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Speaker 1: Oh, a good time of Steve Tasker, touchs, do Touch,

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Speaker 1: do talks, do Westover Time. Welcome to a Wednesday, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Welcome to one Bill's Drive, New

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Speaker 1: Air of Field. It's kind of a sunny day, not

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Speaker 1: a bad day in Orchard Park. Temperature in the mid

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Speaker 1: to high thirties, which yes in December and Buffalo. That's

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Speaker 1: not too bad. And the sunshine makes a difference. And

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Speaker 1: it's sunny today, kind of sunny yesterday. You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: sunny the next few days. I checked the weather Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker for Sunday in um are we going Foxborough? And

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be bad. High of forty two degrees, sunny,

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Speaker 1: skies on Sunday, winds are light, so that's okay. I

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Speaker 1: can live with that. Live with that around Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: Good aswing, everybody, Welcome to the show. I'm John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is Steve Tasker, seven time Pro Bowl performer for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, NFL on CBS, Star Superstar and the co

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Speaker 1: host of our show. Uh and we're here for the

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Speaker 1: next three hours. Talk to Bills Footba. What are you

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Speaker 1: laughing about? What's starting off on a high? Superstar he's

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Speaker 1: a superstar. Welcome to the show Wednesday. I'm liking this

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Speaker 1: show already. Let's wrap it up right here. He can

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Speaker 1: only go down from here for Steve. Yeah, we're here

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Speaker 1: until three to talk about the Bills and the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: to talk with you, to talk with Micah Hide to

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Speaker 1: Bill's safety schedule. To join us after practice at h

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Speaker 1: will be around two o'clock today. I'm gonna talk with

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas today. He'll be

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Speaker 1: making his usual Wednesday visit. I don't think Thurman's coming

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna be busy. He's gonna be busy, like

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Speaker 1: busy out of town. I got the life of Riley Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good for him. He needs a break, he does, he does.

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Speaker 1: We think Thurman needs a break. We think he needs

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Speaker 1: a vacation. Yeah. It probably needs a break from us

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Speaker 1: and maybe, but he's coming in today. He won't get

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Speaker 1: it today. Thurman will be in at one o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown's going to join us from the practice field.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna work out inside the ad Pro Sports Training

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Speaker 1: talk with Brownie about what to look at out there

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Speaker 1: on a day where the Bills start to get ready

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Speaker 1: for the new England Patriots. Sean McDermott just had his

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Speaker 1: news conference. Not practicing today. Kyle Williams got a bit

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Speaker 1: of a back issue. Now, Kyle normally gets Wednesdays off

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Speaker 1: a practice anyway for a veteran rest day. He will

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Speaker 1: not practice today, and cornerback Ryan Lewis will not practice today,

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Speaker 1: remaining in concussion protocol the second straight week for that.

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Speaker 1: McDermot said he's in a pretty good spot and del

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Speaker 1: see how he is today. Of course, he did not

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Speaker 1: play last Sunday with his hamstring, but McCoy should be

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Speaker 1: able to practice today, So you're caught up. The Bills

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Speaker 1: have a new player. We'll talk a little bit about him.

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Speaker 1: Our return specialist signed to the roster late yesterday. His

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Speaker 1: it's it was hard to name an absolute Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Pro Bowl. There are a couple of ball

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Speaker 1: toss unbelievable. They may wind up playing in the game,

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Speaker 1: but nobody from the Bills for the first time since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve. Why is that unbelievable? You got

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Speaker 1: So to get shut out of the Pro Bowls a

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Speaker 1: That's a big accomplishment. Then you've got teams like the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: But I have a hard time thinking, Oh, that's awful,

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Speaker 1: until this last week when Lorenzo Alexander was only getting

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Speaker 1: extremely well early in the season. It's seven Pro Bowls.

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Speaker 1: my second favorite team this year. Seven Pro Bowlers, that's

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that you know, Tom Brady's in

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, can you name legend Lorenzo? Huh,

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Speaker 1: You're number one Bill snub for the Pro Bowl? Is

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Speaker 1: have not been able to do that this year, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. And what'll mean interesting the players we'll

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Speaker 1: the players whom the players think got snubbed. The Bills

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Speaker 1: players nobody in the Pro Bowl. Sean McDermott was asked

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Speaker 1: to say. Yeah, we're about winning games, and sometimes when

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Speaker 1: you when you have the year that we've had, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't get the recognition. We've had a lot

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Speaker 1: game and it was fun. Now. I finished up my

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Speaker 1: evening of television viewing sports television viewing, which you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't like to do this too much, but went

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Speaker 1: right straight from ub and the Sabers were finished to

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Speaker 1: us the Patriots. I watched most of the Patriot stealers

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Speaker 1: from last Sunday, watched it over on tape. Remember last

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Speaker 1: yesterday show you and I got a little giddy, and

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Speaker 1: I remember saying, slap me, Steve. But I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills might do something here. And I still think that's possible.

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Speaker 1: But I did find reasons to pause a little bit

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Speaker 1: in my enthusiasm. And look, we went through the numbers,

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Speaker 1: the defensive numbers. The Patriots defensive rankings are not good,

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Speaker 1: and they're worse than the Bills. And we're going through

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Speaker 1: that yesterday, and it's all true and it means something.

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Speaker 1: But as I watched the Patriots on tape yesterday and

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Speaker 1: watch the most recent game at Pittsburgh yesterday, the game

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Speaker 1: they played Sunday, I thought, Okay, the numbers tell you

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Speaker 1: one thing. The way they play, the way they line up,

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Speaker 1: and the multiple variations of defense they throw out a

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Speaker 1: team that's a problem for anyone, A bit of a

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Speaker 1: problem for a talented offense like Pittsburgh, could be a

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Speaker 1: real problem for a less than talented offense, and a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in particular. Look, they'll line up anyway the

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Speaker 1: Patriots do on defense, They'll they'll show you looks that

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen before. They'll they'll show Josh Allen and

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo offense looks that they did not see against Pittsburgh. Well,

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Speaker 1: they'll say it's tough to defend. They're they're smart veteran defenders.

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Speaker 1: They'll show ridiculous fronts that don't make any sense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they'll just stand up and just wait for

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Speaker 1: you to snap the ball and then and then what

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Speaker 1: they call stem into what their defense is going to be.

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Speaker 1: When the ball is snapped, then they'll run to their positions,

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Speaker 1: either rushing the passer or drop into coverage or running

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Speaker 1: to the person they're going to cover in man to

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Speaker 1: man coverage after the ball is snapped. And it's impossible

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Speaker 1: for a quarterback, even a good quarterback. I used to

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Speaker 1: do it to Peyton Manning all the time. Disguise their fronts.

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Speaker 1: They would, they'll run to it and they're very good

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Speaker 1: at it's tough for a young quarterback to sort through

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Speaker 1: all of that about who's rushing and who's not. You

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Speaker 1: can bet and it's if if you're trying to decide

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Speaker 1: what the philosophy of their defense is going to be

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Speaker 1: despite what they show you pre snap, what would it

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Speaker 1: be if you're playing the Buffalo Bills. Do you invite

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills to try and run it to keep

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Speaker 1: the ball out of Josh Allen's hands, or do you

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Speaker 1: pack the box, put nine guys up at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and think, Okay, you're not going to run

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Speaker 1: against this threat. You're gonna try and throw it. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if Josh Allen can beat us. Maybe more of that,

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Speaker 1: it's maybe gonna be more of that. Yeah, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but it's you can bet that they'll have a predominantly

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Speaker 1: different game plan than they did against a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberg. It's almost worthless film to look out. And

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Speaker 1: that's what got me last night watching the Patriots defense

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Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Look, the numbers show you one thing. The

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Speaker 1: numbers show a season's worth of a struggle for the

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Speaker 1: New England defense. But on film, on video, you can

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Speaker 1: see what they might be able to do, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of it just has to do with confusing what

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Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback will see this week. And that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's something to be that's gonna challenge. I believe Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: and let's face it, the Bills have found a way

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Speaker 1: to get some touchdowns now, but there's still they're winning

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Speaker 1: games fourteen thirty team right, there's still not putting up

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Speaker 1: a ton of points here. And they're up against the

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Speaker 1: defense which while maybe a little slow, as Bucky Brooks

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Speaker 1: said yesterday and maybe he is not so talented, especially

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Speaker 1: front four, it's a defense that's very smart and very experienced,

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Speaker 1: especially on the back end. They'll be able to show

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Speaker 1: some looks to Josh Hallen that he has not seen before,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills are gonna have to sort it out.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough, yeah, And I think one of

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Speaker 1: the one wild card that you can look at and say, okay, well' see,

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Speaker 1: maybe that'll help the Bills is Brian Dable. He spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of time in that building and he has

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Speaker 1: the wherewithal and particularly with the additions of speed and

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Speaker 1: whether roster is now on the edges, to get some

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Speaker 1: matchup he liked, matchups he likes. He will be able

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Speaker 1: to look at shifts, personnel combinations and formations and motions

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Speaker 1: that will set the Bills up to maybe dictate a

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Speaker 1: matchup that they like both in the run game end

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Speaker 1: and the passing game, and it'll be interesting to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, how much he can get done with the

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Speaker 1: limited guys he's got. I mean, they got a lot

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Speaker 1: of inexperienced guys on the Bills offense. It'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what he can kind of what recipe he

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Speaker 1: can come up with for some success offensively. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I was giddy yesterday on the show. I'm less than

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Speaker 1: giddy now, which it's a good lesson for me too, Steve. Look,

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Speaker 1: the numbers only tell you one thing, and some people

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Speaker 1: will get all caught up in an analyzing or maybe

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Speaker 1: trying to predict a game by look, well, look at

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Speaker 1: they're the third ranked defense and they're the eighth ranked defense,

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Speaker 1: So this defense is better. Okay, that's one way to

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Speaker 1: look at it. But when you really look at it,

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Speaker 1: when you look at how they play, what they try

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Speaker 1: to do, you get I think a more complete picture

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Speaker 1: of our team plays. I don't want to do this

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Speaker 1: now because it's relate to the break. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to the break in a minute, because this is something

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Speaker 1: we can talk about maybe in a later segment. But

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Speaker 1: there's some stuff coming out about some statistics about the

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Speaker 1: Bills and what they're asking Josh Allen to do about

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Speaker 1: how many deep passes he's thrown in comparison to other

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Speaker 1: people around the league. Some statistics about how many balls

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Speaker 1: he's completed and where they were targeted and how far

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Speaker 1: down the field they were targeted. And it's pretty interesting

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Speaker 1: about where this offense has evolved to at this point

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Speaker 1: of the season and about where Josh Allen throws the football.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to that a little bit later in

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Speaker 1: the show. But um, because I want to spend a

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Speaker 1: little time, okay, in a shorter segment. Why did you

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Speaker 1: bring that up when we were talking about the show?

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Speaker 1: I was a guy. You know, what can I do?

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Speaker 1: We have a show meeting where I'm not a perfect

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Speaker 1: topic and the show I have an absolute and novice

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Speaker 1: I want to get. I want to get to the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll first. I want to bet spend a little

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Speaker 1: more interesting to me. I mean, it seemed like we're

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Speaker 1: making it up as we going on. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get that. We could do that right now. No, No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we gotta do no, no, let's do Twitter poll. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's do it this way. Sean McDermott talked about the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: how good they are, how much respect he has for him,

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Speaker 1: and they have dominated the AFC East. You know that.

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was asked about it today. Why so much

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Speaker 1: dominance for New England over all these years. Here's what

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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bills had to say. I

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Speaker 1: don't I respect greatness. The guy is, you know, arguably

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback to ever played the game. And respect

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Speaker 1: greatness from from the way that they've had to hold

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Speaker 1: on the division. A lot of that was before before

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Speaker 1: you know, we got here, but certainly respect that and

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Speaker 1: going against them different spots that I've been over the years,

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Speaker 1: and they do things the right way. So those are

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Speaker 1: the things they've been to where we're trying to get to,

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Speaker 1: in the habits that they've developed over however many years

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Speaker 1: coach has been there. Now, those are the things that

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Speaker 1: we're trying to build. And so until you built, you

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Speaker 1: beat them. Then they deserve all the credits that they've gotten. Coachman.

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Speaker 1: German is right, and look, we all know the deal.

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Speaker 1: You hate the Patriots, right, all they do is win

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Speaker 1: every year. In fact, did the Patriots win Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Bills or if the Dolphins lose. On Sunday, Dolphins

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Speaker 1: are playing Jacksonville. I believe if the Patriots winn the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins lose, New England wins its tenth consecutive AFC East

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Speaker 1: Division title. It's never happened in the NFL before. They'll

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Speaker 1: go to the playoffs for the tenth consecutive year. On

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Speaker 1: Twitter today, we're asking the question, and it's one that

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Speaker 1: you hate to see, but what's the main reason that

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have dominated the division over all these years?

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Speaker 1: They're looking at their tenth consecutive division title. Well, how

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Speaker 1: did that happen? I want to hear from you. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three oh five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

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Speaker 1: or go to Twitter one Bills Live and vote on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll what's the main reason for the Patriots dominance?

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Speaker 1: It's a Twitter poll and it's a close vote so far,

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Speaker 1: with about four hundred votes in, thirty six percent of

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Speaker 1: you say the main reason the Patriots have dominated the

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Speaker 1: division is Tom Brady and that's exactly what the Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott started with a minute ago. Thirty three percent of

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Speaker 1: you say the ineptitude of the rest of the AFC East,

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Speaker 1: the Bills, the Jets, the Dolphins. Twenty six percent of

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Speaker 1: you say Bill Belichick. Five percent of you have something

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Speaker 1: else in mind. What's the main reason the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: dominated this division? If they win Sunday or if the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins lose, New England gets its tenth straight AFC East

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Speaker 1: Division title. It's a painful topic, isn't it, Steve Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta as but you gotta nod your head,

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Speaker 1: you gotta inshrug your shoulders and nod. They've been really good.

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Speaker 1: And the one constant on the field has been Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and he's been outstanding. And when you get inside and

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Speaker 1: over the course of the last decade and a half,

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Speaker 1: Bill's fans have started to get to know that guy

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Speaker 1: a little too well, almost for most most of them.

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Speaker 1: But you got to respect how hard he has worked

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Speaker 1: at it, the commitment he has had to it, the

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00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: motivation that has driven him to be this great. He's

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Speaker 1: one years old. And also, you've got a head coach

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Speaker 1: who grew up as a coach. He was eight years

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Speaker 1: old watching film in the back of the at the

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Speaker 1: Navy at Annapolis with his dad as a as a

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Speaker 1: scout and knowing how to watch film and break film down,

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Speaker 1: knowing what it takes to put a staff together. He

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Speaker 1: was early, early in his career, he was a quality

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Speaker 1: control guy for Ted marcher Broda And I asked him

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Speaker 1: about this in one of our production meetings, about his

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Speaker 1: relationship with Ted marcher Brod and what it was like,

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Speaker 1: and he was he was very respectful and thankful of

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Speaker 1: the relationships he's had with a lot of coaches that

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Speaker 1: have brought him under their wing. You know, Bill bart

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Speaker 1: We all know that he was with Bill Parcels for

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Speaker 1: all those years. He was with Ted marcher Broda for

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Speaker 1: a long time. And every morning he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: in training camp with the Baltimore Colts, they were driving

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Speaker 1: from the hotel where they were staying to practice, and

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Speaker 1: he would drive and would be be Ted marcher Broda

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Speaker 1: and his top coordinators in the car and it was

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Speaker 1: like a staff meeting every morning, and he was soaking

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Speaker 1: it up. It's a guy who's been in that atmosphere

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Speaker 1: for most of his life. That's a huge depth of

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Speaker 1: knowledge that he carries with him wherever he goes, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's served him well in his ability to

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Speaker 1: get guys around him. Remember, this is a coach in

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Speaker 1: New England that's got more in my opinion, not having

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Speaker 1: to check this out, but when I glanced at their staff,

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Speaker 1: there's more guys who did not play football in the

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Speaker 1: NFL on that staff at high levels than any other

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Speaker 1: staff in the league. Most of the guys you look

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Speaker 1: at on Bill Belichick staff, we're players, they're coaches. There

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Speaker 1: is a difference. Now, certainly there's something that being a

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Speaker 1: player brings to the table as a head coach, but

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Speaker 1: Bill sees other things that are more important. And what

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Speaker 1: those things are you'd have to ask him. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's I think it's all a telling characteristic of

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Speaker 1: his staffs that the guys at the highest levels weren't

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Speaker 1: guys that played in the National Football League. Interesting, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk more about that. I want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: What's the main reason, the primary reason the Patriots have dominated,

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Speaker 1: why they're on the verge of a tenth consecutive AFC

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Speaker 1: East Division title. Let us know what you think. Phone

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Speaker 1: it on Twitter. We will read some of those tweets

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Speaker 1: on the air, and we'll follow the Twitter poll. Let

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Speaker 1: you know how that's going. Main reason, primary reason the

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Speaker 1: Patriots have dominated this division. Let's talk about it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break, come back and talk about the

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Speaker 1: Bills at practice today. Chris Brown, Bills Insider from Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot Com. Stan anybody report to us live from

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Speaker 1: the practice field as the Bills gets to play the

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Speaker 1: Patriots this week. Come on back One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by a Collada Health from One Bill's Drive. And this

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker Company from our one Buffalo studio

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Speaker 1: until three o'clock this afternoon. Over in the field house

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Speaker 1: the other side of the wall. Over there, Bills are

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Speaker 1: on the field for practice. The open portion the public public,

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Speaker 1: the media viewing portion of practice, and our man, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Bills Inside or Buffalo Bills dot Com, joins us live

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Speaker 1: from the practice field indoors today. Good afternoon, Brownie. How

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Speaker 1: are you today doing? Okay? How you guys doing? We're

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Speaker 1: doing well. I have to relay a question from one

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Speaker 1: of our associates here. George Blast says, so is shady

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Speaker 1: plain or what that was this question? I told him,

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Speaker 1: I pass it on to you. I'm sorry, I'm having

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Speaker 1: trouble hearing. Yeah, I had trouble understanding this question too.

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Speaker 1: Is Lasan McCoy. What do you think mcd said, he's

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Speaker 1: in a pretty good spot. How do we interpret that

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Speaker 1: it when it comes to here? Yeah, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he really benefited from not playing in last

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Speaker 1: week's game. Just let that hamstring completely, you know, get healed,

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Speaker 1: get right, whatever the case might have been. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Lashawn never really said last week that he pulled the hamstring,

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Speaker 1: didn't even say that he strained it. He said he

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Speaker 1: had tightness in his hamstring and couldn't loosen it up

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Speaker 1: to go back into the game. And so they elected

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Speaker 1: not to make a bad situation worse. And you wonder,

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Speaker 1: like he was practicing late last week on a limited basis,

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Speaker 1: so I don't think he was that far away to

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Speaker 1: even try and play in the game last week. So

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Speaker 1: I would think, yes, his chances are very good for

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Speaker 1: him to play on Sunday. And probably further evidence of

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Speaker 1: that is the fact that they didn't feel the need

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Speaker 1: to add a running back to their roster, even though

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Speaker 1: they subtracted one in Marcus Murphy, who went on IR yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Or are the odds that Victor Bolden, new wide receiver

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Speaker 1: is gonna Is he gonna do some return work? Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna get worked into the mix? How does that

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Speaker 1: his role? Yeah, I mean it's I asked coach that

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Speaker 1: very question. You know, you only got two weeks to

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Speaker 1: make an impression here. How realistic is it that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to get him on the field, to

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Speaker 1: look at him in a game setting, not just the

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Speaker 1: practice setting here over these last two weeks. And he

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Speaker 1: does have a very good return history, primarily is a

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Speaker 1: kick returner more than a punt returner, but had four

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Speaker 1: returns for touchdowns in college at Oregon State, three on kicks,

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Speaker 1: one on punt. And he said, well, I like what

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Speaker 1: I've seen on tape. He's got a competitive fire to him.

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Speaker 1: He's passionate about playing and apparently his first face to

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Speaker 1: face meeting with coach went very well. So he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get a legitimate look here in the practice week. I

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Speaker 1: think if he can show something in the practice setting

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Speaker 1: here Wednesday, Thursday, maybe even to a certain extent Friday,

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Speaker 1: if there's a special teams period, he could get a look.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can't forget the fact guys that gone

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Speaker 1: through about five return men through the course of this season.

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Speaker 1: Whether you're talking about Taiwan Jones who went on IR,

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Speaker 1: to Micah Hyde, to Ray Ray McLeod to Marcus Murphy

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Speaker 1: who's now on IR, There's been a host of guys

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Speaker 1: that have been run through there. I mean, in games

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Speaker 1: that really don't have any bearing on any kind of

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Speaker 1: playoff implications. It wouldn't shock me if you take a

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Speaker 1: look at a kid that you think could be here

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Speaker 1: next year if he does the right thing. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he could get a chance this weekend, a

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Speaker 1: chance at return work, Right, Chris, you think it's unlikely

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Speaker 1: ye might get snaps at the receiver? What do you think? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean to get up to speed with the offense

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Speaker 1: that quickly. I mean, I suppose it's possible, But I

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Speaker 1: envision a special team's role for him. Yeah, and most

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Speaker 1: it would be a package of plays, you know, those

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Speaker 1: quick those endo rounds, or maybe just a go route

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Speaker 1: to help out with some speed to take the lid off.

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Speaker 1: It'd be a limited number of plays, right, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would expect that for sure. I mean, especially with a

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Speaker 1: lot of these other young guys that receiver, they're trying

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Speaker 1: to get run for each week too. Do you have

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Speaker 1: to break Chris? I can't tell us this segment. I

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Speaker 1: think I've got about five minutes here, individual five five

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Speaker 1: minutes left, Okay, I'm getting conflicting singles. Good, So we

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Speaker 1: got more questions for you if you're if you're a game,

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Speaker 1: your game, yeah, let her rip, man. I want to

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Speaker 1: get back to not necessarily shady, but run game in general.

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Speaker 1: As I begin and dive into a recent Patriots video,

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Speaker 1: it struck me last night how vulnerable they are to

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Speaker 1: a good running game. I mean, the Steelers exploited it

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Speaker 1: last week with a rookie getting all that yardage, right,

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Speaker 1: and if there's is there anybody I'm this roster who

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Speaker 1: might be able to carry the mail and do a

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Speaker 1: good job of picking up yardage. And I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about the quarterback picking up yardage on the ground against

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Speaker 1: this Patriot's defense, because I think they can't be had there.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, I mean, Lashawn's had a

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Speaker 1: fairly decent history against the Patriots since he's been in

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Speaker 1: a Bill's uniform. I mean he hasn't blown the top

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Speaker 1: off a game with his rushing yardage, but he's been

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Speaker 1: effective enough and helping the offense stay on the field,

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Speaker 1: move the chains, etc. There was a run he made

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Speaker 1: up in New England, I want to say, two seasons

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Speaker 1: ago as one of the best third down runs for

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Speaker 1: a first down I've ever seen, where he's just making

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Speaker 1: guys grasp at air. And I think the unpredictability of

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Speaker 1: his running style is what confounds the Patriots, who you know,

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Speaker 1: as a philosophy, are rooted in structure, discipline, in how

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Speaker 1: you defend plays, and so when you have a broken

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Speaker 1: play or an improvisational play like Lashawn McCoy can execute,

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen for that matter, when he takes off

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Speaker 1: and runs, that's going to provide problems for a New

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Speaker 1: England defense that's based largely on structure. Now, all that

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Speaker 1: being said, within the structure of that defense, there have

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Speaker 1: been lots of problems in terms of stopping the run.

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Speaker 1: Not just last week. The last three games, the Patriots

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Speaker 1: have given up seven and a half yards per carry

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Speaker 1: to their opponents. The Dolphins average nine yards to carry

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Speaker 1: in their upset win of them. A couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: So this has been a problem that's persisted for a

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Speaker 1: few weeks. They haven't been able to completely correct it.

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Speaker 1: It's a good coaching staff up there, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: not to say that don't have the answers, but I

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Speaker 1: think the answers lie in the lack of execution for them,

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Speaker 1: maybe more than how they're being instructed to fix those problems. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: give us an idea of what that looks like. When

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Speaker 1: you watch the Patriots on film and Murphy you can

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Speaker 1: talk about this as well. Is it are they just

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Speaker 1: giving up an occasional big run and you know some

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Speaker 1: of these you know they're doing okay? Or do they

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Speaker 1: give up seriously give up five yards a crack, nine

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Speaker 1: yards a crack, seven yards a crack, I mean, or

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Speaker 1: is it? You know, because sometimes these defenses, particularly coordinator

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Speaker 1: will say, yeah, we look bad on paper, but it's

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Speaker 1: like one play a game or one play a half

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Speaker 1: that makes us look bad statistically. That's not the case,

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Speaker 1: is it. It's I think they've kind of fallen off

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Speaker 1: a cliff here with their consistency in defending the run.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a month ago, this team was ranked

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Speaker 1: sixteenth in the league in yards per carry against, and

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Speaker 1: it was down around three in change, I want to say,

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Speaker 1: and now for the season, I think it's up over four.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, the last three weeks it's at

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Speaker 1: seven and a half. Their yards per carry against has

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Speaker 1: dropped all the way to thirty first in the league.

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Speaker 1: So there's there's an issue at work here that they

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Speaker 1: have yet to fix, and opponents see it on tape

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Speaker 1: and they're taking advantage of it. I can't pretend to

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Speaker 1: be the X and O expert to show you where

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Speaker 1: they should be had by the Bills in the run scheme,

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Speaker 1: but you better believe Brian Dables on it, and he

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Speaker 1: and his offensive staff are going to try to exploit

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Speaker 1: what they can. And Jaylen Samuel's got one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy two scrimmage yards and third springers. Yeah, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: And they threw to him a lot too. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: just all in the run game. I think they targeted

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Speaker 1: him nine ten times in the passing game. He came

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Speaker 1: out with six or seven receptions and made plays out

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Speaker 1: on the flanks. Two and that might be the best

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Speaker 1: way to get Lashawn McCoy involved flaring him out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield, getting him out in space where he can

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Speaker 1: make people miss. Yeah, they're given up four point nine

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Speaker 1: nine yards per rush play, so it's five yards of rush.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's unsustainable. And he got to think that

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Speaker 1: they're working hard to make sure the Bills don't do

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Speaker 1: that because the one thing they would they do not

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Speaker 1: want to do is take the ball. I think they

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Speaker 1: want to keep the ball in Josh Allen's hands, don't you, Brownie. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And one interesting element again, just to touch on the

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Speaker 1: Patriots a little bit here, these last three games where

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Speaker 1: the run defense has completely fallen apart, one of their

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Speaker 1: big inside defenders has been inactive, a healthy inactive in

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Speaker 1: Danny Shelton, the former first round pick of the Browns

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Speaker 1: who latched on with the Patriots last year. He's been

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Speaker 1: inactive each of the last three weeks. He's a behemoth

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Speaker 1: of a humane at about three and three ninety pounds,

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Speaker 1: and he's been out the last three weeks and the

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Speaker 1: run defense has gone even further south than where it was,

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Speaker 1: so you kind of almost anticipate that to find a

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Speaker 1: possible answer, they may thrust him back into the lineup.

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Speaker 1: He was a big part of their rotation on the

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Speaker 1: defensive lineback in October. One more question free Chris, and

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Speaker 1: this is about Josh Allen. The one thing that struck

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Speaker 1: me watching Patriots video last night was the multiplicity of

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Speaker 1: their defense. How many different looks they can give you.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be It's gonna be a challenge for Josh.

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Speaker 1: And he's gotta be coached up, I'm sure, today, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to kind of just kind of trust what he sees.

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Speaker 1: Hunh yeah. I mean there's gonna be things that he

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Speaker 1: hasn't seen. And we know what the record is for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots against quarterbacks twenty five and younger at Gillette Stadium.

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Speaker 1: What is it? I don't know that a record of

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Speaker 1: twenty four and oh they don't have a quarterback twenty

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Speaker 1: five and younger that has beaten them there. And Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes was the latest victim in that forty three forty

849
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Speaker 1: game earlier this season. How far back does that go?

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you, but I know one thing I

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Speaker 1: do have to go? All right, all right, thanks Brownie?

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, that's it? Come on? How many the

853
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: fact that if you've got twenty four quarterbacks twenty five

854
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Speaker 1: years or younger. I'd like to know, is that over

855
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: forty years? Is that over ten years? Do you know

856
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: what I mean? I don't know. It could be just

857
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: in that stadium. It could be ever, that's what I

858
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: need to know. I know, all right? Thanks Ris Brown,

859
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Speaker 1: Bills Inside or from Buffalo Bills dot Com. Joining us

860
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Speaker 1: from the practice field on the other side of the wall.

861
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: Over there they had Pro Sports Training Center. So what

862
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: do you think what has been the reason why the

863
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: Patriots have dominated the AFC East. They are on the

864
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: verge of winning their tenth consecutive AFC East Division title.

865
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Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know the reason why.

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Speaker 1: Eight three five fifty twenty three one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty Steve and I back with

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Speaker 1: more One Bills Live from One Bills Drive And this

869
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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live,

870
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Speaker 1: presented by One Bills Drive or presented by Kalida Health

871
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Speaker 1: from one Bills Drives. When they're trying to say, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, practice is ongoing on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the wall. We're in the One Buffalo studio inside the

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Speaker 1: nothing going on field. Are looking at an MSG. Right's

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Speaker 1: really looks good? Hey, what do you think a couple

876
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Speaker 1: of questions on the table. Anybody gets snub from the

877
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Speaker 1: Bills or who's the most egregious snub as far as

878
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? Nobody from the Bills in the Pro you

879
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: can talk about that. Or why is it that the

880
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: Patriots are dominating the AFC East and they're about to

881
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: win their tenth consecutive division title if they beat the

882
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: Bills Sunday or if Miami loses Sunday, the Patriots for

883
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: the tenth consecutive year win the division. How did that happen?

884
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: Let's know what you think. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live A call here from Paul and Akron.

888
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Paul, you're on the air with this. Hello, Hey,

889
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: good afternoon, guys. I just wanted to bring up the

890
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: fact that the Patriots did cheat. The tapes were destroyed

891
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: by Roger Goodall, and from what I understand, I heard

892
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: that Miami and Buffalo were one of the two teams

893
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: that the Patriots had a lot of defensive calls on

894
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: and that Tom Brady knew exactly what the defense was

895
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: throwing at him every game that he played off in Miami.

896
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: Where'd you come across that? I heard that, Like when

897
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: this whole thing came out. That was in what year, um,

898
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Yeah, when Roger Goodell destroyed the

899
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: tapes and everybody was like, why did you do that?

900
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: Which smartfully so he did. I mean, I think whatever

901
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: was on there he thought would have been really bad

902
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: for his lead. Yeah, look, Paul, he did. It's a

903
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. I get it, there's something where there's smoked,

904
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 1: there's some fire, But to say that that's the reason

905
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 1: why the Patriots of unten consecutive division titles, I can't

906
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: go along with that. Look, I think it's a quarterback.

907
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: I think it's Balichick number two, and I think it's

908
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: number three. The inaptitude of the rest of the teams

909
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Speaker 1: in the division. Did they skirt the rules when it

910
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: came to h Spygate? Yes? Did they skirt the rules

911
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: when it came to a couple of other incidents, absolutely, Yes,

912
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: it appears that way, But I don't know. I hate

913
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,959
Speaker 1: to say that's the reason why they want they're about

914
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: to win tend consecutive do it. Here's what you gotta

915
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: remember that was the year before they almost to have

916
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: had a perfect season in two thousand and seven, right,

917
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: So that was that would have been the first of

918
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: their ten division titles when they got caught cheating. I

919
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: was after that, though, I was before. It was before

920
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: the Randy Moss perfect season. Which what are we talking about, spygate? Okay,

921
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: that was before. That was before before they started their run.

922
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: But they they had won a Super Bowl or two

923
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: before that. Yes they had, Yes they had. And listen,

924
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: I get it. People are gonna hold that against them

925
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: for a long time. And deflate Gate. Let me tell

926
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Speaker 1: you this about deflate Gate two. And I'm not a

927
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: Patriots apologist. I'm just I'm a former player, and it's

928
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: when you get on the field that's you know, let's play.

929
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Speaker 1: You got as much a chance to beat me as

930
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Speaker 1: I do to beat you, no matter what you are

931
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Speaker 1: or who you are. So, uh, the deflate gate thing.

932
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Speaker 1: I've talked to a lot of people, even in this

933
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Speaker 1: building at the time it happened, and that the deflate

934
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Speaker 1: gate thing that deflated footballs, people are shrugging their shoulders like,

935
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: what are you kidding me? You know that I heard

936
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Speaker 1: John Elway did the same thing. He had eleven or

937
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: twelve balls inflated to the exact specifications that it was

938
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Speaker 1: said that those eleven or twelve footballs were deflated in

939
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: the Colts Patriots game in New England. And he after

940
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: he gripped all of them and threw him and gripped

941
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: him and threw him and grabbed him and handled him,

942
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: and he was shaking his shows he there's no advantage there,

943
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, there's just no advantage. And certainly you can say, well,

944
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: he thought there was, or Tom Brady thinks that feels

945
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: better or whatever it helps him. Listen, whatever, Ten in

946
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: a row is something else you've got to. You've got to.

947
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: It's never been done before. And if you're telling me,

948
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 1: do you think they cheated to do it? Whatever? Okay, yeah, right,

949
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: And so they've got one of them. Maybe, well, they've

950
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 1: got the guy playing cores back. That starts the greatest

951
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: quarterback of all time conversation. You can say other guys,

952
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: but it starts with Tom Brady. That's where the conversation starts.

953
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: And they've got a head coach in Bill Belichick, who

954
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: has done nothing and listen, when he was in Cleveland,

955
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: they had it going on too. He's a good coach,

956
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: so you can say whatever you want. Plus you've got, uh,

957
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: you know the division in which they played in. Huh,

958
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: what do they have going on? They did? They were

959
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: a good football team, and they were run by you know,

960
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: they had some issues up above the football and the

961
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: things that you know, they couldn't get out of their

962
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: own way. So and it still goes that way in Cleveland,

963
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: but with a different owner and a different franchise. But listen,

964
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: I don't you can, you can. They're gonna get stones

965
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: cast at them throughout eternity for people who thought they

966
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: cheated to do all the great things they've done. I

967
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: don't know that you'll get that many people in football

968
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: who would agree with you. Thirty six wins, forty four

969
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: losses for five years in Cleveland, one playoff appearance, one

970
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: winning season? What did they have going on? And they

971
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: went oh and eight after they had oh and eight

972
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: after they announced that they were leaving the city. That

973
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: goes don't count. I don't know, they shouldn't, They shouldn't.

974
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if he had anything

975
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: going on in Cleveland. I I look, and this is why.

976
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: And our Twitter Paul. The main reason is Brady. You know,

977
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: I don't think Belichick he was a good coach. I

978
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: don't think he was a special coach until they got

979
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,240
Speaker 1: hooked up with Tom Brady and stayed with Tom Brady

980
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: all these years. That's my opinion. He's a good coach.

981
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: They went eleven and five with Matt Castle, the team

982
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: around him. Matt Castle couldn't play dead in a Western movie.

983
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: Matt Castle was just here Sunday. I'm just saying now

984
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: we have That's not my line either. I stole that.

985
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: I stole that from from a guy who said that

986
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: about Matt Castle. He did, We're gonna take a break Thurman,

987
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: Tom with Stan. Anybody to join us when we come back.

988
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: Why don't you comb back too? One goes live for

989
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio Bills

990
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: Radio Network stories. I'm stay from One Bill Drive the

991
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills that practice as we speak, first practice of

992
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: the week, as they gets set to play the New

993
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: England Patriots on Sunday. Kyle Williams not practicing with a

994
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 1: little bit of a back issue. According to head coach

995
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: On McDermott, Ryan lewis not practicing he remains in concussion protocol.

996
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: Running back the Sean McCoy McDermot says he's in a

997
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: pretty good spot as far as his recovery from a

998
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: hamstring issue. McDermot says, we'll see how he is today.

999
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: Bill's Patriots coming up on Sunday one o'clock in Foxborough.

1000
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: Bill's added a wide receiver to their roster yesterday, signing

1001
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver of Victor Bolden off the forty nine Ers.

1002
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: Practice Squid, a former undrafted free agent signing of the

1003
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 1: nine Ers a year ago, played in ninth regular season

1004
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: games for San Francisco last year, mostly returned work, and

1005
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 1: the Bills put the running back Marcus Murphy on injured

1006
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: reserve to make room. Bills did not get anyone selected

1007
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: for the Pro Bowl, the twenty nineteen Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida.

1008
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: The Pro Bowl selections came out last night, and the

1009
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 1: Bills were shut out for the first time since two twelve.

1010
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Chargers were the league leading seven Pro

1011
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: Bowl selections, including quarterback Philip Rivers. The Chiefs and the

1012
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: Steelers each with six Pro Bowl selections. The Bills get none.

1013
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: Packers announced yesterday they put running back Aaron Jones on

1014
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: injur reserve, effectively ending his season. He injured his knee

1015
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: early on in Sunday's matchup against the Chicago Bears. The

1016
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: injury believed to be a sprained MCL in his right knee.

1017
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers lost last night, a five two loss to

1018
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: the Florida Panthers. Sam Reinhardt with two assists in that game,

1019
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: extending his point streak to eleven games. Sabers hit the

1020
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: road now. They play at Washington on Friday seven o'clock

1021
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 1: on Friday. The fourteenth ranked You Beat Basketball Bulls beat

1022
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: Syracuse last night, seventy one to fifty nine at the

1023
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: Carrier Dome in Syracuse in front of eighteen thousand fans.

1024
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: The Bulls four teen ranked in the country. One more

1025
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: big road game. They had to Milwaukee to play twentieth

1026
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: rank Marquette on Friday night. Another National League tune by

1027
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: his game and the Niagara Purple Eagles, who won three

1028
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: in a row, play at Cleveland Stink tonight. That's a

1029
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: seven thirty tip up in Cleveland. That's the update from

1030
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive. John Murphy Steve Tasker joined in studio

1031
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: by our buddy Thurman. Thomas Hall of Fame running back

1032
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas is back with a hello, Thurman? Hey, what's happening?

1033
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Speaker 1: What's how are you doing? Happy Holidays? Mary christ Yeah

1034
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: you're feeling it yet you feel in a holiday spirit? Yeah? Uh? Not?

1035
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: After the game last night? Oh yeah, you two guys

1036
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: are both at the game. You don't sit together, You

1037
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: don't have a beer, you don't get a fried blooney

1038
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: or anything. Last night we didn't. Okay we have was

1039
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: still still time. How many former teammates you think we're

1040
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: there besides you two? Anyone who would have been there?

1041
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, just us too. You kind of you

1042
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: wear like a hood, so nobody recognized you. You You don't

1043
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: want to. He's sitting like ten rows up behind the

1044
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: he get bothered. No, not that is bothering. You know,

1045
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: people just say hey, hey there you Yeah, I'm on

1046
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: the opposite side. How many games will you guys go

1047
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: to this year? Ballpark? I've been to three only this year,

1048
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: five or six, seven, six or seven. I'm trying to

1049
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: I try to get between the fifteen twenty, right you

1050
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: same with us? Yeah, you and I did an event

1051
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: Monday and somebody asked you about your being a fan

1052
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: of the Sabers. You told an interesting story of how

1053
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: you got into it very earlier in your career here

1054
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Can you repeat that story please? Oh yeah,

1055
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: it was in uh nineteen eighty eight when I first

1056
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: got here. I was a rookie. Yeah, and we'd just

1057
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: been in practice and um Ken Hole coming to me

1058
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I got an extra ticket to the

1059
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: hockey game. You want to go? Check with Patty? Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

1060
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: It was always yeah and right still today, check with

1061
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: Patty um. And so I went to the hockey game,

1062
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: met him and Will Wolford. They had some great seats

1063
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: and the odd Yeah, they were running the end right

1064
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,720
Speaker 1: right behind the goal, right they had the wall, they'd

1065
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: set the beers right up on it. Absolutely and three

1066
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: steps down to the uh the poor in Jo club.

1067
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,919
Speaker 1: You can get those Fried blooneys Fried maloney I had

1068
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: and uh man, I can't even remember who they played

1069
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: or whatever, but I was hooked in and walked out

1070
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: of there. They're fighting the game that night, I don't know,

1071
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: maybe in the stands and say first name. Maybe, um,

1072
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It was just like just being

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00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: It's a great atmosphere yeah, great atmosphere. You know, it's

1074
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: just you know, fried blooney beer, you know, a little

1075
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: bit of atmosphere you get. It's great though, you go, great,

1076
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: you go with a couple of buddies, buddies, right, Yeah,

1077
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: you're right. It's the same today. Yeah. And I've been hooked.

1078
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: You get down there loads in the art, especially when

1079
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: you were kind of up right and you are you

1080
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: You're like right on top of you, right on top

1081
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: of the actual Yeah, you know. And um, I was

1082
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: talking to a buddy of mine last night. He was like, Hey,

1083
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: I got a friend of mine who who had some

1084
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: seats like right in the corner, like right in front

1085
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: of the glass. And I'm like, I've never been there before.

1086
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: I've been down like by the penalty box, but not

1087
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: not an action happened right there the midline there, it's

1088
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: in the corner. So I'm like, yeah, okay, well that's

1089
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: where I want to, you know, just kind of get

1090
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: a field try it once. Yeah, yeah, just to try

1091
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: it once. So what about you there, mister tasker season

1092
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: ticket older? What got you? All? Right? So it's a

1093
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: couple of things. I grew up in Kansas, all people know,

1094
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: and there wasn't even an ice rink in the state, right,

1095
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: So true, And then when I got a college, right,

1096
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: So then when I went to college, then they got

1097
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: they did put an ice rink in in Wichita, and

1098
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: they had the Wichita Wings, which was the Edmonton oiler

1099
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: farm system. So my brothers kind of got into it,

1100
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: and I went and we went, and so I watched

1101
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: them a couple Then when I was in school at

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00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: Northwestern Chicago, one of my Chicago buys goes, hey, let's

1103
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: go to the Chicago the Blackhawks Red Wings game tonight

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00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: in the old building and the yeah and the old

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00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: Chicago Stadium which was which was a barn, right, I

1106
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: mean it was yeah. So we go and I was like, cool,

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00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: this is the first NHL game I went to standing

1108
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: room only and I didn't know, but it was an

1109
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 1: enormous rivalry. And we were standing the Red Wings, black Hawks,

1110
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: Red Wings, the original six. Right, So we're sitting up

1111
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: that we had to stand because it was standing room

1112
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: onely with college kids. Right. Well, I'm at the top, right,

1113
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 1: and that place you talk about steep, they had railings

1114
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: in front of the seats because it was so steep.

1115
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: If you stood up there was a chance you'd go

1116
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,240
Speaker 1: over right and fall forward. So I watched. There were

1117
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: so there were three fights on the ice yard, sales

1118
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: equipment everywhere, the old time, old time fights. There were

1119
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: two massive fights in the stands, massive and it was

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00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: most unbelievable things I'd ever seen. I was like, are

1121
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: you joking right now? This is and so how can

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00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: you be a fan? Was Bobby Hull playing that? No,

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00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: it was eighty two. Well, when I was in Houston,

1124
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: they had the Houston Arrows, which was Gordy Howard. Yeah yeah,

1125
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: like three goals, kids, kids play, he's playing with him.

1126
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. So and every night at ten o'clock in Houston,

1127
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: like the opening show would be Corny House on this

1128
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: sucks winning a hockey game, Like wow, it's pretty cool that.

1129
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: There's no there can't be anything like that, right, it

1130
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: can't be anything like that, man, just just guy that

1131
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: doesn't play in the NHL. No more is playing in

1132
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: the It might have been the HL. I think it

1133
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: was wha World Hockey and yeah, scored goals. Man, It

1134
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. That's a cool thing. You know. I want

1135
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 1: to talk about hockey all day with you guys, But

1136
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 1: you guys were fans when things were not so good here, right,

1137
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, even when there was an

1138
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: ownership questions and the league ran the team one year.

1139
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: You guys were still going to games back then, right,

1140
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: You didn't still going to games, you know. And as

1141
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: for as me, you know, I hate it all that

1142
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: tank talk being a former athlete, you know. I mean, yeah,

1143
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: it's good that were the fans and a lot of

1144
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: people can talk about it, but I guarantee you there

1145
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: was not one fan that mentioned the tank word to

1146
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: the players because they probably would have goten pushed out.

1147
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 1: Yeah right, like you, I was kind of thinking about

1148
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: the players that coaches. There's no way they tanking. No,

1149
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: They're going out trying to win games and play hard

1150
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: and do everything they can. And then to live in

1151
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: that environment. I felt bad for all right, and the

1152
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: fans too. Eight Thurmot, let's get you involved in our

1153
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: twitter pool? Can we do that today? I have nothing.

1154
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: It's about the So if the Patriots win on Sunday,

1155
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: or if the Dolphins lose on Sunday to Jacksonville, the

1156
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: Patriots will win the AFC East for the tenth consecutive year.

1157
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: Or I know we're asking that, No, it hurts. But

1158
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: we're asking fans what's the main reason for the Patriots

1159
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: dominance on Twitter? This is what we've come up with.

1160
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: Seven hundred fifty vote so far on Twitter. Thirty eight

1161
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: percent say it's because of Tom Brady. Thirty three percent

1162
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: say it's because of the ineptitude of the rest of

1163
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 1: the AFC East, the Bills, the Jets, and the Dolphins.

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00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: Twenty four percent say it's because of Bill Palatchick, five

1165
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: percent of something else. In my what do you think

1166
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: the main Look, they all count right, but what's the

1167
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: main reason the Patriots are on the verge of their

1168
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: tenth consecutive Vision title. What do you think? I think?

1169
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: I think it's been the horrible player the AFC. The

1170
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: rest of the teams he had the rest of the team,

1171
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: the Bills, the Jets, Fins and the Fins. Yeah, I

1172
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: mean when when you look at Tom Brady, I mean

1173
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: he's beat everybody throughout the league. And how I think

1174
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: it read a stat a couple of weeks ago when

1175
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: Miami won the game on the last play, like Tannon

1176
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: Hill is like four and one against him at home

1177
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, And but I think it's

1178
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: been part of the AC not getting any quarterbacks in

1179
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: the in that time, in that period of time when

1180
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: he took over from two thousand and one, was it right,

1181
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: name me two two thousand and two. I think it's

1182
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: just two all star quarterbacks that have made the Pro

1183
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: Bowl or been MVP or gotten their team to a

1184
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl from the AFC East, right. The only thing

1185
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: when they took a hiatus was when you know, the

1186
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: Jets went to two championship games in a row against

1187
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: Indianapolis with Sanchez as a rookie and a second year player.

1188
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: And that's a pretty short list for the short list.

1189
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: They went eleven and five one year with Matt Castle

1190
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: and didn't even make the playoffs, you know, yeah, Matt Castle,

1191
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: it's not great. No, And they went eleven and five

1192
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: that year though they went didn't one with Jacoby Brissette

1193
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Garoppolo. Jermy Garoppolo played one game. But you

1194
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: know last year when Tom Brady was out for four

1195
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: games or two years ago, you know, they went three

1196
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: and one without him. Yeah, Brady over the years, twenty

1197
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: nine wins, three losses against Buffalo. It's awful, but listen,

1198
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: he's got twenty six wins against the Jets, and he's

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00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: got um twenty two wins against the Dolphins. I mean,

1200
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: it's not like he's just beating up on Buffalo. No,

1201
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: he's everybody. And you can look at those numbers for

1202
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: every team. Yeah, I mean, does he even have a

1203
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: losing record against any team in the National Football League.

1204
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: It's hard to say. I would bet that. No, he

1205
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: doesn't awful awful. It's it's it hurts, it hurts, it

1206
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: does hurt. So that's it. It's an aptitude of the

1207
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: rest of it. I think. So I had a bit

1208
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: of a disagreement about this. I think it's Brady. Steve

1209
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: thinks it's Balichick. Is one of the main reasons. Yeah,

1210
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: I would think it's. Look, Belichick didn't have much to

1211
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: do before he got Tom Brady. He was, okay, okay, coach,

1212
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: a great defensive coach. But he gets Brady and now

1213
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: they're winning championships and crushing the rest of the division.

1214
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: It's Brady. It could be the one of them. We're

1215
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna find out which one it is, because

1216
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: sooner or later, somebody's gonna have to retire soon or later.

1217
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: You know, Well, there's gonna be a bill where it's

1218
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: gonna be Tom. I mean, the whole AFC has been

1219
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: in purgatory with those two guys that sitting up there.

1220
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: They just keep winning, win and winning, and every year

1221
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs go through that every every year, every year,

1222
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: and this year it may maybe it doesn't. Maybe they

1223
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: have to go on the road for the wildcard round. No,

1224
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: they'll host a wild card, so it could happen again.

1225
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: They get a couple of home playoff games, I think,

1226
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: but they're like I'm reading something, they're like nineteen and

1227
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: over this wretch. They're like nineteen and three at home

1228
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: when they play in the playoffs and like three and

1229
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: four when they play on the road. So obviously them

1230
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: not getting that number one to two seed helps everybody else. Yep.

1231
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas Hall of Famer and studio with us a

1232
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: couple of more manut, It's Pro Bowl bids came out

1233
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: last night. You went to five, right, Steve went seven? Yeah,

1234
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: No Buffalo Bills in the Pro Bowl. You're surprised by that.

1235
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: You're mad about that? What do you think? Um, I'm

1236
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: a little mad. I thought Trey White had an opportunity

1237
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: that to make it. Yeah, I really did. I really

1238
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: did think that he had an opportunity to make it.

1239
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: But you know, those things can change as the playoffs start.

1240
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: Other teams that are not in the playoffs, they might

1241
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: have some players that might back out of the playoffowl

1242
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl at that time. But yeah, I was a

1243
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: little disappointed man that Trey White didn't make it. I

1244
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: think he's had an off standing season. I know people

1245
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: have been talking about like, well he's giving up this

1246
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: yard last week and whatever. Look at every dB in

1247
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Somebody gonna get beat every now

1248
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: and then. That's just the way it is, you know.

1249
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I thought he had a tremendous season.

1250
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: I thought he had an opportunity to really make it.

1251
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: Uh this year. I mean he's he's played well all

1252
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: year long. You played well last year as well. The

1253
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: Howard of the Dolphins get in. He had a good year.

1254
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: He's got interceptions. He got an interceptions, which does not

1255
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: have a big difference, and that is a big difference.

1256
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: But you know what, I don't think. I mean, Dion

1257
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: got interceptions, but not every year, you know what I'm saying.

1258
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: Not maybe got one or two. But you know, he's

1259
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: deal standards. Obviously, you're talking about one of the best

1260
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: cornerbacks ever played a game. So and if people like him,

1261
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Speaker 1: people like him to show boat and all that stuff.

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01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that the popularity contest has a

1263
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: lot to do with it also too. Yeah, we talked

1264
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: a little bit about the voting and how the fans

1265
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: have a say in it now and they didn't. They

1266
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: didn't always, But there's no question that you think that

1267
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: with a guy puts up a season like Tredavis did

1268
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: last year and as a rookie, it's hard to notice him. Um,

1269
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: but this year we've got the first for the first time,

1270
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: a rookie, undrafted free agent running back in Denver, and

1271
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: you saw and then you saw this week Keith Ford

1272
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: come in for the Bills. Who was the last guy standing?

1273
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: I was. I missed that interview. It was great for

1274
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: Sunday when you're I put up a video. I was

1275
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: stretching in a sweet I was doing some stretching exercises

1276
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:25,959
Speaker 1: in the sea. You know. I was like and people

1277
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: were saying, well, Trey White just wore your jersey to

1278
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: the games, got in the got one in the house.

1279
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: You can go down and get it, you know, so yeah,

1280
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,479
Speaker 1: I was. But that's pretty cool. You know, I've read

1281
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: the story about him and how he called Torell Davis

1282
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: and asked him personally, could he wear a number thirty?

1283
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: It's trill. Dave was like, yeah, no problem and be

1284
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: the first undrafted rookie man offense decided to go to

1285
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowls off standing, Yeah, it's good for him.

1286
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: That's and he was. And for those of you who

1287
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: don't know Bills fans, this is a guy who went

1288
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: to Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, and wanted and grew up in Denver.

1289
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: The Denver are in Colorado, and he was a Denver

1290
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: Broncos fan. Wanted to get drafted. Now, obviously, as you

1291
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: can tell from his talent, he was good enough to

1292
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: be drafted by somebody, but nobody drafted him. He had

1293
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: had an injury and then the Broncos called him and

1294
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: offered him to say and he was mad. He's like

1295
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 1: he should, you know he should? He was mad, he

1296
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 1: didn't want He's like, I got this. Well, then he said,

1297
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: all right, I'll go. I'll come out and play. So

1298
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: then because of an injuries or whatever, and because of

1299
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: his good play, he ends up in the starting lineup

1300
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 1: pretty early in the season, and now he's in the

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01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl as a rookie undrafted free agent, and from

1302
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: what I read, it's the only time that's ever happened

1303
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: on offensive player. Yeah, there's and that's a good thing

1304
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: that's coming out of Denver right now, because the other

1305
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on right there in Denver it's not good.

1306
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: Fast Joseph, who's a quarterback there? Even know who the

1307
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: quarterback is en? You know, John always catching a lot

1308
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: of heat now or not bringing in the quarterback the

1309
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: last couple of years. So interesting stuff going on around

1310
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: the national football What did you make a key forward

1311
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: for the Bills on Sunday washs You watched him play? Oh,

1312
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,959
Speaker 1: I thought he had a great game. I mean good game,

1313
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 1: great game, whatever you want to call it. Uh, you know,

1314
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: and um no for gout. You know really basically kind

1315
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: of come off the street and be thrust into the

1316
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: position that he was. I think he handled it very

1317
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: very well, very very well. This is a team that

1318
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to run the football right and he

1319
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: got I don't know, like forty forty six yards on

1320
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: fourteen carries. Uh, and you know it was you know

1321
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: it wasn't spectacular, but it was a game. You know what,

1322
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: though it's a game, the team won and that always

1323
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: makes it look better, you know. And and there's no

1324
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: question he showed some things he didn't in a game

1325
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: that neither team turned the football over. You knew it

1326
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: was going to be that close. And uh, you gotta

1327
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: have I feel because I speak to this. I said

1328
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: this the other day. He the story was that he

1329
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: was he needed to come out. He was beat right,

1330
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: and there's nobody to put in right. Sorry, bro, you

1331
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: gotta have you stay in. There's two more runs for you, right,

1332
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: And it was my I don't know if you have

1333
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: You probably never noticed it because you were, you know, superstar.

1334
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: But when I got called on, when I was standing

1335
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and something happened, I had to go

1336
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: into the game like for a string of like a

1337
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: series or whatever. I'd go in there for like, and

1338
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: I've been playing all year, right, I'm in shape, But man,

1339
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: you get an adrenaline pump and all of a sudden

1340
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: you can't find oxygen. I mean you're like totally and

1341
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: completely spent after like two runs. Yeah, it's like in practice,

1342
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: you can take like fifteen reps. Right, but in the game,

1343
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: something happens, you get adrenaline and you can't even stand

1344
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: up stands for him running out there. It's probably liked

1345
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: by the time you can that's a real thing, right,

1346
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: It is a real things. I think it's a real

1347
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 1: thing at every position that you play, you know, because

1348
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: you don't know where your number's gonna be called, especially

1349
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: that early in the game you're like, well, I'm playing

1350
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 1: some special teams and do whatever. You know, I still

1351
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: got Pat de Marco, you know, maybe he can play

1352
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: a little tail. Jack was right, Yeah, you're you're in

1353
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: there and you're like, and you get fourteen cameras in

1354
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: your first NFL game right at home, and so now

1355
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: you're out of the blue. It was like, it's like

1356
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: a bolt of lighting. He might have thought he's gonna

1357
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: get a couple, but then to go in there and

1358
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: just take rep after rep after rip. He's like, you can't.

1359
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: You can't prepare it for games, right, And that's it's

1360
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: the adrenaline. I think that just it sucks all the

1361
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: energy out of the Oh my, it's the weirdest thing.

1362
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas Hall of Famer in studio, there's a couple

1363
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: of things. I want to catch up with you on

1364
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,479
Speaker 1: THERMA since you've been here in here. Last Wednesday, Steve

1365
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: and I went to the pre screening of A Football

1366
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: Life Thurman Thomas, and of course it aired on NFL

1367
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: Network last Friday night at eight o'clock. But the first

1368
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: time you saw it was last Wednesday, right at that

1369
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: public stream. What do you think it's it's your life

1370
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: on film. I'd be intimidated by that, you know. I

1371
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: don't want to see my whole life lay out on

1372
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: a forty eight minute video, right, Yeah. Well, I've watched

1373
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: it one time and haven't seen any sense. Okay, yeah,

1374
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: I remember anything about it. Yeah, not really. You know,

1375
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: Patty and the kids were watching it again last night,

1376
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, I'm tired. You're having a

1377
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: constant play at the house, and no, I do not

1378
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: um turn off the Christmas movie. Yeah, you know, even

1379
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: tell you you know. Actually, you know, I was looking

1380
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: at my uh looking at my Twitter account actual game

1381
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: like an extra fifty Yeah, yeah, just an extra fifty.

1382
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, really good. I looked at it

1383
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: and I was like wow, I mean because I kind

1384
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: of look at the number of like following like how

1385
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: long you know? And I'm like, oh man, that's pretty

1386
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: pretty cool, pretty amazing. So I thought that they did

1387
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: as you would expect NFL Network and the effort they

1388
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: put into those productions, they did a fantastic job. They

1389
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: They really do a fancy extra with all of them, though,

1390
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: And I gotta tip my hat to you. And it's

1391
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: not all it's not all roses and sunshine. They tell

1392
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 1: your real life that the struggles and the hardships and

1393
01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: everything that you're you your family goes through. Um. Yeah,

1394
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: that had only teammates in it. It was fun. My

1395
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: kids are getting the kid out of the bickering bills

1396
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: when me and Jim were up, they getting the kid

1397
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: out of that, right. They never heard that. They heard

1398
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: it before, but they didn't really. I never saw it

1399
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: like the actual footage, the actual footage of us reading

1400
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 1: the state and there was time so awkward relationship right there.

1401
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was talking to something live on TV.

1402
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: You read word for word whatever somebody had written for you,

1403
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: right or something. You try to sell it. No, there

1404
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: was really nothing to sell. You were selling it. Yeah,

1405
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,560
Speaker 1: it was really nothing to sell. That is hilarious. We

1406
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: were on a three game losing shriek and Jim wasn't playing.

1407
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: Well it was it. What did your kids? The rest

1408
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:47,800
Speaker 1: of us were knocking knocking it dead? Jim couldn't play.

1409
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: What did you kids say? What did they like about? Oh?

1410
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 1: You know, oh, daddy, you look so young. I can't

1411
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: believe you said, dad, and you came out and you know,

1412
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 1: and Olivia, my, well, you're still being out spoken today.

1413
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 1: So learn your lessons. Didn't learn lessons? So but my

1414
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 1: kids have been great about it, just seeing you know,

1415
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: some of the old footage. I mean, even with the

1416
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,759
Speaker 1: footage they never even saw, like me running in high school.

1417
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know. And they had a couple of times.

1418
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 1: Who has that? Yeah, where can you get that? You know,

1419
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 1: you gotta be NFL network, you go back and find

1420
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,879
Speaker 1: that back. You know, it's you know, on the stations

1421
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 1: to two, four and seven. I think it is in Houston.

1422
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: You know, they got the archives from way way way back.

1423
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: And plus my my high school football coach, Neil Quillen,

1424
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: has a lot of the tapes and everything, so he

1425
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: probably borrows some stuff from them. You know. One of

1426
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 1: the coolest person is I watched some of the video

1427
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: now on MSG and Steve was in there at some

1428
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: other teammates. But when another Hall of Famer James Lofton

1429
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: talked about what a great receiver you were, that kind

1430
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 1: of got to me. I said, Wow, that's James Lofton

1431
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: talking about your talent. Yeah, you know what I mean.

1432
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: James was James was my guy, you know. Um, yeah, yeah,

1433
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: he helped me out a lot um you know during

1434
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: the season, uh, you know, trying to you know, there's

1435
01:09:58,520 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: a lot of times in the games where you know,

1436
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: I was kind of like sucking Erica. We were running

1437
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: a no huddle or whatever, you know, and James would

1438
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: be like, well, if I had like a ten yard out,

1439
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: Jane would say that, just cut it to seven, because

1440
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: he would be like, well, just cut it to seven

1441
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 1: because you're like the third and fourth guy on the

1442
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: route anyway, so you're probably not gonna get the ball

1443
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: in that way, you can save your breath. I'm like, man,

1444
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. I wonder County got madded the third

1445
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: or fourth guy. I wasn't even gonna get the ball, right,

1446
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, it was really good, And yeah,

1447
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be repeated right in NFL network. Right though,

1448
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: I think so, I don't idea. Yeah, it's every time

1449
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: it plays you. I'm sure you get you know Royalty

1450
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: y Yeah, that stopped in two thousand and one. It's

1451
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: really good though, really good. Will did a great job too. Yeah, yeah,

1452
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 1: really worth watching. I want to ask you about something else,

1453
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 1: and you were here last Wednesday. You told us you

1454
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: were secretive about it, but you went Thursday before the

1455
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: Erie County Legislature on a pretty serious manner to talk

1456
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,720
Speaker 1: about bail bond reform. Tell us about the announcement you

1457
01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: made and what you're pushing for there. Well, you know,

1458
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's a lot of things that you know,

1459
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of catching up on with with this

1460
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: bell reform. Uh. You know, this is kind of the

1461
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: thing that Malcolm Jenkins, uh, Eric read all those guys

1462
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: that they've been talking about that in a lot of

1463
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 1: a lot of their communities. Actually, the guy who's really

1464
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 1: taken it to another level has been DeMarco Davis, the

1465
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: linebacker from the Saints. Yeah he is demaro Yeah, He's

1466
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: went in front of his hometown, like in Mississippi, where

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: the numbers are way worse than it is here in Buffalo,

1468
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 1: where he was here for Frank Rake's breakfast last year.

1469
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: An impressive guy, very impressive guy. And so I've been

1470
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: kind of like following him and listening to kind of

1471
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 1: what he's been saying over to uh down in Mississippi,

1472
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: and Uh, you know, it's a real thing, you know.

1473
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you you have poor people who have been

1474
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: poor all their life and they commit a crime, but

1475
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,839
Speaker 1: it's a minor crime where you don't but you shouldn't

1476
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 1: be in jail for a week, a month or six months.

1477
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 1: And the part of the problem is being poor and

1478
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: living like that in the inner city. You can't afford

1479
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: the bail afore whatever it is, it can but it's

1480
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 1: usually like two hundred and sixty bucks two. They can't

1481
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: come up with it. They can't even they can't come

1482
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: up with that. So when you keep them in jail

1483
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: for a month, a week or whatever, if they lose

1484
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: every job, whatever job, they're the bread winner there, and

1485
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: that stuff just trickles down, man, it just and it

1486
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: tears apart an entire family man because not only are

1487
01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: these kids suffering, their parents suffered before them. Because these

1488
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: people have not had anything in their life, They have

1489
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: been poor all their lives. Their parents and their grandparents

1490
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 1: will pour all their lives, all their lives. It's just

1491
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: it's just that domino effect. Man, it just keeps going.

1492
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: And I tell people all the time, you know, well,

1493
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about or whatever. I said,

1494
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 1: when's the last time you drove down in the hood

1495
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: of Buffalo in the inner city and see what these

1496
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 1: houses look like? Defences, people walk, There's no wall greens,

1497
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 1: there's no cvs. There's no Bank of America, I mean

1498
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 1: mit bank, there's none of that. You know, they have

1499
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 1: their little branches. But when you go now, like every street,

1500
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 1: every corner, there's mom and pop shops. Yeah, nothing, that's

1501
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 1: the franchise of anything. And these people have been suffering

1502
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 1: for a long time. And you know, and Patty and

1503
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: my kids and being like because we talked about, you know,

1504
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: me being out there and talking about all this, and

1505
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 1: uh and say yeah, I want to do it. I

1506
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 1: think I feel like I have to do it because

1507
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: even where I live back and where I live, the

1508
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 1: same thing is happening down where I live. When my

1509
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: mom name is everybody there's nothing down there. You know,

1510
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: they're building they're building highways over my old neighborhood highways.

1511
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's incredible to see that. And when

1512
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: you see all of this, it's just like, do they

1513
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: actually really even care about us? Right? I mean it

1514
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: hits home and this is and this is real stuff too.

1515
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean it's and it's not just my nerd. This

1516
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: is probably some white people out there that's in the

1517
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: same situation. But we all need to be as one

1518
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: in this whole sen But it's hurting us more than anybody.

1519
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 1: So April Basking, the Majority Leader, asked to come down

1520
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: and speaking. What are they can do the Erie Kenny legislay,

1521
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: You're gonna look at what agreen to a state. Um,

1522
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: there's some sort of state done. Actually, I think yes,

1523
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna reform the bill. I think it has to

1524
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: go to Governor Cormo first, but yeah, she uh. I

1525
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: actually asked a friend of mine a couple of months ago,

1526
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: UM Cedric Holloway, who works for the police department in Buffalo,

1527
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, I said, hey, this is

1528
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 1: what I want to do. Who can I call and talk?

1529
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: I mean the text right back was Majority Leader April Basket,

1530
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: And so I got in touch with her. I was

1531
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: supposed to make this announcement a couple of weeks ago,

1532
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: but I couldn't, so I had to postpone it and

1533
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 1: wait till the next week. And she's been, she's been,

1534
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 1: she's had my back. You know, she's you know, we've

1535
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: been talking a lot of things of how this can

1536
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: go not only just here, but you know, it has

1537
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: to go to the state. They got to go around

1538
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,880
Speaker 1: the country. Really, you just can't have it here in

1539
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: and hopefully every football player just out there, you know,

1540
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: kind of listening to what um the other guys are

1541
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: doing and saying and really taking initiative to do it

1542
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: in their home state or wherever they play football. Good

1543
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: for you jumping out in front of that. Absolutely, Christmas

1544
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 1: is coming up, big plans. What do you got nothing? Okay,

1545
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: just home. Yeah, that's home. That's home with fam man

1546
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: kids getting off. Little Thurm's the only one. He's ready

1547
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: called it quit, said Kinesians. He needs a holiday. Oh yeah,

1548
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: he needs a holiday. He needs a break. So you

1549
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be a good holiday. Everybody's coming home,

1550
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: so well, Olivia's coming home, and so well, she's only

1551
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: one out of the area. She's the only one out

1552
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: of the area. Yeah, so she'll be good. I don't

1553
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:47,839
Speaker 1: think we'll see you next week because of the holiday,

1554
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:49,639
Speaker 1: but thank you Thurman. Marry Christmas to you and all

1555
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 1: of your fam. I'll be back. Are you coming next week? No?

1556
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: Not next week? I think No, I'm not coming next week. Hey,

1557
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm not coming next week. Don't even don't even text

1558
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:02,759
Speaker 1: me every Friday. Thanks Sermon, all of famer Thurmon Thomas

1559
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: joining us, Steve and I back with more One does

1560
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 1: Live from Oneville's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back.

1561
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Thurman Thomas for joining us. We covered

1562
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: a lot of territory with Thurmon. When you think it,

1563
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: we're talking wide ranging interview. We went from bail bond

1564
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 1: reform to pride, Bologney sandwiches, that's right, and everything in between.

1565
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened, but it all made sense.

1566
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: Hey on Twitter poll today. I like it because it

1567
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: was my idea, but I think it's a good one.

1568
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: M Bill's Patriots. So the Patriots can. If the Patriots

1569
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: win this week or the Dolphins lose to Jacksonville, the

1570
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 1: Patriots win their tenth consecutive AFC East Division title, never

1571
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: been done in the NFL before tenth consecutive playoff spot

1572
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: that's never been done. What's the main reason for the

1573
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,640
Speaker 1: Patriots dominance? On Twitter, we're asking that question. We got

1574
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: good response. It's close. Thirty seven percent say it's Tom Brady,

1575
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: thirty three percent say it's the inaptitude of the AFC East,

1576
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 1: twenty five percent say it's Bill Belichick, five percent have

1577
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:08,640
Speaker 1: something else in mind. Let's know what you think. Eight

1578
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 1: h three oh five fifty and twelve three one eight

1579
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:13,639
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Let me squeeze

1580
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: in a call here, Steve. This is I'm sorry, I

1581
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: don't know how to pronounce your name. Is it Shamie? Yeah? Chemmy, Jemmy?

1582
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,640
Speaker 1: How are you? Chemmy? Hi? Fine, thank you. I just,

1583
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: you know, feel like I'm very excited about having this

1584
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: quarterback to Josh Allen, but I wanted to know what

1585
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: you guys think in terms of, you know, his development

1586
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,600
Speaker 1: relative to the other rookie quarterbacks that came out of

1587
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: this draft class. And you know, if you had some

1588
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: sort of advice for Josh Allen, what would it be

1589
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: at this point in time going into the off season.

1590
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: That's a good question, I'll tell you this when you

1591
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: compare these quarterbacks and we've we've done it a million times,

1592
01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: but I think generally speaking, if I was going to

1593
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 1: give it, put it together in a nutshell, I think

1594
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,879
Speaker 1: there's no question that you can see signs of success

1595
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: in all of them. And Lamar Jackson has certainly won

1596
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: games for the Baltimore Ravens being a running type quarterback.

1597
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has won a couple of games for the Bills,

1598
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, being a running, slash, big arm quarterback, athletic,

1599
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a Cam Newton type of quarterback.

1600
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 1: You look at Sam Darnell, you can certainly see a

1601
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 1: classic stand in the pocket, quick release passer. And Baker

1602
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: Mayfield as this fiery leader, accurate, wide open quarterback. I

1603
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: think you could see all of these guys having some

1604
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: sustained success in the league and all look very, very different.

1605
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of an interesting part about

1606
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,719
Speaker 1: this quarterback class. Certainly, people in Buffalo have high hopes

1607
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:53,000
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen and that he can sustain this and

1608
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: can continue to get better and make better throws and

1609
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: better decisions and not have to run quite so often.

1610
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has looked really good. I think he's looked

1611
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: like the top pick of the draft in his play

1612
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,720
Speaker 1: for Cleveland this year, and Sam Murph and I were

1613
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: both impressed with him in the Bill's Jets game when

1614
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: he and Josh Allen faced off. So all of these

1615
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, you can it's easy to see why they

1616
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 1: were picked in the first round. It's easy to see

1617
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: that even if they all reach their full potential and

1618
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: become really successful quarterbacks, they're all still gonna look very different.

1619
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: And I think that's the interesting part about the whole thing,

1620
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons why it's so difficult to

1621
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: discern them before you actually see him play as an

1622
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 1: NFL player, because they all you can pick the strengths

1623
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:41,600
Speaker 1: easily enough, but how well do they overcome their weaknesses

1624
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:47,719
Speaker 1: or do their deficiencies disappear or become unimportant somehow. Steve's

1625
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: got some interesting numbers on Josh. But before you get

1626
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 1: to that, the question that you asked Amy, essentially was

1627
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:56,919
Speaker 1: asked of Sean McDermot earlier today at his prepractice news conference.

1628
01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: McDermott was asked about Josh Allen and McDermott said, to him,

1629
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: it looks like Josh is getting better on an almost

1630
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: weekly basis. Here's what the head coach had to say.

1631
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the Miami game, um, a

1632
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: few days ago, and and he looks like a different

1633
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: player than he did just a you know, two or

1634
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 1: three games ago, which is which is important, which is good.

1635
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: And so just the way the game's slowing down for him, Um,

1636
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: he's there's going to be things that defenses do that

1637
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen. Um. But he but he's really, in

1638
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: my mind, determined on improving every week. And that a

1639
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: lot of that comes from the way he was raised,

1640
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: his DNA, but also the support that he's getting in

1641
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:38,320
Speaker 1: the room that I've mentioned before, from the coaches, from

1642
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: from his teammates there. Um, so it's really just about

1643
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: taking another step one week at a time. But um,

1644
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: the goal is to a keep him healthy and when

1645
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:50,600
Speaker 1: you're healthy, has a chance to continue to grow and

1646
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: develop and get those those reps that are that are important.

1647
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: I agree. How do you think he gets better every week?

1648
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: And he's a different kind of quarterback? Steve, you found

1649
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 1: some numbers. Yeah, and the lead up to the draft,

1650
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: you knew that Josh Alam's arm strength was really heavily

1651
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: advertising you know, he saw him at the combine. He's

1652
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: heaved one eighty yards through the air and his and

1653
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 1: through this year we've seen him play here in Buffalo.

1654
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: It's it's lived up to it. The guy's got a cannon.

1655
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: And according to a recent study ESPN stat they put it,

1656
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,599
Speaker 1: they put this out that the Bills have attempted only

1657
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: two hundred and three passes that were within five yards

1658
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage this season. That's the third

1659
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 1: fewest total in the National Football League. You got to remember,

1660
01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: and the Bills have started four quarterbacks this year. I mean,

1661
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 1: Alan doesn't even account for all those two hundred and

1662
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: three attempts, right, So nearly fifty percent of Alan's passes

1663
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,639
Speaker 1: have been for ten or more yards passed the line

1664
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. That's after backing up five or six yards

1665
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: or backing up then to go down the you know,

1666
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,719
Speaker 1: half of his passes go further than ten percent. Twenty

1667
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: percent of his passes have gone over twenty yards down

1668
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: the field. I mean, they've taken the lid off these defenses.

1669
01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 1: They're airing it out with his with his arm. And

1670
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 1: through ten games, he's completed one hundred and thirty two

1671
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: passes for sixteen hundred and thirty three yards and six touchdowns,

1672
01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: and four of those touchdowns have been more than twenty

1673
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: five yards through the air. So you can maybe, you know,

1674
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: maybe some of the low attempts, you know, because he

1675
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: doesn't throw the ball short, some of that can be

1676
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,799
Speaker 1: attributed to the fact that he does intend. He tends

1677
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: to run the football instead of checking the football down.

1678
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: He tends to keep the ball in his hands rather

1679
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: than put it in the hands of a back that's

1680
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 1: really close to him and getting one of those small

1681
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: five yard within the five yard things. So maybe that

1682
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: takes away some of them. But there's no doubt when

1683
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,679
Speaker 1: he drops back to pass, Josh Allen's going deep. Yeah,

1684
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 1: and he does a lot more than other teams, and

1685
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: that he hasn't taken the short passes. And and it

1686
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:54,640
Speaker 1: goes to all four in this statistic. It deems all

1687
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks, they're all included in this staff, but it's

1688
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: mostly he's got ten starts. Yeah, they're not thinking and dunking.

1689
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: And that's a frequent complaint about some Bills quarterbacks in

1690
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,600
Speaker 1: recent years. They don't thinking dunk right now now that

1691
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: I will say this, they probably want to and need

1692
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more of that, right, and

1693
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: that maybe not less you're talking about you talk about

1694
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: in the future, they're gonna need to get a short

1695
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: passing game together, I believe. Yeah. And you talk about

1696
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 1: his completion percentage of being you know, fifty, that's the

1697
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:23,759
Speaker 1: reason why. It's one of the reasons. You know, it's accuracy.

1698
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons throw at they're they're they're

1699
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 1: trcent of ten yards or more. They're going deep, and

1700
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: that's a that's a lower percentage pass. And maybe these

1701
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: numbers again of all his passes go ten or more

1702
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: yards down the field, and what's the next number. Twenty

1703
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 1: percent of them go twenty or more yards, so it's

1704
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: one in five or going deep. But taking shots, they're

1705
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: taking a lot of shots. And you know, through through

1706
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: ten games, he's gone through ten games, he's only averaging

1707
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 1: thirteen point two completions. Yeah, yeah, that's an issue. But

1708
01:23:55,680 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: it's true too that he's not checking it down and

1709
01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: a lot of the times, and like I said, a

1710
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: lot of those easy completions would come if he would

1711
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 1: throw it to the back or the outlet of the

1712
01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: tight end to whoever's close to him instead of just

1713
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 1: taking it and running with it. Right now, that would

1714
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:14,640
Speaker 1: knock out his running stats, of course, but you never

1715
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: know what would happen if he checked it down to

1716
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,800
Speaker 1: another player either. So all of that is in the

1717
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 1: mix of his completion percentage. And that's why when he

1718
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: does learn to do that, to take the easy completion

1719
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: and it'll get a ball out of his hand a

1720
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 1: little quicker, it'll spread the defense even thinner, because not

1721
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: only they garden against the deep pass, they're gonna have

1722
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: to now get the check downs too. The defense has

1723
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: got that much to defend. It's going to open up

1724
01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:40,599
Speaker 1: more windows. And oh, by the way, this guy can

1725
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 1: run really well, right, So all of that is going

1726
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 1: to make him a lot more dangerous. And as he

1727
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 1: learns to manage the offense, uses other players around him,

1728
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: and those other players get better, he gets better protection,

1729
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 1: the run game comes along exponentially. His improvement and his

1730
01:24:57,479 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: ability to use the offense and the best way it

1731
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: can and is going to make him a much better quarterback.

1732
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: I got to say this, and you've said this a lot.

1733
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:07,599
Speaker 1: How every you know, for a five and nine team,

1734
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people are eager to watch the Bills

1735
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: every week and you said you can't wait till the

1736
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: next game. I think this is one of the main

1737
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:16,439
Speaker 1: reason why, because we have seen him. McDermott talked about

1738
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: it pretty consistent improvement from the rookie quarterback. Yeah, we

1739
01:25:20,280 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: see him do this. Can he do this? He answers

1740
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: that question, can you do this? Can you do this?

1741
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 1: And he's kind of checking off the boxes getting better.

1742
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: He's not there, He's not anywhere near a completed product yet. See,

1743
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:31,920
Speaker 1: but I do think that it's really fun to watch

1744
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 1: a guy learn to get there on the job, training

1745
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: and learn as he goes along. It's been really fun

1746
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:38,640
Speaker 1: so far this year. And you've got people because all

1747
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: these people like Benjamin all Bright from one of the

1748
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 1: people who cover in the NFL. He said, listen, the

1749
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: question was what rookie has been the biggest surprise for

1750
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: you this year? Was put out by one of his followers.

1751
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: He says, surprise, he says, Josh Allen, he may actually

1752
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: have a future in this league. This guy said, right, okay,

1753
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: and listen, there's a lot of people who thought the

1754
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: guy was going to be a bust. They thought he

1755
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: was a total waste of a draft pick. And then

1756
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 1: the humorous thing this week. And if you haven't seen this,

1757
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: this is Bill Belichick at his most Bill belichickist. They

1758
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: asked him, I talked to us. This is his press

1759
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:17,599
Speaker 1: conference in Foxborough, just like Sean McDermott had his press

1760
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: conference here. And they said, you know what about Josh Allen,

1761
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick says, impressive, very athletic guy. Impressive, very

1762
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 1: athletic guy, good arm, can make all the throws as

1763
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 1: an explosive player. He has some good weapons to work with,

1764
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 1: good backs, good tight ends, good receivers. He's shown a

1765
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: lot of poise, accuracy throwing the ball, and obviously his

1766
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,720
Speaker 1: ability to run with it is very good. That's good.

1767
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: Belichick on Josh Allen. That's almost that's almost satirical. Yeah, right,

1768
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: if he were trying to make fun of himself, that's

1769
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:51,600
Speaker 1: what he would. That was what he was said. And

1770
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,680
Speaker 1: all the conversations we've had about Josh Allen, all the

1771
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,120
Speaker 1: things that he needs to work on, or what Bill

1772
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: Belichick just said, he did really well. You know, all right,

1773
01:27:01,120 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 1: that's great. He needs better weapons around, I mean needs

1774
01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: better accuracy. He needs he's accuracy at throwing the ball.

1775
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:12,679
Speaker 1: Everything everything that we have said that we were looking

1776
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,760
Speaker 1: for Josh to improve on Bill Belichick say he's really

1777
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: good at thanks coach. Hey, we have the Twitter poll

1778
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:20,679
Speaker 1: yesterday where we asked if the Bills are a better

1779
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: team than they were the last time they played the

1780
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 1: Patriots eight weeks ago. The head coach answered that question today,

1781
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: not in our Twitter poll. We'll hear that when we

1782
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: come back. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bill's Live presented

1783
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. Where at One Bill's Drive and this

1784
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'lcome back to the show One

1785
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill Drive. John Murphy Steve Tasker,

1786
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: question for he Steve, we got two games left to

1787
01:27:57,160 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: the season. And it hit me the other day and look,

1788
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 1: the season is long. The season is long. It's long,

1789
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,759
Speaker 1: but it's like rolling downhill once you get going wies

1790
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: and there's a point maybe eight or ten, six or

1791
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 1: eight weeks in a season when and I always go

1792
01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 1: through it, I'm like, oh man, this season is long.

1793
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: Now we got two weeks left. And it occurred to

1794
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:16,839
Speaker 1: me last night when I sat down and started cranking

1795
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: out my depth chart for the Patriots and watching Patriots fit,

1796
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: I thought I'm gonna miss this, and it's gonna I will, yeah,

1797
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: because I love doing those games. I love doing the show.

1798
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 1: I love having a season to talk about, and we're

1799
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:29,640
Speaker 1: two weeks away from the end of it, and I

1800
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:31,280
Speaker 1: will miss it no matter how long it is. I

1801
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 1: always miss it when it's over. Yeah, you think about it.

1802
01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:35,559
Speaker 1: How fun has it been to think about what Josh

1803
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 1: Allen's going to do next, what's going to happen, the

1804
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: defense playing so well, and these games that you think

1805
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: you can conjure up all different kinds of ways they're

1806
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: gonna go, and how exciting it is to see this

1807
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: young team get better. Robert Foster, Isaiah McKenzie, a couple,

1808
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:54,840
Speaker 1: Keith Ford, all these players that you're gonna watch like man,

1809
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, Harrison Phillips, Tremaine Edmonds, you know, all these

1810
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: young guys that we're getting to know. And then to

1811
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 1: see guys like Lorenzo Alexander play as well as he

1812
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,559
Speaker 1: did and is playing as well as he did. It's

1813
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. And then you know, imagine,

1814
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have you don't get another dose

1815
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: of it next week, right, It's over in a couple

1816
01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,639
Speaker 1: of That stinks. It really does. That's why we were

1817
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:20,720
Speaker 1: man we could not wait for this season. Yes, it

1818
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: seemed like it was taken forever for the season to

1819
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 1: start with a draft, and it's like week fifteen. Week fifteen.

1820
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: Bills are wrapping up practice inside the ad Pro Sports

1821
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Training Center as we speak. After practice, we expect to

1822
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: get Micah Hyde over here in the chair over there

1823
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: to talk with us a little bit one on one.

1824
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Josh Allen, we believe also after

1825
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,639
Speaker 1: practice when he gets to the podium. This is interesting.

1826
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 1: In his pre practice news conference today at kild Chalmerturm,

1827
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:47,360
Speaker 1: it was asked the question we actually asked you on

1828
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll yesterday, and it goes back to the

1829
01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: length of the season and the changing nature of a season.

1830
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 1: We asked yesterday, are the bill is a better team

1831
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:58,559
Speaker 1: now than they were eight weeks ago when they lost

1832
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 1: twenty five to six the Patriots. Most of you thought, yes,

1833
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 1: they're better. But Sean McDermott was asked that question today,

1834
01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:06,360
Speaker 1: the Bills better now than when they lost to the

1835
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:08,720
Speaker 1: Patriots eight weeks ago. Here's what the head coach said

1836
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:12,560
Speaker 1: in response, Well, I feel like we're moving in the

1837
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 1: right direction. Certainly, vic, Um, you know, does that mean

1838
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 1: we're fielding a better team? That remains to be seen? Um.

1839
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 1: Overall we've got we've got to continue to UM and

1840
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: we changed some things yesterday as Brandon brought in Victor

1841
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 1: there and um, he's a good addition, or should be

1842
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 1: a good addition. We'll see as we get on the

1843
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 1: field today. But you know, we've got to focus on

1844
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: us our quality of play, our habits this week and

1845
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:39,600
Speaker 1: um and be up for a good road test in

1846
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:43,360
Speaker 1: New England. So Sean started the answer, and then to

1847
01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: Victor is Victor Bolden the guy that they signed the

1848
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: return specialists? Look, I think they're better. They're a different

1849
01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 1: team than certainly a different team than when the season started, right,

1850
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of you know, I mean, let's

1851
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 1: face it, three months ago, you'd say, well, we know

1852
01:30:57,840 --> 01:30:59,600
Speaker 1: the Bills can run the ball well because that's what

1853
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,880
Speaker 1: they do. Well. No, we're fifteen weeks in and they

1854
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 1: haven't done that, you know what I mean? Things changed

1855
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 1: so dramatically over what your expectations are. I think after

1856
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 1: you knew they were gonna be top ten defense, I

1857
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:13,920
Speaker 1: did say top two, which is where they are right now.

1858
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 1: But that hedging my bets, are you getting on? No?

1859
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 1: I know, you know it. It's it's a huge improvement.

1860
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 1: It's a huge improvement for where they were a year ago,

1861
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: and they did it with a lot of some new

1862
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 1: players that are playing key roles. Shack Lawson emerged. Didn't

1863
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:30,120
Speaker 1: know that was going to happen. In fact, he's at

1864
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 1: this point has I think outplayed Trent Murphy. You look

1865
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:36,720
Speaker 1: at Tremaine Edmonds and the huge role they laid on

1866
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:39,759
Speaker 1: him as when they drafted him. Don't forget they drafted

1867
01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds on draft day. He was nineteen. It's like

1868
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:48,679
Speaker 1: a hockey player. He's nineteen, and now he has played

1869
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:51,439
Speaker 1: virtually every snap of the season and become, you know,

1870
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: like the lynchpin of what's going on over there. Kyle Williams,

1871
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, kind of ceremoniously handed him the keys to

1872
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: the car, gay of him the clicker and gave him

1873
01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: the remote control of the film to the film room.

1874
01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:07,600
Speaker 1: That's big. You've got guys like Matt Milana, who's in

1875
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:10,360
Speaker 1: his second year, who turned into what we thought was

1876
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 1: a pretty good player last year and had some flashes.

1877
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: He was consistently good. That's been They're a much different

1878
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 1: team than we thought that we would see. And you know,

1879
01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: I was looking through this, you know, doing the prep

1880
01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:26,600
Speaker 1: work for today's show, and you find out, you know,

1881
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: the guy that won the job this season is now

1882
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 1: he's getting a workout in San Francisco as a quarterback.

1883
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 1: Peyton Nate Peterman is out there. He's getting worked out Oakland.

1884
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not San Francisco's Oakland. He's getting worked out too,

1885
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 1: you know by other teams. He's been gone. And now

1886
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback room is a completely different animal. You've got

1887
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley and Derek Anderson behind Josh Allen and they

1888
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 1: look and I think, and you and I have seen

1889
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 1: the same thing, Murph. They think they've got that room

1890
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:57,840
Speaker 1: exactly where they want it with Matt Barkley as the backup,

1891
01:32:57,880 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson as the emergency. But that chemistry and there

1892
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:03,439
Speaker 1: seems to be exactly what the doctor ordered. I don't

1893
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 1: know if it'll stay that way over this next offseason,

1894
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 1: but you think where this club is now from where

1895
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: we thought it might be the last week of training camp,

1896
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 1: and it's light years different and light years ahead. I

1897
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 1: think in some respects some that's that's a good question.

1898
01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:21,679
Speaker 1: Some that's a post season question. Yeah, we're gonna cut police.

1899
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:24,240
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a couple of weeks. These

1900
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: next two games still count. I don't want to just

1901
01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 1: count down. I don't want to I don't want to

1902
01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 1: be little how excited I am to watch them. I mean,

1903
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:34,600
Speaker 1: like I said yesterday, this game coming up against this

1904
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: team in New England is always the yardstick. These guys

1905
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:40,679
Speaker 1: are at the top, you know, the top three teams

1906
01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 1: in the conference. They're going to get a home playoff game.

1907
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 1: That's the kind of expectation this team wants to have

1908
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: every year and legitimately have and be able to say, yeah,

1909
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:54,680
Speaker 1: we should be in that at that level every year,

1910
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: and it's always telling to go in there and measure

1911
01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:00,760
Speaker 1: yourself up. It's a hard place to win, not just

1912
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:02,720
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, but for every team in the

1913
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:05,839
Speaker 1: National Football League. Nobody's beating him there, nobody here. Nobody

1914
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: beats those guys, and not this year. And this is

1915
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: a down here for them kind of right. I guess

1916
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 1: they're they're what nine and four? Does they get ready

1917
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 1: to clinch another division? Right? It's unbelievable the success they've

1918
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 1: had up there. Break coming up here and when we

1919
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 1: come back it said as I said, Micah Hyde schedule

1920
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 1: to join us in the third and final hour of

1921
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,360
Speaker 1: the show. And while you're from Josh Allen, who's gonna

1922
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:27,200
Speaker 1: hit the podium here and answer some questions for the

1923
01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:29,720
Speaker 1: media as practice winds down. All of that coming up

1924
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: in our number three Come on back. One Bill's Live

1925
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

1926
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Buffalo Bills Radio Network Stories Update update

1927
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:53,120
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Buffalo's practice is over for the day.

1928
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:55,560
Speaker 1: They started about twelve thirty today and they've wrapped it

1929
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: up sort of a like practice for the Bills today

1930
01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:00,760
Speaker 1: on the at Pro Sports training on the turf. Kyle

1931
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:02,559
Speaker 1: Williams did not practice in a he's got a bit

1932
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:05,679
Speaker 1: of a back issue. Also not practicing. Cornerback Ryan Lewis

1933
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,880
Speaker 1: in concussion protocol. Lashan McCoy will wait to see whether

1934
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 1: what his status is for practice could be limited maybe

1935
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:13,720
Speaker 1: full lea. Shan McCoy in a pretty good spot as

1936
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 1: far as returning to the lineup. According to a head

1937
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott, before practice today, the Bills got no

1938
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl selections. Last night when the selections came out,

1939
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: they were shot out and the Bills getting set to

1940
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: play the Patriots on Sunday one o'clock kickoff in Foxborough,

1941
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: final road game of the year. The Bills added a

1942
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:34,599
Speaker 1: wide receiver yesterday return specialists really wide receiver. Victor Bolden

1943
01:35:34,880 --> 01:35:38,120
Speaker 1: came off San Francisco's practice squad, A former undrafted free

1944
01:35:38,120 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: agent signing by the Niners in twenty seventeen. Played in

1945
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:43,719
Speaker 1: nine regular season games for the Niners last year. Mostly

1946
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: returned work average almost twenty one yards wore kick return

1947
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 1: as a rookie. That's where the Bills are likely to

1948
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 1: be ready to use him. Carolina Panthers now out of

1949
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:54,120
Speaker 1: the playoff race, the team expected to sit Cam Newton

1950
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 1: and they're going to start Taylor Heineke as their quarterback

1951
01:35:57,280 --> 01:36:00,040
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Falcons. That comes from NFL Network, So

1952
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: we said the Pro Bowl selections came out no Buffalo Bills.

1953
01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:06,519
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Chargers have a league leading seven Pro

1954
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 1: Bowl selections, including quarterback Philip Rivers. The Chiefs and Steelers

1955
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,960
Speaker 1: each with six. No Buffalo Bills, and the twenty nineteen

1956
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:16,479
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl as of now, anyway, college basketball. Last night,

1957
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:19,400
Speaker 1: the fourteenth ranked you Be Bulls outscored Syracuse thirty nine

1958
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:21,640
Speaker 1: twenty three and a second half, and they held the

1959
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,000
Speaker 1: Orange to just twenty eight percent shooting from the floor.

1960
01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: You Be defeated Syracuse seventy one fifty nine in front

1961
01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: of eighteen thousand at the Carrier Dome, you being now

1962
01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:31,760
Speaker 1: eleven and oh fourteenth ranked in the country. They move

1963
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:34,960
Speaker 1: on to Milwaukee to play Marquette that game tomorrow night.

1964
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:37,559
Speaker 1: Marquette ranked twentieth in the country, and the Purple Legals

1965
01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 1: of Niagara, who won three in a row on the

1966
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:41,479
Speaker 1: road for a couple of games, including one tonight. They

1967
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:44,559
Speaker 1: play at Cleveland State tonight at seven thirty. Savers lost

1968
01:36:44,720 --> 01:36:46,680
Speaker 1: last night. There next game is Friday night on the

1969
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: road in Washington. And that is the update from One

1970
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. John Murphy Steve Tesski are ready to start

1971
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:53,720
Speaker 1: our three. We want to get into more of your

1972
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 1: thoughts on why the Patriots dominate this division. And look,

1973
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,120
Speaker 1: we are not conceding Sunday's game by any means, but

1974
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:01,880
Speaker 1: either the Patriots can clint the division by beating the

1975
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:04,519
Speaker 1: Bills or the Dolphins lose to Jacksonville and New England

1976
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:08,040
Speaker 1: gets its tenth consecutive division title. That's amazing. It's never

1977
01:37:08,120 --> 01:37:10,240
Speaker 1: been done. It's not supposed to happen in the NFL. No,

1978
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:12,599
Speaker 1: it's not. And it says a lot about the way

1979
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: they do business, says a lot about the players they had,

1980
01:37:15,280 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 1: certainly the quarterback they've had at that key spot for

1981
01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 1: so long. Says a lot about their head coach and

1982
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: end their ownership too. It's been a very stable organization. Well,

1983
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:26,120
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you about that. That's our Twitter poll.

1984
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: What do you think the main reason, the primary reason

1985
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: why the Patriots look like they're going to get their

1986
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 1: tenth consecutive division title. Is it Tom Brady? Is it

1987
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,560
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick? Is it the ineptitude of the rest of

1988
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:39,000
Speaker 1: the afcast or is it something else. We'll take your

1989
01:37:39,040 --> 01:37:41,760
Speaker 1: phone calls on that topic eight three fifty to three,

1990
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:47,080
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty and we will also

1991
01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: hear from Micah Hyde. The Bills Venteroran safety schedule to

1992
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:52,240
Speaker 1: join us this hour, and right now we're gonna hear

1993
01:37:52,280 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: from the quarterback Josh Allen, getting set to start his

1994
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:58,560
Speaker 1: tenth NFL game, first time against the Patriots, met with

1995
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: the media a couple of minutes ago right after practice,

1996
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 1: and his first question dealt with the other guys in

1997
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,639
Speaker 1: his quarterback room, Matt Barkley and Derek Anderson. Jack Steller

1998
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:08,720
Speaker 1: was asked what sort of an influence those two have

1999
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 1: had on him as his rookie year progresses. Yeah, for sure.

2000
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean they've They've taught me a lot, and I've

2001
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: been sent in the last few weeks. Um, you know,

2002
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: from the time I got hurt in the Houston game

2003
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: to the point now, you know, I definitely flat I'm

2004
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: a better quarterback because of them. You know, I've learned

2005
01:38:24,320 --> 01:38:26,280
Speaker 1: a lot from them, just kind of how they carry themselves,

2006
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 1: how they attacked practice, how they executed in games. Um,

2007
01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 1: and for me to see that that was huge for me.

2008
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 1: And I appreciate what they've done for me. They root

2009
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: for you because you know, like Matt was excited for

2010
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:40,519
Speaker 1: me last week, we did showed right, not the case

2011
01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 1: in the whole plato where everybody for each other because

2012
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 1: a position. I mean, they're they're true professional football players.

2013
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:48,599
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that's what comes down to. They're

2014
01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:50,880
Speaker 1: all about the team. Whatever they can do to help

2015
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 1: the team is what they're gonna do no matter what

2016
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: the scenario calls for. So to have that type of support, Um,

2017
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, they sit and we film every you know, day,

2018
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:03,920
Speaker 1: every day, and they're in there, tell me what they see,

2019
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:07,760
Speaker 1: what they feel. Um, you know, they helped me out

2020
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 1: of a tremendous amount. Kind of along those lines, I'm

2021
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: sure that's part of the answer to this next question.

2022
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: But Shawn, during the press Parker talked about how he

2023
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 1: sees you as really developing even since the Miami game,

2024
01:39:18,400 --> 01:39:22,360
Speaker 1: the lost down against the Dolphins. Kind of take me

2025
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 1: through that from your perspective, how you think you've made progress.

2026
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:28,680
Speaker 1: What do you feel more comfortable with at this day. Well,

2027
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you just try to learn from every situation,

2028
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:32,799
Speaker 1: and you know, we saw a different situation in Miami,

2029
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, and we came down and you know, I

2030
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:37,600
Speaker 1: had a tough one against the Jets, and you know,

2031
01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:40,519
Speaker 1: I took that and I learned from that situation. That game,

2032
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:42,519
Speaker 1: you know, obviously didn't work out very great for us,

2033
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 1: but that's a situation that was new to me, something

2034
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 1: I've learned and something I can take, you know, into

2035
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,640
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks and have that in the

2036
01:39:50,680 --> 01:39:52,680
Speaker 1: back of my mind. Of knowing, you know, what not

2037
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: to do, what to do in certain situations. So, like

2038
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:57,680
Speaker 1: I said, any type of game situation that I'm in

2039
01:39:57,880 --> 01:39:59,680
Speaker 1: that i'm in, I get a chance to learn from it.

2040
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:01,960
Speaker 1: And that's what we're trying to do. An interesting gage

2041
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:05,720
Speaker 1: situations this weekend. Um, going against the Belichick defense, you

2042
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: gotta know in general what goes with that? How are

2043
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 1: you looking at this match up in terms of extras

2044
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:12,320
Speaker 1: and os and maybe in terms of the opportunity in

2045
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 1: fu Yeah, I mean it's obviously a great opportunity. We're

2046
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: going to play really you know, great football team, historically

2047
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 1: great football team, um, you know, with arguably one of

2048
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: the greatest coaches they ever coached in the National Football League.

2049
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,920
Speaker 1: And for the opportunity to do that, you know, Um,

2050
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 1: now I'm blessed. But at the same time, you know,

2051
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: we gotta go out. We got a game plan we

2052
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 1: got to execute. They're gonna be ready. Um, you know,

2053
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 1: they seem like they always are, you know, and that's

2054
01:40:34,280 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 1: what makes coach Belichick so great. You know, their defenses

2055
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 1: seem to game plan for everybody a little differently. Um,

2056
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: So we'll kind of try to see what they're gonna do.

2057
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 1: Early on. Um, you know, and just try to go

2058
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:48,600
Speaker 1: out there and execute and be us to guy that

2059
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:51,760
Speaker 1: you watched growing up and what part of his game

2060
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: if you did, what part of this game did you

2061
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: got to look at and go I'd like to do so.

2062
01:40:57,280 --> 01:41:00,720
Speaker 1: I mean Tom Brady was you know, one of the

2063
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:02,840
Speaker 1: guys that I looked up to growing up, you know,

2064
01:41:03,080 --> 01:41:06,200
Speaker 1: watching football, and um, you know I always wanted to

2065
01:41:06,240 --> 01:41:08,439
Speaker 1: watch him and seeing how you know, great of a

2066
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:10,400
Speaker 1: quarterback he is, obviously, but I got to see him

2067
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:12,400
Speaker 1: as I grew up, and it's you know, kind of

2068
01:41:12,439 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 1: surrell that I get a chance to you know, face

2069
01:41:14,360 --> 01:41:16,160
Speaker 1: off against him. But at the same time, you know,

2070
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm not playing against him, I'm playing against that defense.

2071
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:20,040
Speaker 1: So that's that's what we're kind of game playing for.

2072
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:23,519
Speaker 1: But um, you know, his game, he's he's just been

2073
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: He's been on ever since he's been on the field. Um,

2074
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 1: you know, the way he attacks the game, how smart

2075
01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 1: he is, you know, football wise, situational football is you know,

2076
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 1: one of his key strengths. And um, he's just you know,

2077
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:42,320
Speaker 1: algably doing the greatest to play of the dominant New

2078
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:46,840
Speaker 1: England has had over this specific franchise during the Pelo. Yeah,

2079
01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 1: I'm pretty aware of it. Um. And it's just one

2080
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 1: of those things where I don't know if it's a

2081
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, a mental or fiscal edge, whatever it is. Um.

2082
01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,680
Speaker 1: You know what like when you got a coach in

2083
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:02,599
Speaker 1: a quarterback duo that's that good. Um, I think any

2084
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:04,880
Speaker 1: team is gonna shovel with that, just based on how

2085
01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:07,479
Speaker 1: they you know, prepare, how they play, how they go

2086
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 1: out there and execute. So you know, that's kind of

2087
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 1: what every team wants to be, is you know the

2088
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 1: type of team that New England's been the last you know,

2089
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:16,840
Speaker 1: a couple of decades. You know, they're they're constantly in

2090
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,680
Speaker 1: the hunt for um, you know, the Super Bowl, so

2091
01:42:20,439 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: uh to get a chance to play them at their house,

2092
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:24,200
Speaker 1: and um, you know they got a lot riding on

2093
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:26,080
Speaker 1: this game too, so they're gonna be ready, so uh,

2094
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: we gotta go out there Nextcute for Tom Burna, well,

2095
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:40,640
Speaker 1: obviously it means a lot to him, this game does UM,

2096
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:43,600
Speaker 1: to play at the level that he's played at, you know,

2097
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: through his span and his career and to still be

2098
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 1: going at that age. You know, when I was little,

2099
01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:49,920
Speaker 1: I didn't think I'd ever get the chance to plan

2100
01:42:49,960 --> 01:42:52,599
Speaker 1: it just because you know, there's a long time ago

2101
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:56,360
Speaker 1: and we're here now, and um, he's still, I mean

2102
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:58,360
Speaker 1: still one of the most dominant quarterbacks in the game.

2103
01:42:58,400 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 1: And Um, like I said, it's you know, I wouldn't

2104
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,240
Speaker 1: say I have to tone down myself, but you know,

2105
01:43:05,280 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: I got to continue to focus on playing you know,

2106
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 1: the defense, um of New England, because um, you know

2107
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:14,680
Speaker 1: people might get excited to go against him, and you know,

2108
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:17,000
Speaker 1: he was a big part, you know in my development

2109
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:20,080
Speaker 1: watching quarterbacks and who I wanted to be. And um,

2110
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: you know he's a type of quarterback. You know, I

2111
01:43:22,360 --> 01:43:26,639
Speaker 1: tried to emulate going up success this year being shut

2112
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 1: yard you know last week year over to win the game?

2113
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: Or is he play sort of reached them all over

2114
01:43:31,560 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 1: the goal one the US show what year mind makes

2115
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 1: that play successful? Or the huge Um, you know, speaking

2116
01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 1: of number twelve, he does that extremely well. You know,

2117
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:44,600
Speaker 1: we've watched a lot of tape on him. How he

2118
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: you know, does the quarterback sneak? You know, he's been

2119
01:43:47,960 --> 01:43:51,720
Speaker 1: historically great at it. Um. You know, it's really just

2120
01:43:51,800 --> 01:43:55,080
Speaker 1: trying to catch the defense off guard, just taking advantage

2121
01:43:55,120 --> 01:43:57,679
Speaker 1: of every opportunity. If there's a certain side that they're

2122
01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: maybe a little more open to if the line backers

2123
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:03,640
Speaker 1: aren't mugged up as tight as they need to be. UM,

2124
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,560
Speaker 1: and then just getting low and driving your legs and

2125
01:44:06,880 --> 01:44:08,519
Speaker 1: having to you know, line in front of you do

2126
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 1: with their job as well. Love Days talked about how

2127
01:44:12,439 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 1: maybe for sure, no for sure, and you know, different

2128
01:44:18,360 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: things that the defensive line can do and their linebackers

2129
01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:23,680
Speaker 1: depending on how tight they are, and if there's an

2130
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:25,040
Speaker 1: open side, like I said that we want to go

2131
01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 1: to or attack and Um, there's a lot of communication

2132
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 1: before the play. As simple as it is, it's not

2133
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:32,280
Speaker 1: just go up, snap the ball and put your head down, um,

2134
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 1: but it's I would say, it's a complex play, but

2135
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 1: there's some things that go into it that you need

2136
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: to be successful. Sunday, a lot of the vetterans we're

2137
01:44:40,880 --> 01:44:44,439
Speaker 1: talking about how the young guys are still learning how

2138
01:44:44,479 --> 01:44:46,800
Speaker 1: to win at this level. What would you say that

2139
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:49,840
Speaker 1: you know in your first season time you learned about

2140
01:44:49,960 --> 01:44:52,679
Speaker 1: winning on this level and what it takes. Well, obviously,

2141
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 1: I think it takes um number one ball security and

2142
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: I think we're four or five and oh when we

2143
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:00,360
Speaker 1: haven't turn the ball over the season, and that speaks

2144
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:02,360
Speaker 1: volumes to that stat. You know, that's one of the

2145
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:05,680
Speaker 1: stats in the league that that never lies. UM. You know,

2146
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:11,000
Speaker 1: turnover differentiational and differential UH is pretty crucial UM in

2147
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:12,720
Speaker 1: games in the NFL. So as long as we can

2148
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 1: take care of the ball on the foot on on

2149
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: the offensive side and UM our defense, you know, they

2150
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:19,760
Speaker 1: play fantastic every week, it seems like, and UM, you know,

2151
01:45:19,800 --> 01:45:22,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna do their best to try to force some turnovers.

2152
01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:24,479
Speaker 1: And when we can do that, I think, uh, we'll

2153
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:33,439
Speaker 1: be pretty successful. Definitely could be aligned the staff. I'm yeah,

2154
01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: And you know, at the same time, I got to

2155
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 1: do better job of, you know, completing the ball. UM.

2156
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:40,640
Speaker 1: You know, when it's there. You know, obviously there's s

2157
01:45:40,640 --> 01:45:44,599
Speaker 1: throwaways and different situations that you're in, UM that maybe

2158
01:45:44,960 --> 01:45:47,519
Speaker 1: can decrease that and can lie. But UM, you know,

2159
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm not really focused on that. I'm focus on winning

2160
01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:51,040
Speaker 1: football games and moving the chains on third down and

2161
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:53,800
Speaker 1: like I said, putting the ball in the endzone. He

2162
01:45:53,880 --> 01:46:00,840
Speaker 1: doesn't care about the conversation. You don't worry about thirteen

2163
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:04,320
Speaker 1: to twenty six. It's about points around the board, correct,

2164
01:46:04,360 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 1: And like I said, there's a lot of different UM

2165
01:46:07,600 --> 01:46:11,120
Speaker 1: you know the variables that go into that, um, But

2166
01:46:11,280 --> 01:46:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of different variables that go

2167
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 1: into winning a football game as well. And I wouldn't

2168
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:19,479
Speaker 1: say that that's like a crucial statum. But at the

2169
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:20,880
Speaker 1: same time, you know, I do want to complete it

2170
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:22,280
Speaker 1: at a high percentage, and I do want to put

2171
01:46:22,320 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: the ball in our playmaker's hands, you know when it's

2172
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 1: times called for it a bunch of variables, because one,

2173
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: I'm assuming one of the variables would be that you

2174
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: guys push it down the field a lot more than

2175
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:34,840
Speaker 1: a lot of realings. Yeah, I mean you can look

2176
01:46:34,840 --> 01:46:36,720
Speaker 1: at it that way too, And um, you know, I

2177
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: don't think it's something that we're consciously trying to do.

2178
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:42,680
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, sometimes there's opportunities that arise and

2179
01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:45,040
Speaker 1: who we're trying to take advantage of them. The thing

2180
01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:47,800
Speaker 1: that Sean said is that he feels like it's the

2181
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,000
Speaker 1: game has kind of slowed down for your bit. Do

2182
01:46:50,080 --> 01:46:52,400
Speaker 1: you feel like that's happened? When did that kind of

2183
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:54,640
Speaker 1: become pressing and for you? Um, I think going back

2184
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:56,559
Speaker 1: to the Houston games, when I kind of started feeling

2185
01:46:57,120 --> 01:46:59,800
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable back there, I started seeing things and thinking

2186
01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 1: that maybe I wasn't seeing protection wise, I felt like

2187
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:05,519
Speaker 1: I knew what I was doing, and um, you know,

2188
01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: the past few weeks of just kind of you know,

2189
01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:12,000
Speaker 1: helped that out. You know, I've seen you know, more situations. Um,

2190
01:47:12,240 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: you know, been in different types of situations and had

2191
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: different opportunities to play the game of football. And I said,

2192
01:47:18,240 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm still learning and I'm still young, and um that's

2193
01:47:20,320 --> 01:47:21,960
Speaker 1: what I love about this game, that it's still teaching

2194
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:26,040
Speaker 1: me things. The silver lining if there is one in

2195
01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 1: the injury in the sense that you felt that way

2196
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: in the Houston game, and then you have the opportunity

2197
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:34,320
Speaker 1: to kind of step back and watch things from a

2198
01:47:34,400 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: developmental standpoint, well not in the game, and then come

2199
01:47:37,080 --> 01:47:39,080
Speaker 1: back and then there's it seems as if there's been

2200
01:47:39,120 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 1: some fairly steady progress half sense. That is that a

2201
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:44,040
Speaker 1: fair way to characterize what's for sure? And like you said,

2202
01:47:44,400 --> 01:47:46,479
Speaker 1: having you know, the front of the first questions was

2203
01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:48,960
Speaker 1: having Matten Da here. Um, you know, ever since Da

2204
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 1: got here, I felt like I've you know, changed as

2205
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: a quarterback, changed as a football player. And um, you know,

2206
01:47:54,000 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 1: I owe them, you know some credit as well. Didn't

2207
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:07,760
Speaker 1: really ever maybe expect a be going against him too.

2208
01:48:08,040 --> 01:48:10,080
Speaker 1: You know, it's another opportunity to go win a football game,

2209
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:12,519
Speaker 1: and you know we're gonna put forth our best effort

2210
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:15,040
Speaker 1: and um, our energy is gonna be high as well

2211
01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 1: as theirs, I'm sure. And um, you know they're they're

2212
01:48:18,040 --> 01:48:19,720
Speaker 1: gonna be prepared, they're gonna be ready to go. You know,

2213
01:48:19,800 --> 01:48:23,720
Speaker 1: they they've got, um a really good team, really good defense. Um,

2214
01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking forward to the opportunity. Quarterback Josh

2215
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,720
Speaker 1: Allen media with the media moment ago after practice. Uh

2216
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 1: wound up. Um, I've said this before. I'm gonna say

2217
01:48:33,200 --> 01:48:36,160
Speaker 1: it forcefully now, Steve, do not. I'm sounds like I'm

2218
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 1: lecturing you. I'm not. You can go ahead shake your not.

2219
01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:41,800
Speaker 1: Underestimate the impact that Derek Anderson has had on this

2220
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:44,720
Speaker 1: Bill season, on that guy, Josh Allen in particular. Um,

2221
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:46,719
Speaker 1: you know he started a couple started the New England

2222
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:48,720
Speaker 1: game back on October twenty nine, did not go well.

2223
01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 1: Bills were in a horrible offensive slump back then. They

2224
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,760
Speaker 1: played almost three consecutive games without a touchdown. But Derek

2225
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: Anderson has meant a lot to this team. I would

2226
01:48:58,080 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 1: expect I guess that he's gonna be on the ross

2227
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:03,280
Speaker 1: in that quarterback room next year because of what Josh

2228
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 1: says about him, but John McDermot says about him, but

2229
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 1: Brian Dable has said about him, Um, I don't know

2230
01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:09,680
Speaker 1: the guy. Well, it met him, said a load to him.

2231
01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 1: You guys on the show. Yeah, I wasn't here that day.

2232
01:49:11,760 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 1: Oh really, it seems like it's been ten years ago.

2233
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 1: But but if this is the value has a lot

2234
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:20,919
Speaker 1: to offer, and it's it's experience obviously, but it's it's temperament.

2235
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:23,280
Speaker 1: I think he's got like a nice, easy going temperament

2236
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:25,519
Speaker 1: that I think the rest of those guys respond to it,

2237
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: and Josh and Matt Barkley, I think there's no doubt

2238
01:49:30,280 --> 01:49:34,040
Speaker 1: he has been a valuable asset to Josh Allen and

2239
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,920
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that he knows that's exactly why he

2240
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:41,040
Speaker 1: was signed to a contract. He was signed obviously as

2241
01:49:41,080 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 1: a veteran guy who could come in and function as

2242
01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: a quarterback when the team was going through the worst

2243
01:49:46,360 --> 01:49:49,840
Speaker 1: possible stretch a team can go through, losing quarterback after

2244
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,920
Speaker 1: quarterback to injury. Uh, they had to do it twice

2245
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:56,120
Speaker 1: this year. Go to a guy off the street. So

2246
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,760
Speaker 1: in that regard, he has been invited just as a

2247
01:50:00,800 --> 01:50:02,479
Speaker 1: guy who could come in and play and function as

2248
01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:04,759
Speaker 1: a quarterback. But I think in the meeting room you've

2249
01:50:04,760 --> 01:50:07,160
Speaker 1: alluded to it a number of times, Murphy, You're getting

2250
01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:10,920
Speaker 1: We're getting snippets from everybody from day Ball, from Josh Allen,

2251
01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:14,640
Speaker 1: from Sean McDermott about how valuable Derek Anderson has been

2252
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:16,760
Speaker 1: in his voice in that room. And I think Matt

2253
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:19,320
Speaker 1: Barkley was a pleasant surprise as well. Not only did

2254
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 1: he come in start after eleven days and get a win,

2255
01:50:22,880 --> 01:50:26,720
Speaker 1: he has been a plus in temperament, and I think

2256
01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:29,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be I don't think there's any question that

2257
01:50:30,040 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 1: you may be right Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean. Certainly

2258
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen would love to have Derek Anderson come back

2259
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:39,080
Speaker 1: next year. I think what it comes down to is,

2260
01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:42,439
Speaker 1: does Derek Anderson feel like he's got another year in him.

2261
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:44,519
Speaker 1: They wants to come back now if they make him

2262
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:46,880
Speaker 1: some assurances that he's not only going to play unless

2263
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: there's a bus wreck, you know, there's sixteen guys go down,

2264
01:50:50,280 --> 01:50:52,800
Speaker 1: he won't have to play, but they want him around. Sure,

2265
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: they want him around, and I think it'd be money well, spent.

2266
01:50:55,080 --> 01:50:57,760
Speaker 1: The question might be with him, do I really feel

2267
01:50:57,760 --> 01:51:00,640
Speaker 1: like going to Rochester for the three four weeks? Do

2268
01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 1: I really feel like going to OTAs and April? And

2269
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 1: may you know, I mean at his age and his

2270
01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,320
Speaker 1: status of his curd that might not appeal to him

2271
01:51:07,360 --> 01:51:08,920
Speaker 1: at all. I mean that kind of feel that that's

2272
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:11,439
Speaker 1: why he waited so long to sign out with anybody

2273
01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:14,600
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, I think that some of it. I

2274
01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:16,920
Speaker 1: think some of it was the front office feeling like

2275
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 1: they were better off than they actually were with the quarterback.

2276
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:22,800
Speaker 1: They weren't in a hurry. I think Brandon Bean would

2277
01:51:22,840 --> 01:51:24,800
Speaker 1: probably tell you privately he waited too long to get

2278
01:51:24,840 --> 01:51:27,639
Speaker 1: Derrek Henderson into the door. And obviously it seems obvious

2279
01:51:27,680 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: in hindsight, but up until the time where you got

2280
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 1: two guys that went down or Nate Peterman flamed out, literally,

2281
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:37,720
Speaker 1: it was unexpected. Although people can laugh at it now

2282
01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:39,840
Speaker 1: and say, how could you not expect it because it

2283
01:51:39,960 --> 01:51:43,599
Speaker 1: became habit with Nate Peterman. But by the way, he's

2284
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:45,639
Speaker 1: just about to sign with him. He's signed. He signed

2285
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:47,680
Speaker 1: with the Oakland Raiders. Today, Nate Peterman is back in

2286
01:51:47,720 --> 01:51:50,280
Speaker 1: the NFL, so Bill's fans can have that to hang

2287
01:51:50,320 --> 01:51:54,080
Speaker 1: their hat on. But yeah, but I think they would

2288
01:51:54,080 --> 01:52:00,799
Speaker 1: admit Derrek Anderson has been somewhat of a value find

2289
01:52:01,160 --> 01:52:03,639
Speaker 1: in this during this season, and I think they would

2290
01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:05,519
Speaker 1: love to have him back, And I don't know if

2291
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to. Here's the thing. It sounds crazy.

2292
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:11,559
Speaker 1: I think his minimum salary seven digits. I mean, it's

2293
01:52:12,160 --> 01:52:16,600
Speaker 1: over a million bucks easily, and it sounds crazy. But

2294
01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:19,320
Speaker 1: I've heard it from a lot of guys, guys who've

2295
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Speaker 1: been in the league as long as Derrick Anderson. It's

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01:52:21,479 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 1: it's not about the money you've got, it's it's got

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01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 1: to be about the opportunity he'd I don't think he's

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01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna come back for minimum veteran money. He'd rather just

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01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 1: sit at home, play golf and call it quits. It's

2300
01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:38,519
Speaker 1: because even as a backup guy who's not going to play,

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01:52:38,640 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: it's a lot to ask a guy to come in

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01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:43,960
Speaker 1: and go through training camp, and go through OTAs, and

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01:52:44,120 --> 01:52:47,400
Speaker 1: go through a regular season grinding it out five o'clock

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01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:49,720
Speaker 1: in the morning till six o'clock at night. You know

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01:52:50,160 --> 01:52:52,519
Speaker 1: all that that's asked of even a third string guy,

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01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 1: that they would ask him to be so while They

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01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:57,240
Speaker 1: may need him, want him, and love to have him.

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01:52:58,479 --> 01:53:00,639
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson may be too tired to do it. Look,

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01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:03,240
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue that he's a difference maker either,

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01:53:03,479 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: but it's pretty clear that he makes a difference for

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01:53:05,439 --> 01:53:08,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in terms of comfort and guidance, and that's important. Yeah,

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01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman has signed with the Raiders. According to Ian Rappport,

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01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago, John Gruden quoted as saying

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01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 1: he loved him. So there he is. Nathan Peterman is

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01:53:16,360 --> 01:53:18,679
Speaker 1: now a Raiders quarterback. Think about it. They were pointing

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01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:20,599
Speaker 1: out to us in the other room and our staff here,

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01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:23,559
Speaker 1: how many former Bills quarterbacks have gone on to sign

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01:53:23,640 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. EJ. Manuel right, AJ McCarron. Earlier this year, Peterman,

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01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:31,160
Speaker 1: Trent Edwards had a stant with the Raiders. JP Lossman

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01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:34,240
Speaker 1: had a stant with the Raiders. I know it's is

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01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:37,800
Speaker 1: that right? They all? Yeah? Isn't that crazy? Cardale Jones

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01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:39,560
Speaker 1: is what the Chargers or was up here? Yeah? I

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01:53:39,640 --> 01:53:43,040
Speaker 1: think he still is. But Nathan Peterman is a Oakland

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01:53:43,120 --> 01:53:46,200
Speaker 1: Raider under a guy who's known for coaching of quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: We'll see Nathan Peterman. We talked about this when he

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Speaker 1: was released, and even before he was released a month

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01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:54,800
Speaker 1: or so ago. Not a joke. Didn't go well here

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01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:56,880
Speaker 1: for him, but not a joke. Somebody sees some value

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01:53:56,920 --> 01:53:59,400
Speaker 1: and Gruden, a guy who, as we think, knows a

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01:53:59,439 --> 01:54:01,519
Speaker 1: thing or two of a quarterback, lay season value there

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01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:04,599
Speaker 1: because he assigned him to the roster. All right, I'll

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01:54:04,640 --> 01:54:06,599
Speaker 1: let let just do on that. I can tell you're thinking.

2333
01:54:06,680 --> 01:54:10,200
Speaker 1: I can see thinking about the Raiders right now. Yeah, don't, don't, don't.

2334
01:54:10,479 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 1: And I'm having trouble. I'm traveling, I'm standing in a hole.

2335
01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble getting out of me, and I'm no

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01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:20,599
Speaker 1: pun intended about the black hole that the Raiders have become.

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01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:26,720
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. I just do not see

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01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:31,160
Speaker 1: it seeing Peterman with the Raiders or see anything. Where

2339
01:54:31,160 --> 01:54:35,520
Speaker 1: are they going? Later? Sooner or later. They've gotta they've gotta.

2340
01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: They've got to turn the ship either either fly the

2341
01:54:40,480 --> 01:54:43,320
Speaker 1: plane back up into the air or pull out of

2342
01:54:43,320 --> 01:54:46,600
Speaker 1: the power dive they're in. I mean, right, I mean,

2343
01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:54,160
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack's gone, Amari Cooper's gone, and they stink, and

2344
01:54:54,240 --> 01:54:56,840
Speaker 1: they've already got a franchise quarterback. Yeah, who they might

2345
01:54:56,920 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 1: not value as much as can you imagine a dark car.

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01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:02,920
Speaker 1: I think he's really good. I do too. They were

2347
01:55:02,960 --> 01:55:05,360
Speaker 1: twelve and four with him as like a second year

2348
01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:10,720
Speaker 1: quarterback under Jack del Rio. What is going on? Don't

2349
01:55:10,760 --> 01:55:12,360
Speaker 1: think too hard about the radio. We got a lot

2350
01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 1: of topics on the head for us. I'm vot to

2351
01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:16,840
Speaker 1: get Micah Hyde in here very shortly. In the meantime,

2352
01:55:16,840 --> 01:55:18,800
Speaker 1: we got folks online. I want to talk about Josh Allen.

2353
01:55:18,800 --> 01:55:20,360
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Patriots, why it is

2354
01:55:20,400 --> 01:55:23,360
Speaker 1: they're on the verge of a tenth consecutive division title.

2355
01:55:23,600 --> 01:55:25,200
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Pro Bowl, the fact

2356
01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:26,720
Speaker 1: that no Bills made it. All of that on the

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01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:29,400
Speaker 1: table when we return, plus coffee with the Coach coming

2358
01:55:29,480 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 1: up with Chris Brown and Sean McDermott. So come on back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live is presented by Kalida Health. We're coming

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01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:37,960
Speaker 1: to you from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:55:51,880 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 1: We welcome back One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive,

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01:55:53,960 --> 01:55:57,480
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker company from our one Buffalo Studio.

2363
01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:59,520
Speaker 1: Todays show. Not over Yans, but it feels like it's

2364
01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 1: it's flying by them. Yeah, Thurman was great, big segment.

2365
01:56:05,600 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 1: He was all over the We're all over the map

2366
01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,960
Speaker 1: with Thurm. That was great. Yeah, it was good. Goodness.

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01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm proud of You're so proud of that guy too.

2368
01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:15,800
Speaker 1: And then with the reminiscent about the Odd and the

2369
01:56:16,080 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: and the Fried Boloney, the Old poor Man's Odd Club,

2370
01:56:19,720 --> 01:56:22,800
Speaker 1: great stuff, great times. Hey, Chris Brown sits down with

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01:56:22,840 --> 01:56:24,920
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermot every week and they share a

2372
01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:27,120
Speaker 1: cup of coffee. It's pretty cool. I gotta tell you.

2373
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 1: As hopeful and as optimistic we've all become about the

2374
01:56:30,680 --> 01:56:33,040
Speaker 1: Bills in their future going forward with Josh Allen, Sean

2375
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:35,320
Speaker 1: McDermot in the new in Them Free Agent. The one

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01:56:35,360 --> 01:56:37,600
Speaker 1: thing I've totally lost hope with is the fact that

2377
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 1: anybody's gonna drink coffee during coffee with the coach. I

2378
01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:44,480
Speaker 1: think it's at absolutely a dark place, right. The sponsors

2379
01:56:44,480 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 1: gotta be saying, what's the deal. We're selling millions of

2380
01:56:46,440 --> 01:56:48,960
Speaker 1: cups of coffee every day and YouTube jokes can listen.

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01:56:49,240 --> 01:56:53,000
Speaker 1: It's great coffee too. I we live on and more

2382
01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:56,160
Speaker 1: than nobody touches the coffee during coffee with a coach.

2383
01:56:56,240 --> 01:56:57,640
Speaker 1: Maybe they do this week, but when we got a

2384
01:56:57,680 --> 01:56:59,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks hopeless thing and check it out. Coffee

2385
01:56:59,720 --> 01:57:01,880
Speaker 1: with the Coach presented by Tim Hortons Cafe in Bake Shop,

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01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:04,080
Speaker 1: the official coffee of the Buffalo Bills. He will be

2387
01:57:04,160 --> 01:57:07,960
Speaker 1: totally given up. Hello again, everybody, Welcome to the week

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01:57:08,080 --> 01:57:11,200
Speaker 1: sixteen edition of Coffee with the Coach, presented by Tim Hortons.

2389
01:57:11,240 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm Chris Brown along with Bill's head coach Sean McDermott,

2390
01:57:13,880 --> 01:57:15,560
Speaker 1: as the Bills are on the road for the last

2391
01:57:15,600 --> 01:57:17,960
Speaker 1: time this week to take on the New England Patriots

2392
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,240
Speaker 1: Sunday at one o'clock. Coach is always thanks for being

2393
01:57:20,320 --> 01:57:23,600
Speaker 1: with us. So close games this season have provided some

2394
01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:25,920
Speaker 1: good results and maybe some not so good results. But

2395
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:29,200
Speaker 1: the last four weeks, Coach, all your games have been

2396
01:57:29,440 --> 01:57:34,480
Speaker 1: tight r two wins, two losses. Where is your team

2397
01:57:34,560 --> 01:57:37,760
Speaker 1: do you think on the curve of learning how to

2398
01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 1: win the close ones? Well, I think they're right there.

2399
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:43,040
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes those are going to go your way

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01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:45,600
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're not. You want to be able to

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01:57:45,680 --> 01:57:48,080
Speaker 1: check the box with a young football team and particularly

2402
01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: young quarterback, young metal linebacker, that you can win close games.

2403
01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:53,200
Speaker 1: And we've shown that we can do that, whether it

2404
01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: was earlier in the year or now later in the

2405
01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:58,640
Speaker 1: year like we are in this past week's when I

2406
01:57:58,760 --> 01:58:02,640
Speaker 1: know you're aware of this stature, But six undrafted rookies

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01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:05,959
Speaker 1: on the field, not all of them out of necessity,

2408
01:58:06,080 --> 01:58:09,200
Speaker 1: but most of them were because if losses due to

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01:58:09,240 --> 01:58:12,360
Speaker 1: injury and other reasons. Could you recall a time in

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01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:15,480
Speaker 1: your coaching experience where you had to not only dress

2411
01:58:15,640 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: but put six undrafted rookies on the field and rely

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01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:20,839
Speaker 1: on a lot of that. Yeah, maybe a little bit unique,

2413
01:58:21,440 --> 01:58:23,400
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm all for it as we try and

2414
01:58:23,480 --> 01:58:27,120
Speaker 1: build this roster the right way and get this team

2415
01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction and in a direction where

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01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:31,920
Speaker 1: we can sustain it for a long period of time.

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01:58:32,000 --> 01:58:34,000
Speaker 1: And you've got to be able to play or be

2418
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:36,040
Speaker 1: willing to play young players and know that there's going

2419
01:58:36,120 --> 01:58:37,520
Speaker 1: to be some bad players. There's going to be some

2420
01:58:37,640 --> 01:58:41,280
Speaker 1: plays that they've never seen before, and you want to

2421
01:58:41,320 --> 01:58:44,360
Speaker 1: make up for it with playing fast, playing with energy,

2422
01:58:44,440 --> 01:58:48,320
Speaker 1: and when all else fail, is playing physical, aggressive football.

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01:58:48,480 --> 01:58:50,440
Speaker 1: All right, let's take some stock in the Patriots now,

2424
01:58:50,480 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: who are next on the schedule. One of their top

2425
01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:55,480
Speaker 1: rookies who did not face you the first time due

2426
01:58:55,520 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 1: to injury. What comes to mind regarding Sony Michelle. Very

2427
01:58:59,080 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 1: good football player, well documented the success he had in

2428
01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 1: college at a high level. And uh, he gives them

2429
01:59:05,880 --> 01:59:09,800
Speaker 1: that one two one two combination that that really makes uh,

2430
01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:12,720
Speaker 1: their passing game all that much more difficult to handle.

2431
01:59:13,040 --> 01:59:15,880
Speaker 1: What about their plugger in the middle of that defensive front,

2432
01:59:15,960 --> 01:59:19,880
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown, Yeah, another good football player. Um, he does

2433
01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:22,840
Speaker 1: a great job established from the defense in front, um,

2434
01:59:23,360 --> 01:59:26,880
Speaker 1: pushing the pushing the pocket up inside. And um, you know,

2435
01:59:26,960 --> 01:59:28,800
Speaker 1: he's been in the league long enough where he's a

2436
01:59:28,880 --> 01:59:31,560
Speaker 1: tough He's a tough guy to handle. And we will

2437
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 1: have our work cut out for us in the middle

2438
01:59:33,480 --> 01:59:35,840
Speaker 1: of our our offensive line. And the guy that lines

2439
01:59:35,920 --> 01:59:37,760
Speaker 1: up right behind him but always seems to be around

2440
01:59:37,800 --> 01:59:40,320
Speaker 1: the ball Landing Robert Claping ended the right back. Yeah,

2441
01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:43,200
Speaker 1: very active, very active player. Um does some good things

2442
01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:46,200
Speaker 1: with this disguise and and um, you know, just in

2443
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:48,760
Speaker 1: terms of orchestrating their defense, getting them lined up, they

2444
01:59:48,760 --> 01:59:51,360
Speaker 1: give us a couple of different looks, and um, so

2445
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, we know a little bit based on what

2446
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: we saw in the first game, and a little bit

2447
01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: going against Detroit with a similar defense, I'll be a

2448
01:59:58,440 --> 02:00:01,520
Speaker 1: different personnel. This sys tim is somewhat similar. Yeah, it

2449
02:00:01,560 --> 02:00:03,360
Speaker 1: might not be bad. Prep go to school on the

2450
02:00:03,400 --> 02:00:05,040
Speaker 1: Lions to get ready for the Patriots. All right, thanks

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02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:07,560
Speaker 1: for that, Coach. Now it's time for our Fan Question

2452
02:00:07,640 --> 02:00:09,400
Speaker 1: of the Week, a chance for you the fan to

2453
02:00:09,440 --> 02:00:12,880
Speaker 1: ask coach a question. This week's question comes from Bills

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02:00:12,960 --> 02:00:16,680
Speaker 1: Fans six nine one on Twitter, who asks, Coach, are

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02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:19,720
Speaker 1: there any exercises that you do to keep your hands

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02:00:19,760 --> 02:00:23,280
Speaker 1: in shape so you can clap continuously on the sideline? Now,

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02:00:23,600 --> 02:00:27,640
Speaker 1: there's obviously a fan that it's obviously there's obviously a

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02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 1: fan that saw you on our micdup segment which aired

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02:00:30,600 --> 02:00:33,200
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills dot com last week. And do you

2460
02:00:33,280 --> 02:00:35,600
Speaker 1: even realize you are clapping as much as you? You

2461
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:38,520
Speaker 1: know what, I don't. My wife asked me that, and

2462
02:00:38,760 --> 02:00:40,760
Speaker 1: I don't. I you know, And I'm just big into energy.

2463
02:00:40,800 --> 02:00:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm big in it, trying to do whatever I can

2464
02:00:43,200 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 1: to help the team win, and sometimes that means being

2465
02:00:46,040 --> 02:00:48,840
Speaker 1: the biggest cheerleader, and sometimes it means not being the

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02:00:48,880 --> 02:00:52,160
Speaker 1: biggest cheerleader. So, um, you know, I caught a glimpse

2467
02:00:52,200 --> 02:00:54,440
Speaker 1: of that. Someone straighted with me, and that's one of

2468
02:00:54,480 --> 02:00:56,280
Speaker 1: those things that you don't realize you're doing it, but

2469
02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:58,840
Speaker 1: you're doing it, and so I promise you'll work on

2470
02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:01,880
Speaker 1: that this week. That's good. I've been exercises. I don't know.

2471
02:01:01,880 --> 02:01:03,640
Speaker 1: Maybe we're gonna get you one of those hand cracks,

2472
02:01:03,720 --> 02:01:05,560
Speaker 1: you know, the old school hand. Well, I was a wrestler.

2473
02:01:05,600 --> 02:01:07,760
Speaker 1: We had that wrestling when I was when I was joking,

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02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:09,960
Speaker 1: all right, perfect, Thanks for playing along with us there

2475
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,800
Speaker 1: on guy, that one coach, and obviously good luck getting

2476
02:01:12,840 --> 02:01:14,840
Speaker 1: to win in your last ROADI at the Patriot. Yeah, thanks,

2477
02:01:14,880 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 1: gritty all right. That's Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott. This

2478
02:01:17,200 --> 02:01:19,520
Speaker 1: has been Coffee with the Coach, presented by Tim Horton's

2479
02:01:19,560 --> 02:01:22,400
Speaker 1: thanks for watching. We'll see you next week and the

2480
02:01:22,440 --> 02:01:25,080
Speaker 1: coffee is safe. Nothing. I'm one more drill. That's good.

2481
02:01:25,120 --> 02:01:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad they got into that handclapping thing. Sean does that.

2482
02:01:28,440 --> 02:01:31,200
Speaker 1: He's I'll tell you what his energy in game, and

2483
02:01:31,360 --> 02:01:33,240
Speaker 1: you did see it on when he was miked up

2484
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 1: a week ago. It's amazing how much energy he expends

2485
02:01:35,960 --> 02:01:38,920
Speaker 1: during the game. It really is. Yeah. I don't have

2486
02:01:38,960 --> 02:01:42,200
Speaker 1: to agree, no, it is, and it's I think they

2487
02:01:42,320 --> 02:01:43,880
Speaker 1: feed off. That's who he is and I think that's

2488
02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:47,720
Speaker 1: one of the things that everybody, every head coach will

2489
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:52,000
Speaker 1: tell you you have to be you as a head coach,

2490
02:01:52,040 --> 02:01:53,880
Speaker 1: and that's who he is. He's a former wrestler, and

2491
02:01:53,920 --> 02:01:56,560
Speaker 1: all those and guys will laugh, and it's kind of stereotypic.

2492
02:01:56,640 --> 02:02:01,360
Speaker 1: Wrestlers are tough, tough competitors, tough tough guys. They're very

2493
02:02:02,520 --> 02:02:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, they're individually accomplished because it's an individual sport,

2494
02:02:06,120 --> 02:02:08,400
Speaker 1: but they're all about team as well. So it's a

2495
02:02:08,480 --> 02:02:12,640
Speaker 1: really great mix. And I think he brings I think

2496
02:02:12,680 --> 02:02:15,800
Speaker 1: it's important that he is who he is, you know.

2497
02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:18,160
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a phone call here. We're talking

2498
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:20,320
Speaker 1: about a variety of topics today. Let's go to a

2499
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:23,800
Speaker 1: Hank Hank on the line. Hello, Hank around the air. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've got a T shirt that somebody got me a

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02:02:28,800 --> 02:02:33,040
Speaker 1: while ago. It's a box of wheaties that the pictures

2502
02:02:33,200 --> 02:02:36,120
Speaker 1: changed to cheaties. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

2503
02:02:36,760 --> 02:02:42,320
Speaker 1: Later Gate, ineligible Gate, Spygate, took Gate, Plowgate, defleetriates, the

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02:02:42,480 --> 02:02:46,800
Speaker 1: cheat cheaty specials. And I gotta tell you, I just

2505
02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:50,480
Speaker 1: took the bills as my team to win on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right, well there you go. All right, Hank, I'm

2507
02:02:54,200 --> 02:02:56,520
Speaker 1: definitely going with the Bills. Any idea, what do you

2508
02:02:56,560 --> 02:02:58,320
Speaker 1: think is going to happen in that game? Since you

2509
02:02:58,400 --> 02:03:00,920
Speaker 1: think the Bills are gonna win, what's how's it gonna go?

2510
02:03:01,440 --> 02:03:03,760
Speaker 1: I think Josh is gonna show us not only can

2511
02:03:03,840 --> 02:03:06,640
Speaker 1: he pass forty or fifty yards, he can run for

2512
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:11,880
Speaker 1: a forty yard touchdown. Okay, okay, him to do what

2513
02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:14,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. He's gonna show him up. He's gonna

2514
02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna show Brady up his dream from when he

2515
02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:18,480
Speaker 1: who's a kid. All Right, thanks, I'm gonna break. We're

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Speaker 1: back with more. One Does Live from One Bills Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. It's One Does Live

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Speaker 1: from One Goes Drive. John Murphy and Steve Tasher a

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02:03:35,080 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: special guest right off the practice field. Happy to have

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Speaker 1: Bills Venteroran safety Mica Hide in studio with us. Welcome Thanks.

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02:03:41,600 --> 02:03:43,560
Speaker 1: What a great year for this Buffalo defense. I mean,

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02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 1: when you think about it, even first or second for

2523
02:03:45,320 --> 02:03:47,600
Speaker 1: most of the second half of the season, We've talked

2524
02:03:47,600 --> 02:03:49,040
Speaker 1: a lot about this guy. By the way, I said,

2525
02:03:49,040 --> 02:03:52,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a top ten defense. We're back in August. Nice. Nice,

2526
02:03:52,800 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know you're trying to find in

2527
02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:57,000
Speaker 1: the season's not over, but that's the really time you

2528
02:03:57,040 --> 02:03:58,920
Speaker 1: can hang your hand on how well this defense has

2529
02:03:58,920 --> 02:04:00,680
Speaker 1: played for most of the season. Yeah, we feel like

2530
02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:02,480
Speaker 1: we've been playing pretty well. At the same time, you know,

2531
02:04:02,600 --> 02:04:04,840
Speaker 1: we feel like we can do a lot more. Each

2532
02:04:04,880 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: and every game we walk out and we learn from

2533
02:04:07,320 --> 02:04:09,520
Speaker 1: the mistakes that we made and and we feel like

2534
02:04:09,560 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 1: we can do better. And you know that's what the

2535
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:13,640
Speaker 1: last two games before. It's interesting too, because you've really

2536
02:04:13,680 --> 02:04:18,720
Speaker 1: put together this year that's really special, and then yet

2537
02:04:18,920 --> 02:04:20,760
Speaker 1: you get snubbed in the Pro Bowl. It hasn't been

2538
02:04:21,200 --> 02:04:24,240
Speaker 1: one of like spectaculars. He's like a bunch of interceptions,

2539
02:04:24,280 --> 02:04:26,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of force fumbles, a bunch of sacks. It's

2540
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: really just been solid from start to finish. And I

2541
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:32,680
Speaker 1: guess maybe that's why you didn't get the attention to

2542
02:04:32,680 --> 02:04:34,880
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl battling, because you've just been catching Buddy's

2543
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 1: attention for some reasons, you know what I mean. Exact,

2544
02:04:37,080 --> 02:04:39,879
Speaker 1: A lot of guys in the defense have been consistent

2545
02:04:39,920 --> 02:04:42,280
Speaker 1: all year, and I think consistency is the number one

2546
02:04:42,320 --> 02:04:43,840
Speaker 1: thing you can you can do in this league is

2547
02:04:44,200 --> 02:04:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, week in and week out, go out there

2548
02:04:45,640 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 1: and compete. And on defense, we've been doing that and unfortunately,

2549
02:04:48,760 --> 02:04:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, um, on defense, a lot of guys didn't

2550
02:04:52,040 --> 02:04:55,480
Speaker 1: get the recognition they deserve and and um, it's unfortunate.

2551
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:57,080
Speaker 1: But like I said, that's the last two games before

2552
02:04:57,120 --> 02:04:58,880
Speaker 1: we go out there compete and and you know, I

2553
02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:00,920
Speaker 1: try to build something for the future. You know, there's

2554
02:05:00,920 --> 02:05:02,400
Speaker 1: a lot of things that work when you get voted

2555
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 1: into the Pro Bowl. There's a player's vote, there's a

2556
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:07,360
Speaker 1: coach's vote, and then there's a fans vote. And I

2557
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:11,280
Speaker 1: was telling Murphy, when I was playing, you know, decades ago,

2558
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:13,840
Speaker 1: it was only players and coaches who voted, So you

2559
02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:15,440
Speaker 1: really felt like, you know, at least there were some

2560
02:05:15,520 --> 02:05:17,680
Speaker 1: guys in there who knew. And like you said, too,

2561
02:05:17,840 --> 02:05:21,280
Speaker 1: there's guys like you safeties, I don't You're like, I

2562
02:05:21,360 --> 02:05:23,440
Speaker 1: don't know how much I know about the offensive line

2563
02:05:23,480 --> 02:05:24,920
Speaker 1: to be voting for him, and that kind of Yeah,

2564
02:05:24,960 --> 02:05:26,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of dynamics. Yeah, you know, we vote

2565
02:05:26,920 --> 02:05:31,320
Speaker 1: for you know, AFC offensive lineman, which kind of it's

2566
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: kind of weird. You know, we don't necessarily know how

2567
02:05:33,760 --> 02:05:35,480
Speaker 1: good the lineman are. I think from there it turned

2568
02:05:35,520 --> 02:05:37,480
Speaker 1: into a popularity contest. And you know, guys that have

2569
02:05:37,520 --> 02:05:38,920
Speaker 1: made it in the past, the big name guys that

2570
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:40,680
Speaker 1: you heard of, just kind of just click, you know,

2571
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:43,120
Speaker 1: click those guys and maybe they do that, you know,

2572
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:45,680
Speaker 1: maybe the offensive linemen do that also for the DBS.

2573
02:05:45,760 --> 02:05:48,320
Speaker 1: But UM, you know, it is what it is. You

2574
02:05:48,400 --> 02:05:51,400
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta watch film, um, and and you know,

2575
02:05:51,520 --> 02:05:53,960
Speaker 1: study as much as you can and see what guys

2576
02:05:54,080 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: are are making the plays and having a Pro Bowl year.

2577
02:05:56,760 --> 02:05:58,680
Speaker 1: But um, as far as a fan vote, I don't

2578
02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:01,800
Speaker 1: really know if um, you know that's a popularity contest

2579
02:06:01,920 --> 02:06:03,840
Speaker 1: or not. It's just a it's tough. It's tough, and

2580
02:06:04,040 --> 02:06:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, but I guess that's what keeps guys competing.

2581
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:08,880
Speaker 1: Your guys getting motivated by Waiting snubbed. We've seeing it

2582
02:06:08,960 --> 02:06:10,800
Speaker 1: even today, people talking about him or anything here. Oh yeah,

2583
02:06:10,840 --> 02:06:12,160
Speaker 1: people talk about you guys talk about it. You know,

2584
02:06:12,280 --> 02:06:14,080
Speaker 1: we're all we're all competitive in this league. We want

2585
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:15,840
Speaker 1: to be the best. Um. You want to have the

2586
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:17,200
Speaker 1: best defense, you want to have the best team. You

2587
02:06:17,240 --> 02:06:19,960
Speaker 1: wanta have to you know, individual, you wanna be, you know,

2588
02:06:20,400 --> 02:06:25,080
Speaker 1: set your personal records interceptions, sacks, whatever it may be.

2589
02:06:25,200 --> 02:06:27,120
Speaker 1: And so guys compete and you know it goes on

2590
02:06:27,280 --> 02:06:29,960
Speaker 1: the league. But that's what motivates you to, uh have

2591
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:31,880
Speaker 1: a great offseason and come back next year. Even songer.

2592
02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 1: I love how Sean McDermot addressed it today in his

2593
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 1: news conference, asked about nobody in the Pro Bowl, and

2594
02:06:36,680 --> 02:06:39,640
Speaker 1: his answer pretty straightforward. He said, we're all about winning here. Yeah, right,

2595
02:06:39,720 --> 02:06:41,520
Speaker 1: I mean that would be the ultimate waiter for sure.

2596
02:06:41,560 --> 02:06:43,240
Speaker 1: So sure we want to win ball games. Um. I

2597
02:06:43,240 --> 02:06:45,440
Speaker 1: don't think anyone's in the lock of them crying right

2598
02:06:45,440 --> 02:06:47,160
Speaker 1: now because they made the Pro Bowl. We understand that

2599
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:49,120
Speaker 1: it's a big game this week, um with the with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, and we want to go out there and

2601
02:06:50,360 --> 02:06:52,680
Speaker 1: gonna win. Yeah, speaking about being motivated, you gotta you

2602
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:55,480
Speaker 1: have to be to go into New England. They're undefeated

2603
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Speaker 1: at home this year. Once again, they're they're on a

2604
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Speaker 1: collision course with winning a division title. You guys have

2605
02:07:00,760 --> 02:07:02,920
Speaker 1: seen him over the course of your time here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a division arrival and it's a tough place to win,

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02:07:06,680 --> 02:07:08,680
Speaker 1: that is, even when you're playing well. It is and

2608
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Speaker 1: you know, the last three games, like I mentioned to you,

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Speaker 1: guys have been close going into the fourth quarter. They've

2610
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Speaker 1: been close, and we just kind of, you know, laid

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Speaker 1: an egg in each game and then the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: so as when we were trying to you know, play

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Speaker 1: a full sixty minute game, give them our best shot,

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Speaker 1: and from there, you know, to see what happens. They

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Speaker 1: had one offensive touchdown in the game October twenty ninth

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02:07:28,880 --> 02:07:31,360
Speaker 1: and one eighty five yards scoring drive and they got

2617
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Speaker 1: to pick six and scored in that too. The score

2618
02:07:33,160 --> 02:07:35,920
Speaker 1: looks lopsided, but it really wasn't at all. No. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you hold that team to one offensive touchdown, especially

2620
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 1: with the changes on your offense, now it's a different

2621
02:07:41,160 --> 02:07:43,480
Speaker 1: game this week. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we feel like

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02:07:43,560 --> 02:07:45,480
Speaker 1: if we go out there and play our a game

2623
02:07:45,480 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 1: against anybody, you know, we have a shot. So that's

2624
02:07:47,160 --> 02:07:48,720
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. Play a full sisy minute

2625
02:07:48,760 --> 02:07:51,200
Speaker 1: game and if it goes longer sixty minutes, compete. And

2626
02:07:52,280 --> 02:07:53,840
Speaker 1: you know, we we like the guys that are in

2627
02:07:53,920 --> 02:07:56,280
Speaker 1: this locker room. We like our defense against them, we

2628
02:07:56,440 --> 02:07:58,640
Speaker 1: like our coaches against them, we like our offense against him.

2629
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:00,200
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go out there and compete and see

2630
02:08:00,200 --> 02:08:04,440
Speaker 1: what happens. You've seen these guys a bunch. Are they

2631
02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: leaning offensively on the same guy's usual Gronkowski, Edelman, Brady,

2632
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:10,240
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And then of course the first

2633
02:08:10,320 --> 02:08:13,000
Speaker 1: round draft pick Sony Michelle has made a little bit

2634
02:08:13,040 --> 02:08:14,440
Speaker 1: of a difference for them. Yeah, I mean they got

2635
02:08:14,480 --> 02:08:16,080
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. Yeah, they do. They got a

2636
02:08:16,120 --> 02:08:19,240
Speaker 1: lot of if it's you know, from from tight end

2637
02:08:19,320 --> 02:08:22,640
Speaker 1: to receivers to you know, the three headed monster in

2638
02:08:22,680 --> 02:08:24,800
Speaker 1: the backfield and to you know, obviously a Hall of

2639
02:08:24,840 --> 02:08:26,800
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback in Town Brady. They got a lot of weapons,

2640
02:08:26,840 --> 02:08:29,160
Speaker 1: and so you really got to be, you know, on

2641
02:08:29,280 --> 02:08:31,320
Speaker 1: your a game to stop them. And you know that

2642
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:33,600
Speaker 1: we can talk about the first game and how we

2643
02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:36,480
Speaker 1: only give one touchdown up you know, and um and

2644
02:08:36,600 --> 02:08:37,880
Speaker 1: all that, but at the end of the day, that's

2645
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:39,880
Speaker 1: totally different game. You know, they're gonna pick and choose

2646
02:08:39,920 --> 02:08:42,320
Speaker 1: what plays, um they got against us, and we're gonna

2647
02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:44,920
Speaker 1: pick and choose, you know, well, how we can try

2648
02:08:44,920 --> 02:08:46,040
Speaker 1: to defend him a little bit better. But at the

2649
02:08:46,120 --> 02:08:47,440
Speaker 1: end of the day, that game doesn't matter, and it's

2650
02:08:47,480 --> 02:08:49,160
Speaker 1: it's all about this next one. A lot of speculation

2651
02:08:49,200 --> 02:08:51,280
Speaker 1: about Gronkowski and I know you haven't faced him a

2652
02:08:51,320 --> 02:08:53,680
Speaker 1: lot in your NFL career, but he seemed like he's

2653
02:08:53,720 --> 02:08:57,680
Speaker 1: slowing down at vaulty. No. No, maybe the people that

2654
02:08:57,720 --> 02:09:00,600
Speaker 1: are watching him may want to say that. But then

2655
02:09:00,680 --> 02:09:03,480
Speaker 1: when I'm when I'm head up against uh Gronky's to

2656
02:09:03,520 --> 02:09:05,240
Speaker 1: the same guy, I know that it's it's gonna be

2657
02:09:05,320 --> 02:09:08,000
Speaker 1: a matchup. Um, And I can't you know, fall step,

2658
02:09:08,080 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 1: I can't get my hands and wrong places or anything

2659
02:09:10,600 --> 02:09:11,960
Speaker 1: that I gotta be on my be on my a

2660
02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:14,080
Speaker 1: game because I know he's gonna bring it. Hey, Mike,

2661
02:09:14,240 --> 02:09:16,040
Speaker 1: in the locker room this past Sunday, you guys beat

2662
02:09:16,080 --> 02:09:18,640
Speaker 1: the Lions, and people are surrounding you asking you questions.

2663
02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:20,280
Speaker 1: And I was there in somebody. I didn't even know

2664
02:09:20,320 --> 02:09:22,000
Speaker 1: what the question was, but your response stuck with me

2665
02:09:22,080 --> 02:09:24,880
Speaker 1: about how you have never been in this situation before,

2666
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:27,000
Speaker 1: from your time with Green Bay and now even last

2667
02:09:27,040 --> 02:09:28,760
Speaker 1: year a playoff team in Buffalo, You've never been in

2668
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 1: a situation where you're playing games at the end without

2669
02:09:31,400 --> 02:09:32,920
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the postseason. It's got to

2670
02:09:32,960 --> 02:09:34,600
Speaker 1: be an adjustment for you, right it is. This is

2671
02:09:34,600 --> 02:09:37,280
Speaker 1: a little different, Um. You know, it's it's been a

2672
02:09:37,360 --> 02:09:39,720
Speaker 1: long season, you know, with the the whole first half

2673
02:09:39,880 --> 02:09:43,520
Speaker 1: of you know, losing and and going out. We've we've

2674
02:09:43,640 --> 02:09:45,800
Speaker 1: learned a lot this season. I think that the young

2675
02:09:45,840 --> 02:09:48,080
Speaker 1: guys got a lot of experience. Um. I mean, shoot,

2676
02:09:48,080 --> 02:09:49,720
Speaker 1: you look at our offense in the last game. You

2677
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:52,080
Speaker 1: know we had a rookie running back, rookie quarterback. Seemed

2678
02:09:52,080 --> 02:09:54,520
Speaker 1: like two rookie receivers are out there. Is you know,

2679
02:09:54,520 --> 02:09:56,520
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys playing, so they again, we're

2680
02:09:56,520 --> 02:09:59,040
Speaker 1: getting a lot of experience. UM. Yeah, I've never been

2681
02:09:59,080 --> 02:10:01,560
Speaker 1: in this position before, and you know, you kind of

2682
02:10:01,560 --> 02:10:03,280
Speaker 1: just grown out there and compete into the best of

2683
02:10:03,320 --> 02:10:05,040
Speaker 1: your ability and trying to you know, build on that

2684
02:10:05,160 --> 02:10:08,000
Speaker 1: for the future. Last question for me, I ask it,

2685
02:10:08,600 --> 02:10:10,920
Speaker 1: how big a difference and how big a change have

2686
02:10:11,040 --> 02:10:12,920
Speaker 1: you seen in this team on both sides of the

2687
02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:16,840
Speaker 1: ball defensively and offensive defensively? Started out in a rainstorm

2688
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:20,160
Speaker 1: in Baltimore Week one, and you've you've evolved into this

2689
02:10:20,840 --> 02:10:24,080
Speaker 1: top one two defense in the league and then offense.

2690
02:10:24,160 --> 02:10:27,040
Speaker 1: So many new faces, so many things. We know, they've

2691
02:10:27,080 --> 02:10:29,200
Speaker 1: come a long way. Talk about the development of the

2692
02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:30,920
Speaker 1: team and where you are now. It's composed to just

2693
02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:33,360
Speaker 1: eight weeks ago when you played the Patriots on Monday night. Yeah,

2694
02:10:33,960 --> 02:10:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, I I think we can set off by saying, um,

2695
02:10:37,320 --> 02:10:39,040
Speaker 1: I love this football team. I love everybody in this

2696
02:10:39,160 --> 02:10:42,720
Speaker 1: locker room, all high character guys, from the from the

2697
02:10:42,760 --> 02:10:45,400
Speaker 1: top down from Seawan down from the coaches onto us.

2698
02:10:45,920 --> 02:10:47,480
Speaker 1: You know, everybody in the locker room wants to win.

2699
02:10:47,680 --> 02:10:49,880
Speaker 1: And you know, we feel like the record doesn't indicate

2700
02:10:49,920 --> 02:10:52,480
Speaker 1: how well our football team is, which is unfortunate. Um.

2701
02:10:52,640 --> 02:10:54,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's one thing that we can talk about it,

2702
02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:55,720
Speaker 1: but we gotta we gotta do something about it. And

2703
02:10:55,800 --> 02:10:58,760
Speaker 1: so that's why we're taking each and every game, um

2704
02:10:59,200 --> 02:11:00,680
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season and trying to build

2705
02:11:00,680 --> 02:11:02,000
Speaker 1: off because we know that next year is going to

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Speaker 1: be important. You know, this next game is important, the

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Speaker 1: game after that and then onto the all season is

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Speaker 1: gonna be important for each and every one of us.

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Speaker 1: We want to, you know, start off where we are now.

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Speaker 1: Big game Sunday, But you've got an event coming up

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for a year Imagine for Youth Foundation, Mica High

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Speaker 1: Kicks for Kids, Evanda Done Tire Club here at the stadium.

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Speaker 1: What's that all about? What's gonna happen there? So we're

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Speaker 1: handing out two hundred and fifty brand new pairs of

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Speaker 1: shoes to the youth here in Buffalo. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: my Boys and Girls Boys and Girls Club. Yeah, correct,

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Speaker 1: My my wife did an awesome job putting this in together. Um,

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Speaker 1: my mom's coming up, my stepdad's coming up. People from

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Speaker 1: from False Story are coming up to uh, the Magic

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Speaker 1: Few staff to be a part of it. It's just

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02:11:37,720 --> 02:11:38,920
Speaker 1: a great event. You know, we do a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff here in Buffalo and and different different communities and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we did this last year in Cleveland, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: and it's such a great event that we want to

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Speaker 1: bring it to Buffalo. So it's gonna be a fun time.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should stop over brand new Nikes for two

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty kids. Yes, yes, And you've done stuff all season,

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Speaker 1: right then Backpack gave away Haunted House for Halloween and

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02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:00,560
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner, right, Yeah, it's a year long endeavor for you. Base. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We tried to get out the community as much as possible. Man.

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Speaker 1: And and you know as a as a young kid

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Speaker 1: growing up and and hanging out with the varsity football team,

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Speaker 1: varsity basketball team, and I was I was motivated. I

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Speaker 1: was inspired. So if if an NFL guy would ever

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Speaker 1: came back out. I don't know what I would have did, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would have been super surprised. So we try to

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Speaker 1: go out in the community and and do as much

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Speaker 1: as we can, because you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: kids out there that need that. The way you talk

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Speaker 1: about this Paytriots game, it sounds like, um, there's no

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Speaker 1: sense at all of hey, this is the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. We're winding it down here. And I've detected

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Speaker 1: that from some of your teammates. Everybody's still pretty much

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Speaker 1: engaged in these final two games. Not one person in

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Speaker 1: that locker room that wants to go out there and

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02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:38,400
Speaker 1: think about, um, the end of the season. We know

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Speaker 1: this is a big game, and we take pride in it.

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Speaker 1: Man Like, I don't want to go out there and

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02:12:42,680 --> 02:12:44,640
Speaker 1: put any bad film out. Um that's just my own

2750
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Speaker 1: personal belief, and I think everybody in the locker room

2751
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Speaker 1: is like that. So we're gonna go out There're gonna compete.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get a win, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: hope that Bill's mafia is with us'll give us one

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Speaker 1: or two bullet points. On defense, What do you guys

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Speaker 1: have to do against Tom Brady? Bill Belichick Gronkowski and

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Speaker 1: out well. Number one, don't beat ourselves, well if that's

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Speaker 1: penalties communication wise, don't beat ourselves. Number two, stop the run,

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Speaker 1: trying to make them one dimensional, right and from there

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Speaker 1: we gotta get some takeaways against them. We got to

2760
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Speaker 1: find a way to get the ball away from away

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Speaker 1: from Tom and the running backs, and you know, just

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Speaker 1: trying to go out there and compete. All right, man, thanks,

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Speaker 1: thanks by coming in, Thanks for coming by. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us today. We got a

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Speaker 1: good show coming up tomorrow. Chris Brown will be with

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Speaker 1: us the reporting from Bill's practice on the field tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Also Bruce Arians, former Arizona Cardinals coach, on the show

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Speaker 1: with us tomorrow. And Derrick Anderson. We're just talking about him.

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Speaker 1: He's coming on the show tomorrow. It's coming on, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, great. Thanks for our production assistant George Blast,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Coltnick Thomas, Hanalder, Kelly Rude, j j Arito, Kevin Cargi,

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Speaker 1: James Robo. Our producer James Harris. Will see tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: noon One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's radio