Speaker 1: Mean we've had people on and off with every question

2177
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:57,880
Speaker 1: we ask about Josh Allen, his development all that, there's

2178
01:45:57,880 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 1: always this group of people that say, you know, they're

2179
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: stifling him, They're they're sitting on him. They went you know,

2180
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: and the conversation today about him saying, well, maybe I

2181
01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 1: was worried about throwing an interception and want to do it,

2182
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:10,720
Speaker 1: to have the coach come in and say, hey, let's

2183
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: just go let's play fearless and I And it's a

2184
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:15,559
Speaker 1: great mindset to be in as well, because you get

2185
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 1: the most out of yourself at that. Now. Certainly on

2186
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:20,040
Speaker 1: the other side of it's the risk of turnovers or

2187
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 1: penalties or whatever, you know, giving up big plays if

2188
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:26,840
Speaker 1: you're going for the interception kind of thing. But you

2189
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:28,559
Speaker 1: know what, you still want your guys to go out

2190
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 1: there and play like that with some confidence and fearless

2191
01:46:31,200 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 1: and knowing that they're gonna win. Because it also behind

2192
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:37,800
Speaker 1: that is when you have the most fun, you know,

2193
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:40,599
Speaker 1: and you play your best when you're when you play

2194
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:42,519
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's a great mindset to instill

2195
01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:45,000
Speaker 1: in the team, And I think it's a sign too

2196
01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:47,800
Speaker 1: that the coaching staff sees some of the things that

2197
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:49,360
Speaker 1: we talk about the same way we do and some

2198
01:46:49,400 --> 01:46:51,559
Speaker 1: of our fans do. I love that. I'm really glad

2199
01:46:51,600 --> 01:46:53,840
Speaker 1: you said that, but you get my appointment beyond that.

2200
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: Just his whole demeanor today was like, it's another day,

2201
01:46:56,600 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 1: We're working on stuff. It doesn't seem too big for him,

2202
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:01,960
Speaker 1: right exactly. Yeah, he's I'm working on it. He goes,

2203
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 1: I got a lot of stuff to work on. And

2204
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:07,160
Speaker 1: the acknowledgement of that, and the genuine nature you can

2205
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:09,479
Speaker 1: get the feeling too that he's he's telling you the truth,

2206
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:10,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not doesn't seem like

2207
01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: lip service. It doesn't seem like like when Aaron Rodgers

2208
01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:16,000
Speaker 1: says stuff like that. I think he's talking about the

2209
01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 1: other guys, you know, you know, like he's trying to

2210
01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:21,719
Speaker 1: help the other guys get better. You know, when Josh

2211
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,280
Speaker 1: says it, you do you think he's talking about himself? Yeah,

2212
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: I gotta get bet, you know, so, Yeah, I agree

2213
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:31,559
Speaker 1: with you. He's he seems honest, it's not too big

2214
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 1: for him. He's getting better, he knows he's got work

2215
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:34,960
Speaker 1: to do and he's working on it all the time.

2216
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: You can see the work he's already done that has

2217
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:40,960
Speaker 1: gotten him better. I still even at this point and

2218
01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:45,960
Speaker 1: really really happy about the continuity he's had this point

2219
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: in his career. Yeah. And I know though every week

2220
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:51,479
Speaker 1: when when they lose a game, there's you know, the

2221
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator or the play call or the head coach,

2222
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 1: everybody gets thrown under the bus and they need to

2223
01:47:56,040 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 1: make I still don't. I'm still really I've still feel

2224
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:03,240
Speaker 1: really good about where the coaching staff is and how

2225
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: they're handling Josh in his development. I agree. I love

2226
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:08,559
Speaker 1: the way he handled that today. Great. We're here from

2227
01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:10,599
Speaker 1: the one quarterback up here in Buffalo. We're hearing from

2228
01:48:10,600 --> 01:48:14,440
Speaker 1: the other quarterback right now, Dolphins quarterback. Veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick,

2229
01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:17,000
Speaker 1: fifteen year veteran played here with the Bills two thousand

2230
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,120
Speaker 1: and nine through twenty thirteen. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on

2231
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 1: the line with us right now. Hello, fitz John Murphy

2232
01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 1: and team task are up here in Buffalo. Thanks for

2233
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:26,080
Speaker 1: spending Thanks for carving out some time out of a

2234
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:28,320
Speaker 1: busy day to be with us here today. We appreciate it. No,

2235
01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:33,320
Speaker 1: no problem, Murph I'm the other quarterback now, the other guy,

2236
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: the other guy, the guy. Yeah, and you've give us

2237
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 1: a little sense of how it's got the last couple

2238
01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:41,439
Speaker 1: of weeks, you guys have e eeked out the victory.

2239
01:48:41,520 --> 01:48:43,400
Speaker 1: You started playing a lot better when you showed up

2240
01:48:43,439 --> 01:48:45,640
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. You played a really good game. You

2241
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 1: had Pittsburgh on the ropes early in that game. You've

2242
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:51,479
Speaker 1: really put it together in this last month. Yeah, you

2243
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: can definitely feel the momentum shifting, a little bit of

2244
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:57,760
Speaker 1: the mood shifting in the building. And I think, you know,

2245
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:01,200
Speaker 1: we've strung together some really good weeks practice and that's

2246
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:04,160
Speaker 1: where it all started. And you know, with the first

2247
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 1: game against Buffalo, I think we gained some confidence in

2248
01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:08,760
Speaker 1: that game, even though we came out with a with

2249
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: a loss, and then same thing, being able to get

2250
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:15,240
Speaker 1: on Pittsburgh early. I think we were slowly figuring out

2251
01:49:15,840 --> 01:49:17,960
Speaker 1: that we could be a good football team. So it

2252
01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:20,080
Speaker 1: was nice to see some results the last few weeks

2253
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 1: and winning in different ways. But we were practicing with

2254
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:26,559
Speaker 1: good energy. We've got good energy in the building right

2255
01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:30,800
Speaker 1: now and you know, hopefully that continues, and that's you know,

2256
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: that's how we're digging ourselves out of the hole. Fits.

2257
01:49:32,920 --> 01:49:35,880
Speaker 1: Did you take it upon yourself to change that energy

2258
01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:37,680
Speaker 1: when you got back in the starting lineup? Did you

2259
01:49:37,720 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: see that as your job? Well? I did. I. You know,

2260
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:46,320
Speaker 1: I was upset down, you know, whatever the right word

2261
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: is when I got taken out of the lineup and

2262
01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:51,679
Speaker 1: you know, didn't play well in the first couple games,

2263
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:55,640
Speaker 1: so completely understood. But in getting that opportunity, you know,

2264
01:49:55,760 --> 01:49:57,800
Speaker 1: got thrown into the fourth quarter of the Redskins game

2265
01:49:57,880 --> 01:49:59,800
Speaker 1: and try to provide a little bit of a spar

2266
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:04,160
Speaker 1: and then in having coach flow kind of and trust

2267
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:06,519
Speaker 1: me with the key, so to say, and put me

2268
01:50:06,600 --> 01:50:08,680
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, that said a lot to me

2269
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 1: and meant a lot to me. And I knew this

2270
01:50:11,240 --> 01:50:15,120
Speaker 1: second time around more so than you know, execution and

2271
01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:18,439
Speaker 1: xs and os and all that stuff. It was morale,

2272
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 1: it was energy. It was walking in the door with

2273
01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:24,400
Speaker 1: a smile. And those things have carried over, you know,

2274
01:50:24,560 --> 01:50:27,759
Speaker 1: day to day, and they definitely carry over to Sunday

2275
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:30,120
Speaker 1: with guys playing for each other and with each other

2276
01:50:30,160 --> 01:50:33,280
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And that's been the real driving

2277
01:50:33,320 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: force of this turnaround, where you're going to get a

2278
01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: second chance to play the Buffalo Bill's defense. Can you

2279
01:50:38,240 --> 01:50:40,599
Speaker 1: characterize it, and certainly you've seen it on film already

2280
01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:43,920
Speaker 1: and from your film study the first go around just

2281
01:50:44,040 --> 01:50:47,040
Speaker 1: a month ago. Characterize this defense that you're going to

2282
01:50:47,120 --> 01:50:51,320
Speaker 1: face this weekend. Well, it's it's a really good defense,

2283
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, numbers wise, that matches up

2284
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,760
Speaker 1: the last few years and what they've been able to do.

2285
01:50:57,479 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 1: But they've you know, it's a very smart ski team

2286
01:51:00,640 --> 01:51:02,800
Speaker 1: and they've got really good players. So it'll be a

2287
01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:05,720
Speaker 1: tough matchup for us. You know, every week we go in,

2288
01:51:05,800 --> 01:51:07,320
Speaker 1: we want to be able to run the football. We

2289
01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:09,479
Speaker 1: want to be able to take advantage of our one

2290
01:51:09,520 --> 01:51:12,720
Speaker 1: on one matchups and you know, get the ball to

2291
01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:16,040
Speaker 1: our guys. But the Bills have done a great job

2292
01:51:16,640 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 1: all year long of being a tough, stout defense. You know,

2293
01:51:20,360 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 1: They've got plenty of playmakers guys that they seem to

2294
01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:25,400
Speaker 1: be making the right play at the right time in

2295
01:51:25,479 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 1: those big moments. And we have our work cut out

2296
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:29,880
Speaker 1: for us. And we knew that going into the first game,

2297
01:51:31,320 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, and it was it was tough sledding for us.

2298
01:51:33,479 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 1: We won some, they won some, but we've got to

2299
01:51:36,080 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: come out and play a little bit better this time around.

2300
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:39,760
Speaker 1: Right when you came up here a month ago and

2301
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:41,960
Speaker 1: we had the sound, but you were talking to media

2302
01:51:42,040 --> 01:51:44,559
Speaker 1: in Miami about the atmosphere here in Buffalo. I love,

2303
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:46,040
Speaker 1: I just want to play this for you can get

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01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:48,960
Speaker 1: get you and maybe amplified a little bit your thoughts

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01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: on the atmosphere here at a home game in Buffalo.

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01:51:51,600 --> 01:51:54,680
Speaker 1: Let's hear what you said last month. It's easy for

2307
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:56,599
Speaker 1: me to pick up my old neighbors when they wear

2308
01:51:56,680 --> 01:51:59,400
Speaker 1: my jersey, you know, because that's so I see their

2309
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:02,599
Speaker 1: family or old neighbors or something. But uh, yeah, it's

2310
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:05,040
Speaker 1: you know, it is it is fun, you know, it

2311
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:07,920
Speaker 1: is It is fun to go and play in a

2312
01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:09,680
Speaker 1: game like this that is going to be in a

2313
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: great environment. Um, you know this one is unique and

2314
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: that uh you know, you have all these new stadiums

2315
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,920
Speaker 1: that are enormous and it's almost like the game is

2316
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,400
Speaker 1: secondary to some of the other stuff going on. But

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01:52:23,680 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 1: but in Buffalo, like it is all about the game.

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01:52:27,680 --> 01:52:29,680
Speaker 1: It is, you know, the fans are so into it

2319
01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:33,479
Speaker 1: and after the tailgating of course, but uh that you

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01:52:33,600 --> 01:52:35,920
Speaker 1: just as an opponent enjoy going in there and getting

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01:52:35,960 --> 01:52:38,080
Speaker 1: that feeling as well. Right at the time when we

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01:52:38,200 --> 01:52:40,200
Speaker 1: hit that sound byt a month ago, I blurted out

2323
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:42,639
Speaker 1: here on the show, he gets us. You do get

2324
01:52:42,680 --> 01:52:44,840
Speaker 1: it up here. Don't you understand what's what it's like

2325
01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:47,680
Speaker 1: up here? Don't you I get it? You know, and

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01:52:47,840 --> 01:52:52,360
Speaker 1: it's there are just very few places where, you know,

2327
01:52:52,560 --> 01:52:57,479
Speaker 1: during the football season, you're mood every single day us

2328
01:52:57,479 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 1: all based on what happened last Sunday. And that's what

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01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: That's what Buffalo is and such a special place to play.

2330
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,160
Speaker 1: And I think when you are a player there, you

2331
01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:11,720
Speaker 1: really do appreciate the fans and you know how much

2332
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,560
Speaker 1: they're into it. And I'm glad that we got the

2333
01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:18,360
Speaker 1: game here. Yeah, this weekend, I don't know what's going

2334
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:20,840
Speaker 1: on there with snow and everything else. But I had

2335
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:22,760
Speaker 1: to wear a sweatshirt in today. I think it was

2336
01:53:22,960 --> 01:53:27,280
Speaker 1: sixty nine seventy on the way in, And yeah, I

2337
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:31,240
Speaker 1: broke a sweat at about eighty five at practice today.

2338
01:53:31,360 --> 01:53:33,360
Speaker 1: But I don't know how cold you guys are doing. Yeah,

2339
01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:36,439
Speaker 1: it's great here, very sunny, very calm, and I think

2340
01:53:36,479 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: twenty degrees so we're gold perfect. Yeah. I gotta ask

2341
01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 1: you too that at this point in your career, you've

2342
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: played for eight teams, You've probably ran the gamut of

2343
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,920
Speaker 1: wardrobe accessories during all parts of the season, where the

2344
01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:49,400
Speaker 1: cold in the early part of the season or warm

2345
01:53:49,439 --> 01:53:51,280
Speaker 1: in the late part of the season, and vice versa.

2346
01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:54,120
Speaker 1: And I want to ask you this about you've played for,

2347
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:58,320
Speaker 1: excluding Brian Flores, your present day head coach, give us

2348
01:53:58,360 --> 01:54:00,639
Speaker 1: some ideas about some of the more interesting head coaches

2349
01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:02,280
Speaker 1: you've played for. What have been some of the things

2350
01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 1: that have impressed you or maybe some of the most

2351
01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:07,200
Speaker 1: memorable moments of all the head coaches you've had in

2352
01:54:07,280 --> 01:54:10,360
Speaker 1: your career. And I want to exclude obviously Brian Flores,

2353
01:54:10,439 --> 01:54:13,560
Speaker 1: this year's coach. Yeah, thanks for taking me off the

2354
01:54:13,600 --> 01:54:16,759
Speaker 1: hook on that one. You know, Mike Mart's my first

2355
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:19,760
Speaker 1: coach who ended up getting sick during my rookie year

2356
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:23,920
Speaker 1: and having to take a leave. That was an interesting

2357
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 1: one because his favorite thing to do would be to

2358
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:28,320
Speaker 1: mumble the play call to me, for me to not

2359
01:54:28,400 --> 01:54:29,720
Speaker 1: be able to call it in the huddle, and for

2360
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:32,760
Speaker 1: him to kick me out of the huddle and talk about,

2361
01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:34,560
Speaker 1: you know, you're a Harvard guy. I thought you were

2362
01:54:34,600 --> 01:54:37,400
Speaker 1: smart and you can't even call dang play like you know.

2363
01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 1: It was after the last few years in college of

2364
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:45,000
Speaker 1: being the guy and not necessarily being coddled. But I'm

2365
01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:47,240
Speaker 1: not getting yelled at. I got to the NFL and

2366
01:54:47,320 --> 01:54:49,520
Speaker 1: that changed quickly. So that was a good eye opening

2367
01:54:49,600 --> 01:54:53,840
Speaker 1: experience for me, just in terms of when I was

2368
01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:58,680
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Dick Durn one of the nicest genuine human

2369
01:54:58,720 --> 01:55:01,680
Speaker 1: beings on earth, uh, you know, and then Perry Fuel

2370
01:55:01,800 --> 01:55:05,400
Speaker 1: taken over for him, and then Chan coming in. I

2371
01:55:05,520 --> 01:55:08,160
Speaker 1: had plenty of great moments with Chan. I played for

2372
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:10,680
Speaker 1: him for five years, three in Buffalo and two in

2373
01:55:10,720 --> 01:55:14,480
Speaker 1: New York. But I've had a lot of head coaches

2374
01:55:14,560 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: over the years and a lot of a lot of

2375
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:18,680
Speaker 1: great stories a lot of them that maybe I'll share

2376
01:55:18,920 --> 01:55:22,480
Speaker 1: when I get to be invited to their roasts. But uh,

2377
01:55:22,800 --> 01:55:26,760
Speaker 1: you know, nothing for nothing for the Murph Show, as

2378
01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:28,440
Speaker 1: you come in here this week, or as as you

2379
01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 1: host the Buffalo Bills this next week, You've You've got

2380
01:55:30,640 --> 01:55:33,040
Speaker 1: a chance to see Tredavious White in his last three years,

2381
01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:35,720
Speaker 1: and this year seems he seems to have taken maybe

2382
01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 1: a step forward. He was really good as soon as

2383
01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:40,560
Speaker 1: he lined up his rookie year, but this year he

2384
01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: seems really really to be having a great year. He

2385
01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:44,920
Speaker 1: had a great year game last week in a loss

2386
01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:48,080
Speaker 1: against Cleveland. What are your thoughts about Tredavious White and

2387
01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:52,640
Speaker 1: what he's shown as a cornerback right now in his career. Yeah,

2388
01:55:52,760 --> 01:55:55,680
Speaker 1: he's He's done a great job, and um, you know,

2389
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 1: I learned that the hard way obviously in the first

2390
01:55:57,680 --> 01:55:59,880
Speaker 1: game with the interception that he had off of me.

2391
01:56:01,080 --> 01:56:03,840
Speaker 1: But tremendous player. I think he plays a lot of confidence,

2392
01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 1: and especially at that cornerback position, that's maybe the most

2393
01:56:08,760 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 1: important thing that you have to have is be confident

2394
01:56:11,280 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: in who you are and your ability to cover guys.

2395
01:56:14,320 --> 01:56:15,920
Speaker 1: It looks like, you know, he wants to be on

2396
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:19,520
Speaker 1: the best receiver and he has. He's played really well

2397
01:56:19,520 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 1: all year long. It'll be a huge challenge for us,

2398
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, but one the one that we're always looking

2399
01:56:24,920 --> 01:56:27,960
Speaker 1: forward to. I think, as you know, as players and competitors,

2400
01:56:28,000 --> 01:56:30,720
Speaker 1: you want to go against the best, and he certainly

2401
01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 1: is is inching into that category. That's one we have

2402
01:56:33,600 --> 01:56:35,360
Speaker 1: for you here, right And it's it's kind of a

2403
01:56:35,440 --> 01:56:37,440
Speaker 1: career question. I don't know how much longer you're gonna play.

2404
01:56:37,440 --> 01:56:39,080
Speaker 1: I hope you play as long as you want, but

2405
01:56:39,200 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 1: I would submit that already you look. Are you going

2406
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:44,680
Speaker 1: to the Pro Football Hall of Fame? I don't know,

2407
01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:47,880
Speaker 1: But you have career accomplishments. I mean, eight different teams,

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01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: touchdown passes for all of them. You're a couple of

2409
01:56:50,240 --> 01:56:53,240
Speaker 1: passes away from two hundred career touchdown passes. You got,

2410
01:56:53,520 --> 01:56:55,440
Speaker 1: you got skins on the wall. I mean, have you

2411
01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:57,560
Speaker 1: ever thought about that? What you have a place in

2412
01:56:57,720 --> 01:56:59,760
Speaker 1: NFL history is what I'm trying to say, regardless of

2413
01:57:00,040 --> 01:57:01,840
Speaker 1: how much longer you play or where where you wind

2414
01:57:01,920 --> 01:57:04,760
Speaker 1: up Hall of Fame plays. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I

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01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:06,520
Speaker 1: don't think I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Thanks

2416
01:57:06,560 --> 01:57:12,640
Speaker 1: for saying maybe, Murphy, you know what I have had

2417
01:57:12,680 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: a It's been an unbelievable fifteen years. And you know

2418
01:57:16,640 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 1: more so than uh, you know the numbers and the

2419
01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: yards and the teams and whatever. You know, weird record

2420
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:27,280
Speaker 1: I said every week for you know, touchdowns for eight teams,

2421
01:57:27,320 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 1: interceptions for eight teams, rushing touchdowns, getting sacked, you know,

2422
01:57:31,360 --> 01:57:34,400
Speaker 1: past interference penalt or roughing the passer penalties, whatever it is.

2423
01:57:34,480 --> 01:57:38,720
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of weird ones out there. But I truly,

2424
01:57:39,200 --> 01:57:42,320
Speaker 1: you know, have pride myself and always will remember just

2425
01:57:42,440 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 1: the guys that I got a chance to play with

2426
01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:46,520
Speaker 1: and share the locker room with, and you know, I

2427
01:57:46,600 --> 01:57:48,760
Speaker 1: know you guys get to work closely with with Eric

2428
01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 1: Wood and you know, guys like that, and just being

2429
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:54,879
Speaker 1: able to continue to play and um, you know, continue

2430
01:57:54,960 --> 01:57:57,760
Speaker 1: to make those type of relationships and make you know,

2431
01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:02,880
Speaker 1: guys like Fred Jackson and Stevie Johnson and Scott Chandler whoever.

2432
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:05,360
Speaker 1: You know, the guys in Buffalo that aren't really playing anymore,

2433
01:58:05,600 --> 01:58:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, giving them a little badge of on or

2434
01:58:08,520 --> 01:58:10,960
Speaker 1: being able to watch me out there somehow still running

2435
01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:14,400
Speaker 1: around and banging my head. That's fun for me. It's

2436
01:58:14,440 --> 01:58:16,240
Speaker 1: been fun watching you and knowing him. We'll see it

2437
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:19,040
Speaker 1: down there Sunday. Thank you, Ryan, all right, thank you?

2438
01:58:19,200 --> 01:58:22,160
Speaker 1: All right. Fitzpatrick former Bills quarterback in fifteen years in

2439
01:58:22,200 --> 01:58:24,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. He will be the starter for the Dolphins

2440
01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:28,240
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I was trying to be polite. I don't

2441
01:58:28,440 --> 01:58:29,920
Speaker 1: think he's going to the Hall of Fame, but he's

2442
01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:33,240
Speaker 1: got stuff in his back in his career. That meaning

2443
01:58:33,600 --> 01:58:37,400
Speaker 1: he downplayed and said it's stupid. Records that I've said.

2444
01:58:37,400 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's stupid to throw to throw

2445
01:58:39,720 --> 01:58:42,960
Speaker 1: touchdown passes for eight different teams. That's an accomplishment that

2446
01:58:43,160 --> 01:58:47,360
Speaker 1: he's two away from two hundred career touchdown passes as

2447
01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:49,320
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick. I mean, I don't think that's

2448
01:58:49,320 --> 01:58:51,360
Speaker 1: a stupid record. I think that's meaningful stuff that he

2449
01:58:51,520 --> 01:58:53,680
Speaker 1: has done. He's trying to make that point. He's had

2450
01:58:53,680 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 1: an extremely productive NFL career. He has helped clubs through

2451
01:58:57,800 --> 01:59:00,880
Speaker 1: tough times, like he's helping the Dolphins through this tough

2452
01:59:00,960 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 1: time for them. He has been the ultimate teammate, an

2453
01:59:04,760 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: ultimate professional. There's a lot of reasons for people to

2454
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:10,560
Speaker 1: cheer for guys like that, and it's nice to run

2455
01:59:10,600 --> 01:59:13,680
Speaker 1: across the guy who plays that position that has been

2456
01:59:13,800 --> 01:59:16,720
Speaker 1: kind of even as a starting quarterback in the NFL,

2457
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:19,200
Speaker 1: he still has that underdog kind of persona about him.

2458
01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:21,960
Speaker 1: A guy is overachieved, and I think we can all

2459
01:59:22,040 --> 01:59:26,200
Speaker 1: kind of relate to how fun it is to be

2460
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: around people like that, guys who have some success that

2461
01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:33,360
Speaker 1: are unexpectedly doing so, and it's it's, you know, it's

2462
01:59:33,400 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 1: easy to feel good about about him as as a

2463
01:59:37,520 --> 01:59:39,640
Speaker 1: guy who's done that, and I think it it is

2464
01:59:39,720 --> 01:59:44,280
Speaker 1: telling and reflects positively on his career and on his

2465
01:59:44,440 --> 01:59:47,080
Speaker 1: character when he said, yeah, when I got my second

2466
01:59:47,120 --> 01:59:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, he started the first couple of games, got

2467
01:59:49,040 --> 01:59:51,080
Speaker 1: lost his job. Josh Rosen played, he came back in

2468
01:59:51,160 --> 01:59:53,640
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo game. He's in the lineup now, probably

2469
01:59:53,680 --> 01:59:55,520
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. But he said when

2470
01:59:55,520 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: he came back, he realized, I have to take it

2471
01:59:57,880 --> 02:00:00,680
Speaker 1: upon myself to change the morality around here. I mean,

2472
02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:02,680
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I'm coming back into play, I hope

2473
02:00:02,720 --> 02:00:04,560
Speaker 1: everybody's ready. You know, It's like, okay, now I get

2474
02:00:04,560 --> 02:00:06,480
Speaker 1: a second chance to be the starter. Now it's up

2475
02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:09,400
Speaker 1: to me to change the vibe. And he did they

2476
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:13,120
Speaker 1: want a couple in a row here. He's he's doing

2477
02:00:13,200 --> 02:00:15,840
Speaker 1: what he can to help other guys be better, and

2478
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:19,440
Speaker 1: it's a that's part of what a building a culture

2479
02:00:19,560 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 1: is all about. That's part of what being a leader

2480
02:00:21,920 --> 02:00:25,200
Speaker 1: is all about. Fitz is one of those guys. It says,

2481
02:00:25,280 --> 02:00:27,680
Speaker 1: you know, he's not saying, listen, you guys, I'm gonna

2482
02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:30,320
Speaker 1: be a leader. I'm gonna get let's go follow me.

2483
02:00:30,520 --> 02:00:33,040
Speaker 1: You know, he's not like that. What Fitz does is, hey, hey,

2484
02:00:33,080 --> 02:00:36,480
Speaker 1: come on, guys, let's do this together. And that's easy

2485
02:00:36,520 --> 02:00:38,640
Speaker 1: to get behind. That's easy to get in line with

2486
02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:42,040
Speaker 1: and he's the He's got a lot of great leadership

2487
02:00:42,160 --> 02:00:43,920
Speaker 1: qualities and a lot of them were on displaying in

2488
02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:46,240
Speaker 1: the interview. We ship did great to talk to him. Yeah,

2489
02:00:46,240 --> 02:00:47,800
Speaker 1: we thank you for doing it. We thank the Dolphin's

2490
02:00:47,960 --> 02:00:50,720
Speaker 1: media relations department for making him available, and we thank

2491
02:00:50,760 --> 02:00:52,440
Speaker 1: you for tuning in. But we got thirty more minutes

2492
02:00:52,480 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: to go. Come on back. It is One Bill's Life,

2493
02:00:54,200 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 1: presented by Alatta Health Comany from the Seneca Studio in

2494
02:00:57,160 --> 02:01:12,840
Speaker 1: Archard Park, and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back Bills.

2495
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:16,360
Speaker 1: Practice today has concluded about forty minutes or forty minutes ago,

2496
02:01:16,400 --> 02:01:18,920
Speaker 1: forty five minutes ago. And we should get an injury update.

2497
02:01:19,680 --> 02:01:21,600
Speaker 1: No one was injury going in. I don't know if

2498
02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 1: anybody got hurt in practice. We'll see the injury updates

2499
02:01:24,720 --> 02:01:26,320
Speaker 1: will come up a little bit later. The Bills gave

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02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:30,720
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander and Tian Secki arrest sate John Murphy receive tasker.

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02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:33,000
Speaker 1: We're feeling fine here for the next half hour to

2502
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 1: talk more about the Bills on the Dolphins coming up

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02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:38,440
Speaker 1: on Sunday tomorrow's show, we have Thurman Thomas joining us

2504
02:01:38,480 --> 02:01:42,440
Speaker 1: in studio Armando Salgaro from the Miami Herald will join us.

2505
02:01:42,600 --> 02:01:44,280
Speaker 1: Love to talk to him about the Dolphins. He wrote

2506
02:01:44,320 --> 02:01:47,640
Speaker 1: a piece Steve I read last night about and I

2507
02:01:47,760 --> 02:01:49,480
Speaker 1: kind of asked this question of field Yate's kind of

2508
02:01:49,680 --> 02:01:52,240
Speaker 1: a two tiered thing going on with the Dolphins now,

2509
02:01:52,280 --> 02:01:54,960
Speaker 1: where the top level is like all committed to the

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02:01:55,160 --> 02:01:59,200
Speaker 1: tank and the football level. Brian Flores, Bryan Fitzpatrick, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear about the rest of the players.

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Speaker 1: They've won two in a row. It's an interesting piece

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Speaker 1: that's coming up on tomorrow's show. Um Our topic of

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Speaker 1: the day Josh Ellen. Where do you see his progression?

2515
02:02:09,160 --> 02:02:12,560
Speaker 1: He said? Twenty NFL starts. He will start Sunday against Miami.

2516
02:02:12,680 --> 02:02:14,720
Speaker 1: A lot of discussion about Josh where he's at, where

2517
02:02:14,760 --> 02:02:16,560
Speaker 1: his game's at. What do you think? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight oh three five fifty twelve three one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We have more

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Speaker 1: tweets to red, but let's take a call from Batavia.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy and Batavia on the line with us. Although Jimmy,

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02:02:27,240 --> 02:02:30,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry in Batavia. Go ahead, Jimmy, you're on the air. Hey,

2523
02:02:30,680 --> 02:02:34,080
Speaker 1: how's it going, guys? Good? I guess my question would

2524
02:02:34,120 --> 02:02:36,440
Speaker 1: be for you guys, do you think the criticism on

2525
02:02:36,560 --> 02:02:39,760
Speaker 1: Josh would be as high if they weren't as successful

2526
02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:42,480
Speaker 1: early on as they have, say their records four and five.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the fan base and everything's putting so

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02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:49,160
Speaker 1: much prussure on Josh to be you know, this Patrick

2529
02:02:49,240 --> 02:02:51,240
Speaker 1: Mahomes type. Not everyone's going to come to the league

2530
02:02:51,240 --> 02:02:54,560
Speaker 1: and dominate like Patrick Mahomes. As you know me personally,

2531
02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:56,240
Speaker 1: I believe in the guy. I think he's a good quarterback,

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02:02:56,280 --> 02:02:58,320
Speaker 1: and I think he's growing, and you know, I didn't

2533
02:02:58,320 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: expect him to come out and just dominate the way

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02:03:02,000 --> 02:03:04,120
Speaker 1: the fan base seems to be doing that. And you know,

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02:03:04,200 --> 02:03:06,080
Speaker 1: it's a good thing to have a team that's that's

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02:03:06,120 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: six and three, but it seems like, you know, they're

2537
02:03:08,320 --> 02:03:10,760
Speaker 1: putting all this pressure on the kid to perform now

2538
02:03:10,840 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 1: and he's at twenty starts. There's a little bit, I

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02:03:14,680 --> 02:03:17,080
Speaker 1: think to answer your question, if they were four and

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02:03:17,240 --> 02:03:20,640
Speaker 1: five or something like that, Yeah, there would be a

2541
02:03:20,760 --> 02:03:23,240
Speaker 1: bigger sense of urgency, no question, for Josh to get

2542
02:03:23,280 --> 02:03:25,760
Speaker 1: better a little bit faster, no question. Because like we said,

2543
02:03:26,920 --> 02:03:29,080
Speaker 1: whenever a team does good or bad or lose a

2544
02:03:29,120 --> 02:03:31,160
Speaker 1: close one or wins a close when the quarterback gets

2545
02:03:31,200 --> 02:03:32,840
Speaker 1: a lot of the credit when they win those because

2546
02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:34,440
Speaker 1: he can affect the game the most, and he gets

2547
02:03:34,480 --> 02:03:36,840
Speaker 1: a lot of the blame because for the same reason.

2548
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think if if the club was not

2549
02:03:39,560 --> 02:03:41,240
Speaker 1: having as much success as they are now, if they

2550
02:03:41,240 --> 02:03:43,280
Speaker 1: were three and six instead of six and three, there

2551
02:03:43,280 --> 02:03:46,360
Speaker 1: would be a huge amount of pressure. In fact, you'd

2552
02:03:46,400 --> 02:03:49,200
Speaker 1: have people calling for josh Allaby benched if they were

2553
02:03:49,240 --> 02:03:53,040
Speaker 1: three and six, trying to save the season, because that's

2554
02:03:53,080 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 1: just the way people are. But I'm with you. I

2555
02:03:57,720 --> 02:03:59,360
Speaker 1: think he's got a lot of promise. I think he's

2556
02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:04,080
Speaker 1: on I am I'm okay everything we all First of all,

2557
02:04:04,080 --> 02:04:06,440
Speaker 1: we all want him to be faster, getting better, faster,

2558
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: But I'm okay with the way he's playing right now

2559
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:12,400
Speaker 1: because this team is built to help him do that

2560
02:04:12,800 --> 02:04:14,720
Speaker 1: and the winning games in the same At the same time,

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02:04:14,720 --> 02:04:16,880
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy makes a good point though. The fast

2562
02:04:17,120 --> 02:04:19,720
Speaker 1: start to the season for the Bills right raise the

2563
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:23,840
Speaker 1: expectation levels, put the Bills squarely in the playoff race

2564
02:04:23,920 --> 02:04:26,120
Speaker 1: where they remain now at six and three, and I

2565
02:04:26,200 --> 02:04:29,720
Speaker 1: think much more. I think, Jimmy, you're still on the line.

2566
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 1: You can know he's not um. But I think much

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02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:34,480
Speaker 1: more was expected from Josh. Say, whoa, we could have

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02:04:34,520 --> 02:04:36,640
Speaker 1: a playoff team here. We need the quarterback to come

2569
02:04:36,640 --> 02:04:38,560
Speaker 1: along with us, right, don't you think that? Oh? You

2570
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:41,480
Speaker 1: think so. Since the season started, expectations were raised. On

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02:04:41,840 --> 02:04:44,760
Speaker 1: Jimmy's point, like, they started out so well, and it

2572
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:47,720
Speaker 1: was driven by the defense and some timely comebacks and

2573
02:04:47,840 --> 02:04:50,120
Speaker 1: some some big plays, and Josh played a role in it,

2574
02:04:50,200 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: but driven by the defense primarily. People look at the record,

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Speaker 1: I mean there were six and one, right, and people say,

2576
02:04:55,520 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 1: oh were they six and one? No? Five and one?

2577
02:04:58,600 --> 02:05:00,920
Speaker 1: People say, whoa, this is good team. I hope the

2578
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks up to the task. I think that may account.

2579
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:05,320
Speaker 1: I think this is Jimmy's point, not for all of it,

2580
02:05:05,400 --> 02:05:08,480
Speaker 1: but some of the focus being on Josh Allen, because

2581
02:05:08,760 --> 02:05:11,200
Speaker 1: let's face it, he is. He's been analyzed like, well,

2582
02:05:11,240 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 1: playoff teams don't do this, and playoff teams do this,

2583
02:05:14,520 --> 02:05:16,600
Speaker 1: and those aren't numbers that a playoff team would have.

2584
02:05:17,120 --> 02:05:19,040
Speaker 1: If the Bills were four and five, nobody would have.

2585
02:05:19,640 --> 02:05:21,280
Speaker 1: Would he be in trouble? I don't know, but that

2586
02:05:21,400 --> 02:05:23,680
Speaker 1: conversation wouldn't be part of it. I think it's a

2587
02:05:23,760 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: lot of it too, is because of the way the

2588
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:29,280
Speaker 1: team looks when they play. The offense is the one

2589
02:05:29,480 --> 02:05:33,720
Speaker 1: thing that keeps this team from being you know what,

2590
02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:37,320
Speaker 1: seven and one, seven and two, that kind of thing.

2591
02:05:37,800 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 1: The one the offense is the one thing that keeps

2592
02:05:40,720 --> 02:05:43,800
Speaker 1: is the issue. They don't score enough points. So I

2593
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:47,320
Speaker 1: think that is more than anything why you know, everybody's

2594
02:05:47,360 --> 02:05:50,000
Speaker 1: focused on Josh. The defense is kind of a for

2595
02:05:50,480 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: lack of a better word to put it, that defense

2596
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:53,760
Speaker 1: is kind of a given that it's going to play well,

2597
02:05:54,960 --> 02:05:57,920
Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem like this team needs all that

2598
02:05:58,160 --> 02:06:01,840
Speaker 1: much more from the offense. And the thought is, okay,

2599
02:06:01,920 --> 02:06:04,080
Speaker 1: so where is it? You know, let's see it, let's go.

2600
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:05,680
Speaker 1: All you need to do is just a few more

2601
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,360
Speaker 1: things and you'll be a solid team every week and

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02:06:08,440 --> 02:06:10,840
Speaker 1: you won't be in these three point games that are

2603
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:13,320
Speaker 1: you're struggling to win. What do you think? Give us

2604
02:06:13,320 --> 02:06:15,720
Speaker 1: a call? Eight oh three fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty Send it a tweet.

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Speaker 1: We've got time to read some off of the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: The tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems,

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02:06:23,840 --> 02:06:26,440
Speaker 1: The official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Where do you

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02:06:26,560 --> 02:06:31,000
Speaker 1: see Josh Allen's progression after twenty NFL starts? I get

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Speaker 1: us going there? Step from Rick, I think, yeah, Rick

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Speaker 1: is the next one. Mister Allen's progress, mister Allen, Yeah,

2612
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 1: mister Allen. Mister Josh Allen's progress as an NFL quarterback

2613
02:06:39,120 --> 02:06:41,520
Speaker 1: and team leader has demonstrated every game. His work ethic

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02:06:41,640 --> 02:06:44,040
Speaker 1: coupled with good coaching and destruction show he's learning how

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02:06:44,080 --> 02:06:46,560
Speaker 1: to win. His teammates believe in him, and that's good

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02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:48,840
Speaker 1: enough for me. We haven't seen the best from him yet,

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02:06:49,400 --> 02:06:54,240
Speaker 1: but we will. Well, that's pretty optimistic and supportive, no question.

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02:06:54,360 --> 02:06:57,560
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of people on the tweet sheet

2619
02:06:57,600 --> 02:06:59,840
Speaker 1: that have alluded to they think he's getting coached pretty

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02:06:59,880 --> 02:07:02,640
Speaker 1: well well and at six and three, it's pretty easy

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02:07:02,680 --> 02:07:04,960
Speaker 1: to fall in line with that. But there's obviously we

2622
02:07:05,280 --> 02:07:10,120
Speaker 1: lose a game by three points. Everybody's has issue with everything. Yeah,

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02:07:10,240 --> 02:07:12,840
Speaker 1: let alone the coaches tweet from Max, he says he

2624
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:17,360
Speaker 1: has definitely progressed, mostly slow and steady. Mexicoes on to say,

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02:07:17,440 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for an incremental uptick some point soon like that.

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02:07:21,360 --> 02:07:23,920
Speaker 1: I'd like that. I get it moment when things come together,

2627
02:07:24,320 --> 02:07:26,680
Speaker 1: confidence rises in the results show I really want this

2628
02:07:26,760 --> 02:07:28,960
Speaker 1: guy to be the answer is our franchise quarterback? I

2629
02:07:29,000 --> 02:07:31,080
Speaker 1: think most of us do. I think many of us

2630
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Speaker 1: and I've put myself in this camp. See the raw

2631
02:07:34,400 --> 02:07:37,919
Speaker 1: material for a franchise quarterback. Not a finished product, anywhere

2632
02:07:37,960 --> 02:07:44,000
Speaker 1: near a finished product yet, but approach to the game, competitiveness, size, athleticism,

2633
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,600
Speaker 1: arm strength, there is the stuff is there to be

2634
02:07:47,640 --> 02:07:49,680
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, and he's got a little ways to

2635
02:07:49,720 --> 02:07:52,800
Speaker 1: go to lockdown that that title. I think last year,

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Speaker 1: when he first started playing in these games on a

2637
02:07:56,840 --> 02:07:59,560
Speaker 1: regular basis and starting games form, we saw it. Every

2638
02:07:59,560 --> 02:08:01,800
Speaker 1: week them was different. For you know, it was easy

2639
02:08:01,840 --> 02:08:04,400
Speaker 1: to see the progression. One week he'd take a big hit.

2640
02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:06,600
Speaker 1: The next week he'd run out of bounds or head slide.

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02:08:07,120 --> 02:08:11,240
Speaker 1: Next week he would take a sack when he shouldn't

2642
02:08:11,240 --> 02:08:12,760
Speaker 1: have taken a sack. In the next week he would

2643
02:08:12,800 --> 02:08:15,480
Speaker 1: throw it away. So we saw these incremental things where

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02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:18,000
Speaker 1: he got better. I think at this point in his development,

2645
02:08:18,240 --> 02:08:19,960
Speaker 1: and we've been saying this for a few weeks now,

2646
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:22,040
Speaker 1: it seemed like he's almost He's plateaued a little bit

2647
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:25,680
Speaker 1: or at least the improvement that he's making, some of

2648
02:08:25,760 --> 02:08:29,560
Speaker 1: which we've talked about, hasn't been readily available to and

2649
02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:33,240
Speaker 1: if unless you're just really looking close, I still think

2650
02:08:33,280 --> 02:08:34,840
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things he's getting better at.

2651
02:08:35,160 --> 02:08:37,080
Speaker 1: In fact, I saw signs of it this last week

2652
02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:39,760
Speaker 1: and some pre snap stuff that I saw, and some

2653
02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:42,560
Speaker 1: of the rhetoric coming out from the team after the

2654
02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:44,440
Speaker 1: game was over about what Josh was doing and what

2655
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:47,120
Speaker 1: he was responsible for and how he handled it is

2656
02:08:47,160 --> 02:08:50,200
Speaker 1: pretty encouraging that he is getting better pre snap. So

2657
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:52,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of this stuff now I think where

2658
02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:54,760
Speaker 1: it looks as though he's plateaued a little bit in

2659
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:58,480
Speaker 1: his development, especially after he lose a three point game.

2660
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:01,000
Speaker 1: It makes all the difference in the world that he's

2661
02:09:01,040 --> 02:09:03,560
Speaker 1: played too and we're still waiting for another for him

2662
02:09:03,600 --> 02:09:06,160
Speaker 1: to bust loose and go to another level. But I

2663
02:09:06,200 --> 02:09:09,080
Speaker 1: think we all believe he should have another level to

2664
02:09:09,160 --> 02:09:12,760
Speaker 1: get to at least and you know, elevating his play,

2665
02:09:13,120 --> 02:09:15,920
Speaker 1: and we're waiting to see that, and I think a

2666
02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: lot of people are confident that he's going to get there.

2667
02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:20,120
Speaker 1: Some people would like to see it before they believe it,

2668
02:09:20,160 --> 02:09:21,960
Speaker 1: and some people don't believe he'll ever get there. I

2669
02:09:22,040 --> 02:09:23,680
Speaker 1: mean we've seen it heard from them as well. Let's

2670
02:09:23,680 --> 02:09:25,640
Speaker 1: take call one more call here, I think from Connor

2671
02:09:25,720 --> 02:09:28,760
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Go ahead, Connor, welcome to the show. Hey guys,

2672
02:09:28,800 --> 02:09:31,720
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Sure, a couple of things just

2673
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 1: kind of piggyback. And what we've been talking about all

2674
02:09:34,360 --> 02:09:37,800
Speaker 1: week is, you know, execution. M. There's a lot of

2675
02:09:38,520 --> 02:09:41,240
Speaker 1: things that haven't gone Josh's way to you know, and

2676
02:09:41,440 --> 02:09:43,760
Speaker 1: Josh Alan lost the game. No I do he want

2677
02:09:43,800 --> 02:09:47,360
Speaker 1: us games. He definitely put us in position to do that. M.

2678
02:09:48,080 --> 02:09:50,000
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing comes to mind, it really

2679
02:09:50,040 --> 02:09:54,040
Speaker 1: sticks out from Sunday is the is the cross pass

2680
02:09:54,240 --> 02:09:58,280
Speaker 1: slam pass. I'm Drey Robert Roberts. Alan put the right

2681
02:09:58,320 --> 02:10:01,800
Speaker 1: on the money and Andre was kind of catching him

2682
02:10:01,840 --> 02:10:04,560
Speaker 1: with his forearms where he hesitated for a minute, Right,

2683
02:10:04,720 --> 02:10:07,120
Speaker 1: Andre did yet you got to bring those hands in

2684
02:10:07,200 --> 02:10:09,160
Speaker 1: and now now he's off to the races as a

2685
02:10:09,200 --> 02:10:12,960
Speaker 1: previous color Sadden and we'll see those yards after the catch,

2686
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:15,920
Speaker 1: We'll see the three hundred yard game. I mean, if

2687
02:10:16,240 --> 02:10:18,680
Speaker 1: we're not having those drops and they're gonna have dropped

2688
02:10:18,720 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 1: every game, but you're gonna see that he's on the

2689
02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 1: cusp of of doing everything that the Bills fans want

2690
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:28,720
Speaker 1: to see in our you know, I think we're we

2691
02:10:28,840 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 1: put him into a certain classic can center him a

2692
02:10:31,600 --> 02:10:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, the guy. I think Josh is the guy.

2693
02:10:33,960 --> 02:10:35,800
Speaker 1: I think he has the mental toughest to be the guy.

2694
02:10:35,880 --> 02:10:37,800
Speaker 1: He hangs in there with the best of him. He

2695
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:40,080
Speaker 1: just needs to put the pieces together. And I think,

2696
02:10:40,520 --> 02:10:42,440
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Sands have a lot to be excited about.

2697
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:44,880
Speaker 1: So and maybe it kind of you know, I hear you,

2698
02:10:45,040 --> 02:10:46,320
Speaker 1: and I agree with it for the most time. And

2699
02:10:46,360 --> 02:10:49,040
Speaker 1: maybe it's this week. It's a twenty ninth ranked defense

2700
02:10:49,120 --> 02:10:51,040
Speaker 1: down there in Miami. They got fifth day, gave up

2701
02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,400
Speaker 1: fifty nine points to Baltimore. They gave up forty three

2702
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:56,640
Speaker 1: to New England, thirty one to Dallas, thirty to the Chargers,

2703
02:10:56,720 --> 02:11:00,360
Speaker 1: thirty they gave up thirty one to Buffalo here Ago.

2704
02:11:00,560 --> 02:11:02,720
Speaker 1: Maybe it's this week, Steve, I mean, it might be.

2705
02:11:02,920 --> 02:11:07,200
Speaker 1: And that's kind of I think, while that's possible, that

2706
02:11:07,640 --> 02:11:09,360
Speaker 1: and I call it lightning in a bottle where the

2707
02:11:09,400 --> 02:11:11,080
Speaker 1: Bills might bust out for one of these weeks. I

2708
02:11:11,120 --> 02:11:12,880
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna all of a sudden bust out.

2709
02:11:13,160 --> 02:11:15,760
Speaker 1: Score thirty points a game and stay there for Josh

2710
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:17,880
Speaker 1: Allen the entirety of Josh Allen's career. I think it's

2711
02:11:17,880 --> 02:11:19,600
Speaker 1: a week to week league. It's gonna go up and down.

2712
02:11:19,960 --> 02:11:22,200
Speaker 1: But what I do want to see is more and

2713
02:11:22,360 --> 02:11:25,280
Speaker 1: more and more consistency. He threw for a career high

2714
02:11:25,360 --> 02:11:28,000
Speaker 1: yardage this last week on forty one attempts. He still

2715
02:11:28,040 --> 02:11:31,400
Speaker 1: didn't complete enough of them, high enough percentage of them.

2716
02:11:32,160 --> 02:11:34,360
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, there's a lot there to be,

2717
02:11:34,800 --> 02:11:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, to be thinking like future is gonna get

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Speaker 1: here pretty quick and it's gonna be pretty bright. I'm

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Speaker 1: still in that camp with Josh Allen. I think it's

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Speaker 1: they're better days ahead and they're winning games while those

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Speaker 1: days are coming. We'll take a break. It is One

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Good Show Today, I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: it's an award winner. Ryan Field Gates joined us today

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Speaker 1: on the show from NFL's NFL Incited from ESPN, and

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Speaker 1: he talked to us about Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick in

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Speaker 1: sort of his place in NFL history, here's Field Gates.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be like the last baseball pitcher who

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Speaker 1: also bat or something like that, Like are a super

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Speaker 1: utility player in baseball, someone who just continually found value,

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Speaker 1: provided value to his roster. Never the star, never the

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Speaker 1: guy that you built a franchise around, but a player

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Speaker 1: who always was good enough to help you out in

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Speaker 1: a pinch. And don't you think that he reminds me

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Speaker 1: a farve in his pure enjoyment of football. Bit seems

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Speaker 1: to have a blast every time time he is out there.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes people might perceiving as care free. I look at

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Speaker 1: it as passionate. And the guy is I really think

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Speaker 1: he's a warrior. I think he's incredibly tough. I think

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Speaker 1: his teammates respect the heck out of him. I really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the various chapters of Ryan Fitzpatrick Good Dan Field

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Speaker 1: Gates with a Steve. That was a heck of a show.

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Speaker 1: And I want you to be proud of that show.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear any self deprecation about your

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Speaker 1: role in this show or anything else that sounds I

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Speaker 1: will not self deprecate this show. We got another one tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I hope it can be half as good as we

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Speaker 1: work today. Is that bad? It was a good show today.

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Speaker 1: We everybody today, including our production assistant George Blast, Jeff

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Speaker 1: Colteneck Thomas, honald Or, Kelly Rude, j J. Territo, Kevin Cargis,

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Speaker 1: James Robol, and our producer Jay Harris. Back tomorrow with

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Speaker 1: Moore on the Bills and the Dolphins. We started twelve noon.

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